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| The Mining Petition is extended to 30 April 2010 | ||
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| Tie For Thomas | ||
 14 Apr: Enfield Independent (UK). Enfield golfer Thomas Fernandes posted a 36-hole gross one over 142 to tie for the first place at the Swede Spring Invitational in Salina, Kansas, USA… he was a member of Enfield Golf Club before his golf scholarship in Kansas. Thomas is the son of Dores and Agnelo Fernandes ex-Eastleigh, Nairobi and brother of John and Isabella.
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| Thinking 'Positive'ly | ||
 Apr. 2010. Express Healthcare. Goa-based NGO, Positive
People addresses various issues related to HIV/AIDS care and support, prevention,
advocacy, training and research…. PP was founded by Dominic D'Souza (photo),
the first HIV positive activist from Goa in the year 1992. When found positive,
he was quarantined … his friends approached the High Court and launched a
public campaign to release him… Goa is in the accelerated phase of the HIV
epidemic. 1846 words + photos. | ||
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| Chris D’Souza: Fight discrimination in all forms | ||
 1 Apr: Niagara This Week (Canada). Chris D’Souza, a lecturer at York University was the keynote speaker at the annual Niagara Catholic School Councils’ Convention … When he was younger, his family, of mixed East Indian/Portugese descent, had a cottage in northern Ontario which was vandalized. His father was ready to sell the property until friends found out who the culprit was and convinced the D’Souza family to stay… 528 words. | ||
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| Konkani Rocks Shoots through Cyberspace | ||
 14 Apr: Navhind Times. Last year, on December 3, Heritage Jazz presented a very
innovative and enlightening concept of 'Konkani Rocks' (www.konkanirocks.com)
which struck the right chords in the heart of Goa, creating a milestone in the
world of Konkani… 460 words. | ||
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| Video: 1990’s Anjuna Market | ||
 CloverTV. From Anjuna Beach, Goa you can find the world´s freakest market place where hippies and they followers are spending shiny happy life. This video is from the early 1990´s when the real hippies atmosphere was still to be found... 9m. 57s.
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News Summary | ||
| Alcon Victor group to invest Rupees 130 crore in health, hospitality 14 Apr: UNI. The Goa-based Alcon Victor group has embarked a plan to open a 5-star deluxe hotel besides opening a state-of-the-art multi-speciality hospital specialising on geriatrics at a cost of Rupees 30 crore .. The proposed super-speciality hospital would focus more on treatment of dementia and Alzheimer’s' disease the incidence of which had been rampant but not so visible in Goa… 390 words. Full Text. | ||
| Financial castles in the air 14 Apr: Money Life. DLF is offering a rebate of 10.50% for its 'River Valley' residential apartment project at Panjim in Goa ... the consumer is supposed to pay Rs 4,00,000 for a two-bedroom flat at the time of booking. The remaining 95% of sale price has to be shelled out within two months after booking the flat…415 words. Full Text. | ||
| China reportedly bans low grade iron ore imports 14 Apr: Steel Orbis (USA). Chinese traders with iron ore importing licenses are no longer allowed to import low grade iron ore of iron content lower than 60 percent, market sources say… The greatest impact is likely to be on the Indian western coast city Goa, where 70 percent of iron ore exports shipped from the port mainly goes to China… 271 words. Full Text. | ||
| “Scarlett trial scarring Goa’s image” 14 Apr: IANS. Blow by blow reportage of the Scarlett Keeling trial is opening up old wounds which have scarred Goa’s image in Britain’s tourist circuit, a top tourism industry spokesperson has said… Ralph de Souza also compared the constant bombardment of the Scarlett Keeling trial in the British media to Goebellian propaganda… 499 words. Full Text. | ||
| White ants ‘ate’ 24 kg cannabis: Prosecution tells court 14 Apr: IANS. White ants ‘ate’ 24 kg cannabis from the official store room, the state prosecution department told the High Court, while opposing the bail of several Goa policemen charged with links to the narcotics mafia… an audit of the store room showed that a large quantity of drugs was missing, suspected sold by the officials to drug dealers. 378 words. Full Text. | ||
| Swingers go for secret sex 14 Apr: Daily Sport (UK). Thousands of randy married couples are heading off on swinging summer sex hols, a survey said yesterday… According to the swingers’ survey, favourite venues include Cyprus, Goa and Florida … Full Text. | ||
| Tourist flow in Goa rises 14 Apr: Deccan Chronicle. The tourism department claims that over 2.5 million foreign and domestic tourists visited Goa in 2009 … “I don’t get it. We are almost running at a loss here,” said John Fernandes, who runs a water sport outfit… Full Text. | ||
| Returning home from Goa (3). By Birgitta Stiefler 14 Apr: Sourze (Sweden)… At Cola beach we got a hut for 600 rupees (about 100skr). This place was a step from paradise … We came back to Agonda and got which even had glass in the window. I found out the lady we rented from charged us 4 times the high season price … We flew back to Bombay. The people there were different from Goa for they stared hard at us … We had a wonderful holiday in Goa. The food was great and we lived like royalty. It is not so stupid to do that sometimes. 981 words. Machine translation. Full Text. | ||
| Bash in Bandra 14 Apr: Mumbai Mirror. Bandra, Mumbai's hippest 'burb, has transformed rather rapidly from a quiet residential area with churches and convents to a party destination. It now sports two faces: the let's-head-out-and-live-it-up-face and the can-we-keep-it-down-this-is-our-home face… when old Mrs Rodriguez woke up to empty beer bottles, used condoms and other party flotsam in her prized garden, she knew her world had changed forever… 1432 words + 6 photos. Full Text. | ||
| Interview: James D'Silva, fitness trainer 13 Apr: The Scotsman. He and Madonna are so chummy, he refers to her simply as "M". Gwyneth Paltrow is another of his famous clients. And when he pops over to Tuscany, Sting and Trudie Styler insist he stays at their luxurious eco-friendly villa, Il Palagio. But James D'Silva, pilates guru to the stars, thinks it's all just "a pain in the arse"… 850 words. Full Text. | ||
| UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes DOCUMENTARY: Angry Planet. Travel Channel Friday 16th Apr. 08:00 to 08:30. Indian Monsoon. Nowhere on earth gets such a long period of intense rainfall as India in the summer monsoon season … the leach-filled waterfalls in Goa … FILM: The Sea Wolves. Channel 4 DOCUMENTARY: Indian Hill Railways. BBC 2 COOKERY: Great British Food. Discovery Real Time FILM: The Good Pope. Film24 TRAVEL: Feast India. Travel Channel DOCUMENTARY: Secrets of the Taj Mahal. National Geographic DOCUMENTARY: Children in Fight. Press TV (Sky 515) DOCUMENTARY: Kala Pani: A Forgotten History. BBC Radio Four ARTS: Front Row. BBC Radio Four | ||