ts. The Union Home Ministry has recently asked the
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office. "Election process for the
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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
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urangabad, Mumbai and
Nagpur) did not find even a single taker in both the schemes
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*** GOA BRIEFS - The Navhind Times
niversity Football Championship to be held at Amity University,
Noida. Goa University defeated University of Kota, Rajasthan 4-0
in a crucial play-off match, at Univer
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*** Convict on parole commits suicide with parents in Goa - The
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*** 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
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police said today. The girl was
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A Konkani film on a Goan singer is vying for nomination in
the original musical score category at the Oscars. The film’s
director and composer talk to Reena Martins about the musical
[PHOTO A still from Nachom-ia Kumpasar]
Bardroy Barretto, Mumbai ad filmmaker-turned-feature film
director, was ha
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Mother Teresa Set for Sainthood After Vatican Approves Second Miracle Kolkata
archbishop calls move ‘like a Christmas gift to us’
Pope Francis has approved the second miracle of Mother Teresa of Kolkata,
In the dark times
will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.
--Bertolt Brecht
Dissent is liberation. Dissent is progression. Dissent is
essential. Dissent is logical. Dissent is personal. Dissent
is political. Dissent is creative. Dissent is d
The big gamble
If you’re a Goan, steer clear of the state’s casinos. That’s the message
the Goan government is sending. Reena Martins deals a nifty hand as she
surveys the state’s gambling problem
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NO LOCALS, PLEASE: Some casino owners discourage locals in order to
maintain a healthy relat
Goa readies for a second, all-brass show
Kimberly Noronha
kimno...@gmail.com
For the first time, Goa saw an All Brass Concert sprout in
the monsoons of 2014. It was held on July 10, 2014. Keeping
up with last year's event, this year too a repeat function is
expected on the same day, July 10.
T
'Marriott hotel case has restored people’s faith in the rule of law'
Devika Sequeira devikaseque...@gmail.com
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---
The writ petition in the Marriott hotel case was filed in
1993 and interim relief rejected in 1
Ponda lad’s app belts free Konkani musicNewton Sequeira,TNN | Jul 4, 2015,
04.36 AM IST
PANAJI: When Danny Braganza, a Goan who frequently travels abroad, feels
nostalgic about Goa, he turns to his smart phone not to call somebody in
Goa but to turn on Goa Live Konkani Radio, an app designed by Po
Architect Charles Correa dies at 84
TNN | Jun 17, 2015, 02.15 AM IST
Charles Correa, arguably India's greatest contemporary architect, passed
away at 11.45pm on Tuesday in Mumbai following a brief illness. He was 84. A
proponent of 'open-to-skies' spaces, he liked using local techniques and
aesthe
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No combat role for women in armed forces: Manohar Parrikar
PTI | May 30, 2015, 01.14 PM IST
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Manohar Parrikar has ruled out recruiting women
for combat operations
Xavier Centre of Historical Research in association with
Socorro Socio-Art and Cultural Association, Porvorim is
organizing THE AMBEACHEM FEST at its premises on May 10th,
Sunday, at 4.30 pm sharp.
Ambeachem Fest is a low cost eco-friendly community-based
festival. The aim of this festival is to
stration)
ollock, non-rockfish sector on Sunday at noon. This in-season
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On a hot and sultry day, the heat was perhaps the last
thing on 18-year-old Vishnu Natarajan's mind when he jumped to
his death from a building's third storey in Ponda town, 35 km
from this Goa capital. Police, for now, claim that Natarajan, a
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WORKSHOP ON SAFEGUARDING OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
The Directorate of Art and Culture will be organizing a
workshop on Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
by UNESCO in Goa on April 27 and 28, 2015 from 9.30 a.m. to
5.30 p.m. at the Sanskruti Bhavan, Patto, Panjim.
The wor
*** FC Goa's grassroots programme reaches out to 2 children
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town
stars - PINKVILLA
NKVILLAA big contingent of celebrities will be flying down to
Goa for a party on April 14th. This will include Shah Rukh Khan
and Gauri Khan for a party to be hosted by business producer
actor Sachin Joshi. Joshi's newest venture Planet Hollywood
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spapers
in Sri Lanka were honoured at the Goa Fest 2015 Award Ceremony
in India. Ceylon Today and Mawbima were awarded three gold
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dia
mes of IndiaPANAJI: FC Goa have expressed interest in retaining
six domestic players from the first edition of the Indian Super
League (ISL) and have now added four additional players to their
list. Denson Devadas (Chennaiyin FC), C. S. Sabeeth (Kerala
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*** Winds blow visibility in Goa for a toss - Times o
Faculty Enrichment Programme
The IQAC of St. Xavier’s College organized the annual Faculty Enrichment
Programme on 27th and 28th March 2015 on the theme ‘Fostering and
Sustaining the Enhanced Quality of Higher Education’.
The resource person for the programme was Prof. Dr. S. Sivasubramanian,
Adv
f IndiaMARGAO: For the people of Odisha who have made Goa
their home, Sunday was a day to remember the contributions and
sacrifices made by the people of their native state which
resulted in Odisha attaining statehood on April 1, 1936.
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kets/articleshow/46763575.cms
*** BNI announces Goa Biz Fest - Times of India
mes of IndiaPANAJI: In commemoration of its fifth anniversary
this April, BNI Goa will host 'Goa Biz Fest', for people from
the business fraternity, students and budding entrepreneurs. The
grand convention which will be
ON THURS EVENING AT PORVORIM: AT HOME IN BOMBAY: READING KONKANI
FN
>From her base outside Goa, Rochelle Pinto takes her work
seriously and digs into rare and little-known aspects of
Goa's past and its history. Her areas of interest and
specialisation include Portuguese colonialism, land la
ZP: Setbacks to CM Parsekar, Sp Arlekar, Min. Tawadkar, Avertan, Alina &
Mickky, MLAs Wagh, Pramod, Rajan, Caitu & Benjo
GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI | 20 March 2015 10:32 IST
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party faced a major defeat in Chief Minister
Laxmikant Parsekar's Morjim, Speaker Rajendra Arlekar'
PANJIM: Goans migrated to Africa for decades, but it is only in recent
times that their role there is sought to be more closely understood via the
world of books.
That this reality was complex, and not unproblematic, became clear at the
recent launch of Luis de Assis Correia's memoirs 'Winds of Ch
>From Goanet's Own Correspondent
Dr. Michael Lobo's *A Thousand Pages of Songs* -- a work of
scholarship and research, an encyclopedia of songs of all
eras from medieval folk songs to parlour songs of the late
19th and early 20th century, to the rock and roll music of
the 1950s and 1960s -- was pr
Via Dr (Fr) Eufemiano J Miranda
+91-832-2540099
On March 15, 2015 (Sunday) evening, the Goa String Orchestra
under the baton of Parvesh Java and accompanied by Karl
Lutchmayer on the piano, will perform at Institute Menezes
Braganza at 6.30 p.m. The pieces are from the classical to
romantic and m
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Velim woman ‘cashes in’ on NRIs, netted after net transfer
TNN | Mar 10, 2015, 03.09 AM IST
PANAJI: Anita Cruz, 36, a resident of Velim, Salcete, ran out of luck on
Sunday
Below are the results for the Goa Marathon 2015 ['Goa Runs for Homes and
Hope', March 1, 2015] in which over 3000 marathoners from across India took
part. Like in previous three years, this year too the Marathon featured
four races -- the 21 km Half Marathon, 10 K Run, 5 km Dream Run and the
Schoo
MAJOR FIRE AT BAGA, 3 SHACKS GUTTED IN FIRE
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Caught On Camera: Anti Gambling Activist Taking Bribe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZSQlb_IMDk
Via InGoa.com
FRIDAY BALCAO to focus on building
a culture in Goa of books, readers & libraries.
-
Friday Balcao the fortnightly discussion event
to be held on 13th February will focus on
HISTORY HOUR
12 FEBRUARY 2015
BUDDHISM: THE BEGINNINGS
Amita Kanekar
Amita Kanekar is an architecture historian and writer of historical
fiction, who also teaches at the Goa College of Architecture. The
second edition of her book 'A Spoke in the Wheel' (HarperCollins
2005), a novel about the Budd
GOA ITP has announced a press conference
to be held in Panjim on February 9, 2015 at 3-4 pm. A press
release says:
Goa IT Professionals (GITP) is a registered
association of IT professionals from the Indian and
global Information Technology (IT) and IT enabled
The heavy drizzle pattered down, but it did not
"rain on our parade" and halt it in any way. The
66th Republic Day Parade of India went through
beautifully, complete with airshow and motorcycle
acrobatics. The only negative was the ghastly Goa
Poor promotion, response at KA book fair leaves book sellers demotivated
TNN | Jan 23, 2015, 02.00PM IST
PANAJI: The very lanes that were thronged by crowds for Lokutsav last
week lay dreary for the ongoing Sant Sohirobanath Ambiye book
exhibition. Organized by the state department of art and cul
VIDEO: Pope in Sri Lanka - Holy Mass - 2015.01.14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQ1iW7APHk
Listen specially after 30:25
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Jan 14, 2015 10:57 IST
Pope Francis gave Sri Lanka its first saint on Wednesday at a Mass for
hundreds of thousands of people packed on a Colombo oceanfront, in a
clim
‘Church must create more high-calibre edu institutions’
TNN | Jan 6, 2015, 02.00AM IST
PORVORIM: Calling on the Church, especially the diocese of Goa, to
prepare a vision 2030 for higher education in the state, educationist
Newman Fernandes said that the Church must create more institutions of
a
Doubts mount over India’s claims of destroying ‘terror boat’ from Pakistan
An aerial view of the fishing boat carrying explosives before being
intercepted by Indian Coast Guard approximately 365 km off Porbander
in Gujarat, on Wednesday. The boat eventually drowned after being set
on fire by crew
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was at a book launch when jawans
were being killed in Jammu and Kashmir
Saturday, 6 December 2014 - 9:30am IST Updated: Saturday, 6 December
2014 - 9:45am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Webdesk
Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar drew flak on Friday for
at
Laxmikant Parsekar: A ‘rebel’ with strong RSS links in Goa
Press Trust of India | Panaji | Posted: November 8, 2014
Laxmikant Parsekar, who had rebelled against his family of die-hard
MGP supporters to contest on BJP ticket in his first Assembly election
in 1988, has reaped the reward for his loy
Two RSS leaders in race for Goa’s CM post as Parrikar likely to get
Defence portfolio
Amid speculations of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar being
elevated as Union minister, BJP local unit will meet on Thursday and
is expected to finalise a name for state’s top job. According to party
sources,
Black Money trail: Radha Timblo - Goa miner and hotelier
"Will offer proper explanation"
BS Reporter | Mumbai
October 28, 2014 Last Updated at 00:39 IST
Till recently, Radha Satish Timblo, owner of mining firm Timblo
Enterprises, was leading a quiet life in Goa. The government's
revelation on M
No clear majority for BJP in Maharashtra: Has the Narendra
Modi wave lost steam?
Sunday, 19 October 2014 - 9:45pm IST | Place: Mumbai |
Agency: DNA
Nikhil Wagle
The Bharatiya Janata Party has achieved historic success in
the just concluded Maharashtra assembly elections. The party
won 122 seats
Workers litter for Minister to clean up (September 26, 2014)
Workers seen picking up garbage from the roadside. Photo: Damini Nath
Deliberate mess created outside Red Fort for his photo-op
Sanitation workers became litterbugs on Thursday when they threw
plastic bottles and crumpled pieces of pap
Writers and Readers Festival, 2014: Kala Academy
The event is non-ticketed and open to the public on
all three days -- Oct 4, 5, 6. Below is the programme
as revised for Day Two, October 5, 2014.
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DAY 2: Venue BLACK Box
10:00 to 10:50
Your words, Ot
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International Writers & Readers Festival, Goa
04-06, October 2014.
at Kala Academy, Panjim. Open to the public.
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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
Panels at DMKM Auditorium: 04:10:2014
Session: Plenary: 1000-1045 T
[If anyone could help with this -- even with just information --
please get in touch via Reena Martins reenamart...@hotmail.com, who
writes: "Her cousin Fr Melroy is in our parish [Borivali]. The family
is looking for info." --FN]
Goa in sepia-tinted postcards
By Kanika Sharma
kanika4...@gmail.com
Seeking the homeland of yesteryears, Dubai-based, Goa-born interior
designer and architect Joseph C Dias (JoDi) has illustrated the Goa of
his childhood, a far cry from its heady identity of today. Developed
in a postcard format,
NoMo: The Anti-Modi Protests You Didn’t See
By ignoring anti-Modi protests, Indian media gave up all pretence of
fairness and turned into cheerleaders instead of reporters.
Manisha Pande
| Sep 29, 2014 in Criticles, Critique
Photo credit: Smriti Sinha
Journalists almost always manage to get the
BAZAAR WHISPERS
Goa's popular Mapusa market in eye of redevelopment controversy
Vendors say the council is trying to redevelop the market to bring in
businesses from outside the state.
Mridula Chari
Sep 21, 2014 · 03:30 am
Photo Credit: M Jagadish
The Friday bazaar is one of the big tourist attra
84-yr-old widow Mangala Wagle's battle to get cop's Rs 60-a-month
award allowance
By Vinod Kumar Menon |Posted 24-Sep-2014
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Sub-inspector Sarvottam Wagle received the King’s Police Medal for
Gallantry from the British for shooting down dreaded dacoit Sakharam
Barbatte in Satara a few
'Finding Fanny': Film Review
9:36 AM PDT 9/16/2014 by Frank Scheck
Despite its straying from the Bollywood formula, this strained comedy
displays a distressing lack of originality.
Sept. 12 (FIP)
Cast
Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Naseerruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Pankaj Kapoor
Director
Ho
NEW DELHI, September 3, 2014
Devesh K. Pandey
On-paper owner says it belongs to an IRS officer facing bribery charges
It is a curious case of a Goa property that no one wishes to lay claim
on. The woman who signed the sale deed on behalf of the owners, which
has been attached by the Enforcement
Homi Adajania: Love and longing in Goa
After Parsis, the director finds lovable eccentrics in the Goan
Catholic community for his forthcoming film ‘Finding Fanny’
Opinions about Homi Adajania are divided neatly down the middle, which
is hardly surprising since he is only two films old. The
advent
Herman
August 25th, 2014
Dear Goanetters,
Today Goanet passes a remarkable milestone -- it's 20th anniversary!
Today, we take the internet for granted. We spend so much time on the
internet hashtagging memorieson Twitter and Instagram, following our
friends on Facebook, searching Google for e
Moca Santa Monica: Explore the Art and Architectural treasures and
mysteries of Monte Santo (Holy Hill) with Arch. Noah Fernandes on
Saturday, 30th August,from 8 am onwards from St Augustine Tower.
Walk covers Ruins of St. Augustine's Monastery,Royal Chapel of St
Anthony,Church of Santa Monica, Mu
Jer Mahal: Through the looking glass
Friday, 15 August 2014 - 6:15am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
Meher Mirza
Jer Mahal may not have the guide-book charm of its neighbour, Metro
Cinema, but pull away the façade and you will find history etched into
its walls
Jer Mahal, Dhobi Talao
Jer Mah
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India’s first Jesuit university opens
by Santosh Digal
The new university is the first "digital" university in the country,
the first Catholic university in the state and the fourth in India. It
aims to have a
Goan connection
Time Out recommends
A new Bombay book is about a bygone era, finds Time Out
“Look at what’s become of Bombay today — it’s a wonder we even
survive!” exclaimed Reena Martins, looking up from her laptop which
was buzzing every other minute with a new email. In a conversation
with Ti
est senate election the senate
in 2015, saying he was set to capture the senatorial seat of
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icy to encourage foreign defence projects
- Times of India
mes of IndiaPANAJI: With the union government's change in policy
in defence procurement, the Goa government has decided to
encourage Indian and foreign companies to venture into Goa for
defence products, component manufacturers, and rese
Goa ministers holiday regularly on taxpayers' money: CAG report
Panaji: After the recent controversy over Goa ministers being sent on
a study tour to Brazil for the World Cup, CNN-IBN has now learnt that
several ministers in the Goa government have been globe trotting in
the name of study tours an
Chandrakant Keni memorial My Goa Quiz on 18th June
The 6th edition of the Chandrakant Keni memorial My Goa Quiz will be
held on 18th June – Goa Revolution Day at Institute Menezes Braganza’s
Conference Hall, Panaji. The Quiz is held every year since 2009, in
memory and honour of the late journalis
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*** Six Goa MLAs set for Rs 89 lakh junket to Brazil, Congress
complains to PM Modi - Zee News
Carlos Almeida, Benjamin Silva and Glen Ticlo from Vasco, Velim
and Aldona regions respectively - will be part of the tour
rs and members of legislative assembly
(MLAs) are also attracted by Brazil, and thanks to a generous
government that is ready to spend at least Rs 89 lakh, six MLAs,
including three ministers, will be packing their bags to Rio de
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*** Goa sports minister quizzed in building collapse case -
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onstruction building which killed more
ctims/390715.html
*** Goa launches measles programme for total elimination - Times
of India
ide drive to eliminate measles and Rubella by 2020. The
programme was launched on Tuesday by health minister Laxmikant
Parsekar through a two-day workshop in ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2
A New Book Gets Nostalgic About The City’s Goan Culture
June 6, 2014 7:29 am by Pronoti Datta
Mumbai would be a poorer city without choriz pao, Catholic aunties in
flowery dresses, Bandra’s Portuguese-style villas, street slang (what
you’re talking men?), New Martin Hotel, Matharpacady, and Farm
Goan netizens form watchdog forum
TNN | May 29, 2014, 12.45 AM IST
PANAJI: A group of Goan netizens have formed a watchdog forum that
will keep an eye out for inappropriate and communally inflammatory
content on various social media to avoid a repeat of the 'Devu
Chodankar fiasco' that received n
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tpost.com/india/goa-police-chief-assures-fair-probe-in-anti-modi-fb-post-case-1542943.html
*** Goa cops dodge on why arrest anti-Modi Facebooker - Deccan
Herald
ser who is being "hunted" by the police for making anti-Narendra
Modi comments. On the very day Modi is to be sworn-in as In
A Kaleidoscope of Films & Fun at the Children’s Film Festival in Goa
Panjim, 22nd May 2014: The inaugural ceremony for the Children’s Film
Festival will be graced by Shri.Francis Dsouza, Hon’ble Deputy Chief
Minister of Goa and Shri. Damodar Naik (Vice Chairman- ESG) on 23rd
May at Ravindra Bhavan
in Goa only after the Delhi victory. We did not have the
time to set up a proper structure. Now, we are starting to work
on that. We will soon set up an ad hoc committee to build up the
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prepare a draft
development plan after consolidating the development plans
received from panchayats and municipal bodies. The DPC was
expected to submit the ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNE1IoWp-jQY-n7qEIofYDglV7YrSQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778510003138&ei=euV7U9iCO4a0gQfV6oCIBA&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/South-Goa-ZP-to-lose-Rs-12-crore-funds/articleshow/35398980.cms
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ing MP Shripad Naik
secured a fourth consecutive term, winning a record 2,37,903
votes in the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha, held on April 12,
2014. Shripad defeated his nearest rival, the Congress' Ravi
Naik, and five ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNFNXYjTJFHMsnZMyUUA4B-TXOSxBA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=-5N6U-HUA5CRgQf-t4DoAg&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Election-Results-Shripad-sweeps-North-Goa-with-over-1L-margin/articleshow/35225784.cms
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No mandate is a mandate to silence opposition
By HARTOSH SINGH BAL | May 18, 2014
The year 1984 is being invoked a lot in the wake of
the Narendra Modi victory. Even though the
circumstances were different then, it was the last
time a single party won an ab
Narendra Modi and the new face of India
With the rise of Hindu
nationalist Narendra
Modi culminating in this
week's election, Pankaj
Mishra asks if the
world's largest
democracy is entering
its most sinister period
since independence
Pankaj Mishra
The Guardian, Friday 16 May 2014 06.00 BST
In
iatimes.com/city/goa/800-year-old-palm-sized-statue-of-Ganesha-found-in-Canacona/articleshow/35079751.cms
*** A look at Rohit Bal's Goa villa - Yahoo India News
Sagrados Luxury Villas. Designed by architect Jyoti Rath and a
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gazette, listing various kinds of motor vehicles
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ed vehicles as well. PWD has notified a draft in the
latest official gazette, listing various kinds of motor vehicles
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Why Modi could trip just before the finishing line
If Modi were interested in an enlarged NDA, he would not have burnt
his bridges with Mamata, Jayalalithaa, Mayawati or Naveen Patnaik
Saeed Naqvi
If this election campaign is to be remembered like a suspense drama,
it must have a surprise end.
on in Goa's Madgaon, 1 killed and 4 injured - Times
of India
ade crude bomb that caused the explosion. DGP Goa T N Mohan said
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*** Explosion reported in Madgaon, one dead, four injured: Goa
Police - IBNLive
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GOANexpats: We have a headstart over Tata-SIA: Tony Fernandes
AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes thanks the Indian govt for putting
people first and not listening to vested interests
Tarun Shukla
AirAsia founder and
group chief executive
Tony Fernandes.
Photo: S. Kumar/Mint
New Delhi: A-year-and-a-half a
*** Explosion in Goa's Madgaon, 1 killed and 4 injured - Times
of India
ade crude bomb that caused the explosion. DGP Goa T N Mohan said
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India
mes of IndiaPANAJI: US nationals are keen on vacationing in Goa,
but need to be convinced of its safety, said representatives of
the US consulate in Mumbai, during a workshop held in Panaji to
apprise tourism stakeholders of the various consular services
available ...http://news.google.com/news/
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Neighbour has confined woman, 75, worth over 100 crore, says family
By Yogesh Sadhwani, Mumbai Mirror | May 1, 2014, 12.39 AM IST
Neves D'Souza (inset) and her bungalow after she moved out
Court asks cops to produce Neves D'Souza, who also owns two flats in
Goa, and shares worth Rs 4 crore.
The
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