[Goanet-news]26 JULY 2004: GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS

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GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
26 July 2004

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    GoaNEWS-19 Jul 04:
    H I G H L I G H T S:
   * CM assures all support from government to SSI * Media has become
image-building tool: Noted journalist K. Ketkar * All Goa ranking
badminton.

DEMAND FOR OUSTER OF FRANCIS, MANDREKAR: The North Goa District Congress
Committee met Governor SC Jamir and demanded immediate dismissal of Law
Minister Francis D`Souza and Agriculture Minister Dayanand Mandrekar, for
their alleged involvement in destruction of a hotel at Mapusa. (GT)

ULTIMATUM ON MADDEL TRUCK TERMINUS: Reiterating their strong opposition to
the proposed truck terminus in the present form, the residents of Maddel
in Margao on July 25 served an ultimatum on the government to make clear
its policy by August 14 or face an agitation. (H)

GMC LACKS SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT: Goa Medical College hospital, Bambolim, the
premier medical institution in the state, which offers treatment to at
least 1500 patients, in-house and out patient departments, daily, is in
need of urgent health care. The apex medical institution is plugged with
ailments, mostly importantly lack of systems management and insensitivity
to patients. (GT)

FFS CHILDREN SERVE ULTIMATUM: The children of freedom-fighters yesterday
served a 10-day ultimatum to the state government to provide jobs to them
filing which they would resort to agitation to seek their demand...In all,
170 children had applied for various jobs including Pre-Employment
Training Scheme. (GT)

HELD FOR FORGING DOCUMENTS: The three persons arrested by the
Maina-Curtorim police for forgery and illegal transport of naphta will be
produced before the court on July 26 for seeking further remand. (NT)

TO PREVENT PROSTITUTION: The Baina slum area residents residing near Safi
Masjid, ice factory, Ambedkar sports club areas and Basheshwar temple,
resolved to prevent prostitution from resurfacing in the area. The
decision was taken at a meeting held at Baina under the banner of the
Baina Rahiwasi Sangh. (GT)

TWO WHEELER THEFTS: Even though the police have stepped up day and night
patrolling in the hope of apprehending two-wheeler thieves, they are yet
to achieve a major breakthrough in this respect. Two-wheeler thefts are
common in areas like the Old Market, Old fish market, Gandhi market and
near the municipality building. (NT)

BUILDER ACCUSED: Margao police on Sunday registered a misappropriation
case against one Rupesh Veremkar, a contractor from Porvorim, following a
complaint lodged by one Mario Paul D`Costa from Mandoppa-Navelim. (H)

EFFECT ON DEMATS: Setting at rest ambiguities on the scope of the
three-month moratorium imposed on Global Trust Bank, the Reserve Bank of
India on July 25 said demat accounts and safe deposit lockers of customers
in the bank will operate as usual. It also assured to make arrangements to
provide adequate cash at GTB branches. (PTI report in Herald)

DUPING BID FOILED: Verna police foiled an attempt by a native Gujarati to
cheat a resident of Verna by selling fake gold. (H)

RISING WATER LEVELS AT BEACHES: Noted environmentalist and the general
secretary of the Mhadei Bachao Andolan Rajendra Kerkar has stressed on the
need to undertake a vigorous tree plantation drive to maintain the
ecological balance. He was addressing a gathering of students of the
Zantye College of Commerce and Economics. Kerkar expressed serious
apprehensions about the rise in water levels at beaches such as Calangute,
Baga and Miramar and highlighted the need to have mangrove plantations to
take care of this disturbing phenomenon. (GT)

COTIGAO`S BIRD SPECIES: Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary attracts as many as 264
different species of birds including few endangered ones. According to the
data submitted in the Goa Assembly, the birds are found all over the
Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary areas where the habitat ranges from territorial
to arborial. A few species, it is specified, prefer wetlands or marshy
lands around the water bodies in the sanctuary. (H)

JOIN ARMY: Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Matanhy Saldanha has
called upon the NCC cadets to join the defence services and use their
talents and energy to protect the country and make it grow. Mr Saldanha
was speaking as the chief guest after he inaugurated the Career Guidance
Workshop on the opportunities in the armed forces organised by Ex-NCC
Cadet`s Association, Goa, in association with the Dhempe College of Arts
and Science, Miramar, on July 24. (H)

GOAN ARTEFACTS FOR SHOW IN BRAZIL: Over 300 Indian artefacts collected
from different museums and galeries across the country would form part of
the prestigious month-long International Exhibition in Indian Art
beginning in the middle of March next year in Brazil. About 50 of the
artefacts were being shortlisted from various galleries of the
Archaeological Survey of India`s museum in Old Goa besides the private
Christian Arts Museum in Old Goa. (GT)

GOA`S GREAT SELL OFF: Has it come as a surprise to Goans that the current
census paints a sorry picture of the State`s agricultural sector or was it
expected. There is no doubt that very few people have realised close
linkage between growth in productivity in agriculture and the growth of
economy as a whole. But in Goa, the powers to be think otherwise, and it
is not surprising to read about the declining number of people tilling the
fields, helped largely by senseless laws passed...Apart from these
destructive land reforms has the government done anything worthwhile to
help the farmer? (Edit in Herald)

AGE OF INTERSTATE WATER WARS: How India as a nation would survive if water
resource rich states adopt hydrological Drawinism? If Karnataka goes ahead
forcibly with the construction of Kalsa and Bhanduri dams, Goa can do
little to stop it forcibly. The arid state of Rajasthan finds itself
vulnerable. Gujarat is heavily depending on the completion of the dams on
Narmada river. The hunger deaths in Orissa are well known. At the roots of
all anxieties is the scarce resource - fresh water. Every state is
demanding more and more of it. But India`s glaciers are retreating, rivers
are dying, many are irreversibly silted and polluted. The groundwater
resources are highly stressed. (Nandkumar Kamat in Glimpses-NT)

RAIA FEAST: The parishioners are all set to celebrate the feast of Our
Lady of Snows, locally called Konnsachem Fest on August 5. The traditional
feast draws people from all walks of life to Raia despite being held
during the monsoons. Many parishioners, working abroad, make sure that
they time their vacation to coincide with the feast. They carry the local
`konnos` back with them. (NT)

JAPANESE SCHOLARSHIP: Stephen Viegas from Fatorda, Margao, has graduated
from the Japan Electronic College in the department of applied electronics
production under the scholarship of Japanese government Mombukagakusho
recently. (GT)

S P O R T S

DBO IN SEMI-FINALS: Holders Don Bosco Oratory, Fatorda, sailed into the
semi-finals of the Custodio Memorial Football tournament, defeating
Navelim Villagers 201, at Raia. (H)

D E A T H S
   25 July: Colvale: SALVADOR CAITAN FERNANDES: husband of Marialena,
father of Rita/John Lobo (Kuwait), Liberata/Michael, Manuel and
Neville.
   25 July: Assagao-Mazalvaddo: LAWRENCE PAUL NORONHA: husband of Ophelia,
father of Llewellyn, late Lancelot, late Lubano, Olanda, Leofred,
Lindolf, Oreen and Ophelia Jr; father-in-law of late Carol, late
Albertina, Propercia, Late Thereza, Werner, Sheila, Anie, Mukund and
Tyrone. Funeral on 26 July at 11 am.

G O A   W E A T H E R
   Max temp: 26.8 degC; Min temp; 23.6 degC; Humidity: 95% (Yesterday)
   Rainfall so far: 1080.6 mm
   Weather: Light showers in Goa since yesterday morning.

  Courtesy: GT=Gomantak Times; NT=The Navhind Times; H=Herald;
WE=Weekender; TOI=Times of India

JOEL D'SOUZA
Assagao-Goa-India.