[Goanet-News] Goa news for June 26, 2009

2009-06-26 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** India U-16 Team In Tatters - Goal.com 6 national team probables have been together in Goa since late May and have been training under the watchful eyes of the technical director ...

[Goanet-News] NEWS: Sesa Goa's V S Dempo buy out comes at a cheap valuation

2009-06-26 Thread Goanet News
Sesa Goa's V S Dempo buy out comes at a cheap valuation 22 Jun 2009, 0506 hrs IST, Santanu Mishra, ET Bureau Many a firm has taken a hit as demand beat a hasty retreat ever since the global financial slowdown washed up at Indian shores in September 2008. The accompanying credit crunch meant that

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters - Only one

2009-06-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
Actually, according to one independent source posted on Goanet as just another version of history, the lone Goan patriot is a Chinese national quite happily serving under the communist dictatorial special administrative control of the government of China. Everybody else is a traitor, and

[Goanet] God and You

2009-06-26 Thread Albert Desouza
Albert writes:- No father gives his child scorpion when asked for bread and no father will harm his child. One question that I would like to ask each and everyone of you who claim to be Christian is that whther you are happy or not. Today we are suffering into this world .Sickness, courtcase,

[Goanet] Treatment of British families in Goa

2009-06-26 Thread Tony de Sa
In my personal opinion, Goans are not objecting to British families having second homes in Goa per se. The real issues involved here are 1) the illegal purchases of Goan homes 2) the scarcity of Goan land resources 3) the creation of gated communities. I will qualify that all purchases are not

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (26Jun09)

2009-06-26 Thread alexyz fernandes
*** Weather Bureau Chief *** No Rain Today To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] South Asian film fete to focus on youth

2009-06-26 Thread Goanet News Service
South Asian film fete to focus on youth PANAJI: The 4th South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) to be organised in Goa from June 26 to 29 will be held with a focus on youth, Jeetendra Deshprabhu of the SAFF committee told mediapersons on Thursday. This festival will try to give an expression to the

[Goanet] Daily Grook #448

2009-06-26 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #448 ___ REAR TEAR ___ by Francis Rodrigues tight clothes when u bend, will expose u in the end! _ puns word-play of all kinds, hey...read between the lines! _

[Goanet] How Technology May Soon Read Your Mind - 60 Minutes - CBS News

2009-06-26 Thread Con Menezes
How new technology enables your mind to be read??? Con http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/31/60minutes/main4694713.shtml

Re: [Goanet] Treatment of British families in Goa

2009-06-26 Thread floriano
Absolutely true that, Tony. Well said floriano goasuraj - Original Message - From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com To: Goa's Premiere Mailing List, Estd 1994 goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 10:56 AM Subject: [Goanet] Treatment of British families in Goa In my

[Goanet] The Accidental Activist - Ladies Special

2009-06-26 Thread Venita Coelho
The Accidental Activist - Ladies Special By Venita Coelho It was an India wide Mahaquizzer contest. When the results were announced I was told that I had come first in the 'Ladies Section'. Somewhat mystified, I asked why there was such a section to begin with. What did your sex have to do

Re: [Goanet] Talking Photo: Please Identify this beautiful road

2009-06-26 Thread Maryann Menezes
Old Goa - Gandhi Circle On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:12:21 +0530 wrote Pl identify this road/boulevard http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk19/3658038823/sizes/l/ Clue: It's either in South Goa or North Goa OK, here is a pictorial clue http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk19/3658832278/sizes/l/

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters - Only one

2009-06-26 Thread eric pinto
    I do plan on using Fredrick's material for sunday entertainment: the web-site belonging to  Mascarenhas, the casino comic's co-agitator, and admirer of Pope Michael.     'Global paranoia' is a medical term, and it contrasts with the 'encapsulated' form. The globe certainly appears to have

[Goanet] Some links...

2009-06-26 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरो नया]
Goan Intellectuals and Goan Identity: An unresolved conflict At the centre over the conflict of identity that Goans face today is the 'paradise lost' syndrome.  Being Goan and being an Indian are becoming incrasingly two different things. By Dr Pramod Kale. http://www.jstor.org/pss/4401090 Panic

[Goanet] 25th June 1975, Imposition of Emergency - India's Most Infamous Day

2009-06-26 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:45:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Vinay Natekar vinaynate...@yahoo.com 34 Years Back on this day the 25th June 1975 was the blackest day in Post Independence India when Indira Gandhi who heading the dynastic Congress Party imposed an Internal Emergency in India to suppress her

[Goanet] True Individual efforts do work. But it takes times.

2009-06-26 Thread SHRIKANT BARVE
Please read Sports news of Goa State Chess Association election on Saturday June 27 edition http://www.oheraldo.in/ http://www.navhindtimes.com/ www.tarunbharat.com Times of India Goa Edition. Shrikant Vinayak Barve Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter

[Goanet] The world lost two towering icons yesterday

2009-06-26 Thread Mario Goveia
The world lost two of its towering icons from the 70's yesterday. Farrah Fawcett finally succumbed after a long and courageous battle with cancer while Michael Jackson collapsed and died under questionable circumstances. Fawcett reminds us of an earlier period where a woman with a smile that

[Goanet] CONTROVERSY: The Inquisitional archives as a source of English history

2009-06-26 Thread Frederick FN Noronha
The Inquisitional archives as a source of English history By Cecil Roth, B.Litt., D.Phil, F.R.Hist.S. (Communicated 11 April, 1935) The popular (and perhaps not only the popular) impression of the Spanish Inquisition is that it was an organisation of blood and fire, concerned with the enforcement

Re: [Goanet] Treatment of British Families in Goa

2009-06-26 Thread KAREN YOUNG
Hi I am one of the British who bought property in Goa after visiting for years,please sign our petition to the British Government and help us.If we loose our home in Goa we loose all our savings and pension fund. Thank you From all the British who have bought Karen Cornel DaCosta: Goa

Re: [Goanet] Treatment of British families in Goa

2009-06-26 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Folks, It is heartening that there has been interest shown on GoaNet regarding the treatment of British families in Goa even though everyone has missed the point: The Goa Government intends to introduce a law to make legitimate past purchases unlawful! MP Shantaram Naik says that he has

[Goanet] Treatment of British families in Goa

2009-06-26 Thread Cajetan Alvares
J. Colaco said: I have been reading these posts about these innocents and how, onthe other hand, East African Goans were able to buy houses etc in theUK. - Well, Hi All, East African Goans have British Passports. Their Grandfathers had BP. If the British can give up their British Passport and

[Goanet] Treatment of British Families in Goa

2009-06-26 Thread Mervyn Elsie Maciel
I agree wholeheartedly with Tony de Sa's comments.Where property has been acquired illegally, by all means, let the culprits - be they politicians, lawyers or whoever, face the rigors of the law. Some Brits may well have been gullible and trusted their host advisers. If, however, they have

[Goanet] Talking Photos: Panjim

2009-06-26 Thread JoeGoaUk
Onk, Vonk, Onk Hingasor ratche Bebe roddtai   what you see here is not a lake but the campal parade grounds.   Goa Home Science, a church etc seen http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukdirtypanjim2/3663075951/sizes/l/ with ymca international. church, tv Tower, Home Science etc

Re: [Goanet] Treatment of British families in Goa

2009-06-26 Thread J. Colaco jc
While I agree with Cajetan that the East African Goans who bought property in the UK were UK nationals (some albeit overseas UK passport holders)- this, I submit is not an area of equivalence. The UK citizens have not bought primary residencies in Goa, they have invested in 'winter' holiday

[Goanet] Goa news for June 27, 2009

2009-06-26 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa can be venue for film fetes: CM - Times of India mes of IndiaThe special feature of the SAFF in Goa will be the screening of 12 Iranian films. The festival will also bring in a host of

Re: [Goanet] Treatment of British families in Goa

2009-06-26 Thread georgejpinto
Hi Eddie First you state everyone has missed the point. Then you write The Goa Government intends to introduce a law to make legitimate past purchases unlawful!. Can you please point to the Times of India article where that is stated? I fail to see where it stated LEGITIMATE past deals will

[Goanet] Repressive regime blocks Goan for entering Goa

2009-06-26 Thread Bernado Colaco
For almost 4 decades, Goan born in Anjuna Senhor Rodolfo Sousa and now in his mid seventies was prohibited from entering Goa by the current repressive regime no better than PIDE. The allegations are that he was a Goan dissident.   Sousa continuous petition to get a visa were denied for 40