GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
25 May 2002
SENSITIVE MATERIAL: The Chief Electoral Office has directed the police to
confiscate all material either on film or in the form of literature which
may cause communal tension in the State during elections. (GT)
BAN ON SCREENING OF FILM ON GUJARAT CARNAGE: The office of the Chief
Electoral Officer has imposed a ban on the screening of the film on Gujarat
carnage entitled "Hey Ram" in Goa, in view of the elections and has
instructed the DIG of Police to attach the cassettes if they are surfaced
anywhere in the State. (H)
ESCAPE FROM SADA: Three personsPallani Swami, Arjun Dhakane and Kanakraj
Nagappa--who ere convicted for serious offences and under-going
imprisonment in the sub-jail at Sada, Vasco, escaped in the early hours of
May 25. The trio escaped through a hole they made to the wall of the
bathroom. (NT)
COALITION GOVERNMENTS, JUMBO CABINETS INEVITABLE: Coalition governments and
jumbo-sized cabinets may be hard realities of the near future, according to
opinion expressed by leaders of three major parties in Goa, at the "Goa
Elections 2002" function organised by the Goa Union of Journalists at Hotel
Nova Goa yesterday, at which Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, NCP state
president Dr Wilfred de Souza and Goa Pradesh Congress Committee acting
president Shantaram Naik voiced their views on various issues. (GT)
BUYAO PROMISES: Solving the vexed issue of Sonsodo garbage, recognition for
the artists and self-employment are the highlights of the manifesto
declared by an independent candidate from Fatorda, Mr Ulhas Buyao. (NT)
COALITION GOVERNMENT: Senior leader of the BJP and former chief minister of
UP, Rajnath Singh, did not rule out the possibility of the party forming an
alliance with others if need be, in order to form the next government. He
was addressing a press conference in Panjim yesterday. (GT)
CASSETTES, CDS SEIZED: Margao police yesterday raided a shop in the Gandhi
Market and seized duplicate Hindi film and blue film cassettes and CDs
together worth over Rs.1.5 lakh. Police have arrested Joseph Rodrigues and
an offence has been registered against him. (NT)
UPDATE OF GSCP PROJECT: After a successful run in the first stage of the
project, we are now coming to the end of the second phase of the same. The
third phase, when schools actually begin to use the equipment will start on
June 3 for this particular project. 21 schools were selected on basis of
space, necessity and support to be equipped and networked by the Goa
Sudharop Computers for School project. For the past 2 months, Tom and I
have been working to implement the same for the said schools. (Ashley
Delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED])
CAUSE OF POWER PROBLEMS: The electricity supply in the Western Grid
collapsed on May 23, due to technical problems, as a result the power
supply to Goa from the Maharashtra State Electricity Board grid failed. (NT)
BRAHMANAND SWAMI NO MORE: The Temporal Head of Padmanabha Sampradaya, His
Holiness Brahmanand Swami of Haturli Muth, took Mahanirvana on Friday
morning at Tapobhomi, Cundaim. The mortal remains of the Swamiji have been
kept for public veneration at the Samadhi Mandir. (GT)
MEET YOUR ALDONA CANDIDATE: All the candidates standing from the Aldona
Constituency namely from the BJP, Congress, MGP, NCP and Su-Raj party have
been invited for a meeting at Azad Bhavan, Alto Betim on 25 May from 5 PM
to 6.30 PM., and requested to ensure they come in time since this is
intended to be a short controlled session, where each candidate tells the
citizen why they should vote for him, about the party manifesto, and then
will follow a question and answer session. PCAF, a non-governmental,
apolitical registered body working for the welfare of citizens in Porvorim,
has organised the meet.
MAY QUEEN IN KUWAIT: Canril Doreen Mendoza, 17 years, beat 42 other
contestants to win the prestigious May Queen Ball 2002 which was organised
by the Goan Welfare Society, Kuwait. The first runner-up was Nisha
Braganza, followed by Shirley Marshall in the third place. (GT)
CHILDREN'S CAMP AT BIG FOOT: The 8th annual "Big Foot Children's Art Camp"
at Ancestral Goa, Loutulim, concluded recently wherein 45 children
participated. The campers were provided accommodation at Ancestral House
"Casa Araujo Alvares", a 250-year-oldmansion. In keeping with the theme of
being and living with nature, children were treated to traditional food and
advised on the negative aspects of packed and fast foods. (GT)
SAD DEMISE OF HUGO: Hugo Souza of Raia, Goa, passed away in a mission
hospital in Himachal Pradesh. He probably died of cancer. A rank holder
from Xavier's Bombay, he passed his LLB with a gold medal. He decided to
come to Goa to contribute to free Goa and edited the first Konkani daily in
free Goa. His logic, commitment, integrity and reputation, at whatever he
did, was unsurpassable. This man could have been anything and anyone but he
decided to be with his own people and spent a major time of his life
dealing with kids to help them grow up. His belief in India and its
potential was tremendous. Adept at a number of things, Hugo basically
called himself a theoretician. Right from reading puzzle books of Martin
Gardener, to discussing world politics, astronomy, law, history,
philosophy, sociology, science…you name it, this guy had very few peers
worldwide. (Picked up from a posting by Samir Kelekar [EMAIL PROTECTED])
FREE MAGNETO THERAPY CAMP: A free magneto therapy camp, organised by the
Arpora-Nagoa village panchayat in co-ordination with Sparsh Magnetic Health
Centre, Nagpur, is underway at Arpora village panchayat hall and will
conclude on June 18. (NT)
BOOK ON FLORAL IDEAS: "Step-By-Step" Floral Ideas, a book published by
Jacinta Pinto is a simplified guide to create flowers using simple waste
items such as fruit peels, calyxes, coir, seeds, etc. (GT)
PARRIKAR'S DOUBLESPEAK: "If Parrikar is exhorting the people to support BJP
on the basis of its good governance during its 17-month tenure, should some
credit not go to the said defectors with whom he has co-habited and shared
the spoils of power during that period?" (Pramila Naik, Margao, in Letters
to the Editor-GT)
E-CAMPAIGNING: "Political parties, who use their clout to gain e-mail
addresses from ISPs, should be banned from contesting elections. Sending
emails to unknown people is total violation of privacy." (LMD, Cyber-Voices-NT)
"COMBAT LAW" RELEASED: A human rights magazine "Combat Law", edited jointly
by Colin Gonsalves and Mihir Desai, was released by wellknown architect
Dean D'Cruz at the Friday Balcao of the Goa DESC in Mapusa, after an
interesting and well-attended presentation, in the fortnightly series,
conducted by him yesterday evening.
"Gonsalves and Desai work for the India Centre for Human Rights, an
organisation which helps people where legal needs are concerned. The main
intention of the magazine is to make people aware of the situation which
exists in the country right now, from the human rights point of view,"
according to Adv Ratna Prabhu of the Goa unit of the India Centre for Human
Rights. Topics covered in the inaugural issue are: Genocide in Gujarat,
Anthrax and TRIPS, Convergence Bill, Rape Law Gender Neutrality,
Displacement of Adivasis, State Repression, etc. (GoaNOW)
S P O R T S
FOOTBALL: Maina Sports Club scored a hard fought 2-1 victory over St Rock
Youth, Majorda, to emerge champions in the All Goa Shiroda Inter Village
soccer tournament at Shiroda. Goa Velha played methodical football to stun
Sangolda Lightning 3-1 via the tie-breaker to move into the semi-finals of
the Xth Nerul village Panchayat cup. Young Strikers, Benaulim, defeated
Raia Sporting by a solitary goal to move into the quarter-finals of Fr
Robert Vaz Memorial inter-village soccer tournament, at Rosary Grounds,
Navelim. (H)
D E A T H S
129 May: Margao-Dovondem: KEVIN RODRIGUES, son of Balduino/Arminda,
brother of Peal/Shashi.
24 May: Guirim: CLEMENTINA ARAUJO, relict of Manuel, mother of
Zeferine/Milagres and Joseph/Christaline.
20 May: Bandra: AIRES DE SA, husband of Gloria, father of Basilio and
Agostinho.
24 May: Chinchinim: JOSE MILAGRES CARDOZ, husband of Maria Magdalena,
brother of Fr Tody (Redemptorist), father of Custodio/Prudence,
Angelo/Lourdes, Eugenio/Cecilia, Xaverine/Edwine, Ignatius/Vandana.
G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 29.4 deg C (84.9 deg F) at 7.30 am at Assagao
Max temp: 33.5 deg C; Humidity: 66 per cent. (Panjim yesterday)
Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, GT= Gomantak Times
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