GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
24 June 2002
Viva Sao Joao
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SAI SERVICE TAKEN FOR A RIDE: The Porvorim police on June 22 arrested
Shirish Jambhekar (45) of Thane-Mumbai on the charge of cheating banks and
companies to the tune of lakhs of rupees in Goa and Maharashtra. According
to the police, Jambhekar produced a demand draft of Rs.1.80 lakh drawn in
favour of the ICICI Bank, Mapusa, to the Sai Service, Porvorim, to purchase
a Maruti Zen car. Later, he demanded with the company to refund the balance
of Rs.50,000 arguing that he paid more than the actual price of the
vehicle. The draft was dishonoured and the company found that it was
cheated for Rs.50,000 by the customer. (GT)
KONKANI'S STATUS WILL NOT BE SURRENDERED: Sahitya Academy Award winner and
celebrated Konkani writer, Pundalik Naik, sent a curt message to the State
government: Konkani activists will not surrender 'equal official language'
status even if the government chooses to give equal funds for the Konkani
and Marathi academies. Mr Naik was speaking at function organised by the
Konkani Bhasha Mandal, to commemorate the memory of Shenoi Goembab at the
Institute Menezes Braganza Hall in Panjim yesterday. (H)
FUTURE GENERATIONS of this land must know about the greatness of this man
(Goembab alias Vaman Varde Valaulikar), his struggle to give Konkani its
rightful place and the strength of the language itself, observed Chief
Minister Mr Manohar Parrikar. While speaking at the function at the Menezes
Braganza hall, Parrikar declared that the government would actively
participate in the year-long celebrations of the 125th birth anniversary of
Shenoi Goembab. (NT)
POWER CUTS PLUNGE NORTH GOA IN DARKNESS: Power interruptions several times
were experienced in different parts of the State and it affected the
routine of people yesterday. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and Power
Minister Digamber Kamat were also victims of the power failures for nearly
two hours while they were attending a public function at Institute Menezes
hall, Panaji. (GT)
SWEEPERS, SERVANTS NEEDED: South Goa's premier hospitalthe Hospiciois
facing a shortage of servants and sweepers. What has added salt to injury
is that the government has been virtually sleeping over repeated requests
to fill up the posts, which fell vacant over the last one year. (H)
CULTIVATORS LOSE APPETITE FOR AGRICULTURE: While the census towns in Goa
have increased from 31 in 1991 to 44 in 2001, the number of cultivators has
decreased from 68636 to 50.663 during the same period. (GT)
BELO CASH PRIZE WINNER FOUND DEAD: Rama Anant Naik, one of the winners of
Rs.50,000 of Belo cash back offer was found dead in the Zuari river at
Durbhat in Ponda on June 23 evening. Rama, 26, was seen in a photograph
published in a local daily while he was receiving the prize on June 20 from
one of the liquor distributors. (H)
PLASTIC CAMP AT BIG FOOT: Make Goa Plastic Free was the theme for
Ancestral Goa's recently held World Environment Day celebrations for the
students of Saviour of the World High School at the Big Foot in Loutulim. (GT)
POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR DHARGALIM: The Goa Police department is planning
to construct a modern and well-equipped Police Training School at Dhargalim
in Pernem taluka. (GT)
135 DOG BITES CASES: As many as 135 cases of dog bites were referred to
Hospicio Hospital, Margao and health centres in Salcete in the last seven
months. The figures could be the tip of the iceberg as they do not include
dog bite cases from other private hospitals. (NT)
MATHANY FETED BY CPI, AITUC: Hundreds of workers and other citizens of
Zuarinagar assembled at Zuarinagar to felicitate Mathany Saldanha, the
newly elected MLA from Cortalim. The function was organised by Goa State
Council of Communist Party of India, All India Trade Union Congress and
Zuari Mazdoor Ekta. CPI chief Narayan Palekar feted Saldanha. A charter of
the demands and aspirations of the people of Cortalim constituency was also
presented to Saldanha on the occasion.
MATHANY URGES PEOPLE TO SINK CASTE, RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES: The Cortalim
MLA, Mathany Saldanha, urged the electorate to sink case and religious
differences for the all round development of the constituency. Saldanha was
speaking at the felicitation function organised by the villagers of
Cortalim-Quelossim at Cortalim on Sunday. (H)
A ROAD DIGGING POLICY: People are suffering silently, year after year.
More roads and highways would be built only to be dug up subsequently. Goa
would never have a culture of respecting the roads unless and until the
think tanks in the government wake up to the necessity of framing rational
and environmentally sound policy to permit the use of roads for non-traffic
purposes. (Nandkumar Kamat in Glimpses-NT)
WILL NEVER QUIT BJP: After gaining notoriety for changing maximum number of
parties as first-time MLA in the last elections, this time, IT Minister
Francis D'Souza vowed to never quit
