GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS 03 May 2002 CANDIDATES MUST DECLARE CRIMINAL RECORDS: In a bid to rid the system of criminals, the Supreme Court yesterday directed the Election Commission to ask candidates contesting parliamentary or assembly elections to mandatorily furnish details about their criminal antecedents, if any, to allow voters to think before they make their choice. The candidate also needs to furnish details of assets (immovable, movable, bank balances, etc) and of his/her spouse and that of dependants. (From PTI report)
NCP TELLS CONG NOT TO ALLOCATE TICKETS TO DEFECTORS: While the much-awaited seat-adjustment proposal between the Congress Party and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is yet to take a concrete shape, the NCP has put a pre-condition that it would not allow the Congress Party to allow tickets to those Congress defectors, who had joined the BJP and returned to the defected party. (NT) MAHAJAN, GEORGE URGE KHALAP NOT TO QUIT: Water Resources Minister Ramakant Khalap, who has camped in Delhi for the past two days, met IT Minister Pramod Mahajan and Defence Minister George Fernandes yesterday. Sources close to Khalap stated that both the Union minister impressed upon him not to resign from the BJP party. (GT) EXCEPT FOR POWER: While judging this (BJP) governments performance in developing the states infrastructure, it must be said that barring power, there arent any other noteworthy achievements, though there have been mere promises galore, of constructing several bridges in the State. This government has also been guilty of dragging its feet on completion of several existing projects. A case in point is the never ending Siolim-Chopdem bridge project. (ASHLEY DO ROSARIO in Herald) NARVEKAR, THREE AIDES DISCHARGED: In a setback to the prosecution case judicial magistrate first class has discharged Dayanand Narvekar and his three associates from endangering human life case (ODI match) by allowing their application for recall of process. (GT) SHORTAGE OF WATER IN SANVORDEM IRKS SALGAONKAR: Independent candidate and industrialist Anil Salgaonkar may not dish out the Deep Purple hit Smoke on the Water, but he certainly intends to generate smoke if there is no water for his voters in the Sanvordem constituency. While water is being used for gardening, farmers in Collem and other parts of Sanvordem constituency face acute water shortage for agriculture, claimed Salgaonkar. (H) CYBER CRIME CELL OPENED: The Cyber Crime Offences Cell was opened at the CID/Crime Branch, Panaji, with effect from yesterday. All cyber crimes will be registered under the Information technology (IT) Act, 2000. (GT) CONSTABLE STABBED AT BAINA: A police constable, Kishore Salgaonkar, was stabbed by unknown tourists at Bainas red light area on Thursday night. Reliable sources informed that the constable alongwith three other colleagues, who were sitting in a bar at Baina, had an altercation with the tourists who had come in two jeeps. (GT) FATAL FALL: A 55-year-old man from Ambaulim, Minguel DCosta, died after he fell off a tree, which he had climbed to pluck zamblam fruit. (H) 5 LABOURERS DIE IN WELL DUE TO SUFFOCATION: Five drillers died of asphyxiation while drilling a 75-feet-deep well located at Chorlem Ghat on Goa-Karnataka border. (H) FPB TO CONTROL CRIME: Hard-core criminals, dacoits, thieves, thugs and robbers beware, it is time for you to mend your ways. Or else, there is every possibility youll walk straight into the police net soon after committing any kind of crime, as the Goa Police is now equipped with highly sophisticated and most powerful fingerprint software. (NT) COURSE IN LINUX CERTIFICATION: Agnel Technical Education Complex has recently partnered with Red Hat India Private Limited to conduct courses in Linux leading to the Red Hat Certified Engineer certification and becomes a part of the global network of authorities training centres established by Red Hat Inc, USA. (GT) CURTORIM PARISHIONERS AGITATE: Several parishioners from Curtorim yesterday held a dharna at Curtorim market, protesting against Congress observer Prodyut Guhas alleged statements terming the Church as anti-national and communal. PLEAS OPPOSING PSI RECRUITMENT: Yet another petition has been filed in the Panjim Bench of the Bombay High Court challenging the recruitment to the posts of Police Sub-Inspector in the Police Department, this time by Victor Lobo of Merces a contender for the said post. Another contender, Tanveer Khatib of Sangolda, had also approached the Court earlier in this connection. (H) STOP BEING CORRUPT: She (Goa) was so beautiful, so precious, so pure, and we sold her to the poorest tourists from Europethe taxi drivers, the mechanics, the welders. The lower than low-budget tourists are the ones who pack our chartersWhat does the government need to do to take Goa in the right direction? Just one single thing: stop being corrupt. (REMO FERNANDES in NT) ART OF CARTOONING: Neither a cartoonist is a joker, nor his cartoon a joke. Seriously speaking, cartooning is no laughing matter! A cartoonist should not be above every body, he should be apart from every body. (Alexyz in NT) FREE SERVICES OF SNAKE HANDLERS BY GREEN CROSS: The Green Cross, an organization working for wildlife protection and reptile conservation, appeals to the public to utilize the free services of snake handles working in co-ordination with wildlife division of the Forest Department. If there is a snake in your house, the number to contact are Wild Life Range 228772, Harvey DSouza 401814/9822-149745, Neil Alvares 402957/9822-158688, Rahul Alvares 278740; Sunil Korajkar 253715, Nirmal Kulkarni 252463, Rama Bagi 382163, Charudutt Kurdikar 444668/9823-173075, Amrut Singh 361365, Venkatesh Sansgiri 550922 and Sainath Shirodkar 265772. S P O R T S GOA IN FINALS: Playing entertaining football, last years finalists Goa vanquished debutants Jammu & Kashmir 4-2 yesterday to set up a meeting with defending champions IFA (Bengal) in the final, in the Under-21 National Football Championship in Mandya, Karnataka. (GT) D E A T H S 02 May: Miramar/Divar: ESTRELINA GONSALVES E MENEZES (b: 8-1-1912), wife of late Caetano, mother of late Philomena/late Caetano, Benilda/late Sylvester Botelho, Jerry (GOACOM)/Mathilde and late Franco/Reema. Funeral service at N Sra Piedade Church at Divar on Saturday 4th May at 4 pm. 02 May: Caranzalem: RT REV MSG ALBERTO CSPL LUIS, son of late Sebastiao/late Romualdina, brother of late Filomena/late Francisco Pais, late Nina, Ida, Ema/late Alfred Viegas, late Jose/Late Maria Sara, Francis/Blance, Antonio/Eduarda (Portugal) Teresa Luis Almeida (Portugal)/late Antonio. 02 May: Assolna: SANCHIDA DIAS, relict of late Andre, mother of Fatima/Flema, Avelino/Sofia and Savia/Tome. 30 Apr: Goa Velha: THEODOR DSOUZA, husband of Ema Marie, father of Egidio (UK)/Filomena, Cruz (UK), Perpetua/Tony Viegas. 02 May: Panjim: MANUEL SIMPLICIO DE CARVALHO, husband of Esequiel, father of Cedric/Sarita, Marilyn/Olivin. 02 May: Cavelossim: JUSTINAIANO DO CARMOP RODRIGUES, husband of Cupertina, father of Sharani Tania/Romeo, Viraj and Ranjit. 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