[GOANET] 18 NOV: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS

[Joel D'Souza]

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GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
November 18, 2002

"BIG FIGHT" IN BENAULIM: Benaulim village is bracing up for the no trust motion against Sarpanch Meena Leitao scheduled on November 19. the motion has been tabled by the six-member Churchill backed group against Meena, who incidentally was elected to the hot seat by the same group 10 months ago…Sources said the Churchill-led group was peeved at the way the Sarpanch supported an Opposition moved motion, which was defeated later, to allow the Tourism minister visit the panchayat office. (H)

TENSION IN SHIRODA: Tension gripped Chikangal village in Shiroda moments after the body of 14-year-old Sucorro Estibeiro Vaz, who went missing since Saturday, surfaced in a nearby pond. Sucorro, who was accompanied by one Gurudas Gaonkar of the same village, had gone to catch a tortoise at the village pond. Gurudas returned home a little later and was absconding since then. Suspecting foul play, irate locals rushed to the residence of Gurudas and set it on fire, destroying several household items. (H)

MATKA SHOULD BE STOPPED: Playing of "matka" reflects moral and social degradation of an individual and thus needs to be crushed with an iron hand by the State government by breaking the nexus between police and matka bookies, opined Union Civil Aviation Minister Shripad Naik. (GT)

WESTERN GHAT PROGRAMME: Scientists and delegates deliberating on soil and water conservation measures for the Western Ghats region in Panjim have strongly urged the country's policy-makers to retain the Western Ghat development programme. (H)

CONFERENCE ON "UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE": A five-day international conference on "Universal Knowledge" will be held in Goa from November 25 to 29 at the Fort Aguada Resort, Sinquerim, by the UNDL Foundation, a United Nations Organisation. (H)

NEW DRIVING TEST: From 14 November 2002, a major change has been introduced to the driver theory test, since research has revealed that a driver's ability to anticipate and to spot developing hazards is correlated with experience. It was further revealed that novice drivers perform worse on test of hazard perception than do the experienced drivers. (GT)

SOFTWARE FOR LANGUAGE: The UNDL Foundation, Geneva, with the help of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, is developing a software programme which will translate any global language into a machine language, which in turn will bring the world together. Ashok Mishra, director of IIT claims, "We have already initiated with first three Indian languageKonkani, Marathi and Hindi as a priority." (H)

FACE-LIFT FOR CAMPAL: Mr Sanjeet Rodrigues, the Chief Officer of Panaji Municipal Council (PMC), informed that work was being undertaken on war footing to give a facelift to the Campal area, in view of the forthcoming Heritage Festival 2002, organised by Goa Heritage Action Group, in collaboration with PMC and the Department of Tourism. (NT)

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY: Power Minister Digambar Kamat pointed out that Goa's power requirements would be to the tune of 60,000 mega watts in the next ten years and that the State would not be in a position to either produce or import the power. "In such a situation, we should make efforts to supplement the power need with the non-conventional energy sources," he added. (H)

BEHAVIOUR OF PARENTS: At the recently held one-day workshop "Voices of Goa's Children" organised by the Department of Women and Child Development and Nirmala Education Society, Childline, the children came out with strong demand for ban on sale of alcohol, parents should stop shouting, beating and blaming children for their problems. (NT)

FILMS ON GOAN SINGERS: Goan audience will have an opportunity to witness rare films on Goa's popular singers of yesteryears like Moghubai Kurdikar and Jyotsna Bhole, while listening to the voices and memoirs of eminent personalities like PL Deshpande, Vasant Sabnis and others during the three-hour long programme "Anant Yatra" to be staged in Goa. (NT)

EXPORT ROUTE FOR GOAN FRUITS: The corridor for exports of exotic varieties of Goan fruits and vegetables into European markets has opened with the stock of such goods from Karnataka and Maharashtra having taken off to United Kingdom from Dabolim airport on September 17. (GT)

ROBIN'S LAST JOURNEY: The mortal remains of veteran Konkani tiatrist Robin Vaz were laid to rest at the Navelim cemetery in the presence of his grieving wife Yvette and daughters Audrey and Bernice besides several of his colleagues and a large number of fans and wellwishers. While the body left the Shirvodem chapel, where the funeral mass was held, the band struck Robin Vaz's most popular song "Gaddi ghevn zatrek hanv vetam" which he had composed and sung in the Konkani movie "Sukhachem Soponn". Fr Joao Pedro Fernandes, Parish Priest of Grace Church, who officiated at the funeral mass, spoke highly of the deceased artiste, particularly on account of his religious plays like "Rochnnar" and "Fatima Saibin". Fr Fernandes said that Robin's plays were always educative in nature and that he used the tiatr medium mainly for the upliftment of Konkani language and Goan culture. (GoaNOW)

GOACOM'S ANNIVERSARY: It on this day,18 November, way back in 1995 that Goa's premier website www.goacom.com was launched by Dr Wilfred de Souza, the then Deputy Chief Minister of Goa. The website, funded largely by NRI Goans, has matured over the years and added a number of interesting features besides hosting some NGO sites and magazines like monthly "Goa Today" and weekly "V Ixtt" (Konkani). It reaches the Goan community spread all over the world daily through the news clippings and other reports posted from Goa, Canada, England and elsewhere.

S P O R T S

VELSAO HOLD RAIA: MPT SC surprised Salcete Football Club 3-1 to snatch full points in the GFA First Division Football league being played at Tilak Maidan, Vasco, yesterday. Velsao Pale SC forced Raia Sporting split points in a goalless draw in the second leg of the League at CRCC Chinchinim. (GT)

D E A T H S
17 Nov: Old Goa: FR ARNAUT PINTO sj, Rector of Bom Jesus, Old Goa.
17 Nov: Colvale: PETER FERNANDES, husband of Annie, father of Clifford, Jennifer and Brian.
17 Nov: Taleigao: VICENTE MARIA PEIXOTO, husband of Joanita, father of Aida/Avinash, John/Janet, Roman/Natividade.

G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 27.1 deg C (80.8 deg F) at Assagao at 10.00 am today.
Max temp: 30.1 deg C, Humidity: 69% (Official figures for yesterday)
Weather: A lovely, bright morning in Goa today.

Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, GT= Gomantak Times

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What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays)
Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11
Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule.
Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal

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