------------------------------------------------------ G o a n e t * News Bytes In Brief * July 2, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------
* Ex-MP Shantaram Naik to file nomination for Goa's lone Rajya Sabha seat on Monday. BJP to finalise candidate on Sunday. UGDP to finalise stand Monday. NCP undecided. (Digital Goa SMS News Service) * Four newly-elected MLAs take oath on Friday. Digambar to take oath later. (DG-SMS) * Marine cops for Goa, four other states. (NT) * Admission process to professional colleges to start in Goa next week. (NT) * Weather department issues warning to fishermen along Mumbai-Goa coast not to venture into sea for next 24 hours. Rough seas, high-speed winds expected. (DG-SMS) * Pramod Khandeparkar appointed press laison officer to chief minister Pratapsing Rane. (DG-SMS and Sunaparant) * PDAchi pida zatli suru. The PDA curse will begin again. Babush Monserrate likely to relaunch Planning and Development Authorities. (Sunaparant) These bodies were known for their high level of corruption. * Gave, bibtiyak martat; aaropi maat mekle bhovtat. Killers of Goa's wildlife roam free. (Sunaparant) * Goa government's choice for the Special Economic Zone is North Goa. Four economic clusters to be set up. (GT) * Panjim's market second phase has turned into a major health hazard, for 1100-odd vendors and traders, plus shoppers and residents. Rainwater and filth and debris has collected, making it a breeding ground of mosquitoes.GT * Panjim market phase II parking area under rain water. (H) * British paedophile Duncan Grant (54) in the trap in Mumbai, after allegedly sexually abusing homeless street children in the Anchorage Shelter there, is probably linked to Goa through the case of 53-year-old German Helmut Brinkmann.(GT) * Parents in Pernem taluka, in northernmost Goa, are in favour of reverting to English in primary school, even though they concede that it weans students away from their culture and education. * Food and Drug Administration says 30-40% of the 144 roadside food outlets in Goa don't comply with rules, in past two months.(H) DEATHS: * Remedios Rodrigues of Paroda (Karaly) * Sofia Viegas of Murida, Cuncolim * Piedade Coelho of Vanxim Divar.