GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SAT 05 JUNE, 2010
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| Mickky Pacheco resigns, police on hunt for him | |||
6 Jun: Navhind Times. Mickky Pacheco resigned from the cabinet, skipped the probe
by the police and went into hiding on Saturday, apparently to evade arrest…
all the Goa police stations have been alerted … Meanwhile the CID sleuths
continued to question Ms Sonia Torrado, mother of Nadia … 855 words. Click
here. Video: Mickky Pacheco Resigns; Police issues Alert. 4m 27s. Click here. | |||
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| UK: New Event Announcement | |||
Sun. 20 Jun: From 12 noon. Fathers Day - Rock Around The Dock Boat Party with "The Iron Mountain". Royal Docks, Woolwich, London. Adults £24, Children Aged 4 to 12 - £12, Kids under 4 years free. Price includes 12 course buffet (Indian Cuisine). For full details and to
book tickets online go to www.rockaroundthedock.com
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| David Castelino in Canada’s 2010 Top 20 Under 20 | |||
4 Jun: University of Toronto. Second-year Chemical Engineering student David Castelino has been named one of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20™ by Youth in Motion for his development of a thin-film solar tile … His interest in this began in grade five when he worked with a solar kit purchased by his mother and also by the work by his sister, Rachel … 560 words. David was born in Canada; his parents Margaret and Patrick (photo) were born in Karachi with roots in Moira and Assagao respectively. | |||
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| James D'Silva: Training Madonna | |||
 4 Jun: Jewish Chronicle (UK). James
D'Silva trained Madonna for four years… He has evolved pilates into Garuda,
his own hybrid workout system. Madonna, and others celebrities including Gwyneth
Paltrow and Trudie Styler, have worked out under his guidance… D'Silva, who
spent his formative years in Goa, feels very at home in Israel. "It's like
being in India - total chaos… 773 words + photo. | |||
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| World Environment Day: A tough act to follow. By Carmen Miranda | |||
5 Jun: D Sector. Jairam Ramesh, as India's Environment and Forests Minister, handles
one of the most difficult jobs in the Indian cabinet. He has to reconcile between
ecological balance and economic growth, and that too at a time of the global economic
crisis, and the biggest environmental crisis in living memory. Carmen Miranda is a renowned environmentalist. She is based in London and actively involved in Save Western Ghats movement. Her crusade against mining in Goa is well known. 1183 words + cartoon by Carmen Miranda. | |||
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News Summary | |||
| Mickky Pacheco resigns, police on hunt for him 6 Jun: Navhind Times. Mickky Pacheco resigned from the cabinet, skipped the probe by the police and went into hiding on Saturday, apparently to evade arrest… all the Goa police stations have been alerted … Meanwhile the CID sleuths continued to question Ms Sonia Torrado, mother of Nadia … 855 words. Click here. Video: Mickky Pacheco Resigns; Police issues Alert. 4m 27s. Click here. | |||
| Nadia Torrado: No clue yet what cops want to prove 6 Jun: Herald. While the family members of Nadia Torrado, who are being subjected to rounds of interrogation, continue to maintain they were being harassed for no reason, there were no firm conclusions as to where the case was headed even after two days of questioning… Meanwhile, it is learnt that Nadia’s mother and her brothers have been called for interrogation on Sunday. 375 words. Full Text. | |||
| Film Director making waves in Goa 6 Jun: Deccan Herald. By Devika Sequeira. In a darkly brooding setting, rarely associated with Goa, Laxmikant Shetgaonkar unspools a touching, authentic film that has earned him international acclaim. After taking the International Federation of Film Critic’s award at the Toronto Film Festival in October last year, Paltadacho Munis ('The Man Beyond the Bridge') was given the grand jury prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles recently. The film has also had a highly successful run at over a dozen film festivals abroad… 398 words. Full Text. | |||
| India: 11 Africans on hunger strike against detention freed 5 Jun: Sify. Eleven Africans who had gone on a hunger strike to demand their release from detention centres have been freed but now face uncertainty over their stay in India… They had gone on hunger strike from June 1… 340 words. Full Text. | |||
| Kiev: Ilya Chichkan’s solo exhibition opens 5 Jun: The multimedia exhibition of one of the most outrageous and expensive Ukrainian artists Ilya Chichkan opened today. Ten portraits were done in Goa in India. "India is shit - and gold”, he says … 12 photos + text. Machine translation. Full Text. | |||
| Jayant Vaidya: One-shot radiotherapy 'success against breast cancer' 5 Jun: BBC. A single dose of radiation during surgery is just as effective as a prolonged course of radiotherapy for breast cancer, a study suggests… Jayant Vaidya, who is also a UCLH oncologist, said the new treatment "could mean that many more women could conserve their breasts"… Photo. Full Text. | |||
| Death: Marlene Pereira 1 Jun: Vancouver, Canada. MARLENE ZITA PEREIRA. (Born in Calcutta; 1934). Marlene was predeceased by her husband Philip. She is survived by her children Robert (Lucia Maria), Michelle (Arvind), and Jill (Rob); her granddaughter Olivia, and step-granddaughters Kamara, Marista, and Leandra; and many other family and friends.Prayer Service at 7:00 pm on June 10, at St John the Apostle Catholic Church, Vancouver from where a Funeral Mass will be held at 11:00am on Friday, 11 June, 2010 with a reception and burial to follow. Photo and full details. Full Text. | |||
| Needlework Nuns. By Joeanna Rebello 5 Jun: Times of India. From behind the high walls of a convent in south Goa, the brides of Christ make beautiful trousseaux for real brides. But the decades-old tradition is in danger of dying out as girls opt for department store readymades over handcrafted finery… 1690 words + 4 photos. Full Text. | |||
| Cash and Carry 6 Jun: The Week. Surrogacy may still be taboo in India and controversies surround the doctors and even the newborn. But it is a win-win situation for both the genetic parents and the surrogate mothers… Manisha Nuton Macwan, 33, a widow, delivered for a Goan couple five months ago… Manisha got Rs 3 lakh for delivering the baby for the couple, who were childless even after 21 years of marriage… Full Text. | |||
| Robert Schumann's 200th birthday celebrated 4 Jun: Times of India. Robert Schumann's 200th birth anniversary will be celebrated in Mumbai with a festival dedicated to his romantic compositions… For the fest, the organisers have flown down Marialena Fernandes a Mumbai-born musician who has been teaching classical music in Europe… 396 words. Full Text. | |||
| George Fernandes: Catfight on birthday 4 Jun: The Telegraph. A doughty fighter and a fiery speaker during his prime, George Fernandes today sat nonplussed as the two women closest to him indulged in a catfight in public. The occasion was the 80th birthday of Fernandes, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s …fight was between his estranged wife Leila Kabir and son Sean on one side and Jaya Jaitly, his companion since 1984 and Fernandes’ four brothers on the other…. Money — around Rs 16 crore — from the sale of a coconut grove in Mangalore is also involved in the dispute… 856 words + photo. Full Text. | |||
| Video: The Churches and Convents of Goa 3 Jun: UNESCO. The Churches and Convents of Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese Indies – particularly the Church of Bom Jesus, which contains the tomb of St Francis-Xavier – illustrate the evangelization of Asia. These monuments were influential in spreading forms of Manueline, Mannerist and Baroque art in all the countries of Asia where missions were established. 2m. 53s. Full Text. | |||
| Video: The River Mandovi Cries for Help 4 Jun: Tubemogul. Sanghmitra Mainkar, who's from the heavily mined area of Bicholim in Goa, reports how miners dump waste into the beautiful river Mandovi. Although this is illegal, it's being carried on in broad daylight, polluting main water supply channels to critical levels! 2m. 55s. Full Text. | |||
| Goa’s underwater relics under threat 5 Jun: IANS. A combination of scuba gear equipped treasure hunters and government apathy is gnawing away at Goa’s underwater heritage, according to scientists from the National Institute of Oceanography … NIO scientists … The state archives located in Panaji contains records right from Portuguese days dating back 450 years… Costs of translations run into almost Rs.1,000 per page. The authorities are appealing for volunteers at a lesser price … 436 words. Full Text. | |||
