[Goanet] NEWS: Parrikar uses Goa funds to boost RSS image in Gujarat
from deccan herald Parrikar uses Goa funds to boost RSS image in Gujarat From Devika Sequeira DH News Service PANAJI, June 20 Most people in Goa would have trouble finding Devgad village on the map of Gujarat. But the fact is that their contributions, after the Gujarat earthquake, helped rebuild the dusty township 90 kms away from Rajkot. Which is why many donors are now upset to discover that the Goa Chief Minister's Relief Fund-Gujarat was entrusted entirely to the Rashtriya Swaymsevak Sangh (RSS) by Mr Manohar Parrikar, and the that the rebuilt township has been dedicated to RSS 'pracharak' Laxmanrao Inamdar. These funds were collected from the public, but are being treated like the personal funds of the BJP. We would like an account of how they have been utilised, Congress spokesman Jitendra Deshprabhu told Deccan Herald. Earlier this week, Mr Parrikar, accompanied by a handful of journalists close to him and a group of RSS and BJP members, flew in to a red carpet welcome from Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a personal friend, to inaugurate the Goa-sponsored 'Laxmanrao Inamdar' township at Devgad. Goa has pitched in Rs 2.2 crore of the Rs 4.2 crore rehab project. Public donations to the chief minister's fund accounted for Rs 1.40 crore of the total fund, Rs 26 lakh came from a local newspaper collection and the rest came from the Goa government. The rebuilt town has 204 houses, besides a school, a panchayat ghar, a dispensary, a temple and a crematorium. The work was routed through the RSS affiliate Seva Bharati. In his speech that day Mr Parrikar said he was glad that Goan contribution had gone into safe hands. Mr Modi, on the other hand, is reported to have used the occasion to lash out at the Congress for using the Gujarat violence in its election campaign in Goa. The BJP victory in Goa is a victory for Gujarat, he is quoted as having said, promising to use this as his election slogan in the impending poll in his state./ends =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] Goan doc's work at St Mary's London...
From IndiaCyberMed mailing list... -- Forwarded message -- Anyone tried this? http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7352/1478/c A paediatric online diagnostic tool called Isabel was launched at the Royal College of Physicians in London this week. The tool has been developed by a charity, also known as Isabel, which was launched by Charlotte and Jason Maude, whose daughter Isabel almost died at age 3 years of necrotising fasciitis as a complication of chicken pox, after it was missed by a series of doctors. The diagnostic tool was set up with help from paediatric intensive care consultant Joseph Britto at St Mary's Hospital in London, who helped to save Isabel's life. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] 25 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS 25 June 2002 SIOLIM'S GRAND SAO JOAO SCENE: Viva Sao Joao chant was heard virtually all over Siolim yesterday as the riverine village celebrated the feast of St John with traditional fervour. The colourful Sao Joao Traditional Boat Parade, Pietro's pure Goan music, Wilson-Sharon's songs and jokes, and the felicitation of the boat groups formed the highlights of the day. At Fernandes vaddo, it was a whole-day affair. But the traditional, Goan fun and festivity was witnessed at Gaunsavaddo. Some details and pictures at http://www.goacom.com/news/clippings/SaoJoao2002/Sao%20Joao.html Brazillian Samba, led by Dominic D'Souza of Pequeno Chinvar, Anjuna, bagged the first prize of Rs.3000. The second and third prizes went to Zhor Boys of Anjuna and FIFA World Cup by Vaddy Boys. John of Fenson Johnson, Badem, received a special prize for being a consistent participant in the boat festival for several years. Their tableau depicts different of facets of St John's life. MHADEI: CM SMELLS A 'RAT': The State government has demanded the setting up of a Judicial Commission to inquire into the clearance given by Central Water Commission in principle to Karnataka to divert 7.56 TMC of water for Khalsa-Haltar Nall Project and Bhandur Nallah Project to Malaprabha river without any reference to Goa government. Addressing reporters, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said that the letter, issued by CWC Secretary on the eve of his retirement to Karnataka government permitting such diversion of water, is dubious in nature and cannot be held valid under any circumstances. (GT) BJP MINISTERS CORNER PLUM PORTFOLIOS: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar conducted the much-awaited exercise of allocating additional portfolios to his ministers and has apparently neutralized the hurt feelings from within his own Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ranks. (H) MINISTERS PORTFOLIOS: MANOHAR PARRIKAR (Chief Minister): Home, Finance, Education, Personnel, General Administration, Information Fisheries; DIGAMBAR KAMAT: Power, Urban Development, Mine; DR SURESH AMONKAR: Health, Labour, Employment, Factory Boilers; RAMKRISHNA DHAVLIKAR: PWD, Archives, Archaeology, Museums; MANOHAR AZGAONKAR: Panchayat Raj, Civil Supply, Housing Board; RAMRAO DESSAI: Industry, Art and Culture, Social Welfare; PANDURANG MADKAIKAR: Transport, Revenue; FILIPE NERI RODRIGUES: Water Resources, RDA, Weights Measures; FRANCIS D'SOUZA: Information Technology, Law and Judiciary, Legislative Affairs; BABUSH MONSERATTE: Town Country Planning and Provedoria; VINAY TENDULKAR: Forest, Co-operation; DAYANAND MANDREKAR: Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services; MICCKY PACHECO: Tourism, Sports, Youth Affairs. COPS NOW 'MICE' IN FRONT OF MICKKY: Before the elections Miccky Pacheco found himself on the wrong side of the law. After the election the tables were turned and the cops found themselves on the wrong side of the Tourism Minister. (GT) PACHECO'S PASSPORT RELEASED: The District and Session Judge, Mr Nelson Britto, has ordered the authorities to hand over the passport of Mickky Pacheco, the Tourism minister. It may be recalled that the Colva police had registered an offence against Mr Pacheco and others for allegedly damaging a restaurant at Betalbatim. (NT) CUT-OFF AGE FOR STD I: The State government will amend the Goa Education Act to retain the cut-off age for admission to the first standard at 5-and-half years instead of six. (H) ONE DROWNED AT VERLA-CANCA: At Verla-Canca 17-year-old boy, Vishal Saudagar, got drowned when he took a plunge into a quarry around 5 pm yesterday evening. Being the Sao Joao day he had gone for a swim along with one of his friends. WATERY GRAVE: According to Cuncolim police, Placido Leitao was celebrating San Joao and keeping up with the tradition of taking a dip, jumped in a pond, but never surfaced again. (GT) WOMAN RESCUED: A middle-aged married woman was rescued from drowning by a trawler-hand yesterday morning. The woman, who had jumped from the Panjim end of the new Mandovi bridge, was sighted by a labourer aboard a trawler incidentally passing by. (H) BODY FOUND: A body of a male person aged around 45 was recovered from an abandoned house in Tariwada in Bogda. (NT) DECOMPOSED BODY RECOVERED: A highly decomposed body was recovered from Dona Paula waters yesterday evening. (NT) REGULARISATION OF SLEEPER COACHES: The issue of operation of sleeper coaches on some inter-state routes, which had kicked up a controversy after the Transport department had raided the vehicles, is now likely to be resolved with the government thinking in terms of regularizing this mode. (GT) VATTA POORNIMA: Daily Herald today features a picture of a Hindu woman, who ties thread around a banyan tree as she wishes for the same husband for her next seven lives on the occasion of Vatta Poornima at Porvorim on Monday (June 24). ROAD AT ANMOD GHATT TURNS DANGEROUS: A
[Goanet] Re: Goan doc's work at St Mary's London...
1. Article and photograph of Dr Britto: Goa Today Jan 2002 at http://www.goacom.com/goatoday/2002/jan/spotlight.html Headline: Doctor with a Mission London-based topnotch Goan pediatrician Dr Joseph Britto was down in Goa last month to catalyze the setting up of mobile intensive care units for children in the State. Following his keynote address on Inter-Hospital Transfer of critically ill Children at the 16th Asia Pacific Congress on Diseases of the Chest, he tirelessly played the role of a motivator by driving the players of the paradigm. A Consultant in Pediatric Intensive Care at St Mary's Hospital, London. Dr Britto led a study that found that the death rate of critically ill children referred to the pediatric intensive care unit of major hospitals in the country plummeted from 23 to 2 per cent. An alumnus of Grant Medical College, Mumbai, he offers an internet related clinical decision system via www.isabel.org.uk, which gives relevant differential diagnosis within seconds once one puts in a set of clinical features. 2. Article and photograph of Dr Britto 17 June at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_2049000/2049248.stm 3. The web tool referred to is at http://www.isabel.org.uk/ Understandably, it is available for health professionals only. However, do check the site for information about isabel. Eddie Fernandes == Frederick Noronha writes: From IndiaCyberMed mailing list... -- Forwarded message -- Anyone tried this? http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7352/1478/c A paediatric online diagnostic tool called Isabel was launched at the Royal College of Physicians in London this week. The tool has been developed by a charity, also known as Isabel, which was launched by Charlotte and Jason Maude, whose daughter Isabel almost died at age 3 years of necrotising fasciitis as a complication of chicken pox, after it was missed by a series of doctors. The diagnostic tool was set up with help from paediatric intensive care consultant Joseph Britto at St Mary's Hospital in London, who helped to save Isabel's life. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
goanet-digest V1 #4112
goanet-digest Tuesday, June 25 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4112 - In this issue: [Goanet] NEWS: Uma Bharati dreams of India at World Cup [Goanet] NEWS: Sena-BJP back to toppling game in Maharashtra [Goanet] Pe.Pio's Cannonisation marked in Kuwait. [Goanet] Goan doc's work at St Mary's London... [Goanet] 25 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS [Goanet] NEWS: Parrikar uses Goa funds to boost RSS image in Gujarat [Goanet] Re: Goan doc's work at St Mary's London... See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:37:04 +0530 (IST) From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Uma Bharati dreams of India at World Cup Uma Bharti dreams of India at World Cup From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) It's a much, much longer shot than the one wily Brazilian Ronaldinho kicked into the England goal defeating goalkeeper David Seaman in Shizuoka Friday. Can the Indian football XI -- which doesn't figure even among the top 100 world teams -- get a slot among the qualifying top 32? Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Uma Bharti dreams of it. She says she is dead serious about giving a big push to the Indian side so that it gets to play in the grand event -- in future. Cricket is very popular in India and hockey is associated with national pride. I keep football -- equally popular -- at number three, Bharti told ESPN sports channel in an interview telecast Monday. We have, however, failed to do anything in international football (as) we lack seriousness for football. But I am very serious about taking it (the Indian team) to the World Cup. I personally want to encourage football. My ministry is trying its best. No Asian country has ever won the coveted cup in its 72-year history. South Korea would be the first Asian team to play in the semi-final when it takes on Germany Tuesday. Brazil and Turkey play the other semi-final Wednesday and the winners of the two matches will play the finals on Sunday. In a two-part interview, the second of which would be telecast Tuesday, Bharti said a large chunk of money has been allocated for international-level Indian players and more would be spent on good coaching. The government will give contracts to private parties to build infrastructure like stadiums. The minister said India would host the Afro-Asian Games in 2003. We have to organise big games to encourage our players, she said. A sum of Rs.1 billion would be spent on the tournament to be attended by about 94 countries. Bharti ruled out reviving cricket ties with Pakistan, which New Delhi snapped last year citing Islamabad's continued support to anti-India terrorism. India will not play Pakistan in any bilateral cricket match until Pakistan stops cross-border terrorism, she said. Cricket creates a lot of passion, a passion that people cannot control. The minister, however, said India would not back out of any match against Pakistan at the 2003 World Cup cricket in South Africa. That would not amount to reviving cricketing ties, she said. She added that she had taught a lesson to the Indian cricket control board, which had differed with her on this issue. Now we have a good understanding, she remarked. Referring to the stranglehold of politicians on many sports management organisations, Bharti said: Nepotism has to end. The selection process must be cleansed. I will try to make the federations more accountable. She was all praise for Indian sporting talent. There's no dearth of talent in India, she remarked. Athletes who win bronze at the Olympics can win gold. We have failed to support them but all that will change. - --Indo-Asian News Service -- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:26:38 +0530 (IST) From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: Sena-BJP back to toppling game in Maharashtra Sena-BJP back to toppling game in Maharashtra By Shiv Kumar, Indo-Asian News Service Mumbai, June 24 (IANS) Refusing to be discouraged by their failure to topple the Maharashtra government last week, the opposition combine of Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hatching another plan to dislodge it. The opposition alliance is now working towards defeating the ruling coalition in a legislative vote during the next assembly session beginning July 29, sources in the opposition told IANS here Monday. Over the next month, the Sena-BJP hopes to build bridges with several legislators who support Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's ruling coalition to turn them against the government, a Sena leader said. The Sena-BJP plans to oust Deshmukh by forcing a defeat in a vote on the government's budgetary proposals. If that fails, the opposition could bring a censure motion and force yet another vote, he added. Lending
Re: [Goanet] One Goa - Konkani
fausto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on June 24: Hi Rene Many, including myself have limited knowledge about Konkani. In this regard I hope for some assistance as follows: 1. Geography of Konkani (regions where it is predominant and regions where it co-exists, like Mangalore) 2. Types of Konkani (the Hindu Konkanas of Mangalore, The Catholics of Mangalore and Goans speak different types of the language. Are there more? What is the list? 3. Age of the language (I understand it is one of the 5 Dravidan language). 4. List of those martyred for the sake of Konkani (in the State of Goa). Rene, I will try and give the information I have in this regard:- 1. The regions where Konkani is predominantly spoken today is Goa, it co-exists in Mangalore, Kerala, Kochin, Maharashtra and Karwar, Belgaum etc. 2. All the regions speak Konkani differently, as with any other Indian Language e.g. the Marathi of Konkan and Punne is spoken differently. 3. The age I do not know exactly but it is as old as many other Indian languages. Konkani is an aryan language, inflexive and non-dravidian. It's written in five scripts Devanagri, Roman, Kanada, Malayalam Urdu. 4. I cannot vouch for the martydom of the seven persons at the time of the Konkani agitation, but they are considered to be the martyrs. I can recollect only one name - Floriano Vaz. Fausto Hello everybody, Re 3. above, (a) Vaman Varde Valaukikar (Shennoy Goembab), whose 125th birth anniversary was celebrated on the 23rd of this month and who is acknowledged as the Father of Konkani Literature, in his investigations found out that the birth of the Konkani language dates back at least 2,500 years as an autonomous language, it being much older that Marathi; (b) As for the scripts in which it is written, there are also Tulu and Gujarati - so, seven in all, which I think is one of our language's richest features and treasures, meriting its entry into the Guiness Book of Records. Jorge =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
