--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa
http://goanvoice.org.uk/miningpetition.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RE: Justice Saldanha's Open Letter to the Home Minister (Karnataka). When a retired High Court addresses an open letter, it is no rocket science to understand that it must involve facts. However, you are free to contact v.s. acharya - home minister of Karnataka for more information. I have given a few links for your convenience, Media is choosy, will pick stories that are of interest to them, and their readership is dwindling fast, so will the revenue from Ads. One does add websites of interest to the 'favourites' option. Anyway, i have provided few links below and a news clip that was picked from Panaji (PoNje) see below:: http://indianchristians.in/news/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ Do listen: (BBC - British Broadcasting Corp.! below): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p006rpsn/Assignment_Love_and_Morals_in_Mang\ alore/ Police Inaction Over Attempted Murders in Recent Punjab Anti-Christian Violence (below) The 3-page executive summary of the report is available at: http://indianchristians.in/news/images/resources/pdf/aicc%20FFT%20report%20on%20Feb%202010%20Punjab%20-%20executive%20summary.pdf Vandals attack Catholic cemetery in Goa Published Date: March 24, 2010 PANAJI, India (UCAN) — Vandals attacked a Catholic cemetery in Goa on the night of March 22, damaging a grotto, three crosses, a mausoleum, an altar and other items. Police rushed to the site in Chandor village with a sniffer dog and fingerprint experts. They questioned people, including two constables on night patrol duty. They said the vandals entered the cemetery by breaking the lock of a side gate. The vandals reportedly placed tiles on the altar in the cemetery to avoid leaving footprints and destroyed statues in the cemetery. In what is believed to be a related incident, vandals destroyed a wayside cross in another parish. The cross was knocked from the pedestal where it stood barely 30 meters from a police outpost. These incidents occurred amid a controversy over illegal religious structures on public land. The government had listed some 800 structures, including some wayside crosses and chapels. Father Saude Pereira, a parish priest, has urged people to remain calm and let the police find the culprits. Agnelo Fernandes, a Catholic lay leader, told UCA News the incidents were an attempt to create disharmony. Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao, a Catholic, visited the scene of the crime. He said the cemetery desecration was a “conspiracy to target the government.” Message: 10 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:57:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar <chimbel...@yahoo.com> To: " estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Justice Saldanha's Open Letter to the Home Minister Message-ID: <390629.3445...@web110312.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 --- On Fri, 4/2/10, MD <mmdme...@gmail.com> wrote: It is rather ironic a request to check the 'authenticity' or crebilidity.? What do newspapers in Goa cover? It is important to verify the authenticity of facts described in inflammatory reports from activist websites, when they are circulated in open public forums such as Goanet. Please note that the post appended below does not address the facts referred to in my last post in this thread, and does not provide links to mainstream Indian national news media websites. Cheers, Santosh