Goan Voice Newsletter: Thursday 05 Apr. 2018
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Death: Franklyn Pereira
3 Apr: Mombasa. FRANKLYN D. J. PEREIRA. Husband to Euphemia. Father to Jeffrey/Rashida, Denise/ Patrick and late Christopher (Kit). Loving grandfather of Desiree, Kyle, Chyrstal-Jade, Kristian and Samuel. Loving Brother of Michael/Maria (UK), Phila/Stan (Canada) and Patty/Robert (Canada). The requiem mass is on Friday 6 April 2018 at 2.30pm. Cremation at 3.45 pm.
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Rape case: UK national granted conditional bail
4 Apr: Navhind Times. Additional district and sessions judge, South Goa Synora Telles Laad has granted conditional bail to British national Shyam Ritatha, arrested by the Colva police for allegedly raping a 19-year-old British girl in a hotel room at Colva. Advocate Prasad Naik had moved the bail application before the court on behalf of the accused… the court ordered to release the accused on a bail bond of Rs 20,000 with a surety in like amount. The court has directed him not to leave the state and has asked him to surrender his passport… click here
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Religious heads to join forces to discuss social harmony
4 Apr: Times of India. Several religious heads from across India will attend the ‘Collective action for dialogue and social harmony’ organised by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in collaboration with the Agnel Region of the Society of Pilar. The programme will be held on April 5 … Archbishop of Goa and Daman Filipe Neri Ferrao will be the chief guest for the programme which will witness the participation of various religious heads from across India including Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas (photo). The participants will share their views on upholding the constitutional values “that are presently being torn apart by forces striving to spread the poison of communal harmony amongst the youth of India”… click here
4 Apr: Daily Pioneer. Country should emulate Goa's communal harmony: Church …
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Video: 3 Apr: HCN. Religious heads from across country to hold dialogue on social harmony … 2m. 43s.
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Goa police to close Felix Dahl murder case
4 Apr: Times of India. The Goa police on Tuesday decided to file a closure report in the Felix Dahl death case… The cops have now said that they’ve decided not to file the chargesheet, as after investigation, they haven’t found any evidence to prove the murder. Dahl’s mother had recently submitted a few more documents in the case… the Swedish national was found dead on a gravel road under mysterious circumstances on January 28, 2015, at Patnem, Canacona … the family has sought to set up a committee to investigate the ‘large number of foreign national deaths’ in the state… click here
5 Apr: Herald. … Dahl’s family members have approached the High Court of Bombay at Goa pleading that the investigation be handed over to CBI. Dahl’s mother has also sought the intervention of Finnish Foreign Minister Timo Soini, Prime Minister of India and Chief Minister of Goa to get justice for her son…
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Highway liquor ban: Goa govt introduces cluster town concept to bypass Supreme Court order
4 Apr: Indian Express. Hundreds of liquor outlets along highways in Goa that are facing closure in view of a Supreme Court order may get relief, with the BJP-led state government today coming up with the cluster town concept. “The government has decided to recommend to Finance department that the (liquor) outlets falling in the areas contiguous to municipalities or those which are sufficiently developed be notified as cluster towns,” state Town & Country Planning Minister Vijai Sardesai told PTI. Once notified as Cluster Towns, the outlets falling under the specified areas will be automatically excluded from the ambit of the SC order, he said… click here
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Fake Indian website offering girls for 'every taste' stirs up a storm
4 Mar: Reuters. A fake website offering girls to cater to “every taste and pocket” clocked up more than 1,000 subscribers on its first day, highlighting the challenge of tackling sex trafficking in India. StayUncle, a website that enables unmarried couples to book into hotels without hassle in conservative India, launched the spoof site - staylaid.com - after tiring of requests from clients to procure a sex worker as well… The website listed about a dozen girls and their physical attributes, adding that some had joined voluntarily while others were “procured from remote areas of India such as Assam and West Bengal by trusted brokers and promised big dreams”. “Getting laid could never be easier,” it promised… click here
For the staylaid website,
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For the stayuncle website,
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How London's Southall became 'Little Punjab'
4 Apr: The Guardian. A new project explores the largest Punjabi community outside India – from possibly Britain’s first Indian shop to race riots and the fight for rights … When he opened for business in 1954, Pritam Singh Sangha could never have envisaged that Southall would become Little Punjab… It was the R Woolf rubber factory in neighbouring Hayes that attracted Punjabis to Southall … Faced with discrimination and unable to secure accommodation easily, they lived in cramped, squalid conditions with anything up to 20 men sharing a terraced home… The Dominion Cinema, which showed Bollywood films, was a mainstay of the British Asian community in its heyday … At Little Punjab’s peak, Punjabis made up almost 70% of Southall’s population of 70,000 … click here
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Bright future for pig farms in Goa
4 Apr: Navhind Times. From being an imperative waste disposal system to being on our food tables, pigs have come a long way. If you didn’t know then, Goa too has its own breed of pigs – the Agonda pig … It is a small sized mostly black coloured, and has a short snout and rough bristles and is a local pig found across Goa… The Large White Yorkshire although an exotic breed is well-suited to Goan conditions with good growth rate and feed conversion ability under intensive care… The local indigenous pigs can weigh up to 50 kilograms in 10 to 12 months while the Large White Yorkshire can grow up to 100 kilograms in the same time… the Duroc is another breed that grows up to 350 kilograms, provides lean meat and is well-adapted to Goan conditions… click here
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UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes
ENTERTAINMENT: Poetry Extra - India's Beats: The Hungry Generation. BBC Radio
4 Extra (Freeview 708). Sun. 8th Apr. 17:00 to 17:30. 4 Extra Debut. Radical
poets in 1960's Calcutta. Poet Daljit Nagra introduces 'India's Beats: The Hungry
Generation' about educated Indian poets born in the slums. From January 2015.
DRAMA: The Good Karma Hospital. Itv. Sun. 8th Apr. 21:00 to 22:00. India-based
hospital drama series. Ruby is still reeling from her discoveries at the tea
plantation and must decide if she can forgive past mistakes. Meanwhile, Mari
goes head to head with Lydia when a surrogate mother gives birth in the hospital.
Series 2, Episode 4.
FILM: Shubh Mangal Saavdhan. Channel 4. Mon. 9th Apr. 01:25 to 03:15. Channel
4's latest Indian film season starts with a comedy-drama, a genre currently
in vogue in Bollywood. Directed by RS Prasanna, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan is set
in Delhi and is a remake of the director's Tamil film Kalyana Samayal Saadham.
In Hindi with English Subtitles, 2017.
DOCUMENTARY: Great Indian Railway Journeys. BBC 2. Tues. 10th Apr. 20:00 to
21:00. Lucknow to Kolkata. On an epic railway journey from Lucknow in Uttar
Pradesh to Kolkata in West Bengal, Michael Portillo uses his Bradshaw's 1913
Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, published when the British
Raj was 55 years old, to chart a course through India's history from the days
of The East India Company to the dawn of independence. Episode 4of 4.
COMEDY: Sketchtopia. BBC Radio 4 Longwave. Wed. 11th Apr. 18:30 to 19:00.
Multicultural Sketch Show Written by White, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
Stand-Ups and Writers From Across the UK.
DOCUMENTARY: Indian Summer School. Channel 4. Thurs. 12th Apr. 21:00 to 22:00.
3/3. After three months at the Doon School, all the boys are missing home and
it's exam time, as the boys retake their core GCSEs. Will they get the grades
they so desperately want?
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