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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
*** Goa's Answer to 'Baywatch' Unveiled (RedNova)
By David Randall First, the good news for bathers on the
notoriously treacherous beaches off Goa in southern India:
women lifeguards have been hired.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/667942/goas_answer_to_baywatch_unveiled/index.html?source=r_science
*** 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
*** Suicide pact: Boy runs away from hospital (Deccan Herald)
The Goa police will despatch a team to Bangalore on Tuesday to
trace the relatives of a young girl who committed suicide on
Colva Beach in South Goa on Friday in a suicide pact with her
boyfriend.
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep262006/index2113142006925.asp
*** Female lifeguards to walk Goa's beaches (UPI)
PANAJI, India, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Revelers along Goa's
white-sand beaches in southern India might do a double take
when female lifeguards start patrolling in one-piece
swimsuits.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060924-090333-6765r
*** 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 exhibits assorted crosses from across the globe (New
Kerala)
Loutolim (Goa), Sept 24: A unique exhibition of more than 500
crosses has been organized at Loutolim, about 30 kilometres
south of Panjim, in Goa. The brain behind this novel show is an
enthusiastic collector of crosses, Maendra Alvares. He has
collected these crosses from across the globe.
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=26635
*** Goa man eyes second entry into the Limca Book of Records
(New Kerala)
Panaji, Sep 24: After finding a place in the Limca Book of
Records for sculpting the biggest stone statue of Meerabai in
1995, Goa's Maendra Alvares is now eyeing for another entry in
the same Records book for the largest collection of the Cross.
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=26700
*** Goa's answer to 'Baywatch' unveiled (Independent)
First, the good news for bathers on the notoriously treacherous
beaches off Goa in southern India: women lifeguards have been
hired.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1726103.ece
*** Stacy crowned ˜Teen of Goa (Navhind Times)
Panaji, Sept 25: Stacy Sequeria of St Thomas High School was
crowned ˜Teen of Goa at the ˜Teen of the Year contest
organised by ˜Teenager magazine which was held at Don Bosco
Oratory, Panaji on Sunday.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=092623
Compiled by Goanet News Service
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