[Goanet] A Different Politician

2002-07-09 Thread Goa Desc
Documented by Goa Desc Documentation Service & circulated by Goa Civic & Consumer Action Network (GOA CAN)<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * - A Different

goanet-digest V1 #4143

2002-07-09 Thread goanet-digest
goanet-digest Tuesday, July 9 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4143 - In this issue: [Goanet] Houston Goan Convention - A Blast! [Goanet] Travel article: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) - Magical Beauty o

[Goanet] 10 JULY: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS

2002-07-09 Thread Joel D'Souza
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS 10 July 2002 ILLEGAL STRUCTURES RAZED AT COLVA: Over a dozen illegal structures, including fast food stalls, erected along the approach road to the Colva beach were demolished by the Directorate of tourism on July 9 morning. (H) PANJIM CULVERTS CRACKING UP? The recent inc

[Goanet] INVITE: Join the GNU/Linux network in Goa...

2002-07-09 Thread Frederick Noronha
We would like to invite you to join ILUG-Goa, the mailing list of the Goa GNU/Linux network that already has 200 members. Most of our members are computer professionals and enthusiasts in Goa, though some are from outside the state too. ILUG-Goa (India GNU/Linux Users' Group) mailing list aims to

[Goanet] Animal rescue site

2002-07-09 Thread George Pinto
Dear all, If you visit the Hunger website (hopefully daily) and click on the "Free Food" icon you can help donate food to the needy. See http://www.thehungersite.com/. In addition you can access the "Breast Cancer" site and "Rainforest" site. The "Animal Rescue" website has just been added

[Goanet] VHP offers to reconvert Christians

2002-07-09 Thread The Goan Forum
Here is an interesting news item from the Press Trust of India.TGF comment at foot: [VHP offers to reconvert Christians Press Trust of India Ranchi, July 10 Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Tuesday said it would take back the Hindus who were converted to Christianity. "With all respect and humil

[Goanet] Obituary

2002-07-09 Thread Paresh D Kavlekar
Mr. Ravindranath Poi Raiturkar, a well known Goan freedom fighter and a teacher, died on Saturday July 6th at Sneh Mandir after a long illness. He was instrumental in forming an association for secondary school teachers, the first of its kind in Goa, to fight for their rights. He will be greatly

[Goanet] Travel article: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) - Magical Beauty of Goa

2002-07-09 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Headline: MAGICAL BEAUTY OF GOA. By JOANNE LANE. 7 July 2002 Sunday Mercury GOA'S Anjuna markets are one of the few places in the world where you'll find an American hippy selling handmade Australian-style didgeridoos to English tourists. This surreal experience seems tailor-made for these colou

[Goanet] Houston Goan Convention - A Blast!

2002-07-09 Thread santoshhelekar
The Sixth Biennial Convention of the Goan Organization in America, which was attended by 219 Goan progeny and kindred at the Marriott- Galleria in Houston, concluded last Sunday with a great sense of joy and accomplishment. As expected, we had a good time and great fun, met wonderful people,

goanet-digest V1 #4142

2002-07-09 Thread goanet-digest
goanet-digest Tuesday, July 9 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4142 - In this issue: [Goanet] Balbir Punj says, "Gujarat genocide? What the hell is that?": Response by Arundhati Roy in "Outlook" [Goa

[Goanet] Re: [goanews] BRIEfnCOUNTERS: Down-to-earth Catholics, networking via the Net..

2002-07-09 Thread Paddydes
Dear Fred and All: First of all we want to express our genuine thanks and sincere appreciation to Fred Noronha for his "Down-to-Earth Catholics" unbiased July 5 reporting. It resulted in an unprecedented flood of requests to join the Catholic Goan Network and goes to prove that (wo)me

[Goanet] INTERVIEW: Corruption arises when... (W de Souza, MLA/by J Fernandes)

2002-07-09 Thread Frederick Noronha
'CORRUPTION ARISES WHEN THE BUREAUCRACY CREATES OBSTRUCTIONS' Goa has a new assembly. What do the new MLAs think of their role? How do they plan to solve people's problems? As the assembly session begins this month, 'The Navhind Times' met them to find out their views on these questins. The NCP (

[Goanet] http://indmed.nic.in/ (Indian Medlar)

2002-07-09 Thread Frederick Noronha
http://indmed.nic.in/ Medicos on this list check the above site. It's the Indian Medlars... searched for Goa references and quite a few popped up. FN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet ==

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2002-07-09 Thread patdesousa
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[Goanet] PRE-AUGUST EVENTS

2002-07-09 Thread rene barreto
Hi Guys, This is the other Sav Fernandes here.Hope you're all well and having a great week. As there has been much talk of members taking initiative and organising events, I thought you might like to know of this event I am helping to organise to promote "GOA DAY" to young Goans. Details are as

[Goanet] FEATURE: And now, marks for cricket...

2002-07-09 Thread Frederick Noronha
And now, marks for cricket >From Indo-Asian News Service Bangalore, July 9 (IANS) Imagine getting marks for playing cricket. This is precisely what a school in Bangalore plans to do from next week. It will introduce cricket as part of the curriculum "with 50 marks for theory and 50 marks for pr

[Goanet] NEW BOOK: Eunice de Souza's Dangerlok in Mumbai

2002-07-09 Thread Frederick Noronha
"Eunice de Souza, better known for her poetry and lucid criticism, has finally written a novel. She bagan publishing her poetry relatively late in life, and it should not surprise ardent followers of her literary work that her first novel should have come after she ended her teaching career," so w

goanet-digest V1 #4141

2002-07-09 Thread goanet-digest
goanet-digest Tuesday, July 9 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4141 - In this issue: [Goanet] Re: [goannonresidents] Re: RISE UP NR GOANS [Goanet] 08-09 JULY: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS Re: [Goanet] He

[Goanet] Balbir Punj says, "Gujarat genocide? What the hell is that?": Response by Arundhati Roy in "Outlook"

2002-07-09 Thread Rohit Shukla
Men like Balbir Punj are well in place in every fibre of our society. Do we have anything to lose? Rohit Finally, I See the Light... Dissimulation In Words And In Images July 08 Mr Balbir Punj’s article (Dissimulation in Words and in Images, July 8) was as an arrow to my heart. What shall I d

[Goanet] FOR GOANET IF POSSIBLE

2002-07-09 Thread aires
HC URGED TO EXPEDITE HEARING ON PIL ON STRAY ANIMAL MENACE A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court comprising of Justice V.C Daga and Justice PV Hardas will consider next Monday the request for an early hearing of the Public Interest Litigation filed by Convenor of "People for Elimination of S

[Goanet] HERALD: Tuesday Tunes

2002-07-09 Thread Frederick Menezes
www.oherald.com dated July 9, 2002 TUESDAY TUNES Job-lag blues MUST HAVE HEARD of jet-lag, but, did you of job-lag? Well, job-lag is that miserable, drowsy feeling you experience when you stride to work on the first shift, after you've spent a week without a glimpse of sunlight working the nig

Re: [Goanet] Heroic lives

2002-07-09 Thread J. Almeida
"Actually Joel, you might have got me wrong. I'm not so much interested in religion per se, but from the point of the impact it has in social and this-wordly affairs -- both positive and negative. We need more critiques of religion (all regions, starting with our own) to ensure this powerful forc

[Goanet] 08-09 JULY: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS

2002-07-09 Thread Joel D'Souza
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS 08-09 July 2002 POWERMEN TO FIGHT PRIVATISATION: The Electricity department engineers and employees have formed a nine-member action committee, headed by Narayan Palekar, to strongly oppose the State government's move to corporatise/privatize the Electricity department. (