Goan Voice Newsletter: Thursday 24 Sep. 2009
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Death: Theo Carvalho
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22 Sept: Vasco, Goa. THEO CARVALHO. Husband of Thelma. Loving father of Savio/Selma (London) and Noel/Monica. Grandfather of Lauren. Brother of Tina/Diego; Fr Martin Lulu; Amarante/late Lily. Funeral was in Vasco on 23 Sep. Condolences to carvalho_sel@yahoo.com
click here.
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Video: Does Manohar Parrikar say Advani must go?
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22 Sep: Prudent Media. Former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar (photo) created a controversy in a video interview with his alleged remarks comparing senior party leader L K Advani to a "rancid pickle" To listen to the interview click here. 23 Sep: PTI.
Manohar Parrikar today said the interpretation of his remarks in Konkani were "twisted and maliciously blown out of proportion by a section of the media". Click here.
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Video: Football: Churchill Brothers’ Durand cup win
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23 Sep: Goa 365 via Navhind Times. The Durand Cup victorious Churchill brothers sports Club arrived home on Wednesday to a hero’s welcome. Churchill brothers star striker Odafe Okolie’s brilliant hat trick gave Churchill brothers their 2nd Durand Cup title. 2m. 23s. click here.
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Freida and Dev can't keep their hands off each other
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23 Sep: Daily Mail (UK). The stars of Slumdog Millionaire were just as interested in each other as they were in the Burberry show at London Fashion Week. … A glowing Freida, 24, sat hand-in-hand with Dev, 19, at the Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer show and shared comments about the clothes on display. Text and photos. Click here. Dev-il of a Night
24 Sep: The Sun (UK). Dev Patel certainly got into the spirit of it at the Burberry after-party… he seems to have sunk a few and he let pretty partner Freida Pinto prop him up as they left the do… Text + photo Click here.
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India's caste system descended from two tribes
24 Sep: The Times (UK). India's caste system is not a relic of colonialism but has existed in some form for thousands of years, the most comprehensive study yet of the genetic diversity of the sub-continent has suggested… The research established that modern Indians of all castes are descended from two ancestral groups… 646 words. Click here.
23 Sep: Nature (UK). Indian ancestry revealed. 837 words + references. Click here.
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UK: Yousaf's journey brings a taste of home to Sheffield
24 Sep: Sheffield Telegraph (UK). As a child Yousaf Khan lived hand-to-mouth, working as a cleaner aged nine, then selling trinkets to tourists on Goa's beaches…. He learnt English from the tourists … By the time he was 17, he had rented a shop in Goa … he arrived in England seven years ago … Now Yousaf Khan runs Shikara an Aladdin's Cave of a shop, stuffed with handcrafted treasures, on Abbeydale Road in Sheffield… 740 words + photo. click here
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Cricket: India's secret strategy: sex, and lots of it
24 Sep: The Guradian (UK). Gary Kirsten, coach of the India cricket team, says sex is good pre-match preparation and even encourages 'going solo'… In a four-part document first leaked to the Hindustan Times, India's players are asked rhetorically: "Does sex increase performance?" And the answer begins: "Yes, it does, so go ahead and indulge." … 895 words. click here
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3 held on defamation charges
24 Sep: Times of India. Vasco police on Wednesday arrested three persons for allegedly defaming residents of Vasco, in a publication… Ashok Kamble and others lodged a police complaint stating that a newspaper delivery boy had distributed a publication that contained defamatory articles against women in Vasco… 157 words. click here
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Deaths
21 Sep: Chimbel, Goa. CATARINA FERNANDES. Wife of Paulo. Mother of Francis/Lavita and Orlando/Nifa. Funeral on 25 Sept. at Chimbel. 22 Sep: Rangwasa, Indore, India. SR. MATILDA D'SOUZA (ex Sauntta Vaddo, Calangute). Loving sister of Alda, Teresa, late Sr Edna, Clare and Philo. 23 Sep: Avedem, Quepem, Goa. UTTAM PANDURANG GAUNSDESAI (born 1950). Husband of Smt. Avanti. Father of Adv. Pranav and Shri Tushar. Brother of Dr. Dilip (Portugal).
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Goldshield sees its Verna office as the best BPO centre
24 Sep: Navhind Times. Goldshield Services Pvt Ltd office in Verna Industrial Estate is a four storey rotunda complex spread over 3,000 feet gives a five-star appearance… the head is Mr Hilary D’Souza … The British company was founded in 1991 by Mr Ajit Patel, Mr Kirti Patel and Mr Shane Gogerly… 579 words.
In Jun 2006 the Company had announced the plan to set up two health centres and a retirement village in Goa – see GVUK 2006-26 click here
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In support of freedom
24 Sep: Herald. A group of prominent Goans, resident in Goa and abroad have called upon the Goa Government to acknowledge the declaration in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) which states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” 307 words. click here
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Goanet highlights by Selma Carvalho
Some of the recent posts:
Are Christians with Hindu-names cowards?
Was being a tiatrist a Catholic Goan artistic profession?
The classic Konkani black and white movie song, Svettor kor.
Are Goans racist?
Savio Messias' tribute to Noel da Lima Leitao
Breathtaking pictures of Goa's rich Baroque architecture.
For these and more, select the link below
click here
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Italy: Sabrina De Sousa denies being a CIA agent
23 Sep: The Daily Beast. Lt. Colonel Joseph Romano, Sabrina De Sousa and 24 others are currently being tried, in absentia, by a Milan Court of kidnapping Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric. The Obama administration has asserted diplomatic immunity to Romano but not to De Sousa in spite of her application - for details, click here. The US Justice Department has, however granted De Sousa's request to pay her attorney fees. Her Washington lawyer, Mark Zaid says this decision raises more questions than it answers - for details click here. 23 Sep: AP. At the hearing in Milan today, the judge rejected the US application for diplomatic immunity for Romano… Sabrina De Sousa's lawyer said that the case against his client relies on classified evidence … De Sousa says she was a foreign service officer in Milan and denies she worked for the CIA … 749 words. Click here.
23 Sep: AP. The closing arguments in the case began today. The verdict is expected by the end of the year. Click here. For a photo and profile of Sabrina, click here.
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India's caste system descended from two tribes
24 Sep: The Times (UK). India's caste system is not a relic of colonialism but has existed in some form for thousands of years, the most comprehensive study yet of the genetic diversity of the sub-continent has suggested… The research established that modern Indians of all castes are descended from two ancestral groups… 646 words. Click here.
23 Sep: Nature (UK). Indian ancestry revealed. 837 words + references. Click here.
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UK: Yousaf's journey brings a taste of home to Sheffield
24 Sep: Sheffield Telegraph (UK). As a child Yousaf Khan lived hand-to-mouth, working as a cleaner aged nine, then selling trinkets to tourists on Goa's beaches…. He learnt English from the tourists … By the time he was 17, he had rented a shop in Goa … he arrived in England seven years ago … Now Yousaf Khan runs Shikara an Aladdin's Cave of a shop, stuffed with handcrafted treasures, on Abbeydale Road in Sheffield… 740 words + photo. click here
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Cricket: India's secret strategy: sex, and lots of it
24 Sep: The Guradian (UK). Gary Kirsten, coach of the India cricket team, says sex is good pre-match preparation and even encourages 'going solo'… In a four-part document first leaked to the Hindustan Times, India's players are asked rhetorically: "Does sex increase performance?" And the answer begins: "Yes, it does, so go ahead and indulge." … 895 words. click here
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3 held on defamation charges
24 Sep: Times of India. Vasco police on Wednesday arrested three persons for allegedly defaming residents of Vasco, in a publication… Ashok Kamble and others lodged a police complaint stating that a newspaper delivery boy had distributed a publication that contained defamatory articles against women in Vasco… 157 words. click here
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Deaths
21 Sep: Chimbel, Goa. CATARINA FERNANDES. Wife of Paulo. Mother of Francis/Lavita and Orlando/Nifa. Funeral on 25 Sept. at Chimbel. 22 Sep: Rangwasa, Indore, India. SR. MATILDA D'SOUZA (ex Sauntta Vaddo, Calangute). Loving sister of Alda, Teresa, late Sr Edna, Clare and Philo. 23 Sep: Avedem, Quepem, Goa. UTTAM PANDURANG GAUNSDESAI (born 1950). Husband of Smt. Avanti. Father of Adv. Pranav and Shri Tushar. Brother of Dr. Dilip (Portugal).
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Goldshield sees its Verna office as the best BPO centre
24 Sep: Navhind Times. Goldshield Services Pvt Ltd office in Verna Industrial Estate is a four storey rotunda complex spread over 3,000 feet gives a five-star appearance… the head is Mr Hilary D’Souza … The British company was founded in 1991 by Mr Ajit Patel, Mr Kirti Patel and Mr Shane Gogerly… 579 words.
In Jun 2006 the Company had announced the plan to set up two health centres and a retirement village in Goa – see GVUK 2006-26 click here
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In support of freedom
24 Sep: Herald. A group of prominent Goans, resident in Goa and abroad have called upon the Goa Government to acknowledge the declaration in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) which states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” 307 words. click here
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Goanet highlights by Selma Carvalho
Some of the recent posts:
Are Christians with Hindu-names cowards?
Was being a tiatrist a Catholic Goan artistic profession?
The classic Konkani black and white movie song, Svettor kor.
Are Goans racist?
Savio Messias' tribute to Noel da Lima Leitao
Breathtaking pictures of Goa's rich Baroque architecture.
For these and more, select the link below
click here
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Italy: Sabrina De Sousa denies being a CIA agent
23 Sep: The Daily Beast. Lt. Colonel Joseph Romano, Sabrina De Sousa and 24 others are currently being tried, in absentia, by a Milan Court of kidnapping Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric. The Obama administration has asserted diplomatic immunity to Romano but not to De Sousa in spite of her application - for details, click here. The US Justice Department has, however granted De Sousa's request to pay her attorney fees. Her Washington lawyer, Mark Zaid says this decision raises more questions than it answers - for details click here. 23 Sep: AP. At the hearing in Milan today, the judge rejected the US application for diplomatic immunity for Romano… Sabrina De Sousa's lawyer said that the case against his client relies on classified evidence … De Sousa says she was a foreign service officer in Milan and denies she worked for the CIA … 749 words. Click here.
23 Sep: AP. The closing arguments in the case began today. The verdict is expected by the end of the year. Click here. For a photo and profile of Sabrina, click here.
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