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| Khadi goes Global | |||
4 Nov: Herald. Femina Miss India 2009 Harshita Saxena (Finalist) walks on the ramp with Designer Varma De Mello along with other models for the Khadi Fashion Show 2009 at Kala Academy, Panjim
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| Scapegoating the migrant. | |||
 4 Nov: Herald. By Frederick Noronha (photo). Today, it has become fashionable to blast migrants and blame them for all our ills. If you read some of the Goan networks in cyberspace, you’ll quickly realise how negative, backward-looking and chauvinistic the Goan debate is quickly turning out to be… In a state known for its large out-migration, such simplistic arguments against migrants could hit at the so called “sons of the soil” themselves… 1272 words. | |||
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| CBI enquiry may expose conduct of officers | |||
 4 Nov: Herald. Due to destruction of evidence and delay in handing over the investigations, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the rape and murder case of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, seemed to have diluted some sections in the charge sheet filed by them. But the CBI has incorporated Section 201 of the IPC, which may expose the conduct of the officers of the Goa’s criminal justice system who may have colluded with the accused… 552 words. | |||
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| Recipe: Wild Boar Vindaloo | |||
 3 Nov: Bournemouth Echo (UK). Forget about those versions in late-night curry houses. The real vindaloo is a surprisingly light dish from Goa ... 410 words. | |||
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| Ben Kingsley to be guest of honour at IFFI | |||
 4 Nov: IANS. Noted British actor and Academy award winner Sir Ben Kingsley will be the guest of honour at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which will be held later this month in Goa … Sir Ben is well known for playing the role of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough’s epic film “Gandhi” in the early ’80s… 247 words. | |||
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| Goa: Man, 32, has children aged 73 and 65 4 Nov: Times of India. Jose Pereira, 32, and his wife Albertina, 30, of Nerul, Goa, were shocked to find that the government had gifted them two children who are twice their age and citizens of the UK. Pereira discovered that Urban William Paul, 73, and Janet Margo Paul, 65, had been added as his son and daughter on the card… The Pauls own a holiday home in the same block as the Pereiras… 539 words. more details.. | |||
| Sanatan activists planned 4 blasts in Goa, say cops 4 Nov: Deccan Herald. By Devika Sequeira. The Sanatan Sanstha operatives, two of whom died in the October 16 blast here, had planned to plant four improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at different locations in Goa on Diwali eve timed to go off in quick succession, police sources told this newspaper… 301 words. more details.. | |||
| Deaths 3 Nov. Guirim, Goa. JOE MARTIN GRACIAS (ex East African Standard, Nairobi). Son of the late Cypriano and Leopoldina Gracias. Brother of Sr Dorothy, Francis and Monica. Brother-in-law of Basil De Souza and Jane Gracias. [All of London, UK] Funeral in Guirim Bardez Goa, to be arranged.Condolences to monica@desouza.net 3 Nov: London. J VAZ, formerly of Entebbe and Jinja died in London early this morning... Further details awaited. Info from Antonio Mascarenha (Toronto) 3 Nov. Cuncolim, Goa. FABIANA GOMES (Born 1925). Wife of late Adv. William Gomes. Mother of George/Renuka (Canada) Bismark/Gemma (Canada), late Adv. Oswald/Alda. Funeral on 4th Nov. at Cuncolim. 3 Nov. Anjuna, Goa. OLIVIA CASTELINO DE SOUZA. Wife of late B.J. Lewis De Souza. Mother of Vilma/late Angelo de Souza; Cirilio/Shirley de Souza (Germany); Liana De Souza; Belita/Francis Rebello (England). Funeral at Anjuna on 5 Nov. | |||
| Goa: Discrimination against clients prohibited 3 Nov: the Hindu. Goa tourism, for the first time, has introduced a clause “prohibiting the beach shacks from discriminating against clients based on nationality”… the Government has also decided to reduce the number of beach umbrellas allowed to individual shacks. 403 words. more details.. | |||
| Mumbai: Remembering the long lost ones 3 Nov: Daily News & Analysis. Thousands gathered at the Sewri cemetery on the All Souls Day -- a day marked in memory of the departed … "We leave pooris, sweets, coffee and water. We believe the souls feel hungry and eat food by coming as crows," said Celine Fernandes who had come to pray at the grave of her grand parents… 295 words. more details.. | |||
| Talk gets cheaper as India's mobiles price war hots up 3 Nov: FT. 790 words. more details.. | |||
| Kilimanjaro's snows melt away in dramatic evidence of climate change 3 Nov: The Times (UK). The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone within two decades, according to scientists who say that the rapid melting of its glacier cap over the past century provides dramatic physical evidence of global climate change… 640 words + photos + comments. more details.. | |||
| UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes FILM: Bride and Prejudice. Film 4 Friday 6th Nov. 18.50 - 21.00. The determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters. Subtitles, 2004, 12, 3 Star COOKERY: Hairy Bikers Ride Again. Good Food COOKERY: Come Dine with Me. more4 DRAMA: Anita and Me. BBC Radio 7 DOCUMENTARY: Not Forgotten. Channel 4 COOKERY: The F Word. Channel 4 MUSIC: The Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert. BBC Radio Three DOCUMENTARY: Banged Up Abroad. National Geographic DOCUMENTARY: The Family. Channel 4 HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Gandhi. BBC 1 | |||
