Goan Voice Newsletter: Tuesday 31 Mar. 2015
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Aires Rodrigues: Mickky Pacheco faces six-month jail term
31 Mar: Times of India. In a major setback to Goa's rural development agency (RDA) Minister Francisco 'Mickky' Pacheco, the Supreme Court has dismissed his petition challenging the order of the high court of Bombay at Goa for allegedly assaulting a junior engineer (JE) of the electricity department in 2006… Margao additional sessions court Judge Vijaya Pol on December 13, 2012, convicted Pacheco for causing the JE simple hurt, but released him on an admonition by granting him benefit under Probation of Offenders Act. A few days later, social activist Aires Rodrigues, an advocate, in his petition before the high court had challenged the release of Pacheco on admonition… click here Won’t react till I get copy of order: CM. 31 Mar: Times of India. click here |
Canada: Richard Pereira, 36, charged in Brampton homicide
29 Mar: CBC (Canada). A woman's body was removed from a Nanwood Drive home in Brampton, Ont., on Sunday afternoon… Richard Pereira, 36, has been charged with second-degree murder. click here
30 Mar: Toronto Sun. Police have identified the victim as Kathryn Horne, a 58-year-old woman from Toronto … Pereira’s mother voluntarily came forward to investigators as a witness… Neighbours described Pereira as friendly, but said he often talked of being followed and of his acute fear that his mother would be kidnapped… One resident recalled a conversation he had with Pereira’s mother, in which she called her son extremely disturbed…
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Picture of a young Mother Teresa goes viral
30 Mar: An angelic face, a radiant hue and a perfect smile. This young woman smiling in this picture comes across as an apostle of classic elegance, spent in the retired summers of early 1930s. As uncanny as it might appear, this beautiful young lady is none other than Mother Teresa at the age of 18, blossoming in the prime of her youth. This very rare image, going viral on social media depicts the early years of this glorious force which worked tirelessly for the service of mankind, and became responsible for re-instilling the virtues of compassion and care, and spread the message of “serving mankind is serving the lord.” … click here
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India moves to speed up adoption
30 Mar: The Guardian. New child welfare minister pledges to improve ‘shameful’ record on adoption – with more than 30 million orphans estimated in country ... Prospective parents in India are stymied by complicated rules… India also wants to limit foreign adoptions to less than 20% of the total.… The number of adoptions by foreigners fell from 628 to 271 in the past four years because the government’s priority is to find Indian parents first. India also wants to limit foreign adoptions to less than 20% of the total. Earlier last month, a parliament panel killed a government proposal to boost foreign adoption, saying that option must be explored only when there is a problem finding suitable parents within India… click here
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Local IT professionals opt to ‘make in Goa’
30 Mar: Times of India. Tired of making money for others and seeking a better quality of life, Goans who had left the state to pursue careers in the IT sector are steadily making their way back to their homeland. Mapusa resident Tyrone D'Souza aged 27 was working with InMobi and helped the mobile advertising company consolidate its operation in Singapore and has come back to his roots to start his own company in November 2014… Ponda-resident Gajanan Nagarsekar, who left USA to start 'Kallows Engg India Pvt Ltd' has returned to Goa… Jeetu Melwani left for distant Chile but now operates from Mapusa, Melwani offers health conscious people breakfast mixes, granola, dehydrated berries, seeds and nuts, and natural health supplements… click here
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Goa mulling special software to track illegal sex tests
30 Mar: IANS. The administration in Goa is mulling installing special software to keep record of every ultrasound machine in Goa, an official said on Monday, following the recent crackdown on errant ultrasound clinics in South Goa district. The move comes at a time when Goa, despite healthy social indicators, has been aggressively trying to better its sex ratio, which has seen a dip in recent times… Goa has a sex ratio of 968 females per 1,000 males… click here
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Monday Meal: Pork Vindaloo
30 Mar: Salt Lake Tribune (USA). Located along India's west coast, the state of Goa is virtually synonymous, from a culinary standpoint, with vindaloo. It's a bright-tasting type of curry, the name of which is said to derive from a Portuguese colonists' dish called carne de vinha d'alhos. The crisp, bright flavor comes from vinegar which is mixed with a number of typical Indian spices… click here
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