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Ongoing: Exhibition of paintings, Art Chamber, Calangute www.goa-art.com
Dec 14 onwards: Shireen Mody's Goa 2002 exhibition, Arpora. Tel 2276759
Dec 17, 18, 20: Indo-Portuguese furniture, lectures Fundacao Ph 2230728
Jan 18-19: International kite carnival at Morgim beach, Pernem
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GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
December 15, 2002
NARVEKAR IN TROUBLED WATERS: Goa Cricket Association president and MLA
Dayanand Narvekar yesterday refused summons issued by the police and filed
an anticipatory bail application before the North Goa District and Sessions
Court, Panaji. The bail application will be heard on 17 December. The
Panaji police wanted to summon Narvekar for investigations into the alleged
misappropriation of GCA funds amounting to about Rs.22 lakh. (WE-GT)
CASES AGAINST AMCAC ACTIVISTS: The State government has withdrawn a
significant number of criminal cases registered against Anti-Meta Strips
Citizens Action Committee activists. Highly placed sources informed that
almost all criminal cases except the ones registered following the fatal
attack on Head Constable Balaram Shinde and the arson at the Vasco court
building, had been withdrawn. (H)
CAUSE OF KANTEM-BAINA RESIDENTS: The United Goans Democratic Party has
intervened to help the residents of Kantem-Baina, who have been asked to
vacate in view of laying of the Naptha pipeline leading from IOC Vasco to
the factory at Zuarinagar. (WE-GT)
BURGLARY AT CHICALIM PANCHAYAT OFFICE: Burglars on Friday night broke into
the office of the Chicalim panchayat and ransacked the premises, stealing
valuable documents from the office. (H)
CIPLA'S BUILDING PROJECT: The project for a residential colony for Cipla
employees near the Rawanfond bridge has run into rough weather with the
local residents complaining that the adjoining rivulet has been filled with
the mud from the construction. Navelim MLA Luizinho Faleiro demanded that
authorities should immediately act to stop the activity and arrest those
involved. (WE-GT)
TRUCK RUNS OVER CYCLIST: One Hassan sheikh (28) was crushed to death when
his cycle came under the wheels of a truck, which rammed into him from
behind. (WE-GT)
CRUSHED TO DEATH: Shekar Hari Gawas (28) of Ibrampur-Pernem was crushed to
death on Saturday morning, while operating a power tiller. (H)
VELIM-CAVELOSSIM POWER TOWER: The work of erecting power tower lines from
Velim to Cavelossim across the river will start soon, informed Power
minister Digamber Kamat yesterday. (WE-GT)
SUCH A LONG WAIT…: "Having witnessed that those who had been in power
mismanaged the affairs of the State, I feel that people from Goa should
agitate and demand from Central government the reversion from the status of
a State to that of the Union Territory. If the government could change the
status of Taleigao from a village panchayat to that of municipality and
then to revert back to a village panchayat, why should the same logic not
apply to the state of Goa?" (JC Almeida in NT)
WATER SPILLAGE ON VELIM-BETUL ROAD: The transporters of fish from the
jetties to Betul plateau were on December 4 directed to either comply with
all measures to contain water spillage on the Velim-Betul road immediately
or face action. For the first time, the authorities have decided to inform
the local village panchayats of Velim, Betul and Assolna to maintain a
vigil on the spillage situation and report to the authorities for action. (H)
CARTOONING LESSONS FROM ALEXYZ: "Everyone thinks that cartooning is a funny
profession. But a cartoonist only sees the serious side of things in a
funny way," Alexyz told about 425 students of the GVM College of Education
Ponda, yesterday while conducting a sessions on cartooning for the
students, in the ongoing series of programmes "Personality Plus" organised
by the institution under the guidance of Ms D Vernal, co-ordinator of the
department of Extension Services. (WE-GT)
PROSPERITY A DISTANT DREAM: For the small hamlet of Vavurla in Barcem
village in Quepem taluka, notions of information technology and
urbanization simply lie in the realm of fiction…There are no transport
facilities due to absence of roads, homes are devoid of power supply and
the literacy level is such that only one of the 300-odd people has
completed the SSCE. (H)
BEAUTIFICATION OF MAPUSA: Five months after the government sanctioned
Rs.3.5 crore to the municipal councils including them Mapusa Municipal
Council for beautification and development projects in the city, the
Council's proposals submitted for approval, remain enmeshed in red tape.
The government's failure to disburse the grant, announced amidst much hype,
is being described in the city circles as "a government joke on the Mapusa
people." (NT)
SEAS OF MILK: Though the Dudhsagar Falls, we all know about, has a mystique
of its own and lies on a path well-trodden by tourists and picnickers,
another region 40 kms to the north in Chorla Ghatt, where several "seas of
milk" cascade down into idyllic valleys, remains shelved in obscurity.
Though these eye-catching waterfalls dot the hills on the border areas of
Goa as also Karnataka and Maharashtra, they are not only within driving
distance but also have their doorway leading to this tiny State. (Paul
Fernandes in WE-GT)
EDUCATION DESTINATION FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS: Vice-Chancellor of Goa
University, Prof PS Zacharias, has said India will be the destination of
education for foreign students in the coming years. He was speaking at a
national level seminar on "Contemporary Development Initiatives", sponsored
by UGC and organised by the Department of Economics of Chowgule College in
Margao. (H)
A GOAN CHAPEL…: "A building boom in Goan chapels started in the 1760s, and
intensified as the year 1782 approached, when the remains of saint Francis
Xavier were exposed publicly for the first time. The chapels usually
followed the standard design from the Goan church front…But the chapel
designers yearned for novelty and discovered it in two forms, the convex
plan and the cupola-like gable (or fronton)". (Jose Pereira in Herald Mirror).
S P O R T S
AUDUMBER LEADS GOA: Goa's first ever serious contenders to the JK Tyre
National Karting championship finals at Pragati Maidan, Delhi, experienced
fluctuating fortunes as Avdumber Hede made it to the grand finals while his
younger brotherAkshaybowed out. (H)
D E A T H S
14 Dec: Benaulim: AGOSTINHO FERNANDES, husband of late Analia, father
of Antonio Jose/Rosy, Maria/late Jose Luis, Santana, Fr Ubaldo (Panchawadi
Church), Angela/Placido (Dubai).
12 Dec: Goa Velha: MARIA ASSIS FERNANDES, wife of Clemento Crasto (Ex
P&O Cruises), mother of Adelina/Menino, Joanita/Rocky (Dubai),
Christopher/Anita (P&O Cruises).
14 Dec: Candolim: SANTAN QUEROBINA SOARES, wife of late Joao, mother of
late Alexio/Ana Maria, late Alex/Maria, Pascoal/Maria, Veronica/Edmund.
G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 22.8 deg C (73.0 deg F) at Assagao at 9.45 am today.
Max temp: 34.0 deg C, Humidity: 55% (Official figures for yesterday)
Weather: A warmer mid-day.
Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, WE-GT= Weekender-Gomantak Times
Daily Goacom News Clippings also at: http://www.goacom.com/news
Website: http://www.goacom.com
Webzine: http://www.goacom.com/goanow
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