[Goanet-News] Goa news for July 23, 2011

2011-07-24 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Mines in Goa asked to take steps to avoid mishaps - IBNLive.com NLive.comPTI

[Goanet-News] Goa news for July 24, 2011

2011-07-24 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Sesa Goa Expects to Buy 1.5% Stake in Cairn India - Wall Street Journal Iron-ore miner Sesa Goa is likely to spend 11 billion rupees ($247.7 million) to pick up an additional 1.5% stake in

[Goanet] Will 30, 000 English medium primary students be given justice in Goa?

2011-07-24 Thread SOTER
NOT 90%... ONLY 50% OPT FOR ENGLISH AS MoI TEAM HERALD teamher...@herald-goa.com PANJIM: With proformas on undertakings given by parents from all 11 talukas reaching the education department, the picture on Medium of Instruction now seems to be clear. Most parents whose children are studying

[Goanet] NRI Commissioner felicitates Edila Gaitonde at Global Goans Convention

2011-07-24 Thread Carvalho
Commissioner for NRI Affairs, Eduardo Faleiro felicitated Edila Gaitonde and launched her new book, Tulsi and Other Short Stories from Goa, at the Global Goans Convention, held in London, 23 July, 2011. Ms Gaitonde, the wife of famed freedom fighter, the late Dr Pundalik Gaitonde, wrote the

[Goanet] Mahanand II is back

2011-07-24 Thread JoeGoaUk
  Mahanand II is back http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr8/5969332038/   Mahanand I (Trailer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAHM3E2h9W0   Part I Stage Pics/billboards http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk-tiatr2/3801617928/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk-tiatr2/3800799755/  

[Goanet] Daily Grook #1002

2011-07-24 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #1002 = WINE LINE = by Francis Rodrigues when the critic snipes folks always complain, if you squeeze gripes you will get...whine! *GREAT ALL-OCCASION GIFT* http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com

[Goanet] corruption in bank loans

2011-07-24 Thread Nelson Lopes
CORRUPTION IN BANKS Banks are fast emerging into mine fields of corruption, The bad loans and advances cost the depositors huge losses, though the effect is not direct with one to one correspondence The bankers show maximum courtesies to loan seekers and pander to them selectively The emphasis on

[Goanet] 5 Bicholim mines issued notices: stops operation

2011-07-24 Thread samir umarye
-- Samir Umarye *PANJIM/BICHOLIM* The Mines and Geology department on Saturday issued notices to five mines in Bicholim taluka asking them to produce their permission under Air and Water Pollution Act, failing which they would be asked to shut their operations. Sources said the mines department

[Goanet] Fight Aging With These Anti-Aging Foods

2011-07-24 Thread Con Menezes
Friendly Printer Version http://www.healthiertalk.com/print/4347

[Goanet] Sanas or Sandnnam ? but these are ‘godda San’nas’

2011-07-24 Thread JoeGoaUk
Sanas or Sandnnam ? but these are ‘godda San’nas’ Yes, what is the right Konkani word? If plural is sannas (or san’nas), what is the singular then? The place where I come from (Xastti), we called it sandnnam Singular being ‘Sandonn’   Here are some mini ‘Godda Sandnnam’ You don’t have wait

[Goanet] Song for the day.

2011-07-24 Thread Gabe Menezes
Barbra Streisandhttp://www.youtube.com/artist/Barbra_Streisand?feature=watch_video_title - Send in the clowns - 2000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghd5weu5Mpgfeature=related -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Subrata's loss was a big blow: Armando (pixs attached).

2011-07-24 Thread armstrong augusto vaz
Subrata’s loss was a big blow: Armando A dejected Team India Coach Armando Colaco lauded his boys for “playing a spirited game despite being reduced to nine-men.” Armando who spoke at the Post Match Press Conference added “the Red Cards were unnecessary and not justified.” India lost to UAE

[Goanet] Cyprian Fernandes' Sunday Masala: Can youth save Goa?

2011-07-24 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Cyprian Fernandes' Sunday Masala: Can youth save Goa? Source: Goan Voice UK - Daily Newsletter of 24 July 2011 at www.goanvoice.org.uk If you are reading this after having been to the Goan Festival in London, you would have been impressed with the young adults and youths helping Carmen Miranda

[Goanet] OUR CONDOLENCES TO A DEAR GOAN FRIEND - ASSUMPTION D'SA (Nagoa/Kuwait)

2011-07-24 Thread Goa World
GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994)  http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/         www.colaco.net http://www.goa-world.com/goa/music/live.htm   OUR CONDOLENCES TO A DEAR FRIEND OF THE GOAN COMMUNITY IN KUWAIT   Everyone is deeply saddened on the sudden passing of

[Goanet] Thank you JoeGoaUK and Edgar Silveira - Global Goans Convention

2011-07-24 Thread Carvalho
Thank you JoeGoaUk and Edgar Silveira for providing me with your excellent photography to feature in the Global Goans Convention brochure and elsewhere. Thank you mostly for putting up with my ridiculous demands to provide me with pictures within minutes despite you being two continents away. I

[Goanet] Two Ministers Tender Their Resignations

2011-07-24 Thread Freddy Fernandes
Two Ministers Tender Their Resignations Big boss Churchill Alemao and his brother Joaquim tendered their resignations just because their pet project blew up in their face. Are Goans surprised ? I don't think anybody is or will ever be, with the blackmailing tactics of the Alemao brothers, it

[Goanet] Temple Dress Code

2011-07-24 Thread Carvalho
The Hebles have a long track record of secular thought running through their viens. They come from several generations of reformers, writers and progressive thinkers. They are not vote Liberal in America/UK and vote Conservative in India hypocrites as some, on this forum. I respect the temple

[Goanet] : dress code in religious places

2011-07-24 Thread Nelson Lopes
DRESS CODE IN RELIGIOUS PLACES The idea seems to be  to maintain the sanctity and religious decorum of the sacred precincts By in itself it appears to be a worthy exercise to enforce what is believed to be appeasing to the resident Gods People enter the places of worship for a darshan , meeting

Re: [Goanet] Ghar or Sap: (Gliding, flying lizard - lacerda ocelata)

2011-07-24 Thread radharao gracias
The Ghar and Saap are the Marathi and Konkani names respectively for the Monitor Lizard which is zoologically called the ‘*Varanus Bengalensis*’. Legend has it that to breach a fort, a rope was tied around the Monitor Lizard and it was set free to climb the walls. Once the lizard was inside it

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 699

2011-07-24 Thread Mario Andrew Rodrigues
Dear Freddy With you , agree with you, wishing like you, Bye bye...to all those who only think about their own families and own bank balances. Goa surely will be a better place without these selfish powers. Cheers Mario Message: 9 Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:10:08 +0400 From: Freddy

[Goanet] Global Goan Convention 2011 - London

2011-07-24 Thread Melvyn Fernandes
Global Goan Convention 2011 In its global headquarters in Porvorim, the air would have been full of excitement as staff prepared to take the 2011 Global Goan Convention to the United Kingdom having been to other countries previously since 2005. I feel sure that in this euphoric atmosphere,

Re: [Goanet] CCP's new bye-laws for maintaining cleanliness in the city must be welcome

2011-07-24 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Sandeep Heble wrote: The CCP’s initiative to implement new set of by-laws and regulations to ensure cleanliness of the city are a welcome step to instill some... . . . We will need many more of such initiatives if we wish to restore our city back to its old glory. I see.  So reams

[Goanet] Temple Dress Code

2011-07-24 Thread Sandeep Heble
Thank you Selma, There is a lot which we need to learn from the West and a lot which the West needs to learn from us. Before I comment further, let me recall an interesting anecdote from the life of Swami Vivekananda. Once a foreigner asked the Swami: Can't you wear proper clothes to be a

[Goanet] Ghar or Sap: (Gliding, flying lizard - lacerda ocelata)

2011-07-24 Thread JoeGoaUk
[Goanet] Ghar or Sap: (Gliding, flying lizard - lacerda ocelata) I drank it’s blood with ‘soro’ and  somehow  also remember eating it’s flesh raw. It has a small portion of meat that can be eaten just like that (raw or uncooked) Saap is caught and killed  for its blood,  meat and skin. Looks

Re: [Goanet] Temple Dress Code

2011-07-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is unfortunate that restrictions are imposed by temples, churches and mosques. But since they are parochial religious institutions they have the right to follow their illiberal traditions. Under the Indian secular constitution the public or the government cannot impose their will on them.

[Goanet] Playing for Change.

2011-07-24 Thread Tony de Sa
This is a website devoted to achieving peace through music. This is a song from South India. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I23Bkk92124feature=related Nice punchy beat. -- Tony de Sa tonydesa at gmail dot com

Re: [Goanet] GOA STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION NEEDS A PROPER PREMISES

2011-07-24 Thread J. Colaco jc
 Aires Rodrigues airesrodrigu...@gmail.com wrote: [1] The ...Goa State Information Commission (for) years it continues to operate from a (AN) overcrowded 78.29 sq meter shop at Shrama Shaki Bhavan in Panaji. The office is very crammed (CRAMPED) and running in (FROM or UNDER) despicable

[Goanet] Turtle nesting site.

2011-07-24 Thread joelds
Hi pals, I found this particular frame - Turtle Nesting Site - among my pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/52243088@N00/5970742688/in/photostream Comments please. Regards, Joel.

[Goanet] XCHR: History Hour - Social Entrepreneurship in India (Eugénio Viassa Monteiro)

2011-07-24 Thread Goanet Events
XAVIER CENTRE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH - HISTORY HOUR Social Entrepreneurship in India by Eugénio Viassa Monteiro B B Borkar Road Alto-Porvorim, Goa Tel: 2417772 ; 2414971 Friday, 29 July 2011 @ 5pm The author has visited and studied several cases of individuals and

[Goanet] Installation of AVC lions president

2011-07-24 Thread Franco_777
Press Release 24TH July 2011 Cunolim Goa At a glittering function at the Cuncolim Union Hall, Cuncolim, Ln. Rudolph Noronha was installed as the President of Lions Club of Assolna-Velim-Cuncolim (AVC) at the hands of Ln. Joaquim Da Costa. In his address the installing officer Ln.

[Goanet] Angley’s Cup TT to begin on July 26th

2011-07-24 Thread Sandeep Heble
Angley’s Cup TT to begin on July 26th 17 teams will be vying for the prestigious Angley's Cup Table Tennis Team Championship event 2011, to be organised by Panjim Gymkhana at the Gymkhana Hall premises from 26 to 31 July. There will be 12 teams in the qualifying rounds while 5 teams have been

[Goanet] BJP any different from the others?

2011-07-24 Thread J. Colaco jc
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-becoming-a-party-of-sons-daughters-relatives-Shanta-Kumar/articleshow/9347785.cms PANAJI : In a statement that may cause further embarrassment to BJP, its national vice-president Shanta Kumar on Sunday said he had informed the party high command about

Re: [Goanet] GOA STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION NEEDS A PROPER PREMISES

2011-07-24 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 24 July 2011 15:15, J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com wrote: COMMENT: News from the Global Goan event in the UK is that is (thus far at least) is an unqualified success. One would have thought that the former NRI Cell 'chief' and his fan in the UK, would have written something about it.

[Goanet] Candice D'Souza - Miss India-Canada Contestant

2011-07-24 Thread Goanet A-C-E!
Candice is one of 16 finalists at the 21st annual Miss India-Canada contest. http://www.missindiacanada.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=198:candicecatid=47:2011-contestantsItemid=81 Education/Occupation Candice has an I.B.B.A. degree from the Schulich School of Business, major

Re: [Goanet] CCP's new bye-laws for maintaining cleanliness in the city must be welcome

2011-07-24 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
We have plenty of neo politicians in the making in Goa, who only brag that they do social service and recommend new bye laws as solutions. These set of misfits do not know the meaning of discipline. Had they known, and done social service in standing by it, and seen that existing laws are

[Goanet] Song musician of the day !

2011-07-24 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
Any takers for this song and the musician ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PptC-ASb2wE Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.

Re: [Goanet] Temple Dress Code

2011-07-24 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Sandeep Heble wrote: Before I comment further, let me recall an interesting anecdote  from the life of Swami Vivekananda. Once a foreigner asked the Swami: Can't you wear proper clothes to be a gentleman? The Swami replied: In your culture TAILOR makes a gentleman, but in our culture

[Goanet] Forward :Has Anyone Heard Annacastigate the BJP over Karnataka?

2011-07-24 Thread Gerald Fernandes
Has anyone heard Anna castigate the BJP over Karnataka? function popup1(url,w,h) { var width = w; var height = h; var left = (screen.width - width)/2;

[Goanet] Goa news for July 25, 2011

2011-07-24 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Valanka disqualified from YC elections for 1 year - Times of India pparent Valanka Alemao was on Saturday disqualified from 'contesting any elections for any post in the Indian Youth ...

Re: [Goanet] GOA STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION NEEDS A PROPER PREMISES

2011-07-24 Thread J. Colaco jc
Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com wrote: [1] Hmm who was the former NRI Cell 'chief' and his fan in the UK? [2] May be over 5,000 attended - surely there will be more than one report forthcoming. You mean to say that the 5000+ attended fair was cool enough and the Fan was left behind at

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (25Jul11)

2011-07-24 Thread alexyz fernandes
*** In the Principal's Office *** I'm resigning as a Teacher...withdrawing my son...Because he was not selected for the School Team...! To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] NRI Commissioner felicitates Edila Gaitonde at Global Goans Convention

2011-07-24 Thread Bernado Colaco
How can Gaitonde be famous? He ran away from Goa post 61 after seeing his motherland drop into abyss. Em soglem fokona by the NRI chief. BC Commissioner for NRI Affairs, Eduardo Faleiro felicitated Edila Gaitonde and launched her new book, Tulsi and Other Short Stories from Goa, at the Global

[Goanet] Cranford Community College...

2011-07-24 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranford_Community_College Was just wondering: how active is Cranford as a community college? Is it effective? You might recall there were plans to set up such institutions in Goa. Some specialist at Loyola's Chennai had been studying the model from the USofA, as a