------------------------------------------------------------------------ Happy Birthday: St Britto's, which is 60 years old. Celebrations at St Jerome's Church Mapusa 11 am on July 30, 2006. Football match Loyola's vs. Britto's 11 am on July 31, 2006 at the school grounds.
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(NT) * Private helicopter service may fly in Goa. In a bid to further promote high-end tourism, union ministry of civil aviation Praful Patel has given its nod to consider introduction of private helicopter services. The three helipads built at Sinquerim during the CHOGM Retreat in 1984 could be made operational to benefit the high-end tourists through the helicopter, in vogue in most developed countries. (GT) * Mechanised vessels violating fishing ban: Churchill.(GT) * Centre asks Goa to beef up security on I-Day. (NT) * CCP expresses inability to stop garbage disposal in city. (NT) * Interest-free loans worth Rs 90 lakh disbursed to 179 students.GT * Spate of mishaps at Raia. (GT) * Security tightened around religious places. (GT) * Complaint against ex-mamlatdar of Bicholim. (GT) * Potholed roads behind mishaps in Sanguem. (GT) * Focus in GT: Baina parish, Nossa Senhora de Candelaria (GT) * It's the Hindu religious month of Shravan. (GT) * Raksha Bandhan festival coming up soon, Arti Das in GT. * Willy for status quo in Official Language Act. Sharp differences have developed between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress, coalition partners in Goa. In a letter to Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, NCP's deputy CM Wilfred de Souza said: "The Congress party in Goa now suggests equal status to Konkani and Marathi. The Goan people will never accept this. Konkani is our language and Goa is our state." Presently, Konkani in the Devanagari script is the sole official language of Goa. "Matter of script does not arise because everybody can write Konkani in their own script," Dr de Souza also argued. (NT) * Airport Authority of India to get land for Dabolim expansion before August 15. Vice Admiral Bedi has assured to transfer around 9 acres of naval land to the AAI for the construction of an apron and the new terminal building, at Dabolim, and the related file has gone to the cabinet committee on security. (NT) * Minister of Minorities A R Antule to hold interactive session with minority community leaders at Congress House on August 6, 2006. MEeting on Sunday, Aug 6, 10 am. (NT) * India's leading hermatologist Dr M B Agarwal guides docotors on bleeding disorders. (NT) * Cops release posters of 'most wanted' men. (H) * Storm brewing over 'kabrastan' graveyard at San Jose de Areal.H * Centre says Goa could be used as arms transit point. (H) * Centre, Goa to jointly organise IFFI, says New Delhi. (NT) * No-confidence motion against Tivim sarpanch Sharda Korgaonkar.NT * GSPCB officials inspect illegalities at Cuncolim. (NT) * Three fire-fighters injured at Merces; wall collapse. (NT) * Chief Secy inspects structures violating CRZ norms at Vasco.NT * Former Mormugao councillor Deepa Tari arrested for cheating.NT * Traffic circulation plan in Panjim to stay till October. (NT) * Fish vendors defy SGPDA directives. (NT) * Govt to implement law to popularise breast-feeding. (NT) * Bharne Creations marks Jeans Day on August 14. * New directory of Archdiocese released; Rs 100. (NT) * Videography of govt records allowed under Right to Info Act. * Prince Jacob's: Sant Anton, Milagrincho Sagor. New play. (NT) * Politician Ramakant Khalap is 60 today. (NT) * Opposition to expressway across Salcete. (H) * Waste greets GPCB officials at Cuncolim industrial estate.(H) * Govt gets mixed response to mandatory AIDS tests. (H) * State Govt asked to expedite Xelvon rail terminal work. (H) * Aires Rodrigues lashes out against "migrant friendly" Goa govt.(H) * Goa pathologists' directory released. (H) * Willy for Assembly quota to scheduled castes and tribes. (H) * Mandatory HIV test decision in next Cabinet meet. (H) * No decision on language controversy, says Rane: Chief minister Pratapsing Rane has maintained that the government has not taken any stand on the burning language controversy and that the Congress Legislative Party had only expressed its views on the question of according status for Roman script and Marathi on par with Konkani. (H) * Gomantak Times headline: "Goa on alert at LeT (Lashkar-e-Toiba) may land arms by sea in October: Terror Tremor." (GT) * NIO reaches out to adopt two schools. (NT) * Seminar/concert on Indian music, August 6, 10 am Margao. * Certificate in interior designing at Govt Polytech. (NT) * Raia Sporting to get Rs 800,000 SAG Grant. Newly promoted clubs Corps of Signals and Velsao Pale left out. (NT) * Sanguelim College judo champs. (H) * Margao Basketballers and Dashing Damsels seen playing in in action during a ladies' match at Don Bosco's. 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