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GOA'S ROQUE PROMOTED AS SAI DIRECTOR
From Jal Khambhata in New Delhi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NEW DELHI: Roque Dias, a former Goa's Director of Sports and Youth
Affairs, was on Thursday promoted as the full-fledged director of the
Sports Authority of India (SAI) under the Union Ministry of Youth
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1008458
Consolidation in the skies
Some fears have been expressed that the deal may lead to monopolistic or
duopolistic situations which then result in higher fares. These fears are
unfounded. One reason is that five new airlines are awaiting launch. The
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Ychklogin=Nau
tono=212321leftnm=lmnu5lselect=0leftindx=5
However, the deal will give Jet immediate command of an enviable 48 per
cent market share and, hence, it can, through some predatory pricing, take
on low-cost carriers (LCCs) and
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1378111.cms
Thiruvananthapuram gets 55 new flights
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With 55 new flights, 30 of them international, set to
commence operations every week, the Thiruvananthapuram airport will get
busier in the next few months. Already in the
--- domnic fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
During the Portuguese regime, only bhattkars'
children and those who owned a
piece of land with a house in it could go to school.
If tenants sent their
children to school they were punished and their
children were made to work
in their
Mr Naik has called upon his partymen, supporting either of the issues, not
to make statements in public, which he said were neither in the interest of
the common man or the party. He urged them and other political parties not
to politicise the issues and wait for the findings of the experts'
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re Martinho's point about the UK letting the Goans
down for not going to the
assistance of Portugal in 1961, as an ally, is
really not tenable.
...
Those who find it difficult to accept that Goa is
part and parcel of India
and wish it did have some
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Aloysius
Here's just a short response to your post.
In an increasingly globalised world, there is an
accelerated and substantial
movement of people everywhere. In Goa this movement
began over a century ago
and that is why there is a large Goan
Why the Opinion poll? Was it a part of the agenda of
the invasion ie.: to merge it with maharastra?
Many Goanet readers and writers have taken the Opinion
Poll anniversary very lightly. Many do not know that a
merger with maharastra would have been a 'mala ala
kantala' ie.: destruction
Josenoron:
Hi Jose,
I agree with you, that nothing much is finally accomplished by merely pounding
on the computer-key board. IMHO, taking a good idea and making it practically
useful, may involve the following steps.
1. Having a concept and expressing its scope, application and importance.
The chinese army could take over Macau by just peeing.
All previous accords would have been destroyed. Do not
give excuses to Goanet readers with this nonsense.
It was bharat hegemony under the auspices of the
soviets that has caused so much harm which resounds
till today.
B. Colaço
Those
--- George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about Goan waitresses? Are they being
sidelined?
Curious observation, I should say. Come to think of
it, in most establishments I've been to in Goa,
including Mariott's, I haven't seen ANY waitresses. In
fact, there appear to be no waitresses at
Do you have any specific comments about the merits of
my original post or the post I was responding to
I have looked up merit in my Funk Wagnalls and the short answer is no.
Sorry, pal. But dont let me stop you from plugging away. It takes all kinds.
Maybe someone else, somewhere, will take a
1. In a polity bristling with male skirts and
impotent ideologies,a Woman and an Officer like
Kiran Dhingra is a breath of fresh air holding out
hope for the future of not only Goa but the Indian
Union as well. By her quiet, purposive, unobstrutive,
committed, steadfast adherence to the
UK: Funeral Notice
8 Jan: London. VICTOR CRENCENCIO ALFONSO (ex-Nairobi). Husband of Lucy.
Father of Raymond, Alex, Brenda, Cedric and Danny.
Funeral on Mon 23 Jan. Funeral Mass at 12.00 noon at Our Lady and Saint
Joseph's Church, 100a Balls Pond Road N1 4AG. followed by burial at St
It is a crying shame that some of the posters on this forum are so blinded
in their hate for Pesident Bush and Mr. Cheney, they would like to obfuscate
statistics to bring these honorable people down to their level--if it is
possible to drag anyone into the sewer with them...
Halliburton is
Mr Joe Fernandes of Wampewo Avenue Service Station (1983) Limited Kampala
Uganda regrets to announce the sudden demise of Mr Arthur D'mello husband
of Jean D'mello and father of Isabelle D'emello who passed away in Kampala ,
Uganda East Africa on 19th January 2006. Funeral details will be
Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao erects Alto-Porvorim parish
BY MELVYN MISQUITA
It was a jubilant and historic occasion for the catholic community at Alto-
Porvorim, when Archbishop-Patriarch Filipe Neri Ferrao elevated the Holy
Family chapel to that of a parish church on January 18,
Curry, Unhurried
By LESLIE LAND
Published: January 19, 2006
Q. I have a young curry leaf tree that I plan to move outdoors in summer and
back indoors in fall. Is there a way to keep it small so I don't have to keep
giving it larger pots, making it too big to move?
A. In this case, good care
--
Welcome to the FRIDAY BALCAO
Read the Balcao Synopsis on the website
http://www.goadesc.org/balcao/
--
Dear Cybergaonkars on GoaNet,
We continue with FRIDAY BALCAO
on 27th January from 4pm.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/wl_nm/nuclear_arms_france_dc_2
From the link above it seems like Jacque Chirac has
finally woken up from a long sleep. An excerpt:
France said on Thursday it would be ready to use
nuclear weapons against any state that carried out a
terrorist attack against
Chris Vaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this the same Heilburton guy who raped Iraq
economically in cahoots with
his buddy the incompetent warmonger Bush and who is
now sucking the Kuwaitis and Saudis dry of their
precious Oil so that these Arabs will soon be in the
poorhouse?
Joy,
During the Portuguese regime, only bhattkars' children and those who owned a
piece of land with a house in it could go to school. If tenants sent their
children to school they were punished and their children were made to work
in their properties as slaves!
Post Liberation, everyone got an
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=176228
Low-Fare Travel Right Model For Asia, Symposium Told
Davis said it was important that key stakeholders such as the government,
airport authorities, policy regulators as well as the tourism sectors to
become aware of the benefit of the LCCs,
http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14122233
AAI to add 100 traffic controllers a year
To meet the demand of airline operators, AAI is also giving importance to
the expansion of terminal buildings and aprons at airports. In fact, private
airlines have been offered 50 per cent concession to
--- Philip Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While you are at it, you might also want to check
out the difference between preaching (which is all
you seem
to know about) and discussing (which is what most
of us are
trying to do on goanet until you barge in with your
pre-
conceived notions
--- Gary Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Mario knowest not rhyme nor meter
His lines dont scan, they come unstuck,
Some advice, dear old Bush-supporter
From thy very bosom friend Chuck.
When people say unkind things,
Or slander me even worse,
I always assuage my feelings,
By
Kevin Saldanha wrote:
With all due respect to Fr. Jude, are these type of
messages on a
secular
list not offensive to our non-Christian brethren?
===
In fact I look forward to these inspiring weekly
messages.
I believe they also serve a large section of Goanet
members from the Gulf region, who
Hi
My name is Julia de Souza and I am a Registered Nurse currently working on
a Neurosurgical hospital unit in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
It has been my dream to visit India and volunteer in a health care role. I
am planning a trip to India, and especially in Goa, and I was hoping that I
could
20/01/2006
Commodore K P Ramachandran
Station Commander
Sea Bird Binaga Karwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: 08382-263454
Fax: 08382-263403
Sir,
Kindly note that the customary Feast of Nossa Senhora
de Brotas will be celebrated at Anjediv Island on
2/2/2006. There will be two masses at 10 a.m. and
http://www.digitalgoa.com/ca_disp.php?id=529
Rs 1.05 lakh cash stolen from taxi
Jan 19 - In a daring day light robbery, cash of Rs 1.05 lakh was
stolen from a taxi in Margao this morning.
The cash belonged to Edgar Pareira from Ponda. He kept the cash in the
taxi after withdrawing it from Bank
http://www.digitalgoa.com/ca_disp.php?id=528
BJP forms pro Mopa front
Jan 19 - Bharatiya Janata Party today announced a front to support
Mopa airport under the convenorship of Dhargal MLA Babu Azgaokar.
The front will organize a massive public meeting at Pernem on Jan 29
to galvanize support
Jet Airways buys out Air Sahara
PTI | January 19, 2006 | 09:53 IST
In the biggest aviation takeover in India, Jet Airways has struck a
deal to buy Sahara Airlines for Rs 2,300 crore (Rs 23 billion), a move
that would help Naresh Goyal promoted carrier to become the biggest
domestic carrier.
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,395996,00.html
India's Moral Police
The Fatwa against Mini-Skirts
By Padma Rao in New Delhi, India
A new wave of prudishness is washing over India. It's striking the
country's prosperous technology capitals and has led to fatwas and
Dear Ai res,
Sensitive Goans have seen it coming as far as Ms. Dingra's ouster is
concerned. No big deal that.
What you say is perfectly right too. Likewise everyone is saying the same or
even better. It amounts to pure entertainment sort of while the rot is ever
increasing.
But with all that
From: Antonio Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1: Of late, it has become fashionable to cast aspersions on POLITICIANS
who do not happen to belong to a certain social category. They are accused
of corrupt practices and lack of moral fibre.
2: Admitedly, they are not from a comfortable economic
Hi Clare and Paddy,
Happy New Year -- 2006
You lived in Karachi -- so should not be too difficult to fit back into Goa
-- even though corruption and bureaucracy has
magnified --
As I said to Philip -- I work in Bombay but my home is in Goa -- Alto
Porvorim --
I try to get down as
Is this the same Heilburton guy who raped Iraq economically in cahoots with
his buddy the incompetent warmonger Bush and who is now sucking the Kuwaitis
and Saudis dry of their precious Oil so that these Arabs will soon be in the
poorhouse?
And don't forget, he is now intimidating Old Europe
Hi Pat,
Were youat St Mary's High School, Mount Abu -- I did teach a Patrick Lewis
or Louis during my one year spell of teching in
1956 there.
Buying a property inGoa -- FINE -- but setting up an Anglo-Indian School in
that property is quite a large job -- teachers,
administrators,
The Goa Legislative Assembly website at
www.goavidhansabha.gov.in gives the profile of all our
Ministers, MLAs and MPs. In Churchill Alemao's
profile, under languages known, it states English,
Konkani, Hindi and Marathi.
So where does his claim of having been educated in
Portuguese come from, one
JCT to take on Mahindras United
outlookindia.com
PANAJI, JAN 19 (PTI)
A close contest is on the offing as Federation Cup champion Mahindra
United take on JCT Mills, Phagwara, tomorrow in the 10th ONGC National
Football league at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda. Mahindra United, who had a
thrilling 4-3
2005 Sahitya Akademi Award to Konkani: an unethical procedure
2005 award of Sahitya Akademi for outstanding contribution to Konkani
literature was declared to Mr. N. Shivdas for his Konkani collection of
stories 'Bhangarsal'. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 50,000/-. Konkani
community
Margao TB patients in the dark
oHERALDo
BY GUILHERME ALMEIDA
MARGAO, JAN 18 - A fresh coat of paint over the dusty walls might have
given a new look to the long-neglected T B Sanatorium atop Monte Hill,
Margao, one may say. But, the ordeal faced by the TB patients inside the
mammoth building
Hydrogen-driven cars in India by 2007
Thursday, January 19, 2006
NEW DELHI: The ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES) is
hopeful of having hydrogen-driven vehicles on Indian roads by 2007 with
International Tractors Ltd (ITL) having agreed to undertake commercial
production. While a
NPC project for increasing productivity in Govt departments
Webindia123.com
Panaji | January 19, 2006 3:42:57 PM IST
The National Productivity Council (NPC) has proposed to undertake a
pilot project to increase the productivity of the Government departments
in Goa.
The proposal of the project,
http://oheraldo.in/node/8777
Projects worth Rs 7 cr launched in Cuncolim
BY HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JAN 18 — Call it a silver wedding anniversary bonanza for his
constituents or simply a commitment for development, Urban Development
Minister Joaquim Alemao on Wednesday launched a host of
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=011930
Khalap to confront Rane today
NT News Service
Mapusa Jan 18: Hardening its stance in support of the Mopa
international airport, the North Goa Mopa airport follow-up committee,
chaired by former MP, Mr Ramakant Khalap will confront
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=011931
Don't provoke people on Mopa, Ravi to Congmen
NT Staff Reporter
Panaji Jan 18: The Goa pradesh Congress committee president, Mr Ravi
Naik has said that since the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has
promised to resolve the issues
http://news.webindia123.com/news/printer.asp?id=223947cat=India
Goa NCP speaks in different tunes on De Souza; Rane Govt
Panaji | January 18, 2006 10:45:09 PM IST
Pooh-poohing reports that the party executive had sought resignation
of its State unit President and Goa Deputy Chief Minister
bhaile - outsiders
Associate Director: R Sarada
Editor:Nirmal Chander
Sound Editor: Boby John
Additional Camera:Vineet Sabharwal, Sejal Shah, Puneet Gautam
Additional Sound: Hari M
Producer / Director / Photographed by: Ajay Noronha
Some chilled beer and fish curry rice is just the perfect
Gone to Goa
Stanley Stewart discovers there's much more to India's famous hippie
hang-out than full-moon parties, sun-baked Europeans and crowded
beaches
GOA, everyone tells me, is spoiled. It is not what it was 20 years
ago. It is crowded and noisy. But on the way south to Palolem, winding
Susegado!
Gopal M S
Mumbai, Maharastra, India
Susegado! The word Goans use to express the Goan way of life does not
have to begin when you reach Goa. It can begin on a train that starts
in Mumbai. Read all about it in an article I wrote for rediff.com
Click here
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=114990
The Cabinet is considering a proposal to liberalise foreign direct
investment (FDI) and open up greenfield airports to 100% FDI. ...Defending
the initiative of the government to open up these sectors, Mr Dua said that
with
The matter will have to be debated by CCEA tomorrow as there is an airline
that has made sought clearance and its owner is a PIO.
Refusal should not be a big setback for Indian aviation as we have too many
airlines at the moment given the deplorable state of airport infrastructure.
Maybe after 5
TRANSFEROF CHIEF SECRETARY
I had fixed an appointment with Ms Kiran Dingra at her office, and she saw
me on due date and time promptly.She listened intently(although interrupted
by 5 or 6 calls which she
quickly dealt with),asked me pointed questions. I had 2
Thumbs up TO digital music
The Financial Express
As pirated cassettes and CDs eat into the revenues of the Rs 1,100-cr
music industry, digital music seems to be a way out...
VIVEAT SUSAN PINTO
Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 0031 hours IST
Twenty-something Reena loves listening to her favourite
Hello GoaWorld N GoaNet,
Good Morning,
Please post following matter on internet and oblige.
Many Thanks
B.M.Viegas
Member-United Goans' Centre-Kuwait.
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To All MEMBER CLUBS/TEAMS/ORGANISATIONS OF THE KUWAIT
INDIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION.
c.c. IFRA and Public in General
SOCCER GAMES
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