[Goanet-News] Tanzania-born Sigmund De Souza, sings a Konkani tribute to the Burma-born Dr Jack Sequeira (in our daizpora-built Goa)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aZAfV8Cqo
https://youtu.be/A_aZAfV8Cqo?si=lZKy0OZtyEoMUAN-

Sigmund writes: "On 16th January 1967 Goans voted for Goa to remain a
separate state and not to be merged into neighbouring Maharashtra in the
historic Opinion Poll, the first of its kind and the only held in
independent India. Dr. Jack de Sequeira was the face of the movement, which
included several stalwarts like Dr. Manohar Rai Sardesai, Ulhas Buyão,
Shabu Desai, and Teotonio Pereira, among others. This is a song that
commemorates the life, work and sacrifice of this tall leader, who is today
called the Father of the Opinion Poll. I wrote it for and sung it at the
inauguration of his statue at the NIO Circle, Dona Paula, on 20 April 2013."

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[Goanet-News] Savio Rodrigues I Colonial Hangover & Christian Bias - How all Christians of KA voted BJP out (

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https://youtu.be/j0xuo8JvxTs

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[Goanet-News] MAKING NEWS IN GOA: A "dead man" walks home... to Agaciam/Agassaim

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Herald: Dead man is alive -- dead man from Agassaim returns home after his
funeral
https://www.heraldgoa.in/News-Today/DEAD-MAN-IS-ALIVE-Dead-man-from-Agassaim-returns-home-after-his-funeral/216052

New Konkani song 2024: Melolo munis jivo zalo
By Edwin D'Costa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq8bMNs0t6A

YouTube: Shocking! Dead man returns home: attempted explainer from Prudent
(Konkani)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECwF9euoua8

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[Goanet-News] Fwd: Goa Economy... an interesting bird's eye view (2023)

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QUOTE Committed expenditure: Committed expenditure of a state typically
includes expenditure on payment of salaries, pensions, and interest. A
larger proportion of budget allocated for committed expenditure items
limits the state’s flexibility to decide on other expenditure priorities
such as capital outlay.  In 2023-24, Goa is estimated to spend Rs 9,369
crore on committed expenditure which is 46% of its estimated revenue
receipts.  This comprises spending on salaries (25% of revenue receipts),
pension (11%), and interest payments (10%)

Policy Highlights

   -

   Digital Payment:  Digital payment methods will be adopted by all
   government departments and corporations to eliminate cash handling.
   -

   Mukhyamantri Saral Pagar Yojana:   This scheme will provide government
   employees instant wages anytime in the month proportional to the number of
   days worked.
   -

   Tax changes:  The state will rationalise VAT on natural gas and base it
   on consumption.  The state will introduce a ‘green cess’ on non-Goan
   vehicles entering Goa.  The excise duty on high end liquor will be reduced,
   and the excise duty on Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) will be increased
   marginally.
   -

   Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushalya Yojana:  Under this scheme
   candidates will receive training in various professions and courses.
   -

   New and renewable energy:  A Green Goa Policy, 2023 will be formulated,
   under which incremental power will be procured from green sources without
   any additional financial burden.


UNQUOTE

https://prsindia.org/budgets/states/goa-budget-analysis-2023-24

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[Goanet-News] Fwd: Mystery as British woman, 46, is found dead in the grounds of ...

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Mystery surrounds the death of a British woman whose decomposed body was
found on a beach in one of India's top tourist destinations this morning.
Emma Leaning, 46, was found lying in a church compound which extends
onto Agonda
beach in southern Goa. There were no external injuries found on her body,
police said.5 hours ago




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[Goanet-News] In Goa, Congress yukt (containing) BJP takes guard (Pamela DMello, Deccan Herald)

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Only two ministers, Pramod Sawant and Nilesh Cabral, are from the original
BJP
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/in-goa-congress-yukt-bjp-takes-guard-1095672.html

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[Goanet-News] DEC 3 Feast of St Francis Xavier :: Live coverage from the Basilica of Bom Jesus

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Feast of St Francis Xavier

Live coverage from the Basilica of Bom Jesus:  https://youtu.be/HHaxz70xG2Y

3:30 AM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/JAjZEvrjiHk

5 AM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/_JKWVXbkNFQ

6:30 AM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/_zDbRAD2lnI

8 AM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/Do3mkljnnkw

10 AM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/f3t3Xgu5wGg

12:30 PM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/jHhveEIQqRk

2 PM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/AyGvGBgD3eo

3:30 PM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/djwuu7c9wVQ

5 PM Konkani Mass:  https://youtu.be/39zhxLFWf_M

6:15 PM English Mass:  https://youtu.be/AVXCJc29YSk

If you would like to share your experience of the healing touch of St
Francis Xavier, Kindly send a message on watsapp to 8956071664 or meet our
Media Team for further information after mass

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[Goanet-News] Sharings skills ... in Goa and online

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Crochet?  Barmanship?  Guitar Basics? Grief Counselling?  Medicinal Plants?
Conversational Portuguese?  Careers in Communication? Mutual Funds?  The
Stock Exchange? Stamp Collecting?  Everyone Can Pray? Seaweeds?  Learning
Music Basics? Landscaping?  Growing Trees in Pots? Co-operative Teaching?
Reviving Agriculture in Goa? Environmental Activism?  Astronomy? Konkani
for Beginners?  Aspiring to join the IAS?

Join one of the most active, colourful networks that offers you job
training, lifelong learning, and hobby courses in Goa, the Collaborative
Learning Café.  All courses are free and open to all (subject to seat
capacity).  Link to the Facebook group for past links and upcoming alerts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/clcgoa/ See the YouTube videos of full
sessions at  https://tinyurl.com/yenypvco Sign-up for upcoming courses at
collaborativelearningcafe.org Crafted with volunteer support from the
Friends of the Jesuits of the Goa Province.  To join this network, message
+91-9822122436 (by WhatsApp) with PLS ADD TO JESUITS & FRIENDS in your
message. Please spread this message

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[Goanet-News] Violene against young women... and unsorted crime in Goa (Adv Fr Michael Fernandes)

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Priest-lawyer Michael Fernandes offers an insight into the trail of cases
of violence against young women and others... staying unresolved or closed
with glib explanations.
https://tinyurl.com/yhdsbzbx

[Goanet-News] FORTHCOMING: Valmiki Faleiro's writing on Goa, 1961

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GOA 1961: LIBERATED OR CONQUERED?

On 18 December 1961, India’s armed forces marched into Goa, Daman and Diu
and, in a virtually bloodless operation lasting some 36 hours, ended the
Portuguese rule of 451 years.

Was Goa ‘liberated’ or was it ‘conquered’?

The question still befuddles many. The subject is, generally speaking,
sparsely understood at best and misunderstood at worst. Being the 60th
anniversary of the event, I decided to share, in about 60 easily readable
installments, one every Sunday beginning the next, the full story – the
background, diplomacy, arguments, the run up, the buildup, the actual
military operation, and its aftermath in Goa, within India and
internationally.

This 1961 event is serialised from a revised (and as yet unpublished)
chapter called ‘The Wars’ from my book, ‘Patriotism In Action: Goans in
India’s Defence Services’ first published in 2010 and now being readied for
a final edition. The chapter on wars seeks to bring out the little known
fact that Goan Officers were there in practically every military op in
post-1947 India – 1947/48 J Ops, 1961 Goa Ops (there were 14 Goan
Officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force in Vijay-1), 1962 China
Conflict, 1965 Indo-Pak War, 1971 Indo-Pak (Bangladesh) War, 1999 Vijay-2
(Kargil), besides a host of other ops like defending Siachen, IPKF Sri
Lanka, UN Peacekeeping, counter insurgency and cross border terrorism –
Goans were there in each and every one of them, some laying down their
lives.

Beginning next Sunday, 22 August 2021, the story of Goa 1961 will appear
weekly in the local Marathi language daily newspaper ‘Gomantak’ and
simultaneously, in English, at Facebook, Goa-centric mail lists and
Whatsapp. (Please do remember that formatting is lost at FB and WA, and
reformatting would be a bore!)

Feel free to share. But, since this is as yet unpublished work, please do
NOT delete the attribution that appears at the foot of every instalment.

In case of any comments/queries that you would like me to read, please
email me at, valmikif at gmail dot com.

Hope you will enjoy reading the 1961 story as much as I enjoyed researching
and writing it!

15 August 2021
 -Valmiki Faleiro

[Goanet-News] What's the new "Bhumiputra" land law about in Goa?

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Goa government moves about 20 Bills in two days
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A "Bhumiputra" land law proves to be the most contentious

 Goa Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill 2021 passed
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJDCQ6lj_GE

 "Bhumiputra" Bill Mauvin's ploy to take property from
 landlords and give encroachers -- Avinash Tavares
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT9Lg5nGPgE

 Controversy-provoking Bhumiputra Bill: three views
 https://youtu.be/sZbDanVpVdQ

 What does the government want to prove with the
 Bhumiputra Bill (in Konkani) -- Sanguem MLA Prasad
 Gaonkar
 https://youtu.be/Nan8aJANY8Y https://youtu.be/k0OKGk3TEI4

 The controversial Goa Bhumiputra Adhikarini Bill
 explained very well by Vishal Naik from Cortalim
 https://youtu.be/nAdLyLcJBq0 (Konkani)

[Goanet-News] Social media posts cause buzz over fate of Club Tito's, but what's the story?

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Rajdeep Sardessai on India Today
https://youtu.be/BfhDTLaQkB0

Sold off Tito's due to harassment by babus: Goa nightspot owner
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/sold-off-titos-due-to-harassment-by-babus-goa-nightspot-owner/articleshow/83941221.cms


Ricardo D'Souza on the Modi Sarkar
https://www.facebook.com/BJP4Goa/posts/2342990369094455

[Goanet-News] Konkani... On Holy Saturday

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On Holy Saturday, a hymn in Konkani Gwen Fernandes:
https://youtu.be/gVyz-p0nWEM

[Goanet-News] From mangroves, to MSMEs, and the economic impact of cancer... studies from GU

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Taleigao: Over six hundred Goa University students are at various stages of
working on their PhD thesis, data put out by the varsity indicates. Topics
take up for study range from mangroves and Brazil's foreign policy, to
MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) and banks' lending in Goa.

The list is available at the university website [
http://info.unigoa.ac.in/phd_univ_yrwise.php] and points to work being
undertaken by a range of scholars, under diverse guides in the various
varsity departments as well as affiliated institutions.

These studies have been undertaken in a range of fields, including
Mathematics, Earth Sciences, History, Sociology, Political Science,
Konkani, oceanography, various languages, international relations,
commerce, malaria research, microbiology, biotechnology, physics, chemical
sciences, electronics, women's studies, philosophy, among a range of other
fields.

Quite a few of the research topics focus on regional issues.

Some of the themes being recently taken up for study include the Carmelites
in Goa in the 17th-18th centuries; catchment sediment composition of some
rivers in Goa; customer satisfaction towards postal services in Goa;
tourism land management and livelihood dynamics in coastal Goa; and the
Dhangars of Goa.

Likewise, other researchers are looking at insurance companies; green
tourism; eco-farms in tourism; educated unemployment in Goa; the Sahyadri
Khanda; Western Ghats fungi in Goa's salt-stressed rice plants; and smart
tourism, among many other topics.

The economic impact of cancer; the government budget on the social sector
in Goa; perceptions on e-filing of income tax; agri-ecopreneurs in Goa;
multual funds in Goa; ferry transport in the State; and the people's
movements to protect their land in Goa.

Some studies travel as far as Antarctica, or to Tripura and the impact of
migration there.

Yet, local themes also get their attention. These range from accounting and
reporting in cooperative societies in Goa; to retail segments in Goa;
tribal population employability; andthe influence of the social media on
marketing in Goa.

CRM, or customer relationship management, and its possibility as a "step
towards sustainable tourism in Goa" is also looked at in an empirical study.

Some other local topics touched on include public distribution system,
smartphones in online shopping, tax planning, the CM's Rojgar Yojana,
Ayurvedic products, handicrafts in Goa, home-stays, traditional
occupations, and a range of other fields.

Meanwhile, the admissions for the GU PhD programme of January 2020 is
underway. Online applications are being accepted from January 6 to January
24, 2020. Interviews will be conducted in February, and the results of the
admission process declared by Feb 14.

Details are available at
https://www.unigoa.ac.in/uploads/confg_docs/20200106.174101~Notification_PhD_2020_06Jan2020.pdf

[Goanet-News] What tiny Goa teaches us about Indian politics, BJP and Congress (Shekhar Gupta)

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https://www.facebook.com/theprintindia/videos/353465791996670/

[Goanet-News] Goan who served as Portugal's Consul General in Calcutta hits a century

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Goan who served as Portugal's Consul General in Calcutta hits a century

Goanet News

Kolkata-based Goan Diogo Piedade Jose Simplicio Fernandes, or
Peter as he was fondly called, completed his century on March
2, 2019. Born to the late Francisco Xavier Fernandes of
Quitula, Aldona and the late Maria Elisa idalina Souza of
Kotla, Saligao in 1919, he studied in his early days at St
Thomas School in Aldona before moving to Calcutta (which was
then under British Rule) after his father died at an early age.

He married Maria Pascoela D'Cruz (Mary), of Aldona, who is
now 88. They have three children.

Mr Fernandes grew up during the Second World War, and has
seen both Portuguese and British rule in India, The
Independence of India, the Partition, the Bangladesh war in
1971, the end of Portuguese rule in Goa, and other important
events in history.

He was a Portuguese Consul General in Calcutta from 1953 to
1958. He had the privilege of being associated with Saint
Mother Theresa in her early days during the formation of her
Missionaries of Charity organisation. Diogo or Peter as he is
known to his fellow Goenkars, was a thorough gentleman and
someone who bought cheer and hope wherever he went.

He valued honesty and integrity above all things and was very
hard-working. He grew up during the Portuguese rule in Goa,
and his parents taught him to appreciate and be grateful for
what he had. He lost his parents at an early age and was
taken to Calcutta but his love for Goa. He used to come
regularly to Goa and stay at Saligao and Aldona. Though at
Kolkata, his heart is in Goa though his frail health does not
permit him to travel and undertake such a long journey.

Though he endured hard days he never made it known to his
family or others around. He learned to shoulder
responsibility at an early age having lost his parents and
his mother was his main guiding light. He continued to work
right up to the age of 85 which kept him both mentally and
physically fit.

"His longevity can be attributed to a long happy marriage and
a great extent to his daily early morning walks and never
having vices. Diogo has a quiet dignity, respecting himself
the way he respected others. He has treated others with
utmost respect and kindness. His character has been the
foundation of his conscience. He never let others down. He
was there for people when they needed him the most. For him
peace was more like happiness," his family told Goanet News.

On his centenary birthday, he has had a stream of visitors
since last week February -- the Archbishop of Kolkata,
numerous priests and nuns, members of the Parish community,
near and dear ones besides members of the Catholic
Association of Bengal, members of the local political bodies,
wellwishers and not forgetting the Ambassador to the
Portuguese embassy and the Consul General at Kolkata.

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Contact Mr Fernandes via bffernandes2...@gmail.com or
ashleyffernan...@hotmail.com

[Goanet-News] Parrikar, Rafale, Modi, leaked papers and unending controversy....

[Goanet News]

Truth vs Hype: The 'Rafale' Insider - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXon4n6Y6nY

Explosive New Note On Rafale: Did PMO Interfere In The Deal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-N725JyU1E

Gets stranger and stranger... The Defence Minister told the Defence
Secretary to "resolve" issue with the PMO after Secy complained about the
PMO's interference? The objections in para 4 of Def Secys letter seem quite
specific, not simply "checking progress"...
https://twitter.com/suhasinih/status/1093773655518179328

[Goanet-News] Goa's Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao elected president of CCBI, the fourth-largest bishops' conference in the world; Couto is Secretary General

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New office bearers elected for CBCI

By Stephen Alathara

Chennai, Jan 12, 2019: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão of Goa and Daman was
elected as the new President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of
India (CCBI) by the 31st Plenary Assembly of the National Episcopal
Conference of India, at Joe Animation Centre, Mahabalipurm, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu.

He will replace Oswald Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay who served
the Conference as its President for three terms of two years each from 2013
to 2019.

Archbishop George Antonysamy of Chennai-Mylapore and Archbishop Anil Joseph
Thomas Couto of Delhi were re-elected CCBI Vice president and Secretary
General respectively.

Archbishop Neri, 65, was the former Vice President of the CCBI from 2011 to
2017. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman
at the age of 40, on 20 December, 1993. He was installed as the Archbishop
on 21 March, 2004. He also served the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India
as its Vice President. He is presently the Chairman of the Federation of
Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) Office of Education and Faith Formation
(OEFF).

Archbishop Antonysamy, 66, held various responsibilities of the Catholic
Church in the past, viz. Pope’s Ambassador to Gambia, Liberia and Sierra
Leone; charge d’Affaires of the Vatican Embassy in Jordan. In 2012 he was
appointed the sixth Archbishop of Chennai-Mylapore Archdiocese.

The re-elected Secretary General of the CCBI Archbishop Couto (64) held
this office: he was the Auxiliary Bishop of Delhi, and Bishop of Jullundur.
At present he is the Archbishop of Delhi since 2012.

The Assembly deliberated the theme “The Joy of the Gospel” and it will
chalk out detailed programmes and action plans to revitalize the ministry
of love and compassion for the Church at the diocesan and parish levels.

The Secretaries of the 14 Commissions and the three Departments of the CCBI
presented their biennial reports of the activities for the year 2017 and
2018.

The Bishops evaluated the programmes of the CCBI Commissions of Bible,
Catechetics, Canon Law and Other Legislative Texts, Ecumenism, Family,
Laity, Liturgy, Migration, Proclamation, Theology and Doctrine, Vocations,
Women and Youth and the Departments of Pontifical Mission Organisations
(PMO), Conference of Diocesan Priests of India (CDPI) and the Association
of Rectors of Major Seminaries (ARMS).

A one day recollection for the member Bishops, directed by the well-known
theologian, Father Anil Dev, IMS from Varanasi was also conducted.

The 31st Plenary Assembly of the CCBI will conclude on 14 January. Some 143
Bishops from 132 Dioceses are attending the meeting.

The CCBI is canonically the National Episcopal Conference for the Latin
rite Catholics. It is the largest Bishops Conference in Asia and the fourth
largest in the world. It consists of 132 dioceses with 189 bishops.

ABOUT THE CCBI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_of_Catholic_Bishops_of_India
EMAIL: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao archbp...@gmail.com
Archbishop Anil Couto ajtcout...@gmail.com or officeofarchbis...@gmail.com

[Goanet-News] Proposed Port Development in Goa Threatens to Wipe out Fishing Communities (VideoVolunteers)

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VIDEO:
https://www.videovolunteers.org/mormugao-port-development-threatens-to-wipe-out-fishing-communities/

Proposed Port Development in Goa Threatens to Wipe out Fishing Communities

Sagarmala, a project designed to modernise India’s ports, threatens to wipe
out the livelihoods of fisherfolk in Goa. A public hearing on the matter
will be held on 5 October, 2018.

Devidas Gaonkar

Devidas Gaonkar is a poet and journalist, and a proud member of the
indigenous Velip tribe. He lives in a remote forest reserve not far from
the beautiful and touristic beaches of South Goa.   Devidas dropped out of
school in 2003 because there was no money for education, and of boredom if
he had note found film-making, his passion.  One of the earliest members of
Video Volunteers, Devidas has used camera and storytelling to document the
struggles of his own community against the rampages of mining, focusing on
the environment, tribal rights and fading traditions, all of which found no…

Fishing is the economic mainstay of several communities in the coastal
state of Goa. But mechanisation of fishing, coupled with industrialisation
and environmental degradation, is threatening the livelihoods of
traditional fishing communities.

The fishing community in Khariwado, a kilometre-long stretch in Vasco da
Gama, which has seen its fortunes dwindle over time, is now opposing a new
project that threatens to wipe out their source of livelihood. The beach is
contiguous with the Mormugao Port, one of the biggest ports in India, and
has borne the onslaughts of controversial port expansion projects over the
years.

“60 percent of the beach is already contaminated, and the remaining 40
percent has disappeared altogether. Further dredging will wipe out the
entire beach,” says Olencio Simoes, Vice Chairperson of the National
Fishworkers’ Forum.

The latest projects of the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) include a fishing
jetty, a passenger jetty, a POL (petroleum, oil and lubricant) jetty and
general cargo berths. These projects are part of the Sagarmala Project, an
initiative of the central government to modernise ports across India. The
fishing jetty is proposed to be constructed in Khariwado, and the sea bed
is already being dredged for the project. While the fishing community is
not opposing the fishing jetty itself, they are opposing the MPT’s proposal
to build a 520 metre finger quay with a petroleum, oil and lubricants berth.

“The authorities are trying to trick us by saying that they are building a
fishing jetty but it is actually a POL jetty”, says Simoes. Residents fear
that the fishing jetty could be a way to evade the NGT’s order and continue
to serve corporate interests.

A fishing jetty would not require the kind of dredging that the MPT is
currently undertaking. In September 2016, the National Green Tribunal (NGT)
had halted the dredging activity that the Trust was then carrying out for
the construction of a new berth because it had begun the work before it got
the Environmental Clearance to do so. Moreover, the MPT had bypassed the
compulsory public hearing and the NGT also found discrepancies in the
Environmental Impact Assessment Report, which the Bombay High Court upheld.
A public hearing was finally held in February 2017, but 65 percent of the
dredging had already been done by then.

A petroleum and oil jetty will mean greater industrial activity in the
vicinity, more pollution and related health hazards, and displacement of
the fishing community. Even the neighbouring Baina beach, another fishing
hub, will be affected.

“If the beach ceases to exist, we will lose our way of life and our source
of livelihood,” says Custodia D’souza, a fisherman representing the Old
Cross Canoe Owners Association. It will not only affect the local fishing
community but also migrant communities who work in the Goan fishing
industry, for lack of better opportunities back home. Overall, 2000
families in the area are engaged in fishing.

Residents also fear demolition and displacement. “Communities that have
lived here for 200 years are being told by the MPT that their homes are
going to be demolished,” says Simoes. The Environmental Impact Assessment
Report, however, maintains that there is no resettlement and rehabilitation
plan since the project will be carried out on the existing port premises
and no land will be acquired.

“The coast is nearly destroyed, Jindal is responsible for it,” says Juze
Roderigues, a 75-year-old from Khariwado.

Jindal Steel Works (JSW) accounts for the bulk of the operations being
carried out at the Mormugao Port and the company was banned from
transporting coal for flouting the permit prescribed by the Goa State
Pollution Control Board. This not only affected the company’s profits but
also the profits of the MPT, which gets 18 percent of the revenue generated
by the South West Port, the JSW berths in the Mormugao Port. However, the
Board announced a fresh permit for the company in June 2018.

In the meantime, this trail 

[Goanet-News] LAND RACKETS IN GOA: Salvador do Mundo (Saloi) villagers want probe, concerned over rising criminal activity under the patronage of politicians

[Goanet News]

VIEW VIDEO AT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAPjO4KkiU

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Probe illegal activities, say Saloi locals
Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/66077946.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest_medium=text_campaign=cppst
TNN Oct 5, 2018, Panaji: The United Porvorim Citizens Forum on Thursday
demanded a thorough probe by a special investigation team into illegal
constructions, hill-cutting, destruction of mangrove swamps, wetlands and
forest and landfilling activity at Salvador do Mundo (Saloi).
It also condemned the recent attack on advocate Olav Albuquerque, a gaunkar
of the village, who was representing John Menezes, 85, and alleged that the
perpetrators were led by the local sarpanch. Members further said they were
concerned about rising criminal activity under the patronage of politicians.

* * *

Case filed against Sarpanch for assaulting lawyer

28 SEP 201805:59AM IST

Report by
TEAM HERALD

A Goan lawyer based in Mumbai accused the Sarpanch of Salvador De Mundo for
assault while he was inspecting a site

Porvorim: A Goan lawyer Olavo Albuquerque, residing in Mumbai on Thursday
has filed a complaint against the Salvador De Mundo Sarpanch for allegedly
assaulting and pushing him during a site inspection in the village.

The Panchayat had issued a notice to John Menezes, a resident of Mumbai
through registered AD based on his complaint dated June 11, 2018 and the
site inspection was fixed for September 27 by the Panchayat along with the
complaint Menezes and his lawyer Albuquerque.

During the inspection, the lawyer Olavo Albuquerque said that he was
assaulted and pushed by the Sarpanch of Salvador De Mundo Village for no
reason. “I was assaulted and pushed by the Sarpanch during the inspection
held today when I was showing the officials the 40 illegal houses
mushroomed on forest land in the village. I have filed a complaint at the
Porvorim Police station.” said Albuquerque on the other hand the Sarpanch
has filed a cross complaint against lawyer Olavo Albuquerque for pushing
him and using slang language.

According to the Sarpanch, Olavo Albuquerque who was present along with
complaint John Menezes and claims to be his lawyer was time and again told
by the panchayat officials not to interfere with the official procedure of
site inspection.

 “He was disturbing our official procedure of inspection for which I humbly
requested him to kindly refrain and not to interfere in our inspection as
he doesn’t have the authority towards this effect.

Further I also asked him to show any authority letter of any property owner
but he failed to show the same and started raising his voice on us using
slang language and not allowing us to do the site inspection.” said
Salgoankar .

The Sarpanch further said that he asked Albuquerque to stop interfering and
using slang language, to which he suddenly pushed us and thereafter started
running down the hill which is a mud road with water trenches and gravel.

The Povorim police are yet to file an FIR in this matter and said that
initial investigation is on.

https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/Case-filed-against-Sarpanch-for-assaulting-lawyer/136740.html

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‘Ruckus’ at Salvador do Mundo: 2 FIRs registered

Posted by: nt September 28, 2018 in Goa News

NT NETWORK

PANAJI: The Porvorim police, on Thursday, registered two FIRs in connection
with the ruckus reported during the inspection of an alleged illegal
construction at Gangozwada, Salvador do
Mundo.

Referring to the first FIR, the police said that a complaint was lodged by
Avinash Palni, secretary of the village panchayat Salvador do Mundo.

The incident occurred at around 11.45 am wherein accused Olav Albuquerque
allegedly obstructed the complainant and sarpanch Sandeep Salgaonkar while
performing the lawful official duty, during an inspection at Gangozwada,
Salvador do Mundo, the police said referring to the complaint.

Further, the accused allegedly abused the complainant, the sarpanch and the
local residents and pushed the complainant and sarpanch, the police added.

Referring to the second FIR, the police said that Albuquerque has filed a
complaint against the sarpanch Sandeep Salgaonkar, Raees Khan and 6 unknown
persons. Referring to the complaint, the police said that the accused
allegedly formed unlawful assembly and abused the complainant with filthy
language, threatened him with dire consequences and assaulted the
complainant with kicks and fist blows.

http://www.navhindtimes.in/ruckus-at-salvador-do-mundo-2-firs-registered/

[Goanet-News] Chants of Ganapati Bappa Morya to reverberate among Goan diaspora

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Chants of Ganapati Bappa Morya to reverberate among Goan
diaspora

Lisa Monteiro
Sep 13, 2018

"Despite being away from home, no celebration is complete
without the bhajans, aartis and immersion of Ganesh idols"

PANAJI: Miles away from their families and ancestral homes,
Goans around the world will be joining members of other
communities in celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi.

For Goans in UAE, the festival has fortunately coincided with
public holidays for the Islamic New Year. "People decorate
their homes and light up their balconies. Those who don't
have the idol, visit the temple in Bur Dubai along with
members of Marathi, Gujarati and Sindhi communities. The
idols are immersed in the Dubai creek at Abra," says Shilpa
Dabholkar Tari.

At the Abra Station, while some hire small water boats to
immerse their idols, others book an entire cruise where
people will participate in bhajans, aartis and have
mahaprasad for dinner.

"I will make it a point to take my child to watch the
visarjan," she says, adding that her family performs the puja
and prepares prasad. "I prepare basic daal, rice, puri, chana
masala, cabbage and bhaji and modaks. In Goa, it is easier to
make many dishes as the entire family gets together for the
festivities," Tari says, while accepting that procuring items
in Dubai is also not as laborious.

"All the items, right from grated coconuts to lights and
other decorations, are available in the supermarket."

Dubai-based Jitendra Dabholkar and his family buy the idol
from Chothiram supermarket at Bur Dubai. They try to make the
festival as homely as possible.

"Every year, we increase the height of the idol," he says,
adding that he is able to source almost all the ingredients
in Dubai, except turmeric and colocasia (alu) leaves.

"We make arrangements to get these from Goa so that we can
relish authentic Goan food," he says. "We keep the idol for
one-and-a-half days and invite friends of all communities. We
immerse the idol at Mazmar beach in the Goan style with
bhajans, aartis and slogans," he says, adding that friends
come over to assist in decorations and food preparations.

At the Silicon Valley or the San Francisco Bay Area, there is
a huge Indian diaspora and plenty of Indian stores to buy
groceries from, Ruta says. "Most of us celebrate the festival
at home during the week but go to the local temple to
celebrate on the weekend. There are two big temples -- one at
Sunnyvale and the other at Livermore and multiple smaller
ones scattered over the Bay Area," Ruta says.

Idols for immersion are usually collected in the temple and
immersed collectively in the tank and the water recycled for
safety and ecological reasons.

"Children are also encouraged to make eco-friendly idols in
the temple," she says.

Though not aware of any particular community celebration,
Ruta says a lot of people, mostly belonging to Goan and
Maharashtrian families, come together to take part in
celebrations. The biggest difference in celebrations is that
one has to go to work or school while celebrating it.

The real festivities are pushed to the weekend. "We also miss
getting together for prayers and aarti with our families. Not
going to check on our neighbours Ganpati is also something I
really miss," Ruta adds.

New Jersey-based A Kamat celebrates Chaturthi with a big
group that observes all Indian festivals together. However,
having to go to work during the week makes it difficult to
celebrate in the Goan style.

Last year, Kamat celebrated with her Tamil friend from Mumbai
who made an idol of chocolate and later melted it in milk and
donated the milk to an orphanage.

Bupesh Kurade, settled in Singapore, bought his eco-friendly
idol on Wednesday for 25$ from local Hindus settled in the
city-state for generations. Kurade will be celebrating for
one-and-a-half days. He said most people in Singapore choose
to buy organic idols online.

There are many community Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in
Singapore, but they cannot be compared to what one normally
finds in Goa and Maharashtra, barring one that is organised
by the Manahrashtra Mandal, he says.

"It is celebrated at an Indian international school owned by
a Maharashtrian. Many Maharashtrians and Goans take part in
the celebrations there, while others celebrate in their
homes," Kurade says.

The mandal continues its festivities for five days with
rituals and cultural programmes. As the idols are organic,
visarjan is hassle-free and carried out in a local designated
pond, says Shashank Pahade, a Maharashtrian based in
Singapore.

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/65789983.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest_medium=text_campaign=cppst

[Goanet-News] Panjim Footballers: New season, same old goals (Marcus Mergulhao TNN)

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Panjim Footballers: New season, same old goals
Marcus Mergulhao | Sept 13, 2018

Panaji: Good fruits are sometimes best ripened by staying on
the tree a little longer. Nobody knows this better than
Sporting Clube de Goa, and that's one reason why several of
their junior players, or those who are part of the reserves,
are allowed to move over to ‘neighbouring’ Panjim
Footballers, grow up and then return home.

Last season, when Panjim Footballers made their debut in the
Goa Pro League and finished a lowly ninth, not many eyebrows
were raised. The club did manage to achieve its goal, of
readying players for bigger clubs, and Sporting's decision to
sign seven of their players was proof that coach Savio Vaz
had got some things right.

"It's difficult for us to start building a new team each
season but our aim is to produce players. That's what we did
last year, and that remains our goal this year too. Of
course, it will be nice to finish a bit higher. We are
targeting a place among the top five," said Vaz, who was with
Sporting Clube juniors for four years before being
transplanted to Panjim Footballers.

Panjim Footballers surprised many by their decision to sign
foreign players last season. They were among the few teams to
enjoy that luxury with the inclusion of Egyptian midfielder
Fady Riad and Alphonse Shako from Congo. Both are unlikely to
return to the club, and Vaz will have to launch a challenge
with players of their own.

"I want my team to play good football. I want them to gain
the necessary experience of playing in the top-tier. They
know there are rewards for a good performance. The big teams
are all watching us play, and should anyone impress, they can
move up," said Vaz, who has coached teams like Curtorim
Gymkhana, Margao Sports Club and Wilred Leisure in the past.

There are inspiring stories. Clive Miranda and Schubert
D'Costa who were with Panjim Footballers last season are now
first choice centre-back pairing for Sporting Clube. Akeraj
Martins has also moved up the ranks, while Gurpreet Singh and
Gautam Dias has also found favour.

This season, Vaz is confident that many more will catch the
eye. For example, players like Dattaraj B, Trijoy Costa and
Prasil Kankonkar, all from Sporting juniors, know they need
to make a mark and return to where they belong. Others too
have similar ambitions.

"Last year we had a young squad, mostly under-20 players,
except for a few exceptions and the two foreign players. This
year, it will be different, surely," said Vaz.

The results have been there too. Victories against FC Goa
reserves and Calangute Association have been encouraging,
while two draws against Sporting suggest Panjim Footballers
will be far more competitive than last season.

Goalkeepers:
Sherwin D’Cunha, Adney Fernandes

Defenders:
Prasil Kankonkar, Joyson Fernandes, Joel Colaco, Lessar
Raikar, Deva, Aaron Antao, Akram Chandan

Midfielders:
Rahul, Dattaraj B, Marc Rodrigues, Valmiki Colaco, Patel,
Leslie Britto, Trijoy Costa, Alston Camoti, Lakesh, Velton
Fernandes

Strikers:
Snedden Rodrigues, Cyril Fernandes, Samson Fernandes,
Perryson Fernandes.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/panjim-footballers-new-season-same-old-goals/articleshow/65789690.cms

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[Goanet-News] Why is the Indian Navy racing a MiG-29 & a Lamborghini?

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Why Is The Indian Navy Racing A MiG-29 & A Lamborghini?

Shiv Aroor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQqD3j6zgA

  The video you see above emerged yesterday in social
  media feeds, showing what appears to be an Indian
  Navy MiG-29K speeding along the tarmac at Goa's
  Dabolim airfield, with a supercar accelerating
  alongside. The video, tweeted out by IAF veteran
  Air Marshal Anil Chopra sparked a fair bit of buzz
  over what was going on, and whether this was a real
  video. Well, Livefist can confirm it is.

The video shows an official cinematic shoot featuring one of
the Indian Navy's MiG-29K fighters from the 'Black Panthers'
squadron based at Goa racing with a Lamborghini Huracan
before the fighter lifts off into a steep climb over the
Arabian Sea. The film being made will be released during Navy
Week in December this year and is being pitched at Indian
youth from a familiar adventure/speed angle. Love speed and
daring? Sign up with the Navy -- that's the proposition.

The Indian Navy, like the Indian Air Force and Army Aviation
Corps has a significant shortage of pilots, and needs steady
interest in its flying wing to justify proposals to buy
expensive new jets in the future.

Aviator Anil Chopra
@Chopsyturvey
4 Aug
Lamborghini racing MiG 29 at Dabolim  Goa
http://pic.twitter.com/2V2HKVKwVs

Aviator Anil Chopra
@Chopsyturvey
http://pic.twitter.com/D5GOFUO6gN

  An officer at the Navy's Goa base told Livefist,
  "The film being made is pointed directly at the
  young. When it's ready, it will be an exhilarating
  showcase of speed from something that many can't
  really relate to -- a fighter jet that costs
  hundreds of crores -- to the things they can relate
  to -- a sports car, for instance. The line of the
  film will be direct too: If you have the passion,
  if you crave adventure and speed, then look no
  further than the Indian Navy."

The Indian Navy needs 735 pilots (its sanctioned strength)
but is short by 91, the government informed Parliament in
March this year. The Army is short of 192 pilots in a
sanctioned strength of 794. The Indian Air Force is short by
376 pilots on a required strength of 4,231. Waning interest
in the military and stubborn voids in the officer ranks
continue to haunt the armed forces as they look to create
leaner, younger structures.

The MiG-29K is currently the navy's only fighter since it
retired its Sea Harriers in 2016. Apart from 57 new fighters
it is looking to import from abroad (shaping up to be a
two-horse race between Boeing's F/A-18 and Dassault's
Rafale), the Indian Navy's test team has also recently
demonstrated progress with the naval Light Combat Aircraft
(LCA-N), though the aircraft in its present configuration
won't see frontline service with the navy from aircraft
carriers.

The Indian Navy, in its fighter-supercar race, is inspired by
a similar speed face-off from a decade ago, when the BBC's
Top Gear auto show had a Bugatti Veyron face off with a
Eurofighter Typhoon: https://youtu.be/7NZ9X9A2efA

More recently, a similar race was organised in 2014 between
an Indian Air Force Su-30MKI and a Lamborghini Huracán for
Autocar magazine:
https://www.autocarindia.com/auto-features/days-of-thunder-392483

SOURCE: https://www.livefistdefence.com/2018/08/why-is-the-indian-
navy-racing-a-mig-29-a-lamborghini.html

* * *

TNN reports:

  Sources said that the Navy was collaborating with a
  magazine for an exclusive story which compares the
  performance of the aircraft and the car.

The official claimed that the Navy was preparing an
advertisement campaign-cum-promotional video for recruitment
of pilots for which the video was shot. The Indian Navy has
joined hands with a leading automotive magazine to document
the race.

"Today's youth admire gadgets, fast cars and we want to
inspire them to choose the Navy," a naval officer said,
explaining the rationale behind the video

"This aircraft has come in for a lot of flak regarding its
maintenance and we wanted to show that the MiG 29K remains a
formidable fighter in the Navy's arsenal," another naval
officer said.

A Mig-29K aircraft from the Indian Navy's White Tigers
squadron crashed in Goa's Dabolim airport in January this
year after going off the runway.

SOURCE: http://defencexp.com/mig-29k-vs-lamborghini-huracan-performante/

https://youtu.be/vlSEchPSRYo

[Goanet-News] Gauri Lankesh murder suspected links... Calangute's misbehaving tourists... dy. collector's office searched... Goanet and Goanet@Facebook

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Gauri Lankesh murder case: Key accused points to leader of Hindutva outfit
Investigations have found that a Bengaluru-based co-ordinator of HJS, Mohan
Gowda, allegedly put key accused, K T Naveen Kumar, in touch with this
Sanstha unit in the planning phase of the Lankesh murder.
In his statement, Kumar refers to an annual convention of the Sanstha he
attended in Goa’s Ponda in June 2017.
“On the second day, there was a discussion on the protection of the Hindu
dharma… I participated in the discussion and expressed my personal view
that the use of weapons and arms is necessary to protect the Hindu dharma…
Impressed by my speech, many people congratulated me. Mohan Gowda praised
me a lot. I told him I can procure guns and bullets. He told me there were
many like-minded people and they would be contacting me in the coming
days,” he claims.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/gauri-lankesh-murder-case-key-accused-points-to-leader-of-hindutva-outfit-5212258/

Calangute panchayat to crackdown on tourist drinking alcohol on beaches
Murari Shetye | TNN
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/calangute-panchayat-to-crackdown-on-tourist-drinking-alcohol-on-beaches/articleshow/64545537.cms

Crime branch searches Mapusa deputy collector’s office
Murari Shetye | TNN
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/crime-branch-searches-mapusa-dy-collectors-office/articleshow/64561274.cms

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[Goanet-News] Taxman hopes to hit a jackpot in Goa casinos

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Taxman hopes to hit a jackpot in Goa casinos
By
Sachin Dave
, ET Bureau|
Updated: Jun 08, 2018, 07.49 AM IST



The intelligence arm of the indirect tax department has served notices to
10 of the biggest casinos in Goa for evading service tax and has
simultaneously initiated an investigation. The tax notices claim the
casinos must pay service tax on their licence fees.

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) issued 10 notices to the biggest
casinos asking them to pay tax on licence fees for three years from 2014 to
2016. Casinos are required to pay licence fees to the state government to
be in business.

Some casino owners have challenged the tax demands and taken the matter to
court arguing licence fees they pay to the government is equivalent to
permission and that there is no legal ground for this tax demand.

“Demanding tax on statutory licence fees is absurd. It’s like demanding tax
on passport fees paid to the government. Based on a circular, the DRI has
initiated investigation for applicability of service tax,” said Abhishek A
Rastogi, partner, Khaitan & Co who filed a writ petition in this regard
with the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court.

The tax notices demanded about 15% tax is applicable on the licence fees.
As per the tax department’s rationale, services provided by the casinos can
be categorised as goods as they “reserve the right to enter” for customers.

People in the know pointed out that one or two of the casinos have paid the
service tax, while others are looking to challenge the tax demand.


“Many casinos have paid service tax on reverse charge basis and hence
should not be expected to pay any other indirect tax. Further, since
entertainment tax has been subsumed in GST, similar issues may not arise in
future,” said M S Mani, partner, Deloitte India.

“There needs to be an element of service and quid pro quo for an activity
to be taxable,” said Rastogi.

Tax experts say no such tax demand has ever been made all these years.
Currently, in India only Goa, Union Territory Daman and Sikkim have casinos.


There are 10 casinos in Goa of which about 6 are land based and the rest
are floating casinos and their licence fees ranged anywhere between Rs. 4
crore and Rs. 15 crore per annum. Most of the onshore casinos are located
in five star hotels in Goa where only visitors from other states are
allowed to enter.

A TOI report on March 28 said licence fee for casinos has been increased by
nearly four times in 2018. Casinos would be required to pay anywhere
between Rs. 25 crore and Rs. 50 crore as licence fees annually.

Some tax experts point out that this could mean the issue of licence fees
could even crop up under the GST regime and the tax demand is only set to
go up tremendously say tax experts.

Read more at:
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[Goanet-News] Archbishop of Goa trolled by Hindutva brigade for 'Constitution in danger' comments

[Goanet News]

Archbishop of Goa trolled by Hindutva brigade for
'Constitution in danger' comments

By JKR Staff - June 5, 20181

Goa's Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao on Monday said that the
Indian Constitution was in danger, adding that a "new trend"
of mono-culturalism, which demands uniformity in what and how
one eats, dresses, lives and even worships, was putting human
rights at risk.

He made his feelings known in the latest annual pastoral
letter to Catholics in Goa. Ferrao also exhorted agencies of
the Church in Goa to actively participate in social movements
and urged lay Catholics to play an active part in politics.

  "At the time of elections, the candidates confuse
  the minds of many people by making false promises.
  And the people, on their part, often sell their
  precious vote for selfish, petty gain. Today, our
  Constitution is in danger, (it is a) reason why
  most of the people live in insecurity," Ferrao said
  in his pastoral letter for 2018-19 which was
  formally released on Sunday but circulated only on
  Monday. He added, "In this context, particularly as
  the general elections are fast approaching, we must
  strive to know our Constitution better and work
  harder to protect it."

Ferrao also alleged that human rights were being trampled in
the name of development and mono-culturalism. "In recent
times, we see a new trend emerging in our country, which
demands uniformity in what and how we eat, dress, live and
even worship: a kind of mono-culturalism. Human rights are
under attack and democracy appears to be in peril. The
various minorities fear for their safety. In short, respect
for law is frankly on the decline in this country,"

His letter just days after Delhi Archbishop Anil Couto wrote
to churches calling for a prayer campaign beginning 13 May in
the face of "turbulent political atmosphere threatening
democracy and secularism" before general elections next year.
Archbishop Couto had said, "We are witnessing a turbulent
political atmosphere which poses a threat to the democratic
principles enshrined in our constitution and the secular
fabric of our nation."

  Soon after Goa Archbishop's letter became public,
  he began to face trolling from the known faces in
  the Hindutva brigade. Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri
  wrote, "'In God, whose word I praise, In God I have
  put my trust; I shall not be afraid What can mere
  man do to me?' Psalm 56:4 Dear Archbishop of Goa,
  believe in Jesus. He will guide you." RSS
  ideologue, Professor Rakesh Sinha asked, "I can
  send a team to study human rights violations and
  religious coercions (of Christians who dissent and
  disagree with the establishment) in Vatican? Will
  Goa’s Archbishop help me?"

BJP MP and firebrand Hindutva face, Pratap Simha, wrote,
"When Archbishop says “Today, our Constitution is in danger",
pls don’t mistake, it only means "Vatican Constitution" that
believe in number game via conversion is in danger under Modiji!"

Archbishop Ferrao also received plenty of support from
journalists and activists. Former journalist Rahul Farnandes
wrote, "We must stand by all minority groups that feel
targeted by the Narendra Modi govt. And when BJP-funded
journalists stay mum, the rest of us need to raise our voices
loud enough to be heard." Activist Tehseen Poonawalla wrote,
"All of us must read & understand what the archbishop of Goa
wrote & why so many Indians are feeling insecure. India is a
pluralistic country! India is single only cause she is
plural. The end of pluralism will mean the end of our
constitution, our nation!"

Archbishop Ferrao's stunning letter has reignited the debate
on the role of the religious institutions in the Indian
politics. It has also highlighted another inescapable truth
on the existing fear among the minorities in India under the
current BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

http://www.jantakareporter.com/india/archbishop-of-goa-trolled-by-hindutva-brigade-for-constitution-in-danger-comments/190347/

[Goanet-News] #Goawalksforjustice :: Sunday, April 15, 2018. 6.30 pm at Miramar

[Goanet News]

#JusticeforAsifa

"They made a ritual out of the child's rape. Why then does it not make our
conscience bleed?"

In light of the gruesome murder and rape of Asifa Bano, an 8 year old
child, a peaceful candle march will be held on the 15th of April 2018,
Sunday at 7pm, in Goa. The march will commence at the Miramar circle and
end at the Azad Maidan.  The people will be required to gather at the
Miramar circle at 6.30pm.

The purpose of the march is to raise awareness about the inhumanity and to
demand justice. Protesters are encouraged to carry slogans and banners.
Note that the message of these banners shouldn't circle around a particular
religion, caste or gender. We are walking for humanity. And we are walking
for justice.

If not now,
then when?

#Goawalksforjustice

[Goanet-News] Parrikar's absence casts a shadow after a year in power

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Parrikar's absence casts a shadow after a year in power
Lack of second rung leadership a major handicap for Goa BJP

Devika Sequeira
devikaseque...@gmail.com

Less than two weeks since he returned from the Mumbai
hospital for the budget session, Chief Minister Manohar
Parrikar was flown out to the US for treatment. The brief
video message and photographs put out before he left leaves
little doubt about how seriously ill he is. Which brings up
the question: why was he even allowed to return to Goa at
serious risk to his health?

  Bravado, sentimentality and secrecy -- a large dose
  of which have been put on display by the BJP and
  its supporters these past few weeks -- are the last
  thing someone battling a critical condition needs.
  In pretending there's not much wrong with the chief
  minister and denying him a break from the strain of
  heading a government while he recuperates, the BJP
  and Parrikar's admirers are doing him more harm
  than good. Political parties exist after all purely
  for the pursuit of power and keeping its grip on
  government at all cost seems to be the BJP's key
  concern currently.

Though he never served a full term as chief minister (this is
his third time in the seat) there's no denying the BJP might
have been only on the fringes of politics in Goa had it not
been for Parrikar. Whether in power or in the opposition,
ideology, immense ambition, political astuteness and
ruthlessness have driven the man.

They came into play at the very beginning of this term in the
selective targeting of those in the opposition -- Digambar
Kamat, Babu Kavlekar -- and the open compromise with others
like Vijai Sardesai and Babush Monserrate. That has been the
saffron party's big advantage in Goa: a single leader
surrounded by marionettes ready to fall in line -- they did
so even when the allies took the biggest slice of Cabinet
posts -- as opposed to the Congress and its bulge of inflated
leaders with personal agendas. But what was until now an
advantage has turned into a handicap in the absence of a
second line of command that would qualify -- in the BJP book,
ties to the RSS would come on top -- to take over in
Parrikar's absence.

The three-member cabinet advisory committee was probably the
best option available given the urgency of the situation and
the challenges of holding together an ideologically disparate
coalition to stay in power. The Congress has questioned its
constitutional validity, and the chief minister's prolonged
absence is likely to raise suspicions over who is actually
calling the shots in Goa: the executive or the bureaucracy
steered by remote from the BJP's nerve-centre in Delhi.

  What stands out in this ad hoc arrangement is
  Parrikar's decision to not nominate an acting chief
  minister to fill in for his long and uncertain
  absence. This displays his lack of confidence and
  trust in any single member of his lead team --
  Sudin Dhavlikar, Sardesai, Francis D'Souza -- as
  much as it accentuates the shakiness of the
  opportunistic coalition patched together despite
  the BJP's clear defeat in last year's election.

The three-man steering boat appears to have sprung a leak
already as Curchorem MLA Nilesh Cabral's outburst displays.
The assertions by the MGP and Goa Forward that their support
would continue only so long as Parrikar is chief minister
only amplify the political uncertainties ahead for this
government.

Parrikar's absence coincides with the culmination of a year
in power, and the report card is hardly flattering. Confusion
rather than achievement dominates the government's score. The
defining image is the centre's rebuff to our grovelling
elected representatives who wanted a Supreme Court ruling
overturned to mollify their miner friends at the expense of
ordinary citizens.

Across Goa, panchayats are in an uproar over the inclusion of
their villages in the PDAs, the bodies that have become
synonymous with payoffs and kickbacks. Mounting public anger
has compelled Congress MLAs Francis Silveira and Tony
Fernandes to resign from the greater Panaji planning and
development authority (GPPDA) constituted purely to
accommodate Monserrate after his backing to Parrikar's
election in Panaji.

Further north, the skulking Michael Lobo who wants to expand
his area of control under the NGPDA is likely to face a
similar response in Calangute, Candolim and Parra. These
issues, a consequence of the politics of compromise and
appeasement, were festering long before the chief minister
took ill. A golden opportunity presents itself to TCP
minister Sardesai to now sort out the mess and prove he is
after all CM material. Will he take on the challenge?

###

This article first appeared in an edited version in the Times of India, Goa.

[Goanet-News] With 263, Goa fourth on list of ‘enemy properties’ (TNN)

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With 263, Goa fourth on list of ‘enemy properties’
TNN | Updated: Jan 7, 2018, 10:05 IST

PANAJI: Tiny Goa pips many much larger states when it comes to land 'left
behind' by Pakistani nationals. The Union government recently informed the
Lok Sabha that the coastal state comes fourth in the list of states with
land owned by Pakistani nationals, also known as 'enemy property'.

Most enemy properties are in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Delhi.
Government sources pointed out that despite Gujarat sharing a border with
Pakistan, the state has only 146 'enemy properties', compared to 263 in Goa.

Enemy properties in Goa are those whose survey numbers are registered in
the names of Goans who migrated to Karachi and other locations which became
part of Pakistan in 1947. After these Goans accepted Pakistani citizenship,
their properties were declared enemy properties in 1965. On September 11
that year, a central government notification stated that all immoveable
properties in India belonging to, or held, or managed on behalf of
Pakistani nationals were to be treated as enemy properties, and that
control over them was to be vested in the custodian of enemy property.

Most of these, in Goa, are in the talukas of Bardez and Salcete, while a
few lie in Tiswadi, Bicholim, and other parts of the state.

The home ministry had forwarded a list of enemy properties to both of Goa's
district collectors, directing them to collect lease rent from their
occupants.

Interestingly, several people have approached the courts staking claim to
these properties.

Matters relating to enemy property are dealt with under the Enemy Property
Act, 1968, the Enemy Property Rules, 2015, and the Enemy Property
(Amendment and Validation) Ordinance, promulgated by the President of India
on January 7, 2016.

Behind enemy lines
Uttar Pradesh 4,991
West Bengal 2,735
Delhi 487
Goa 263
Andra Pradesh 159
Gujarat 146

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[Goanet-News] Why being Goa CM is telling on otherwise superstar minister Manohar Parrikar (India Today)

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Why being Goa CM is telling on otherwise superstar minister
Manohar Parrikar

Pressure from the Centre and
allies is telling on the chief
minister.

Kiran Tare

As he heads towards completing a year as Goa chief minister
in March 2018, Manohar Parrikar appears to have lost his way.
In complete contrast to his earlier three tenures, his
performance on the economy, environment and law and order is
raising questions across Goa this time around. Many believe
the pressure from Delhi and coalition partners is telling on
the chief minister.

At a presentation to legislators on December 11, the chief
minister tried in vain to convince his audience that the
Centre's plans to nationalise Goa's rivers as well as
increasing the coal-carrying capacity of the Mormugao Port
Trust (MPT) were in the state's interest.

  Vehemently opposed by locals, both projects,
  nationalising rivers and upping coal-carrying
  capacity, are incidentally being pushed by minister
  for road transport and highways, shipping and water
  resources Nitin Gadkari. But activists point out
  that the transport ministry's plan to use the
  Chapora, Sal, Mapusa, Pomburpa, Mandovi and Zuari
  rivers as part of its national waterway project
  would effectively end the state's rights over its
  rivers and eventually impact fishing Goa's third
  largest enterprise. As many as 60 gram sabhas have
  cited environmental concerns to oppose ferrying
  more coal.

Insiders say even Parrikar believes both proposals are
against Goa's interests. But the CM is apparently beholden to
Gadkari, who played a key role in convincing the Goa Forward
Party (GFP), Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and three
independent MLAs to back Parrikar as chief minister after the
BJP had failed to secure a majority in the assembly polls
last year.

He is, therefore, singing a predictable tune. While 'not
available' when India Today made repeated attempts to contact
him, Parrikar said in Panaji: "The Centre's attempt to
'notify' six rivers in Goa as national waterways is a feat
accomplished. Goan rivers are kept open for shipping and
navigation. It is not nationalisation of rivers." The story
doing the rounds is that the state government is readying to
sign memorandums with MPT and the Inland Waterways Authority.

  Olencio Simoes, joint general secretary of Goenchea
  Ramponkarancho Ekvott, an NGO that has threatened
  to challenge the move in court, says close to 70
  per cent of the catch of local fishermen comes from
  inland waterways. But Parrikar says the Centre will
  implement the National Waterways Act even if Goa
  refuses to sign the MoUs. "Don't ask me for the
  moon," he told the activists, arguing at the same
  time that the state did not possess the resources
  to dredge its silt-filled rivers.

In a bit of a surprise, though, Goa's pollution control board
has filed a criminal complaint against MPT, demanding action
against port officials for handling coal in excess of the
consented capacity. MPT, however, denies the charge.

Even as these twin issues threaten to boil over,
Parrikar has fresh problems on the iron ore mining
front. Ore exports were down 76 per cent in the first
two months of the current season and expected to
result in a Rs 400 crore dip in mining revenue. This,
when Goa's tiny economy is already in trouble with a
debt of Rs 17,000 crore, which is 20 per cent of its
GDP and precariously close to the 23 per cent cap.

Parrikar is now also beginning to lose friends. Goa
Foundation director and environmentalist Claude Alvares is
convinced that he is working under extraneous pressures "from
mining firms who had funded the BJP's poll campaign". "I have
lost faith in him," says Alvares.

The growing number of drug seizures is another embarrassment
for Parrikar. His home department hit a new low when he had
to relieve Vimal Kumar Gupta, the state's No. 2 IPS officer,
who was facing bribery allegations, on December 5.

On the political front, too, Parrikar is now saddled with
having to appease coalition partners. And so he has consented
to appoint the tainted Atanasio Monserrate of the GFP as
chairman of the newly established Greater Panaji Development
Authority. The MGP too has been allowed a free run with its
PWD portfolio.

Somehow, no one in the BJP is questioning CM Parrikar's
'questionable' decisions. So while Manohar Parrikar may have
succeeded in settling his minority government, analysts say
that his personal image has taken a beating.

###

[Goanet-News] Memories of a festive past (Lisa Monteiro, TNN)

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Memories of a festive past

Lisa Monteiro| TNN | Dec 24, 2017, 07:38 IST

Children were taught how to make a star from scratch at a recent workshop
at Goa Chitra in Benaulim.
Decades ago, much before made-in-China cribs, plastic stars, artificial
trees, readymade sweets and smart gadgets hit the market, the Christmas
spirit had a touch of creative adventure besides, of course, the family and
community ethos. Creativity was rife and members of the family, extended
family and neighbours pooled resources and spent quality time together to
make the festival a memorable one.

The joy lay in coming together to prepare 'nevreos', 'manddare',
'kormbolam' and other Christmas goodies. A couple of weeks before
Christmas, 'manddare' were some of the first items to be made. "It was fun
as preparing the manddare needed skill, which could only be gained with
practice," recalls an old-timer.

Everything was made from scratch, and the labour and love helped the
neighbourhood spend quality time together to make the festival a memorable
one.

Senior citizen Raul Monteiro recalls all his siblings helping their mother
make sweets, even if it only meant making the design on the 'nevreos' with
a fork.

This 'sweet' love and warmth was then spread to neighbours and relatives.

At a time when plastic hadn't taken over people's kitchens, the 'cusoado',
an elaborate spread consisting of 'nevreos', 'kulkuls', 'bebinca', 'dodol',
'doce' and other sweets, was sent in large porcelain plates covered with a
pretty lace cloth to the homes of relatives and neighbours where they were
emptied and refilled.

Monteiro recalls many an instance when he and his siblings sheepishly
returned, feigning ignorance on how the Macau blue and white porcelain
plates broke en route to the neighbours' homes "We weren't worried about
the sweets getting wasted. We didn't know how to break the news of the
broken plates," he says, grinning at the memories.

He also recalls his mother staying awake at night to prepare the bebinca on
the fire, a painfully slow process.
No Christmas was complete without a beautifully crafted star. Not only was
this made by members of the family using bamboo, but the glue used to stick
paper over it was made at home with 'maida' and water.

With electrification still a couple of years away, a plank
of wood was fitted inside the large star to accommodate a kerosene lamp.
"Often the star would catch fire forcing us to dress it up all over again
with paper," Monteiro says.

With the entry of cheap gaudy readymade stars and cribs, the need to bring
back handmade work has been felt.
Victor Hugo Gomes, curator of the Goa Chitra museum, says he was shocked to
learn that most people do not know how to make a star from scratch using
bamboos. "Christmas was meant to bring families together, but today Chinese
products, thermacol and plastic have taken over," he says.

The one star that was made at home has now been replaced by numerous gaudy
ones, including coloured bulbs on trees, roofs, everywhere, with simplicity
giving way to excess. "These are drawing one away from where the focus
ought to be," retired school teacher Maryanne da Costa says.

Handmade Christmas cards are another aspect of the festival that have
almost become a thing of the past, and it would be the rare house where you
would find them strung out on display like they used to be once.

The personal touch is also missing today, with wishes sent via Facebook and
WhatsApp, Monteiro says.

Da Costa says dances would only start after midnight mass on Christmas
night. "Today they start much earlier, paying scant attention and respect
to the spiritual significance of Christmas," she says.

Looking back at his Christmas celebrations in Panaji as a young boy, writer
and professor at Goa College of Art Willy Goes says everybody would walk
together to Church and back, exchanging greetings, another aspect that is
lacking today. "Despite coffee and cake served after midnight mass, today
nobody stays on to socialize and the church is emptied within minutes," he
says.

This is precisely the reason 'samudai' were introduced in parishes, to
encourage fellowship, parish priest of Saligao church Fr Mateus Rodrigues
of Mae de Deus Church, Saligao, says.

To bring back the real Christmas spirit he has arranged for a tree in the
church compound and has been encouraging parishioners to tie a ribbon
around it each time they go out of their way to do a good deed. "If Jesus
is born in thousands of cribs throughout the world, but not in our hearts,
what's the use of Christmas? The tree is a symbol of good deeds and will be
taken during the offertory procession at Christmas mass," he says.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/memories-of-a-festive-past/articleshow/62227403.cms

[Goanet-News] High on Patriotism, Low on Artistic Freedom -- When the National Anthem Played 37 Times a Day at IFFI 2017 (Devika Sequeira, thewire.in)

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High on Patriotism, Low on Artistic Freedom -- When the
National Anthem Played 37 Times a Day at IFFI 2017

BY DEVIKA SEQUEIRA

When political connections
matter more than qualifications
or an interest in films to get
a pass for the festival -- it
is clear who’s calling the
shots at IFFI.

Ever since the International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
moved to Goa in 2004, discussions have veered around the need
for the country's biggest and most extravagant film festival
to have more autonomy, a weightier focus on parallel cinema
and less of Bollywood. Just a few weeks into her mid-July
appointment to the post, Union minister for information and
broadcasting (I) Smriti Irani demonstrated little
inclination for these concerns.

With the country caught up in the swirl of the engineered
storms over Padmavati and I ministry's trenchant stand on
excluding S Durga from the screening list at the Goa film
festival -- despite the Kerala high court order -- Irani
ironically used Bollywood to strike back at the growing
outrage over censorship.

The festival concluded last week on what would best be
described as a deliberate ramp up of Bollywood glitz -- a
response most likely to actor Shabana Azmi's call for a
boycott of IFFI over Padmavati. From Shah Rukh Khan, who was
at the opening event, to Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar,
Salman Khan, Karan Johar, Katrina Kaif, Alia Bhatt -- the
list goes endlessly on -- Bollywood's A-listers scorched the
red carpet in Goa like never before and even sat for a few
media conversations.

  "They're here because of Smritiji," a member of the
  Entertainment Society of Goa committee told The
  Wire when asked how much they were costing the
  state government which had picked up 75% of the Rs
  24 crore tab for IFFI 2016. A former television
  actor and producer, Irani was best known for her
  presence in soaps like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu
  Thi and the overwrought mythological series Ramayan
  on Zee TV.

But it wasn't just the Bollywood deluge on the red carpet and
the silence of its highest paid stars on Padmavati and the
stonewalling of Sexy Durga -- Shah Rukh Khan's inaugural
speech for instance sent reporters scurrying to the newsroom
to figure out whether his rather innocuous comment: "...and
no matter what your ideology is, storytelling and listening
should be a familiar experience, which binds us all together,
makes relationships stronger even in the face of dissent and
discussion…" was actually a cryptic form of criticism of the
controversies raging outside -- that stood out at this IFFI.

PHOTO: Actor Akshay Kumar and Union I minister Smriti Irani
present an award to Amitabh Bachchan at IFFI 2017. Credit:
Twitter/IFFIGoa
Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar presents an award at IFFI
2017. Credit: Twitter/Manohar Parrikar

  The incongruity of adhering to the national anthem
  mandate at an international film festival was never
  more apparent than when it played a record 37 times
  a day at the Goa fest. That many films a day -- 37
  at the festival's peak -- meant that many times
  delegates (some of them confused foreigners) were
  expected to jump to their feet, for fear of being
  prodded from behind or the side. In a few of the
  shows I sat for, 'Bharat Mata ki jai' followed the
  anthem. When the Supreme Court ruled on November 30
  last year that the national anthem would have to be
  played before screening of films to instil the
  feeling of "committed patriotism and nationalism",
  it had perhaps not considered the case of film
  festivals with an international audience.

IFFI had its share of good films and bad this year, with the
bad frankly outweighing the good which reflected on the
rushed decision by Irani to hand over the reins of the
festival to the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC)
just two months before the curtain raiser. The Directorate of
Film Festivals, also under the I ministry, that had handled
the event for four decades was relegated to a supporting
role.

Also read: Unprecedented, Unconstitutional Action by I
Ministry to Remove Two Films From IFFI List: 'S Durga'
Director
https://thewire.in/197958/s-durga-sanal-kumar-sasidharan/

A whole retrospective, considered the meatier section of the
festival, was wasted on showing nine James Bond movies --
something one can catch every day on television -- at a hefty
cost to the IFFI budget. Among the outstanding films were the
Oscar and Bafta nominated British director Sally Porter's The
Party, the Chilean film A Fantastic Woman directed by
Sebastin Lelio and the Iranian Oscar entry for this year,
Breath. Breathtaking in scope and the acting of its lead
characters -- half of them children -- the film's director,
Narges Abyar, who travelled all the way to the India
festival, was stranded in translation -- 

[Goanet-News] Fact-checking: religion and politics in India today

[Goanet News]

Skewed media coverage? Gandhinagar Archbishop’s appeal to voters vs Vadtal
Swaminarayan’s

By Arjun Sidharth
28th November 2017

The appeal by the Archbishop of Gandhinagar to voters in Gujarat to 'save
the country from nationalist forces' was the top story on primetime for
some television channels. India Today broadcast a debate in its 8 pm slot
questioning the locus standi of the archbishop with titles such as
'Archbishop's unholy appeal', 'Church trying to drum up paranoia' and
'Ahead of polls, church vs secular state?' with a clear insinuation that
the appeal by the archbishop was communal in nature and was tantamount to
disrupting the clear separation of Government and religion. Republic TV ran
the hashtags 'ChurchvsNationalists' and 'Whocommunalisedpolitics'.

India Today
✔@IndiaToday
Is Gujarat Archbishop polarising voters ahead of polls? Full video of
debate on #IndiaFirst with @gauravcsawant - http://bit.ly/2A3wZO6
11:34 PM - Nov 23, 2017
1818 Replies  2121 Retweets 4545 likes

Archbishop of Gandhinagar Thomas Macwan in a letter dated November 21 had
said, "The dates of Gujarat state assembly have been declared. The results
of this election are significant and it will have its repercussion and
reverberation throughout our beloved nation. It will influence the future
course of the country. We are aware that the democratic and secular fabric
of the country is at stake. Human rights are being violated. The
constitutional rights are being trampled. Not a single day goes without an
attack on our churches, church personnel, faithful or institutions. There
is a growing sense of insecurity among the minorities, OBCs, BCs, poor etc.
Nationalist forces are on the verge of taking over the country. The
election results of Gujarat state assembly can make a difference!"

It has been observed that leaders of various religious denominations and
various religious sects have made statements supporting various political
parties in the run-up to the elections. Before the 2014 general elections,
spiritual gurus such as Sri Sri Ravishankar and Baba Ramdev had appealed to
voters to cast their vote in favour of Narendra Modi and BJP.

Earlier in 2004, the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in New Delhi had issued a
similar appeal asking voters to give the BJP a chance while in 2014, he had
appealed to voters to vote for Congress. Alt News had earlier done a
detailed story on the close links of BJP and Dera Sacha Sauda.

Recently, on November 4th, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had visited
the Vadtal branch of the Swaminarayan sect in Gujarat and announced that
he'd be contesting the elections from Rajkot constituency. The very next
day, the Vadtal branch issued a statement asking people to support BJP in
the upcoming state assembly elections. Was a similar zeal to call out the
attempt to conflate religion and politics missing in the case of this
recent appeal?

Alt News ran a check and found that no TV news channel had
conducted primetime debates on the same. News channels like India Today,
Republic TV and Times Now were conspicuously silent when a similar appeal
was made only a few days back by the Swaminarayan sect.

If you like our stories, do follow Alt News on Facebook.

Has the mainstream media succumbed to the diktats of the political
establishment? What explains this lopsided treatment by prominent media
houses? Is this a conscious attempt to polarize voters on communal lines as
Gujarat gears up for a very important election which will decide the course
of politics leading to 2019 elections?

SEE MORE LINKS HERE:
https://www.altnews.in/skewed-media-coverage-gandhinagar-archbishops-appeal-voters-vs-vadtal-swaminarayans/

[Goanet-News] No India invite to Pope, Catholic clergy says: Embarrassing, hurts

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No India invite to Pope, Catholic clergy says: Embarrassing, hurts

The previous papal visit to the sub-continent was in January 2015, when
Pope Francis visited Sri Lanka for the canonization of India-born priest
Joseph Vaz.

Written by Vrinda Gopinath | New Delhi | Published: November 27, 2017, 4:06
am
Pope Francis delivers a blessing in the Vatican on Sunday. (Photo: AP)

THE TOP hierarchy of the Indian Catholic clergy has expressed
disappointment over the fact that Pope Francis’ tour of the subcontinent
starting Monday does not include India. The Pope is scheduled to visit
Myanmar from November 27-30, and Bangladesh from November 30-December 2.

The Vatican announced the schedule in August, and the Catholic cardinalate
and ecclesiastics and their associations in India, were in touch until
recently with the government to bring the Pope to a country where Catholics
constitute the third largest group, with about 28 million followers. But
they were not able to obtain a commitment.

Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, Secretary-General of the Catholic Bishops’
Conference of India (CBCI), the permanent association of Catholic bishops
in India and which oversees all Catholic churches in the country, said: “It
was with a heavy heart, we received the news that the Holy See cannot visit
India. This is not vis-à-vis just Catholics in the country, a Holy Visit
would have been a prestige for the whole country in the eyes of the world.
It is indeed embarrassing that the Pope is coming to the neighbourhood, and
visiting two smaller countries and not India. As an Indian, it hurts that
the Pope will not be coming here. I hope it hurts all Indians, too.”

The previous papal visit to the sub-continent was in January 2015, when
Pope Francis visited Sri Lanka for the canonization of India-born priest
Joseph Vaz.

Consultations and dialogue for the papal visit began in earnest a year ago,
when Pope Francis declared in October 2016, on the papal plane on his way
back from Caucasus in Azerbaijan, that he would “almost certainly” visit
India and Bangladesh next year.

The Pope’s remarks had come after the visit of External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj to his office in Vatican City when she had gone to Rome to
attend the canonization of Mother Teresa in the first week of September
2016.

According to protocol, a papal visit is a state visit as the Pope is the
sovereign of the state of Vatican City, and it is de rigueur that India
sends an invitation to the Vatican as the Pope will be the guest of both
the President and Prime Minister.

Archbishops and cardinals of important Catholic associations like
Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), Federation of Asian
Bishops’ Conference (FABC), and CBCI, had formed delegations to meet
then-President Pranab Mukherjee and the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to
clear the dates of the visit.

However, apart from meeting the Prime Minister, they returned without a
commitment from either office.

Archbishop Thomas Macwan, the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar, said, “Of course,
I’d be joyous if the Pope came to the country, but it is a decision to be
taken by the government. Perhaps, the dates were not suitable for the
government. But I’m confident the government will take a decision soon.”
Incidentally, Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in Gujarat
starting December 9.

The Archbishop of Nagpur, Abraham Viruthakulangara, said it would have been
in the fitness of things if the Pope had come and that “it would have been
a great boost for the country’s image in the world”. “Look at the size of
Bangladesh and Myanmar, compared to us,” he said.

In June, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Mumbai, reportedly said
that discussions with “PM Modi’s government about the papal visit were
taking longer than expected”, and that he “was losing hope about a papal
visit in 2017”.

In August, three cardinals, who head the Episcopal Conference, met Modi to
express their “wish” for a papal visit this year and reportedly assured the
Prime Minister that “the Catholic Church and the community would continue
to support the country’s growth”.

Bishop Mascarenhas said: “In this climate of vigilantism and murderous
lynchings, the Pope would have come as a Messenger of Peace, bringing a
salve to the people who are powerless in the face of the forces of hate and
evil.”

The last papal visit to India was by Pope John Paul II in 1999, during the
previous NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Bishop Mascarenhas said, “The Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Foreign
Secretary have always met us with the utmost courtesy. They have never said
no to a papal visit, only that they are always considering it. I am hopeful
the Holy See can visit us soon as we are in continuous talks with the
government. A papal visit would be a pride for India and all Indians.”

The External Affairs Ministry spokesperson did not respond to a query from
The Indian Express on why the government did not extend an invitation to
Pope 

[Goanet-News] Why Jharkhand’s anti-conversion bill is against Constitution and not necessary (Harsh Mander, HT)

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Why Jharkhand’s anti-conversion bill is against Constitution and not
necessary

Jharkhand’s Religious Freedom Bill, 2017, primarily targets Christians, and
goes against the freedom of religious belief in India’s Constitution

COLUMNS Updated: Sep 12, 2017 18:15 IST
Harsh Mander

PHOTO: Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das. Jharkhand will not be the
first government to pass an anti-conversion law if this is voted for by the
state assembly. Anti-conversion laws were passed in Orissa in 1967, in
Madhya Pradesh in 1968, in Gujarat in 2003 and Chhattisgarh in 2006. The
only Congress government to pass such a law was in Himachal Pradesh in 2006
(File Photo)(Manoj Kumar/HT)

It is a difficult time to be a part of the minority community in India
today with threats of various sorts coming from different quarters. But a
new assault on them is the approval by the Jharkhand Cabinet of a stringent
anti-conversion law, titled in characteristic double-speak, as the
Religious Freedom Bill, 2017. It contains stiff jail sentences and fines
for converting people through “allurement” or “coercion”.

A day before this Cabinet decision, residents of Jharkhand awoke to
front-page advertisements with pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, and a toxic
quote attributed to him attacking conversions by Christian missionaries. As
a columnist wrote in an online publication, the words were pulled out of
context and distorted. Gandhi must not be appropriated by an ideology that
is violently opposed to all he stood far: An India with full religious
freedom and equal rights. And it is intensely worrying that taxpayers’
money is used to foment hatred against a segment of people of the state.

Christians constitute a small 4.3% of the population of Jharkhand. The same
tribal family may have adherents of the animist Sarna faith (comprising
nearly 13% of the population), Christians and persons who identify
themselves as Hindus. Left to themselves, tribal families and communities
live with peace with this diversity of faith practices. But the propaganda
of the Right-wing, now backed by the state government, aggravated by the
draconian anti-conversion law, will tear apart these families and
communities.

The proposed anti-conversion law in Jharkhand has fostered enormous
disquiet among Christians everywhere in India. The ultra Right-wing regards
Islam and Christianity to be a “foreign” religion, and therefore requires
its adherents to respect “Hindu” culture and practices. But to advance its
political juggernaut objectives, it has built alliances with Christian
community leaders in some parts of India, such as Kerala and north-eastern
states. However, particularly in large tribal states of central India like
Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, the political strategy of choice has
been to target, defame and intimidate Christians, with violence against
their shrines, priests, nuns and women, and with laws that criminalise
conversions to Christianity.

But it must be stressed that Jharkhand will not be the first government to
pass an anti-conversion law if this is voted for by the state assembly.
Anti-conversion laws were passed in Orissa in 1967 under a Swatantra Party
government; in Madhya Pradesh in 1968 under the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal
coalition (which included the Jan Sangh); and in Gujarat in 2003 and
Chhattisgarh in 2006 under BJP governments. The Jayalalithaa government in
Tamil Nadu passed the law in 2002 but repealed it in two years after its
passage in 2004. The only Congress government to pass such a law was in
Himachal Pradesh in 2006. Rajasthan passed an anti-conversion law in 2006,
but the governor refused to sign the law. Arunachal Pradesh passed such a
law in 1978 under the People’s Party of Arunachal, but it was never
enforced as rules have not been framed to date.

Members of the Constituent Assembly took great care to uphold the freedom
of religious belief in India’s Constitution. After extended debate, it
decided that this freedom should not just be to practise and profess one’s
faith, but also to propagate it. KM Munshi declared that “under freedom of
speech which the Constitution guarantees, it will be open to any religious
community to persuade other people to join their faith”.

However, organisations like the RSS never reconciled to this fundamental
guarantee of the Constitution. They rail against the “menace” of Christian
conversions allegedly funded by big foreign money. It matters little that
the facts don’t bear out their claims. Christians constituted 2.5% of
India’s population in 1981, and 2.3% in 1991, 2001 and 2011. If large-scale
conversions were indeed occurring, their numbers would have swelled. This
sustained misinformation has resulted in profound and sometimes violent
schisms between Christian and other tribal people.

In this divisive competition for the religious allegiance of India’s
poorest and most vulnerable people, marked by stridency and hate, it is
important to recall the gentle counsel of one of the world’s 

[Goanet-News] USS Pearl Harbor Arrives In Goa (IANS)

[Goanet News]

USS Pearl Harbor Arrives In Goa

While in Goa, the ship's sailors and Marines will conduct exchanges with
the Indian Navy and Indian Navy Marine Commandos relating to amphibious
warfare.

All India | Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: August 24, 2017 15:53 IST

The USS Pearl Harbor was launched on February 24, 1996, and commissioned on
May 30, 1998.

PANAJI:  The amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor and the 15th
Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived in Goa for a scheduled port visit on
Thursday.

The USS Pearl Harbor is a Whidbey Island class (cargo variant) amphibious
dock landing ship with a crew of over 700 sailors and embarked Marines,
said a statement from the American Embassy in New Delhi.

While in Goa, the ship's sailors and Marines will conduct exchanges with
the Indian Navy and Indian Navy Marine Commandos relating to amphibious
warfare.

"They will also engage in community relations events and have the
opportunity to experience Indian culture," the statement said. This is the
ship's first visit to India.

"We are thrilled by the opportunity to visit India," said Commander
Theodore Essenfeld, USS Pearl Harbor's commanding officer.

"The sailors and Marines of Pearl Harbor look forward to experiencing the
culture and traditions of India while strengthening our long-standing
partnership with the Indian Navy."

The USS Pearl Harbor was launched on February 24, 1996, and commissioned on
May 30, 1998. The ship is based in San Diego, California.

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/uss-pearl-harbor-arrives-in-goa-1741534

[Goanet-News] Digvijaya Singh, reflects on why they failed to form a government in Goa and Congress leadership. (Indian Express)

[Goanet News]

India is changing, we can’t attract Dalits, tribals with rice, wheat. Cong
now needs a new course: Digvijay Singh
Digvijaya Singh, reflects on why they failed to form a government in Goa
and Congress leadership.

By: Express News Service | Published:March 19, 2017 12:06 am
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh with Chief of National Bureau
Maneesh Chhibber at The Indian Express office . Abhinav Saha

Congress leader and the party’s in-charge for Goa polls, Digvijaya Singh,
reflects on why they failed to form a government in the state, says the
party in power at the Centre forms the government in Goa, calls for
strengthening the regional leadership and insists that only Rahul Gandhi
can help build a new Congress

Maneesh Chhibber: What do you think went wrong in Goa?

Nothing. Let me give you a blow-by-blow account. I was made in-charge of
Goa sometime in late 2013. The party was in a disarray. As far as this
election goes, I as general secretary had strategised that we should have
an anti-communal front. There were these two people, Babush Monserrate and
Vijai Sardesai… Babush was a sitting Congress MLA, but he had walked out.
Sardesai was also in the Congress earlier, he wanted to contest the 2012
election, but was denied a ticket.

I touched base with him (Sardesai). I was in constant touch with Babush
also, and as a strategy they said let us have a secular front, with the
Congress in the lead. So, Babush, Sardesai and the NCP, were invited to
discuss a pre-poll alliance. We went for the elections, we ran a very low
key campaign and attacked AAP more than the BJP, because they were
encroaching on our votes.

We were successful in reducing the AAP to zero. Their CM candidate lost, he
got only 1,400 votes, and the party was decimated. BJP came down from 24 to
13. We got 17 plus one, 18 seats. Churchill Alemao of the NCP won. I was
there since the evening of March 10. We wanted to have a CLP meeting on
March 11 itself at 6pm. But I don’t know what they did with the counting.
It is such a small state with each constituency having no more than
25-30,000 votes. Counting only finished at 7.30 in the evening. After that
there were rallies etc and the Congress MLAs could not reach the PCC office
even till 9.30 pm. They called me and said we are very tired, let’s meet
tomorrow. I said, fine, let’s meet tomorrow.

Then, we went to meet Sardesai late in the night, sometime around 12.30 am.
He was angry that my party had put up a candidate against him. But we
convinced him and promised to meet all his demands. He said that my primary
demand is that ‘X’ should not be the chief minister. We agreed.

We returned from his place around 1.30 am, without realising that things
will change again. Next day I found out that Brij Bhushan Singh, the MP
from Gonda, who is the All India Wrestling Federation president, had
accompanied Nitin Gadkari to Goa. Now, Vijai Sardesai is the state level
wrestling federation president of Goa. So, Brij Bhushan Singh walked in
after we left, and the wrestling started. He took Sardesai to Gadkari, and
they were together between 4 am and 7 am.

I came to know much later that this was done. I trusted him. Around 10 am
the next day I started calling Rohan Khaunte and Vijai Sardesai, but there
was no contact. I called his PA, security, no reaction.

We called our CLP meeting at 11 and by 3.30-4 PM the exercise was over.
Sardesai wanted Digambar Kamat to be the CM, so we decided to elect him. We
called Digambar Kamat and told him that please make us talk to Sardesai so
that we can tell him that you are our leader. He kept on calling, again no
response.

Then the press informed me that Sardesai was with Nitin Gadkari, since
4.30-5 pm. So then I called up Sardesai’s mentor, who said there is no
question of GFP going with the BJP. Then, GFP president, Prabhakar Timble,
he also said there was no question of allying with the BJP.

Suddenly there was a phone call, and they said, ‘Sir sorry, they are going
to the Governor’.

See, my basic objection is that in Parliamentary democracy of course
numbers count, but it has to be on the basis of the mandate received. Any
political party if it gets the majority, they are invited to form the
government. In case of a fractured mandate, the single largest party has
the largest mandate. This was not followed in Goa. The Governor should have
waited. By doing this she has contravened constitutional provisions.

See, the letter to the Governor only goes once the leader is elected . When
we called the Governor’s office we were told there is no one here today
because it is a Sunday, so you leave the letter at the gate.

We have also now moved a substantive motion against the Governor, which
will be discussed on Monday, asking for a recall.

P Vaidyanathan Iyer: Do you feel completely outsmarted by the BJP, given
the pace with which they moved in Goa?

The new government is fragile and I don’t think it will last.

Let me give you some background. In ‘94 there was a 

[Goanet-News] Goa politicians get critiqued... in song

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW2jrleDiCE

[Goanet-News] How criminal is your politician? ADR to release report....

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-- Forwarded message --
From: ADR India  Date: 30 January 2017 at
15:40 Subject: [National Election Watch] INVITE: Press
Conference by ADR and Goa Election Watch on 'Goa Assembly
Elections 2017:Criminal, Financial, and other background
details of Candidates of all Political Parties.' 31st Jan,
2017, 3:00 PM, Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hall,
Panaji

Dear Friends,

You are cordially invited for a Press Conference organized by
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Goa Election
Watch to release a comprehensive report on 'Goa Assembly
Elections 2017: Criminal, Financial, Educational, Gender and
Age details of Candidates of all Political Parties'.

The report will cover analysis of criminal, financial and
other background details of the candidates of all political
parties contesting this election and shall be based on the
inputs provided by the candidates in their sworn affidavits
with their nomination papers. Maj. Gen. Anil Verma (Retd.),
Head of ADR, will be present among others to discuss the
report and interact with the members of the press.

Details of the Press Conference:
Topic: Goa Assembly Elections 2017: Criminal, Financial,
Educational, Gender and Age details of Candidates of all
Political Parties

Venue: Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hall, Panaji
Date: 31st Jan, 2017: Tuesday
Time: 3:00 PM


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[Goanet-News] The poetry of Laxmanrao Sardessai: XCHR, Jan 19, 2017

[Goanet News]

The Alto Porvorim-based Xavier Centre of Historical Research
is to feature the poetry of Laxmanrao Sardessai, in a
discussion to come up there shortly, according to a Press
statement from its director Dr Savio Abreu 

  The XCHR says: "This year when we in Goa
  commemorate the golden jubilee of the historic
  Opinion Poll that took place on January 16, 1967
  and where the people of Goa voted not to merge with
  Maharashtra but to remain as a separate political
  entity, we at XCHR highlight through this History
  Hour the figure of Laxmanrao Sardessai (1904-1986),
  well known writer of short stories in Marathi and
  freedom fighter. What is important to note is
  that Sardessai was strongly against the merger of
  Goa with Maharashtra and this comes out in his
  poetry writings in Portuguese."


The presentation-cum-discussion will be lead by D. A. Smith
and his talk will be titled: *Avante, Goeses, Avante! The
Portuguese Poetry of Laxmanrao Sardessai*

WHERE: At Xavier Centre of Historical Research
WHEN : Thursday, 19th January, 2017 at 5:30 pm

Bio-data: D. A. Smith was born in 1979 in Fredericksburg,
Virginia. He holds BAs in Creative Writing (Sam Houston State
University) and Chinese Studies (University of Houston), and
has worked as copy editor for a variety of fiction and
nonfiction books. His novel Axis Mundi Sum was published in
2003 by Invisible College Press. He recently translated
Orlando da Costa's novel O Signo da Ira (The Sign of Wrath).
He lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife, cats, and books,
and can be reached at dasm...@freeshell.org.

Synopsis: Laxmanrao Sardessai (1904-1986) was best known for
his prodigious output as a writer of short stories in
Marathi, as well as his involvement in the struggle for Goan
independence from Portuguese rule. After the expulsion of the
Portuguese in 1961, however, he began writing poetry in
Portuguese. This work, published in Goa's Lusophone
newspapers between 1964 and 1966, often had a strong
political bent, as Sardessai was strongly against the merger
of Goa with the neighbouring state of Maharashtra. But rather
than restrict himself to politics, Sardessai also wrote
poetry of a more personal nature, and throughout his work
displayed a deep love for his homeland and its people. The
study of his work, especially in the context of contemporary
Lusophone Goan poetry, can provide insight into Goa's
political and literary atmospheres in the years immediately
following Liberation, as well as a glimpse of the Portuguese
language during its waning days in India.

Contacts for the XCHR: Dr. Savio Abreu SJ, Director, Xavier
Centre of Historical Research B B Borkar Road, Alto Porvorim,
Goa 403521, India. Tel: +91-832-2417772 (Office), 2414971
(Director) www.xchr.in www.facebook.com/xchr.goa

[Goanet-News] Mario Soares, Portugal's Former President and PM, Dies at 92 (AP)

[Goanet News]

By BARRY HATTON, ASSOCIATED PRESS


LISBON, Portugal -- Jan 7, 2017, 1:01 PM ET

Mario Soares, a former prime minister and president of Portugal who helped
steer his country toward democracy after a 1974 military coup and grew into
a global statesman through his work with the Socialist International
movement, has died. He was 92.

Lisbon's Red Cross Hospital said in a statement he died there on Saturday
afternoon with his son and his daughter at his bedside. The hospital did
not provide a cause of death, but Soares had been a patient since Dec. 13
and in a coma for the past two weeks.

Soares, a moderate Socialist, returned from 12 years of political exile
after the almost bloodless Carnation Revolution toppled Portugal's
four-decade dictatorship in 1974. As a lawyer, he had used peaceful means
to fight the country's regime, which eventually banished him.

Soares was elected Portugal's first post-coup prime minister in 1976 and
thwarted Portuguese Communist Party attempts to bring the NATO member under
Soviet influence during the Cold War. He helped guide his country from
dictatorship to parliamentary democracy and a place in the European Union.

"The loss of Mario Soares is the loss of someone who was irreplaceable in
our recent history. We owe him a lot," Socialist Prime Minister Antonio
Costa said in India, where he was on a state visit.

Costa said three days of national mourning will begin Monday and that
Soares would have a state funeral at an unspecified date.

"His cause was always the same: freedom," President Marcelo Rebelo de
Sousa, said in a televised speech. "At decisive moments, he was always a
winner."

Soares' role as an international statesman was solidified through his work
with the International Socialist movement. As a vice president from 1976,
he led diplomatic missions that sought to help resolve conflicts in the
Middle East and Latin and Central America.

Soares was visiting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip when
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in Tel Aviv in 1995.
Both Arafat and Rabin were longtime friends of Soares.

In 1986, Soares became Portugal's first civilian president in 60 years. His
broad popularity brought him two consecutive five-year terms.

During terms as prime minister and foreign minister, Soares helped
rehabilitate Portugal on the international stage after decades of isolation
under the dictatorship established by Antonio Salazar in the 1930s. Soares'
insistence on using the ballot box instead of weapons to end the
dictatorship won him respect around the world.

Soares belonged to a generation of influential European Socialist leaders
that also included his close friend Francois Mitterrand of France,
Germany's Willy Brandt, Olof Palme in Sweden, and Felipe Gonzalez in Spain.

The 1974 coup shot Lisbon to the center of Cold War attentions as Portugal
lurched to the political left after the dictatorship's fall.

Days after the Carnation Revolution -- so named because people stuck
red carnations in soldiers' rifle barrels -- Soares returned home by train
from Paris to a rapturous welcome from crowds that flocked to meet him at
Lisbon's Santa Apolonia train station.

The Communist Party's influence surged following the coup, prompting fears
in the West that Portuga l-- a founding member of the Atlantic military
alliance -- would come under the Soviet Union's influence and encourage
other radical leftist movements in western Europe.

Soares said that at an October 1974 meeting in Washington, then-U.S.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told him he thought Portugal was doomed
to communist rule. But Frank Carlucci, the new U.S. ambassador to Lisbon
and later head of the CIA, argued that moderate democratic forces,
especially Soares' Socialists, would prevail. The 1976 election proved
Carlucci right.

Soares, an affable figure and eloquent campaigner who led the Socialist
Party, won the country's first entirely free elections and became prime
minister.

Portugal had western Europe's last colonial empire, and Soares was
instrumental in quickly granting independence to Portugal's five colonies
in Africa. Protracted wars had sapped the Portuguese economy and soured its
relations with other western nations that had turned away from colonial
rule years earlier.

Soares later was criticized for cutting the colonies loose so abruptly. All
of them -- Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome and
Principe -- became single-party Marxist states supported by the Soviet
Union and Cuba after their independence. Angola and Mozambique drifted into
civil wars as proxies in the Cold War struggle for influence in Africa.

Soares held posts in a string of governments that lasted less than a year
in the post-revolution political chaos. Banks were nationalized, spooking
wealthy financiers who fled the country, and poor farmers seized the land
they had long worked at large private estates.

Born in Lisbon in 1924, Soares started out as a 

[Goanet-News] Portugal PM likely to release dad's book in Goa (Lisa Monteiro, TNN)

[Goanet News]

Lisa Monteiro | Jan 2, 2017, 06.58 PM IST

Panaji: During his two day visit to the state, where he traces his paternal
roots, Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa is likely to release the
English translation of his father, the renowned poet and writer Orlando Da
Costa’s Portuguese playSem Flores Nem Coroas (Without Flowers or Wreaths).

The three-act play, set in a house where the family is grieving the death
of one of its members on the night of Goa’s Liberation, is being translated
under the recently inaugurated Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara Chair on
Indo-Portuguese language at the Goa University (GU) in collaboration with
Camoes Instituto da Cooperacao e da Lingua Portuguesa.

Orlando Da Costa, born in Mozambique, spent his growing years in his
ancestral house on Rua Abade Faria, Margao, along with his brother Joao
before they left for Lisbon. Joao went on to become a chemical analyst and
moved back to Goa. He passed away six years ago and is survived by his
Finnish origin wife Sinikka Jussailainen Costa, her daughter Anna Kaarina
Costa and her family, who continue to live in the same house in Margao
today.

The Portugal PM is also likely to pay tribute to historian and former
director of Fundacao Oriente, the late Paulo Varela Gomes, and posthumously
award him with a Cultural Merit Medal. Gomes’ wife Patricia Vieira will
accept the award at the event on the morning of January 11 at Fundacao
Oriente’s headquarters in Fontainhas.

Antonio Costa is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 7
in New Delhi when he is expected to sign MoUs that will improve bilateral
relations between the two countries. He will then spend two days in
Bengaluru where he has been invited as chief guest for the Parvasi
Bharatiya Diwas. He is also scheduled to attend the Vibrant Gujarat 2017
Summit before he visits Goa on January 11 and 12.

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[Goanet-News] COUNTERVIEW: Why Demonetisation & The Following Chaos Could Lead To Narendra Modi’s Downfall

[Goanet News]

Why Demonetisation & The Following Chaos Could Lead To Narendra Modi’s
Downfall

by Swati Chaturvedi

I felt a huge and growing sense of unease as I watched our Prime Minister,
Narendra Modi seemingly break down and then attack “enemies” while speaking
at a public meeting in Goa two days ago. Modi focused on how he was being
persecuted and how people wanted to “burn him” over his sudden
demonetisation bid. The concern for an unsubstantiated threat to himself,
seemed to override the chaos that was visible in the country following the
announcement.

I wasn't reassured when Modi compared those standing in queues to
“scamsters”. Although it was perhaps an allusion to Congress Vice President
Rahul Gandhi lining up to withdrawn money at a bank, it seemed insensitive
to the throngs of ordinary folk waiting patiently to withdraw their own
money for necessities.

Modi seemed to recover his élan on Monday as he hit the campaign trail in
poll-bound Uttar Pradesh and spoke of how poor people like “kadak chai” and
how only the “corrupt rich were looking for sleeping pills”. Perhaps, he
was speaking of the 25 people who have died as a result of the
demonetisation – including children who have been denied treatment in
hospitals.

[PHOTO: A protest against the demonetization in Kolkata | Source: AFP]

Former Union Minister Arun Shourie says in a most prescient assessment of
Modi and his governance model, “For Modi, it’s all about headline
management. Modi and those around him are convinced that if you manage the
media, the headlines the events will vanish. So, a Dalit uprising happens
in Gujarat, distract the media with an event. Something happens in Kashmir,
do the same. The trouble is you may manage the headline, but the event will
still happen.”

Unfortunately, the demonetisation “event” which has devastated the economy
could not have been given a positive spin by any spin master.

Demonetisation has proved to be the biggest personal challenge to Modi’s
unrivalled authority within the Bharatiya Janata Party and the government
of India as two jittery allies, Akali Dal and Shiv Sena have publicly
attacked him on it. The irony is that BJP is trying to detach itself from
the image deficit faced by the Akali Dal in the upcoming Punjab polls and
now Sukhbir Singh Badal, President of Shiromani Akali Dal has said that the
“Demonetisation crisis is severe for rural women. Impossible to implement
this move within 50 days”.

The ill-timed demonetisation move is also likely to hit the rabi crop as
farmers are unable to buy seeds.

[PHOTO: Demonetization could hit the sowing season | Source: PTI]

Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena, which is BJP’s ally in
Maharashtra has been even more scathing. He has called the demonetisation
move “anti-people”. The fact that Modi felicitated bitter rival and
Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar, who isn’t exactly a
beacon for the anti-corruption movement, on the same day that he was
railing against the “corrupt” was not lost on Thackeray or the public.

So, while two of the BJP’s allies have condemned the hugely unpopular move,
the mood within the BJP is no less sullen. BJP Member of Parliament from
Porbandar, V H Radadiya has publicly said, “Farmers are the worst hit and
the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) will be shut for the next
two months”. This coming from Modi’s own citadel of Gujarat is not good
news for him.

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been castigated by BJP MP
Subramanian Swamy for “lack of planning and implementation of
demonetisation”. Jaitley advised people to use plastic i.e. credit and
debit cards which is a nonsensical suggestion since India is still
primarily a cash-based economy. Large swathes of people do not have access
to electricity or regular mobile connectivity, leave alone credit and debit
cards.

[PHOTO: India's economy has largely been cash-based | Source: PTI]

To add insult to injury, Rajya Sabha MP and National Vice President of the
BJP, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe commenting on the chaos that has ensued following
demonetisation has publicly said, “Sometimes people die waiting in line for
ration too”.

Contrary to perception though, all senior BJP leaders don’t share either
this blasé attitude or echo Modi’s triumphalism. They are a worried lot.

A senior leader says on condition of anonymity, “Nobody can tell Modi
anything. But, Delhi is not Gujarat and by this move he has overreached
himself. The entire Opposition is united. And the moment the winter session
of Parliament will start we will see a repeat of suit-boot jibes.”

[PHOTO: The banking system is still struggling to cope with demand for cash
| Source: Reuters]

BJP leaders are also upset about a growing perception that some people knew
about the demonetisation in advance, such as the West Bengal unit of the
BJP which deposited Rs 3 crore in a nationalised bank eight days before the
announcement. The last transaction of Rs 40 lakh, was made minutes before
the PM’s 

[Goanet-News] Opinion: Can we call demonetization a train wreck already? (S Unnikrishnan, Manorama)

[Goanet News]

http://english.manoramaonline.com/news/columns/opinion/demonetization-no-pain-without-gain.html

Opinion: Can we call demonetization a train wreck already?
Saturday 12 November 2016 10:34 AM IST

by S Unnikrishnan

Across India, citizens are lining up before banks and waiting to get their
hands on the new Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes. The salaried middle class, the
daily wage earners, the poor housemaids and laborers are without cash,
without work. Poor people without bank accounts or credit cards, and small
businesses without card-reading machines are the most hit.

Many cannot buy food; many who saved up their earnings have been cheated
with exchange schemes run by unscrupulous elements. Many are at a loss as
to how to get the new notes – their life savings is now useless paper.

Four days after prime minister Narendra Modi outlined his scheme to replace
all existing Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes with new currency bills, things are
far from normal.

There is hardly enough liquidity around. There are long lines at the banks.
Many office workers with no time to spend in lines before banks have to
borrow cash. People who have not used credit cards and debit cards in their
life are being forced to go hungry.

There is a lot of anger on social media, and most of it is directed against
the prime minister himself. It’s already looking like a train wreck out
there. Here is trying to make sense of this complex issue:

Is the policy bad/wrong?

Almost no one is saying the crackdown on black money is wrong. Honest
people are tired of the rising prices, the dark economy, the corruption
that is eroding away their buying power. And many people are more than
willing to go through some temporary hardship for that.

That there are reports of burning of notes from across the country, of
underselling of old notes, plenty of anecdotal evidence of panic and people
trying to convert black to white through various means, show that at least
there is some kind of headline effect.

At the very least, it has brought this problem eating into the vitals of
our economy into the living rooms of the common man, and probably the
current suffering will help increase pressure to crack down on black money.
Hopefully.

Will this help contain black money?

There are no easy or immediate answers here. We will have to give it
probably time till March-end when the RBI can square up its accounts to
know if this has really worked as intended.

Since it is well known that Pakistan is minting the counterfeit notes, a
large part of the success of this program depends on whether or not
Pakistan can copy these new security features. It is doubtful that Pakistan
cannot do it.

The big fish have their black money invested in gold and real estate. So
they are not going to be hit by this step, unless the government can follow
through with better tax policing and bring the real estate sector under
stricter scrutiny. If the history of independent India is any indication,
it’s hoping for too much.

Will the current liquidity crunch go away soon?

Probably not. Because evidence from across the country shows a weak banking
system trying to cope with this emergency and failing, despite the best
efforts of the lower-rung staff. ATMs have run out of cash by early Friday
morning; many were still to be loaded – even in the financial capital
Mumbai.

The limits on deposits and exchanges are ridiculous. Unless those are
lifted massively, this liquidity crunch is going to drag down the economy.

Could the government have done it better?

Yes and no. A step like this would have led to some pain – that was
inevitable. Because the implementation had to be quick to achieve at least
some effect. But a lot of the current pain could have been avoided if more
thought was given to the execution part.

The weak points in the cash distribution system should have been identified
and plans tailored accordingly. The government could have waited to build
up enough stores of the new notes across distribution hubs in the country
before announcing the plan. The secrecy element could have been maintained
to a large extent till that had been achieved, and then the plan could have
been announced.

So who is to blame?

The political leadership, the finance ministry and the banking system.

The bank chiefs and the RBI top deck failed to stand up to the political
masters and put their foot down. They failed to tell the government about
the systemic weaknesses and logistical issues. They failed to stand up and
do what they are paid to do. They behaved like Hitler’s generals. And the
people are paying for it. The bank babus will continue to get their pay –
in full – for not doing their work.

The bureaucrats in the finance ministry are equally culpable for the above
reasons.

Prime minister Narendra Modi and finance minister Arun Jaitley are
responsible too. Not for implementing this scheme as their political
opponents now want the people to believe. But for not appointing honest,
brave officers in 

[Goanet-News] NEWS: Manohar Parrikar questions India’s no-first-use nuclear policy, adds ‘my thinking’

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Manohar Parrikar questions India’s no-first-use nuclear policy, adds ‘my
thinking’

A spokesperson for the Defence Ministry later clarified that the Minister
had confirmed that this was his personal opinion.

Written by Sushant Singh | New Delhi | Published:November 11, 2016 4:24 am

Stoking a controversy, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar Thursday
questioned India’s No First Use (NFU) policy on nuclear weapons but then
said that “this is my thinking” and the nuclear doctrine “has not changed”
under any government.

Speaking in New Delhi at the launch of Brigadier (retd) Gurmeet Kanwal’s
book The New Arthashastra, Parrikar said: “Why a lot of people say that
India has No First Use policy. Why should I bind myself to a… I should say
I am a responsible nuclear power and I will not use it irresponsibly. This
is my thinking. Some of them may immediately tomorrow flash that Parrikar
says that nuclear doctrine has changed. It has not changed in any
government policy but my concept, I am also an individual. And as an
individual, I get a feeling sometime why do I say that I am not going to
use it first. I am not saying that you have to use it first just because
you don’t decide that you don’t use it first. The hoax can be called off.”

A spokesperson for the Defence Ministry later clarified that the Minister
had confirmed that this was his personal opinion.

In its manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, BJP had promised to
“study in detail India’s nuclear doctrine, and revise and update it, to
make it relevant to challenges of current times”. No such study has been
publicly announced. Nor has the BJP-led government proposed any change in
the doctrine or the NFU.

India’s NFU policy is part of its nuclear doctrine. Under the doctrine,
India has a policy of credible minimum deterrence based on a ‘No First Use’
posture and non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states.
This means that India won’t be the first to use nuclear weapons in a
conflict. In contrast, Pakistan does not have an NFU policy for its nuclear
arsenal.

India has always held its commitment to NFU policy as proof of it being a
responsible nuclear power. In April, when US President Barack Obama
suggested that India and Pakistan reduce their nuclear arsenal, the
spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs said: “There seems to be
a lack of understanding of India’s defence posture. Conventionally, India
has never initiated military action against any neighbour. We also have a
no-first use nuclear weapons policy.”

Critics of the NFU policy argue that the increasing stockpile of Pakistani
nuclear weapons and China’s expansionist designs in the region warrant a
change in the doctrine. Since it is a declaratory policy, with no binding
legitimacy, Pakistani officials have claimed that India can revoke its
unilateral declaration anytime if the situation so warrants.

In 2003, the then Defence Minister George Fernandes had ruled out any
revision of the NFU policy. In 2011, BJP leader Jaswant Singh had asked for
abandonment of the NFU policy but the UPA government decided to maintain
status quo.

Responding to Parrikar’s remarks, Congress party communication in-charge
Randeep Surjewala said: “Defence Minister Parrikar has no business or
authority to speak in personal capacity at a public function. He reflects
the thrust and intent of India’s national security policy. If India’s
policy on NFU has to be changed, it must be decided after deliberation with
the government and stated publicly. Casual, immature and off-the-cuff
remarks by India’s Defence Minister, for which he has become famous, are
not in India’s interest.”

CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said: “This is a most irresponsible
comment coming from the Defence Minister. It runs against India’s ethos of
seeking a nuclear-free world. When a minister speaks, it has to be the
considered opinion of the government. This statement would be taken
indignantly by the rest of the world and hurt India’s interests globally.”

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[Goanet-News] Demonetisation explained (TheWire.in)

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http://thewire.in/78694/paper-money-ban-rs-500-rs-1000-notes-explained/

Pieces of Paper: Demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 Notes Explained

BY THE WIRE STAFF ON 08/11/2016

Aimed at combating corruption and black money, this move will also cause
short-term pain and chaos for the working class, small businesses and
nearly anybody who deals with cash on a daily basis.

New Delhi: “This has come as a surprise to everybody. The citizens, the
nation and even within most of the government!,” Economic Affairs Secretary
Shaktikanta Das said at a late-night press conference on Tuesday, an hour
after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes
would cease to be legal tender at the stroke of midnight.

Why was this decision taken? What effect will it have on customers, banks
and India Inc? The Wire breaks it down.

Why ban Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes?

In two words: black money. Unaccounted money, often used in any form of
corruption or illicit deals, usually takes the form of high-value notes,
which in this case are the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 bills. In his speech, Modi
specifically pointed out that these large-value notes were being used to
finance corruption and fund terrorism.

The Financial Action Task Force, a global body that looks at the criminal
use of the international financial system, notes that high-value bills are
used in money laundering schemes, racketeering, and drug and people
trafficking.

In India, the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes also constitute a huge percentage
of the money spent by governments, political parties and candidates during
general elections. A Centre for Media Studies report showed that nearly Rs
30,000 crore was spent during the 2014 general election, while official
spending only accounted for Rs 7,000-Rs 8,000 crores.

This of course only scratches the surface: major industries such as real
estate have historically been conduits of black money.

The most important fact, however, is that the share of large-value notes
has only been increasing over the years. While some of this is no doubt due
to the natural growth expansion of our economy, it also hints at the
increasing size of our  black money economy.

Modi’s decision to decommission Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes should ideally
not hurt most individuals in the long-term, although it will have a
significant negative impact on the working class and small and rural
businesses in the short-term. Economist Ajit Ranade’s back-of-the-envelope
calculation shows that the highest face value in India should be around Rs.
250; simply put, Rs. 250 is the highest-value note that most Indian
individuals should need.

On the other hand, what needs to be noted is that there’s no good estimate
for how much of India’s black money is in forms other than
currency/physical notes such as gold, jewellery, land or any other form of
wealth. Therefore while banning 500/1000 rupee notes will tackle the black
money that is in the form of hard cold cash, it won’t affect other forms of
black money.  On similar lines, this move will, obviously, have little
effect on black money stashed away in foreign tax havens.

How is this going to impact urban consumers, small businesses, large
businesses?

Over the next month, there will undoubtedly be a significant shortage in
cash supply: not just Rs 500 and Rs 1000 bill, which are being taken out of
circulation, but almost every other denomination as well.

Why? Firstly ATMs will be closed on November 9 (pan-India) and November 10
(in some places). This is being done in order to remove all existing Rs 500
and Rs 1000 notes from the ATMs and replace them with lower-value bills.

Multiple experts and government officials, however, have told The Wire that
this process will likely take one to two weeks in urban and semi-urban
areas and up to a month in remote and rural regions. In the meantime, long
queues at ATM have already started. People are withdrawing smaller notes to
stock up, so there will be shortage in the days and weeks ahead.

As a consumer, if you depend on small notes (which is the great majority of
India) to pay for your groceries, household items – it could be difficult
over the next one week to do so.

Small businesses, both in urban and rural areas, will find this move
downright crippling in the short-term. These businesses are mostly run on
cash: they use hard cash to receive payments for services and to make
payments for inventory and goods. It’s unclear at the moment how quickly
they will be given access to the new Rs 2000 notes that will be issued.

On the other hand, as analysts have noted, India’s larger and new-age
companies will have no problems in making the switch to Rs 2,000 notes.

Traditional sectors, such as real estate or cement, where are politically
controversial and where there is larger incidence of corruption and
high-value cash transactions, will likely go through a tremendous amount of
pain, chaos and restructuring in the next few weeks.

“We have just witnessed a 

[Goanet-News] Pakistan journalist Cyril Almeida, in the eye of a storm, has Goan roots... (see below)

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/pakistan-cyril-almeida-dawn-exit-control-list-161010204921917.html

Pakistan: Cyril Almeida of Dawn 'on Exit Control List'

Cyril Almeida "informed" he is on Exit Control List, just days after scoop
hinting at civilian-military leadership rift.

Dawn says it 'verified, cross-checked and fact-checked' Almeida's report
[Youtube]

A prominent journalist has been put on Pakistan's Exit Control List after
the respected Dawn newspaper published his scoop that appeared to confirm
long suspected rumours of a rift between the country's civilian and
military leaderships.

The Exit Control List is a system of border control maintained by the
Pakistan government under an ordinance which allows it to bar people whose
names appear on the list from leaving the country.

Cyril Almeida, Dawn's assistant editor, pointed via Twitter on Monday to
his name's appearance on the list.

The Pakistani authorities have yet to comment on the development.

cyril almeida @cyalm
I am told and have been informed and have been shown evidence that I am on
the Exit Control List.
12:47 AM - 11 Oct 2016

In the October 6 exclusive news report, Almeida said some in the civilian
government complained at a top-secret meeting that they were being asked to
do more to crack down on armed groups, yet whenever law-enforcement
agencies took action "the security establishment ... worked behind the
scenes to set the arrested free".

Insisting that the law should apply equally to all, the civilian
government's representatives at the meeting gave warning that Pakistan
risked international isolation if the security establishment did not take
the recommended course of action, according to the Dawn report.

Almeida's story came against a backdrop of heightened tension in the region
following a claim by the Indian government of a cross-border "surgical
strike" by army commandos on September 18, apparently in response to a
deadly assault on an army post in Indian-administered Kashmir.

India blames Pakistan-based armed groups for the attack, a charge rejected
by the Pakistani government led by Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister.

The report said that the arguments made by the foreign secretary and the
Punjab chief minister during the meeting in the prime minister's offices
were designed to trigger a debate with the military leadership.

A spok­es­­man for the Pakistani Prime Minister's Office later disputed
Almeida's account, labelling it "not only speculative but misleading and
factually incorrect" and describing it as an "amalgamation of fiction and
fabrication".

A statement from the Prime Minister's Office said that participants at a
meeting of the top civilian and military leadership on Monday expressed
concern over the publication of what it termed as a "fabricated news story"
pertaining to security issues purportedly discussed in a meeting of the
National Security Committee.

Abbas Nasir @abbasnasir59
Had @cyalm shredded the Constitution; acquired properties abroad via
offshore companies, dodgy wealth he'd be free to travel abroad.
1:49 AM - 11 Oct 2016

The statement said: "The participants were unanimous that the published
story was clearly violative of universally acknowledged principles of
reporting on national security issues and has risked the vital state
interests through inclusion of inaccurate and misleading contents which had
no relevance to actual discussion and facts."

The statement further said the "prime minister took serious notice of the
violation and directed that those responsible should be identified for
stern action".

Late on Monday Zaffar Abbas, Dawn's editor-in-chief, published an editorial
note confirming that Almeida had been placed on the Exit Control List.

India-Pakistan: Media on fire - The Listening Post

Abbas stood by Almeida's report, saying that it was "verified,
cross-checked and fact-checked".

"Dawn would like to clarify and state on the record several things," the
editorial note said.

"First, this newspaper considers it a sacred oath to its readers to pursue
its reporting fairly, independently and, above all, accurately. The story
that has been rejected by Prime Minister’s Office as a fabrication was
verified, cross-checked and fact-checked.

"Second, many at the helm of affairs are aware of the senior officials, and
participants of the meeting, who were contacted by the newspaper for
collecting information, and more than one source confirmed and verified the
details."

The government's decision quickly drew strong reactions from senior
journalists and rights activists on social media.

 Follow
shahzeb khanzada
✔@shazbkhanzdaGEO
So banned outfits can roam around freely,do rallies but a journalist has
been put on ECL fr a story.really Prime minister??#StandWithCyril
1:43 AM - 11 Oct 2016

Hundreds of people, including dozens of Pakistani journalists, have
declared that they are supporting Almeida and press freedom by tweeting
under the hashtag, #StandWithCyril.

The action 

[Goanet-News] Monica Ghurde, renowned perfumer, passes away

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http://www.vogue.in/content/monica-ghurde-renowned-perfumer-passes-away/

Monica Ghurde, renowned perfumer, passes away

Megha Mahindru | October 7, 2016
One of India’s leading olfactory experts, she was found murdered at her Goa
home

The news of the brutal murder of Monica Ghurde, a well-known perfumer and
researcher, has the fashion world in mourning. Ghurde, whose body was found
at her residence in Sangolda this morning, moved to Goa in 2011.

A pioneer in her field, the 39-year-old perfumer was nicknamed the First
Lady of Smell. Ghurde moved from Mumbai to Chennai in 2002, where she began
to be intrigued by the jasmine flower. It was this obsession that made her
swap careers—forfeiting photography for the sweet-scented world of
perfumery. Later she refined her olfactory senses under a perfumer from
Picot Laboratories, a renowned perfumery in UK. Over the years, Ghurde has
conducted lectures on jasmine-based perfumes as well as workshops to
educate people about the sense and influence of smell.

A photographer-turned-stylist-turned perfumer, Ghurde’s association with
Vogue India goes back a long way. In 2005, she collaborated with
photographer Bharath Ramamrutham to launch Graf, a multi-disciplinary
design house, and the photography graduate from JJ Institute of Applied
Arts, captured portraits that have appeared in multiple issues of Vogue
India in 2009.

Off late, Ghurde has been our go-to nose for all the news on the Indian
perfume world. In the September 2016 issue, she shared with Vogue India her
field-to-bottle travel experiences—from Chennai to Lucknow to Paris and
Milan—as she visited perfumer conferences and fragrance boutiques across
the world. A serial collaborator, she has worked with designers such as
Jean Francois Lesage, Christian Louboutin, Anand Kabra and Satya Paul, to
name a few.

As we mourn her loss today, we would love to remember the jasmine queen by
her powerful words that will stay with us: “The power of smell can
transport us back in time. People have memories attached to a particular
smell.” Sweet, floral and intense, that’s the smell she will bring to mind.

In this story: CHENNAI, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, GOA, MUMBAI, PARIS, PERFUME,
PIONEER, QUEEN,SATYA PAUL

[Goanet-News] UPCOMING: People’s Forum on BRICS: Oct 13-14, 2016 @ Goa

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Panel discussion:

BRICS 2016 Summit:
Foreign policy challenges

27 September 2016
6-8pm
Seminar Hall 1,
India International Centre (Kamaladevi Complex)
New Delhi

Organised by
Peoples Forum on BRICS

Moderator: Seema Mustafa (Citizen.in)
Achin Vanaik (Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace)
Prabir Purkayastha (Newsclick.in)
Sonya Gupta (Jamia Millia Islamia)
Ajay Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University)


The 8th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit will
be hosted by India in Goa from 15-16 October 2016. Set up in 2009, the
group represents some 3 billion people (41% of world population) and
accounts for $20 trillion of GDP. Its two major achievements so far have
been the New Development Bank (NDB) and Contingent Reserve Arrangement
(CRA) set up supposedly to challenge the hegemony of the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund. With issues such as UN Security Council reform
and a new global reserve currency on its agenda, the BRICS is expected to
play a significant role in shaping a new multi-polar world order.

The Goa summit takes place immediately after the Hangzhou G20 and the
Venezuela Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summits with Prime Minister Modi
giving the latter a miss. Sluggish global economic growth, the breakdown of
the Doha trade round at the WTO and the emergence of bilateral and regional
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are likely to be on the agenda as will the
role of BRICS in a just resolution to the protracted war in Syria. The
continuing inability of SAARC to foster regional cooperation in South Asia
will weigh heavily on India. Panelists will focus on these broader global
and regional issues as also specific challenges in each of the BRICS
countries.

Peoples Forum on BRICS:
This panel discussion is part of the events being organised by Peoples
Forum (PF) on BRICS. The PF is being organised in Goa from 13-14 October,
2016 just before the official summit. The PF is a collective effort of
several people’s movements, networks and civil society organisations from
across India. The PF will attempt to raise critical voices from below on
social, ecological, political and economic concerns that are often ignored
at big summits such as BRICS. The PF will provide a space for groups to
share analysis, struggle notes and build solidarity in the quest for a more
just and equitable society.

Please write to peoplesforumonbrics@gmail.c om mailto:peoplesforumonbrics@
gmail.com for more information. The call for the Peoples BRICS in Goa is
pasted below.


Call for solidarity and participation!

People’s Forum on BRICS
October 13-14, 2016
@Xavier Centre of Historical Research
Alto Porvorim, Goa. India

The 8th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit will
be held in Goa, India from 15-16 October 2016. Set up in 2009, in the
aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, with four countries and then
expanded to South Africa in 2010, the emergence of the BRICS was seen in
many circles as a concrete step towards constructing a multi-polar world.
This was soon underlined with the setting up of the BRICS New Development
Bank (NDB), the China-led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and
the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) that were supposedly direct
challenges to the hegemony of western dominated institutions such as the
World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Monetary Fund
(IMF).

However it was soon evident that these new initiatives, while allegedly
eroding the dominance of the Bretton Woods Institutions, would in reality
work in a complementary and collaborative fashion with the latter. For
example, during a balance of payment crisis, the CRA forces a borrowing
country to go to the IMF for a neoliberal structural adjustment programme
after getting just 30% of its quota in CRA loans. BRICS’ Transnational
corporations (TNCs) that extract valuable resources from the world’s
poorest regions are reported to be just as brutal in accumulating capital
as northern TNCs. The BRICS’ record at the World Trade Organisation (WTO),
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and at the United Nations Climate negotiations
has also been one of strategic accommodation with the global north.

Given this continued adherence to a largely neo-liberal development model
and an export-led growth trajectory based on cheap labour, rising
inequality, financial speculation and multinational corporate exploitation,
with little consideration for social and ecological costs, the expectation
that the BRICS would usher in a shift in the world economy was soon
debunked. Nevertheless, the BRICS have, on occasion, taken progressive
positions on geo-politics; in opposing unilateral military intervention in
Syria (prior to the Russian intervention in 2015) and calling for a just
solution to the question of Palestine. Russia and China have played a key
role in containing NATO, albeit due to expansionary geopolitical tendencies
of their own. India and Brazil kept alive hopes for 

[Goanet-News] Keith Vaz profile: Labour MP and 'Teflon politician' (BBC)

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Keith Vaz profile: Labour MP and 'Teflon politician'

Keith Vaz was Labour's youngest MP when he was elected in 1987, and he has
become one of Britain's best-known politicians.

As chairman of the influential Home Affairs Select Committee, he regularly
questions senior figures and leads inquiries on issues including
immigration, policing and counter-terrorism.

He has a high profile in the UK media, regularly commenting on stories
ranging from Brexit and drug laws to refugees and the ongoing inquiry into
child sexual abuse.

But he is also controversial, with critics branding him a self-publicist
and calling him a "Teflon" politician for his perceived ability to emerge
unscathed from scandals.

Mr Vaz's parents were from Goa in India, but he was born in Aden, a British
colony which is now part of Yemen, in 1956.

He moved to Britain in 1965 and later studied law at Cambridge University
before becoming a lawyer.

When he became an MP at the age of 30, his website says, he was the first
person of Asian origin elected to the House of Commons since 1922.

He has represented Leicester East ever since, and his parliamentary roles
have included serving as minister for Europe under Tony Blair.

Mr Vaz, who is married and has two children, was elected Home Affairs
Select Committee chairman in 2007 and has attracted both praise and
criticism for his work in this role.

'Vazeline'

The Independent has called him an "accomplished political operator", though
it also said he has been "vilified as a chronic self-publicist".

"No matter how much judicious chairmanship he can boast of at the Home
Affairs Select Committee, he is best known for inviting Russell Brand along
to talk about drugs and call him 'mate'," it added.

Image copyrightPA

Mr Vaz has been referred to in the media as the "Teflon" politician and
"Vazeline" - because, in the words of the Telegraph, "nothing sticks".

The paper said he was "seemingly able to brush aside scandals that would
have quickly ended careers for others".

In 2001, he was accused of wrongdoing over his dealings with the
billionaire Hinduja brothers.

Some of the claims against him were dismissed, but he was suspended from
the House of Commons for a month for "serious breaches of the MPs' code of
conduct".

In 2009, Mr Vaz repaid £18,949 in expenses amid the scandal over claims
made by MPs.

He was criticised for claiming more than £75,000 to fund a second home in
Westminster, despite having a family home just 12 miles away in Stanmore.

In a statement about his repaid claims, Mr Vaz said he had stopped all
claims for food and, after feedback from his constituents, had decided only
to claim when Parliament was in session.

Despite the negative headlines, his media touch is undeniable.

Few politicians would be comfortable dancing Gangnam Style for the cameras,
ortelling Parliament that Gary Lineker should keep his promise to present
Match of the Day in his pants.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-23098064
Media captionThe Leicester East MP danced with students at Gateway College
in the city

Mr Vaz, who is diabetic, is a long-standing campaigner on a variety of
issuesincluding obesity.

In his home affairs role, he is a frequent critic of the government and
other authorities.

He has criticised the "shocking" lack of diversity in the police, said the
UK Border Agency was "not fit for purpose" and said files on child sexual
abuse had been lost"on an industrial scale".

In 2014, he said the UK's immigration system was in "intensive care".

Mr Vaz said the UK's vote to leave the EU was a "crushing decision" which
would have catastrophic consequences for the country and the European bloc.

[Goanet-News] Rahul Gandhi targets Parrikar, RSS over jibe against Aamir Khan (ENS)

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Rahul Gandhi targets Parrikar, RSS over jibe against Aamir Khan

“I was speaking only about those who want bad for this country. I was not
talking about freedom of speech, ” Parrikar said.

By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: August 1, 2016 5:08 am

Congress spokesperson Randeep S Surjewala said it was a "shocking
revelation" and showed that the BJP and RSS supporters actively disrupted
and sabotaged an online trading company on the Aamir issue.

THE CONGRESS Sunday launched a fierce attack on Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar over his jibe at actor Aamir Khan for remarks on intolerance. In a
tweet, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi said: "RSS & Parrikarji want to
teach everyone a lesson. Here’s a lesson for you: hate is the preserve of
the coward and it never wins."

The main opposition party also accused the BJP and RSS of a "concerted
conspiracy" to hound Dalits, minorities, writers, actors and whoever
dissents against the government and wondered whether Parrikar's job is to
protect India from external aggressors like Pakistan or threaten fellow
countrymen.

On Saturday, Parrikar had said at a function in Pune that anyone speaking
against the country must be "taught a lesson" in the same way that "an
actor" and an “online trading company” were taught.

Although he took no names, in November 2015, at the Ramnath Goenka Awards,
Aamir had spoken about a "sense of insecurity" resulting from increasing
intolerance in the country. A few months later, e-commerce giant Snapdeal,
for which Aamir was brand ambassador, did not renew his contract. Snapdeal
had earlier faced a strong backlash on social media, including a reported
loss of customers.

Facing criticism, Parrikar Sunday said he never used the word "lesson" and
that what he meant was, "You have to build pressure, you have to build
public opinion that people who love their country should not be silent on
these issues."

"Those who speak against the country, there has to be a public opinion
about that. I was not pointing out at anyone specifically," he said at an
event in Jabalpur. “I was speaking only about those who want bad for this
country. I was not talking about freedom of speech.”

According to Parrikar, when the actor made the statement last year, many
people had protested and even uninstalled the mobile application of an
online shopping site he was associated with, while the firm had also pulled
out the advertisement featuring him.

Congress spokesperson Randeep S Surjewala said it was a "shocking
revelation" and showed that the BJP and RSS supporters actively disrupted
and sabotaged an online trading company on the Aamir issue.

[with inputs from PTI]


VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6tQCtYkkbQ
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g0ud1c7_wg

[Goanet-News] MUSIC-GOA: Get ready for the Brass this Sunday evening

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Smack in the middle of the monsoons, Goa plays host to an
unusual event -- a all brass concert. Being held for the
third year in succession, the 3ABC (Third All Brass Concert)
is being presented by the Garden Central Music Studio, a
collective of music teachers under the direction of Rui Lobo.

Lobo, an IITian who scored a enviable rank in his time,
prefers to be a music teacher and mentor rather than a
high-earning engineer which his training could easily make
him into.

This year, the event is being held on Sunday, July 10.
Although Goa has played host to a few brass band concerts, it
is usually foreign artists who have played, however this one
is uniquely based on local talent.

"The Garden Centre Music Studio [which is named after its
location, near the Jardim Garcia da Orta] has endeavoured to
promote the study of brass instruments among adults and
children for the last four years to revive the dying art of
brass instrument playing in Goa," says Lobo.

This year's programme is different. "We've moved away from
Marches and Polkas usually associated with brass bands to
move to orchestral works," says he.

  Scarely heard nowadays are the compositions of
  Andrew Lloyd Webber from his Rock opera, Jesus
  Christ Superstar. The challenge of these pieces are
  the rarely used metres of five-beats and
  seven-beats.

For this Sunday's event, the guest of honour is Jerome
Rodrigues, ex-Mumbai Police Band conductor, ex-conductor of
Goa State String Orchestra and mentor to whole lot of brass
musicians in Goa. The guest of honour will doing a guest
performance on trumpet accompanied by the Ultra Brass Sound
(UBS) ensemble at this concert.

The concert is being supported by Tony Coutinho and his brass
students. Coutinho is a well know music teacher in Salcette.
Around 30 musicians will take part, including well known
artist Nolvert Cotta, grandson of legendary band master
Santana Cotta. Nolvert continues the legacy of his
grandfather in promoting brass music. Ace drummer, Lester
Godinho, will be providing support on percussion.

Brass enthusiasts can contact the GCMS for learning. The
studio is located above Baba Travels near the Panjim Garden.
Rui Lobo's contact is 9921372036.

This year's event happens at the Menezes Braganza Hall, at
7:15 pm, on July 10, 2016. Passes are available at Furtados
Music Store and GCMS premises for a nominal donation of 100
rupees.

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[Goanet-News] 'Loretta' takes cue from 200-year-old Goan 'tiatr'

[Goanet News]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Loretta-takes-cue-from-200-year-old-Goan-tiatr/articleshow/52440497.cms

 'Loretta' takes cue from 200-year-old Goan 'tiatr'

TNN | May 26, 2016, 12.19 AM IST

New Delhi: The journey of tiatr began when a Goan landed in Mumbai in
the late 1800s to find a better job. An Italian travelling theatre
company hired him and they travelled around India presenting many
shows. When the company had to head back to Italy, this Goan was
entrusted with a box of the costumes used during the performances.
Inspired, he returned to Goa and created tiatr, the highly popular
genre of the Goan theatre.

Over 200 years, the genre has taken many shapes, addressed many more
issues and consistently been a voice of the people. Sunil Shanbag, a
director-playwright from Mumbai, is geared up to stage Loretta-in
Mumbai and Delhi-that is inspired by the essence of tiatr. Loretta is
the second of the five productions being staged under the Aadyam
banner this year.

Shanbag aims to recreate the Goan genre in its geographical and social
context while giving the audiences a heady dose of comedy. " Loretta
addresses substantial cultural issues with the help of distinctive
features of the genre. It will see familial and social issues being
dealt with in a manner that's typical of tiatr."

Widower Antonio Piedade Moraes, a landlord in Goa in the 70s and a
votary of the Konkani language, is protective of his island. His son
Rafael, who returns from Mumbai with his Anglo-Indian girlfriend
Loretta after completing his education, doesn't quite share his
father's love but Loretta's strong need for roots makes her relate to
Antonio. The play reaches an amiable conclusion, and in the process,
the characters undergo transformation.

Shanbag added, "The simplicity of the genre is deceptive. The
narratives may be straight and the characters may grow in an
uncomplicated way, but the issues that are dealt with often have so
many layers. Loretta shares these similarities with a typical tiatr
performance and it is my contemporary, urbane interpretation of the
genre."

Apart from music, among the unique characteristics of the genre are
the side shows that happen at the front portion of the stage,
traditionally giving those backstage some extra time. "The side shows
were message-laden in the guise of being distractions. Seen in the
context of their time, they were the space where sometimes caustic
comments and scathing sarcasm on institutions and positions of
authority in society and politics were made," said Shanbag.

[Goanet-News] Families fighting back over alcoholism, says new book

[Goanet News]

Alcoholism not only affects persons suffering from it, but throws entire
families off guard -- socially, emotionally and financially. But the good
news is that families are fighting back and 'living again', says a new book
on the subject.

Freelance journalist Maria Viency Cardozo of Raia, Salcete, says there is a
need for new understandings into both the life of an alcoholic and "his
(or, occasionally, her) family".

Her book 'Diamonds Under My Feet', to be released on  Saturday May 28, 2016 at
4.45 pm, at the Ravindra Bhavan Margao, focuses on stories of families that
have been battling alcoholism both in Goa and elsewhere.

She talks to wives, widows, children and even a husband of people suffering
from alcoholism, and how they managed to cope with the little spoken about
disease. Her 144-page book takes the story to Raia, Morjim, Fatorda,
Miramar, Gogol, Campal, Porvorim, Nuvem, Mangalore, Lucknow, Loutolim,
Shiroda, Rawanfond, Bangalore and elsewhere.

Some in the book believe they benefitted from groups like Al Anon and
Alateen, which work to helps the families and teenage children of
alcoholics respectively.

Among the methods referred to are the Twelve Step programme for recovery
from addiction, compulsion or behavioural problems. The process revolves
around admitting that one cannot control one's alcoholism or addiction,
recognising a Higher Power that can give strength, examining past errors,
making amends, learning to live a new life with a new code, and helping
others cope.

The book priced at Rs 200 is published by Goa,1556 in association with
Golden Heart Emporium (Margao) and Saturday's release function is open to
the public.

Contacts for the author Maria Viency Cardozo at viency8...@yahoo.com
9822125826 or 9326137344.

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[Goanet-News] Konkani's first radio station in the Americas to complete 4 years soon... (Goanet)

[Goanet News]

A Goanet Feature

It's called Radio Mango, and has helped to plant the Konkani seed in
North America. Running each Saturday evening for two hours, the radio
is almost four years old and reaching its two hundredth show soon.

Radio Mango president producer and co-host Milena Marques-Zachariah,
originally from Parra in Goa, is a creative director and has been a
copywriter.

"My entire script is first written in English, and then I translate
it. It takes up a whole lot of my time, but still I so enjoy doing
it," she said, speaking at a programme held at the Caravela cafe and
bistro in Panjim on the weekend.

Radio Mango started on September 29, 2012, in an unusual way.

"I was doing my eyebrows at a salon, and heard a language on the
radio. I asked the girl which language that was." It turned out to be
Nepali, of whom there were about a thousand speakers in the city.

"I sat up and said, 'A thousand? We are over 50,000 and our (Konkani)
music repertoir is amazing. So I thought, why don't we start
something."

Her brother then told her about the Voice of Goa community radio
station in Australia, where he's based. "Because I'm in the
advertising business, it was not at all a problem to call the radio
station. In three weeks of thinking about it, it was on air," she
recalls.

>From the very start, she thought of a radio programme that would not
be restricted to Goans alone, or one section of them. This worked out;
the Mangaloreans are a really loyal audience. The name comes from a
combination of the Mangalorean and Goan term.

Slowly it built up, the but the challenge was still to get the money.
Punjabis are a larger community, and make up about 200,000 members. So
the multicultural budgets go to groups like the Punjabis, while the
Konkani-speakers are rather invisible, with just 3000 mentioning their
language as Konkani.

The four initial partners then put in $500 each, and they managed to
get some advertisers. But the advertisers felt they were not getting
enough business.

The idea however was to create a platform for the community. "We are
so small, and all of us are new immigants. There's no way they could
find a platform."

Milena hopes that Radio Mango itself grows into the platform.

"People with talent, people who've done community work, tiatrists,
anything related to Konkani, they can come and talk about it on radio.
We also thought of making it available through a website
[http://radiomango.ca] We're listented to in Dubai, Australia, London,
Mangalore," she adds.

To keep their interaction, they keep the show live. It goes on air
every Saturday. "We started with one hour and today have two hours (a
week)," says she.

The programme starts with an interview of someone from the community,
even someone who has triumphed over little struggles. "We start by
just chatting about what happened during that week. Then we play a
Goan song, another small chat, and then a Mangalorean song," she
explains.

Their second segment includes an interview. The last person we
interviewed was an Archbishop of Lahore, of Mangalorean-Goan origin.
Goan news is read by Matilda and it gets the Mangalore news from Gerry
D'Mello.

They have one nostalgia segment called 'Kennai Maka Ugdas Yeta', which
talks about the past in Goa with many expats, specially elders, yearn
for. There's another slot called 'Kennai Hanv Bezar Zata', about
things that bring our frustrations to the fore.

The last segment is a contest. Somewhere in between, there's also a
recipe section, and a slice of life depiction called 'bhadkann boslea
bolcaon'. Other popular segments include ones on poetry, a 'let's
learn Konkani' slot and the like.

Radio Mango is now in its 180th show. "How to keep this afloat is a
"constant challenge", says Marques-Zachariah.

They pay Can$1000 per month for two hours of broadcast time each week,
or 12,000 Canadian dollars in a year. No support comes from the
government. A little is earned from advertisers. The first year, they
organised a dance which helped them raise Can$15,000. They brought in
Henry (of Katharina fame) and Lorna in the next year.

"That means, I do not make a single penny," says Marques-Zachariah.
"Even my cost of going to Mississauga to Toronto comes from my
pocket," says she, saying she has to think of "something new" to
sustain this idea which many appreciate.

In September the show will turn four. "We're coming up to the 200th
show. Each milestone seems like a big success because it's an uphill
task. But we're getting there," she adds.

The station is Rexdale, located north-west of the central core, in the
former suburb of Etobicoke. "We're slowly taking back our pride. We're
slowly taking back our language," says Marques-Zachariah, glad that
the work is getting noticed even back at home in Goa.

Email mil...@radiomango.ca

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[Goanet-News] When a Goan recollects the Iraqi invasion (TNN)

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/When-a-Goan-recollects-the-Iraqi-invasion/articleshow/51133152.cms

When a Goan recollects the Iraqi invasion

TNN | Feb 25, 2016, 10.05 AM IST Panaji: When Iraqi troops invaded
Kuwait in the wee hours of August 2, 1990, the strong community of
around 25,000 Goans were caught unaware. Overnight they saw their
peaceful streets transform into a war zone, their homes broken into
and belongings stolen. Many left the country in tears with a single
suitcase only to return and find their homes, razed to the ground.

Recalling those tense days, A Veronica Fernandes, a freelance writer
who moved to Kuwait from Candolim in 1975 never thought he'd make it
through. He found himself face to face with Iraqi soldiers and
underwent the traumatizing experience of being held at gun point on
more than a one occasion. "We switched off the lights in our homes,
hid and prayed for the firing to stop. It was a very traumatic
experience for everyone," he recalls.

On his return to Goa, after the borders were opened, some of the
Kuwaiti Goan evacuees were deeply-affected to see the country that
gave them employment opportunities being bombed, didn't sit back.
Instead, a public meeting was called on November 3, 1990, at Tristao
Braganca Cunha Memorial Hall, near Azad Maidan attended by 100 Kuwait
evacuee Goans. The Goa-Solidarity Centre came into being and on
November 12 they organized a rally on the streets of Panaji in support
of Kuwait. "This rally was attended by hundreds of Kuwait evacuee
Goans including Kuwaitis where Col Juma Kholifi, a prominent officer
in the ministry of interior affairs delivered a very emotional speech.
CNN too highlighted our efforts and the news reached the Kuwait
embassy in Delhi and the Kuwait government in exile in Taif, Saudi
Arabia," Fernandes who initiated the movement told TOI.

The group sustained themselves through voluntary contributions
refusing to accept outside financial contributions even refusing to
align with the Progressive Democratic Front at the time.

A number of meetings in the state city in the months leading up to
Kuwait's Liberation were held including a night vigil in front of
Panaji church on the eve of the start of the war for liberation and a
victory rally on March 12, 1991.

After the war, the association led by Fernandes started a movement to
get Kuwait's Prisoners of War freed, holding regular meetings in
Kuwait and even pressuring the Indian government to intervene in
Kuwait's support.

Fernandes visited Delhi in 1995 and met with K H Khan, chairman of the
Indo-Arab Friendship Society and both foreign ministers R L Bhatia and
Salman Khurshid presenting them with memorandums.

To commemorate the 25th Liberation Day of Kuwait, the Goa-Kuwait
Solidarity Centre with Fernandes as its convenor is organizing a
meeting at the Goa chamber of commerce and industry conference hall on
Thursday where he will also release his autobiography 'From Coconut
Trees to Oil Wells' published by Goa 1556. The book, he says, is
dedicated to all Goans who brought prosperity home through their sweat
and tears in distant Kuwait.

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[Goanet-News] Demand for language rights... on Int'l Mother Language Day (Eric Ozario)

[Goanet News]

INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
Feb. 21, 2016 -- New Delhi
and DELHI DEMANDS FOR LANGUAGE RIGHTS

A Report

Campaign for Language Equality and Rights (CLEAR), headed by
Senthil Nathan, with a view to change India's Language
Policy, had invited representatives of Indian languages to
assemble in Delhi, on Feb. 21, 2016 -- the International
Mother Language Day.

Accordingly, representatives of 40 Indian languages addressed
a Press Conference and released the 'Delhi Demands for
Language Rights, at 1 pm, at the Press Club of India, Raisina
Road, and at 5, that evening, gathered at Jantar Mantar and
held a Candle-Light Vigil, to initiate the campaign to
change India's Language Policy.

The major demands are:

1. To declare all languages included in the VIIIth Schedule
of the Indian Constitution (including Konkani), as Official
Languages of the Union Government.

2. To include all languages recommended by the Mahapatra
Committee in the VIIIth Schedule of the Constitution.

3. The Central and State Governments to protect and preserve
tribal and lesser languages threatened with extinction.

4. Fight against the imposition of one language over the
others, undertaken by the Central Government, specially
Hindi.

5. Allow each language the right to choose their own
script/scripts for literature in their language.

The Delhi Demands were endorsed by the following,
representing their languages --

Anand G. Karnataka (Kannada)
Deepak Pawar Maharashtra (Marathi)
Ganesh Chetan Karnataka (Kannada)
Garga Chatterjee West Bengal (Bengali)
Joga Singh Virk Punjab (Punjabi)
Komakkambedu Himakiran Anugula Tamil Nadu (Tamil, Telugu)
Mani M. Manivannan Tamil Nadu (Tamil)
P. Pavithran Kerala (Malayalam)
Priyank KS Karnataka (Kannada)
Ravishankar Ayyakkannu Tamil Nadu (Tamil)
Saket Shreebushan Sahu Odisha (Kosali)
S. Senthilnathan (Aazhi Senthilnathan) Tamil Nadu (Tamil)
Thamizneriyan Tamil Nadu (Tamil)
Vasant Shetty Karnataka (Kannada)
Eric Ozario Karnataka (Konkani)
Vivek V. Karnataka (Kannada)
Umakanthan P. Karnataka (Kannada, Tamil)

Given the atmosphere of intolerance and imposition that we
live in, in India today and especially in view of the fight
for equal rights for all scripts of Konkani that we are
fighting against the Kendra Sahitya Akademi, in the courts of
law, this campaign for Language Rights has a great
significance for the future of Konkani.

I, therefore, entreat every Konkani organisation to join this
campaign enthusiastically. The developments in this regard
will be informed from time-to-time. I must place on record my
sense of pride at the participation of the leaders and
members of the Kanara Cultural Association, headed by its
President, Smt. Lydia D’Almeida.

In fact, it was a matter of great pride for me that Konkanis'
was the largest contingent at the Candle-Light Vigil. I
congratulate and thank them on behalf of Jago'tik Konknni
So'ngho'tto;n. I once again remind every Konkani organisation
to initiate the implementation of the Konkani Language Plan
adopted six months ago.

De'v bo'rem ko'rum.

With warm regards,
Eric Ozario Secretary General

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for February 20, 2016

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Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.

*** Republicans Speed Across South Carolina as Race Tightens -
New York Times
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*** US strike on Libya camp escalates campaign against Islamic
State - Washington Post
CQ
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*** Justice Antonin Scalia Honored at Supreme Court - New York
Times
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mourned by thousands at Supreme Court
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*** Rope-a-Pope - Politico
CQ
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*** Cameron hails EU deal to give Britain 'special status',
battle looms - Reuters
CQ
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*** Justice Department Calls Apple's Refusal to Unlock iPhone a
'Marketing Strategy' - New York Times
CQ
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*** Harper Lee, elusive author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' is
dead at 89 - Washington Post
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*** Russia pushes UN Security Council on Syria sovereignty -
Reuters
order shelling and incursions to be halted and for "attempts or
plans for foreign ground intervention" to be abandoned.
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*** Virgin Galactic Unveils New SpaceShipTwo 'Unity' for Space
Tourists - Space.com
ver SpaceShipTwo out of its hangar today (Feb.
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*** Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 released from prison in
Louisiana - CNN
alled "Angola 3," was released from a prison in Louisiana on
Friday, his attorneys announced. According to a statement,
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[Goanet-News] Goa news for February 19, 2016

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for February 18, 2016

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for February 17, 2016

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Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.

*** Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Former UN Secretary General, Dies at
93 - New York Times
hali, an Egyptian diplomat who led the United Nations in a
chaotic 1990s tenure that began with hopes for peace after the
Cold War, but failed to cope with genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia
and ended in angry recriminations with Washington ...
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*** Clinton Calls For 'Facing Up to the Reality of Systemic
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o-prison pipeline in ...
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*** Asian Stocks Poised to Retreat as Yen Holds Gains; Oil Below
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*** GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush tweets picture of a gun
with his name on it, captioning it 'America' - New York Daily
News
utomatic weapon with a one-word ...
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*** Obama Pledges to Nominate a Successor to Justice Scalia -
New York Times
_IfWOA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779046985639=Db_DVrDAD5Tq3QHK3Yu4AQ=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/16/far-from-washington-obama-summit-with-asian-leaders-overshadowed-by-political-debate-back-home/;>Obama
on Supreme Court nomination delay: 'That's not in the
constitutional text.'
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*** Calvin Harris Congratulates ''Beautiful Girlfriend'' Taylor
Swift Following Her Big Grammy Awards Night - E! Online
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'watering down' of hip-hop
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*** Denise Matthews, Pop Singer Known as Vanity, Dies at 57 -
New York Times
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Denise Matthews, Known as Vanity, Dies
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*** U.S., Cuba sign civil aviation accord in Havana as Cuba's
foreign trade minister visits Washington - Miami Herald
uba-sign-deal-commercial-flights-36985932">US, Cuba Sign Deal on
Commercial Flights
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*** SC Governor Nikki Haley: Anyone but Trump - CBS News
 South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says she may not endorse anyone
ahead of Saturday's first-in-the-South GOP primary, but if she
does, it certainly won't be Donald Trump. Haley said Tuesday
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*** Special prosecutor sought in fatal Chicago police shooting -
CBS News
 Civil rights attorneys, clergymen and several elected officials
filed a court petition Tuesday seeking to force Cook County
State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to hand over the prosecution and
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*** Top and Flop: Sporting Clube de Goa 3-2 Mumbai FC - Goal.com
eague feature: Top and Flop . For every game, a candidate will
be put forward, as chosen by Goal , who deserves ...
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*** Protesters stop inspection at DefExpo site in Goa - Business
Standard
Bw
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*** Goa minister says peacock cannot be called vermin - Zee News
or nuisance animals and birds. "There is ...
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*** The parade of 5 planets: A celestial view from Goa - Times
of India
erfect arc of the planet-alignment over Goan skies was set
between 5am and 5.30am. The last time this happened was in 2005,
the next takes place in 2026. And, on [May 6, 2492]  , the eight
planets will come the closest to being aligned.
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*** Driving drunk, Goa minister tried to ram my car:
Ex-minister's wife - The Indian Express
inister's wife. Neny D'Souza, wife of Goa's former revenue
minister Jose Philip D'Souza, said the incident occurred around
1.30 am Monday, when she was heading home with her family after
watching a ...
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*** After hiccups, heli-tourism services start in Goa - Business
Standard
ourism service run by Pawan Hans, a central government-run
helicopter services company in association with the Goa Tourism
Development Corporation (GTDC), has now started making aerial
sorties for tourists from the grounds of five-star resort ...
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*** Goa's stations in upgrade mode: KRC - Times of India
mes of IndiaAs far as doubling in Goa is concerned, Gupta said
that the work will take place separately for which land has
already been acquired. Land is not an issue for the doubling
project in the state as land with enough width was already
acquired by the KRC ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHugcPu7J75WQp5dYTCiXd9tf2jKw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779046933768=i23CVsjSMNDH3QGKoL-wBw=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goas-stations-in-upgrade-mode-KRC/articleshow/50982022.cms

*** Goa Governor scripts play on AIDS - The Hindu
e HinduThe Goa Directorate of Art & Culture in a joint
collaboration with the Goa State AIDS Control Society is
organising an awareness drive on AIDS and drugs from February 24
to 26. Jagriti is a contemporary production using classical
dance forms, Kathak ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNG97DSewc5Lzm8sbBXuCYAEwSCVgw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=i23CVsjSMNDH3QGKoL-wBw=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/business/goa-governor-scripts-play-on-aids/article8243127.ece

*** Idea Cellular to launch 4G in Maharashtra, Goa, North East -
Hindu Business Line
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*** Goa PWD contract workers plan strike to demand
regularization - Business Standard
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[Goanet-News] Goa news for February 7, 2016

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*** Arrest of Ex-Army officer's son: No terror link yet, but Goa
CM says 'serious suspicion' against Sardana - The Indian Express
zVrjhEYPG3QGj6qHYAw
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*** Goa launches copter joyrides amid protests - Hindu Business
Line
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*** ISIS had plans to target foreigners in Goa and defence bases
in Maha - Hindustan Times
ham (IS) had elaborate plans to target foreigners and vital
defence installations in Goa and Maharashtra, investigators
questioning the chief of the terror group's Indian wing have
learnt. The Maharashtra anti ...
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*** Extra punch: Wine festival at Goa Carnival this year -
Business Standard
ay event coinciding with a state government organised wine
festival. According to the tourism authorities here, the wine
festival will be one of Asia ...
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*** Cong MP seeks white paper on land under def forces in Goa -
Business Standard
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*** Goa state horticultural corporation gets its first
solar-powered kiosk - Times of India
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*** Goa steps up preventive efforts to tackle challenge posed by
Zika virus - The Hindu
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*** A milk war in Goa - The Statesman
ased Surat District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited
(SUMUL) to set up milk procurement facilities in four agrarian
sub districts, has brought the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and
the existing ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFPjHr_UGmvOLJrLtXa42Rdnn32hQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779042310276=C-2zVrjhEYPG3QGj6qHYAw=http://www.thestatesman.com/news/life-style/a-milk-war-in-goa/121047.html

*** Love in Goa for Alia, SRK - Mumbai Mirror
ear-old actress for a 'hatke' love story. The two ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHnfZv6Lq5wzf--La3i9Jrt_S5DJg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779042468188=C-2zVrjhEYPG3QGj6qHYAw=http://www.mumbaimirror.com/entertainment/bollywood/Love-in-Goa-for-Alia-SRK/articleshow/50857771.cms

*** Anything less than the Trophy will be a failure, says Goa
coach Alfred Fernandes - Times of India
 for the Santosh Trophy zonal qualifiers scheduled for February
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*** Drugs problem in Goa not as complex as Punjab: CM Laxmikant
Parsekar - The Indian Express
hould-visit-goa-to-clear-misconceptions-parsekar/story-LF2aY3GY6XuVwR9fzMnxBN.html">Sukhbir
should visit Goa to clear misconceptions: Parsekar
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*** Raveena Tandon shares new pictures from her daughter's
wedding - The Indian Express
ased Shawn Mendes in a Hindu-Catholic wedding in Goa on January
25. And daughter Chhaya walking down the church corridor
gracefully is the most favourite picture of the wedding ...
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*** VACATION TIME: Keith and Rochelle are CHILLING OUT in Goa! -
ABP Live
ews/rochelle-rao-keith-sequeira-holiday-pics-in-goa-post-bigg-boss-9-nau-double-trouble-are-hot-beautiful-and-will-make-you-want-to-see-keith-rochelle-on-screen-together-again-rochelle-rao-latest-news-1454333245.html">Rochelle
Rao, Keith Sequeira Goa holiday pics will make you watch Bigg
Boss 9 again
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*** Goa NCP Deplore Non-Inclusion Of Panaji In Smart City
Phase-1 - NDTV
nclusion of the state capital Panaji in the first phase of the
'Smart ...
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*** Ban construction where coconut trees are cut: Goa NCP -
Oneindia
ever-called-coconut-tree-grass-says-Arlekar/98414.html">Government
never called coconut tree grass, says Arlekar
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*** IS had plans to target foreigners in Goa and Maharashtra -
Hindustan Times
ham (IS) had elaborate plans to target foreigners and vital
defence installations in Goa and Maharashtra, investigators
questioning the chief of the terror group's Indian wing have
learnt. The Maharashtra anti ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHvjHnL7uNP0yrpyfQx7m1_SCE7-w=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=i_ivVuvaAZKX3wH60aawDA=http://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/ht-exclusive-isis-had-plans-to-target-foreigners-in-goa-and-defence-bases-in-maharashtra/story-5B3h1qFYkj309LlxaTwRZL.html

*** Denyse Sweeney Goa death: Was our 'baby sister' a murder
victim? - BBC News
C NewsIn the early hours of 16 April 2010, a British woman was
discovered "in a distressed state" outside a bar in Goa. A short
time later, she was declared dead in hospital. Her family
believe Denyse Sweeney was murdered. Six years later, her death
is being ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHq-VHBqnCIZiWcn2QyE-BLIM4caw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779040713127=i_ivVuvaAZKX3wH60aawDA=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-35312877

*** Actor to journalist : Look who's settling down in Goa for a
dream life - Hindustan Times
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*** Sizzle your way to Goa - The Hans India
macking sizzlers, effervescent Long Island Iced Teas and Shots,
and a chance to win a couple night stay at India's first Hard
Rock Hotel in Goa. Commenting on the ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNH30KW3c3_uAlfqvHJD6JiB1AX38w=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=i_ivVuvaAZKX3wH60aawDA=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Hyderabad-Tab/2016-02-02/Sizzle-your-way-to-Goa/204126

*** AAP may contest all seats in Goa elections - Hindu Business
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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 31, 2016

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for February 1, 2016

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nd runners-up will
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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 29, 2016

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*** Goa government mulls banning liquor consumption at public
places - Economic Times
ra-Taverns-Dying-a-Slow-Death-in-Goa/2016/01/28/article3249265.ece">Portuguese
Era Taverns Dying a Slow Death in Goa
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*** Electoral Office proposes Goa polls from December 11-18 -
Hindustan Times
8 as the dates to ...
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*** Bomb threat to Goa-bound AirAsia flight turns hoax - Times
of India
ound Air Asia I5 1721. The aircraft and the baggage hold were
thoroughly screened. KIAB in collaboration with CISF and State
Police continues ...
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*** Before coconut law rewrite, Goa cleared orchard use for
distillery - The Indian Express
e Indian ExpressBarely three weeks before the Goa assembly
cleared a change in law to allow felling of coconut trees
without permission, it notified a coconut orchard for industrial
use in Amdai village in Sanguem. A distillery and brewery
project is to come up on ...
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*** Parliamentary panel to visit Bengaluru, Goa next week to
discuss environmental issues - Daily News & Analysis
olders. Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science &
Technology, ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNG07kfBzOEraQ5ovEa8AJhO3GVziw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779038814085=jLKqVvi9CJCX3QGN677IDw=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-parliamentary-panel-to-visit-bengaluru-goa-next-week-to-discuss-environmental-issues-2171412

*** Why has Goa decided the coconut palm is no longer a tree? -
BBC News
_D8wEMBEk_eM=0=us">and more »
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*** Former Goa CM's son is King Momo for next carnival -
Business Standard
 in the coastal state. The 35-year-old MBA graduate was among
the several people who were ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHa_uX3zai48wEMUKrIX5VS8QaqcQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779038822347=jLKqVvi9CJCX3QGN677IDw=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/former-goa-cm-s-son-is-king-momo-for-next-carnival-116012900038_1.html

*** Goa: Surge in hiring of private agencies to keep tab on kin
- Business Standard
siness StandardAn increasing number of people in Goa are hiring
services of private security agencies and detectives to keep a
tab on their family members, especially youngsters, in order to
ensure their "safety". "The trend which was earlier seen only in
metro ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHCXV2JRsiLEdwcwqedZfae7epV3g=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779038671367=jLKqVvi9CJCX3QGN677IDw=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/goa-surge-in-hiring-of-private-agencies-to-keep-tab-on-kin-116012800872_1.html

*** This Is How Goa Is Being Destroyed - NDTV
ndowed state of Goa occupies less than 1% of India's landmass.
Yet, the charm of the place and the hospitable nature of its
local inhabitants now draw some 3-4 million people to enjoy its
sheer beauty. Nothing of that awesome ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEhTj_8nTZoxMpMe-OIwqEM8QUOZg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=jLKqVvi9CJCX3QGN677IDw=http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/this-is-how-goa-is-being-destroyed-1270131

*** Goa excel on debut in National beach volleyball - Times of
India
6 at Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEULEoScN8MFMhs_OTcIaYjxdqkDg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779038826733=jLKqVvi9CJCX3QGN677IDw=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-excel-on-debut-in-National-beach-volleyball/articleshow/50763686.cms


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 28, 2016

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*** Syrian Man Detained By Police In Goa Allegedly For
'Overstaying' - NDTV
tates/syrian-national-held-in-goa-for-overstaying/article8155616.ece">Syrian
national held in Goa for overstaying
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNE83C_4ZBRvLfUpJtk5fhU0K6ylkA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779037559861=C2GpVsj5I8O03gGn2IygDA=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/syrian-man-detained-by-police-in-goa-1270239

*** Goa government mulls banning liquor consumption at public
places - Economic Times
ews-india/goa-govt-mulls-banning-liquor-consumption-at-public-places/">Goa
govt mulls banning liquor consumption at public places
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*** Bomb scare in Bengaluru-Goa Air Asia flight - ABP Live
bound Air Asia I5 1721 . In line with the airport's constant
commitment towards passenger safety and security and as
prescribed by the ...
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*** Before coconut law rewrite, Goa cleared orchard use for
distillery - The Indian Express
e Indian ExpressBarely three weeks before the Goa assembly
cleared a change in law to allow felling of coconut trees
without permission, it notified a coconut orchard for industrial
use in Amdai village in Sanguem. A distillery and brewery
project is to come up on ...
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*** NGO surprised on refusal of stake to Goa govt in Mopa
project - Business Standard
ased NGO has expressed surprise over the state government's move
to hand over land for the proposed greenfield airport in North
district to a private entity when it does not hold any stake in
the project as indicated by the Union Civil Aviation ...
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*** Goa Govt. Imposing A Dress Code At A Carnival Is Even More
Ridiculous Than It Sounds - Youth Ki Awaaz
-77M=0=us">
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*** On the L.E.S., Taste the World on a Flatbread at Goa Taco -
Village Voice
nd-mortar shop on the Lower East Side. Is it a taco? Can you get
one in Goa?http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFU-oQ8Un_QxN1WHomUyLcdaF1Z4g=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=C2GpVsj5I8O03gGn2IygDA=http://www.villagevoice.com/restaurants/on-the-les-taste-the-world-on-a-flatbread-at-goa-taco-8192319

*** Goa govt mulls liquor ban at public places - Economic Times
onomic TimesThe Goa government is considering a ban on the
consumption of liquor at public places to check nuisance. Goa
government says that there were complaints about common people
consuming liquor at public places leading to nuisance and
littering.http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGR9eG5zUgBQddGvyfOGRXsql3_ZQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=C2GpVsj5I8O03gGn2IygDA=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-now/policy/goa-govt-mulls-liquor-ban-at-public-places/videoshow/50742043.cms

*** A Tibetan in Goa - Tibet Sun
ropical winter climate with temperature around 25 degrees during
the season, in ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGIj9EJzDQgDUoUSZ41Da1bQsMFHQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779037696937=C2GpVsj5I8O03gGn2IygDA=http://www.tibetsun.com/features/2016/01/26/a-tibetan-in-goa

*** This Is How Goa Is Being Destroyed - NDTV
ndowed state of Goa occupies less than 1% of India's landmass.
Yet, the charm of the place and the hospitable nature of its
local inhabitants now draw some 3-4 million people to enjoy its
sheer beauty. Nothing of that awesome ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEhTj_8nTZoxMpMe-OIwqEM8QUOZg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=C2GpVsj5I8O03gGn2IygDA=http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/this-is-how-goa-is-being-destroyed-1270131


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 27, 2016

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*** Syrian national held in Goa for overstaying - The Hindu
VoiaLoOT3AHthrTADg
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*** Heli-tourism to commence in Goa from Feb 1 - Business
Standard
VoiaLoOT3AHthrTADg
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*** Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal's romantic getaway in Goa -
Times of India
ime girl friend, designer Natasha Dalal, was clicked with his
lady love at childhood buddy Ankit Kedia's three-day wedding
ceremony at a luxury hotel in Goa. The couple had taken off from
Mumbai ...
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*** No official communication on Islamic State plot to attack
Goa: Police - The Indian Express
VoiaLoOT3AHthrTADg
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*** Whence a Mexican drug lord's guns came doesn't surprise GOA
- OneNewsNow
econd Amendment advocate doesn't think anyone should be
surprised by a new revelation that one of the guns found in the
hideout of a notorious Mexican drug lord was funneled through
the Obama administration's Fast and ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHxLYlazZhb5ptUTmo4Npr7s9n4Cg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=iw-oVoiaLoOT3AHthrTADg=http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2016/01/25/whence-a-mexican-drug-lords-guns-came-doesnt-surprise-goa

*** NGO surprised on refusal of stake to Goa govt in Mopa
project - Business Standard
ased NGO has expressed surprise over the state government's move
to hand over land for the proposed greenfield airport in North
district to a private entity when it does not hold any stake in
the project as indicated by the Union Civil Aviation ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGNZLE5cT3MnFMxgp4clV06QLrZlw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779037743757=iw-oVoiaLoOT3AHthrTADg=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/ngo-surprised-on-refusal-of-stake-to-goa-govt-in-mopa-project-116012600831_1.html

*** On the L.E.S., Taste the World on a Flatbread at Goa Taco -
Village Voice
nd-mortar shop on the Lower East Side. Is it a taco? Can you get
one in Goa?http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFU-oQ8Un_QxN1WHomUyLcdaF1Z4g=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=iw-oVoiaLoOT3AHthrTADg=http://www.villagevoice.com/restaurants/on-the-les-taste-the-world-on-a-flatbread-at-goa-taco-8192319

*** A Tibetan in Goa - Tibet Sun
ropical winter climate with temperature around 25 degrees during
the season, in ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGIj9EJzDQgDUoUSZ41Da1bQsMFHQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779037696937=iw-oVoiaLoOT3AHthrTADg=http://www.tibetsun.com/features/2016/01/26/a-tibetan-in-goa

*** MHA identifies 5 islands in Goa for holistic development -
Times of India
ZjQDM=0=us">
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*** This Is How Goa Is Being Destroyed - NDTV
ndowed state of Goa occupies less than 1% of India's landmass.
Yet, the charm of the place and the hospitable nature of its
local inhabitants now draw some 3-4 million people to enjoy its
sheer beauty. Nothing of that awesome ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEhTj_8nTZoxMpMe-OIwqEM8QUOZg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=iw-oVoiaLoOT3AHthrTADg=http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/this-is-how-goa-is-being-destroyed-1270131


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 25, 2016

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Dr Ribeiro Goan School (Nairobi) Alumni Association holds its second Alumni 
Memorial Mass in Old Goa: 10am Tues, Jan 26, 2016 at the Basilica de Bom Jesus, 
Old Goa, to honour all deceased students, faculty and staff. Following mass, 
light refreshments will be served in a hall adjacent to the Basilica. All 
alumni, former faculty, family and friends resident in India and those visiting 
are welcome to attend. Please RSVP via 
https://sites.google.com/site/massesreunions/2016goamemorialmass or contact 
Melba Quiterio (Goa) on 832 247 2435 or 9822587462

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 24, 2016

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*** New law for Goa coconut trees, if felled excessively: CM -
Business Standard
ecognising the coconut palm as a tree, which critics say will
make its felling easier for commercial interests, Chief Minister
Laxmikant Parsekar on Saturday said that his government was ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFHePkvFgNTZFSy-eWTa4b2NiDqFA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779035682529=CxukVvifEti63gGfy7zIDQ=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/new-law-for-goa-coconut-trees-if-felled-excessively-cm-116012300670_1.html

*** Goa Police Urges Manohar Parrikar To Take Z Security - NDTV
bcvzTEJBbwo6t3tR9ew=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779035429500=CxukVvifEti63gGfy7zIDQ
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*** Woman Found Dead On Beach In Goa - NDTV
ude state at Arambol beach in North Goa, police said today. "A
woman was found ...
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*** Goa to have a dress code at carnival this year to curb
obscenity - The Indian Express
f-Opinion/Tourism-goes-haywire-Parulekar-and-team-are-inept-at-marketing-Goa/98153.html">Tourism
goes haywire- Parulekar and team are inept at marketing Goa
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFLdd_xhK3zonw02w4Sv9Pz7-LzyQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779035531883=CxukVvifEti63gGfy7zIDQ=http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/destination-of-the-week/goa-to-have-a-dress-code-at-carnival-this-year-to-curb-obscenity/

*** American Tourist's Death In Goa Sparks Facebook Campaign -
NDTV
ear-old US national, who died after allegedly ...
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*** Where to Eat, Stay and Play in Goa, India - Condé Nast
Traveler
ndé Nast TravelerThe Indian state still attracts the party
scene on its northern beaches, but to discover the real Goa,
head inland. The reward is a rural landscape dotted with rice
paddies and spice plantations, ancient Hindu temples and Roman
Catholic churches, ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGnIacaat-nkiVaXD4-gEPQzT1YMQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=CxukVvifEti63gGfy7zIDQ=http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-01-21/goa-beyond-the-beach-where-to-eat-stay-and-play

*** Government yet to take decision on shifting Aero India Show
to Goa - Economic Times
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*** FC Goa unveils plans for grassroots development program -
Business Standard
YdMPK-5SPM=0=us">and more »
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*** Helicopter rides by Goa Tourism soon - Times of India
mes of IndiaPANAJI: Adding to the numerous adventure activities
on offer in the state, Goa Tourism Development Corporation will
commence helicopter rides for tourists in the coming months. The
trials for the helicopter rides have begun and are expected to
be ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFaUwTOOkUXqj6P6rrKwVbQWZ1Ejw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779035203043=CxukVvifEti63gGfy7zIDQ=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Helicopter-rides-by-Goa-Tourism-soon/articleshow/50686534.cms

*** British couple chloroformed, robbed in Goa; two arrested -
Mid-Day
ayPanaji: Two burglars were arrested for breaking into a hotel
room in the popular Goa beach village of Majorda, rendering a
British couple unconscious with chloroform spray and stealing
cash, jewellery and other articles worth Rs 4.79 lakh, police
said ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNF_pvCoPgP2gOGk9tSbygIFDicPXQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779035758965=CxukVvifEti63gGfy7zIDQ=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/british-couple-chloroformed-robbed-in-goa-two-arrested/16891160


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*** Goa Pollution Board Goes 'Paperless', E-Office Services
Launched - NDTV
ffice service was introduced to do away with paper-based
systems. Panaji: Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has
become the first government department in the state to go ...
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*** Raveena Tandon's younger daughter to get married on January
25 in Goa - India Today
atholic wedding in Goa as the groom is based in the state.
Raveena took to micro ...
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*** Goa govt readies to brand 'Feni' as "heritage brew" -
Business Standard
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*** American Tourist's Death In Goa Sparks Facebook Campaign -
NDTV
ear-old US national, who died after allegedly ...
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*** Goa clears proposals to have more star resorts, malls - The
Hindu
tar hotels, besides various other projects entailing investment
of about Rs. 1,882 crore. "We have cleared total nine ...
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*** Where to Eat, Stay and Play in Goa, India - Condé Nast
Traveler
ndé Nast TravelerThe Indian state still attracts the party
scene on its northern beaches, but to discover the real Goa,
head inland. The reward is a rural landscape dotted with rice
paddies and spice plantations, ancient Hindu temples and Roman
Catholic churches, ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGnIacaat-nkiVaXD4-gEPQzT1YMQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=ismiVqCNBoyz3AGzrYq4CA=http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-01-21/goa-beyond-the-beach-where-to-eat-stay-and-play

*** It's not just the coconut trees  Goa is undermining many
other green laws - Scroll.in
roll.inThe Goa government made headlines at the end of December
when it decided that the state's iconic coconut palm tree was
not actually a tree, thus allowing felling without permission.
The controversial decision was just one of many ominous
decisions made ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGiBgufnDdv3y-gukiW7keXhEBYeA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=ismiVqCNBoyz3AGzrYq4CA=http://scroll.in/article/802221/its-not-just-the-coconut-trees-goa-is-undermining-many-other-green-laws

*** CBI: Realtor Bhangoo has hotels in Goa - Chandigarh Tribune
andigarh TribuneThe CBI has traced more properties of chairman
and managing director of Pearls Golden Forest (PGF) Nirmal Singh
Bhangoo. These properties included agricultural and commercial
land in Punjab, Haryana, Goa, Bangalore and Delhi, CBI sources
said.http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHsJDaosQyS-Ku2i-WcBXck4oFn8w=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779035143464=ismiVqCNBoyz3AGzrYq4CA=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/cbi-realtor-bhangoo-has-hotels-in-goa/186540.html

*** Goa IPB grants approval to Vedanta's expansion proposals -
The Hindu
rinciple approval to various proposals by Vedanta Limited for
expansion of existing capacities at its pig iron plant (PIP).
The company had put up a proposal for enhancement of its pig
iron, coke ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGrxcNtXiDEk7ZEgVWHl8yIl7Xrng=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779035046598=ismiVqCNBoyz3AGzrYq4CA=http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/goa-ipb-grants-approval-to-vedantas-expansion-proposals/article8139127.ece

*** HDFC Bank wins microfinance award from NABARD in Goa - Times
of India
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to Tuticorin via Colombo from
January 27 onwards. "This is the only direct service from Goa
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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 21, 2016

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 19, 2016

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*** Say sorry for favouring Goa merger with M'ashtra: MLAs to
MGP - Business Standard
ver opinion poll was held in Goa on January 16, 1967 to decide
whether the then Union Territory should remain a separate
geographic entity or merge with Maharashtra. A majority of
people voted against the merger. Goa became a ...
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*** Mining ban made Goa govt borrow just half of okayed limit:
Laxmikant Parsekar - Economic Times
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*** IRCTC and Goa Tourism launch a special carnival charter
coach for Goa Carnival ... - India Today
t...@intoday.com. January 15, 2016 
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*** Pramod Muthalik's ban in Goa extended - The Hindu
ased fringe rightwing Hindu outfit "Sri Ram Sene" and any of his
associates or members within the jurisdiction of the north ...
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*** US national death: Consulate team in Goa to oversee probe -
Daily News & Analysis
ear-old Caitanya Lila ...
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*** Govt bans foreign tours of ministers, officers till budget -
The Navhind Times
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*** Three Goa MLAs seek opinion poll on coconut being classified
as palm - Economic Times
ed government based on their majority on the floor of the House
passed the legislation.
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*** The other side of Goa - The Statesman
e StatesmanGoa, Goa, Goa! That was my reaction when I got the
chance to visit this beautiful coastal state for the first time
a year ago. I did all I could to explore almost every popular
destination, like its famous Baga, Calangute, Vagator and Anjuna
beaches ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGc-eV5BFe089a690nXEzyWkWHAkg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779031533733=i-CaVqC_H4_J3gHJtLmYDg=http://www.thestatesman.com/news/features/the-other-side-of-goa/117075.html

*** Goa may forever be lost to insatiable greed of mining giants
and developers - Daily News & Analysis
ily News & AnalysisIt is likely that a crested serpent eagle
flying at its highest can see the whole of Goa  a little
more than a hundred kilometres from the north to the south at
its longest, and some forty or so from the east to the west at
its widest  with just ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFB8J4goAXwbwgETXQzc6zIqvf5AA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=i-CaVqC_H4_J3gHJtLmYDg=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-goa-may-forever-be-lost-to-insatiable-greed-of-mining-giants-and-developers-2166255

*** AAP decision on contesting Goa polls in March - Business
Standard
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*** Mining ban made Goa govt borrow just half of okayed limit:
Laxmikant Parsekar - Economic Times
ews-india/goa-chased-by-locals-us-tourist-falls-in-field-dies/">Goa:
Chased by locals, US tourist falls in field, dies
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*** I-League: Sporting Clube de Goa 0-0 DSK Shivajians: Pereira
earns a point in ... - Goal.com
ine... Sporting Clube de Goa and DSK Shivajians play out a
goalless draw in a round two clash of the I-League 2015-16 at
the Fatorda stadium in Margao, Goa, on Sunday ...
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*** Goa barking up wrong tree, feel many - Daily Pioneer
ecognise the coconut palm as a tree has shocked and rattled
botanists and environmentalists in the country. "Coconut trees
on the picturesque seashores of Goa are its natural
fortification from disasters like ...
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*** Pramod Muthalik's ban in Goa extended - The Hindu
ased fringe rightwing Hindu outfit "Sri Ram Sene" and any of his
associates or members within the jurisdiction of the north ...
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*** US national death: Consulate team in Goa to oversee probe -
Daily News & Analysis
ear-old Caitanya Lila ...
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*** IRCTC and Goa Tourism launch a special carnival charter
coach for Goa Carnival ... - India Today
t...@intoday.com. January 15, 2016 
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*** Goan is Portuguese PM, score settled: Dy Speaker - The
Indian Express
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*** Goa's solar mission - The Navhind Times
fi, Science Film Festival of India, which concluded on Sunday,
had an exhibit on solar energy that attracted several onlookers.
The display by Goa Energy Development Agency (GEDA) got the
thumbs up from visitors as they contemplated on solar ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHWl01Xg3mb5JFYX_iu0kHTCYo6UQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779031355421=CzKcVqHsENXK3gHMy4iQCQ=http://www.navhindtimes.in/goas-solar-mission/

*** The other side of Goa - The Statesman
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*** Angela and Ian Szczypka spent £2300 getting rescue dog from
Goa to UK - Daily Mail
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*** Mining ban made Goa govt borrow just half of okayed limit:
Laxmikant Parsekar - Economic Times
VuDuJMiZ3QGiz4zYDA
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*** Sunil Sethi: Goa's Portuguese presence - Business Standard
ortuguese bungalow freshly painted a vivid yellow and white.
Here sits an important and sought-after official presiding over
a large ...
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*** Goa Government Says the Coconut Is No Tree. This Is How
Goans Protest! - The Better India (blog)
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*** Pramod Muthalik's ban in Goa extended - The Hindu
ased fringe rightwing Hindu outfit "Sri Ram Sene" and any of his
associates or members within the jurisdiction of the north ...
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*** IRCTC and Goa Tourism launch a special carnival charter
coach for Goa Carnival ... - India Today
t...@intoday.com. January 15, 2016 
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*** Goa Tourism minister draws flak on issue of lifeguards -
Business Standard
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*** Benjo new head of House Com on Dhirio as SC stays Jallikattu
- Goa News
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*** Goa miners seek government help to fight slump in prices -
Daily News & Analysis
playing field for the mining industry in Goa. Hence, early
intervention is a must by the governments if it is serious on
resumption of ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFAw1PhFdrPt7uI4FB1J2cXgWZknA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779030456777=Co-ZVuDuJMiZ3QGiz4zYDA=http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-goa-miners-seek-government-help-to-fight-slump-in-prices-2166136

*** Goa may be fined 10cr for Nat'l Games delay - Times of India
 the bid was won three years earlier -- but with other states
lined up to host the National Games before Goa like Jharkhand
and Kerala also dragging its feet, Goa's turn ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNG_www9HUctBZ1D-PbA80lTY7WYwA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779029613068=Co-ZVuDuJMiZ3QGiz4zYDA=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/Goa-may-be-fined-10cr-for-Natl-Games-delay/articleshow/50569017.cms

*** Sports shows its financial face in Goa Assembly - The
Navhind Times
e Navhind TimesThe Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) earned a profit
of Rs 76,82,690 from FC Goa through revenue collected from
Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, Fatorda and other revenues from ISL
matches held in Goa. This was disclosed by Sports Minister
Ramesh Tawadkar in ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEGUTVp8bMgIoWHhapAnPBqs-B1vQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=Co-ZVuDuJMiZ3QGiz4zYDA=http://www.navhindtimes.in/sports-shows-its-financial-face-in-goa-assembly/


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[Goanet-News] Chembur plans big bash for WWII veteran's 100 knock (Mumbai Mirror)

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Chembur plans big bash for WWII veteran's 100 knock
By Jyoti Shelar, Mumbai Mirror | Jan 13, 2016, 02.25 AM IST

  The former navy man, who was born before shortwave
  radio or Band-Aid were invented, is in surprisingly
  good shape and rarely skips his daily 20-minute
  stroll 'Life has been good': Felix Fernandez, who
  loves fish, music and whisky, turns 100 on Thursday.

Chembur residents are gearing up to celebrate the birthday of
their beloved 'Uncle Felix' who turns 100 on Thursday.

The World War II veteran, who was born before the shortwave
radio or the humble Band-Aid were invented, is in
surprisingly good shape and rarely skips his daily 20-minute
stroll in the compound of his bungalow.

"Life has been good," said the former navy man and a father
of five, whose last name is Fernandez.

He is known in the community for his love for whisky (in
moderation), music and fish -- a combination that never goes
out of favour -- and for his comic timing.

"But it's his kind nature that won us all over," said local
resident Tina D'souza, 58. "There is a buzz in the
neighbourhood for his 100th birthday -- everyone's excited to
be a part of the milestone.

  Residents have been planning and discussing the
  celebrations on WhatsApp groups. Uncle Felix's
  bungalow, on St Anthony's Road near the Our Lady of
  Perpetual Succour, is already being decked out for
  the occasion. "He has been so nice to everyone that
  we feel a sense of gratitude," D'souza said.

Thursday's planned events will begin with a prayer group and
end with a dinner reception.

Uncle Felix was born in Goa's Siolim village in 1916. He
moved to what was then Bombay in 1940 to join the Royal
Indian Navy. He served in the 'Mine Sweeper Division' and was
posted in Cochin.

"The World War II was going on. Though we were not affected
that much, we faced some air raids," he said.

The war also took him to Rangoon (Yangon), a former capital
of Myanmar. He recalled spending uneventful days singing,
playing the piano and kicking the football around.

Soon after the war, he joined Burmah Shell, which later
became Bharat Petroleum.

In Bombay, Uncle Felix first lived in Santacruz. He recounted
the incredible experience of listening to the radio as
Jawaharlal Nehru took oath as the first prime minister of an
independent India.

"We went crazy driving all around the city when the country
won its freedom. Everyone was on the road and people honked
the horn in celebration," he said.

But the soon-to-be-centenarian is not happy with the way
Mumbai has changed over the years. "It is a concrete jungle
now. There was a time when I went shooting ducks and fishing
with friends around my house in Chembur. Everything has
changed," he said.

Uncle Felix's daughter-in-law Dolly said he was hale and
hearty even at this age because of his disciplined lifestyle.
"He loves walking. Every day, he walks for 20 minutes in our
compound," said Dolly, who is married to his youngest son
Mario (61).

His eldest son, Victor (72), said the former navy man loved
the grand old operas Carmen, Tosca, Don Giovanni, La Traviata
and Aida. "He also enjoys gardening, a hobby he took up after
retirement. Red roses are his favourite."

Uncle Felix has participated in annual Bombay Rose Society
competitions and has won many prizes for his home-grown
blooms. His passion inspired Mario to pursue garden designing
as a profession.

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AGE IS JUST A NUMBER
---

* American Susannah Mushatt Jones, aged 116, is currently
  world's oldest living person

* Misao Okawa of Japan was the record holder until she died
  last year aged 117

* In 2011, 125-year-old Parasram Gurjar of Madhya Pradesh was
  said to be the oldest man in India

* A few years ago, the then Mumbai mayor Shubha Raul
  felicitated five centenarians. Raul had proposed following
  the tradition every year, but the BMC didn't keep a track

HAT-TIP to Goanetter Praba Mahajan 
for sharing this link with us.

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 14, 2016

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as a palm and not a tree. State Environment Minister Rajendra
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[Goanet-News] Restoration of paintings and frames skills come to Goa

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The London School of Picture and Frame Restoration has for almost twenty
years been one of the top institutions in the United Kingdom, training
conservators to restore paintings on canvas and on wood support as well as
restoring frames. The College Principal, Caterina Goodhart, trained in
Florence (Italy) before moving to the UK, has more than thirty years’
experience.

On a trip to Goa in early 2015 she was moved by the artworks in the
churches that she decided to return and to share her knowledge and
experience, in order that a new generation of conservators can grow and
develop in Goa. And she proposed to begin her work with the Portrait
Gallery of the Archbishops of Goa, which is in need of restoration, as some
of the portraits date back to the 16th century.

Supported by the Archbishop of Goa and by the Museum of Christian Art, Old
Goa, this project will initially run for five weeks, at Archbishop’s House,
Altinho, Panjim, beginning on the 15th of January, 2016.

During this time, would-be conservators will receive an introduction to
conservation equivalent to a first year diploma, learn the basic principles
of cleaning, patching, relining, colour matching and varnishing, and do
practical work on actual paintings and frames, with close tuition. The
course is aimed chiefly at men or women of all ages who are interested in
the possibility of starting a new career in the field and thus ensure a
legacy in conservation skills in Goa.

Spaces are limited to not more than 8 students.

No  prior skills are required and there are no teaching fees. However, if
the students, at the end of the course, are found to be eligible for a City
& Guilds of London Institute qualification and certificate, fees will
apply. Interested individuals may  inquire at dcscm...@gmail.com  or call
telephone numbers 2433618 or 9822181790. Restorers and conservators in Goa
are also welcome to make contact with Ms. Goodhart at dcscm...@gmail.com or
i...@pictureconservation.com

[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 11, 2016

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uses of
some Jewish community members at Arambol and the Chabad House, a
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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 10, 2016

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 9, 2016

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rticle/news-ians/goa-an-unclean-overrun-tourist-destination-trade-official-116010801255_1.html

*** Gandhi Jayanti no longer a holiday in BJP-ruled Goa - Times
Now.tv
mes Now.tvIn a decision that could spark nationwide outrage, the
BJP Government in Goa has dropped Gandhi Jayanti on October 2
from the list of public holidays. Gandhi Jayanti, the birth
anniversary of the Father of the Nation, has not been marked as
a holiday ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGweVJw_ofkz8jP736esfZSA8h-Lg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52778769055698=jFSQVuizG5bV3gGtnZDgCg=http://www.timesnow.tv/Gandhi-Jayanti-no-longer-a-holiday-in-BJP-ruled-Goa/articleshow/4474204.cms


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 8, 2016

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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 7, 2016

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Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.

*** Hyatt Place Goa/Candolim Opens in India - Hotel News
Resource (press release)
BA
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*** ISL: FC Goa gets more time to respond to code breach charges
- IBNLive
BA
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*** Bomb scare on two Express trains in Goa turns out to be hoax
- Economic Times
BA
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*** Irfan Pathan's all-round show helps Baroda thrash Goa by 72
runs - IBNLive
BA
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*** Goa gets foreign tourists, vulnerable to attack: Police -
Business Standard
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*** Goa to host country's first science film fest on Jan 14 -
The Statesman
FI), showcasing the science-based films around the globe, will
be held here from January 14. The four-day event is organised
jointly by Vigyan Parishad, the Department of Science and
Technology, Goa, ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHudiDhK8jGAC-8O0HzCyS-UWJJOw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779024668315=irGNVsi3Oc3Q3gGd1b-YBA=http://www.thestatesman.com/news/entertainment/goa-to-host-country-s-first-science-film-fest-on-jan-14/114960.html

*** Goa miners seek PM Narendra Modi intervention over export
duty on iron ore - Financial Express
rade iron ore to nil, Goa Mineral Ore Exporters' Association
(GMOEA) has now sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
intervention in the matter as a ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHKxKfJi6OUrRXg07UvkEL4asYGvw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=irGNVsi3Oc3Q3gGd1b-YBA=http://www.financialexpress.com/article/markets/commodities/goa-miners-seek-pm-narendra-modi-intervention-over-export-duty-on-iron-ore/189362/

*** @DelhiPolice updates from Goa, trolled - Times of India
mes of IndiaNEW DELHI: Delhi Police was trolled by Twitter users
on Wednesday after tweeting a late "good morning" and posting
subsequent updates from Goa. Recommended By Colombia. The reason
behind the goof up could not be ascertained as officials
remained ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGbxkXsUT9V_hBykE5OLnynNdQ1vw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779024662514=irGNVsi3Oc3Q3gGd1b-YBA=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/DelhiPolice-updates-from-Goa-trolled/articleshow/50474825.cms

*** Goa homes a step closer to piped cooking gas - The Navhind
Times
e Navhind TimesAfter no news on when the piped cooking gas will
be available in Goa despite the presence of a natural gas
pipeline, now bidding for the retail licence to provide domestic
connections will commence soon, sources in the Gas Authority of
India Limited ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNG9rBqeRdls1N5Lp3G1TMPLmhLgUQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779024547178=irGNVsi3Oc3Q3gGd1b-YBA=http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-homes-a-step-closer-to-piped-cooking-gas/

*** Operation Smile: Goa joins nation - The Hindu
ide drive of "Operation Smile" to reunite missing children with
their parents. The Union Home Ministry has recently asked the
police to revive the drive which was launched around two years
ago with ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFeMhfMDKidsvSIkBDt8slvaxepWQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779023623048=irGNVsi3Oc3Q3gGd1b-YBA=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/operation-smile-goa-joins-nation/article8068068.ece


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 6, 2016

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Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.

*** Goa truckers reject CM's offer on ore transportation rates -
Business Standard
5SQ3QGSuI3QDg
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*** FC Goa called for breach of Indian Super League regulations
- IBNLive
dherence of league rules'," an ISL release said. (Getty Images).
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*** Bomb scare on two Express trains in Goa turns out to be hoax
- Economic Times
5SQ3QGSuI3QDg
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*** Hyatt Celebrates the Official Opening of Hyatt Place
Goa/Candolim - Business Wire (press release)
leeper. (Photo: Business Wire) ...
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*** Goa Congress opposes AeroIndia show in state - Business
Standard
z3pVXjhZDND5w5gUk9g=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779023972540=C2CMVti-J5SQ3QGSuI3QDg
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*** Goa hails the three kings today - The Navhind Times
ver celebrates the feast of the three kings on January 6, twelve
days after Christmas. Goa too follows this tradition, with
people celebrating with pomp and gaiety in villages like Verem,
Reis Magos, Cansaulim, Cuelim (chapel ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFa9W5IzCy7_myplJIaYsxKHOrfLg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=C2CMVti-J5SQ3QGSuI3QDg=http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-hails-the-three-kings-today/

*** Assam beat Goa by four wickets - Times of India
icket win over Goa after Pallavkumar Das top-scored with a brisk
44 off 29 balls in the national T20 championship for the Syed
Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Monday. In the Group C match at the
Reliance Stadium, Assam ...
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*** Goa filmmakers want prime time slots for Konkani films -
Business Standard
9RQkPQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779023883818=C2CMVti-J5SQ3QGSuI3QDg
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*** Over 50% of rape victims in Goa are minors - The Navhind
Times
e Navhind TimesOver 50 per cent of the rape victims are minors,
reveals the Goa Police crime analysis for the year 2015.
According to police records, in 2015, a total of 84 cases of
rape were registered in which 49 victims were below the age of
18 years. Of the 84 ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFfOF3YZhRuIzukXOMpMFnx_xfgVA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=C2CMVti-J5SQ3QGSuI3QDg=http://www.navhindtimes.in/over-50-of-rape-victims-in-goa-are-minors/

*** Operation Smile: Goa joins nation - The Hindu
ide drive of "Operation Smile" to reunite missing children with
their parents. The Union Home Ministry has recently asked the
police to revive the drive which was launched around two years
ago with ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFeMhfMDKidsvSIkBDt8slvaxepWQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779023623048=C2CMVti-J5SQ3QGSuI3QDg=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/operation-smile-goa-joins-nation/article8068068.ece


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 5, 2016

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*** AAP guarded over pop singer Remo Fernandes' legal trouble in
Goa - Economic Times
uarded-over-remo-s-legal-trouble-goa-1973389.html">AAP guarded
over Remo's legal trouble
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*** Goa tourism to take off this year - Financial Express
ased MEHAIR company, which will run the sea planes connecting
Dabolim airport to different rivers across the state.
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*** Goa's iconic crumbling tower to host Indo-German orchestra -
The Statesman
 a German orchestra organised by an Indo-German cultural
organisation.
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*** Goa IT professionals welcome state IT policy - India.com
tarting IT industries in Goa. In a ...
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*** Best Places to Eat in Calangute, Goa - NDTV
TVUnless you're staying in one of the lovely resorts of South
Goa, chances are high that you will pick Calangute Beach for
your stay. This is the hub, where all the action is. It does
tend to get a tad bit crowded but there's plenty to do and you
don't ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNH_Ae-ojkNKuryZK3WylGi472Ds7g=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779022686869=jA6LVvDLIIOX3AH8uavgCw=http://food.ndtv.com/lists/best-places-to-eat-in-calangute-goa-1262021

*** Karnataka govt to send all-party delegation to Goa - Times
of India
arty delegation in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had
told the delegation to meet Opposition parties in Goa and
Maharashtra. "I have written letter to the Goa government
seeking an appointment to meet the all-party delegation.http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGWGylSNmokgAiwjZdfC00z2yL1Sg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779023290410=jA6LVvDLIIOX3AH8uavgCw=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Karnataka-govt-to-send-all-party-delegation-to-Goa/articleshow/50442378.cms

*** Sadie Frost puts on an extremely busty display in photos
from Goa getaway - Daily Mail
ear-old looked incredible as she posed up a storm in front of a
wooden door ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFodT0qGCXiMUwP-P9XsJjJL-88IA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=jA6LVvDLIIOX3AH8uavgCw=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3382105/Bikini-clad-Sadie-Frost-looks-stunning-puts-extremely-busty-display-sexy-snaps-idyllic-Goa-getaway.html

*** Assam beat Goa by four wickets - Business Standard
icket win over Goa after Pallvkumar Das top-scored with a brisk
44 off 29 balls in the national T20 championship for the Syed
Mushtaq Ali Trophy here today. In the Group C match at the
Reliance Stadium, Assam restricted Goa to ...
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*** Congress undecided on contesting Goa Speaker's post -
Economic Times
toM=0=us">and more »
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*** Next Goa BJP President to be known before January 30 -
Economic Times
onomic TimesPANAJI: The next Goa BJP President will be known
before January 30, though no names have been shortlisted for the
post till now amidst indications that the current incumbent was
not averse to another term in office. "Election process for the
Executive ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFNiQorn87ITfrbpZBR-HYO2lwghQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779021861801=jA6LVvDLIIOX3AH8uavgCw=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/next-goa-bjp-president-to-be-known-before-january-30/articleshow/50422263.cms


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 4, 2016

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*** No more Sunburn fest for New Year in Goa ? - The Oceanside
Post
anuary 15 from the following year.
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*** Goa Defence Expo project hits another snag - Business
Standard
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*** Parrikar's presence in Goa during Pathankot attack slammed -
Zee News
resence-in-goa-during-attack-draws-flak/748941">Parrikar's
presence in Goa during attack draws flak
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*** UAE firms seek training from Goa fire department - Economic
Times
ighting techniques, a senior official said. "The requests have
been received from a few private firms in the ...
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*** Goa to offer sea planes, helicopters for tourists soon -
Economic Times
ased MEHAIR company, which will run the sea planes connecting
Dabolim airport to different rivers across the state," said Goa
Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar. While the sea planes and
helicopters will be ...
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*** Syed Mushtaq Ali T20: Madhya Pradesh beat Goa by seven
wickets - IBNLive
Zwg-M=0=us">and more »
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*** Sadie Frost puts on an extremely busty display in photos
from Goa getaway - Daily Mail
ear-old looked incredible as she posed up a storm in front of a
wooden door ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNFodT0qGCXiMUwP-P9XsJjJL-88IA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=DL2JVpTWDZTQ3QGij5CgDA=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3382105/Bikini-clad-Sadie-Frost-looks-stunning-puts-extremely-busty-display-sexy-snaps-idyllic-Goa-getaway.html

*** Next Goa BJP President to be known before January 30 -
Economic Times
jp-president-of-goa-to-be.html">Next BJP President of Goa to be
announced by January 30
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*** From Goa to the Oscars - The Hindu
a Kumpasar (Dance to the Rhythm) has won three national awards,
six international awards and made it to the Oscar list in the
Best Picture and Best Original Score categories. When Bardroy
Barretto was growing up in the Goa ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHwfEF3--pVY0TjeEmImHT_VEHlsw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779022040391=DL2JVpTWDZTQ3QGij5CgDA=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/from-goa-to-the-oscars/article8059483.ece

*** Real-Time Monitoring Of Traffic At Vital Locations In Goa -
NDTV
ime monitoring of traffic on major bridges and junctions in the
state. (Representational Image). Panaji: Goa Police have begun
real-time monitoring of traffic on major bridges and junctions
in the state to provide quick ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNH5inXmB0o8G0sFj9an6Sps1ghWXA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779022263395=DL2JVpTWDZTQ3QGij5CgDA=http://www.ndtv.com/goa-news/real-time-monitoring-of-traffic-at-vital-locations-in-goa-1261678


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 2, 2016

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*** Remo Fernandes back in Goa; hearing on bail plea on January
5 - Economic Times
_IjNMA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779016375754=CxqHVpiMI8HK3QGA8J2wCA
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*** Delhi's odd-even scheme won't work in Goa: Manohar Parrikar
- Economic Times
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*** ISL final fall-out: AIFF issues show cause notice to FC Goa
for post-match fracas - Firstpost
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*** Goa State Information Commission functional after 11 months
- The Hindu
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*** Goa to host Science Film Festival of India from January 14 -
Economic Times
ay event is organised by Vigyan Parishad, a body of Department
of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology,
in association with Department of Science and Technology-Goa,
Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), Goa Science ...
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*** Centre announces over Rs 1 cr to Goa for infrastructure
projects - The Navhind Times
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*** New Year Special: Best Places to Eat in Calangute, Goa -
NDTV
tandard.com/article/pti-stories/goa-ushers-in-new-year-with-beach-parties-116010100316_1.html">Goa
ushers in new year with beach parties
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*** Stakeholders give Goa IT policy a thumbs up - Times of India
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*** Truckers willing to operate vulnerable in Goa's mining zone
- Business Standard
siness StandardEven as a section of truck owners are agreeing to
resume the iron ore exports in Goa, the fear of getting attacked
is keeping them at bay despite mounting debts to the local
banks. The Goa government has already renewed leases of the
mining companies ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNF5IFBYmsUaE6WqdFEDTF1iQEjPbg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779020996881=CxqHVpiMI8HK3QGA8J2wCA=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/truckers-willing-to-operate-vulnerable-in-goa-s-mining-zone-116010100507_1.html

*** Goa prepares for canonisation of Fr. Agnelo de Souza -
Business Standard
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[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 1, 2016

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*** Remo Fernandes seeks anticipatory bail from Goa Court -
Daily News & Analysis
r-W9m08g4s0xrs6kag=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779016375754=jMiFVvHOH9jR3gGEtpGYCQ
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*** Manohar Parrikar Accused Of 'Interference' In Goa Affairs By
NCP - NDTV
nd-nation/ncp-accuses-manohar-parrikar-of-interference-in-goa-affairs/articleshow/50391341.cms">NCP
accuses Manohar Parrikar of "interference" in Goa affairs
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*** Sunburn festival Goa ends with a bang - Business Standard
unburn-goa-2015-day-4-david-guetta-steals">Sunburn Goa 2015: Day
4; David Guetta steals the show
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*** Travel website fraud: Mumbai cops arrest Goa man for duping
at least 78 people - The Indian Express
ails from Bhubaneshwar, Chennai and Noida among other places
with similar complaints. All these people will ...
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*** Goa bans drones for security reasons - The Hindu
overnmental agencies, organisations and individuals launching
Unmanned Aircraft Systems/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UASs/UAVs)
or Drones within the jurisdiction of north ...
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*** Goa rules that a coconut tree isn't really a tree  and a
liquor firm reaps ... - Scroll.in
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*** Guv Mridula Sinha declares 2016 as year of cleanliness for
Goa - Business Standard
70515.html">2016 should be year of cleanliness: Goa governor
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*** 2015 saw no resumption of iron-ore mining in Goa - Economic
Times
un Goa Medical College and Hospital. Remo, who is in Europe, has
denied the charges. A look-out notice has been issued against
him. The singer's lawyer told investigators that he would be
available for ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHvNEYSMsJPcNI-LK59P4FSL2GkXQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779020202506=jMiFVvHOH9jR3gGEtpGYCQ=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/metals-mining/2015-saw-no-resumption-of-iron-ore-mining-in-goa/articleshow/50391059.cms

*** GOA BRIEFS - The Navhind Times
 in the GFA U-16 football league match played at Seraulim
grounds on Thursday. In day's other match played at Velsao
grounds, Velsao SCC defeated Velsao Pale 2-1. Velsao SCC scored
through Steve ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGeYk0sW8V5m4tS8H3q8DWIeQonlg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=jMiFVvHOH9jR3gGEtpGYCQ=http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-briefs-22/

*** Few takers for PM Modi's security schemes in Maharashtra-Goa
circle - Economic Times
onomic TimesFigures obtained from the Maharashtra and Goa Postal
Circle have revealed that three regions (Aurangabad, Mumbai and
Nagpur) did not find even a single taker in both the schemes
while two other regions (Goa and Pune) had only a handful of
registrations ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGVLm_B6KwDo6C-S9gkfIvJEY-L2g=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779019437853=jMiFVvHOH9jR3gGEtpGYCQ=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/few-takers-for-pm-modis-security-schemes-in-maharashtra-goa-circle/articleshow/50395160.cms

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*** Curtains down on Sunburn and Supersonic fests in Goa -
Business Standard
oers an unparallelled immersive experience, coupled with the
very best in music across ...
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*** Pop singer Remo to move Goa court seeking anticipatory bail
- Hindustan Times
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*** Lifeguards stir: Goa tourism keeps watch on beaches -
Business Standard
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*** Government extends deadline for suggestions on Goa Regional
Plan - Economic Times
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*** Youth held at Goa airport for smuggling gold - Business
Standard
ear-old youth from Kerala was today detained at the Goa airport
for allegedly smuggling gold in the country from Middle East,
Customs officials said today. Asif (full name not disclosed) was
detained for carrying 300 grams of gold worth Rs seven ...
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*** Goa bans drones for security reasons - The Hindu
overnmental agencies, organisations and individuals launching
Unmanned Aircraft Systems/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UASs/UAVs)
or Drones within the jurisdiction of north ...
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*** Puneet Issar fulfils Goa reunion promise - Times of India
issed Goa beaches was Puneet Issar's first priority as he began
to tick the New Year's resolution last year. Finally his trip
matured a year later in 2015, and the entire Issar clan along
with 15 friends is currently in ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHvTMHHHmoUUrgNGDa2YMlVYBS1ig=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=DHeEVtC-GoKd3QHWuZ2gBw=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Puneet-Issar-fulfils-Goa-reunion-promise/articleshow/50379431.cms

*** Sunburn festival Goa ends with a bang - Business Standard
siness Standard"Sunburn Goa 2015 was truly magical in every
aspect. The event witnessed a colossal turnout with some of the
biggest headliners, top class security measures and world class
production and design," chief executive officer of Sunburn,
Karan Singh said in ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHDM7sqb_JPmdGSQy4kHjs-wclVPg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779020003683=DHeEVtC-GoKd3QHWuZ2gBw=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/sunburn-festival-goa-ends-with-a-bang-115123100049_1.html

*** Defining, Reviewing and Implementing Service APIs with
"goa", a Go-based ... - InfoQ.com
ased HTTP microservice framework that allows the definition of a
service API via a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) and the
automated code generation of the corresponding ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNH80hNa-frtkXqxYjqYNpSTHbjCKA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=DHeEVtC-GoKd3QHWuZ2gBw=http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/12/goa-microservice-framework

*** GOA BRIEFS - The Navhind Times
 via tie-breaker at Loutolim grounds on Wednesday. The teams
were level 1-1 during the normal time.Vishant Pednekar put Goa
Velha ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGW44njATdr2YFw4PaTjZYC6m_VQw=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779019947517=DHeEVtC-GoKd3QHWuZ2gBw=http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-briefs-21/


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[Goanet-News] Goa news for December 30, 2015

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*** Ethos of tolerance being threatened in country: Goa
archbishop - Economic Times
reater form of intolerance" which includes crime against women
and children and that an attempt to "polarise" majority against
minority is being made by inciting hatred among people, the
state's archbishop ...
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*** #NoSunburnDecember: No EDMs in Goa from Dec 15 to Jan 14
from next year, says CM - India Today
anuary 15 next year onward. Goa Chief ...
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*** Goa police deny interference in case against Remo - The
Hindu
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*** Goa Lifeguards Go On Strike Over Job Regularisation - NDTV
aving service and need security in employment. We are only
demanding for regularisation of their services," Mr Fonseca told
IANS today.
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*** Teenager held for raping mentally challenged Goa woman -
Business Standard
ear-old boy was on Tuesday held for allegedly raping a
21-year-old mentally challenged woman near here, police said.
"The rape was committed on Tuesday morning when the boy went to
the woman's house located next door. On finding the woman ...
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*** Goa Governor pens song for 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' -
Oneindia
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*** Goan 'women' footballers take baby steps - Times of India
 at least for now -- it's time to tell the story of the other
heroes in Goan football. At a time when Goa was on a high with
names like Laxmikant Kattimani, Romeo Fernandes ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHWkeaBy5VasZHnHDR7cnuHBqckwA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=jCWDVtisLYXq3QH3lrrAAw=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goan-women-footballers-take-baby-steps/articleshow/50372994.cms

*** Defining, Reviewing and Implementing Service APIs with
"goa", a Go-based ... - InfoQ.com
ased HTTP microservice framework that allows the definition of a
service API via a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) and the
automated code generation of the corresponding ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNH80hNa-frtkXqxYjqYNpSTHbjCKA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=jCWDVtisLYXq3QH3lrrAAw=http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/12/goa-microservice-framework

*** Manohar Parrikar feels Goa's green NGOs target issues
selectively - Economic Times
onomic TimesWithout naming any organisation, Parrikar said the
NGOs petition National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the
developmental projects but are not bothered to take a stand when
it comes to the crucial issue of diversion of Mhadei river. Goa
and Karnataka ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGVhhz4U9rhbhcywyIn0wf1a72PqA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779018462866=jCWDVtisLYXq3QH3lrrAAw=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/manohar-parrikar-feels-goas-green-ngos-target-issues-selectively/articleshow/50364090.cms

*** Convict on parole commits suicide with parents in Goa - The
Hindu
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[Goanet-News] Goa news for December 29, 2015

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*** ISL: Report spells more trouble for FC Goa - The Indian
Express
p FC Goa find themselves in deep waters after match commissioner
AK Mamu Koya mentioned in his report that there is no proper
evidence that the team's co-owner Dattaraj Salgaocar was
assaulted by Chennaiyin ...
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*** Goa Police begin process to issue second lookout notice
against Remo Fernandes - Daily News & Analysis
ear-old singer has been booked by police for allegedly verbally
abusing and threatening a minor girl in state-run Goa Medical
College and Hospital, where she was undergoing treatment after
being hit by the car driven by his son Johan on ...
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*** Sunburn and other EDM festivals banned in peak season from
next year says Goa CM - The Hindu
anuary 15 from the next year.
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*** ISL: AIFF disciplinary committee to take action against FC
Goa - IBNLive
 loss to Chennaiyin FC in the finals of the Indian Super
League(ISL).
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*** Goan father kills his two kids, injures Russian wife - Goa
News
ear old Goan from Ximer, Candolim, killed his two children 
7-year old son Elizha and 3-year old Catharin  by strangulating
them today morning. He also assaulted his Russian wife Swetlana
with an iron rod on her forehead ...
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*** Water supply to North Goa disrupted as Tillari canal
breaches at Sateli - The Navhind Times
hedshi in Maharashtra around 9 km from the dam. The repair work
is underway on a war footing and by ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNG0j08wh5xVivfm0L4AxBstKTBVlA=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=ioKAVtDkN5K93gGw0IfQAw=http://www.navhindtimes.in/water-supply-to-north-goa-disrupted-as-tillari-canal-breaches-at-sateli/

*** My best designs are created after Goa vacation: Manish Arora
- India Today
dia TodayI love India and every state has its own story which I
love to uncover but I love Goa for its sun, sand, beaches and
chilled vibes. It rejuvenates me each time I go and I always
return to work all pumped up and energised. Some of my best
designs have ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNF1H3yzsd0tzJMTnbjI8FNyk2IPug=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=ioKAVtDkN5K93gGw0IfQAw=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/my-best-designs-are-created-after-goa-vacation-manish-arora-bali-china-europe/1/556119.html

*** Goa Cops Misbehaved With Scribe for Speaking in Hindi - The
New Indian Express
peaking non-Goan, an internal police enquiry has confirmed the
allegation. In his report, Superintendent of Police (Crime ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNHbZNmcbxhQ2e1e0ypl3x48d6fxKQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779016781250=ioKAVtDkN5K93gGw0IfQAw=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Goa-Cops-Misbehaved-With-Scribe-for-Speaking-in-Hindi/2015/12/26/article3197357.ece

*** Dempo to bounce high with return of lads from FC Goa - The
Navhind Times
are recovering from injuries the backline has the sparkle with
goalkeeper laxmikant ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGB_21ogRvEj3BXM_HRuRryQBRneg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=ioKAVtDkN5K93gGw0IfQAw=http://www.navhindtimes.in/dempo-to-bounce-high-with-return-of-lads-from-fc-goa/

*** Green Goa Gone - The Navhind Times
ufficiency in food products but also boost tourism, says
*Bhasker Assoldekar. Agriculture plays a vital role in India's
economy. Over 58 per cent of rural households depend on it for
...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNEpkEovNmf1cCcjpBTmlY7piOu2rQ=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=ioKAVtDkN5K93gGw0IfQAw=http://www.navhindtimes.in/green-goa-gone/


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*** Gandhi Jayanti no longer a holiday in BJP-ruled Goa - Times
Now.tv
mes Now.tvIn a decision that could spark nationwide outrage, the
BJP Government in Goa has dropped Gandhi Jayanti on October 2
from the list of public holidays. Gandhi Jayanti, the birth
anniversary of the Father of the Nation, has not been marked as
a holiday ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNGweVJw_ofkz8jP736esfZSA8h-Lg=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52778769055698=CzF_Vtg2ybzeAav8spAD=http://www.timesnow.tv/Gandhi-Jayanti-no-longer-a-holiday-in-BJP-ruled-Goa/articleshow/4474204.cms

*** 7 doctors booked over minor girl's death in Goa - Business
Standard
ear-old girl in South Goa, police said today. The girl was
admitted to the private hospital on November 12 from where her
parents ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t=R=us=AFQjCNF-Eko_p3UOE7ezFgAVOxtcL29V4Q=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331=52779016729528=CzF_Vtg2ybzeAav8spAD=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/7-doctors-booked-over-minor-girl-s-death-in-goa-115122600534_1.html


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