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Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org
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*** Goa Officials Slam Baywatch Link (FOX6 WBRC-TV Birmingham)
Indian island Goa is set to hire local women as lifeguards -
but officials have slammed links with hit US TV show Baywatch.
More than 100 people, including a large number of women, from
the local fishing community will patrol the beaches of the
popular tourist island.
http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=978601&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.4.1
*** Video :Goa to have world-class sky bus in a year (Business
Standard India)
India's tourist hot spot Goa is all set to have a sky bus on
track in a year. The trial run of the sky bus - a single-coach
electric-powered train suspended 30 feet off the ground on
overhead rails - is currently on at Margoa in Goa.
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=11&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=5911
*** Union Govt.To intervene on Karnataka- Goa water diversion
(Deccan Herald)
The Goa Council of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has
denounced Karnataka's decision to divert the Mhadei River water
to its Khalsa- Bhandura Project.
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep232006/update1322212006923.asp
*** Indian State Of Goa Makes HIV Tests For Marriage Voluntary
(Medical News Today)
The government of the Indian state of Goa has decided to allow
HIV tests to be voluntary for couples registering for marriage,
Goa Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane said Friday at an
international seminar, the PTI/DNA India reports (PTI/DNA
India, 9/16). [click link for full article]
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=52275&nfid=rssfeeds
*** State action may sour ties with Goa (Deccan Herald)
The Karnataka government may have scored a few political points
on home territory by laying the foundation stone for the Kalasa
Bandura canal project at Kankumbhi on Friday, brushing aside
Goas protests.
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep222006/update146582006922.asp
*** Ousiders to pay for medical services in Goa (New Kerala)
Panaji, Sept 23: People from outside Goa will have to pay for
treatment at free government-run hospitals, state Health
Minister Dayanand Narvekar said today.
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=26428
*** Goa government to convene meet on Mhadei dam (New Kerala)
Panaji, Sep 22: In the backdrop of the Karnataka government's
move to lay the foundation stone for the disputed Mhadei river
diversion project, the Goa government today said it would soon
call a meeting of all political parties to discuss the issue.
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=25877
*** Baywatch comes to Goa (The Times of India)
PANAJI: Well, it won't quite be Pamela Anderson who'll save you
if you are drowning off a Goa beach, but close. The added
attractions on Goa beaches now are women lifeguards.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2019037.cms
*** Lalu Yadav promises sky bus for Goa in 2007 (Yahoo! India
News)
Margao (Goa), Sept. 21 (ANI): Railway Minister Lalu Prasad
Yadav has given an undertaking to provide Goa with a sky bus by
next year. Lalu, who visited the project site at the Margao,
expressed satisfaction with the progress being made, but
stressed on the need for safety.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/060921/139/67so5.html
*** Female lifeguards for Goa beaches (Sunday Herald)
AN Indian state is to hire women to patrol its beaches as
lifeguards for the first time.
http://www.sundayherald.com/58125
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