GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER THU 27 MAY, 2010
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| Dr Jayant Vaidya: Single dose breast cancer treatment | |||
 27 May: Pharmacy News. Results from a trial of a single dose breast cancer treatment
will be released next week … Dr
Jayant Vaidya, principle investigator of the trial said it could change two
fundamental principles in the treatment of breast cancer… 302 words. Click
here. For the GVUK Dr Vaidya supplement, click here. | |||
| Canada: Fif Fernandes: Health benefits of 'Laughter Yoga' | |||
 27 May: CanWest News Service. Fif Fernandes and Hamish Boyd teach Laughter Yoga … she has a medical and theatre background and works as a therapeutic clown at Alberta Children’s Hospital… They have been in a lot of seniors' places to do this and it's been very helpful to the old folks... For more information about Laughter Yoga Canada, visit www.laughteryoga-canada.org. 1070 words. | |||
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| Death: Saude George | |||
27 May: Nairobi. SAUDE GEORGE (Born 1932). Beloved husband of Fela. Loving
father of Kenneth and Suzanne/Peter D'Souza. Grandfather to Sean and Niko. Funeral
arrangements will be announced. Condolences to susan@scenic.co.ke 11 Mar. 2002. The East African. Saude George At 69: 'Angry Young Man of Kenyan Sport' Looks Back… George represented Kenya twice in the Olympic Games at hockey in 1960 and 1964. He rubbed shoulders with writers such as Pio Gama Pinto and Jawaharlal "Joe" Rodrigues … He was president of the Goan Institute and the Goan Sports Association of Kenya for more than 20 years… 1549 words. Click here. 25 Nov. 2006: Daily Nation (Nairobi). Soccer loving Saude George turns hockey hero. 419 words. Click here. Photo by Eddie Fernandes, 2005. | |||
| Lakshmi Menon: Dusky angel | |||
 26 May: The Statesman. Last year US Vogue chose Lakshmi Menon for a 12-page shoot. She was photographed at her home in Goa… Her first big break came when Jean Paul Gaultier cast her for a show for his own label, which led to a job on the Hermès catwalk and later the Hermès advertising campaign…
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| Death: Seema Dubale 23 May: Chicago (USA), SEEMA PRAMOD DUBALE (nee Bandekar), Wife of Dr Pramod. Mother of Aditi. Cremated on 26 May. | |||
| Goa sets up National Games Secretariat 27 May: IANS. Goa constituted a National Games Secretariat to finalise various activities for the National Games to be held in 2011, the state government said Thursday… 211 words. Full Text. | |||
| Canada: Jane Gomes: Six months for mom originally charged with manslaughter 27 May: Metro Halifax. Jane Gomes, 23, originally from Bangladesh, was sentenced to six months of probation, along with time served, for failing to provide the necessities of life in the death of her seven-week-old baby daughter Aurora … She broke down in a Halifax courtroom yesterday, sobbing … 429 words + photo. Full Text. | |||
| Goa: Plans for mega convention centre 28 May: Plans to set up a mega international convention centre, not very far from Panaji, have been revived… 440 words. Full Text. | |||
| Video + text: Visa row: India warns Canada of retaliation 27 May: CNN-IBN. Canada is feeling the heat after the Indian Govt. summoned Canadian High Commissioner Joseph Caron and asked them to make a statement after several Indian security agency officers were denied visa to visit the North American country… 2m. 06s. Full Text. | |||
| Record number of foreigners receive British passports as figure soars by 58% 27 May: Daily Mail. The number of British passports issued to foreigners had soared by more than half, latest Home Office figures reveal today. A record total of 203,790 were issued in 2009 with more than half of the recipients coming from Africa and the Indian sub-continent… 481 words.+ comments.Full Text. | |||
| Goa undecided on CBI probe into cop-drug mafia nexus 27 May: Sify. The Goa government is yet undecided about handing over the police-drug mafia nexus probe, which also involves a senior state politician, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said on Thursday. 241 words. Full Text. | |||
| Weekly update: Exchange: £ = 68.12; € = 58.26; $ = 47.31 Goa Weather: Max = 35.7; Min = 28.5; Humidty = 69% | |||
| Goa holiday dreams shattered due to visa problems 27 May: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (UK). Khalid Saleem and Michelle Shirtliffe booked a trip to Goa in December 2008., planning to spend two weeks there in March 2010. Khalid, whose dad is Pakistani, was concerned about possible entry problems … They re-applied for the visa three times and visited London twice … The couple missed their holiday and lost £1,500 … The newspaper contacted the Indian High Commission but it failed to respond. 469 words. Full Text. | |||
| Rat poison girl now admitted to Chennai hospital 27 May: Times of India. A Loutolim woman who was undergoing treatment at Jupiter hospital, Mumbai, for over a week, after allegedly consuming rat poison, has now been admitted to Apollo hospital, Chennai, apparently to seek a liver donor for a transplant… the patient had said that she had accidentally consumed rat poison mistaking it for toothpaste. .. 215 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa activist on hunger strike alleges police harassment 27 May: Times of India. Narayan Ganesh Gadekar, a 45-year-old activist protesting the airport project in Mopa, Thursday resorted to indefinite hunger strike alleging harassment by police in Pernem … 298 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa tourism banks on Poles and Russians for revival 27 May: PTI. After losing on the tourists from Western Europe, Goa is now banking on travellers from Russia and Poland to revive the sagging tourism scene in the state… 234 words. Full Text. | |||
| Toronto: Urban Scrawl 27 May: National Post (Canada). Toronto's transit system is an antiquated mess … New Delhi has built a subway network which the New York Times reported "is a feat bordering on miraculous …” Its managing director, 77-year-old Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, has a peerless record … he led a corporation that performed the engineering marvel of the Konkan Railway: a modern rail corridor with 2,000 bridges and 100 tunnels, spanning 800 km of mountainous terrain… 979 words. Full Text. | |||
| North Goa beaches to be cleaned of tar balls 27 May: Times of India. In a massive exercise to protect Goa's beaches from the tar ball menace, the state tourism department on Wednesday deployed its workers to clean up the beach stretch of Baga, Calangute, Candolim, and Sinquerim… 220 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa beaches get security cover 27 May Economic Times. The next time you visit Goa be prepared to find gun-wielding ex-servicemen amid a sea of semi-covered bodies at its glorious beaches, ready to help you and reprimand you, backed by a fleet of vehicles patrolling the 105-km coastal belt of the state… 271 words. Full Text. | |||
