GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER MON 12 JULY, 2010
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| Death: Ralph De Souza | |||
7 Jul: Wallington, Surrey, UK. RALPH DE SOUZA of Saligao (Born 1924; ex-Nairobi).
Husband of Sarah. Father of Ingrid (Caje) and Terence (Anna). Grandfather of Andrew,
Sarita, Peter, Sophie and Christopher. Great-grandfather of Zara and Hugo. Funeral
at 10am on Friday 16th July at St John the Baptist Church, 48 Dale Road, Purley,
Surrey CR8 2EF. No flowers please. If so desired please make any donations to
the Renal Unit at St Helier Hospital for which there will be a collection after
the service. Cheques can also be made payable to "The South West Thames Kidney
Fund" and sent to the family. Condolences to smvdesouza@hotmail.com | |||
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| Swindon: Fun in the sun at Goan festival | |||
 12 Jul: Swindon Advertiser. About 3,000 people turned up to the third Goan Summer Festival on Saturday... Goan Swindon Association president Santana Souza said: “The aim was to get together to show our culture to our neighbours...” ... Tony Rock (photo) , a professional singer from Goa, delighted the crowd ... The chief guest was Francisco Silveira, a member of the Goan Legislative Assembly ... The festival raised about £2,000 towards the construction of a community building... 260 words + 3 photos. | |||
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| Tony Fernandes: Living The Dream | |||
 11 Jul: News of the World (UK). There is one man who walks around the paddock
with a bigger smile on his face than most and that is AirAsia boss and Lotus F1
team principal Tony
Fernandes who reveals he is living the schoolboy dream... he is a maverick
on a one-man mission to bring low cost travel and entertainment to the masses
via his first passion, sport... 1342 words. | |||
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News Summary | |||
| Sex racket: police asked to carry out proper investigation 13 Jul: Herald. Calangute police carried out the raid suspecting prostitution activities in guise of beauty saloon but The Mapusa Deputy Collector has said that the rescued girls were not involved in the sex racket... the raid was described at illegal, unwarranted and unjustified.,, 321 words. Full Text. | |||
| NRIs to get voting rights: Moily 12 Jul: PTI. "The Law ministry has initiated a scheme to provide voting rights to NRIs," Indian law minister Veerappa Moily told members of the Indian Overseas Congress (UK) London ... NRIs would have to visit India at the time of the elections...He also assured the UK-based NRIs that he would take up the issue of providing visa-free travel facilities to them in the European Union... 285 words. Full Text. | |||
| Report on traffic situation in Goa in 15 months 12 Jul: Hindu. The Central Road Research Institute will study the traffic scenario in Goa and submit its report to the Government in 15 months... A high ratio of deaths on the road — over 300 every year for a State with a population less than 1.4 million — traffic congestion, high number of private vehicles and bad public transport service have been major concerns for Goa ... 490 words. Full Text. | |||
| BJP Youth demands CBI probe into Naik's son's links 12 Jun: UNI. The BJP Yuva Morcha today demanded that a CBI probe be made into police-politician-drug mafia nexus in which Roy Naik, son of Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik, was allegedly involved. Carrying placards and raising slogans, the youth numbering about 200 took out a procession to the police headquarters ... 233 words. Full Text. | |||
| Pacheco giving evasive answers, say police 12 Jul: 18:50 IST. PTI. Francisco Pacheco, accused in the death of his close friend Nadia Torrado, is giving replies contrary to the documents available with the crime branch, police said today... they have recovered five mobiles and three SIM cards used by him during the fortnight before Nadia allegedly consumed poison on May 15... Full Text. | |||
| Efforts on to achieve 100 per cent literacy in Goa: CM 12 Jul: UNI. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has said efforts were underway to achieve cent per cent literacy in Goa as against 85 per cent now... 142 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa priest bans display of valuables on coffins 12 Jul: UCAN. Father Raul Colaco has warned parishioners not to place valuables on coffins.... He made the announcement after two freshly-dug graves in the parish cemetery were vandalized 10 days earlier... Police suspect thieves dug up the graves, believing that valuables had been buried with the deceased... 164 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goan pedos in grave trouble 12 Jul: Pioneer (India). Goa’s pedos, or grave-diggers, at Catholic cemeteries are a fast dying tribe ... recent cases of vandalism of graves in Catholic cemeteries, apparently for the trinkets of gold buried along with the dead, has rigged a canopy of dark clouds over the otherwise tough, but devout and simpleton image of the pedos throughout Goa... A popular practice exists in Goa where gold found on a person at the time of his death, was buried along with the deceased during the funeral... 684 words. Full Text. | |||
| Texas: Sheldon Fernandes sentenced in child porn case 11 Jul: Dallas Morning News. ... In Fort Worth, Sheldon Fernandes of Arlington was sentenced to 42 months in prison for receipt of child pornography. Fernandes, 30, a citizen of India is in the United States on a student visa ... After completion of his sentence, he will be deported to India, court officials said... Full Text. | |||
| Commercial farming of Goa’s orchids possible 12 Jul: Times of India. Goa has rich diversity of orchids and there is a lot of scope for its mass multiplication for commercial purpose... 294 words. Full Text. | |||
| Video: 64 killed in Uganda bomb blast 12 Jul: NTV Kenya. At least 64 people have been killed and 65 others injured in two near simultaneous bomb explosions in restaurants in Kampala, in attacks apparently targeting crowds watching the World Cup final. There is no immediate indication of who had launched the attack but there is talk that last year, Somali rebel group al Shabaab threatened to attack the Ugandan capital. Uganda has troops in Somalia with an African Union peacekeeping force... 1m. 56s. Full Text. | |||
| Doctors forced to give fake certificates: Oscar Rebello 11 Jul: Herald. Social activist and renowned medical practitioner Dr Oscar Rebello created a stir stating that doctors at government hospitals are being pressurized to give false medical certificates... Dr Rebello further stated that to overcome this problem the government needs to set up a medical board, which consists of three or more doctors... 278 words. Full Text. | |||
