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IN BRIEF Goa plans vacancy bulletin: Henceforth, find-

ing out job vacancies in government departments will be easier. On the lines with of Employment News the State Government has decided to publish a weekly bulletin – The Goa Vacancy and Tender Bulletin that would contain information about vacancies in various departments of the government as also tenders floated for various work, informed N D Agarwal, Director, Printing and Stationary. - (HR)

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No change in fuel levies PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today announced changes in tax proposals that will benefit coffee growers, new hospitals and construction sector while making it clear that service tax on domestic travellers would be Rs 100 per domestic journey and a maximum of Rs 500 for international travel.

Mukherjee announced these concessions that would cost the exchequer Rs 300-400 crore a year but did not touch the demand for rolling back the hike in petroleum and fertiliser prices on which the entire opposition walked out before Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill, 2010.

Explaining the reasons for his inability to concede the opposition’s demand, he said the financial position was such that oil marketing companies faced an under recovery of Rs 85,000 crore this year apart from heavy outgo on account of subsidies, interest and other payments.

On account of the new coffeedebt relief package, the outgo from Government kitty will be Rs 241.33 crore, but benefit to farmers will be worth Rs 362.82 crore.

Replying to the debate on the Finance Bill that was passed by voice vote with official amendments, Mukherjee said with a view to giving an impetus to the health sector, construction of hospitals with at least 100 beds

PROPERTY & HOUSING l The newly imposed service tax will be only on 25 per cent of the total value of the property, including land, compared to 33 per cent proposed in the Budget. l Exemption of service tax for low cost housing for the urban poor under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and under Rajiv Awas Yojna. l Tax rebates on the basis of investment to developing and building of housing projects under the slum rehabilitation scheme.

HEALTH l Construction of hospitals with at least 100 beds anywhere in India qualifies for tax concessions. l Custom duty concessions to Ostomy appliances, used to treat cancer patients. Customs duty reduced to 5 per cent on 11 drugs, including two anti-cancer ones and one for AIDS.

EDUCATION l Service tax exemption to vocational courses provided by the training institutes registered under Skill Development Scheme of the labour ministry.

STEEL l Customs duty on stainless steel scrap cut from 5 per cent to 2.5 per cent

Export duty on iron ore lumps up Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday further increased the export duty on the iron ore lumps from 10 to 15 per cent. Only last December, the government had raised the export duty on lumps from 5 to 10 per cent and that on fines from nil to 5 per cent. He said the hike was to match the trend in the quantum of exports and domestic and international prices. - (Herald Bureau) anywhere in the country would qualify for tax concessions based on their investment.

The Government has also provided tax relief to the construction sector by levying the newly

imposed service tax only on 25 per cent of the total value of the property, including land, compared to 33 per cent proposed in the Budget.

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Vasco-Dona Paula sea-link feasibility study begins HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, APRIL 29

Louis Berger, the German company that recently bagged the contract for undertaking techno-feasibility study for the proposed sea-link project between Vasco and Dona Paula, has started its work.

“The consultant has begun work and an office has been set up somewhere in Dona Paula,” said Director of Public Private Participation (PPP) Cell Anupam Kishore.

He told Herald that as per the terms and conditions of the contract, altogether 18 months is the period within which the consultant will have to complete its work.

He said the work would be taken up in three phases. In the first phase, the company will work on the techno-feasibility study.

Only if the Rs 1000-plus crore project is feasible, then the consultant will move to the next phase, Kishore said.

Otherwise, it would be abandoned.

Minor port proposed at Chapora While the government is gearing up to expedite work on the Mopa international airport project, in a new development, a minor port is being proposed at Chapora to facilitate easy transportation of cargo to the airport.

The understanding is that as transportation of cargo from Mormugao Port could add to the traffic snarls besides other factors, having a minor port at Chapora would be ideal.

Director of Public Private Participation (PPP) Cell Anupam Kishore confirmed that minor port is proposed to be developed at Chapora.

The consultant which was appointed earlier this month, has been asked to conduct techno-environmental financial study, concept design, techni-

cal feasibility with alignment, investigation and financial and economic feasibility. Later, it will also have to undertake environmental impact assessment, environmental clearances and social impact assessments. The consultant will be required to prepare the bid documents for appointment of BOOT (build, own, operate and transfer) operator and concession agreement, etc.

Kishore who also doubles up as Joint Secretary (Debt Management) said the consultant would also identify the point on the Panjim side where the project would link.

Though initially, the government had said that the sea-link would be between Dona Paula and Vasco, discussions held since then, seem to have taken one line – that it should be in Bambolim so that it links the national highway (NH17).

Nonetheless, the consultant is expected to give in detail, its analysis on the feasibility.

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Mobiles pushing credit cards out SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

It is happening in the United States and the Europe and the day is not far away when it happens in India when people start paying for goods and services using cell phones and the wallet looks old-fashioned. It will also put an end to days of flashing credit cards instead of paying in cash may be over as there will be no need to carry thick wallet with plenty of credit cards to show off.

Several companies in the US have developed small credit card scanners that plug into a cell phone and for a small fee enable any individual or small business to turn a phone into a credit card processing terminal.

PayPal’s cell phone application calls for only a simple bump of two cell phones to transfer money. Apple has submitted a patent application for a cell phone payment system.

When Brian Kusler, a software

engineer, had a dinner recently in a San Francisco restaurant, his companion paid the bill and sought his share. Instead of hunting down an ATM, the two bumped their iPhones together, and Kusler wirelessly transferred his part of the bill, about $100.

Federal Reserve has enough evidence of paper money being used less often in the US though cash payments are difficult to track, the number of non-cash transactions in the United States grew from fewer than 250 a person in 1995 to more than 300

in 2006.

Data on the stock of smalldenomination bills and destroyed bills indicates that the use of cash peaked in the mid1990s and has been declining since, two economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland found.

“When debit cards were introduced in the early ’90s, that was the beginning of the slow and gradual decline of paper cheques and cash,” Red Gillen, a senior analyst in a financial firm in Boston told The New York Times. Credit cards solved the problem of the bounced cheques.

Still, cash has remained essential in certain instances, like paying back a colleague for lunch, buying fruit at a farmers’ market or buying a beer at a cash-only bar. These new mobile payment technologies could finally change that.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flanked by his wife Gursharan Kaur shakes hands with Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani during the informal lunch hosted by Bhutan's Prime Minister.

PTI THIMPHU, APRIL 29

Bringing in thaw in bilateral relations, Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan today agreed to resume dialogue at the level of Foreign Ministers soon that could lead to parleys on all outstanding issues like terrorism, Kashmir and Siachen.

The ice was broken at a 90minute meeting here between Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani in their first substantive engagement after their discussions in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt in July last year that produced a controversial joint statement.

The meeting in ‘Bhutan House’ on the margins of SAARC Summit discussed the entire range of issues, including terrorism and progress of investigation and probe into 26/11 attacks in Pakistan.

The two Prime Ministers entrusted the Foreign Ministers and Foreign Secretaries with the responsibility of restoring confidence and trust in the relations that could pave the way for substantive dialogue on outstanding issues of mutual concern.

Briefing newsmen after the meeting, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said Singh emphatically told Pakistan that it has to

act on the issue of terrorism and that the “terror machine” in that country needs to be eliminated.

Singh conveyed “deep and continuing concern” over the fact that 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed was being allowed to roam freely and “engage in language and communications that are certainly not conducive to the atmosphere of peace and stability,“ she said.

Gilani assured Singh that he was making all efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks and not to allow Pakistani soil to be used for terrorism against India.

Parrikar gets slot in BJP headquaters HERALD BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

Former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who was tipped first as the Bhartiya Janata Party President and later as a general secretary, finally makes it to the party headquarters here as convener of the party’s “Governance Cell.”

This is for the first time that such a cell has been created by the party and BJP President Nitin Gadkari picked up Parrikar, who is now leader of Opposition in the Goa Assembly, to head it in recognition to the quality of governance he provided in Goa as the chief minister.

Parrikar, however, need not be stationed in Delhi as he can come here only when he convenes meetings of his cell or organises some conferences on behalf of the party for charting out plans for providing good governance.

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Spare religious structures from demolition: Temple committees

PETS candidates face new hurdle HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, APRIL 29

Representatives of Temple Committees from South Goa at the district Collectorate on Thursday.

HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

Representatives of various temple committees from South Goa on Monday have urged the district collector not to raze down the religious structures identified by the authorities for demolition.

Since the district Collector G P Naik was conspicuous by his absence, the representatives entered the separated memorandums in his office for appropriate action.

In its memorandum, the Shree Rayeshwar Saunstha, Raia maintained that the Temple at Raia does not come in the way

of the broadening of the Margao-Borim highway nor is disturbing any other developmental work of the government.

“This Temple is not just a religious structure, but a centre of worship, where people from the village come together on different occasions, sing Bhajans, perform Aartis, perform cultural programs etc. This is a place where harmonious relations and a sense of unity grow among the villagers”, the Temple committee maintained, while requesting the district Magistrate not to take any extreme action on the temple and help

them in regularizing the construction in the interest of the villagers of Raia and Camurlim.

Incidentally, the committee members pointed out that the silver jubilee of the Saustha was celebrated on March 8, 1997.

A representative of The Temple located at Housing Board, Gogol Ramdas Naik said the religious structure had been standing on the open space for the last 20 years and felt that the government should bestow it the legal status for regularization.

“This religious structure was earlier standing as a ghumti, but was later built into a Temple by

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the government. The government should regularize the Temple and bestow it with legal status”, he demanded.

He said the representatives of various Temple committee had come to meet the collector following a call given by the Hindu Janjagran Samiti.

Memorandum was also submitted by the Shree Muskardev Jagrut Devasthan, Muxer-Velim.

In the memorandum, Devastahan president Sandeep Tari said people in the area have deep sense of faith in God Muskardev and is considered as Rakhandar of the entire village of Muxer, Velim.

Hubli native held for robbery HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

The Maina Curtorim police have arrested a native of Hubli in connection with the robbery that took pace at Nuvem near Carmel college earlier this month.

Police inspector Sidhant Shirodkar informed that the accused was arrested from the Margao bus stand while he was trying to leave the state for Hubli.

He said the accused along with another person had waylaid a helper working for a multinational company at the Verna Industrial Estate and lifted away mobile phones after assaulting him.

The accused, who had come on a motorcycle, later came to the residence of the victim and took away four mobile chargers before making good their escape.

“Based on the description given the victim, the police had suspected the accused behind the offense. We had laid a trap after obtaining information that the accused is putting up in Hubli and arrested him at the Margao bus stand”, he said.

An offense of robbery has been registered against the accused. The police are on the look out for his accomplice. Further investigations are on

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It appears waiting period of Pre Employment Training Scheme (PETS) candidates for regularisation in service is not yet over.

A writ petition has been filed before Bombay High Court at Goa against the State Government’s decision to regularise services of PETS beneficiaries.

One Shanti Desai and two others have approached High Court complaining that regularisation of PETS beneficiaries would be detrimental to the interest of candidates from the open category.

Regularisation of PETS will lead to violation of their fundamental rights as mandated by the constitution of India, claimed the petitioners.

When the matter came up for hearing on Thursday counsel for the petitioners George John submitted that if 50 percent seats are reserved for PETS beneficiaries than candidates in the open class will not chance to apply for the posts. He prayed that no further appointments be made by the State government until petition is disposed off.

The Advocate General Subodh Kantak sought time to file affidavit in reply. The hearing was adjourned till May 3 and directed the government to file reply by the next date of hearing.

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Residents of North Goa might have honoured the Father of Opinion Poll Dr Jack de Sequeira in their own way – by naming roads and installing his statue at public junctions.

UK based International Voice for Romi Konknni now wants the great leader to be remembered in South Goa. It has appealed to the Margao Municipal Council to add the portrait of Dr Sequeira in the august Municipal hall.

Appreciating the gesture of the incumbent MMC Chairperson Savio Coutinho for his ini-

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Letter on Apna Ghar treated as PIL HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, APRIL 29

The letter written by an Non Government Organisation (NGO) SCAN INDIA highlighting the issue of children from other States languishing at Apna Ghar allegedly due to lethargy of authorities has been treated as Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by the High Court.

The letter written on March 2, 2010 and addressed to the Justices of Bombay High Court at Goa has pointed out pathetic living conditions of inmates of

Apna Ghar . According to the NGO around 72 children from other States are languishing currently staying in Apna Ghar but no attempt has been made to trace their families.

The State authorities have failed to intimate concerned States about the child’s presence and custody, alleged NGO in its letter. It claimed Juvenile Justice Act mandates that Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has no jurisdiction to deal with a child from different State. The PIL was taken up for hearing on Thurs-

day when Emedio Pinho, Child Protection Co-ordinator of SCAN India, appeared in person.

He told the court that SCAN INDIA assist CWC and Juvenile Justice Board with repatriation and rehabilitation of children especially the inmates of Apna Ghar. However, Advocate General Subodh Kantak told the court that unless CWC gives its report on the matter, the State Government will not able to take action in the matter. The petition will be taken up for hearing after high court vacations.

All Goa Co-operative Bank Employees Federation (AGCBEF) will hold a dharna opposite Mapusa Urban Co-operative Bank (MUCB) head office at Mapusa protesting against the delay on the part of the management in settling their charter of demands which are pending since 2001.

According to the president Subash Naik Jorge the employees and officers of the bank are facing hardships due to non settlement of charter of demands.

“The management of MUCB has also not released the arrears of the existing benefits that were withdrawn earlier,” Jorge said adding “despite several peaceful agitations the management has still been indifferent.”

He further said that though the financial position of the bank has improved, the bank management is refusing to discuss and resolve grievances of the employees and officers. “This has forced the employees and officers to observe demands week,” he said.

Goa yet to seek funds for Marine conservation

Radha temple opening on May 1

be protected through United Nations Development Project (UNDP) fundings, who has sponsored 3,000 US dollars,” Chowdhery told reporters.

“Apart from this fundings, the central government will be also giving hundred percent financial assistant to the states to protect their marine species,” he added.

Talking about Goa he said that, Goa is yet to submit its proposal over protection to marine species. “Actual the thing is that all these endangered species are not found in Goa but still they can ask for fundings for turtle conservation under same scheme,” Chowdhery said.

He said that except for the states of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar island and Gujarat, rest of the states are yet to furnish the conservation plans.

The inauguration of the newly constructed Shri Shri Radha Shyam Sundar temple, known as the ‘Govardhan Kutir’, will take place on May 1 by special devotees of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISCON), Ponda Unit, at Tulshimla-Poriem at 10.30 am.

Different religious rituals like Abhishek from 10.30 am to 11.30 am, Pravachan from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm and Mahaprasad from 12.30 pm to 2 pm have been organized on this occasion.

Devotees of Sanquelim unit have called upon the people to attend the ceremony in a large gathering which has achieved success due to the mercy of A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad and all the Vaishnavas.

Meanwhile, the weekly pravachan on Srimadbhagvadgeeta will de delivered from 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm.

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The South Goa demolition squad on Thursday headed to Benaulim to raze down a stair case and wall of premises, only to find the two structures demolished by the concerned party.

Salcete Block Development Officer, Uday Prabhudessai led the demolition squad to Benaulim following the requisition made by the Benaulim Panchayat in view of the directions of the high court dated December 18, 2009.

Upon reaching the venue, the demolition squad found the stair case and wall razed down by the party. In fact, the party found the wall demolished and the concrete slab supported by wooden logs. The BDO said his office will now inform the high court on the compliance of the order by the party.

Although central government has rolled out financial scheme for the marine conservation programme, Goa is yet to submit its proposal seeking the fundings, a senior functionary said.

Prof B C Chowdhery, expert from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) said that as per the study conducted by WII under marine turtle project seven marine species of the country are said to be endangered and the central government is trying their best to protect it.

The species of whale shark, leatherback turtle, Hawksbill turtle, giant clam, dugong, belanoglosis and sea cucumber are covered under this scheme and state governments are asked to furnish their project reports.

“All these seven species will

The project will be funded by the central government during eleventh five year plan.

Whalesharks are found in Arabian sea and are most popular on Gujarat coast while leatherback turtle are sighted in Anadaman and Nicobar and Tamil Nadu.

Chowdhary said that giant clam and dugong are found in Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshdweep and Belanoglosis are sighted on Tamil Nadu’s coast.

He said that turtles which come to Indian coast for nesting, travel to Sri Lanka for breeding. “They travel a long distance and hence they are called as ‘Global Species’,” he said.

Expert feels that there is need of bio-literal programme between India and Sri Lanka inorder to study the proper movement of the turtles between two countries.

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Mumbai-based Psychiatrist Dr Ashish Deshpande has said that alcoholism is a disease like any other disease and is curable through the treatment strategy worked out by Alcoholic Anonymous.

Deshpande is on a tour of the Konkan region and Goa to spread awareness amongst people and make families understand that alcoholism is completely curable.

Saying that India has earned the dubious distinction of the world’s highest whisky consumption nation, next only to America, Deshpande said he is not in favour of imposing a ban on alcohol.

“A ban on alcohol will not solve the problem. Wherever alcohol is banned, illegal and impure alcohol has increased tremendously. The only thing that can help overcome the problem is educating the people about the menace, besides early diagnosis, early detection, good supportive care in terms of treatment and rehabilitation”, he said, adding that nearly 40 per cent of job absenteeism, one third of accident and nearly 40 per cent of wife abuse is because of alcoholism.

Deshpande said that alcohol does not affect only the rich, but all sections of society, adding that nearly 80 per cent

nSaying that India has earned the dubious distinction of the world’s highest whisky consumption nation, next only to America, Deshpande said he is not in favour of imposing a ban on alcohol. of the admissions in government-run hospitals are somehow related to alcohol.

Saying that alcohol is a disease, which is absolutely similar in many ways such as diabetes, he said the fact that people find a relapse shows that it is a symptom of the disease itself.

“No individual starts his life that he wants to become an alcoholic. Alcoholism is never an ambition of any human being.

It is a disease. People should know that family members are suffering from a disease”, he added.

Desphande said the lakhs of people world wide have stayed away from drinking because of Alcohol Anonymous, he said the AA offers a scientific treatment

study and a practical approach to therapy.

Saying that AA’s 10-point program is a structured therapy, he said that unless that is utilized simultaneously, the relapse rate is going to be higher.

“The AA treatment strategy is absolutely free. There is no registration charge, no follow up charge”, he said, and underlined the need to reach out to the people to convey the message that cure from alcoholism is possible.

Meanwhile, to commemorate the completion of 21 years of its existence and as part of the platinum jubilee celebrations of AA worldwide, the AA Intergroup (Goa), Margao will hold a function on May 1 at Grace Church hall, Margao from 10 am to 4 pm.

An awareness program will be held on the ill effects of acute alcoholism and how Alcoholics Anonymous can help.

MMC Chairperson Savio Coutinho will be the Chief guest, while the Parish Priest of Grace Church, Fr Cleoto Pereira will be the guest of honour Meanwhile, the Chairman General service office, India Bhalla S K has announced that the Goa Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous will host the 2010 AA International Convention in Goa on 12, 13 and 14 November at the Ravindra bhavan.

Install portrait of Dr Sequeira in MMC hall: UK group

Co-op bank employees to hold dharna

Maina Curtorim PI Sidhant Shirodkar with the accused arrested in the mobile theft case.

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Alcoholism is a curable disease: Psychiatrist

tiative to restore all the portraits of past leaders in the Municipal hall, which were lying idle in the Municipal store, the UKbased organization recalled the role played by Dr Sequeira and the people of Salcete in the historic opinion poll.

“This history is clear that Salcete people had overwhelmingly voted for Two Leaves to keep Goa a separate Union territory.

The people of Salcete had always taken the pro Goa stand.

It is because of this determination that we still have our identity safe or Konkani language as our mother tongue”, said president of the organization

Francisco Floriano Fernandes.

Saying that the International Voice for Romi Konknni is proud of the brothers and sisters from South Goa, Fernandes said it is the bounden duty of present leaders to honour such personality with dignity.

“The people of North Goa have already put on the portrait or named the roads and junctions after Dr Sequeira, but the South Goa leaders have not yet given due respect that he deserved”, he said.

Fernandes recalled that Dr Jack de Sequeria had led the movement from the front and moved to each and every corner

of Goa. The people of Goa, irrespective of different caste and creed attended the meetings organized by Dr sequeira. If he had not taken the lead, Goa would have been a small district of Maharahtra and the mother tongue of Goa would not have been Konkani language, but some other language”, he said.

Incidentally, the UK based organization also want the present leaders to put up a life size status of first Opposition leader in the Legislative Assembly for his gigantic role during the 1967 Opinion Poll.

Complaint against dead employee HERALD CORRESPONDENT MARCEL, APRIL 29

In an unusual situation, the chief officer of the Ponda Municipal Council (PMC) has filed a police complaint against a dead man in connection with a fraud to the tune of over Rs 40 lakh.

In a police complaint on Wednesday, PMC Chief Officer Jayant Tari has stated that PMC’s

former head accountant M Ali had misappropriated the funds between 2006 and 2008.

M Ali subsequently expired on April 2, 2008.

It may be recalled that the Comptroller and Auditor General of India had also mentioned about the misappropriation of funds amounting to Rs 40.77 lakh in its report, which recently was tabled in the Goa Assem-

bly.

The CAG had observed that short remittance of revenue receipts into a bank account had resulted in misappropriation of Ponda Municipal Council's revenue amounting to Rs 40.77 lakh.

Ponda police has registered the case and investigations are being carried out by PSI Deepak Pednekar.

Ponda Traffic Cell jeeps in pathetic state

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Policemen push a police jeep of the Ponda Traffic Cell.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT MARCEL, APRIL 29

Forget about a quick getaway vehicle, criminals could well be on cycles to beat the traffic police at Ponda.

When policemen have to push start their police jeep, one can only imagine the condition of the vehicle and moreover, the plight of the Ponda Traffic Cell (PTC).

The PTC has been acutely hit by an ageing vehicle, which has reportedly crossed the requisite kilometers and are to be condemned.

Such is the state of the PTC jeeps that traffic policemen are frequently seen push starting

the vehicle to get it moving.

The vehicle has also rusted at many places and this poses a major problem during the monsoons. The PTC is also in piquant situation whenever it has to pilot a VVIP or a minister who visits Ponda taluka.

It is learnt that the PTC has on several occasions turned down requests to pilot minister’s cars as the PTC’s fourwheeler simply cannot keep pace with the minister’s plush car.

The traffic police prefer to be at the site being visited by the minister or the VVIP. When contacted, Ponda Traffic Cell PI Salim Shaik informed that they have already informed

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their superiors about the condition of the vehicle and have no other choice but to continue using the same vehicle.

“The vehicle is very old and we have no other option as it useful for mobility of the staff when deployed at distant places to regulate traffic especially at Usgao area”, said PI Shaik.

“We send this vehicle for inspection at the police headquarters in Panjim every month and even the police department is aware of the condition of the vehicle. I am given to understand there is no spare vehicle and we have to continue using it till a new vehicle is purchased by the department,” PI Shaik added.

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Sixth pay salaries for KTC employees finally Agreement to be signed today

Chief Minister adressing the media after the finalisation of the agreement to pay salaries as per sixth pay commission to KTC employees.

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After intense pressure tactics, the labour union leaders today managed to eke out final commitment from Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to sign an agreement to pay salaries as per sixth pay commission to Kadamba Transport Corporation Limited employees.

At the end of day-long dharna

by All India Trade Union Congress and KTCL employees’ union leaders, Kamat assured that the agreement to pay wages as per sixth pay commission would be signed tomorrow before labour commissioner in Panjim.

Earlier, frustrated over chief minister’s reluctance to fulfill the assurance given to upgrade salaries at par with sixth pay commission recommendations,

AITUC leaders including Christopher Fonseca, Raju Mangueshkar and KTCLEU President Joaquim Fernandes held sit in protest outside CM’s official residence.

The union members who had managed to convince the state government over sixth pay commission were upset after their chairman Lourenco did a volte face.

Talking to Herald earlier this week Lourenco had refused to commit to the implementation.

The leaders insisted that they will continue the sit-in till CM gives the final assurance to sign the agreement between KTCL employees and management on pay revision.

The sit-in was withdrawn after Kamat called the protesting leaders for a dialogue in presence of transport minister Ramakrishna Dhavalikar and KTCL

Chairman Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco.

KTCL Managing Director Venacio Furtado was also present for the meeting which went on for three hours before chief minister released the formal statement.

“The agreement would be signed tomorrow infront of labour commissioner,” Kamat told reporters after the meeting.

Dhavalikar said that the sixth pay commission implementation for KTCL staff would translate into additional liability of Rs 43 crore and monthly liability of Rs 1.3 crore for the corporation.

He said that the revised pay would be paid from April 1 onwards while the arrears would be paid to the workers in phases.

Vasco cops confident of nabbing murder accused HERALD REPORTER VASCO, APRIL 29

Vasco police has zeroed in on the man they believe to be responsible for the murder of a 23-year-old man from Bilaspure in Himachal Pradesh.

Though the prime accused is absconding, the police are confident of nabbing the accused following investigations into the murder.

Police sources told Herald that the accused, a resident of New Vaddem, had killed Ramkishan Sohail under the influence of alcohol.

Neighbours had also confirmed having heard a loud quarrel between the deceased and an unknown person on Tuesday night.

Police informed that a postmortem report had established that Sohail had died due to a stab injury on his chest.

Zuari Bridge closure on May 2 HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

The general public is hereby informed that during the closure of Zuari Bridge for traffic on May 2. Five ferryboats will be deployed at Agassaim-Cortalim route from 6 am to 9 am.

Ferry services will be made available for passengers and two wheelers only. No four wheelers and three wheelers/other light vehicles or heavy vehicles will be allowed.

Trial in Russian woman rape case to begin today HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

Decks have been cleared for the trial in the Russian woman rape case from Friday with the South Goa sessions court on Thursday rejecting the revision application filed by accused John Fernandes against the order of the Judicial Magistrate First Class committing the case to the Sessions court.

In his application, John had contended that the JMFC, Margao had not given him time peruse the order on committal. He had further contended that the JMFC ought to have posted the matter for hearing on committal and that the JMFC had failed to appreciate the mandatory provision of Section 208, 209 and 91 of the Cr P C. Rejecting the application, Additional Sessions Judge, P V Sawaikar observed that opportunity was given to the accused to make the submission before the JMFC, adding that the Magistrate was required to see only whether the material on record discloses any offense triable exclusively by the Court of Sessions. “The Magistrate cannot go into the evidence and discuss the merits of the case. It is settled law that the magistrate is not required to discuss in detail the evidence. The committal order should only disclose that the Magistrate has applied her mind and that it appears to her that an offense is triable exclusively by the court of sessions”, Judge Sawaikar said.

He said the observation made by the Magistrate that material on record discloses the Commission of offense punishable

John seeks protection HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

Additional Sessions Judge P V Sawaikar has directed the Jailor of the Margao Judicial lock-up to provide sufficient escort to John Fernandes after the accused apprehended threat to his life during his escort from the judicial lock to the Sessions Court.

Judge Sawaikar directed the Jailor to see that the accused is safely brought to the court during trial.

The Judge passed the order after John moved an application to the Jailor that he apprehends threat to his life and that he fears for the same. He had requested the jailor to instruct the concerned people to transport him with sufficient care as per the rules and regulation of transportation of undertrials. under section 376 of the IPC is sufficient to show that the Magistrate had gone through the material and it appears to her that an offense under section 376 is disclosed, adding that it was not necessary for the Magistrate to further discuss the evidence.

“The contention of the accused that the Magistrate has not complied with section 207 of the IPC or that she had passed an order of committal without going through the material on record bears no merit”, the

MMC councilors demand meet Two judge aspirants allowed to to discuss ‘irregular’ licenses appear for main examination HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

Taking strong exception to allegation of corruption made against some Councilors by outgoing chief officer, Prasanna Acharya, Margao Municipal Councilors on Thursday petitioned to the Chairperson Savio Coutinho to convene a special meeting to discuss the allegation and to deliberate on the “irregular” construction licenses and occupancy certificates issued by the Council.

MMC Chairperson Coutinho said he would call the special meeting early next week to deliberate on the allegations made by then Chief Officer and the violation of building rules by the builders and blind eye turned to the illegalities by the Municipal engineers.

The 12 Councilors who requisitioned the special meeting under section 78 (2) of the Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 claimed that some builders have committed irregularities at the time

of construction of their building projects by not making provision for dust bins, soak pits and parking facility.

Besides, they said the builders have committed many other illegal activities which causes health problems to the residents and the flat owners.

Expressing shock over the allegations of corruption leveled by the outgoing Chief Officer Acharya against some councilors, the city Fathers said these allegations and the violations by the builders needs to be deliberated at length The signatories who have called for the meeting are ViceChairperson Raju Naik, Ramdas Hazare, John Gonsalves, Babita Naik, Gonzaco Rebello, Manjusha Kaskar, Rajendra Azgaonkar, Radha Kavelkar, Johnny Crasto, Livramenta Barretto, Gurunath Laad and Avita Kavlekar.

The Chairperson has already termed the allegations made by the outgoing Chief Officer Acharya as an attempt to diver

the issue of providing information to the Council on the number of construction licenses and occupancy certificates issued by the municipal technical section.

Incidentally, sources in the know said that Acharya had put up a note during his tenure that one of the engineers had tried to make money in his name, with Councilors seeking to know why the outgoing Chief Officer had been silent in naming the engineer or the Councilor involved in corrupt practices.

Meanwhile, MMC Chief Officer Y B Tawde has asked the Municipal engineer to furnish the information sought by the Chairperson on the number of construction licenses and occupancy certificates issued by the Civic body since 2008.

The decision by the Chief Officer comes against the backdrop of the note put bup by the Chairperson to Tawde to serve memos on the Junior engineers for their refusal to furnish the necessary information.

Mapusa market merchants to raise ODP objections

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, APRIL 29

Granting relief to two aspirants for the posts of Civil Judge Junior Division and Judicial Magistrate First Class the Bombay High Court at Goa on Thursday directed that the petitioners be allowed to appear for the main examination scheduled on May 2.

While allowing the petition a Division Bench of Justices S J Vazifdar and U D Salvi observed that along with the petitioners all other similarly placed candidates shall also be entitled to appear for the examinations to be held on May 2.

In this regard High Administration has been directed to notify all such candidates about changes in the date and venue of examination.

The High Court administration had declared the petitioners – Archana Pai Bir and Sonia Mandrekar ineligible to appear for

Tiger skates spotted in 3 sanctuaries SWETA KAMAT PANJIM, APRIL 29

All Goa Merchants Federation President Narayan Karekar addresses a press meet.

Photo by Anil Shankhwalker HERALD CORRESPONDENT PORVORIM, APRIL 29

The merchants of Mapusa market are distressed with the Mapusa Outline Development Plan 2010 (ODP), prepared by Town and Country Planning department, and have decided to raise their objections to it.

Addressing a press meet, President of All Goa Merchants Federation Narayan Karekar said the Mapusa Outline Development Plan 2010 has not been prepared properly and there are numerous faults in regard to Mapusa market in particular.

“In the first place, the main drain which is located between the Mapusa market and the wholesale vegetable yard has not been shown in the ODP. This is the most important drain where the water from the market area gets accumulated,” said Karekar.

“Further, a 20-mtre wide road in the market has been shown in the ODP. If this road is constructed in the market, then some of the stalls will have to be demolished.”

“It appears that there is a hidden agenda of some businessmen to convert the fields in the vicinity of the market and construct buildings there, for which the provision of a road through the market has been made in the plan,” Karekar added.

“Hence, the Mapusa merchants have decided to register their objections with the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) and the Town and Country Planning Department and if no alterations are carried out in the existing ODP, we will be forced to agitate,” warned Karekar.

President of Mapusa Merchants Association Yeshwant Gaundalker said the Mapusa market gets flooded during

monsoon even it rains for as little as 30 minutes, as the outlets of the drains have been closed.

“The Mapusa market was built before Liberation and there was a provision of drains in front of all shops and water would flow from the outlets of the drains to the main drain. Since the outlets of the drains have been blocked, the market easily gets flooded,” said Gaundalker.

“Now, the MMC plans to hotmix the internal roads of the market. If the roads are hotmixed, the height of the roads will increase by at least 33 mm and during rains, water will enter the shops in line with the present roads,” he added.

“Hence, we have decided to request MMC not to hot–mix the roads unless the drains are cleaned properly and outlets are opened to allow the flow of water into the main drain,” said Gaundalker.

the main written examination on the ground that experience certificate produced by them was “not in terms of the advertisement”.

The petitioners submitted that advertisement for the posts required that the candidates should have minimum work experience of three years practice as an advocate. But certificates issued by the Civil Judge Senior Division, Panjim were rejected by High administration and they were declared ineligible.

When the matter came up for hearing on Thursday Registrar of High Court, Kumari I K Jain told the court that certificates produced by the candidates were issued by the in-charge judge and not by the Senior Division Judge himself.

To which the Division Bench pointed out that it is irrelevant which judge issued the certifi-

Bolstering wildlife enthusiasts' demands to declare Mhadei wildlife sanctuary as a tiger habitat, the volunteers have stumbled upon tiger skates at various places in this sanctuary, which had earlier indicated presence of Royal Bengal tiger.

The tiger skate along with the skate of panther has been collected and kept at a camp site in Nagargao village of Valpoi.

The current census has also found signs of tiger moments in other two wildlife sanctuaries -- Mollem and Cotigao.

"The signs indicating presences of tigers were found in all three wildlife sanctuaries and we are still waiting for more findings," a volunteer told Herald.

The volunteer said that the findings will help in declaring not only Mhadai but entire state as tiger habitat.

The officials from Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun which visited Goa to train volunteers and departmental staff on census, had also found pugmarks similar to that of tiger during their trial in the run up for census at Mollem wildlife sanctuary.

However, the Chief Conservator of Forest Dr Shashi Kumar was quick enough to deny any such finding. "They did not find any pugmarks or other signs of

n“The signs indicating presences of tigers were found in all three wildlife sanctuaries and we are still waiting for more findings," a volunteer told Herald. tiger," Dr Kumar had stated ealier.

There was mounting pressure from environmentalists to declare Mhadei wildlife sanctuary as tiger habitat after animal killed by tiger were reported from here. But the proposal was not entertained by the forest department saying that these tigers are from Karnataka, and travel here for short period of time.

Meanwhile, the trend of herbiverious animal has begun in the state.

The forest department official said that after the census the data will be presented before WII for analysis.

The ongoing census has also found the skates and p u g m a r k s o f l e o p a rd s a t Mollem, Netravali and Cotigao wildlife sanctuary.

cates as the petitioners are practicing as advocates from 2003.

While allowing the petition the court has now granted liberty to the candidates to apply for fresh experience certificates in terms of the advertisement by the time of the interviews.

And if granted the candidates can furnish fresh certificates if they so desire, Court observed while disposing off the petition.

Judge said.

On objections raised by John’s lawyer for the judicial pronouncements annexed by the Crime branch to the charge sheet filed against the accused, the Judge said the judicial pronouncements annexed to the charge sheet are the orders passed by different courts during the course of investigations.

“The documents are public documents. Mere annexing the documents to the charge sheet does not prejudice in any way the right of the accused. Since these orders were made in the course of investigations and are related to the case, it cannot be said that these are irrelevant documents. In any case, if prosecution want to rely on the said documents, they cannot be deprived of their right. It is the prerogative of the prosecution to rely on said documents which it feels are relevant. The relevance of the said documents cannot be decided by the magistrate since the offence alleged is triable exclusively by the sessions court”, Judge Sawaikar added.

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S H O RT TA K E S Swami’s statue unveiled

‘Lions Club committed to serve needy’

Donates house to flood victim in Canacona HERALD CORRESPONDENT CANACONA, APRIL 29

A statue of Swami Vivekanand unveiled in the renovated park of JNV’s at Mastimoll-Canacona.

Photo by Kathy Pereira

CANACONA(HC): A statue of Swami Vivekananda was unveiled in the campus of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at MastimollCanacona on Wednesday.

In the absence of Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who was originally scheduled to inaugurate the renovated Swami Vivekanand Park in JNV campus, Canacona MLA Vijay Pai Khot unveiled the plague and placed a garland at the foot of Swami Vivekanand’s statue.

Later, the garland was pulled up, giving a magnificent view of the giant size statue in the backdrop of Sahayadri hills.

Collector (South) G P Naik, Canacona Municipal Council Chairperson Shamsunder Dessai, social workers Guilherme Martin, Dr Dhillon Dessai along with others, besides JNVs Principal R S Nayak were present on the occasion.

Later, the school’s annual magazine was released and school toppers were awarded prizes.

Summer splash at Margao

PANJIM(HND): Margao deanery youth (Madyo) in association with the Tiatr Academy of Goa organized a cultural event “summer splash” recently at the Ravindra Bhavan Margao in aid of the old clergy. The three hour event saw performances by the parishes of Maina, Grace, Holy Spirit, Loutolim, Rachol, Sao Joao de Areal, Macasana, Navelim and Telaulim from the Margao deanery in the form of skits, traditional dance, operetta, and songs.

Special invitee, Fr Eucaristinho Gomes, dean of the Margao deanery, in his welcome speech asserted that this year is being dedicated to the youth where they have a responsible role to play in the society. F Eucaristinho later felicitated Fr Nascimento Mascarenhas, a famous historian and famous author of the Goa archdiocese, who was the chief guest for the evening. A souvenir was also released at the event.

Fr Derick Fernandes and Fr Bolmax Pereira (animators) coordinated greatly towards the success of the event, says a press release.

Seminar at Panjim

PANJIM(HND): Entertainment Society of Goa organized a seminar on European Art in India as part of the ongoing 15th European Union Film Festival recently organised at Maquinez Palace, Panjim.

Moderated by a French actress, Marianne Borgo, the seminar drew good response from the Goan artist community who interacted with the foreign artists living in India. The keynote address was given by Rudolf Ludwig. The other artists present were Silke Landmann, Harry Deissing and Marie Borsch.

The Seminar also drew people from various backgrounds like architecture, lawyers, photographers, film directors etc.

All the participants agreed to carry forward this interactive platform and have constant artistic exchanges. The Seminar served as a relevant connection between the artists for exchange of ideas and information.

The foreign artists spoke fondly about Goa being a heaven for artists and appreciated the initiative.

Health awareness camp

COLLEM(HC): Sanda Wellness, Margao, recently organized a health awareness camp for the residents of Collem, Mollem, Sancorda and Shigao at Government Primary School, Collem.

As many as 80 patients availed benefit of the camp. Dr Sonali V Mapari and doctor-cum-assistant manager Jayant Jadhav examined the patients.

Patients suffering from bone diseases like Arthritis, Osteoporosis and Obesity were examined and about 75 patients were found to be suffering from Osteoporosis.

Besides, tips on leading a healthy life and active lifestyle were given by the experts. Santosh Vernadkar, Asif Beg and Astem Beg assisted during the camp.

Chaudi footpaths to have inter-locking pavers

Laying of inter-locking pavers underway at Chaudi town.

Photo by Kathy Pereira HERALD CORRESPONENT CANACONA APRIL 29

Canacona Municipal Council (CMC) has commenced laying interlocking pavers on a few footpaths at Chaudi town.

Works are progressing at a fast pace, as interlocking pavers are laid on the vacant land adjacent to NH-17 near Mangalvan complex.

According to sources in CMC, the work is worth over Rs 4 lakh.

Sources further informed that laying of more interlocking pavers at Hutatma Chowk near ADEI office will be taken up at a cost of Rs 1 lakh, bringing some improvement in the commercial town of Canacona

taluka.

Meanwhile, a beautification work worth Rs 3.28 crore of Chaudi and surrounding areas will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and Urban Development Minister Joaquim Alemao May 7.

Sources informed that the beautification works, which will be undertaken under Goa Infrastructure Development Corporation, will cover entire Chaudi town and surrounding areas, where all the roads will be hot mixed, interlocking pavers will be laid, gutters will be improved, an welcome arc will be erected, besides improvement in municipal fish market will be affected.

Lions Club of Canacona handed over the keys of house built by them for a flood-victim of last October 2 devastation in Canacona taluka.

Built at a cost of Rs 3.84 lakh, the slab house was made over to Santosh Komarpant on Sunday by Lions District Governor (elect) Nitin Maganlal at a short function, which was also attended by Lion’s past District Governor V Y Pawar.

Speaking on the occasion, Maganlal reiterated Lions International commitment to serve and attend to the needy in society.

Giving a brief description on how Lions came to the rescue of Komarpant, member of Canacona Lions Sandeep Dessai informed that a common house of Komarpant family was existing at the site before it was brought down by floods on October 2, last year.

“However, the government responded in recognizing only the head of family (the elder brother, who had his own family), leaving the other married brother in the lurch,” said Dessai.

“We also learnt that even municipal authorities refused to come to his rescue and that was the time, Lions were made aware of the precarious position of Santosh Komarpant. So we

Pt Kamlakar to be given musical salute HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, APRIL 29

Goa’s one of the respected names in music world, Pandit Kamlakar Naik will get a musical salute from his fans, followers and disciples on May 2.

The Principal of Goa College of Music will be honoured for completing 60 years through a special function organised at Kala Academy, which will be a mix of music and formal felicitation by his well wishers.

“Pandit Naik will be felicitated at the hands of Talyogi Pt Suresh Tawalkar, a renowned tabla maestro of International repute,” Avdhut Nayak Sallatri, chairman of Pt Kamalkar Naik Shasthayabdipurti Felicitation committee told reporters.

P t U l h a s K a s h a l k a r, a renowned vocalist of Gwalier Gharana will be the Guest of Honour and the ceremony will be presided over by Padmashri Pt Prasad Sawkar, a senior stage artist.

Vishnu Wagh, well known writer, will be the chief speaker on this occasion. Sallatri said that on this occasion, a souvenir ‘Swarsidhi’ comprising of various articles by reputed personalities on the achievement and contribution of Pt Naik to the field of Hindustani Classical Music will be released at the hands of Padmashri Pt Prasad Sawkar.

Logo contest results declared HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

The Directorate of Art and Culture conducted Logo Designing competition which was kept open for all the categories from amateur artists to professional artists as well as to general public.

In all 42 participants submitted their Logo designs to the department, out of which the 1st prize was bagged by Kunal K Divkar, 2nd prize to Anant S Kamat Bambolkar and 3rd prize to Melba Fernandes.

The winners will be awarded cash prizes of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,000 and Rs 8,000 respectively in a function organized by the Directorate of Art and Culture.

Renowned artists from Goa, Saqlguru Chendavankar, Querozito De Souza and Suhas Shilkar were members of the jury for the contest.

Change of office timings at Bishop’s House HERALD NEWS BUREAU PANJIM, APRIL 29

The offices at the Archbishop’s House at Panjim will remain closed on May 1, on accound of Worker’s Day. In addition, the same offices will remain closed for the public from 1 pm to 5 pm on every working day from May 3 to 31.

District Governor Nitin Maganlal hands over the house keys to beneficiary Santosh Komarpant.

Photo by Kathy Pereira

decided to help him by building a new house in his name,” added Dessai.

Canacona Lions President Mohan Vernekar said including the house of Santosh Ko marpant, Canacona Lions had their hands in extending materialist help to two other houses destroyed in October floods and built accordingly.

“We have totally spent over Rs 5.62 lakh, including Lions assistance to these two other houses to flood victims. Besides, Lion members were the first to reach maximum floodravaged houses in distributing essential commodities and other requirements worth several thousand of rupees,” he claimed.

Dr Celso Fernandes, a Lion member from Margao, engineer Vishwas Dessai, Mario Fernandes, Gopinath Dessai and Shashikant Bhagat were among few other Lions who were present on the occasion.

Canacona Lions Club Treasurer Shashikant Bhagat told scribes that it was possible to achieve the service with lively contributions from Lion Clubs of Ponda, Loutolim, AVC, Sanjiveeni, Margao, Bogmalo, Arpora, Panjim, Nuvem-Verna, besides individual lions like Dr Celso Fernandes, V Y Pawar, Anthony Silveira, Lion District Governor Dr Madhav Shetty, M/s Gera among many other Lions from Canacona Club who contributed individually to floods fund.

Panchayat staff to get VIth pay salary HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

The long-drawn struggle by the All Goa Panchayat Worker’s Union has finally borne fruit.

In a notification, the Director of Panchayat has made applicable the VI Pay Commission recommendations to the staff employed by the Panchayat bodies.

Welcoming the government’s decision, Union President Nanda Vagurmekar said the Panchayat workers have finally received the fruit of their struggle for application of the VI Pay Commission recommendation to this section of the workers.

In this context, the Union has thanked Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, besides Panchayat Minister Babu Azgaonkar for fulfilling his promise made to the Panchayat workers during the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the All Goa Panchayat Worker’s Union last year.

Vagurmekar recalled that the Panchayat workers under the banner of Goa Trade and Commercial Workers Union and under the leadership of AITUC general secretary Christopher Fonseca had been demanding with the government application of VI pay scales to the Panchayat staff as per the VI Pay recommendations.

The Union thanked Fonseca for his efforts to get the issue vigorously pursued with the Panchayat Directorate and also thanked the Panchayat Director Menino D’Souza for cooperating wit the workers on the matter.

Filling of drain for road extension triggers row in Bogmalo HERALD REPORTER VASCO, APRIL 29

The Bogmalo panchayat has filled a roadside drain to make way for road extension near the Bogmalo taxi stand, triggering off a controversy in the area.

Bogmalo Panchayat has claimed that road expansion was the need of the hour, as the road was very narrow.

The Bogmalo Beach Resort Cottage (BBRC) which operates its 15 cottages will lose a portion of its land and are hence reluctant to part with its land for the road-widening work.

“Literally, it is not possible for two cars to pass at a time near BBRC, as the road is narrow there. The matter is that on many occasions, vehicles went off the road at night,” said former Sarpanch Laxman Kaulekar.

It is learnt that the recent victim was local MLA Mauvin Godinho, who after attending a function at old homage while returning in his car went off the road into drain and suffered damage.

“We have no option but to fill the roadside drain so that we could extend the existing road at least by 3 mtrs to ease vehicular movement,” said Kavlekar.

He said the panchayat has requested the BBRC to hand over 3 mtrs of land for road expansion, but they refused to hand over due to which the panchayat proceeded with the land auction.

“BBRC which is operating 15 cottages with temporary permission has not obtained ‘No

upcOming EvEnTS Bicholim feast on May 8

PANJIM(HND): The feast of Our Lady of Grace Church (Nossa Senhora da Graca), Bicholim will be celebrated on Saturday, May 8. The nine-day novenas in preparation for the feast will be held at 5 pm, with the Rosary followed by mass. On the feast day, the first mass will be held at 7am while the feast mass will be celebrated at 9 am.

The theme of this year’s feast is ‘Kristi Bhavarth Jieum-ia Ani Novsorum-ia’, says a press release.

World Press Day

PANJIM(HND): The Goa Union of Journalist (GUJ), body of working journalists in Goa will celebrate World Freedom of Press Day in association with Department of Information on May 3 at Kala Academy.

According to a press release, World Press Freedom Day is celebrated across the globe every May 3, representing an opportunity to commemorate the fundamental principles of press freedom and to pay solemn tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty. The day is also observed to inform the international community that freedom of the press and freedom of expression are fundamental human rights. This day reminds people that many journalists brave death or face jail to bring daily news to the public. Media professionals, including photojournalists, who risk their lives in the line of duty are recognized on World Press Information Day. This day is celebrated

by UNESCO by calling on its member states to re-affirm their international commitment to guarantee and promote freedom of Information.

GUJ will hold a debate on the topic “freedom of media and the rights of reader/viewer”. The celebrations will be inaugurated

by Secretary, Information and Acting Chief Secretary Narendra Kumar, Director of Information and Publicity, Menino Peres will be present.

The participants of the debate are Sundari Nanda, IPS, Inspector General of Police, Vishnu Wagh, Press/Media Officer, Govt of Goa, Jerson Fernandes, Columnist, Adv Satish Sonak, Rajan Narayan, Editor of Goan Observer, Paresh Prabhu, Editor Navprabha, Ajit Paingankar Correspondent Tarun Bharat, Canacona, Adv Albertina Almeida, Activist, Anil Laad, Chief Reporter, Inn Goa, Nomrata Fernandes, features writers Herald, Adv Cleaofato Coutinho Almeida, Roland Martins, Consumer Activist Shanti Maria will moderate the debate.

Prakash Kamat, President of Goa Union of Journalist has requested the members of GUJ and other media organizations to participate in the debate.

Mobile health camps

PANJIM(HND): Summer Mobile Health Camps will be organised from May 1-31 at various villages around Margao. The camps held under the aegis of ‘help them to smile again (Hettsa)’ will be conducted especially for financially poor patients. During the last nine years, ‘Hettsa’ (started in the year 2001) has already provided free and subsidized cost dental treatment to over 10,000 poor patients. Phase two of ‘Hettsa’ will commence with camps supported by Dr Hubert Gomes Dental Clinic in association with Faith Works (India) and Society of St Vincent De Paul.

The camps will be held as follows: May 1 and 2 near St John the Baptist Church, Benaulim; May 3 and 4 – Near Our Lady of Soccour Church, Carmona; May 5 and 6 – Near St Michael’s Church, Orlim; May 8 and 9 – Near Holy Cross Church, Cavelossim; May 10 – Near Taxi Stand, Dona Sylvia, Mobor; May 11, 12 and 13 – Our Lady of Merces Church, Colva; May 15, 16 and 17 – Near Our Lady of Gloria Church, Varca; May 18, 19 and 20 – Near St Sebastian’s Chapel, Benaulim; May 22, 23 and 24 – Near Our Lady of Pilar Church, Seraulim; May 25, 26 and 27 – Near Patrocin Chapel, Benaulim and May 29, 30 and 31 – Near Holy Trinity Church, Benaulim.

These camps will provide free dental, medical and eye checkups and basic treatment for needy patients in the villages around Margao. For more information call Camp Coordinators: Ashley on 9822176131 or Mackfil on 9822125836, says a press release.

Rhythmic Breathing sessions

A roadside drain at Bogmalo filled to extend the road.

Photo by M Prabhav

Objection Certificate’ (NOC) from the panchayat, operating w i t h To u r i s m N O C , ” s a i d Kavlekar.

He further said the demolition notice has been served to the cottages, but it has brought a stay.

He is confident that the water logging will not be a problem during monsoon since the road is close to the beach and water

Alemao reviews monsoon works

easily flows away from road.

When asked instead of filling the drain, even gutter slab of road level would have been a solution, Kavlekar said the road would be further extended once the land auction is over and new drain would be constructed.

Efforts to contact BBCR officials proved futile, as they were not available for comments.

HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Power situation will improve, assures Reginaldo

Minister for Urban Development, Joaquim Alemao reviewed the pre-monsoon preparedness works at a meeting held with Chairpersons and Chief Officers of all the Municipalities in the State.

The meeting held at the Secretariat-Porvorim on Thursday was also attended by D A Hawaldar, Director of Municipal Administration.

The meeting took stock of the works undertaken by the Municipalities as regards disposal of garbage, cleaning road side gutters, drains and nullahs to prevent flooding particularly in flood prone and low lying areas in the Municipal towns during monsoon and also to employ casual workers/labourers to carry out pre-monsoon works by the respective Municipalities/Corporation.

During the course of discussions, Mr Alemao informed that "A" 13' and 'C class Municipal Councils are given grant of Rs 3 lakh, Rs 2 lakh and Rs 1 lakh re-

C u r t o r i m M L A Re g i n a l d o Lourenco has appealed to his constituents to bear with the frequent power fluctuations, saying the situation will improve with the installation of 10 power transformers sanctioned by the government.

Expressing concern over the fluctuations, Lourenco said he is aware of the problem plaguing the power consumers and asked the people to cooperate with the department stall to tide over the problem.

He pointed out that work on installation of power transformers at Ganapoga (Raia) and near Our Lady of Carmel Chapel (Curtorim) are in full progress, adding that the works are expected to be completed in around 10 days time. “The remaining eight power transformers will be installed very shortly in all the villages falling under the Curtorim Assembly constituency”, he said.

HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

spectively for pre-monsoon works and therefore asked the Municipalities to forward their proposals.

Mr Alemao asked the Chief Officers to see that the pre-monsoon works are completed in stipulated time period and issued strict instructions not to keep work pending in any areas.

Strict action will be initiated against erring officials, he added.

The Urban Development Minister also called for proper utilization of funds by the municipalities and at the same time instructed them to see that garbage treatment plants are set up in their jurisdiction to get rid of garbage menace.

PANJIM(HND): Free public sessions on Rhythmic Breathing will be conducted at the following places: On May 2, between 11 am to 1 pm, at 2nd floor, Rotary Community Centre, Tilak Maidana Complex, Vasco and at Room No 2, 1st floor, Vidyadhiraj hall, Mahalaxmi temple, Panjim, between 6 pm to 8 pm. On May 7 at Radhakrishna Temple, near Mahalaxmi temple, Panjim, between 6 pm to 6.45 pm. On May 14 at Radhakrishna Temple, near Mahalaxmi temple, Panjim, between 6 pm to 6.45 pm.

Limited seats are available. For details contact Venkatesh Betigiri, Coordinator of Rhythmic Breathing Club on 9422443421 or veebee20303@yahoo.co.in.

Night Vigil at Carambolim

PANJIM(HND): The Parishioners of Carambolim under the leadership of Parish Priest Fr Conceicao D'Silva will be organizing an all Goa International Workers Day Night Vigil on April 30, from 8 pm onwards. Ida and Thomas Fernandes will conduct Biblical Rosary based on the theme of the night vigil ‘Vaurachem Moll Ollkhun Noketram Vorvim Sonvsarant Zhogzogat’. From 3.30 am to 4.30 am Rev Fr. Manuel Gomes, Director of Biblical Centre of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman will celebrate the Mass along with the other Priests and will preach on the theme. From 6 pm to 12 am priests will be available for confessions.

POWER SHUTDOWN AT BICHOLIM May 1: Between 8:30 am to 2 pm. Areas affected are Mamlatdar Office building, Police station, Town centre building, Bhailepath, Nagzarwada, Kumbharwada, Bordem main road, Sonarpeth, Sunderpeth Muslimwada, Vatadeo, New market, Old market, Primary Health centre, Shetye Resicom, Arcade Vasudeo Nagar, Center area, Zeib tower, Sankalp garden, Vrindavan apartment, Bicholim Urban Co-operative bank, Goa Bagayatdar, Dindayal Bhawan, V.B. Naik Petrol pump, Muslimwada.

May 2: Between 8:30 am to 2 pm. Areas affected are Muslimwada, Bicholim Industrial estate and surrounding areas.

May 3: Between 8:30 am to 2 pm. Areas affected are Sal, Ibrampur, Kumyamal, Kholpem, Karpal, Dodamarg and surrounding areas.

May 4: Between 8:30 am to 5 pm. Areas affected are ITI, Valshi, Housing board colony Bordem, Shardanagar, Naiknagar, Sudhacolony, Ganapati temple, Ladfem, Van, Maulinguem, Kudchirem, Naigini, Govindnagar, Gholkar, Lakherim, Sahakar Jal and surrounding areas.

May 6: Between 8:30 am to 2 pm. Areas affected are Pagir, Pajwado, Gaonkarwado, Sonarpet, Mandrekarwada, Sarmanas, Pilgao, Dempo mining, Saptakoteshwar, Kalarwada, Katarwada, Village panchayats Pilgao, Chimulwada, Gaonkarwada, Bicholim Dhabdabo, Sarmanas, Sunderpet and surrounding areas.

APRIL 30 MAPUSA: Between 9 am to 3 pm. Areas affected are Duler, Xelpem, Karaswaddo, Ruzaiwaddo, Sankalp hospital, Dangui colony, Pedem, Acoi, Cunchelim, Bodgini, Navtara hotel, Parra, Agnimorod, Parra tower, Jakni waddo, Arradi, Verla, Canca, Brittowaddo, Saliswado, Lingabhat, Lobowado, Fondacwaddo, Freitaswaddo and surrounding areas.

MAY 1 VASCO: Between 8 am to 2 pm. Areas affected are entire Vasco area, Chicalim, Harbour, Sada, Mangor area.

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PHCs’ role in vector-borne disease control highlighted HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, APRIL 29

Goa Civic & Consumer Action Network (GOACAN) has impressed the Primary Health Centres could play a stellar role in prevention of vectorborne diseases like filaria, chikungunya, Japanese Encephalitis and dengue by keeping track and preparing an annual health report of a village and present the same to the gram sabha.

GOACAN coordinator Roland Martin while speaking at the Malaria Day programme recently said the data presented by the PHC will provide villagers the exact situation at the ground level and help them to take necessary preventive action as recommended by the health officer.

Martin said every government authority has a role to play and the task of prevention cannot be left to the Directorate of Health Services alone.

But at the same time, he observed, the DHS also has to carry out urgent changes in the

‘Summer Splash’ organised HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

Margao Deanery Youth (MADYO) organized a cultural event “Summer Splash” on April 25 in Ravindra Bhavan Margao in aid of the old clergy.

The three hour event saw performances by the parishes of Maina, Grace Church, Holy Spirit, and those from Loutolim, Rachol, Sao Joao de Areal, Macasana , Navelim and Telaulim from the Margao deanery in the form of skits, traditional dance, operetta, and many others.

Special invitee Fr Eucaristinho Gomes, the dean of the Margao deanery underlined the importance of the role of the youth in the society saying that the Year is dedicated to the youth.

He later felicitated Fr Nascimento Mascarenhas, a famous historian in the Goa Archdiocese, who was the chief guest for the evening. A souvenir was also released on the event. Fr Derick Fernandes and Fr Bolmax Pereira (Animators) saw a success of the event, which was organized in association with the Tiatr Academy of Goa.

health cards used at construction sites so as to record the permanent address, state of origin, contractors name and registration number so that the workers get proper medical treatment and follow up.

He mentioned that a review of the data collection formats and registers needed to be undertaken by the DHS so as to suit the present needs and challenges particularly in the case of recording movement of contract labourers and rented accommodation where they live which is not reflected in the village panchayat and municipal records.

Martin said it was important to build toilets for all under the Total Sanitation Plan for Goa as envisaged by the Government of India. The PWD has to gear up to make toilets available to those in need because many places in the interiors as well as coast have become open toilets in the State, he observed.

He maintained the effective role of the Garbage Manage-

ment Committee must be considered with each PHC ensuring that the sanitary inspector attends the meetings as envisaged in the Goa NonBiodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 1996 & Rules 1997 at the Village Panchayat or Municipal Council.

He said there was a need to ensure co-operation of the Department of Women & Child Development by providing training to teachers and workers under the Project Officers of ICDS at the taluka level so that they are equipped to understand the growth and spread of vectorborne diseases and the best preventive methods.

Martin stated that the reduction of frog population over the last few years has been proportional to the increase in malaria cases in the State. In this scenario, he observed, it was important to enlist the participation of the Forest Department which is working towards strengthening Save the Frogs Campaign.

Mapusa Municipal Council’s (MMC) gents urinal near Burye’s Petrol Pump, Mapusa, is in pathetic condition.

According to sources, the state of the urinal is that there is no door for the urinal nor are there proper urinal pots, light, water and hand wash facilities.

People dump debris alongside the urinal.

Though parking of vehicles are not allowed in front of the gent’s urinals, people park their vehicles and the traffic police do not take any action against these vehicle owners.

Incidentally, there is a milk booth of Goa Dairy and restaurants next to the stinking urinal and it has surprised many locals that the Urban Heath Centre has not taken any action in this regard.

Vibhag Pramukh-Bardez taluka of Siva Sena Philip D’Souza stated that Shiv Sena has already written a letter to MMC bringing to notice the pathetic condition of the gent’s urinal.

“MMC authorities told me that the urinal is under repairs,

HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

Margao police on Thursday arrested a husband for assaulting her wife with a hot utensil and causing burn injuries on her face and other parts of the body.

The wife is presently convalescing at the Hospicio hospital, sources said.

Margao police said they have arrested the husband Francisco D’Costa for assaulting his wife with the hot utensil and other items The Margao police are investigating.

Arrested: The Maina Curtorim police have arrested a hotel owner from Nuvem for employing child labour in the establishment.

The accused was arrested under the Goa Children’s Act The police are investigating the case.

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Director of Higher Education Bhaskar Nayak has stated that those who think differently and identify opportunities hidden among obstacles and failures can climb the ladder of success much faster than the others.

He was speaking as the chief guest at a function organized

by Bardez Konknni Asmitai Kendra (BKAK) at Mapusa Municipal hall on Wednesday to celebrate its annual day.

On the occasion, Padma Shri Fr Romualdo de Souza (educationist), Gurudas Natekar (social worker) and Vijaydatta Natekar (craftsman) were felicitated by Bhaskar Nayak with a shawl and memento.

Nayak mentioned that Fr de Souza, Natekar and Lotlikar, who have been honoured by the Bardez Konkani Asmitai Kendre, adopted different paths way of life from the rest.

“They have shown that with vision, initiative and courage, people can excel in any field of life. What the world need today is men and women who can hold on to great values handed down through the ages,” said Naik.

Director of Higher Education Bhaskar Nayak addresses a gathering at the Mapusa Municipal hall.

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Chairperson of Mapusa Municipal Council Roopa Bhakta said the BKAK deserves compliments for completing 12 years of its existence.

It is very easy to start an organization but to sustain it for longer period is the most difficult task. The Bardez Konkanni Asmitai Kendra has done great job by honoring Fr de Souza, Natekar and Lotlikar for the exemplary work done by them in their respective fields,” said Bhakta.

Nayak and Bhakta also distributed prizes to students

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but no repairs are being carried out here nor there is a signboard to indicate that it is under repair. People are using the urinal daily,” said D’Souza.

“The urge to relieve is quite human and is involuntary and hence there is not point in blaming the general public if they make use of it despite its pathetic condition. Such a toilet is a nuisance to the citizens and it can create health hazards,” added D’Souza.

“Restaurant owners are complaining that customers are not patronizing their restaurants because of the stench emanating from the toilet. This urinal has become a breeding ground for the nocturnal pests and mosquitoes,” said D’Souza.

He said Shiv Sena has also appraised Urban Heath Centre about the condition of the urinal and has requested them to take necessary action.

Mapusa Citizen Forum President Ratnapal Salkar stated that the gents urinal was built in 2003 by MMC and was being maintained properly then.

“But due to non-maintenance of the urinal, its condition worsened over the years.

Ramdev Baba to arrive on Saturday HERALD CORRESPONDENT MARCEL, APRIL 29

Yog Guru Ramdev Baba, who recently expressed his desire to enter politics, will be in the State for four days from May 1.

Ramdev Baba will conduct yoga camp at GEC grounds, Farmagudi, from May 1 to 4 from 5 am to 7.30 am. He will also visit rural villages in North and South Goa and will also interact with youth during his stay.

The four-day programme has been organised by Bharat Swabhiman and Patanjali Yog Samitti, Goa. No fees will be charged from the people participating in the yoga camp. Preparations are underway and the seating capacity will be around 75,000.

Incidentally, the free yoga camp comes soon after Baba Ramdev declared his wish to join politics, but organizers claimed that the free yoga camp is organized as it was declared much earlier by Baba Ramdev himself. “We have not declared our party yet. In no way, holding of this free camp is related to politics,” said Bharat Swabhiman (Goa) Secretary Kamlesh Bandekar.

who had won various competitions organized by the BKAK. Fr de Souza, Natekar and Lotlikar later spoke on the occasion and expressed their gratitude to the BKAK for honouring them.

Earlier, BKAK President Arun Sakhardande welcomed, while BKAK Secretary Chandrika Padgaonker read out the report of the activities carried out by the Kendra during the year 2009-2010. Kashmiri Pawasker compered the function while Nutan Sakhardande later proposed the vote of thanks.

4 hurt as Maruti van plunges into culvert HERALD CORRESPONDENT COLLEM, APRIL 29

Four persons were seriously hurt when a Maruti van plunged into a culvert at Kasavali-Mollem on Wednesday evening.

According to reports, the injured – Leena Gaonkar (30), Nagesh Gawde (17) and a woman, all from NandranMollem and the driver, Suresh Mahalsekar (35) of Valpoi – were later shifted to the ID hospital at Ponda in a 108 ambulance.

Collem Head Constable Shiva Gauns conducted investigations at the accident site under the supervision of PI Manoj Mardolkar.

A shed that collapsed due to cyclonic winds at Maina-Navelim in Bicholim.

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Cyclonic winds damaged private and public property in many parts of Maina-Navelim in Bicholim taluka on Wednesday night.

Electricity poles were bro-

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However despite repeated requests, MMC has done nothing to neither maintain cleanliness nor renovate the urinal,” said Salkar.

“There are altogether 12 toilets within MMC jurisdiction and they are being looked after by some agencies. MMC should hand over this urinal also to some agency to look after its maintenance in case they are unable to maintain it,” voiced Salkar.

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Cyclonic winds hit Bicholim, damage property

ken while a tree got uprooted and damaged the compound wall of a primary school.

Another tree collapsed and damaged the roof of one Jani Valvaikar, while a shed belonging to one Rajesh Naik also collapsed due to the strong

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winds. A number of plantations in the area were also damaged, causing losses to various farmers.

The Navelim panchayat is monitoring the situation and the talathi has been asked to prepare a report on the losses.

‘Those who see opportunities in Corlim locals want probe into obstacles achieve success faster’ disposal of dogs’ carcasses

Mapusa council’s urinal lacks maintenance

The public gent’s urinal in Mapusa.

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Residents of Corlim have demanded an enquiry into the disposal of carcasses of stray dogs in the village.

The residents made this demand at Corlim gram sabha on Sunday, which was attended by only four panchayat members, including Sarpanch Sisto Fernadnes, Deputy Sarpanch Fidelis Pereira and Panchas Joao B Lobo and Vinayak Dhulapkar and about 40 residents from Corlim. Three panchas did not attend the gram sabha meeting.

Earlier, the meeting started with Panchayat Secretary Basilio Pires reading the annual statement and income expenditure report for 2009-10.

While reading the annual statement and expenditure report, Pires informed that about Rs 12,500 was spent on disposal of carcass of stray cattle and stray dogs, in some of the wards in Corlim during the last financial year.

Pires further informed the residents that about Rs 200 were given towards disposal of a carcass of a stray dog, while Rs 5,000 were given for the disposal of carcass of a buffalo and most of the pan-

chas had utilized the panchayat funds.

It may be recalled in the last financial year, a number of dogs carcass were seen along the road near Corlim panchayat with the highway from Panjim to Ponda causing maximum deaths of stray dogs.

Hearing the details of the report on stray cattle, residents sought to know how the panchayat spent such a huge amount from the panchayat fund on stray dogs.

Pires was unable to provide necessary details on how many stray dogs were disposed in each ward during the last financial year.

According to sources in Corlim panchayat, it is alleged that one of the panchas had taken money worth over Rs 3,000 from the panchayat fund by giving vouchers on disposal of carcass of stray dogs in his ward to the panchayat.

Sources further informed that the panch member had produced bills worth about Rs 2,800, stating that he had disposed 14 stray dogs in a day in his ward.

While the four panchas informed that they had disposed about eight stray dogs in the

Negligence may force sculpture at Poriem to become ‘history’ According to Dr Ritty from the Archaeological Department at Dharwar University, the sculpture must be from the period of Samraat Ashok, which is written in Brahmi language and difficult to read. “All the letters are unreadable due to incessant dust, heat and rain,” said Dr Ritty.

‘Sanju Ko Hi Netra Warisha’ are the words written on the sculpture, the meaning of which is unclear today due to which Vasu Usapkar A sculpture near Sakhleshwar Temple, Poriem-Sattari.

Photo by Vishant Vaze and Varad Sabnis, students of Deccan UniHERALD CORRESPONDENT versity Pune, have kept the MAYEM, APRIL 29 invention of the sculpture in One of the ancient sculptures progress. near Sakhleshwar Temple, Though the ancient sculpPoriem-Sattari, is likely to be- ture is worshipped on the occome part of the history due to casion of Dussera, Gudi Padwa, utter negligence on the part of Narali Pournima and other ocadministration. casions, the real mystery has According to sources, the been lost, as the real meaning sculpture is located 3 kms cannot be ascertained. The inaway from Sanquelim and cessant rains and untimely there is debris of ancient Sateri pouring of oil have led to enTemple in front of the sculp- danger the existence of the ture, but it cannot be predicted sculpture. who was the destructor of the Former director of Goa Artemple. However, it is esti- chaeological Department Dr mated that the sculpture is in Prakashchandra Shirodkar rebetween third and fourth cen- cently visited the place to tury. study it. However, the State

ST, SC, OBC meet postponed HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

The Goa ST, SC and OBC Federation the announced that the convention scheduled on May 2 at 4 pm near the Nehru stadium, Fatorda stands postponed due to the ongoing budgetary session of Parliament.

Federation President Antonio Gaonkar said the future date of the convention will be announced later.

government has not shown any interest to maintain and preserve the ancient monument.

area, Panch Joao B Lobo said though there were stray dogs in his ward, he never took any money from the panchayat fund to get the stray dog carcass disposed.

Later the residents asked the panchayat secretary to conduct a thorough enquiry as to how such a big amount was spent on the disposal of stray dog carcasses. They also demanded that the money be recovered from the concerned panch member, if he was found guilty in the act.

The residents asked Pires not to pass the 2009-10 budget, till a thorough investigation is conducted on the issue of disposal of stray dogs.

Cops clueless in Fatorda burglary HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 29

There seems to be no headway in the burglary that took place in a residential house at Ambaji-Fatorda three days ago.

Acting on a complaint lodged by Peter Silva, the Margao police had registered a case of burglary against unknown miscreants for lifting away gold ornaments from the house.

However, police said they have not been able to lay their hands on the culprits involved in the burglary.

Incidentally, many a theft and burglary that has been reported from the Commercial Capital in recent times remains undetected. Though the police has claimed to have made a breakthrough in the Hari Mandir theft case by arresting a group, including some minors, there’s no information about the modus operandi used by the accused and their role in similar offenses reported in the city in recent times.

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The reports of Sachar and Ranganath Misra committees on minority welfare today generated heat in the Lok Sabha, with RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his SP counterpart Mulayam Singh Yadav charging the government with being anti-Muslim and leading walkout by their party members. BJP members too utilised the opportunity to express anguish over non-utilisation of funds for development of social infrastructure, including water and power, in Muslim-dominated areas, especially slums.

The issue cropped up during Question Hour when Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid was replying to questions on the implementation of the Sachar Committee recommendations.

"I am thankful for your advice but I don't know what question you asked," Khurshid remarked after Prasad wanted to know whether the government was prepared to amend the Constitution to provide reservation to Muslims in government jobs as it was doing for women.

Prasad and Yadav insisted on a proper reply and later led their members in staging walkout from the House.

Trying to ease the situation, Speaker Meira Kumar said, "If you give a notice, we can have a separate discussion on the matter."

Govt rules out blanket ban on use of plastic bags PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

The Government today ruled out a blanket ban on plastic bags and said waste management at the local level should be improved to ensure that the waste did not become an environmental hazard.

Replying to a question on plastic waste, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in the Lok Sabha that "a blanket ban (on plastic bags) is not advisable."

He said plastic is inherently not a public health hazard, but the inability to collect plastic waste leads to health hazards.

Ramesh recalled that 20 years ago plastic bags were introduced to check deforestation.

He said economic incentives like charging money for plastic bags could dissuade people from using it.

The minister said several pilgrim centres like Tirupati, Dwarika, Sabarimala and Vaishno Devi have banned the use of plastic. Several states like Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh have also banned use of plastic bags.

Ramesh stressed that local administration and state governments should ensure a proper implementation of policies.

Kerala Cong groups merger move runs into trouble PTI THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 29

The move of Kerala Congress (KC-Joseph group) to desert ruling LDF and merge with KCMani outfit to be part of the United Democratic Front has run into trouble with Congress set to resist it.

Kerala Congress-Joseph itself is on the verge of a split with a faction led by former Union Minister P C Thomas calling a meeting in Kottayam tomorrow to mobilise opinion against Joseph's merger plans.

Congress leaders have clearly put it across to Kerala Congress leaders that the party would not provide any additional assembly seats to united Kerala Congress than what the Kerala Congress-Mani was given in the last elections.

Assembly elections are due in Kerala next year.

Youth and student outfits of Congress have come out openly against Joseph's entry to UDF, holding that in the last several years, UDF had made a series of corruption charges against Joseph who now holds the Public Works portfolio in the V S Achuthanandan government.

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ews is that Goa is considering the possibility of setting up another engineering college at Margao, after the ones at Farmagudi, Verna and Shiroda. While our neighbouring States have been going full steam ahead in building their higher educational infrastructure, Goa has been conservative and slow.

Expanding higher education in our State has also been hit by a lack of visionary zeal, politics by different interest groups, and an inability to match supply and demand and the ability of parents to pay for non-funded learning.

That Goa needs more educational institutions there is indeed no doubt. In the Knowledge Economy, the higher the skills the bigger the advantage for any region. States like Kerala were ahead in this game, as they began building and expanding vastly their network of polytechnics right from the 1960s or earlier. Bangalore itself has a few dozen engineering colleges, while the State of Goa itself has barely three. Bangalore may be larger in population, but it only goes to show that with the right approach, one can build an educational Mecca. Another State capital, Hyderabad also a large number of educational institutions, so does Maharashtra second city, Pune. Even tiny Manipal is worthy of envy.

In these times when the State no longer believes it can achieve the commanding heights in the economy, higher education has to be built in partnership with private players, specially non-commercial institutions. Goa has been taking some initiatives to promote self-funded educational institutions, but somewhere the books don’t balance. Initially, institutions are set up with lot of promise. In a few years time, for whatever reason, the fees are hiked. For some courses, parents are willing to pay a lot to get education. But for streams like the mass media and other professional courses, Goa has been struggling to attract students even when institutions are set up. We could do much more in nursing education, which has a high demand in the West, but over which little is done.

Specially for fields like education, Goa should not shoot itself in the foot with arguments such as: where will our students get the jobs if we produce too many engineers? Goa has long been a manpower exporting centre. It would be better if our young men and women left our shores with better qualifications; one day they could return, as our expats now sometimes do, and bring back more useful skills with them. Not only that, engineering education could also help our youth to shape into entrepreneurs and managers of tomorrow.

There are obvious issues about quality. One argument has been that since Goa launched its second and third engineering colleges — after making do with just one at Farmagudi for decades — the quality of students has declined. Those who would have gone in for a B.Sc are now able to get into engineering, it is argued. Maybe. But we need a little patience to tackle issues of quality, and this will surely grow. For now, the biggest threat comes from being conservative with the expansion of higher education. As it is, thanks to selfish dog-in-the-mangerism, Goa lost the opportunity to have a Central university functioning from here.

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t is only when someone we know falls victim that the seriousness of the problem becomes apparent. Hit-and-run cases in Goa have been claiming their toll, and adding to the deaths taking place on the killer roads of Goa. One of the latest deaths reported has been that of former deputy collector and onetime civil supplies director Simon Paes, following an accident at Cunchelim, Bardez. Other cases have been reported too.

Even if the police promise action against those responsible, this is no excuse for their job not done. Police checks on the roadside are, at best, perfunctory, and rather predictable. The target is mostly two-wheelers riding without helmets. Eager to avoid stepping on the toes of the influential liquor lobby, there are hardly any tests conducted to check alcohol levels of drivers.

Even those guilty of road accidents hardly face action by way of suspension or cancellation of their licenses. Compulsory helmets have somewhat reduced head injuries. But, in short, our police have a big role to play in helping to make our roads safer.

Oppression Samir Khan, Mapusa This is in response to the article ‘Keep religion to yourself ’ (Herald, April 20) If we look at Muslim countries, from Palestine to Iraq to Afghanistan to Chechnya to Xinjiang to Mindao, they are overwhelmed with illegal occupations and oppressions. It’s this sense of political injustice and deprivation that’s fuelling militancy in Muslims. The essential motive, intent and action in recent Muslim militancy are hidden in the political oppression and humiliation that Muslims suffer at the hands of occupiers, usurpers and tyrant governments..

The key in understanding Muslim militancy does not lie only in religion, but also in politics. Any approach to the solution of Muslim militancy without first recognizing and addressing the political injustices faced by Muslims around the world is bound to fail.

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ravellers have always preferred Goa as a famous destination for fun and relaxation.

But of late another type of tourists are making a beeline to Goa. These international tourists are coming to get treated in the State’s super specialty health centres. Western Europeans and North Americans along with NRIs are coming in large numbers to get cured for a myriad of health problems ranging from cataract to obesity.

The hi- tech and well equipped super specialty hospitals and modern medical clinics with their comparatively low cost treatment and high calibre doctors, is fast attracting hordes of foreigners who are coming to Goa to get themselves treated.

Dr Oscar Rebello, noted medical practitioner and former Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) opines, “Goa can really do very well in certain non-emergency areas like dental, cosmetology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, etc. For instance in many of the Western countries the waiting period for cataract is over a year. Goa can establish its important position on the world health tourism map.”

Goa getting connected directly with international airlines is also helping to get foreign tourists all 365 days of the year. Until recently, these special tourists came in the tourist season i.e. from October to April. But with the commencement of foreign airlines like Air Arabia, Qatar Airways this segment of travellers are now coming round the year.

“Tourists from the West and NRIs from UK and USA are coming to Goa mainly due to two factors : 1) reasonable cost of surgery and 2) the availability of the best qualified doctors . For example the cost of cosmetic surgery is one-fifth of that in the UK and one-tenth of that in US. The cost of the popular cosmetic surgeries at Apollo Victor is : bariatrics (weight loss)Rs 1.5 lakh, facelift ( removal of wrinkles) Rs 61,500, Liposuction ( fat removal) Rs 82,000, ” reveals Varun Albuquerque of Alcon Victor Group which owns Apollo Victor Hospital, Margao and Devaaya at Divar .

Dr Hubert Gomes who has been running one of the most popular dental clinics in Margao since 1984, concurs. “My prices are ten times cheaper than that prevalent in the West .The cost for dental implant and Metal Free Ceramic Veneers / Crowns ranges between 14,000-25,000 and Rs 6000 (per crown) respectively. ” Every year Dr Gomes treats around 2500 international tourists and NRIs. Eye treatment is another area where the goose

30 April, 1910 • In a debate held earlier it was discussed the ambiguous questions of Jules Veretas, what are the objectives of the humanity, where is the place in our educational system, and its importance.

• The sanitary conditions in our State is somewhat improving, with pestilences which earlier was spreading virulently, abating.

• A case of Small-pox occurred at the Parish of Santa Cruz. In Bardez this sickness is spreading gradually. We draw the attention of the health authorities.

• At Majorda a individual was killed allegedly by his wife and her paramour.

The motives are being investigated.

• According to the weather bulletin, it is estimated that the Monsoon season will commence from the mid of next month.

Cures And Cash is laying golden eggs for health tourism. Foreign tourists from western countries are visiting Goan ophthalmologists for cataract surgery, retina, refractive error, Glaucoma etc., says Dr. Chandrakant Shetye who runs the popular Vision Care Super Speciality Eye Hospital-Mapusa, adding “the cost of surgery or treatment compared to that in the UK and USA is only half in our hospital in Goa. The cost of cataract surgery per eye ranges from Rs. 7000 to Rs. 49000 which depending on the type of lens package the patient chooses. Similarly, Retinal Surgery ranges from Rs. 25000 - to Rs. 40000 and Retinal Laser treatment costs depends on the number of laser sittings. Our hospital gets ten-15 foreign patients a year for surgical treatment and one or two foreign patients for OPD per day during tourist season.”

Apart from allopathy, tourists are also frequenting Goa for non-allopathic treatment. For instance Devaaya at Divar is the Ayurveda and Nature Cure Centre which offers extensive facilities for providing Ayurvedic Panchakarma and Wellness treatment. It combines Ayurvedic treatments with Yoga, Meditation, Music, Lifestyle correction, Diet Planning and medicines to achieve a healthy body,

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t the close of every academic year, the ritual of examination is preordained, and with it the custom of supervision. Before we proceed with the task of supervision, all the supervisors, seniors as well as the juniors have to go through the rigorous ceremony of being acclaimed as a supervisor, which involves the never-ending list of dos and don’ts of being a righteous supervisor, the pledge to be unprejudiced in the task and doing a fair dealing to the mission bestowed, come what may, that could be dire threats, phone calls from stalwarts or plain emotional blackmail.

All the same, having fulfilled the sacred norm, the newly ordained lot then charge to the examination hall like sniffer dogs on the trail of offenders at the crime scene. Once in the hall, the supervisors mount the dais and perch themselves on their seats like vultures waiting patiently for their prey. In a second, they transform into hyenas and pace up and down the hall, silently giggling at the fate in wait. Occasionally, they also roar like the lion to remind the class and more so the self about who is the boss. But, this does not suffice. In spite of all the odds, the clan of copycats flourish

As to the question why people are killing their own brethren in certain Muslim countries, one has to understand that killing of innocent people no matter to whichever faith he belongs is condemnable. Secondly most of the Muslim countries were earlier colonies of Europe. Before leaving their respective colonies they sowed the seeds of dissensions among the people on various grounds, be it on ethnicity, sectarian, linguistic and cultural differences. They have succeeded in their ploy and are still reaping the benefits as we are witnessing sectarian violence all over the world, people killing their own country men be it in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in countries like, Rwanda, Congo, Uganda, Italy Spain, Ireland and in our own country. Earlier it was direct colonialism now it has reappeared in the form of neo-colonialism (New World Order) in these and other countries, forcing their imperialistic policies on the government and the people.

Changing times Adelmo Fernandes, Vasco

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Health tourism has a great scope in Goa writes DOMNICK ISIDORE MENDIS

In what must be considered a landmark judgement the Supreme Court quashed 22 criminal cases filed against South Indian actress Khushboo for her remarks in various magazines allegedly endorsing pre-marital sex.

In her interviews the actress had reportedly said that it was fine for girls to indulge pre-marital sex after taking precautions to keep unwanted pregnancy and sexuallytransmitted diseases at bay. She also justified her statement by saying that no educated man could expect his partner to be a virgin.

Though all this may seem to be morally wrong but then in our Indian society which has been aping the west, pre-marital sex appears to be an accepted norm among girls. We have to move with the times and times are a changing. This may sound awkward in a conservative but is a reality of the day. Even discussing sex may have been forbidden in our society in the past. But with the television, the Internet and mobile phones at the disposal of the college-going youngsters, leading a moral life and keeping away from all the things related to sex could well be a thing of the past..It is a fact that in today’s world no man could expect his bride to be a virgin. All this may not be in

mind and spirit. Tourists from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and NRIs from UK and USA frequent Devaaya.

Health tourism has a great scope in Goa, and on January 26 2010, the foundation stone for the proposed Rs 120 crore EIH Goa Super Speciality Hospital at Bambolim was laid by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat . All this points to the happening of good times for this new variety of tourism.

Experts believe that Goa has a great potential for health tourism. “The climate and environment existing in Goa is very conducive post surgery, especially during convalescence period. The average age of Western Europeans and North Americans visiting Goa is more than 55. Similarly, the State receives more than 40 per cent of repeat tourists. All this indicates to a great potentiality for health tourism in Goa,” states Ralph de Souza president, Travel and Tourism Association of Goa- (TTAG).

But ground realities are different. On its own the State government is not doing much to attract these new tourists. Rather, it will not be wrong to say that the government is neglecting this new kind of tourism.

Post surgery, accommodation needs must be

Roving Eyes and multiply at the speed of light. And so the young bubbly lot don’t give in easy. Trust these teenagers to come up with bright and unusual ideas to hoodwink the teacher. With changing times, modern technology a la Munnabhai MBBS, have aided these community. Cordless assistance may sound too abstract and unpractical to the local lot, who generally prefer concrete micro mini or rather nano notes and hide the same in not so nano places. Well, in order to ensure that everyone is under the much required scanner, mega zoom lens is a primary requisite, to pierce through all opaque hurdles to detect non permissible print material. Fortunately, the good old time tested methodology of the ‘roving eyes’ comes to the rescue, roving all the nooks and corner, curves and contours, and in the process not forgetting the right spot -which normally happens to be just under the very answer sheet that the dude is answering. Well, it takes a trained eye and a strong animal instinct to detect the crime, at the right time, at the right place coupled with the right evidence. Frankly, the hide and seek games that take place in the hall surpasses the thrill experienced by watching

Many local sand extractors are extracting sand from the Mandovi River near Vanxim (Capao) Island. This is done using big canoes. There are more than 60 canoes which are extracting sand daily. Some sand extractors are operating without the necessary permission of Captain of Ports and Department of Industries and Mines.

Since a very large amount of sand is being extracted daily, there is every possibility of the Captain of Ports jetty’s foundation getting damaged and the jetty collapsing.

Also the bundh on Divar side may collapse, which may destroy the fields due to soil erosion. A major factor is the noise produced by the canoe motor which is terrible and unbearable, especially during the nights.. Some sand extractors from the village have employed migrant labourers and put them in a rented house with no toilet facilities. They defecate in the open and the stink is unbearable and there is every possibility of outbreak of diseases.

The villagers have brought this to the notice of the village panchayat, but no major action has been taken yet to stop it. Will the concerned authorities take immediate action in this regard?

Fall in tourism Mark Spalding. U.K. The Tourism Department is saying the number of foreign tourist arrivals has been the same as there has been an increase in scheduled passengers which has made up for the fall in charter tourist arrivals.

Yet more lies spoken this time by Swapnil Naik. There has been an obvious drop in tourism this season ask any businessman.

Maybe partly due to the global meltdown but more so to do with the rapes,murders, drugs,corruption and LIES that comes from the Goa of late. Maybe if just one person could be honest in the state of Goa and admit that tourism has declined they would

By Smitha Bhandare Kamat IP league or the Olympic. Here the adrenaline of both, teacher and student jump at dangerous levels that many a case faint at unexpected moments. Moreso in case of the latter. Normally, the swooning spell is followed by a weeping break and as the melodrama unfolds, seldom do we catch a wrongdoer. You see, it also involves the fine art of using one’s discretion in identifying cognizable and non- cognizable offence in the field of copying, and in doing so the alleged culprit wriggles out. If not, there are humanitarian ground that he can appeal and if nothing at all works the dammed fellow can be plain lucky. Well, there just seems to be too many loopholes in the system. But, these very loopholes, compels the teacher and taught to be creative, innovative and inventive. One in perpetrating the crime, and the other in spotting the same.

And so year in and year out the soap opera continues…faces may change, but the grit and guts in this area of operation is constant.

Wonder why history does not repeat in this particular line of work? nobody seems to be learning much from the past. Except for the fact that, survival of the fittest, and survival of the freshest is in vogue.

Letters to the Editor

Letter of the Day Mandovi sand extraction worrisome Lionel Messias, Divar

tune with the religious teachings, but we have to face the facts. And the fact is that pre-marital sex is a reality in our society.

The best way to deal with this would be to educate the youth on the ill-effects of premarital sex like unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS. This is where sex-education plays an important role.

provided in the vicinity of the hospitals . The example of Health villages in Malaysia, Thailand etc., can be followed. These health villages offer accommodation, restaurants and even provide facilities of interpreters and translators. They come very handy in a foreign country and people accompanying patients feel more relaxed and at ease. The infrastructure would have to include catering to the basic needs of the people accompanying the patient in terms of stay, food, hygiene and to an extent overcoming the language barrier.

Places like Divar, Guirim etc., could be the best abode for recuperation. “The government should promote health villages by transferring land at subsidized rates and ensure continuous supply of power.” opines Albuquerque.

A large number of foreign travellers who come to Goa are mostly recommended by physicians of their own countries. Regular fairs and shows should be held in the Western countries to popularize this brand of tourism. There is also a dire need to ensure that quality aspect of health tourism is maintained, because of late, many dubious dental clinics have mushroomed in the coastal belt of the State. Medical experts believe that along the lines of tourist police there needs to be a body, where patients’ grievances can be redressed if they have not received proper and correct treatment. This would go a long way to prevent the tarnishing of the image of the State.

The confidence of International tourists can also be gained by not overcharging them. Be it local or foreigner, both should be charged the same for the treatment availed. Dr Gomes’ clinic displays the price list both on its website and its office. “A forum to check the quality aspect in dentistry or any health aspect is vital to eradicate people with dubious credentials,” feels Dr Gomes.

In the same way, the garbage lying strewn all over the State is today an eyesore not only to locals but even tourists. “Garbage is the main challenge and it will affect the growth of this budding industry. The government is doing nothing to solve this menace because there is not a single waste processing plant,” rues de Souza Instead of inviting semi clad or scantly dressed or frugal or rogue tourists from Russia, the State government will do a great favour by taking up the initiative and harnessing the huge foreign exchange earning potential of this sunrise segment . Destination Goa should be the credo of marketing Goa to overseas patients especially in the Western Europe, North America and the Gulf.

earn some respect from people who read you paper and others instead of driving yet more people away who are fed up of never hearing a truthful word in Goa from officials and ministers.

Plastic menace!

Augustus Alphonso, Vasco The sight of empty plastic bags scattered all about in Goa is a matter of serious concern CM. I think we have come to a point of negligence by the government that it seems that the CM himself isn’t bothered.

How could a person in the position of a chief minister simply ignore the sight of garbage/plastic scattered all around Goa? We need a cleanliness policy in place. First, let government impose a ban on sale and use of plastic bags in Goa. Then, organize a clean-up with the help of municipalities, schools, and other volunteers from every village & city in Goa.

Callous negligence Stephen Dias, Dona Paula The news appearing one after other on callous negligence on the part of staff from

Hospicio Hospital, Margao is quite shocking for the people of Goa. In the first incident, a thief dressed in a doctor’s gown and committed theft in the same Hospital and robbed gold ornaments belonging to a lady patient in the maternity ward. These sorts of things take place often not only in Hospicio but also in various other hospitals. .

There is no point to blame doctors, nurses or any staff for such incidents as they do not belong to a security cadre, the fault merely lies on patients for wearing these gold ornaments while being admitted in the hospital.

The next incident immediately took place in the same Hospicio Hospital. A patient was advised by the doctor on duty to be shifted for further treatment to Goa Medical College, Hospital, Bambolim. The particular nurse was assigned the duty to shift the patient into the ambulance for having severe respiratory problems, could not control her attendants as they declined to give oxygen to the patient saying it was not their duty.

This incident due to negligence is a major lapse and not minor as reported by the inquiry officer.

This kind of callous negligence on the part of staff of the Hospicio Hospital has to be taken serious note of by management of the hospital who should institute a further detailed inquiry into both incidents.

Health Minister, Vishwajeet Rane, should see that such incidents do not occur in future, not only in this Hospital but in all government hospitals and other centers in Goa.

Question them Arwin Mesquita, UAE Three Goan ministers are expected to visit Kuwait this April. Can I request Kuwait Goans (where possible) to question our ministers; Churchill Alemao, Joaquim Alemao & Mickky Pacheco on the ills facing Goa today. Granted it is difficult to have our opinions heard on the ground but surely, we overseas Goans can have our ruling ministers know (during their overseas visits) that we are not happy with the current situation in Goa e.g. mining, un-necessary mega projects, water contamination, un-controlled migrant influx, destructive development, etc.

Paths of Wisdom A Straitened Life

By Samir Khan

“But whoever turns away from this Admonition from Me shall have a straitened life, and We shall raise him blind on the Day of Resurrection, whereupon he will say: ‘Lord! Why have you raised me blind when I had sight in the world? He will say: ‘Even so it is. Our Signs came to you and you ignored them. So you shall be ignored this Day’.”

(Al-Qur’ān – 20:124:25) These verses from the Holy Qur’ān say that the unrighteous will have a wretched life in this world. This does not mean that all those who are unrighteous will necessarily face poverty. What is meant is that such people will be unable to find peace and contentment.

Someone may be a millionaire, and yet their life will be plagued by discontent and restlessness. Even the ruler of a vast empire may be intensely unhappy and suffer mental agonies.

Transgressors will pass through different states during the interregnum, beginning with their new life commencing on the Day of Resurrection up until their entry into Hell. God will enable them to foresee the terrible scenes of the Last Day and the dire consequences of their misdeeds. They will, however, only be able to see this much but no more. In other respects they will be like the blind, unable to find their way: they will not enjoy the assistance of anyone to help them walk nor will they even possess a stick to help them feel their way. Instead, they will stumble at every step, not knowing in which direction to proceed, absolutely ignorant of what lies ahead of or behind them.

The underlying idea is that no attention will be paid to the unrighteous; their state of suffering and perplexity will be altogether ignored. No one will come forward to lend them a supporting hand nor there be anyone to fulfil their needs for them, or to look after them.

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By Domingos S D'Souza

s envisaged by many, it’s important that our tiny and picturesque Goa is kept free of high industrialization.

Keeping in view our key tourism industry, it is imperative that we concentrate to draw and formulate tourism infrastructure related development plans to preserve our natural scenic village sites, beaches, hillocks, springs etc. as our tiny state is endowed with numerous such. Besides, we should also study and give our close thoughts to other industry areas such as establishment of higher educational institutions (in view of recent Centre’s directives to rope in foreign Educational institutions) because such participation would also create avenues to add-in to our principal industry – Tourism, besides shaping our own intellectual standard.

We have a huge task to boost our basic tourist infrastructure areas for methodical goal-oriented planning and developments. Our roads need to be further improved to cope with the fast increasing traffic, bridges over costal rivulets need serious upgrade, parks and hinterland tourism infrastructure need to be set up to provide out-door life to children and adventure enthusiasts; some multi-purpose theatres must be built to foster our culture and to provide varied entertainment.

Our markets and shopping areas are totally out-dated, unhygienic and very much chaotic. These must be undertaken with well planned sanitation by inviting ideas from entrepreneurs/investors with sound experience, tendered on a BOT basis to save government strain. Vehicular traffic flow around such facilities must be strictly regulated to provide for public parking. Presently most public parking areas in towns and costal villages are completely taken up by taxis; to control the nuisance, issuance of taxi permits must be strictly controlled as there appear to be 10 taxis for a genuine need of three to four, which often give way to disturbing scenes created by taxi drivers (as we read In the press) from airport, bus and railway terminus to market areas, vying for customers, a very nasty and stressful experience for public/tourists who choose to come here to spend a quiet time. With the above in mind it’s so very obvious that we need to service and add value to our basic tourism infrastructure assets, some of which are cited below, and take those up on a phase-by-phase basis, while the larger highend/high cost asset upgrades like luxury cruise vessels must be critically weighed and meticulously planned to be a longer term plan of our overall State Regional Plan 2021 to ensure both, viability and cost effectiveness for a longer term planned development.

Health / Hygiene: Acknowledging that our State is World Sought Tourism Destination, government has to work out a well regulated health policy. We need to upgrade our existing health centres and call for tenders to set-up more private clinics on modern and hygienic lines. Basic sanitation facilities like public pay toilets must be provided in coastal areas, towns and in village market areas. The colossal task of garbage disposal and management must receive a top priority to be tackled on a war footing. All food preparation and outlets must be periodically checked to ensure strict code of hygiene and training of such personnel should be made compulsory to teach professional industry health standards.

Shore and Beach Regulation: Presently there appear to be very little concern that our beaches are our salient assets and Government need to pay all out attention to preserve and maintain those all year round. In this respect, CRZ enforcement is a salient step and rigorous monitoring is a must to ensure its adherence to preserve our beach line. Our State Shack Policy must be strictly de-politicised, as those have been bane of numerous evils that have tarnished our industry image both locally and internationally. Our coastal water sports are run in such a dangerously way, posing direct threat to the lives of bathers and beach strollers. It is important that their functioning is strictly regulated by Ports and Waterways Authority, by allotting them strictly dedicated zones and enforcing proper training to such personnel. With the deployment of Tourism beach regulation personnel, our shore lines must be rid of unwanted elements like lamanis, masseurs, pimps that have been a permanent nuisance at our beaches.

Air, Railway and Bus Terminals: Plenty of work is needed to upgrade these entry points to attain fair standards, understanding that those are truly our welcome doors, just like a front office of a resort/hotel. Clear information kiosks must be set up to impart detailed information to make our visitors/guests feel welcome and informatively secure than being exploited by vagabonds and touts. Basic facilities at these points such as clean toilets should be set-up and where possible rest rooms for transiting guests/passengers must be provided at nominal costs, running of such facilities may be contracted out.

Recreational Facilities and Related Conveniences: Again, these could be achieved by sound investment deals with aspiring entrepreneurs. The areas that need creation of such facilities are parks, gardens, various adventure sports facilities including jogging courses, swimming pools, multi-purpose theatres etc. We need to put in place other areas of convenience, like petrol pumps, in costal village like Arpora/ Calangute/ Candolim, Morjim/ Arambol, Colva/ Majorda etc. These basic facilities are badly lacking particularly in coastal village roads, as a consequence, every store along coastal roads in these villages openly sell mostly adulterated petrol, a fraudulent trade deprives the Government of its earnings besides putting the public in great inconvenience and fraud. Also, for the convenience of public/tourists, tenders must be invited to set up food marts/malls.

Need to Overhaul our Law and Order situation: Keeping an open mind of the notoriety we are aware of our Police force particularly lacking in drug trafficking control, there is a need of complete overhaul by instilling a strict code of discipline at all cadres of the force and must deploy counter intelligence to ensure transparency to gain public confidence.

To get about this, incentives must be attached to their good performance. Also, tourism regulatory force and other vigilance bodies must be deployed to seriously improve our eroded law and order image.

Besides the above few, there are various other industry upgrade areas that need urgent Government attention to begin improving our very basic tourism related infrastructure and as the season is nearing end it is imperative that our CM, various State ministerial Secretaries of key Government Departments sit together and draw concrete plans to augment a result-oriented start-up of basic tourism industry upgrade and lay sound ground work to plan high-end/high cost assets keeping in view our State Regional Plan 2021.”

Debriefing diplomat to wipe out spying blot DELHI BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

The Government is quietly exploring debriefing of Madhuri Gupta, a 53-year old second secretary in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad arrested here last week on the charge of spying for Pakistan, to quietly bury the blot of the enemy succeeding in establishing its mole in the highly-secured establishment.

A hint of this line of action for national security reasons came in a suo moto statement made by the government in Parliament on Thursday that did not even admit her arrest made on Sunday despite registration of a case against her by Delhi Police under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) that carries a maximum punishment of 10 years in jail.

The statement also sought to indicate that she could not have leaked any highly classified ma-

terial since the position that she occupied did not involve such access.

Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur preferred to describe her just as an "official" in the High Commission and not diplomat in deference to the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) cadre officials protesting that they are getting a bad name unnecessarily because of her acts.

"As a result of our counterintelligence efforts, we had reason to believe that an official in the High Commission of India in Islamabad had been passing information to the Pakistan intelligence agencies. The position occupied by the official did not involve access to highly classified material," Preneet kaur said.

Stating that "the official is now cooperating with us in our inquiries," the minister said: "At this stage, for national security

DU may face action for radiation leak: Atomic Board PTI MUMBAI, APRIL 29

Delhi University may face action and be penalised by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board for allegedly failing to follow safety rules after the radiation leak in a Delhi scrap market was traced to its Chemistry department.

"We are tracing the registration of the Canadian irradiator and also contemplating severe punishment under the Indian Atomic Energy Act for the Chemistry Department as it is responsible for severe exposure of gamma rays to the public in Mayapuri which even left one person dead," Chairman, AERB S S Bajaj told PTI today.

The Delhi Police yesterday said it had traced the origin of the radioactive Cobalt-60 found

in Delhi's Mayapuri scrap market to a laboratory in Delhi University's Chemistry Department, where it was lying unused for the last 25 years.

Panic gripped Mayapuri in the first week of April when 11 people were admitted to hospitals after they were exposed to radiation.

A worker in the scrap shop from where the Cobalt 60 was discovered has died due to radiation exposure.

AERB is also trying to find whether the Canadian irradiator in the Chemistry department was registered with Department of Atomic Energy.

"We will come to know today about the registration of the instrument as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is also looking

Uproar in Parliament over anti-Sikh riots PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

Within days of Jagdish Tytler getting a clean chit from a court, the issue of 1984 anti-Sikh riots again erupted in Parliament today with uproar in both the Houses amid charges and counter-charges.

The Akali Dal, backed by a combined opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, accused the government of doing "precious little" to bring the culprits to book. The government hit back charging SAD with seeking to whip up communal passions for political gains.

In the Rajya Sabha, the opposition stormed the well and forced an adjournment.

Harsimrat Kaur in Lok Sabha and S S Dhindsa in the Upper House raised the issue during Zero Hour, leading to turmoil as Congress members strongly protested the accusations that the subsequent Congress governments had only indulged in "cosmetic actions" against the perpetrators of the "genocide".

Kaur said Tytler has recently got acquittal and alleged that a case is not being pursued in a proper court against another accused Sajjan Kumar. She recalled the harrowing experiences of leaders like I K Gujral and war heroes like Lt Gen J S Aurora in 1984.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal objected to Kaur's "full-scale accusations" and regretted that she did not say a word about the assassination of a Prime Minister and a Chief Minister besides the assertion of another Prime Minister that "this madness must stop".

Dismissing the opposition charge, Bansal in a spirited intervention, accused the Akali Dal of "lacking courage" when Punjab was hit by terrorism and made certain remarks against BJP which infuriated the main opposition.

"We should not try to bake our political cake on the funeral pyre of victims. It will be a bad day....What followed those dark days was 10 years of terrorism in Punjab," Bansal said.

IPS officer cross examined in Babri demolition case PTI RAE BARELI, APRIL 29

A senior IPS officer, who had deposed that BJP leader L K Advani had made a provocative speech in Ayodhya moments before the Babri masjid was demolished by Sangh Parivar activists in 1992, was today cross examined by the defence in a special court here.

Anju Gupta, who was the personal security officer of Advani at the time of the Ayodhya crisis in December 1992, was cross examined for a second time by defence counsel H D Sharma on her testimony in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Gulab Singh.

During the proceedings, Sharma made a reference to certain por-

tions of her deposition before the court which were not there in her statement recorded before the investigating officer of the CB-CID. Gupta, the then Additional Superintendent of Police in Faizabad at the time of demolition of the mosque on December 6, 2002, had told the court on April 23 that Faizabad Police had intelligence inputs about the possibility of attack on the masjid by "kar sevaks".

Gupta is appearing as a prosecution witness in the special CBI court in the case in which Advani, his party colleague Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and other Sangh Parivar leaders have been accused of inciting violence that led to the demolition.

I am friends with Suzzane, says Barbara Mori PTI MUMBAI, APRIL 29

Mexican actress Barbara Mori, who debuts in Bollywood with Hrithik Roshan in 'Kites' says that rumours about their alleged love affair did not affect her close friendship with the actor's wife Suzzane.

"Suzzane is a beautiful human being...same as all the other Roshans. They treated me well with so much love that the gossips about a romantic linkup did not affect me. Suzzane and I became close friends and stayed in touch even after the film completed," Barbara told PTI in an interview.

reasons, it is not possible to divulge more details about the information that may have been compromised or to comment on this case as our investigations are continuing."

Even while Madhuri continues to be grilled in the custody of the special cell of Delhi Police by the sleuths of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Intelligence Bureau (IB), she is being debriefed separately by a team from the External Affairs Ministry on how she can still go scot free to save embarrassment to the government.

Sources said a final decision on whether to let her go with a light punishment in the form of dismissal or any other action or to prosecute her under OSA will be possible only after the Prime Minister, the External Affairs Minister, the Foreign Secretary and other officials who matter are back from the SAARC summit in Bhutan.

She said she just laughed off the rumours when she heard about it last year.

"I am used to such link ups.

Back home in Mexico, every movie that I do, I have something to do with the leading man. In the initial stages of my career, I would get upset and

even cry saying that the rumours are not true and I am not that kind of a person," she said.

The 32-year-old actress said she always wanted to come to India on a vacation and as luck would have it, she got to visit the country for the shooting of 'Kites'.

into its records," Bajaj said.

According to Delhi's Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Sharad Aggarwal, the university bought the irradiator in question from the Atomic Energy Canada Limited in 1970 for use in experiments by students. It was not used since 1985.

The Atomic energy Act, 1962 has a special provision to impose punishment and enforce penalty if there is any violation of safety rules.

According to a former Radiation Safety professional of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, there has been no conviction so far over radiation safety violation. The Delhi incident is purely a case amounting to culpable homicide to be charged under criminal proceedings, he said.

Indian woman spy may have embraced Islam: Report PTI ISLAMABAD, APRIL 29

Madhuri Gupta, the 53-year-old second secretary arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan, may have embraced Islam about six years ago, a media report has claimed.

Gupta, who was posted at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad was perhaps a Shia Muslim, according to a media report.

"She was really inspired by the teachings of Islam but was scared to announce her new faith," reads a report in the Post.

"Her kin has very close relations with a well-known Muslim family of Ashiq Hussain Jafri in Lucknow.

Ms Gupta spent her early life in Lucknow with Jafri's family where she enthused (sic) Islamic values," the Post quoted a source as saying.

Gupta was spotted in the month of Ramzan by a local journalist wearing a bangle and rings which usually members of the Shia sect wear.

Doctor couple quizzed in Rajouri PTI JAMMU, APRIL 29

A doctor couple in Rajouri have been questioned by security agencies in connection with the sensational espionage case involving an Indian diplomat, who was arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan.

A team of officials quizzed Dr Khem Raj Sharma and his wife Dr Champa Sharma for nearly two hours in connection with the spying case at Sunderbani in Rajouri district last night, highly placed sources told PTI. During questioning, Champa Sharma told interrogators that diplomat Madhuri Gupta had visited her residence in Sunderbani on March 29 for a day after crossing from Pakistan via Wagha border in a Toyota vehicle registered in Pakistan.

Another close friend of theirs Dr Prem Lata had also come to their residence during the same time and they had visited various places in Jammu.

She left for Pakistan after a day and later Dr Prem Lata too left for her residence in Delhi.

During their stay, officials of the Military Intelligence (MI) had visited their residence to verify the details of the vehicle in which Gupta had come.

Champa also told the interrogators that she knew Madhuri through her friend Prem Lata, her batch mate at Lady Harding Medical College in Delhi.

She told interrogators that they used to call each other but no e-mails were exchanged between them, the sources said, adding Champa had opened an e-mail account 10-15 days back.

Referring to the Army officer whose name has figured during the investigation, they said the officer is brother of Dr Champa.

He is a senior army officer posted in Meerut.

The couple had cooperated with the investigation but their involvement seems negligible, they said.

Police to destroy 24 kg RDX after judgement in 26/11 case PTI MUMBAI, APRIL 29

Police plans to dispose of 24 kgs of RDX recovered from the target spots of the 26/11 terror attack after the verdict in the case is delivered on May 3.

Judge M H Tahaliyani had last month allowed police to dispose of the RDX recovered from the terror target areas.

The RDX will be burnt in a controlled atmosphere in the presence of a magistrate, crime branch sources told PTI, adding that they have yet to decide the place where the explosive would be destroyed.

The RDX was recovered from three unexploded improvised explosive devices -- one outside Taj Mahal Hotel, another near Gokul Restaurant and the third from an unclaimed baggage at

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Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus -- in November 2008.

The seized explosive was placed before the court as evidence, according to Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.

It is the prosecution's case that two slain terrorist, Abdul Rehman Bada and Abu Ali, had kept 8-10 kg of RDX-laden IED outside the main porch of Taj Hotel in south Mumbai.

However, before it could explode, the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad defused the bomb.

Two other terrorists, Abu Shoib and Abu Umer, who had fired at people at Leopold Cafe, had planted 8-10 kg of RDXladen IED on the kerb near Gokul Restaurant in the same area, which did not explode.

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Pg10 Rights activists killed in Mexico REUTERS MEXICO CITY, APRIL 29

Two human rights activists were shot and killed in an ambush in southern Mexico as they tried to deliver food and supplies to a town being harassed by armed groups, authorities said.

Beatriz Carino, the Mexican director of the rights group CACTUS, and Finnish human rights observer Jyri Antero Jaakkola died when gunmen attacked a convoy of some 30 rights workers on Tuesday, local attorney general Maria de la Luz Candelaria said.

The convoy was headed to San Juan Copala in the impoverished state of Oaxaca, where tensions have been building between towns of indigenous Triqui people.

San Juan Copala is trying to set up an independent government based on native customs.

But armed groups from nearby towns oppose the plan and cut off water and electricity supplies in an effort to isolate the community. ‘’The caravan was traveling on bad roads in the mountains.

There was a barricade of rocks that forced the cars off the road.

They were ambushed and shot at with automatic weapons,’’ said David Castillo, a representative of CACTUS in Mexico City.

Two journalists from a local magazine covering the convoy were missing, said journalist Ana Lilia Perez, who works at the publication.

Oaxaca, one of the poorest states in Mexico, has a history of violent protests.

In 2006, several people were killed in clashes between police and leftist protesters after disputes between the state governor and opponents spiraled out of control.

US Coast Guard finds new leak in undersea well REUTERS HOUSTON, APRIL 29

The US Coast Guard said it has found a new leak beneath the site of last week’s deadly offshore drilling rig explosion, and said five times as much oil was leaking as previously estimated.

At a briefing with reporters yesterday, US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry said London-based BP Plc, owner of the leaking well and financially responsible for the cleanup, told US officials of a new leak on a well 5,000 feet (1,525 metres) under the sea off Louisiana. ‘’BP has just briefed me of a new location of an additional breach in the riser of the deep underwater well,’’ Landry said.

The leak, which has created a massive oil slick that could hit the Gulf Coast this weekend, is estimated at 5,000 barrels per day — up from the Coast Guard’s previous estimate of 1,000 barrels per day. ‘’We have urged BP to leverage additional assets,’’ Landry said, adding that President Barack Obama has been briefed on the situation. Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead after the worst oil rig disaster in almost a decade. Swiss-based Transocean Ltd’s Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 22, two days after it exploded and caught fire while finishing a well for BP about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Luisi to be principal guest conductor REUTERS NEW YORK, APRIL 29

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Fabio Luisi will become principal guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, the second conductor to hold the post in Met history.

Valery Gergiev held the post from 1998 to 2008.

A native of Genoa, Italy, Luisi will take up the position beginning with the 2010-11 season, company general manager Peter Gelb and music director James Levine announced.

In the current season, Luisi has conducted Elektra, Le Nozze di Figaro, Hansel and Gretel, and Tosca. He will lead the revival of Alban Berg’s Lulu in May, performances Levine was originally scheduled to conduct, but was forced to bow out of due to recent back surgery.

Luisi is currently chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony and artistic director of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan.

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Realty, healthcare get tax sops

Mukherjee also exempted from service tax low cost housing for the urban poor under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and under Rajiv Awas Yojna.

To augment supply of steel in the growing economy, the Government announced cut in customs duty on stainless steel scrap from five per cent to 2.5 per cent and increase in export duty on iron ore lumps to 15 per cent from 10 per cent Referring to the imposition of service tax on domestic and international air passengers, he said he has received a number of representations expressing concerns that this levy would affect the aviation sector and make air travel prohibitive.

“I would like to clarify that it would not be so. The effective rates of levy, when they come into effect, would be a maximum of Rs 100 per travel for domestic journey in any class and a maximum of Rs 500 per travel for international journey for economy class.

“Further domestic travel to and from the North Eastern sector would be exempt even from this moderate tax,” he said.

With the passage of the Bill, the three-stage budgetary process has been completed in the Lok Sabha. The Bill will go to Rajya Sabha for being returned.

Later, revenue secretary Sunil Mitra said the changes made in the Finance Bill will have revenue implications of Rs 300-400 crore this fiscal.

On the issue of duty hike on petrol and diesel, Mukherjee later told reporters that he couldn’t afford taking additional burden by rolling back excise and customs duties on fuels.

“Any additional burden at this juncture could indulge in financial profligacy that I cannot afford to do... oil price is so volatile... when will it go up...nobody knows,” he said.

Replying to the debate on the Finance Bill, the finance minister restored customs duty concessions to the Ostomy appliances, used to treat cancer patients. In another move, he reduced basic customs duty on 11 drugs, including two anti-cancer ones and one for AIDS to 5 per cent.

To promote faster development of slum rehabilitation project, Mukherjee announced tax rebates on the basis of investment to developing and building of housing projects under the slum rehabilitation scheme.

On the educational front, the minister extended service tax exemption to vocational courses provided by the training institutes registered under Skill Development Scheme of the labour ministry.

In another dole-out, Mukherjee reduced excise duty on handrolled cheroots priced up to Rs 3 per stick to 10 per cent and additional excise duty to 1.6 per cent. He also extended excise duty exemption to scented supari.

Mukherjee also reduced excise duty to 4 per cent from 8 per cent on units that manufacture cartons from corrugated paper or paperboard, besides excise duty on waste paper from 10 per cent to 4 per cent. Exemption from excise duty was extended to all types of packaging materials manufactured by SSIs that bear the brand name of another persons.

To help contain the soaring cotton prices, he left a space to increase export duty on raw cotton from Rs 2,500 per tonne to Rs 10,000 per tonne in future to disincentivise their exports and curb abnormal price rise of the commodity. But currently, the duty is retained at the existing level.

While he brought components that are used for earthmoving machinery like loaders, excavators under excise duty on their retail sale price, just like automobile components, the minister extended the customs duty exemption to parts and components of tunnel boring machines, which are currently available to such full-machines.

Parrikar gets slot in BJP

sources said it will be tasked to coordinate with the chief ministers and ministers in the BJP-ruled states or coalition governments with BJP’s participation for providing good governance, the prime motto of the party.

The BJP has altogether 33 other cells catering to different sections of the society, including those for minorities, fishermen, weavers, traders, ex-servicemen, slum dwellers, panchayats, legal, literature, labour, investors. foreign affairs and what not.

Vasco-Dona Paula sea-link

will have to be completed in six months and based on that report the government would take the final call.

The consultant’s fee is around Rs 8 crore. Kishore however said that if the report says the project is not feasible then the company would be paid only for the first phase. It may be recalled that there was a good response from global consultants for the project.

Firms from Singapore, Hong Kong, and even Europe had sent in their bids which ultimately the German company bagged.

This is the first major project conceived by the State government on PPP basis.

On whether the government has approached National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) before going ahead with the proposal for sea-link, PPP director said it would be the job of the company to consult NIO. The estimated cost of the project will be more than Rs 1,000 crore. An official said that 40 per cent of the total cost will be made available by the Centre in the form of viability gap funding.

He said 20 per cent of the cost will be borne by the State government while the remaining 40 per cent will be made available from private sector investors. The consultant would also throw more light on how to go about on the financial feasibility.

Credit cards out

the biggest impact on the smallest businesses, like farm stands or house cleaners that accept only cash because they do not have stores to house credit card terminals and do not want to enter into complicated, long-term relationships with credit card companies.

Fraud protection offered by the credit card companies is the same as when the card is used at a cash register. Some of the new companies say security against fraud might even be improved because they provide e-mail receipts, and those from Square include photos and a map of where the transactions were made.

The death of cash has been predicted since the 1970s, when electronic transactions like direct deposit of cheques were introduced. But most digital payment experiments, like one in 2006 by Visa, have focused on swiping cell phones, as is popular in countries like Japan, instead of credit cards. Mobile payments have not taken off in the United States because Americans are just as happy to reach into their pockets for a plastic card as for a cell phone.

Instead of replacing credit cards, technologies like Square and GoPayment rely on them. Credit card companies stay in the middle, extracting a fee with each swipe or bump.

Though people will use cash less, it is not nearly extinct, said Wayne Abernathy, executive vice president for financial institutions policy at the American Bankers Association.

China tacitly acknowledges to build n-reactors in pak PtI BEIJING, APRIL 29

China today tacitly acknowledged that it will build two new nuclear reactors in Pakistan in a deal that could re-ignite persistent concerns about proliferation and safety of atomic materials in the restive South Asian nation.

After comments made by China National Nuclear Cooperation (CNNC) that it would build at least two new 650 MW reactors at Chashma in Pakistan, a foreign ministry spokesman said the two countries had been cooperating in the field of nuclear energy, without referring to the report.

Jiang Yu, affirmed that Beijing’s cooperation with Islamabad in the field of nuclear energy was in consistence with international obligations under IAEAs supervision.

Jiang said that this cooperation respects international obligation for peaceful use of nuclear energy and accepts IAEAs regulations and supervision.

The Chinese spokesman did not directly refer to financing

of the two new reactors.

Under the new agreement China is proposing to build two more reactors in Chashma, located on the outskirts of Rawalpindi.

Beijing already has built a nuclear reactor at the spot in 1991 and is nearing completion of the second reactor, work on which began in 2005, Financial Times reported.

The paper said the decision to supply reactors to Pakistan, which has a nuclear arsenal and a record of dealing with rogue states like North Korea, Libya and Iran, reflects Beijing’s growing diplomatic confidence.

“It also reflects Beijing’s ambition to become a global supplier of nuclear energy and underscores its views of Pakistan as a prized South Asian strategic partner.

The paper quoted a Pakistani government official as saying, “Our Chinese brothers have once again lived up to our expectations. They have agreed to continue to cooperate with us in nuclear energy field.”

The CNNC said on its website

that the two governments had signed an agreement to finance the construction of the two reactors in February.

Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute said it had been hired to design the two reactors.

The Financial Times quoting Western diplomats in Islamabad said that US was likely to accept China’s growing role as a supplier of nuclear power to Pakistan.

The confirmation of Chinese assistance in building to more reactors in Pakistan comes even as the country’s President Hu Jintao recently told a nuclear summit in Washington convened by US President that Beijing formally opposes nuclear weapon’s proliferation, while backing its civilian uses.

The Washington summit was held in the backdrop of US concerns over security of fissile material in Pakistan where al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are trying to clandestinely acquire these weapons.

Mark Hibbs, senior associate at the United States Carnegie Endowment for International

Iraqi docs use acupuncture during drug shortage ReuteRs LONDON, APRIL 29

Iraqi doctors faced with a shortage of anaesthetic drugs in a capital city hit by years of conflict have successfully used acupuncture to treat mothers during caesarean section births.

Reporting today on a small study of 200 cases at a Baghdad hospital, the doctors said their results suggested the ancient Chinese technique could also be a useful addition to standard medical practice in fully equipped hospitals.

The doctors used acupuncture, where fine needles are inserted into certain points on the body, to see if they could replace or reduce the need for a drug called oxytocin which is often given to mothers just after a c-section delivery to help the womb contract and to cut the risk of bleeding. Oxytocin is a hormone that also occurs naturally in the body during labour.

The study covered emergency caesarean section at the Red Crescent Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Baghdad

between 2004 and 2006, when oxytocin stocks were low. ‘’Oxytocin ... proved largely unnecessary in my series (of patients), apparently through the action of acupuncture,’’ Lazgeen Zcherky, an anaesthetist who led the study, said in a statement. ‘’We were thus able to conserve stocks of those drugs we held in short supply without ill effects on our patients.’’

Acupuncture is one of the most widely practiced strands of alternative medicine and is based on the theory that inserting and manipulating fine needles at specific points in the body helps to promote the flow of ‘’Qi’’ or energy.

It has its origins in ancient China and has become widely accepted in the West in recent decades, particularly in the treatment of pain. It is also used for conditions like obesity, constipation and arthritis, among others, although documented scientific evidence for these areas is patchy.

In the Baghdad study, six

Ex-MI chief says didn’t order hosing down of Bhutto murder site PtI ISLAMABAD, APRIL 29

Pakistan’s Former Military Intelligence chief Maj Gen Nadeem Ijaz Ahmad has rejected as “baseless” reports that he had ordered hosing down of the site in Rawalpindi where Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007, the media here said today.

Ahmad, a relative of former President Pervez Musharraf, submitted a “detailed statement along with some documents” yesterday to a three-member committee formed by Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani to determine whether the ex-Military Intelligence chief ordered police officials to clean the crime scene, unnamed sources were quoted as saying by Dawn newspaper.

During his appearance before the committee, Ahmad “rubbished the notion of asking (former Rawalpindi police chief) Saud Aziz to hose the site,” ‘The News’ daily reported.

He also handed over evidence of threats he received in connection with the killing of former premier Bhutto, the daily reported.

The committee did not question Ahmad, sources told ‘The News’.

After his introductory statement, Ahmad handed over a written statement to the committee.

The committee is expected to decide whether it will again call Ahmad to appear before it after reviewing his written statement.

The committee also recorded the statement of Rawalpindi Superintendent of Police Rana Shahid, who described the crime scene as “very big” and said only a part of it was hosed down.

The News also quoted un-

named sources as saying that the committee had obtained the statements of DIG Khalid Qureshi, the head of the criminal inquiry team that probed Bhutto’s murder; and officials of the bomb disposal squad and the state-run Rescue 1122 service.

Prior to appearing before the committee, Ahmad met senior military authorities.

The News daily quoted its sources as claiming that important records related to Bhutto from 2005 to December 31, 2007 were burnt under the supervision of former Intelligence Bureau chief Brig Ejaz Shah.

These records included information confided only to Shah and phone calls record of alQaeda-linked militant commander Qari Saifullah, mentioned by Bhutto in her last book as a person who posed a threat to her life.

The Dawn quoted its sources as saying that police officials who appeared before the committee probing the hosing down of the site of Bhutto’s assassination “had almost repeated what they had been quoted as saying in the UN fact-finding commission’s report.”

None of the police officials said they had received orders from the Military Intelligence chief to hose down the site but described it as a “crowd management and public order measure taken after collection of necessary evidence,” according to the sources.

The UN commission’s report had said the police’s “actions and omissions,” including the hosing down of the crime scene and failure to collect and preserve evidence, “inflicted irre p a r a b l e d a m a g e t o t h e investigation” of Bhutto’s assassination.

acupuncture needles were inserted as soon as possible after delivery into the mother’s toes and ankles and manually stimulated for five to 10 minutes.

The acupuncture points related to bleeding from the womb, prolapse of the womb, difficult labour, uterine contractions, and retention of the placenta, the doctors wrote in the study in Acupuncture in Medicine, a British Medical Journal title.

The results showed that in 45 percent of the women, womb contraction was deemed to be enough not to need any oxytocin, and a further 30 percent of women needed two units of the drug.

The standard level of oxytocin used is normally between 10 to 20 units, Zcherky said, but in these patients only about 18 percent needed two to five units of oxytocin and only four women needed more than five units. ‘’These acupuncture techniques, born out of necessity, have proved useful in overcoming the deficiency of modern drugs and equipment in a wartorn city,’’ Zcherky said. ‘’It may also be helpful to consider their use as an adjunct to standard practice in Western hospitals.’’

Separate research published on Wednesday found scant evidence that acupuncture helped ease labour pain, although it also found the technique seemed to do no harm.

Peace and Nuclear Policy Programme said that China had decided to go ahead with the deal because “for political reasons it felt Pakistan should be compensated in some way for the USIndia nuclear deal.”

“After the dust settled on the US-India nuclear deal, China gravitated towards a position that it will support nuclear commerce if it benefits Chinese industry,” he said in his analysis posted on the Carnegie website.

He said the Obama administration could well not oppose China’s new nuclear deal with Pakistan because it wanted to keep Pakistan engaged in Afghanistan and gain Chinese support over Iran’s nuclear programme.

He also said the US would find it difficult to oppose China’s support for Pakistan after signing the US-India civil nuclear agreement.

Western diplomats in Islamabad said the US was likely to accept China’s growing role as a supplier of nuclear power to Pakistan, Financial Times reported.

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3G auction to end in next 1 or 2 days: Govt open to any scrutiny.

The available spectrum was put on the Department of Telecommunication's website before the auction, he said.

Raja had earlier this week stated that the Government may garner around Rs 50,000Rs 55,000 crore by selling 3G airwaves and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum through auction.

"The revenue from 3G auction alone may cross Rs 40,000 crore. Revenues from 3G and BWA spectrum put together may touch Rs 50,000-55,000 crore," he had stated this week.

At end of 16th day of auction yesterday, pan-India 3G mobile licence price reached Rs 8,914 crore. Demand was on par with supply for just three circles: Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, while only Tamil Nadu and Kolkata received excess bids.

The successful bidders would be allotted air waves in September after the spectrum is vacated by the defence

PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

The auction of third-generation (3G) spectrum is likely to be completed in next 1 or 2 days, Telecom Minister A Raja informed the Rajya Sabha today.

"The auction is being held successfully....it will be completed in one or two days," he said during Question Hour.

The e-auction began on April 9 and will continue till such time that demand equals supply, he said adding the award of spectrum was being done transparently and fairly.

Nine mobile telephony firms including Bharti, Vodafone, Reliance and Tatas are in the fray for 3-4 slots of 3G spectrum that allows subscribers to download hi-speed data and stream videos on mobile telephones. Radio waves are being auctioned across 22 circles.

"Procedure followed in allocation of (3G) spectrum is fully transparent....everything is transparent," he said insisting that the process followed was

TALK BUSINESS

Usher Agro Q3 Rev up 81% PANJIM (HBD) -- Usher Agro Ltd, one of the leading rice millers in India, reported a robust growth in revenue for the quarter ended, March 31, 2010.

The company saw an increase in revenue by a whopping 81.20% from Rs 49.95 cr to Rs 90.51 cr during the same period for the last fiscal. The profit after tax for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 stood at Rs 6.42 cr, resulting into an increase of a 50.24%, as against Rs 4.26 cr in the corresponding period of the last fiscal.

Earnings per share went up to Rs 3.02 as against Rs 2.01 in the previous quarter recording an increase of about 50%.

Dhanlaxmi Bank opens branch in Panjim

PANJIM (HBD) -- Dhanlaxmi Bank inaugurated its first branch in Goa at Panjim. The branch, located at Durga Niwas, M G Road, is Dhanlaxmi Bank's 29th branch in the western region and its 270th in the country.

During the inauguration, a charitable contribution was made in kind to the Missionaries of Charity - congregation created by the late Mother Theresa.

The branch will provide the entire suite of products and services ranging from savings account, current account, fixed deposits, life insurance, mutual funds, online broking, credit and debit cards, phone banking, net banking and locker facility to Goans.

The new branch will adorn a young and contemporary look and has been designed to give its diverse set of potential customers an entirely new experience.

Salil Datar, head, branch banking, Dhanlaxmi Bank said: "Panjim is one of the fastest growing cities in the state, bustling with economic development. Keeping in mind the changing needs of customers in the region we aim to offer entire spectrum of our financial offerings and services."

The new branch will be supported by a network of ATMs across the state. It has an RBI approval for opening a total of 66 new branches and 380 ATM's across India, of which the bank has already opened 61 branches and 207 ATMs. The remaining branches and ATM's will be launched in the coming financial year.

As of March 2009, the Bank had a total net worth of over Rs 400 crore, total deposits worth Rs 4,969 crore and advances worth Rs 3, 245 crore. It had booked a profit of Rs 57.45 crore in the last financial year.

Sensex up 123pts on lower inflation PTI

MUMBAI, APRIL 29

The stock market today bounced back 123 points, as investors returned discounting fears that Greece’s financial woes would spawn a fresh crisis in Europe.

Strong opening in European markets following overnight gains on Wall Street and easing food inflation at home helped investor sentiment.

The 30-share Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange closed 0.71 per cent, or 123.39 points, higher at 17,503.47. Yesterday, the barometer had tanked over 310 points, the worst fall since February 5, to end at 17,380.08 level.

Analysts said that market sentiment was upbeat today on easing food inflation and on clearing day in the derivative segment.

forces.

Raja today informed the Upper House that there were various bands available and are classified as 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G and possibly 5G. While 1G frequency is used by security agencies like defence forces and police, 2G is used by mobile telephone operators.

Nokia to launch X2 phone ReuTeRs HELSINKI, APRIL 29

Top mobile phone maker Nokia is set to launch a new phone called the X2, photos posted on the firm's Web site showed.

Details of the phone were not immediately available, but the pictures showed it has a 5megapixel camera.

The firm declined to comment on the photos.

Inflation eases on monsoon outlook PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

Food inflation eased by over one percentage point to a month's low of 16.61 per cent for the week ended April 17, as pressure on prices declined with the arrival of rabi crops in the markets.

However, the fall in food inflation does not call for any celebration as the price pressure will remain till June with inflation spreading to manufactured items, economists warn.

Besides rabi crops, the government is pinning its hopes on reports of normal monsoon for further decline in food prices.

Reports of normal monsoon this year has also calmed aggressive speculative activities, analysts said.

Earlier this month, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had forecast a normal monsoon across the country.

Over the week, inflation de-

clined from 17.65 per cent as prices of masur, jowar, fruits and vegetables fell by 2 per cent and that of wheat by 1 per cent. However, moong, urad and fish-inland became costlier.

"Fall in food inflation is on expected lines. The supply situation is easing. The government, too, has indicated of a declining food inflation...both with the arrival of rabi and on expectation of good monsoon.

We see food prices to moderate considerably," said Abheek

No health hazard from mobile towers: Govt PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

Radioactive signals from mobile phone towers do not cause health problems, Telecom Minister A Raja informed the Rajya Sabha today.

"No medical inference has been drawn that this radioactivity (from telecom towers) is injurious to health," he said during Question Hour.

He said the World Health Organisation has reported no harmful symptoms from signals emitting from telecom towers.

Raja said the government

Sonata makes mobile software PTI BANGALORE, APRIL 29

issued by Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing of Department of Telecom.

However, before installation of towers, service providers have to obtain necessary clearances from concerned municipal authorities or local bodies, Minister of State for Telecom Sachin Pilot said.

"State governments/municipal authorities have formulated their own policy for grant of permission for installation of tower," he said.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has started pre-consultation process on

'Telecom Towers and Related Issues' for seeking stakeholders comments.

Based on the inputs received from stakeholders, TRAI is contemplating floating a consultation paper on issues pertaining to telecom towers, he said.

To a separate question, Raja said TRAI has issued a pre- consultation paper to identify the issues involved in introduction of 4G services such as allocation and pricing of spectrum for such services and issues related to licensing.

To another query, Pilot said Himachal Pradesh had a tele-

An identity for all: ID project fights dust, doubt ReuTeRs MUMBAI, APRIL 29

Sonata Software, a leading IT consulting and software services provider, today announced it has developed a fashion and social networking application for Golirious LLC, a mobile software development company in the United States.

The application called 'Love it or Lose it', allows Apple iPhone users to instantly connect with their friends and community members and request (and receive) feedback on fashion merchandises, a release said.

The user-friendly application allows iPhone users to click photos of clothes or accessories while they are shopping and share them instantly with their friends.

It allows the recipients to rate each photo they see as either `Love it' `Like it' or `Lose it' and send their feedback immediately. The application also facilitates collection of photographs of favourite items to create a `Wish List', it said.

Other key features include adding friends and viewing their profiles including their wish lists, getting help in finding gifts for 'hard to shop for' friends, adding favorite stores and designers. The `Push Notification' feature enables the users to know instantly when someone wants their feedback on a fashion choice, even when they are not in the `Love it or Lose it' application.

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was aware of reports in media about signals from telecom towers causing health problems and the matter was referred to the Health Ministry and ICMR. But, no health hazard has so far been identified, he said.

The Standing Advisory Committee on Radio Frequency Allocations examines the cases from electromagnetic compatibility, line-of-sight obstruction and aviation hazard points of view.

Mobile towers are being installed by telecom service providers based on clearances

As India gears up to build the largest biometric database in the world with the aim of providing most of its 1.2 billion citizens a Unique Identification (UID), perhaps the biggest challenge is smudged fingerprints.

The UID Authority of India will issue the first UIDs linked to a person's demographic and biometric information between August and February, and issue about 600 million such IDs over the next five years to help verify citizens quickly and cheaply. It will be a boon for companies and government agencies alike.

It would give millions of Indians the means to open a bank account, buy a mobile phone, and access welfare services easily, while saving companies and government agencies the expensive and time-consuming process of verifying and establishing identities.

The project, which has drawn the interest of mobile services firms and technology giants including Tata Consultancy Services, Microsoft and Google, is expected to better target and reduce waste in India's multi-billion dollar welfare schemes, including pensions.

"There is a concern that a lot of the welfare benefits that the government provides don't reach the intended beneficiaries because you can't correctly identify them," said Ajit Ranande, chief economist of

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the Aditya Birla Group in Mumbai.

"The UID will hopefully enable better targeting, identification of beneficiaries, and plug leakages. If you can improve targeting by even 5-10%, it would be a big deal."

Previous governments have also considered creating unique ID numbers. Yet it is the left-leaning Congress government, with its focus on inclusive growth, that has pushed the envelope by setting up the UIDAI office and allocating some $444 million to the UID project.

The UID project, named "Aadhar", is estimated to cost some $2.2-$4.4 billion to implement, but will bring in an equal amount in savings annually from the elimination of duplicate and false identities, said Samiran Chakraborty, head of research at Standard Chartered.

"The programme may have a significant positive impact on India's growth and fiscal health in the years to come," he said.

But with an estimated 75 million people homeless and millions others criss-crossing the country as migrant workers with little or no documentation, the UIDAI has its work cut out.

UIDAI is working with Census 2011 survey, as well as local government bodies and NGOs to reach millions, including an estimated 410 million people living on less than $1.25 a day, a blot on India's otherwise compelling growth

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Hdfc Bank Lt, 1971.9, 1995, 1946.45, 1985.75 Hdfc Ltd, 2830, 2867.9, 2812.25, 2832.65 Hero Honda M, 1854, 1868.9, 1810, 1832.55 Hindalco in, 180.35, 181.25, 178.55, 180.3 Hindustan Co, 132.35, 132.9, 127.6, 129.05 Hindustan Ma, 77.9, 79.25, 77.8, 78.45 Hindustan Pe, 303, 303.8, 292, 294.85 Hindustan Un, 242.2, 243.05, 231.35, 235.6 Hindustan Zi, 1218, 1232.9, 1212.3, 1230 Housing Dev, 267.3, 272.2, 264.35, 265.8 Icici Bank L, 923, 951, 923, 947.05 Idea Cellula, 63.65, 64.1, 60.75, 61.5 Ifci Ltd, 49.9, 52.15, 49.5, 51.5 India Cement, 132, 132, 126.5, 127.4 India Infoli, 108.5, 109.75, 106.1, 107.95 Indiabulls F, 134, 141, 132, 139.55 Indiabulls R, 156, 160.95, 155.45, 159.6 Indian Bank, 217.2, 222, 217.2, 219.25 Indian Hotel, 105.55, 107.35, 105.1, 105.95 Indian Oil C, 280.85, 281.85, 273.05, 274.3 Indian Overs, 99.1, 99.95, 93.85, 95.05 Indus Dev Ba, 120.35, 123.9, 119.1, 122.6 Indusind Ban, 188, 193.75, 186.6, 192.65

story.

"It all boils down to a lack of proper identity, and the exclusion is debilitating," said Nandan Nilekani, UIDAI chief.

"At the same time, India is clocking 8 percent growth. So it is clearly creating a huge divide; if we want people to be included in the growth story, we need to recognise the people the system doesn't recognise," said Nilekani.

CALLUSES, BURQAS The average Indian citizen typically has multiple identity cards, including a voter ID, a tax ID, a ration card, passport, driving licence and others. Yet there is no central database, which has created "phantoms" on voter lists and welfare schemes.

Duplicates and fake identities abound, and millions of the poor have no identification at all, which could deny them "a basic right to an acknowledged existence", says Nilekani.

Nilekani, the former chief of No. 2 software firm Infosys Technologies, was handpicked

by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to head up UIDAI after he wrote extensively on the need for a unique ID in his book, 'Imagining India', published in 2008.

"Acknowledging the existence of every single citizen automatically compels the state to improve the quality of services, and immediately gives the citizen a fairer, more equitable access to services," said Nilekani.

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density higher than the national average - 23 per cent in rural areas and 100 per cent urban areas.

Of over 17,500 villages, 17,300 have been already connected with telephone facility and the remaining would be done this year, he said.

State-owned BSNL has 11.90 lakh mobile customers in the state and will add another 6.67 lakh this fiscal.

Raja said the Government does not interfere in BSNL's tendering and the company takes decision independently.

NRIs wanting to return for jobs rising PTI BANGALORE, APRIL 29

There is a visible growth in the number of job-related astrological queries from NRIs, especially from the UK, the USA, Canada and the UAE, in recent times, according to an astrology portal.

Besides, queries are also coming in from South East Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, Astroyogi.com said in a statement.

The portal said it has seen an increase in job related queries by about 27 per cent and other finance and personal queries by about 39 per cent in the last three months.

At least 15 per cent of the career-related queries came in from those who belong to the IT sector and eight per cent of the queries came in from those who are currently unemployed.

The emergence of India as a growing economic power has made India a viable option for the NRIs to return to India for jobs. During the recent past, Non Residential Indians have been increasingly returning to India and seeking out jobs in multinational companies.

Barua, chief economist, HDFC Bank.

On an annual basis, potatoes saw a significant fall of 28% in prices on glut in supplies in various parts of the country and onions became cheaper by 10%.

However, pulses remained expensive by about 30 per cent, milk by 22 per cent and fruits by about 10 per cent over the last year.

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MF FUNDA HDFC MuTuAL FuND has decided to revise the minimum amount for application for HDFC Floating Rate Income Fund - short Term Plan - Wholesale Option with effect from May 5, 2010.

Accordingly, the minimum application amount will be Rs 1 million and any amount thereafter for purchases and no charge for additional purchase.

Presently the minimum application amount is Rs 10 million and any amount thereafter for purchases and Re 1 and any amount thereafter for additional purchase.

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India can’t bear worsening of budget gap: FM PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

India cannot bear fiscal deficits and resulting market borrowing beyond current levels, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday.

The government is set to borrow about a record $100 billion in the fiscal year to endMarch 2011 to fund its fiscal deficit, which is projected to be 5.5 percent of gross domestic product.

“I do believe that the economy can bear ... the fiscal deficit to (the present) extent, not beyond that,” Mukherjee told parliament, referring to a roadmap to cut the fiscal shortfall.

The fiscal deficit and the management of the government’s borrowing programme limit the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) scope to fight inflation that is near 10 percent.

Rating agency Standard and Poor’s said on Thursday it

could upgrade India’s sovereign rating if there was a sustainable improvement in India’s fiscal health, combined with a strong macroeconomic environment.

S&P currently has BBB-longterm and A-3 short term credit ratings on India.

The government plans to cut its fiscal deficit to 4.8 percent in the fiscal year 2011/12 and then to 4.1 percent in the year after.

Policymakers have said improving India’s public finances would make monetary policymaking easier and give the central bank more leeway in fighting inflation.

On Monday, RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said fiscal dominance of monetary policy is a concern and the credibility of the Reserve Bank of India’s inflation management depends “critically” on the credibility of fiscal consolidation in New Delhi.

Oppn: Make I-T people-friendly PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

The Opposition today sought changes in the present income tax procedures to make it people-friendly and said it would help check tax evasion.

Participating in the resumed debate on the Finance Bill in the Lok Sabha, Anant Geete (Shiv Sena) said people are more interested in evading tax than paying it for development.

He said the insensitivity of the IT department and the cumbersome procedures associated with filing tax returns were the main reasons behind the attitude of the people.

"Recently a senior IT official's premises was raided by the CBI in Thane (near Mumbai) and Rs 2.5 crore was recovered... he had manipulated the IT procedures to blackmail a person who was to pay Rs 25 crore as income tax," he said demanding simplification of process.

He said such incidents should be of concern to the Finance Minister and demanded that Pranab Mukherjee disclose the number of big and small traders who pay income tax.

Geete accused the UPA Government of ignoring the interests of the "aam admi" by failing to check inflation. "The aam admi is suffering from back-breaking inflation but we do not see the Government taking steps to check the trend," he said.

He said the Bharat bandh called by 13 opposition parties shows that the common man

was forced to hit the streets as the Government was not taking interest in his problems.

Bhoopendra Singh (BJP) claimed that country's economic situation was going down every day and the government has no agenda to improve it.

He said because of the country's complicated tax system, the poor are becoming poorer and the rich richer.

Singh alleged that the government was keen on protecting the interests of industrial houses rather than the farmers.

Kalyan Banerjee (Trinamool) demanded that industries working in Naxal and Maoisthit areas should "return the benefits" to the local people by ensuring development.

He also raised the issue of cess on coal production not being used in the same area for development in West Bengal and gave the example of Asansol.

Dara Singh Chauhan (BSP) sought incentive to agriculture sector as it is the backbone of the country's economy.

Singh said the Centre should give liberal financial help to Uttar Pradesh and clear all pending projects for the state.

Jagdambika Pal (Cong) said the government has been doing commendable job in sectors like health, education, rural development, women and child welfare.

He said tax benefits given in the Budget would benefit all sections of the people.

EGoM mulls freeing fuel price PTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today constituted an Empowered Group of Minister to decide on freeing petrol and diesel prices from government control and a decision is likely after Parliament session ends on May 7.

The EGoM will be headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and its decisions would not be required to be approved by the Cabinet, official sources said.

"We expect a decision (on fuel prices) to be taken in 10-12 days," an official said.

Freeing petrol and diesel prices from government control is being considered after revenue losses of state retailers in 2010-11 was projected to climb to over Rs 85,000 crore.

Mukherjee while replying to the debate on Finance Bill in Lok Sabha today said retailers IOC, BPCL and HPCL are projected to lose over Rs 85,000 crore in revenues on selling petrol, diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene below cost.

Sources said one of the options being considered is freeing auto fuel prices, while revenue loss on domestic LPG and kerosene could be made up by upstream firms like ONGC. Decontrolling auto fuel prices would mean a hike of Rs 6.68 per litre in the rates for petrol sold in Delhi and a Rs 5.81 per litre increase in diesel

rates.

Sources said the EGoM may decide if the hike necessary to take domestic retail prices to international parity should be implemented in one or more instalments.

The Petroleum Ministry is keen that petrol and diesel prices are freed and wants a moderate hike in the price of LPG, which is being sold at a loss of Rs 265.27 per 14.2-kg cylinder. On PDS kerosene, oil firms lose Rs 18.42 per litre.

Sources said the three retailers lost Rs 47,960 crore on selling fuel below cost in the 2009-10 fiscal.

The government has not yet said how it will make up for the projected losses this fiscal.

There was an agreed formula to share under-recoveries for 2009-10, but there is no word for the current year, they said.

In FY'10, the losses on petrol and diesel were to be met by upstream firms like ONGC and the government was supposed to shoulder the under-recovery on cooking fuel. However, the government has not kept its part of the deal.

Of the Rs 29,353 crore revenue loss in the April-December period, upstream firms contributed Rs 8,364 crore to cover for the entire shortfall on petrol and diesel. But against the Rs 20,989 crore loss on LPG and kerosene in the first nine months, the Finance Ministry has provided Rs 12,000 crore.

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JOIN THE ELITE - GIVE WINGS TO YOUR DREAMS 1. Applications are invited from unmarried Male candidates for grant of Permanent Commission (PC) in the Logistics Cadre of Executive Branch of the Indian Navy for Course commencing Jan 2011 at Indian Naval Academy (INA) Ezhimala, Kerala. Candidates to fulfil condition of nationality as laid down by the Government of India.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS 2. Age: 19½ to 25 years (i.e. born between 02 Jan 1986 and 01 Jul 1991; both dates inclusive).

3. Educational Qualification: A First Class Degree with minimum 60% marks for the following: (a) PC Logistics Cadre - JAN 11 Course. Candidates with following qualifications may apply:(i) B Com/M Com (ii) BA (Economics) (iii) MBA (iv) BBA (v) BBM (vi) MCA (vii) BCA (viii) BSc(IT) (ix) B Tech/BE (any discipline except B Architechure/ Civil Engineering) (x) Graduate Degree with Post Graduate Diploma / Degree in Materials Management (xi) ICWA (xii) Chartered Accountancy. (b) Works - JAN 11 Course. Candidates with following qualifications may apply:(i) B Tech Civil Engineering (ii) B Architecture Note: Candidates who have not completed their Degree (i.e. appearing candidates) need not apply.

12. Privileges. Free Medical Facilities for Self & dependents, canteen Facilities, Entitled Ration, Mess/Club/Sports Facilities, Furnished Govt. Accommodation, Car/Housing Loan at subsidised rate.

13. Group Insurance & Gratuity. Insurance cover of Rs. 40 lakhs (on contribution) and Gratuity will be granted to the officer as per the latest rules in vogue.

14. Leave Entitlements. On Commission, officers are entitled to 60 days annual and 20 days casual leave every year (subject to service exigencies). They are also entitled for 40% rail concession to any place and free travel (as per extant rules) for self and dependents. Leave during training period will be as per the Training Policy in vouge.

15. Sports & Adventure. The Navy provides facilities to pursue any sport of your liking.

In addition, one can learn and participate in adventure sports, such as river rafting, mountaineering, hot air ballooning, hang gliding, wind surfing etc.

16. Physical fitness. In the Indian Naval Academy’s curriculum, a lot of emphasis is laid on physical fitness. You are therefore, advised to build up yourself by physical training, sports, running, swimming, etc. so that you meet the training goals successfully.

4. PHYSICAL STANDARDS

APPLICATION FORMAT

(a) Height and Weight. Minimum height 157 cms with correlated weight. (b) Eye Sight. 6/60, 6/60 correctable to 6/6, 6/12 with glasses and should not be colour/night blind.

HOW TO APPLY 5. If you meet the following requirements, apply on plain A4 size paper (typed or handwritten) in the prescribed Application format. The envelope containing the form should be superscribe with either:(a)

PC Logistics Cadre – JAN 11 Course

INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILLING UP 1. APPLY ON A 4 SIZE PAPER (TYPED OR HANDWRITTEN) AS PER FORMAT BELOW. 2. ONLY APPLICATION AS PER FORMAT BELOW WILL BE ACCEPTED. 3. APPLICATION FORM TO BE FILLED IN ENGLISH ONLY IN BLOCK CAPITALS. 4. STRIKE OUT WHATEVER IS NOT APPLICABLE. 5. ATTACH ATTESTED COPY OF CLASS TEN CERTIFICATE FOR DATE OF BIRTH VERIFICATION. 6. ATTACH ATTESTED COPIES OF ALL OTHER EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATES 7. APPLICATION AND ENCLOSURES TO BE PROPERLY TAGGED TOGETHER BY THREAD/STAPLED TO AVOID LOSS OF ENCLOSURES.

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(b) Works - JAN 11 Course Educational Qualification ………

Aggregate Percentage.........% The same should be sent by 25 May 10 to:-

APPLICATION FOR GRANT OF PERMANENT COMMISSION IN THE NAVY FOR LOGISTICS CADRE

Post Bag No.04, Nirman Bhawan PO, New Delhi-110 011

JAN 2011 COURSE

Note: Application sent by Speed Post / Regd Post / Courier will not be accepted.

Last date for receipt of application 25 May 2010

SELECTION PROCEDURE 6.

(i)

The candidates will be issued call up for Services Selection Board (SSB) based on their performance in Degree Course. If a candidate possesses higher qualification with better percentage, his higher qualification will be considered for cut off. Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence(Navy) reserves the right to shortlist applications and to fix cut off percentage. No communication will be entertained on this account. SSB interviews for short listed candidates will be scheduled at Bangalore /Bhopal/ Coimbatore during Aug to Dec 2010.

(ii)

Stage I test consisting of Intelligence test, Picture Perception and Discussion test will be conducted on the second day of arrival at SSB. Candidate who fail to qualify in Stage I will be routed back on the same day. Stage II tests comprising of Psychological testing, Group testing and Interview will last for 04 days. Successful candidates will thereafter undergo Medical Examination (approx duration 03-05 days).

(iii) Candidates recomended by the SSBs and declared medically fit, will be appointed for training in order of All India Merit depending on the number of vacancies. (iv) Change of SSB venue for interview is not permissible. (v) Any correspondence regarding change of SSB dates be addressed to the President of the concerned SSB on receipt of call up letter and copy endorsed to Directorate of Manpower Planning & Recruitment (OI&R), Room No. 204, ‘C’ Wing, Sena Bhawan, IHQ-MoD(N), New Delhi-110011. Award of fresh dates for SSB would be subject to availability. (vi) No compensation will be paid in respect of injury sustained as a result of tests. (vi) Return 2nd Class Sleeper rail fare is admissible for the SSB interview, if appearing for the first time for the entry.

TRAINING

Candidates submitting more than one application will be disqualified 1. Candidate’s Name:Affix self attested (a) Name: .................................................................................... recent Passport (As in Matric / Equivalent Certificate) Size Colour Photograph (b) Expanded full name (if abbreviated)..................................

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E-Mail........................................

Telephone/Fax No, if any...............................

Permanent Address .................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................

7. Candidates will be inducted as officers in the rank of Sub Lieutenant in Jan 2011 and undergo Naval Orientation Course at the Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala, Kerala followed by professional training at various Naval Training Establishments/Units/Ships. Full Pay and allowances are admissible to the Officers whilst undergoing training.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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5. Marital Status (Married/Unmarried) ..........................................................................

8. Selected Candidates will be on a probation for 02 yrs from the date of reporting to the Indian Naval Academy or the date of commencement of training whichever is later. Any candidate found married or who marries while undergoing training will be discharged. He shall be liable to refund full pay & allowances drawn by him and any other expenditure incurred on him by the Govt.

6. State to which you belong ............................................................................................

7. Nationality. ......................................................................................................................

8. Education Qualification ........................................Aggregate Percentage ...............

DUTIES OF LOGISTICS OFFICER

(In case of BE/B Tech, specify specialisation such as Mech, IT, Civil etc.)

9. Logistics Officer deals with the Logistics aspects of Men & Material. The Logistics Officer plays a vital role in the human aspect of the ship’s organisation. A modern warship irrespective of its role needs a continuous supply of fresh provisions, fuel and spares for the vast array of sophisticated equipment and machinery. You as a Logistics Officer will be responsible for smooth supply of stores. In no other career does an officer get exposed to such a wide spectrum of opportunities to keep abreast of modern and latest development in the field of management & finance. "Officers with Works Specialisation would get a wide exposure in Civil Woks and Infrastructure related appointments during the span of their career."

9. Details of Marks Secured in Graduation & above:-

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Main Subjects Semester/ Year wise

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Environment Awareness The subject of environment is a hot topic of discussion the world over, spanning most age groups.

But what is important is action taken. Doing just that, Goa Marriott Resort completes a successful month in creating environment awareness. Herald probes…

BY CHRISTINA VIEGAS HERALD FEATURES nvironmental education is a process of recognising values and clarifying concepts in order to develop skills and added tools necessary to understand and appreciate the inter relationship among man, his culture and his bio-physical surrounding. It creates an overall perspective which acknowledges the fact that natural environment and man-made environment are interdependent. While this is taught in educational institutions resulting in environment-conscious children, unfortunately our grown-ups are still steadily ravaging the environment. So, it is heartening to see a month-long initiative by the Goa Marriott Resort, to protect the environment.

“Our group of hotels the world over is always very proactive in giving back to community what you take from them. In fact, this month-long endeavour of creating environment awareness is an initiative taken by our group all over,” says Mielle Batliwalla, director, Human Resources at the Goa Marriott Resort.

As we rewind back to the interesting events that were organised over the month, Mielle says, “We conducted this tree plantation drive on the 15th wherein we encouraged every child from Caritas orphanage to plant a tree each. They were explained the importance of trees for the planet and they were thought how to water and care for them. In this way, everyday, each child would tend to her/his tree like her/his own baby.”

Inform Mielle that the Green Marathon organised on the 17th sure sounded like great fun and she concurs, “Yes, the associates enjoyed the fun activity besides getting aware of the importance of caring for our environment.”

Moving on to the drawing competition that was held for the kids of the associates and the Caritas kids, Mielle elucidates, “The older kids were

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given a green theme on saving the environment. And our associates too felt so proud in brining their kids to participate in this event. We also distributed prizes to bring about a healthy competitive spirit.”

What got really exciting were the Green Movie Screening and Green Lunch. The associates got to watch the English film, ‘2012’ and they were treated to an absolutely green meal at the cafeteria. Dishes comprised of ‘methi paratha’, ‘palak paneer’, peas ‘pulao’, green salad and so on. A green treat for sure! Then on, activities revolved around their vehicles too.

Mielle informs, “We got a PCO check done for each associate’s vehicle whether a two-wheeler or four-wheeler. Besides, we also informed them to make their friends and relatives aware and to get them to bring in their vehicles for a check too.”

Mielle expounds further, “Everyday during the month, we included articles or news reports on environment and towards the end we conducted quizzes on the same. In fact, for all the activities, we got our associates divided into four houses like in school. So there was a healthy level of competition and enthusiasm. And we gave out prizes.”

All in all, the resort resounded with fun and frolic, alongside doing its bit for the environment. But remind Mielle that it must have surely been challenging to organise the activities alongside dishing out excellent service to their guests and the lady replies, “Not really! The associates relieved each other; that way everyone got to participate in some activity or the other.”

Remo looking forward to His Goa Concert Goa’s global musical icon, Remo Fernandes will be performing live in South Goa after a gap of 20 years. In a tete-a-tete with the Herald...

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­H­O­R­O­S­C­O­P­E You possess a pioneering spirit. Listen to it today, and you'll be led to success. You and your (21 Mar – 19 Apr) peers are still in the middle of some big, weird adventure -and you need to make sure that you're telling them what to expect.

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Remo is one of Goa’s finest musicians and leading exponents of Indo Jazz and Indo Latin music. A musician with a mission, he is also the highest selling Indian artist in English and the only one to have ‘Gold Discs.’ He was bestowed the prestigious Padmashri award by the President of India in 2007. Fans of Remo Fernandes are surely in for a grand treat as the Goan singer with international fame will take to the stage to perform live at the ‘Summer T10’ at the Rajendra Prasad Stadium, Margao.

Remo and his band ‘The Microwave Papadums’ will share the stage with Bondo, Sky High and Bad Blood.

“We have finally completed our dream after seven years by bringing a star as huge as Remo on stage. It takes a lot of planning putting up a show of this magnitude,” says a member of the organising body.

How do you feel performing in South Goa after almost two, long decades?

It reminds me of my first show in South Goa. I was in high school then and had a group called ‘The Beat 4’. Travelling all the way to Margao to perform seemed like making a trip abroad then.

I've always had a weak corner for South Goa and its natural beauty. But in recent times it has proved something else; that its people can unite and successfully fight against corrupt, destructive activities going on in the name of ‘development’.

How many songs will you perform?

We will perform a mixture of the old and the recent and maybe a brand new song or two, never performed before. Of course some songs are mandatory; if I walk off stage without singing ‘O Meri Munni’, ‘Maria Pita Che’ or ‘The Flute Kick’ besides others the audience feels cheated. The exciting thing about this concert is that we have an excellent new young drummer, Bosco D'Souza, who joined us just five days ago and is giving the band that extra kick we required. Together with Mukesh Ghatwal on double keyboards, and Vishal Phatarpekar on Indian percussions, we're really looking forward to this concert!

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exican actress Barbara Mori, who debuts in Bollywood with Hrithik Roshan in ‘Kites’ says that rumours about their alleged love affair did not affect her close friendship with the actor’s wife Suzzane.

“Suzzane is a beautiful human being... same as all the other Roshans. They treated me well with so much love that the gossips about a romantic linkup did not affect me. Suzzane and I became close friends and stayed in touch even after the film completed,” said Barbara.

She said she just laughed off the rumours when she heard about it last year.

“I am used to such link ups.

Back home in Mexico, every movie that I do, I have something to do with the leading man. In the initial stages of my career, I would get upset and even cry saying that the rumours are not true and I am not that kind of a person,” she said.

The 32-year-old actress said she always wanted to come to India on a vacation and as luck would have it, she got to visit the country for the shooting of ‘Kites’.

“I only knew that Bollywood was a huge film industry till my manager told me that an Indian producer was looking for me and asked me to get in touch with them. I flew to Los Angeles to meet Rakesh Roshan and Anurag Basu,” Barbara said.

“We started talking about the film and I fell in love with the story. I was looking for something like that. At that point of time, I was going through many scripts but there was nothing like Kites,” the actress said.

Barbara watched movies of Rakesh Roshan, Anurag Basu and Hrithik to familiarise herself with her new crew. However, she did not like her co-star in ‘Jodha Akbar’ which was the first Hindi film she saw.

“The three long hours were unbearable. When I saw Hrithik in the film, I said to myself ‘Oh My God, is he my co-star’. I felt like saying no to Rakesh Roshan and Anurag Basu. But, then I saw ‘Lakshya’ and ‘Koi Mil Gaya’ and I realised that he was an amazing actor. He is different in all his movies. He looks really good in ‘Dhoom 2’ but he is looking better in ‘Kites’,” she said.

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HERALD FEATURES special tequila pairing and presentation surely perks up our curiosity to acquire and expand our tequila knowledge beyond the quintessential shots one is accustomed to hearing about. According to tequila aficionados, “If there ever was a spirit replete with history, mystery and intrigue, it must be tequila. Even today, years after its arrival on bar shelves, tequila is often regarded as a strange Mexican potion containing worms, hallucinogens, et al. And these same wondrous attributes have probably contributed towards establishing tequila as the most `hip' spirit to drink.”

As for Mexican cuisine, they are rich and can be spicy too. Vasquito informs, “While having its own character, it can also be compared to our Indian food due to the usage of spices such as cumin and lots of coriander. The spicy factor is also similar, but the Mexicans use the Jalapeno pepper. They primarily eat rice and tortillas which are flatbreads made of corn or wheat. They eat a lot of dips which are made from various beans like the Guacamole and Salsa dip.”

The restaurateur gives an interesting append, “There is also a dip made from chicken, beans and chocolate which is called ‘mole’.”

We get wind of news that there are some interesting cocktails like the Strawberry Sting which will be sweet and sour and obviously with a kick, and Mango and Kiwi Margarita which signifies summer with its sunny look and citric and sweet taste. So, what pairings have been planned for the night? Vasquito informs, “With the starters, you will probably be served shots of tequila with salt and lemon. Then as we move to the main course, we will probably have some cocktails, mainly margaritas churned out.”

So, guess it is going to be a night of sniffing, swirling and appreciating the various aspects of tequila alongside a night of gaining appreciation for it as a sipping drink as well as its versatility in cocktails. And all this, while sampling tacos with various dips, enchilada chicken, and much more!”

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week after suffering a brain haemorrhage likely caused by a ruptured blood vessel, the hospitalised Bret Michaels, an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison, is responding well to tests and treatment, and doctors are still hoping that the 47-year-old father of two will make a full recovery.

“We thank you all for your continued support and outpouring of well wishes for Bret,” read a message posted Wednesday on Michaels’ official website.

“While additional studies are planned throughout the week to hopefully detect the exact cause of the rupture Bret will remain monitored closely by his medical team to make sure no further complications occur.”

Michaels’ camp is also awfully optimistic about just how fast the rocker will be not only back on his feet, but back onstage.

Michaels is looking to resume his Roses & Thorns tour May 26, “provided there are no further complications or setbacks,” and his people are in the process of rescheduling all of the missed shows between Michaels’ hospitalisation and then.

A tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd in June and July is also supposedly still on.

The statement still referred to test results indicating Michaels is suffering from a seizure-causing sodium deficiency as a “minor setback.” There has been no word on whether Michaels, who has Type 1 diabetes, has had any seizures since being diagnosed.

Also a contestant of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’, the shows bigwig Donald Trump wished the rocker a speedy recovery, exclaiming that Bret is highly courageous and has always been a fighter and a survivor. He further added that he has been a great competitor and worked real hard and is absolutely doing well now too.

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A Mexican Food Sampling will be held on April 30 from 8pm onwards at Earnesto Bar and Restaurant, Fontainhas, Panjim. Call 9921207175.

The music concert ‘Swaranjali’, a tribute to the late Mohanbab Caculo will be held on May 2 at the Kala Academy, Panjim.

Call 2420452.

‘Summer T 10’ will feature Remo Fernandes and his band ‘The Microwave papadums live in concert on April 30 at the Rajendra Prasad Stadium, Margao from 6pm onwards. It is organised by 9 entertainment and Turbog. Call 9922562192.

The 15th European Film Fest 2010 is on till May 5. It is organised by the Entertainment Society of Goa and the Delegation of the European Union to India.

The films will be screened at the Maquinez Palace, Panjim. The festival is free and open to all.

‘Konkani Song and Music Awards 2009’ will take place on April 30 at 5pm at the Conference Hall of the Tiatr Academy of Goa, Campal, Panaji.

A chess tournament for persons under 25 will take place on May 1 at 9:15am at the International Centre Goa, Dona Paula. Call 2452805, 2452808, 2452809 and 2452810.

The 8th Introduction to Kayaking and Training Program 2010, organised by Goa Kayaking will take place from May 7 to 10 and May 14 to 17 at the Vainguinim beach, Dona Paula. Call 9422056037, 2223119 and 2462182. E-mail goakayaking@gmail.com.

Art exhibition ‘Works on Paper I’ by five artists V Aadhi, P Hitesh, N Kanhaiya, C Rajesh and U Rajendra is being held till May 26 at the Tamarind Art Gallery, Calangute between 11am to 2pm and 3 to 8:30pm on all days except Mondays.

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Art exhibition, ‘A Point and Line to Plane 1’, by five abstract artists will be held from May 1 to 31. The artists include

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Shamendu Sonavane, Shiladitya Sarkar, Prashant Poojari, Akhilesh Kumar and Gauri Seth. It will be held at the Kerkar Art Complex, Calangute. Call 2276017.

A two-day creative printing activity for children between the ages of 6 to 12 years titled ‘Fun with Blocks’ will be held on May 4 and 5 from 3pm and 5pm at the Museum of Christian Art, Old Goa. Call 9890031510. E-mail museumofchristianart@rediffmail.com.

Animation films ‘Allegro Non Troppo’ and ‘The Adventures of Prince Achmed’ will be screened on April 30 at Waves, Benaulim. Call 9823030125, 9763104694 or 2268604.

The movie ‘Baraka’ and the documentary ‘Home’will be screened atArt Escape, Benaulim. Call 9820695272, 9881568756 or 9323590051.

Anniversary celebrations of the gym Fitness Zone, Caranzalem will be held on May 1 between 5pm to 7pm at the Caranzalem gym premises. It is free and open to all. Call 9890993683 or 9860038148.

A debate on ‘Freedom of Media and the rights of reader/viewer’ will be held on May 3, World Freedom of Press Day at 9:45am at the Kala Academy. It is organised by the Goa Union of Journalist (GUJ). Call 2420452.

A live acoustic concert ‘May Day’, organised by Goa Chitra will be held on May 1 from 8pm to 10pm at the Goa Chitra Open Air Auditorium, Goa Chitra, Benaulim. The concert is an attempt to raise funds for the museum. Call 6570877, 22772910 or 9850446065.

The art exhibition ‘Different Moments’ featuring fifteen budding artists will be held on May 1 at the Kala Academy. The exhibition is being held to mark the 50th anniversary of Sanukth Maharashtra. It will remain open to the public from May 1 to 5 from 10am to 7:30pm. Call 2420452.

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usic serves many purposes; paying homage to those who have left for the heavenly abode is just one. And what better way to do so than a rendition of music much loved? The Caculo family is doing just that, in the fond memory of Mohanbab Caculo, a connoisseur of Goan music. His sons Manoj and Suraj have organised ‘Swaranjali’, a Classical Music Concert and Competition on May 2, 2010 at the Dinanath Mangeshkar Kala Mandir, Kala Academy, Panjim.

The event, which has roped in some of the best performers on the classical music scene, is set to mesmerise audiences with flawless performances.

“The programme is open to the public and consists

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of a competition titled ‘Savesh - Sabhinay Natya Geet Gayan’, which will see ten artists from all over Goa coming together to compete for the title. The second part will include a ‘Jugalbandi’ of four artists, Ravindra Chary on the sitar, Ratish Tagde on the violin, Ustad Fazal Quereshi on the tabla and Sridar Parthasarathy on the ‘mridangam’. They will be followed by ‘Adakari’, the third part where the artistes will perform pieces of ‘Natyageet’ and ‘Bhavgeet’. The four artistes in this part include Suresh Bapat and Nilakshi Pendharkar from Mumbai, Anuradha Kuber from Pune and Nilesh Shinde from Goa,” explains Pandurang Phaldesai, member secretary of the Kala Academy.

The Caculo family have always tried to promote the musical talent of Goa. “We are just trying to do something for the local talent and get renowned artists into Goa. This concert will be an annual feature,” says Manoj Caculo.

The Caculo family also aims at expanding the Mohan Caculo Music School in Candolim which fosters Indian Classical Music.

HERALD FEATURES he youth are the pillars of a bright tomorrow.

With this in mind, the Holy Cross Parish Youth of Cavelossim organised an Annual Family Day on April 25.

The day began with a welcome song. The chief guest for the day was the dean of the Benaulim denary, Father Anthony Vaz and the guest of honour was the headmaster of the Holy Cross Institute, Cavelossim, Claudio S Fernandes.

Also present were the priest of Holy Cross parish, Cavelossim, Father Nelson Cristo Colaco, deacon Seby Vaz and the parish pastoral council moderator, Rosario Fernandes. The theme for the day was ‘Ghorabeant Devacho Adnia Samballat ani Noketram Vorim Zhogzhogat’.

The day ended on a high note with the vote of thanks.

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Kuttumb – Highlighting the Evils of Alcohol heatre is one of the effective means of bringing in social awareness. And that’s exactly what John D’Silva has attempted to do with his latest tiatr ‘Kuttumb’.

He has aptly adopted the Konkani stage in creating social awareness about alcohol addiction and its adverse effects on the family.

‘Kuttumb’ revolves around a Catholic family headed by Jerome (Joe) and his three children, Cedric (Ignatius de Xelvon) and his wife Lydia (Meeta), Cerina (Elifa) and Denzil (Peter de Pedda).

Initially, there’s unity among all the members of the family, but the harmony gets disrupted after Cedric, on getting promoted to the post of general manager, takes up to drinking with his colleagues. Though he starts out with just a glass of beer at social gatherings, it leads to heavy boozing in the later stages of his life.

Though his drinking is met with strong opposition from his father and his wife Lydia, Cedric, believing that drinking is not a vice but a way of socializing, pays no heed to them.

Jerome’s youngest son, Denzil also takes up to drinking on the quiet, frequenting rave parties and the likes, and over a period of time, becomes a victim of AIDS. Cerina’s husband Eston loses his life when he meets with an accident while returning from a family get-together after consuming too much alcohol. Hence Cerina is forced to fight against all odds as a widow and joins the AA group to create awareness and save families from disasters due to alcoholism.

In course of time, Cedric loses his job and is on the streets as a slave of alcohol.

His wife encounters heartaches and disappointments all along, with the unity and peace of the family being totally destroyed.

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E N T E R TA I N M E N T 11:30 Geet 12:00 Rang Badalti Odhni 12:30 Dill Mill Gayye 13:00 Jaane Pehchaane Se Yeh 13:30 Geet 14:00 Rang Badalti Odhni 14:30 Mile Jab Hum Tum 15:00 Beta Ho To Aisa 18:30 Dill Mill Gayye 19:00 Geet 19:30 Rang Badalti Odhni 20:00 Dill Mill Gayye 20:30 Jaane Pehchaane Se Yeh 21:00 Mile Jab Hum Tum 21:30 Geet 22:00 Rang Badalti Odhni 22:30 Jaane Pehchaane Se Yeh 23:00 Mile Jab Hum Tum

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11:00 Drop Dead Diva 12:00 Top Chef 13:00 Ghost Adventure 14:00 Estate of Panic 15:00 Video Zonkers 17:00 The Amazing Race Asia 18:00 So You Think You Can 20:00 Top Chef 21:30 E Buzz

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in ‘Kuttumb’ with various instances and statistics.

Ignatius de Xelvon excels as an alcoholic while Meeta shines as his sympathetic wife.

Albert (Nato), D a v i d ( Re m y ) , Rambo (Elvis) and Agnel (John D’Silva) provided pills of laughter to the audience with their mimicry.

Some of the songs in between the acts have powerful messages, especially those rendered by S Lemos and Ignatius de Xelvon.

John D’Silva’s earlier dramas have carried a message or two to the audience and this time his attempt through ‘Kuttumb’ is of much significance as it brings in social awareness and highlights the catastrophes encountered by several families due to alcohol addiction.

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12:00 Making Christmas 13:00 Built for the Kill 14:00 Taboo 4 15:00 Jailed Abroad 16:00 Nat Geo Junior 17:00 Bondi Rescue 18:00 Nat Geo Wild 19:00 India 20:00 Jailed Abroad 21:00 Hitler Special

07:00 Kids Club 07:30 Flavors 08:00 English News 09:00 Konkani News 10:00 Marathi News 11:00 Marine 11:30 HCN Smash Hits 12:00 Life is to Live 12:30 Flavors 13:00 Enghael Jackson 23:30 Fusion Concert Note: Subject to change

Across 1- Enervates; 5- Skin of the upper part of the head; 10Helps; 14- Queue; 15- Tennis great Rod; 16- Employs; 17Comics canine; 18- Dress style; 19- Decree; 20- Inhabitant of Pennsylvania; 23Monetary unit of Romania; 24- Jackie's second; 25- Elucidation; 33- Got up; 34- McGregor of "Trainspotting"; 35Marseilles Mrs.; 36- Crown of the head; 37- Confused mixture of sounds; 39- Internet writing system that popularized "pwn3d" and "n00b"; 40Biblical high priest; 41- Drugyielding plant; 42- Haunted house sounds; 43- Star groups; 47- Ballet step; 48Boy; 49- Kinship; 56- "Darn!"; 58- Fool; 59- Horne solo; 60Slightly; 61- Mother-of-pearl; 62- Social standing; 63- Resembling a red, say; 64Fresh; 65- Lock openers; Down 1- Swill; 2- Adjutant; 3- Nabokov novel; 4- Observed; 5- Killer; 6Phone; 7- Tel ___; 8- Actress Olin; 9- Previous to birth; 10- Expert; 11- The doctor ___; 12Narc's org.; 13- Concorde, e.g.; 21- Dog-powered snow vehicle; 22- OPEC member; 25- Author Calvino; 26- Out; 27- Digit of the foot; 28- Insurgent; 29- Female sheep; 30- That is to say...; 31Portents; 32- Devices for fishing;

33- Blueprint detail; 37- Ap- SOLUTION - 540 proval; 38- "You've got mail" co.; 39- John in England; 41- ___ impasse; 42Calf-length skirt; 44- Like bad cell coverage?; 45"Earth in the Balance" author; 46- Make straight; 49First son of Adam and Eve; 50- Purim month; 51Pleasing; 52- Stool pigeon: var.; 53- Dies ___; 54- Very small; 55- Tibetan oxen; 56- Black bird; 57- Diamond stat;

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Churchill, Vasco win taca goa u-20 HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Musli Power Churchill Brothers took the better of Goa Velha Sports Club 2-1 in 1ST Division Taca Goa U-20 League, on Thursday.

Brain Rodrigues scored a brace for Churchill in the 38th and 85th minutes while Joston Pereira reduced the margin for Goa Velha in the 44th minute.

In another match, Vasco Sports Club outplayed Dempo Sports Club 2-0. Freddy Faria and Nicholas Fernandes scored for the winners.

In 2nd Division Taca Goa U20 League, at Taleigao ground, Youth Sports Club of Colvale moved past Paradise Sports Club. Francis, Alex and Deepak scored one each for Colvale while Gauthum pulled one for Paradise.

On Wednesday, Sarzora Sports Club trounced Aivao United Youth Club 5-1, at Raia panchayat grounds.

Salman Fernandes scored three goals whileRyan Colaco and Dhadle Tibale pulled one each.

Agnelo Cabral was the lone scorer for Aivao.

Rishab to meet Karthikeyan national chess HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

16th seed Rishab Naik (3) of Goa outsmarted Prabhat Kotha to meet top seed Karthikeyan Murali of Tamil Nadu on the top board, on Friday at 24th National Under-11 Chess Championship held, at Media Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai.

While 22nd seed Ritviz Parab of Goa outplayed Arvind M of Tamil Nadu. They are in the joint

Saligao in final

sodiem siolim soccer HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Saligao United with a cool, calculated and clever game send Nagoa Sporting Club packing 20 to book the final berth in Sodiem Siolim Super Soccer 2010, at St Anthony’s Church ground, Siolim.

At the end of first half, Saligao United were leading 1-0.

Pravin Jadav gave lead to Saligao United in the 15 minute.

Later, Nagoa SC tried their best to find the equaliser but the goal eluded them. Crossing over, Pravin completed his brace and sealed the fate of Nagoa SC.

lead with 15 other players in the Open Category.

Unrated Vagesh Tendulkar of Goa (2.5 points) stunned 70th seed Sayantan Chandra of West Bengal.

He had drawn with Cheela Naga (1585) of Andhra in the previous round.

In the girls category, Ivana Furtado had to contend herself with a draw but Gauri Keshav Hadkonkar won her match to lead with 5 others in the girls category. Gauri outshone 8th seed Srija P S of Andhra Pradesh.

She meets 4th seed Meghna C S on Friday.

Other Goan results: Open section -- 30th seed Nitish Belurkar beat Bhargav P of Tamil Nadu, K Tushar won against Jayeshwar Karthik to register his first win, Ameya Audi drew with Pravin Kumar, Saeesh Bandodkar lost to Sanjay K, Anant Prabhudesai lost to Madkar Aditya.

Girls sections -- Aditi Prabhudesai beat Nibasa C of Andhra Pradesh and Apoorva Naik lost to Chandreya Hajra of West Bengal.

Mundivel in Coca Cola semis HERALD REPORTER VASCO, APRIL 29

Mundivel Sports Club cruise into the semi-finals of Coca-Cola celebration Cup, at Tilak Maidan, Vasco, on Thursday. In the first round, Mundivel struck 11 goals against Benefica, while Benifica reduce the margin by a solitary goal. In the second round, Mundivel trounced Sarazora Sports Club 9-1. Earlier, Benefica and Sarazoar played a 4-4 draw.

Areal move into semis

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A superb first half strike by striker Shelton Dias enabled Sao Jose de Areal Sports Club to registered a narrow 1-0 win over Curtorim Gymkhana and enter the semi-final of All-Goa Alvernaz and Lalush Alemao memorial inter-village football tournament, organised by Churchill Brothers, at Varca ground, on Thursday.

Sao Jose de Areal stuck to an attacking approach from the outset and nearly surge ahead but Mario Rebello’s rasping shot miss the mark narrowly.

The first half did not seem much of Curtorim Gymkhana with the ball as Areal defenders m a d e s u re t h a t C u r t o r i m Gymkhana forward Roy Colaco kept him at bay.

The all-important goal came in the 23rd of the opening session when Shelton Dias’s snap shot found the roof of the net after he picked up through pass from Mario Rebello.

Stung by the early setback, Curtorim Gymkhana tried their best but failed to get pas the Areal defence.

The second half saw Curtorim Gymkhana a transformed side and created many umpteen forays into the rival territory but striker Roy Colaco was the worst offenders as he muffed two easy sitters in a one-to-one situa-

Sao Jose de Areal and Curtorim players clash with each other during their match at Varca ground, on Thursday.

Photo: Third Eye

tions.

Areal had also moments of glory when striker Fredrick Endro unleashed a right footer, which miss the target narrowly and later Mario Rebello went wide from handshaking distance.

With time running out, Curtorim Gymkhana tried their best to neutralised the lead

but without success as the stubborn rival defence was solid and frustrate the Curtorim attackers.

Shelton Dias of Areal, who played a stellar role, was later adjudged man-of-the-match.

St Cruz Cavelossim move into quarters st anthony super soccer HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

St Cruz Club of Cavelossim move into quarter-finals defeating Union of Chinchinim Villagers 5-4 via tie-breaker in St Anthony’s Super Soccer, organised

by St Anthony’s Club, Colva, at Colva ground, on Thursday.

Youthful Chinchinim Villagers

Davorlim advance HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Sporting Club of Davorlim defeated St Anthony Sports Club, Assolda 2-0 to move ahead in 14th Holy Cross soccer tournament, organised by Holy Cross Sports Club, at Vodlemoll ground, Kakoda, on Thursday.

Venson Figueredo effort from the penalty area was on target in the 27th minute, settling the ball into the nets, to open an account for for Davorlim.

Soon in a couple of minutes, Davorlim got a free kick, which Romeo Colaco successfully converted it into a goal to double the lead.

Anthony is Sao Miguel president HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Levino Anthony Pereira has been elected as the president of Clube Sao Miguel de Taleigao for the second term.

Other committee members are: Anthony de Almeida (vice president), Jeromino Egidio de Almeida (general secretary), Agnelo H. Fernandes (joint secretary), Casmiro Peixoto (treasurer), Agnelo Fernandes (joint treasurer), Elvis Fernandes (sports secretary), Michael Mascarenhas (asst. sports secretary), Rosario Mascarenhas (entertainment secretary), Inacio Pereira, Conceicao Rodrigues (asst. entertainment secretary); Santan Fernandes (team manager), Suresh Murgaonkar (asst. team manager), Norman Fernandes, Alex Fernandes, Francis Fernandes, Joaquim Vaz Gonsalo Peixoto (advisors), Mariano Pereira, Luciano Fernandes, Lino Falcao, Franky Coelho, Gavin Araujo, Edson Pereira, Alvito Peixoto and Cedric Peixoto (members).

started the match on a positive note with Myron and Noel playing a well co-ordinated game, but their goal scoring moves were foiled by the rival defenders.

In the second half, there were no constructive moves as the game was more confined to the midfield. Both the teams played in a cautious approach. As both the teams failed to open an account at the end of regulation time, tie-breaker was applied.

St Cruz Club of Cavelossim proved to better shooters, scoring through James, Shawn, Felix, Alex, Cliffton. Preston Shot was saved by the goalkeeper. For Chinchinim Villagers Noel, Malwin, Shridhar and Kimberly were on target.

Myron and Brian shots were saved by substitute goalkeeper.

Noel Leitao of St Cruz Club of Cavelossim was the man-ofthe-match for his brilliant performance.

St Anthony’s Super Soccer: United Club of Nerul v. Navelim Sporting Club, Colva ground, 4.30 pm.

14th Holy Cross soccer: Curtorim Gymkhana v. Adarsh Yuvak Sang, Saligao, Vodlemoll ground, Kakoda, 4.30 p.m.

Pilerne Panchayat Cup soccer: Parra-Verla-Canca Association v. Pilerne Sports Club, Maddanim ground, Pilerne, 5 p.m.

Cayman Cup soccer (semis): Betalbatim Sporting Club v. Sporting Club of Davorlim, Curtorim grounds, 4.30 pm.

James Alvares memorial beach soccer : Fukott v.

Chelsea Boys; Parish Youth of Velsao v. Vikrapali Sport Club, Bogmalo beach, 4.45 p.m.

GOA DIARY Football tournament at Aldona

PANJIM: (HSD) – The Aldona Block Congress (I) Committee will organise its annual inter-ward football tournament for 16 years and above boys from May 1, at Quitula ground, Aldona.

The matches will be held on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Bastora XI and Carona XI will clash in the inaugural match, at 3.40 p.m.

8-a-side football at Merces

PANJIM: (HSD) – St Sebastiao Boys of Merces will organise their 6th All-Goa 8-a-side football tournament on May 2, at Alua ground, Merces. The winners and runners-up will be awarded Rs 6,000 and 4,000 respectively. For details contact Agnelo on 9822170038.

Soccer tourney at Navelim

PANJIM: (HSD) – Mandopa Sporting Club will organise an AllGoa inter-village football tournament from May 8, at MandopaNavelim. The winners and runners-up will be awarded Rs 20,000 and Rs 15,000 respectively. Interested teams may contact Cladias Dias on 9822177730, Remmy Pereira on 9545925940 and Salvin Pereira on 9689994482.

4-a-side soccer at Assolna

PANJIM: (HSD) – Young Boys of Chanleavaddo, Ganneavaddo and Colmorod (CGC) are organising their 1st All-Goa 4-a-side football tournament on May 1 and 2, near Assolna Church ground, from 10 am. The winners will take home Rs 7,000 while the runners-up will have to be content with Rs 5,000. Only 16 entries will be accepted. For more details contact 9822165726 and 9423087672

Gymnastic coaching camp

PANJIM: (HSD) – Kreeda Bharati, Goa and Goa Gymnastic Association will jointly conduct a coaching camp in gymnastic from May 6 to 16, at Vidhya Prabodhini High School, Porvorim.

The camp will be conducted by Uma Bayaskar from Mumbai.

Those interested may register their names at Vidhya Prabodhini High School and Dr K B Hedgewar High School, Panjim. The batch of trainees will be limited and the registration will be on a first come first served basis. For more information contact, Sharayu Kolvalkar (9850226390) or Sudesh Thakur (9422970919).

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Bayern to meet Inter in final

India maintain status quo in world FIFA rankings AGENCIES NEW DELHI, APRIL 29

Lionel Messi of Barcelona is tackled by Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso of Inter Milan at Camp Nou on Wednesday.

l Barcelona down Inter 1-0 REUTERS BARCELONA, APRIL 29

Inter Milan battled for more than an hour with 10 men to book their place in next month's Champions League final at the expense of holders Barcelona on a triumphant night for the Italian side's coach Jose Mourinho.

The Spanish holders won the semi-final second leg 1-0 but Inter went through 3-2 on aggregate after a pulsating encounter at Barca's Nou Camp stadium to reach their first final of Europe's elite club competition since 1972.

They will play Bayern Munich in the final at Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium on May 22.

Mourinho, a former assistant coach at Barca, raced onto the pitch at the final whistle, his wild eyes fixed on the small section of triumphant Inter fans as he pointed a celebratory finger to the sky.

He clashed with Barca goal-

keeper Victor Valdes as a hail of objects rained down from the stands before he returned to the embrace of his ecstatic players. ''It's an incredible joy, I've won the Champions League (with Porto in 2004) but I must say today was better than winning the Champions League,'' Mourinho told Rai TV. Af ter losing last week's semifinal first leg in Milan 3-1, Barca coach Pep Guardiola fielded an ultra-attacking formation and with the home fans roaring their support the visitors' defence came under immediate pressure.

For all their early possession Barca were struggling to create chances and a Pedro volley in the 22nd minute that flashed narrowly wide was their first

real effort on goal.

Tempers boiled over five minutes later when Inter midfielder Thiago Motta flung out an arm in a challenge with Sergio Busquets which sent the Barca player tumbling to the turf clutching his face.

Former Barca player Motta, who had already been booked, was sent off, sparking a melee in which he grabbed Busquets by the back of the neck before being led away.

The dismissal was the cue for a magnificent rearguard action from Inter who dealt with almost everything the fearsome Barca attack could throw at them.

Champions League top scorer Lionel Messi curled a shot that Julio Cesar acrobatically tipped around the post before a thunderous Zlatan Ibrahimovic free-

kick flashed just wide.

As the clock ticked down in the second half, substitute Bojan Krkic missed a sitter of a header but a minute later centre back Gerard Pique, moved by coach Guardiola to a last-ditch striking role, made amends with a superbly taken goal in the 84th minute that gave Barca hope.

The Spain international controlled the ball in the penalty and showed a striker's touch to spin away from Cesar and the Inter defenders and slot into an empty net.

With the noise levels rising ever higher, Barca pressed for the goal that would send them through and had an effort from Krkic at the death disallowed when Yaya Toure was adjudged to have handled the ball in the build-up. ''We defended very well, very compact, and we fought on every metre,'' Inter midfielder Wesley Sneijder, who moved to Inter from Real Madrid before the start of this season, said in a television interview.

Indian football team remained static at 132nd in the world rankings but moved up one place among Asian countries to the 21st spot in the latest FIFA chart issued on Wednesday.

India did not lose any point from last month's tally of 164 but rose one place among AFC countries at the expense of Tajikistan.

Tajikistan, who were at 130th last month, fell to 135th, which gave India a gain of one place among Asian countries.

Australia, who are clubbed along with India in Group C in the 2011 Asian Cup in Doha, continued to remain the highest ranked AFC country at 20th, way ahead of Japan (45th).

South Korea, who are also in India's group in the 2011 Asian Cup, are the third-ranked Asian side at 47th.

Bahrain, the fourth country in Group C in the 2011 Asian Cup, are the sixth-ranked Asian country at 69th.

In overall world rankings, Brazil reclaimed the top spot from Spain, returning to the number one position for the seventh time since the inception of FIFA rankings in 1993.

Bopanna & C0 out of Tunis Open UNI TUNIS, APRIL 29

Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi bowed out of the 125,000 dollar ATP Tunis Open after losing their doubles quarter-final to Frederico Gil of Portugal and Marcelo Melo of Brazil here.

The Indo-Pakistani pair went down fighting in the Super Tiebreaker 5-7, 6-3, 9-11 yesterday.

The duo had received a walkover in the first round from experienced Frenchmen Thierry Ascione and Arnaud Clement.

Derrick leads

national sailing HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Derrick Menezes consolidated his lead in the board sailing category on the second day of the National Laser and Board Sailing championships, at Dona Paula.

In the first boardsailing race of the day, Derrick, Donald and Remy got off to an excellent start with each of them overtaking the other at regular intervals.

Derrick, took the lead at the windward mark closely followed

by Donald and Remy. Donald, however, managed to pump hard and overtake Derrick by the next mark with Remy close on their heels.

Derrick managed to close the gap on Donald and shot past him in the last 100 meters to win the race.

In the second race, Derrick and Remy got off to a good start and managed to build up a good lead over Donald. Derrick, eventually, won the race followed by Remy while Donald had to be satisfied with the third place.

12-year-old Dwayne Coelho of Shardha Mandir School, the youngest participant in the board sailing nationals, and is sailing for the first time in the national championships put up an extremely creditable performance to finish 5th in both the races ahead of several other senior competitors.

In the Laser 4.7 class category, the battle for supremacy continued between Aishwar ya Chezhiyan, Pravin Prabhakar, Zefra Currimboy, Hussain Bhavnagarwala, and Rufus Nataniel.

Sao Miguel meet Arpora in title clash colormax-imperial trophy HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Arpora Sporting Club registered a narrow 3-2 win via tiebreaker over hosts United Club Nerul to enter the final of 3rd Colormax-Imperial Rolling trophy, sponsored by Jaysingh L. Rane, at Dr. Gustavo Monteiro stadium, Candolim, on Thursday.

In the 7th minute, Pramod Mardolkar rasping shot was superbly saved on the goal line by Nerul’s Avinash Pereira while in the 16th minute, Premnath Gadekar’s goal bound shot hit the upright.

With the teams locked in a goalless draw, the tie-breaker was implemented where Amit Fernandes, Rajesh Pombuphekar and Garry Pereira scored for Arpora while only Avinash Pereira and Newton Pereira shot on target for Nerul.

On Wednesday, Sao Miguel,

Taleigao had to wait for the tiebreaker before they got the better of Calangute Association 6-5 to enter the final.

A fine move by Tomson Fernandes in the 25th minute and in turn well-measured pass to Caetano Pinho. The latter drilled a 30-yard straight shot into Calangute nylons.

In the very next minute, a costly defence error by Anthony Pereira and Ramesh Palkar, saw opportunist Vijay Parsekar netting the precious equaliser.

With the match locked in a 1-1 draw, the penalty shootout was applied.

Anthony Pereira, Caetano Pinho, Valencio Estrocio, Ramesh Palkar and Cedric Peixoto all shot on target for Taleigao, while Emmanuel D’Costa, Francis Fernandes, Menino Fernandes, and Blake Haldankar scored for Calangute.

Now, Arpora Sporting will clash with Sao Miguel, Taleigao in the final.

Baina, Hollant boys in quarters alvares soccer HERLAD REPORTER VASCO, APRIL 29

Baina Boys and Hollant Boys marched into quarter-finals of James Alvares memorial beach soccer, at Bogmalo beach, on Thursday.

Baina Boys defeated Faria Strikers 3-1. Johnny, Allen a n d We z b i n o s c o re d o n e

each for Baina while Lanunda reduced the margin for Faria.

Anthony scored the lone goal for Hollant to give victor y against Highway Boys.

On Wednesday, Ferrari Boys of Varca defeated United Youth Club of Bogmalo 5-3 and in second match Jiklear Jikle defeated Stars of MPT 2-0.

Winners Chowgule College team along with chief guest Dr John Fernandes and other officials.

Chowgule College champions interactive cricket tourney HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Chowgule College, Margao outplayed St Xavier’s College, Mapusa in the annual staff interactive cricket tournament, organised by Goa Study Circle of Physical Educationalist and Sports Scientist in collaboration with Goa University at university

Milagres bow out in tie-breaker pilerne cup HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Milagres Sports Club, Mapuca went down 4-6 in the penalty shoot-out against Calangute Association to bow out of 17th Pilerne Panchayat Cup inter-village soccer tournament, organised by Pilerne Sports Club at Maddanim grounds, Pilerne.

Both the teams were tied 11 at the end of regulation time.

After a barren first half which was equally fought, it was Milagres who drew first blood in the 65th minute.

Wilbur Menezes converted a penalty awarded against Calangute when their defender handled the ball in the penalty area. Calangute rallied brilliantly and succeeded in sending the match into the penalty shoot-out with substitute Agnelo Fernandes scoring off a corner with a minute of regulation time remaining.

In the tie-breaker, Emanuel, Kumar, Francisco, Dominic and Samir scored for Calangute. For Milagres, Anup, Wilbur, Vinccent and Navnath converted.

ground, Taleigao.

Nine colleges enthusiastically participated.

The following players were awarded for their noteworthy performances: Best batsman -- Ashay Korde, Best bowler -- Vishant Khandeparkar, Best all-rounder -- Shivaji Goankar, player of the series -Ashay Korde.

Dr John Fernandes, former principal of Government Col-

lege of Sanquelim was the chief guest for the final and presented trophies in the distinguish presence of Bhikoo Pa i A n g l e , c h a i r m a n o f GSCOPES; Dr Francis Lobo, treasurer; Dr Rajan Mathew, co-ordinator; Herwin Furtado, vice principal of St Xavier’s College and Milton Fernandes, Assistant Director of Physical Education and Sports, Goa University.

Rajan is Baina SC chief HERALD REPORTER VASCO, APRIL 29

Manohar Bhosle alias Rajan has been unanimously elected as t h e p re s i d e n t o f Baina Sports Club, at the annual general body meeting held at club office, Baina.

Other office-bearers: Kelly Furtado, Tulshidas Verekar (vice-president), Navnath Naik (general secretary),

Remedio Dourado (joint secretary), Andrew Rodrigues (treasurer), Adv T T Shasidharan (legal advisor), Umer Muthwali (sport secretary), Jack Fernandes (cultural secretary), Mahabaleshwar Chodankar, Riyaz Kadri, Alexander Rodrigues, Sayed Nazeer, Leo Sequeira, Salam Shaikh (executive members).

PY Tropa enter finals viviana soccer HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, APRIL 29

Parish Youth of Tropa (Siolim) defeated Parish Youth of Morjim 6-5 to set up a title clash with hosts Parish Youth of Assonora in 2nd All-Goa Viviana Memorial 7–a–side inter-parish youth football tournament, at Assonora parish ground, on Thursday.

The match started on a fast pace with Tropa making repeated inroads in the rival’s ter-

ritory, but could not see the goal due to stout defending and inept shooting by strikers.

With no score in the first half, both the teams started the second half on a fast pace.

In the battle for supremacy, Tropa scored thrice with Morjim equalising and holding their rivals 3–3 till the final whistle.

In the ensuring tie-breaker, Tropa proved their mettle against Morjim scoring 3-2 victory.

The finals will be played on May 9, at 4 p.m.

Chhetri scores for Kansas in friendly match AGENCIES KANSAS CITY, APRIL 29

Indian striker Sunil Chhetri re t u r n e d a m o n g g o a l s i n K a n s a s C i t y W i z a rd s ' 7 - 1 thrashing of Baker University in a friendly match at the Swope Park Training Center in Kansas City, US. Chhetri, who made his KC Wizards debut in a Lamar Hunt US Open match but yet to play his first Major League Soccer game, scored his side's fifth goal in the second half.

Kei Kamara struck twice while Josh Wolff, Davy Arnaud, Igor Kostrov and Santiago Hirsig scored one each.

Chhetri, whose signing with KC Wizards generated a wide media coverage back home and the United States, will meet India's first Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan on Friday.

Karthikeyan will be in Kansas City for Sunday's NASCAR World Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway.

KC Wizards have played four MLS matches so far, winning two, losing one and drawing one. They play Houston Dynamos on Saturday in their fifth game.

India win 2 bronze in World Jr badminton AGENCIES MEXICO, APRIL 29

Indian shuttlers B Sai Praneeth and H S Prannoy won two bronze medals in the recentlyconcluded Junior World Badminton Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico.

There was more good news for India, as Parneeth, Prannoy, among the boys, and PV Sindhu, girls, qualified for the Youth Olympic Games, to be held at Singapore in August.

The tournament, which concluded on April 25, saw some

brilliant performance from the Indian junior shuttlers, mainly Prannoy and Praneeth.

Prannoy had a good run in the tournament. He first beat second seed Malaysian Loh Wei Sheng in the first round and then notched a win against ninth seeded Hseih Feng of Chinese Taipei in the pre-quarter finals.

In the quarter-finals, Prannoy defeated Liu Kai of China 21-9, 21-9 before going down 9-21, 13-21 to Korean Kong Ji Wook in the semi-finals.

Sporting Clube, East Bengal clash today ongc i-league AGENCIES KOLKATA, APRIL 29

Having crashed to their sixth straight loss (0-4) to Al-Nejmeh in the AFC Cup to sign off on a pathetic note two days ago, East Bengal coach Philippe de Ridder had said it's ONGC I-League, which is their first priority.

The not so impressive Kolkata outfit will aim to amend their lost pride when they take on the bottom of the table, Sporting Clube de Goa in a round 23 clash of the ONGC I-League, here, on Friday.

But despite being on the top of their agenda, the Federation Cup champions have had their success rate way below expectation as East Bengal (24 points) languish two points above the drop zone.

The red-and-gold outfit, however, ended their winless streak when they overcame Mumbai FC in their last match in the ILeague.

East Bengal confidence has got a further boost with Bhaichung Bhutia being fully fit.

If the Flaming Oranges want to fancy their chances in their last four remaining matches to avoid relegation, they will have at least notch up six points, which might help them to stay out of relegation zone.

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T20 WC extravaganza from today PTI PROVIDENCE (GUYANA), APRIL 29

Less than five days after a highoctane Indian Premier League, another Twenty20 extravaganza begins here from tomorrow as the world's top cricketers assemble for the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean with no team being tipped as clear favourites.

The 17-day tournament, which is expected to see some high-voltage competition, begins with a double-header at Guyana National Stadium here, with New Zealand taking on Sri Lanka in the opener, followed by a match between hosts West Indies and Ireland under lights.

The unpredictability of the slam-bang format would mean that the Twenty20 tournament is wide open and most of the top teams, including India and Pakistan, are fancying their

chances to clinch the title. in 2007 -- the country's first Pakistan have the best track major title in international record in Twenty20 World Cup, cricket since 1983, has become having reached the final in the the home of Twenty20 cricket inaugural event in with a hugely suc2007 in South cessful Indian PreAfrica and claiming mier League. the title in the secThough India ond edition in June suffered a jolt by last year in England. the unavailability of The Pakistanis swashbuckling also have the best batsman Virender winning percentSehwag due to inage in the format, jury, they would be with 22 wins, banking on the IPL seven losses and TODAY’S MATCH experience and MaNew Zealand one no result in 30 hendra Singh matches, though Dhoni's astute capv. Sri Lanka they had a tumultaincy.

10.30 p.m. tuous build-up to India will begin the tournament their campaign with some of their leading play- against minnows Afghanistan on ers being banned and fined by Saturday at St Lucia but Dhoni's their Board for indiscipline. men cannot take the world India, who lifted the trophy cricket's new entrant lightly.

We cannot take Afghanistan lightly, says Dhoni

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Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today warned his teammates against taking unheralded Afghanistan lightly in their Twenty20 World Cup opening match here on Saturday, saying any slip-up against them can put his side out of contention for super eights.

"If you ask me, I would not consider our opening match against Afghanistan as a practice game. I don't take my opponents lightly. At the end of the day you have to win whichever team you play," said Dhoni, ruling out complacency in the Indian camp.

"I don't know much about them. It is good in a way because if we know too much about a side then you are thinking too much about them. However, our preparation will remain the same as if you are playing the best opponent in world cricket," he said.

"We can't really relax against whichever team you are playing.

At the end of the day you are representing India and you have to be at your best when you turn up on the field," Dhoni added.

Afghanistan have risen from the depths of the fifth division league to rub shoulders with the best in the cricket world.

Their attitude, confidence and determination are aspects that India and South Africa, who have been drawn in Group C along with them, should be wary about.

On the criticism for not playing any warm-up game before the start of the tournament,

Spinners poised to take centre stage AGENCIES CARIBBEAN, APRIL 29

In the Caribbean islands which spawned a conveyor belt of intimidating pacemen in the 1970s and 1980s, spin is poised to dominate the World T20.

Gone are the days when lightning fast tracks were the norm in the West Indies and the slower bowlers are expected to prosper in the third edition of the 17-day run-fest which starts in Guyana on Friday.

India, who won the inaugural T20 world title in 2007, and Pakistan, the 2009 champions, have the best spinners in the tournament and could dominate, according to former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram.

"The pitches in the West Indies are more suited to spin now and Pakistan and India have plenty of options to bank upon," Akram said.

Pakistan has included two specialist spinners, Saeed Ajmal

and Abdul Rehman, in their squad while India has Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla.

Both teams also have several spin bowling all-rounders.

Former captain Ramiz Raja said while they were no favourites in the fastest format of cricket Pakistan and India had to be feared because of their records.

"When it comes down to T20 cricket then certainly Pakistani and Indian players have adapted better compared to the Australians, English or South African players," Raja said.

Former India captain Rahul Dravid said the combination of a strong spin attack and the inspirational leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni could fire the Indians to another title.

"The conditions should suit India with the kind of spinners we have and I think he (Dhoni) will be very confident with the team we are taking to the West Indies," Dravid said.

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England, New Zealand win AGENCIES GUYANA, APRIL 29

Debutants Afghanistan made an impressive start to their World Twenty20 campaign, beating Ireland by five wickets in a warmup match in Guyana on Wednesday.

Debutant seamer Dawlat Ahmadzai claimed four wickets for 15 runs as Ireland were restricted to 133-9 in their 20 overs, John Mooney top-scoring with 42.

In reply, Ashghar Stanikzai and Mohammad Nabi added 66 for the fifth wicket in six overs as Afghanistan got to the target with three balls to spare.

Afghanistan open their World Twenty20 campaign with a match against India on Saturday.

In another warm-up match in Barbados, an unbeaten 61 from Chamara Kapugedera was in vain as Sri Lanka were beaten

by South Africa by five wickets.

Kapugedera and veteran Sanath Jayasuriya helped Sri Lanka put up 137 for 8 before a 61-run partnership between Mark Boucher and Johan Botha allowed South Africa to squeeze home in the final over and win with three balls to spare.

Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara opted to bat first after

winning the toss at the Kensington Oval but Tillakaratne Dilshan fell first ball to Ror y Kleinveldt.

Charl Langeveldt then struck twice to dismiss Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene as Sri Lanka slipped to 22 for 3.

Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Matthews soon followed as Sri Lanka, runners-up to Pakistan in the 2009 Twenty20 final, collapsed to 42 for 5 in the ninth over.

But Jayasuriya (33) helped steady the ship before Kapugedera gave his side a fighting chance with three fours and five sixes.

South African skipper Graeme Smith was dismissed by Nuwan Kulasekara in the first over for one befor Loots Bosman hit a quick 20.

Botha and Boucher put South Africa on their way, scoring at more than 11 runs an over.

At the same venue, England eased past Bangladesh by seven wickets.

Bangladesh were limited to 126-7 with slow left-armer Michael Yardy taking 3-20 before Ravi Bopara hit 62 from 48 balls to steer England to victory in the 18th over.

West Indies lost by seven runs to New Zealand in a warm-up later in Guyana.

Dhoni said his side does not need such matches as they have shaped up well.

"We don't actually need to play a warm-up game as the way we have shaped up after the long journey, there wouldn't have been any good coming out of it. It is good that we can rest and have a rigorous practice session tomorrow and get back into the groove and prepare for the match against them," said Dhoni.

India's most successful captain was not worried much about the injuries to some of his key players.

"It is part and parcel of cricket that people get injured. But at the end of the day we have replaced them (Sehwag) with the best possible players available.

"We are just hoping that we won't miss them on the field.

We are hopeful that people who have come as replacements would step up to the occasion and perform," he said.

"If you ask me, I would not consider our opening match against Afghanistan as a practice game. I don't take my opponents lightly. At the end of the day you have to win whichever team you play," said Dhoni.

India would seek lessons from history as they had faced the ignominy of an unceremonious early exit after losing to Bangladesh in the 50-over World Cup in the same Caribbean islands three years ago.

Australia, on the other hand, are three-time defending champions in the 50-over version but they were unceremoniously ousted in the first round in the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup. But with a strong pool of explosive players and an able captain in Michael Clarke, the Australians will look to add another trophy to their glittering cabinet this year.

ICC approves Harris as Lee’s replacement AGENCIES DUBAI, APRIL 29

The event technical committee of the Twenty20 World Cup has approved Ryan Harris as replacement for injured Brett Lee in the Australian squad for the tournament which begins in the Caribbean on Friday.

The confirmation was conveyed to Cricket Australia which has sought a replacement for Lee for the entire event.

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Warne backs India, Pak to win T20 WC AGENCIES MELBOURNE, APRIL 29

Australian spin legend Shane Warne has tipped India and Pakistan as the favourites to win the third-edition of the

Twenty20 World Cup starting in West Indies on Friday.

"India because their players play so much in the IPL. And Pakistan because the format suits them. But Australia is play-

ing more of it and understanding the game a lot better," Warne said when asked which team would be his favourite.

"MS Dhoni is a very good captain but Virender Sehwag is a

massive loss with his shoulder problem. Shahid Afridi is a good captain and a very good cricketer but can be hit and miss.

They will be in the mix," Warne told Herald Sun.