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Photo by Arvind Tengse. o Konkan Railway resumes Margao-Mumbai train services from Monday morning, Aug 8. (NT) An update has been posted on Goanet http://www.goanet.org o Educationists seek Goa government okay for SSC package for weak students. Instead of six subjects, they'll have the option to answer five, if this package goes through. (H) o Konkani Parishad denies imposing Devnagari script. It held that the choice of Konkani was the result of protracted debates which took place over the past six decades. (H) o Slow murder of Mala lake, a feature by Dr Joe D'Souza. (H) Quote: "Before the BJP came to power, the 70,000 sq metres of low lying area was reduced to 33,000 sq metres... In the name of beautification (by the BJP government), the 33,000 sq metres of lake was reduced to 9000 sq metres." This area has been the scene of bad flooding in Panjim, and ex-CM Parrikar had promised that his plans would alleviate this. o Three BJP MLAs threaten stir if power tariff is hiked. (H) Over a thousand school children assembled at the Old Mandovi bridge in Panjim, to remember the deaths of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago. They dropped their slips of wishes into the waters of the Mandovi river, praying for a nuclear-free world. NT o Vasco police fined 41 buses found violating traffic rules and collected Rs 4000 (four thousand) from them. (NT) o Disqualification verdict on Matanhy Saldanha likely to be decided on August 9. (H) Kingfisher Airlines launches its Goa-Mumbai flights from August 11. http://www.flykingfisher.com Kids TV is a venture floated by Adolph Rodrigues of Ful Na Pakli. Instead of a continuous flash of animated images created in studios, the hour-long programme will feature news 'read' by children in five languages, skits, monologues, dances and a cultural potpourri from Goa. Launch expected in a few weeks. Children will pick up some tidbits from the newspapers, and pass it on to viewers in Konkani, Marathi, Hindi, English and Portuguese! (Gomantak Times) o Ramada Caravela in South Goa will host a Jazz concert on Aug 9. o August 12 is International Youth Day. Nicole Suares of Margao explores the problems they face and how they tackle them. (H) o Italian language courses at Goa University. (NT) o Prayer booklet in Konkani authored by Fr Tomas Lobo, chaplain of Duler chapel. Available all over Goa.(NT) o Dance classes for kids, 5 to 12 years. Don Bosco Oratory Hall, from Aug 16, 2005. Jason and Sylvia Dance Academy. o Goa naval rescue teams evacuate over 250 people in Maharashtra.NT o Film director, producer Anup Kurian addresses students at Xavier's College, Mapusa. (GT) o Phil Corporation Limited, which has its operations in Goa, reports a net loss of Rs 38 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2005. o Nandakumar Kamat writes on 'Protecting Tiswadi's Last Green Oasis'. He writes about the 173 hectare campus of the Goa University at the Bambolim-Dona Paula plateau. Kamat says: "With the bulldozer of unsustainable and haphazard urbanisation taking a heavy toll on Tiswadi's natural resources, watersheds, plants and animal habitats and biodiversity, the ecological fragmentation is now complete and almost irreversible..."{ PUBLIC SERVICE NOTICE: If you want to drink, that is your business. If you want to stop, that is our business. Contact Alcoholics Anonymous phont 222 4140 in Goa. --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS & OBITUARIES --------------------------------------------------------------------- DONGRIM: Pratap B Madkaikar. PANJIM: Pravas P Amonkar TIVIM: Guilherme Bernardo De Souza b 1955 VELIM: Anunciacao IF Mazarello of Gorcamorod b 1923 VELSAO: Miss Gracinda Coelho. VERNA: Maria Clementina da Gama e Menezes, b 1917 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CULINARY CORNER: Fabulous recipes from 10 Indian cities --------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's try some parathas from Patna. Sattu Ka Paratha - Channa dal parathas 500 g. wheat flour, 1 tablespoon salt, 2 tablespoons oil, oil for frying the paratha. Filling: 250 g. roasted gram 9Channa), 6 green chilies, chopped fine, 4 medium sized onion, chopped, 2 teaspoons amchur powder(dried mango powder Substitutions: Lime juice, lemon juice or tamarind pulp, 1 teaspoon kalonji (onion seeds), 1 teaspoon ajwain (aka carom), 1 teaspoon chili powder, 1 teaspoon turmeric powder, a small bunch of coriander leaves, chopped fine, 1 tablespoon salt, 100g. mustard oil. Add salt and oil to the wheat flour and mix well. Add enough water to mix the dough as for the parathas. Knead well and divide the dough into lemon sized balls. Add enough water to mix the dough as for the parathas. Knead well and divide the dough into lemon-sized balls. Filling: Grind the roasted gram in a mixer to a coarse powder. Add mustard oil, green chilies, onions, coriander leaves, onion seeds, ajwain, turmeric powder, chili powder, amchur powder and salt tot he gram flour and mix well. keep it aside. Flatten the he dough slightly and put a tablespoon of the prepared gram filling in the center. Cover the gram mixture by drawing up the edges towards the center, press on a floured board and roll out into a round chapati. Roast the parathas on a hot tawa, adding a little oil till brown on both sides. Recipe courtesy: Daisy Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ||g |||o |||a |||n |||e |||t || Issue compiled by ||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|| Frederick Noronha |/__|/__|/__|/__|/__|/__| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyleft Goanet 2005 Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org You may reproduce this ezine in its entirety, with credits retained. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Goanet, the net-worker of all networks. Stay in touch. Send in updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------