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IN BRIEF CBI files charges against RIL’s Modi The CBI has filed a chargesheet against Manoj Modi, a top lieutenant of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, and five others in a case relating to masking of international calls as local, causing huge revenue loss to the Government.

The chargesheet was filed in a local court in Chennai, four years after CBI took up investigation and five years after Reliance Infocomm paid Rs 150 crore towards penalty imposed by telecom tribunal TDSAT. – (PTI)

IOC depot fire: 9 officials held Police have arrested nine officials of Indian Oil Corporation including its General Manager for Rajasthan, Gautam Bose, in connection with the major fire at its depot outside the city in October last year that killed 11 people. IG of Police, Jaipur region, B L Soni said they have held been on charges that include Sec 304-II of IPC (culpabale homicide not amounting to murder). – (PTI)

I-T sleuths search engg colleges Income Tax officials conducted countrywide searches at engineering colleges and claimed to have stumbled upon crores of rupees unaccounted cash.

A total of 45 premises in Chennai, Arani, Kodaikanal, Bangalore, Cochin and New Delhi, among others, were covered in search operations, S Ravichandran, Additional Director, I-T (Investigation), said.

– (PTI)

US offers hi-tech weapons to India The US offered India top of the shelf and top of the line defence weapon systems and said three agreements were being negotiated which would allow the country to share key American technologies. – (PTI)

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END OF ROAD FOR MICKKY To surrender today, says lawyer

Munde mocks cops inability to find Mickky

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

HERALD CORRESPONDENT MARCEL, JULY 2

Exhausting all avenues for seeking some relief from the courts to avoid arrest, former tourism minister Mickky Pacheco seems to have finally given up and will surrender to the Crime Branch on Saturday morning, even as his Man Friday Lyndon Monteiro has been summoned at 10.30 am at the same place in connection with Nadia Torrado’s death.

This disclosure was made by Pacheco’s lawyer Amit Palekar who said his client will make himself available to the Crime Branch tomorrow.

Lyndon Monteiro too has been summoned by Crime Branch tomorrow at 10.30 am, he informed.

The former tourism minister appears to have run out of all options of evading arrest and his surrender was imminent soon after the Supreme Court declined his anticipatory bail petition. Earlier, the Sessions Court and the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court had dismissed his anticipatory bail application.

Pacheco and Monteiro are wanted in connection with the death of Torrado, 28, who died on May 30 after allegedly consuming rat poison.

The Supreme Court had dismissed the anticipatory bail plea filed by the former minister stating that he could tamper with the investigation owing to his political clout.

First Class, Margao Kalpana Gawas this evening. The court has fixed hearing of arguments on the application on Saturday morning.

In the application, the Crime Branch submitted that the former minister has been evading arrest since the rejection of the anticipatory bail application by the Supreme Court.

Sources said the court posted the matter for arguments on

BJP leader Gopinath Munde has ridiculed the Goa police for their inability to locate the missing former tourism minister Mickky Pacheco in connection with the death of Nadia Torrado.

Munde was speaking at the BJP meeting at KhadpabandPonda to protest against the price hike in petroleum products.

He alleged that the State Government was well aware of the whereabouts of the missing former minister.

“Do you think the State police or the Home Department is unaware of his (Mickky Pacheco’s) hideouts? Can anyone believe this? This is very strange and I hope people will take note of it”, said Munde. ”This is the right time to show the Government that you are not happy by not electing the person who has just joined the Congress. The price rise should become the reason for his downfall”, said Munde, while reacting to Vishwajit Rane’s entry into the Congress.

“His defeat will prove that the people have reacted to the price rise”, said Munde.

Holding the UPA Government responsible for the rise in inflation, Munde urged people to voluntarily support the call given by the BJP for a nationwide strike against price rise on July 5.

In his address, Opposition

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ESG proposal to manage govt events shot down HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

The Governing Council of Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) has rejected the proposal to route all event management activities of all Government departments through the society.

The proposal in this regard was moved by the ESG Chief Executive Office Manoj Srivastava who wanted the Council’s approval so that all event management activities of Government departments could be routed through the ESG. The members of the Council felt that the ESG should first set its house in order and have proper manpower to organise its own events successfully.

The Council also rejected the proposal to provide financial assistance to non-Goan film makers to the tune of Rs 10 lakh.

It is now decided that a special scheme should be modulated and put before the Council.

In another decision, the Governing Council directed the internal auditor of the ESG to examine all aspects of the tender awarded to M/s Omkar Melodies for undertaking various works during IFFI 2009.

The CEO had put before the Governing Council a proposal to pay M/s Omkar Melodies an additional amount of approximately Rs 10 lakh towards various works such as illumination of trees, supply of computer tables, sound system and so on.

The Council members pointed out that all additional claims of M/s Omkar Melodies had already been cleared and hence there was no reason to entertain any of its additional claims.

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Crime Branch investigating officer PI Sunita Sawant huddled with APP Sarika Faldessai at JMFC court, Margao. Photo by Santosh Mirajkar

Sleuths move for arrest warrant HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JULY 2

A day after the Supreme Court rejected Mickky Pacheco’s anticipatory bail application, the Crime Bra n c h o n Fr i d a y moved the Magistrate’s court here to issue a warrant of arrest against the former tourism minister in the Nadia Torrado death case.

Crime Branch Police Inspector Sunita Sawant filed the application before Judicial Magistrate

NCP opens doors for prodigal sons New prez says G-7 no more HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

The Nationalist Congress Party on Friday extended a warm welcome to all those who deserted the party in the past and promised to admit those who were expelled for some or the other reason.

Addressing his first press conference after being appointed as President of the State NCP, Jose Philip D’Souza extended a green leaf to party deserters and promised to take back those expelled in the presence of Ulhas Naik from Poinguinim who was expelled by one of the earlier presidents.

D’Souza mentioned one of his first decisions as president was to revoke the expulsion, even as he gave thrust on strengthening the party at all levels in his address to the media persons. I have decided to readmit Ulhas Naik into the party, he said.

“We have a membership of 25,000 till date and my endeavour will be to go to each and every constituency to enroll more members, he stated. On a question whether its past president Dr Wilfred de Souza was also welcome to join back, the new president laughed, indicating the veteran politician too could be back.

He said the party will soon have a full-fledged executive committee that will take up the task of strengthening the party.

D’Souza mentioned he was taking full responsibility as president and thanked NCP supremo Sharad Pawar for entrusting him this important position. I will work to strengthen the party and see that the NCP and Congress work without any conflict, he affirmed.

Jose Philip extended a green leaf to party deserters and promised to take back those expelled in the presence of Ulhas Naik from Poinguinim who was expelled by one of the earlier presidents.

Over a question on whether G-7 still existed or the same had become G-5, the new president chose to laugh off the question but eventually said it didn’t exist anymore.

Answering a question on portfolios, D’Souza said he had written a letter to the Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to give the deputy chairmanship of the Planning Board, which Dr Willy was holding even after his resignation from the NCP. The former NCP Goa head was awarded the post when a coalition was struck between the Congress and the NCP. Willy resigned from NCP in June last year with many of his supporters who were today welcomed by the NCP. To another question on whether the NCP will join the stir over price on July 5, D’Souza answered, “If the people are troubled over the price rise then the NCP will talk to its High Command.”

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RBI rate hike not to impact home, car loans for now PTI MUMBAI, JULY 2

The Reserve Bank today raised key short-term policy rates by 25 basis points in an unscheduled announcement to tame doubled-digit inflation, but bankers said this won’t lead to any hike in interest rates for now.

Welcoming the steps taken

by RBI, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, “(they) are desirable given that core inflation has risen and credit situation is tight.”

The increase in rates comes ahead of the July 27 policy review by the apex bank, which feels that money supply in the system has started easing in contrast to the crunch felt just a fortnight ago, when corporate demand for funds shot up.

RBI’s decision to increase the short-term rates, however, may not have any immediate impact on the interest rates.

Bombers strike Pak, 43 killed PTI LAHORE, JULY 2

Terror struck Pakistan’s cultural hub of Lahore as a pair of suicide bombers attacked a famous Sufi shrine packed with thousands of worshippers, killing at least 43 people, including women and children, and injuring 180 others in the latest in a slew of attacks across the country.

The blasts occurred late last night in quick succession at the Data Darbar shrine of Sufi saint Syed Abul Hassan bin Usman bin Ali al-Hajweri revered by millions of people.

Though initial reports had said the shrine was targeted by three suicide attackers, SSP Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed today stated that two bombers were involved in the assault.

One blew himself up in the shrine’s courtyard while another detonated his explosive vest in the basement in an area where people perform ablutions.

VICTOR & THE VANQUISHED: Netherlands striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar celebrates while Brazil’s defender Daniel Alves crouches after the favourites lost their quarterfinal match of the 2010 World Cup 1-2 at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. Brazil’s exit from the Cup came as a heart-break for millions of fans across the world.

Excuse him sir! He could not sleep last night after seeing his favourite team Brazil being knocked out of the World Cup football.

Bus travel to cost more Operators unhappy, strike on HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

Traveling by bus in Goa would now be costlier with transport ministry approving the bus fare hike by ten paisa for every kilometer.

Newly appointed Transport Director Arun Dessai confirmed that Transport Minister Ramkrishna Dhavlikar has approved the bus fare hike which will be notified on Monday.

With hike of ten paisa, people will have to now pay 55 paisa per kilometer as against 45 paisa earlier. However, Rs 5 for the first three kilometers will remain the same.

The Department has also hiked Kadamba shuttle service fares by ten paisa and with this, travelers will have to shell out 80 paisa for every kilometer.

Kadamba was charging 70 paisa per kilometer earlier.

Dessai said the new rates will

be considered from the date of notification.

The ministry has also asked private bus operators to form a society of owners, conductors and drivers and then approach the Government with their other demands.

The private bus operators had

condemned Dhavlikar for being insensitive towards their issues.

Meanwhile, expressing unhappiness over the quantum of ticket hike, private bus operators today said that they will go

ahead with their all Goa bus strike on July 5.

“We have to shell out Rs 5 for diesel every time, the hike in ticket fares by just ten paisa is not acceptable”, All Goa Private Bus Owners Association, General Secretar y Sudip Tamankar told Herald. “We will go ahead with our strike on Monday”, he added.

The private bus operators in the State had demanded a hike of 20 paisa, after diesel price went up by Rs 2.72 per litre in April. The diesel prices again went up by Rs 2 in June.

“The existing hike was okay had petroleum products not risen recently”, he said.

Tamankar also confirmed that the Association is yet to receive any official letter from Transport Department over the hike.

“We have no information on hike. Even if we receive we won’t agree to it”, he said.

Beware, kids jewellery can cost you dearly!

PTI NEW DELHI, JULY 2

An earring or bracelet which you buy for your child may pose a health hazard for your loved one, with a new study claiming that artificial jewellery found in Delhi’s markets have dangerous levels of lead content.

According to the report released by an NGO ‘Toxic Links’, all the 54 samples of children’s ornaments, which it collected for the study, contained lead in varied range, which was in some cases 1,000 times higher than the permissible limit of 300 particle per million (ppm) in the US. “It is surprising that the Government till now has set no

NO CHILD’S PLAY THIS l Samples showed lead content 1,000 times higher than permissible limit. l Pink, the most common colour in samples had high lead level. l Non-coated colourless ornaments too showed high lead content.

THE EFFECTS According to WHO lead is the foremost environmental pollutant, having the capability to permanently lower the IQ of children.

Lead in blood gives rise to pica, an abnormal tendency with children to eat things other than the usual food, which may be due to exposure to hazardous materials.

(According to a report released by NGO ‘Toxic Links’)

standards or attempted to protect millions of children in India from this exposure,” said Ravi

Aggarwal, Director, Toxic Links.

Samples were collected from various manufacturing and re-

tailing markets located in central Delhi, Janpath, Old Delhi and Sadar Bazar to examine lead concentration in different jewellery worn by children.

The study claimed pink to be the most common colour in all such sample groups or samples that had high lead level. Not only coloured jewellery but also non-coated colourless ornaments showed high lead content, it said.

“It is quite likely that most of the lead content is coming from paints and pigments being used to colour the jewellery. Lead is usually added to brighten colours,” said Prashant Rajankar, a member of the investigating team.

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Davorlim villagers to intensify stir against land acquisition Special gram sabha called to take stock of situation HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JULY 2

Irked over the government’s decision to go ahead with the acquisition of 1.15 lakh square meters of Communidade land for the proposed multipurpose utility centre, Davorlim villagers have resolved to intensify the ongoing stir to force the government to scrap the project.

In this respect, the village panchayat has convened a special gram sabha on Sunday morning to take stock of the situation and chalk out the future course of action.

The meeting assumes significance given that the village panchayat as well as the gram sabha in the past had vehemently opposed acquisition of the Communidade land for the proposed multipurpose utility centre.

Locals have raised fears that the government after the land acquisition will allot a sizeable chunk of the acquired land to set up Kabrastan for the minority community.

The villagers have been demanding that the land in question be reserved for the original inhabitants of the village for their housing and other needs. In fact, the villagers maintain that the forefathers had protected the land for the benefit of the posterity and wondered whether the multipurpose utility will be of any use to the local residents.

Meanwhile, the Davorlim Civic and Consumer Forum has resolved to register their strong objection to the government decision to acquire the land in question.

Forum Joint secretary Wilma D’Costa said the area was being used as a cattle grazing ground and also has a small religious structure built by the shepherds community.

Questioning government’s action in bypass the several gram sabha resolutions objecting to the take over of the land, the Forum recalled that the villages at the gram sabha meetings had unanimously approved the de-

mand, especially of the ST community, to reserve the land for the purpose of housing, horticulture and pasture for their cattle.

The Forum further recalled that the villagers had pointed out that the government in the past had acquired 30,000 square meters of land from the Davorlim communidade for the purpose of building houses for Goans from weaker sections but in reality the housing board caters only to the migrant labourers which has caused myriad of problems like sanitation, encroachments, disposal of household waste, overflowing of sewage water into cultivable fields, thus making the village a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

The members want to know from the government authorities the details of the multipurpose project and in what manner it would benefit the villagers at large and urged the government to drop all plans to acquire this land if it cannot give a satisfactory reply.

House wall collapses, 60-yr-old woman buried alive at Guirdolim

HC complex: Law dept files plea seeking review of order HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

The mud house that collapsed at Guirdolim killing the 60-year old woman.

HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JULY 2

In a tragic incident, a 60-yearold woman from Guirdolim was buried alive when her old house wall collapsed on Friday morning.

The incident occurred at 10 am when the woman Romaldina Gonsalves was standing outside her old mud house when the wall suddenly collapsed burying

her under the debris. The woman was rushed to the Primary Health Centre, Curtorim but was declared dead.

Incidentally, the old house of the deceased woman is located barely a few meters away from the new house built by the family.

It is learnt that the deceased was buried inside the debris and locals later lend their helping

Photo by Santosh Mirajkar

hand to clear the debris and remove her out.

Salcete Mamlatdar Paresh Faldessai who visited the spot later in the day said the district administration will provide compensation of Rs 1 lakh to the kin of the deceased woman.

The Maina Curtorim police has registered a case of unnatural death. Further investigations are on.

The Law Department of the State Government has filed a writ petition before Bombay High Court at Goa seeking review of the December 16, 2009 order of the High Court wherein the government was directed to commence construction of the proposed High Court complex at Porvorim within a period of three months.

The petition was taken up for hearing by a Division Bench of Justice N A Britto and Justice F M Ries on Friday afternoon and notices were issued to respondents and hearing was posted for further hearing after two weeks.

Land admeasuring 22,898 square meters was given to law and judiciary department in 1996 for the construction of court complex. The government did not take any initiative in building proposed High Court complex even as the need for additional courts was felt with the increasing number of litigations.

A division bench comprising then chief justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice N A Britto had directed the government to commence the construction of the building within three months from the date of the order.

Parrikar was probed as GSIDC chairman: CBI

Scarlet case: Julio deposes before court HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

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Julio Lobo, a friend of the British minor Scarlet Keeling whose semi-clad body was found on Anjuna beach on the morning of February 19, 2008, made his deposition before Children’s Court on Friday.

Lobo who was initially named accused in the charge-sheet filed by local police, was subsequently absolved of all charges. The case was made over CBI as local police came under fire for shoddy investigation.

Making his deposition as a witness on Friday, Julio told the Court that he had dropped Scarlet at Curlies Shack in Anjuna and later to another eatery in the area where she had gone to meet her friend.

He was supposed to meet her later in the evening and take her home but she was untraceable, he told the Court further adding that she was found dead at the beach on the next morning. The Court is likely to examine one of the eye-witnesses Murli Sagar on the next date of hearing. Murli Sagar was working at Curlies Shack at the time of the incident.

With the Opposition Leader Manohar Parrikar charging that he has been targeted by the ruling Congress-led government through CBI which is currently investigating the alleged irregularities of IFFI 2004 related projects, the CBI claimed that Parrikar was interrogated in the capacity as chairman of the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) in 2004.

“People believe we interrogated Parrikar because he was the Chief Minister of Goa when first IFFI happened. But we questioned him on ground that he was the chairman of GSIDC through which IFFI projects executed,” said a CBI officer who did not wished to be named.

The IFFI 2004 related projects over Rs 100 crore were approved

by GSIDC while Congress MLAs had severely criticised the BJP government and Parrikar in particular for huge IFFI expenditure.

In 2006 Mauvin Godinho, deputy speaker filed a criminal complaint against Parrikar and others at town police station under various sections of the Indian Penal Code relating to forgery, fraudulent transactions,

criminal conspiracy, cheating as also under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The complaint was filed based on the objections raised in the Auditor General of India (CAG) with respect to IFFI 2004 works but that there. It was handed over to CBI in 2007 whereas investigation picked up only this year and Parrikar was called for interrogation.

Since then CBI has interrogated and recorded statements of the core committee members of the IFFI 2004, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat included, said the officer.

Contractors and consultants have also been questioned and senior officials who were with GSIDC in 2004 are also under scanner.

Recently, a high ranking official of the GSIDC who was at the helm of affairs in 2004 but currently posted outside Goa, was summoned for interrogation, said the official.

The investigation is likely to be wound-up in the next twothree months. The list of the accused is likely to be a quite lengthy, hinted the official but declined to divulge any thing more.

Even if CBI completes its probe in the next few months, it will not be free to file charge

sheet immediately.

“The charge-sheet will be filed only after battery of CBI’s legal heads examine our recommendations and will decide whether to proceed with the case or not.

Following which a sanction for prosecution will be obtained but it really takes a very long to get the sanction,” he said.

This means, on completion of the investigation, the local CBI office will submit its recommendations to its higher authorities. It will take decision on the basis of merits of the case.

Meanwhile, Parrikar has won a small battle against CAG. He had alleged that CAG has played into hands of the Congress-Party and had based its findings on wrong assumptions.

The CAG denied him the information which he had sought under the Right to Information Act, which he claimed, will help to prove charges CAG wrong and there was no substance in the allegations made.

He will now able to lay his hands on that information as his appeal has been granted by Central Information Commission wherein CAG authorities have been directed to disclose all information requested by him within two weeks of the receipt of the order.

GU postpones July 5 exams HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

The Goa University has postponed all its examinations scheduled on July 5, 2010, to a later date which will be notified to all colleges separately.

GU Registrar M M Sangodkar said only the examinations of July 5 have been postponed on account of the bandh called to protest price rise. The examinations from the next day onwards will be held as per the original time table, he mentioned.

Sangodkar said the varsity had decided to postpone the examinations of the said date because it didn’t want students to face the consequences of the bandh. Secondly, he mentioned, holding re-examination for one student and hundred of these involved the same amount of work so why take the risk.

The governing council of the Entertainment Society of Goa has approved the draft of the Memorandum of Understanding for the 41st International Film Festival of India 2010, to be held in the State in November.

The council has directed the ESG CEO, Manoj Srivastava to frame guidelines as regards to the film sections, to be handled by the ESG, which include Country Focus, Foreign Retrospective, Indian Premiers, Goa as Celluloid Destination and others.

It may be recalled that some film producers had served legal notice on the ESG during IFFI 2009 challenging the

procedure followed by the ESG in the Indian Premiers section.

Confirming this decision, the Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat who chaired the meeting of the governing council later told the reporters that the MoU would soon be sent to the Directorate of Film Festivals, New Delhi, so that the officials from the State as well as the central government could ink the same.

“We have made no changes in the clauses of the MoU for IFFI 2009 and the new MoU has virtually the same content,” the Chief Minister said, adding that making more demands from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as regards responsibilities to be shouldered by the ESG can sometimes spoil things. “Anyway,

we expect the MoU for the IFFI 2010 to be signed much earlier this year,” he hoped.

Kamat also said that during his visit to New Delhi he would discuss with the officials of the I&B Ministry the possibility of extending the period of the MoU to three years instead of making it an annual feature.

The governing council of the ESG further directed the CEO to present a comprehensive annual calendar of events to be conducted by the ESG, with proper budgetary projections and proposed income as well as expenditure statements and not bring before the council, programmes in piecemeal fashion.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister in-

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

As part of its ongoing revision of electoral rolls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has scheduled special campaign on July 3 and 4 in the State. Gram sabhas will be held in 188 village panchayats on July 4 to allow villagers to raise objections to inclusion of names of the people who are not eligible to figure in the list, told Arvind Bugde, Assistant Chief Electoral Officer, on Friday.

The exercise assumes importance as it would allow people to ensure that names of ineligible persons (those who are not residents of the village) are removed from electoral roll. On

July 3, booth officers will remain present at the booth offices whereas on Sunday they will be seating in gram panchayats to take note of the objections raised in the gram sabha as well as to allow fresh enrolment, said Bugde.

This happened in the past due to lack of awareness among people but they are now being sensitised, he said.

Meanwhile, the ECI has extended time by fifteen days to complete the ongoing revision of electoral rolls. Persons who missed earlier opportunities to register as a voter can now approach electoral booth in their respective areas for enrolment. For fresh enrolment applicant has to fill Form VI. The exercise will be on till July 15 whereas by July 30 all claims and objections will be disposed off. Preparation and printing of supplements will be done by August 16 and final electoral rolls will be out on August 19.

REVISION OF ELECTORAL ROLLS There have been instances in the past of people maintaining their names on electoral rolls at different two places. It is unlawful to retain a name at two different electoral booths and if found guilty such persons could be prosecuted under the Representation of Peoples Act.

MMC cracks whip on illegal garage at Madel HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JULY 2

The Margao Municipal Council on Friday cracked a whip against the garage located in the fields at Madel.

The Municipal action follows a 48-hour deadline served by the GPCC General Secretary Vijay Sardessai to remove the garbage or face the wrath of the residents of Madel.

This morning, a MMC team visited the spot to raze down the structure, but the owner sought some time to clear the illegality.

However, after give some time, the MMC team returned back to the site and raze down a kiosk. The team also disconnected electric supply to the garage.

The garage that was dismantled at Madel by the Margao Municipal Council.

MMC serves notice to builder to remove encroachment on nullah HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JULY 2

Taking serious note of an encroachment on a water nullah at Rawanfond, the Margao Municipal Council on Friday served a notice on a builder to remove the encroachments within seven days or face revocation of a construction license.

The show cause notice comes after a site inspection carried out by the MMC Chairperson Savio Coutinho, Chief Officer Y B Tawde and Municipal engineer Friday morning.

During the inspection, the

State records 72.6 mm of rainfall till date

team observed that the builder has started construction work without obtaining the alignment of the building as per condition one of the license.

Moreover, the team noticed that the building has constructed labour sheds by encroaching on the water nullah existing towards the western side of the plot.

While directing the builder to stop the work forthwith, Chief Officer Y B Tawde has asked the builder to show cause with documentary evidence if any within seven days, failing which the Civic body threatened

to revoke the construction license.

At the ordinary meeting of the Council held on Monday, ward Councilor and former Chairperson Kamlini Painginkar had pointed out that the water nullah at Rawanfond – which bore the brunt of the recent floods – has been encroached by a builder.

I n f a c t , Pa i n g i n ka r h a d pointed out that the width of the water nullah has been narrowed down from five to one meter by the encroachments carried out by the builder.

Photo by Santosh Mirajkar

Naik elected SMC chairperson HERALD CORRESPONDENT BICHOLIM, JULY 2

Anand Naik was on Friday elected chairman of the Sanquelim Municipal Council, while Deelip Desai was elected as the deputy chairman at the elections in the municipal hall at Sanquelim.

It may be recalled that Sunita Verekar and Riyaz Shaikh had earlier tendered their resignations to the post of chairman and the deputy chairman respectively.

Following a mutual agreement, Anand Naik was elected chairman, while Deelip Desai was elected as deputy chairman.

Police asked to remove abandoned vehicles

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

The incessant rains that hit the State on Friday took the total rainfall to 45 inches.

The heavy rains continued to lash the State for the second consecutive day. The Met department recorded 72.6 mm of rainfall for the State on Friday.

The official said that the second spell of monsoon which hit Goa two days back took the total rainfall to 1110.6 mm (45 inches).

City’s low lying areas were inundated with knee deep water troubling the traffic movement. Choked gutters blocked the water from clearing off.

Canacona witnessed the highest amount of rainfall today, with Met department recording 180.0 mm of rainfall. It was followed by Margao (116.4mm), Ponda (104.6mm) and Murmagao (100.8mm).

ESG approves draft of MoU for IFFI HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

Gram sabhas to allow villagers raise objections to ineligible names in list

formed the media that the governing council did not discuss the report prepared by the expert committee as constituted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for improvement of the International Film Festival of India.

“The report is not yet complete,” he added.

Informing that the expert committee had met in Mumbai earlier this week to discuss the modalities about improvement in the IFFI, the Chief Minister said that the committee had, however, recommended some technical changes to be made in the theatres used for the mega film festival. “We are implementing these recommendations,” he pointed out.

During their monitoring and surveillance around Panjim VHAG found that these abandoned vehicles had turned into potential breeding sites for malarial mosquitoes.

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

The Voluntary Health Association of Goa has expressed its unhappiness over Panjim police’s inaction over removal of abandoned vehicles lying close to the Town Police Station and maintained the same were sure breeding sites for malarial mosquitoes on account of water stagnation in them during the current monsoon season.

In a letter addressed to the police inspector VHAG pointed out that during their monitoring and surveillance to check for breeding sites for mosquitoes in Panjim and in surrounding areas it had found that there were quite a few abandoned vehicles lying just opp o s i t e t h e Pa n j i m p o l i c e station. It was observed rains water had accumulated in

these vehicles and the same had turned into potential breeding sites for mosquitoes, it pointed out.

Embarrassingly, the letter further states, “Besides being a breeding site for mosquitoes, the vehicles are an eyesore to the capital city. In addition, they take up valuable parking space and are also a violation of human rights, i.e. they deny the right of the public to walk on the footpath. The public has to walk on the road and are thus gullible to accidents.”

Copies of VHAG’s letter to the Panjim police were also forwarded to the Urban Health Centre, here, Commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panjim and Tiswadi Deputy Collector Sabaji Shetye.

After VHAG’s representation to the town police, the Health Officer at the city’s Urban Health

Centre Pradeep Korgaonkar too made a letter to the Superintendent of Police at the Police Headquarters to clear the vehicles to avoid the outbreak of diseases like malaria, chikungunya, dengue, etc.

Mandrem man missing HERALD CORRESPONDENT PERNEM, JULY 2

A 60-year-old man from Naikwaddo-Mandrem was reported missing from his residence since June 24.

In a complaint, Prabhakar Naik told Pernem police that his father Manohar Ganesh was missing since June 24. Manohar is 5.4 inches in height, fair in complexion and slim.

Any information regarding the whereabouts of Manohar may contact Pernem Police Station.

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CCP to evict shopkeepers sans documents from city market HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

Tightening the noose around illegal vendors in city municipal market, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has decided to evict those shopkeepers who do not have documents to show the allotments.

Talking to Herald, CCP Commissioner Elvis Gomes said that the Corporation will be evicting all those shopkeepers, who fail to provide proper documents of their allotment and occupation.

“There are many tenants who have occupied space in the market illegally. By July 15, they have to approach us with all legal documents. We will be scrutinising all the cases individually,” Gomes said.

As per the CCP’s survey almost 295 sq meters of area is been illegal encroached by the vendors as against 1275 sq meters area allotted by the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC). Interestingly, their names are also not included in the GSIDC list.

CCP’s report has also men-

tioned that more then 100-odd shops in the market, which were occupied at the time of new market complex, are closed.

“We will also be scrutinising this issue. If no one approaches to us proving their ownership over these shops, then the same will be publicly auctioned,” Gomes said.

The Corporation had recently also come out with a notice asking market tenants to pay off their rents as per new market rates of Rs 195 per sq meter as against Rs 30 by July 15. For this an agreement will be signed between CCP and market tenants.

“Till date 50-odd people have approached us with proper documents of allotments and occupation. They have also agreed to sign the revised rent agreement,” commissioner confirmed.

The corporation in their notice had said that market will function without electricity, water and other maintenance if the tenants failed to sign the agreement.

“Since last eight years we have not collected a single pie from

Cong will contest on its own for Valpoi by-polls: Vishwajeet HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, JULY 2

With the Group of Seven (G7) no more existent, Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane who rec e n t l y re s i g n e d f ro m h i s Assembly seat to join Congress has said that his party will go on its own in Valpoi by-elections without expecting support from alliance partners.

Rane was a key member of G7, with Babush Monseratte, MGP legislators Sudin and Dipak Dhavalikar besides three NCP legislators Jose Philip D’Souza, Mickky Pacheco and Nilkanth Halarnkar being the other members.

However due to indifferences within themselves the group seems to be no more existent with all partners choosing their own way.

Sources said that the NCP and the MGP were planning to field their own candidate in the Valpoi by-elections.

Rane, who had won as independent candidate in 2007 elec-

tions, joined Congress last week, said that MGP and NCP is free to put up their own candidates for Valpoi by-elections.

“Anybody is free to put up their own candidate. I am not bothered,” Rane told reporters.

Even as Election Commission is yet to announce the date for by-election, Congress party on Friday admitted BJP’s former candidate from this constituency, Putu Gaonkar, in the party fold.

When asked whether he wants to get elected unopposed, Rane said that he is not concerned about which candidate BJP or any other party fields.

“I have done enough for the constituency. I will get elected on development agenda,” he said.

Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Subash Shirodkar and Chief Minister Digambar Kamat were also present at the Congress House during Gaonkar’s entry into Congress.

market occupants, thus losing huge amount of revenue,” he said.

As per CCP report 458 shops

and stalls and 446 vegetable and flower vendors have occupied space in the market.

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S H O rt tA K e S Rabies awareness held

Surla mine affected farmers want balance relief amount HERALD CORRESPONDENT MAYEM, JULY 2

Civil Defence Medical Officer, Dr Dattaprasad Nagvekar delivering a lecture on Rabies and its treatment at the Police Headquarters for the Home Guard volunteers recently. Also present are John Aguiar and others.

PANJIM(HND): Civil Defence Medical Officer, Dr Dattaprasad Nagvekar said that prevention of human rabies should not only be a community effort involving both veterinary and public health services but a combined effort of all sections of the society.

Dr Nagvekar was delivering a lecture for the Home Guard volunteers of Panaji division on Rabies and treatment at the Police Headquarters recently.

Honorary Company Commander of Home Guards Panaji Division, John Aguiar was also present.

Dr Nagvekar said, an infected animal has the rabies virus in its saliva and can transmit it to a person through a bite. In rare cases, an animal can spread the virus when its saliva comes in contact with a person's mucous membranes (moist skin surfaces, like the mouth or inner eyelids) or broken skin such as a cut, scratch, bruise, or open wound.

Company Commander John Aguiar proposed the vote of thanks.

St Rock’s HS student feted

PANJIM(HND): Shelton Pinto of St Rock’s High School, Tollecanto-Velim, was felicitated by the “People of Chinchinim Trust” for securing the highest percentage (78.8%) among the AVC boys at the SSC examination held in April.

Shelton obtained 92 marks in history and 94 in science.

Nelson Lopes, former headmaster, who was the chief guest at the felicitation function lauded the school for maintaining very high standards of discipline and appreciated the efforts put in by the teachers and the headmistress. He exhorted the students to follow in Shelton’s footsteps.

Flavia Verdes, headmistress, expressed the management and school’s gratitude to Chinchinim Trust for rewarding the student with the award being donated by Benjamin D’Silva.

Shelton also spoke.

Jency Aguiar compered. Amancio Rodrigues proposed the vote of thanks. The programme was attended by PTA members.

Note books, slates distributed

Farmers from Surla-Bicholim, who were affected due to mining activities, have demanded that the State government provide them the balance amount of the financial relief, as directed by the High Court.

It may be recalled that the Goa Bench of Bombay High Court in its order dated August 8, 2007, had directed the concerned mining companies to provide financial assistance of Rs 36.50 crore to around 769 farmers by August 30, 2007.

Accordingly the mining companies deposited the required amount and Deputy Collector Arvind Bugde was appointed to distribute the amount.

“However, till date only an amount of Rs 16,75,041 has been distributed and the bal-

Rego takes charge as Principal Chief Engineer of PWD Joseph Joaquim Santan Rego, who took over as the Principal Chief Engineer of the P u b l i c Works Department of the Goa government on July 2, is an important name in the long list of Goan performers and achievers in the field of engineering. Hard work, constant attempts, continuity in efforts are some of the qualities through which Mr J Rego, during past 34 years, has left his everlasting imprint on various ambitious projects.

The performance of Mr Rego during the period between September 29, 1976 and July 1, 2010 clearly points out the scope and expanse of his work.

Mathematics being his favourite subject during the school and college days, he had decided to make a career in a field related to numbers. The teachings of his parents that hard work and efforts has no alternative, made Rego choose a field which demanded hard work. Beginning his career as a junior engineer, Mr Rego subsequently took over various responsibilities and carried them out successfully.

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PANJIM(HND): Giants Group of Panaji visited Government Primary School in Chincholem, Bhatlem Panjim and distributed note books and slates to students. Sanjay Gaonkar, group president, Rajan Kamat, Rajesh Kamat Tarcar, Pradip Naik, Shailesh Phaldesai, Rohidas Vaingankar, Raju Chodankar other office bearers were present on the occasion says a press release.

ance amount has remained without distribution,” said Surla Gram Kruti Samiti member Uday Natekar.

“Chief Minister Digambar Kamat during his recent visit to Surla had assured the villagers to solve the matter within 15 days, but in vain,” said Natekar.

Meanwhile, when Deputy Collector Narayan Gaad was intimated, he assured to look into the matter as early as possible

by taking up the matter with the senior officials.

It may be noted that a land admeasuring 1,090 hectares owned by the villagers from Deulwada, Gaonkarwada, Ghadiwada, Baye, Bhailifaal, Kadshal, Khodgini and surrounding areas was destroyed due to mining from 1993 to 2004, as per the committee report, which was prepared by former agriculture director R G Joshi.

There will be restricted water supply to Calangute, Candolim, Baga, Arpora, Anjuna, Parra and Nagoa on July 3 due to breakdown of 300mm main pipeline from Assonora Water Treatment Plant to Palmarinha Hotel, Calangute.

ESI dispensary shifted

Goenchea Ramponkarancho Ekvott at its monthly meeting held at its head office at Cansaulim strongly condemned the price hike in petroleum products announced by the Centre recently and demanded that the same be rolled back immediately. It was also resolved to obser ve a bandh on July 5 protesting against the decision of the Central government, says a press release issued here.

“The hike in petroleum prices will have a spiraling effect that would result in a general hike in prices of everything and this will affect the people from all stratas of society,” said Matanhy Saldanha, GRE General Secretary who also pointed out that prices only keep going up and never come down.

Speaking specifically of the fishing community, the increase in kerosene prices will adversely affect the traditional fishermen the most as their scale of activity is small since they use canoes fitted with outboard motors with less than 10 horse power which are run on kerosene.

The press release states further, as it is, the traditional fishermen are forced to purchase the kerosene from the black market and with this increase, the prices will be prohibitive for them to carry on their occupation to sustain their families, he

argued.

“Although the Congress keeps saying that it is for the common man, its policies are against the common man and result in greatest hardships to the poor and marginalized sections,” he said.

It would be pertinent to point out that barely a fortnight ago, GRE delegation had called on the Fisheries Minister Joaquim Alemao urging him to increase the subsidy provided by the government to the fishing industry.

“Instead of giving us some relief, the Congress led government has further burdened us by increasing the prices of petroleum products,” he said adding that the increase in subsidy will now have to be substantial to set off the increase in petroleum prices.

The GRE has appealed to all fishermen across the State not to sell any fish on July 5 up to 5 pm to register their protest against the hike in petroleum prices and appealed to all other sections including vegetable and fruit vendors to co-operate and stay off the markets on that day.

“If the government does not roll back the hike in petroleum prices, we shall intensify our agitation so that the marginalized traditional sector of the fishing industry gets relief,” Matanhy added.

PORVORIM(HC): St. Bridget’s Institute at Aldona, a project of Caritas-Goa, will conduct a government certified ‘Home Nursing Course’ consisting of theory and with emphasis on practicals. Placements for the nurses on completion of their training are provided. Applicants should have a minimum qualification of SSC (failed/passed) and should be at least 18 years.

Hostel facilities are available only to girls from distant places at a minimum fee. Further details are available on Ph: 2293160 from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm and 3.00 – 5.00 p.m.

Vice–Chancellor Of Goa University, Prof Deelip Deobagkar inaugurating an exhibition on Homoeopathy – A Medical Approach & Its History at Kala Academy, Campal on Friday. Also present are Dr Arvind Kothe, Principal – SKHMC, Shiroda, Prof Martin Dinges of Robert Bosch Institute, Germany, Dr Klaus Holzapfel, Co-Editor, Journal of Classical Homoeopathy, Germany and Dr K P Muzumdar, former director, National Institute of Homoeopathy.

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Vice Chancellor of Goa University, Dr Deelip Deobagkar said there is need to integrate new approach and technologies in homoeopathy system of medicine to make it more effective, result oriented and acceptable by the people.

The Vice Chancellor was speaking as chief guest after inaugurating a two day exhibition on Homoeopathy- a medical approach and its history, an initiative of Institute of History of Medicine Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany at Kala Academy in the city on Friday.

The exhibition is being organized by Kamaxidevi Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Shiroda. It will remain open for the public from 10 am to 8 pm till July 3.

Emphasizing the need for

proper scientific approach to make people understand and accept any innovative science Dr Deobagakar said people often hesitate to adopt it. It is therefore necessary to make people aware and get acquainted with its positive results.

Dr Deobagakar said there is a need to change the mindset of the people and make them knowledgeable about the positive effects of homoeopathy therapy. This can be achieved by creating greater awareness by holding workshops, exhibition and other awareness p ro g r a m m e s . H e c o m p l i mented the organizers for their initiative in holding the exhibition.

The Vice Chancellor also suggested the need for studies to be taken up on the lines of Nano Technology for better effect of homoeopathy.

Prof Martis Dinges of Robert Bosch Institute Homoeopathy, Germany who is the brain child behind organizing the exhibition explained the activities of the institute in homoeopathy.

Presently studies on various aspects of Homoeopathy are being conducted and expressed the hope that this exhibition will go a long way in creating much needed awareness among the masses about basics of homoeopathy and to make it popular.

Dr K P Muzumdar, Director(Former) National Institute of Homoeopathy and Dr Klaus Holzapfel, Co- Editor, Journal of Classical Homoeopathy, Germany were present on the occasion.

Earlier, Dr Arvind Kothe, Principal SKHMC and H Shiroda welcomed and Sonali Chodankar, General Secretary, Students Council proposed the vote of thanks.

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Home Minister Ravi Naik along with the Goa team which won the second place at the 4th All India DanceSport championshp held recently at New Delhi. Goa won 3 gold and 1 silver medals. Dr Martin/Flossy won gold medal for standard 5 dance category (waltz, tango, fox trot, viennese waltz and quick step), Jason/Aishwarya won gold medal for standard 3 dance category (waltz, tango and Viennese waltz) and Bhavin/Dr Xiyan won gold medal for 1 dance category (waltz) and Jeethan/Dr Berthaline won silver medal in Latin.

NCSTC invites applications Applications are invited for “Rajat Jayanti Vigyan Sanchalak Fellowships” instituted by NCSTC, Department of Science and Technology, (DST), Government of India from aspirant Science Communicators involved in science awareness activities and with good academic record.

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Nursing course

NSS unit opened at St Xavier’s

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GRE condemns hike in petroleum products

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PANJIM(HND): The ESI Dispensary at Panaji, will be temporarily shifted at Premila Smruti Building, 1st floor, behind Head Post Office, Panjim.

All the public as well as insured persons and their beneficiaries should take note, says a press release.

The North Goa Tourist Taxi Owners Association (NGTTOA) have decided to extend its support to the Bharat Bandh called by the opposition parties on July 5 to protest against the recent hike in petroleum products.

“The call for the 'Bharat Bandh' is a genuine one and we the taxi owners of the NGTTOA roof have decided to extend our full support and co-operation. All the 700-odd taxi owners under the NGTTOA have decided to remain off the road on the bandh day,” NGT TOA General Secretary Vinayak Nanoskar told Herald.

“Petroleum products have been hiked time and again by the Central government with no relief for the Aam Admi, thus eating into our business. So it is time to say ‘enough is enough’ by extending our support to the 'Bharat Bandh',” Nanoskar added.

Need for new approach in homeopathy: Dr Deobagkar

Valentine’s Day, a tiatr on true love Valentines Day, a mega hit show with a super hit story and mindboggling comedy, written and directed by Milagres De Chandor.

This tiatr showcases an unique opening scene, the recess stunt and the last scene captures the mind of thousands of audiences, says a press release. Valentine day is a moralistic tiatr especially for true lovers and a must for parents. The tiatr gives a clear cut message to the youth on true love.

The tiatr portrays a message to all man who stay at home without employment and enjoy pleasures from the income of their wives working abroad. The story revolves around Hazel, a perfect model for true lovers.

The tiatr includes a mind boggling comedy by Selvyn-Ben and sally. The songs of the tiatr with trios, duets and solos are a icing on the cake sung by Xavier Gomes, Lawry, Toney de Ribandar, Baba Ceallo, Rons, Hayzel and the trio by Ben-Tony-Selvy as Goa’s models, adds the press release.

Music is provided by Manu Maestri. Valentine’s Day will be held on July 3 at 7.30 pm at Panjim and July 4 at 3.30 pm at GVN, Margao.

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HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, JULY 2

Restricted water supply Group president of Giants Group, Sanjay Gaonkar distributing note books and slates to students.

nHowever, till date only an amount of Rs 16,75,041 has been distributed and the balance amount has remained without distribution,” said Surla Gram Kruti Samiti member Uday Natekar. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat during his recent visit to Surla had assured the villagers to solve the matter within 15 days, but in vain.

NGTTOA to support bandh on July 5

The candidates below 35 years with a graduation or higher degree in science, engineering, medical science, agriculture, information technology, mass comm u n i c a t i o n e t c , f ro m a recognized university are eligible to apply for the same. The one year fellowship is fulltime and cannot be taken up with any other assignment. The selected

candidate has to work under the supervision of the Member Secretary, Goa State Council for Science and Technology.

Interested candidates can contact, Chief Scientist and Member Secretar y, GSCST Phone 0832-2407187/189 or D e e p a k Pa r a b – M o b i l e 9673245131 latest by July 8 for details.

The inaugural function of the NSS Unit of St Xavier’s HSS, Mapusa was held recently in the college premises.

The programme began with the lighting of the lamp by the chief guest Ana Maria Dsouza, former deputy sarpanch of Calangute village panchayat, Brian Duarte, Vice Principal of Vocational Stream and Rita Leena Dsilva, NSS Programme Officer.

Brian Duarte in his address congratulated the NSS volunteers for stepping ahead to undertake community work under the National Service Scheme.

The chief guest encouraged the young NSS volunteers by sharing her experience as a social worker provided tips to work for the welfare of the School and State in general.

Earlier, Rita DSilva read the report of the NSS activities conducted during the year 2009 10. A short cultural programme was presented by the NSS volunteers.

The function was attended by the Programme Officers Shevanti Naik, Nirmala Barretto, Annite Lobo, Niddhi Falari, Siddhi Mahambrey, Belinda Velho, Vikrant Dhulaji and Vijay Parab, says a press release.

Felicitation function

QUEPEM(HC): The Navyug Vikas Manch, Quepem, will felicitate SSC students, who have passed out in the recent SSC results.

The Manch will felicitate the students at a special function at Quepem Municipal Council (QMC) Garden Square on July 4 at 10 am.

All the students of the three government schools, which have achieved 100% results, Government High School Ambaulim, Gonvol-Khola and Maina-Canvorem, will be presented with specially crafted medal, merit certificate and books, while the teachers will be presented with a special memento with their names engraved on it.

The first three top rankers in SSC exams from each school in Quepem constituency will also be felicitated.

Students from Quepem constituency studying in other schools outside Quepem will be honoured by Quepem MLA and President of Navyug Vikas Manch Quepem Chandrakant Kavlekar.

Navyug Vikas Manch Quepem has taken the step to boost the confidence and express gratitude towards the teachers of the school, who are dedicating their valuable time for the progress of the students.

Director of Education Dr Celsa Pinto will be the chief guest, while Deputy Director of Education will be guest of honour for the function.

Yeshwant r N Kurade: Man of moral principles Dr Jose de Sousa

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itting on the edge of my favourite window, facing the vast sea green ocean of our holiday home in South Goa, engrossed in the routine weekend introspection exercise, I soon realized that my friend of long association since childhood, Yeshwant R.N. Kurade, who passed away a couple of weeks back, would have completed 90 years of eventful existence on 4 July.

That life made up of hard work, dedication and generosity was governed by s t ro n g m o r a l principles, dictated by integrity of character and sincerity. A self made gentleman, - “rien n’apprit qui rien na’a souffert” – he fought and came out victorious in all vicissitudes from his childhood and yet, he succeeded so well in life.

Mr. Kurade started his career working with FORD company in Mumbai in mid 30’s for a brief spell. With the little capital saved from hard work, he started a grocery shop in Carmona, at a time when ravages of II World war were still present. Then, he entered in transport business with a ‘caminhao’, being one of the pioneers of the Cavelossim-Margao route. And within few years, with a fore-

sight, he bought a second ‘caminhao’, a sumptuous one, which he introduced in the long route of Vasco to Sanquem. Later, he introduced buses from Canancona to Margao.

Well-settled by then, Mr. Kurade started one of the earliest petrol pumps in the heart of Margao, Kurade Pump, his ultimate success in business, having been a veteran and respected Petroleum dealer for over 60 years. And as he was depending on tankers for safety and quality delivery of petroleum products, he started his Shubhalaxmi Transport of tankers.

Hailing from Cuncolim, he was settled in Margao.

Highly religious, always on the move to visit holy places and temples, with offerings and taking part in festivities with gaiety, he was open to all religious creeds.

For a long time, he was supplying oil for the lamp of Carmona Church, where he was staying nearby. And he would always light candles wherever he would find a cross, closely being attached to the Holy Cross chapel of Volvoi, near his residence at Margao.

Once, Mr. Kurade celebrated the feast of St. Christopher, Patron of Travellers, at Navelim Church with pomp. And his daughter offered a mass in the Margao church on 12th day of his remembrance.

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HRD Delhi team visits govt schools in Canacona taluka

The Government high school at Sadolxem. Headmaster Ulhas Pai Bhatikar (extreme right) explains the school’s teamwork to the visiting MHRD Delhi team as Director of Education Dr Celsa Pinto watches.

Photo by Kathy Pereira HERALD CORRESPONDENT CANACONA, JULY 2

A team from the Ministry of Human Resources Development from New Delhi recently visited three government schools in this Canacona taluka, including the one at Sadolxem, often labeled as model school in the State.

MHRD Secretary Anshu Vaish and Additional Secretary Anita Kaul visited the Government High School (Sadolxem) as well as the Government Primary Schools at Gulem and Kindlebhag.

Director of Education Dr Celsa Pinto, Deputy Director of Education Anil Pawar, Director CCRT Nagraj, Assistant Director (South

ACAZ to hold talk for SSC students HERALD CORRESPONDENT CALANGUTE, JULY 2

The Animator Catechetical Association Zone (ACAZ) will organize a motivation talk for SSC students of Calangute deanery on Saturday at Joseph's High School, Calangute, from 3.30 pm onwards.

Fr Daniel Pereira of the Diocesan Lay Apostolate will deliver a talk on ‘Grow in Christian faith, Witness Christian values’. Students of catholic Schools in the deanery, St Joseph's High School (Arpora), Little Flower of Jesus High School (Calangute), St Joseph's High School (Calangute), St Theresa's High School (Candolim), Chubby Cheeks High School (Pilerne), Don Bosco High School (Calangute), Don Bosco Institution (Calangute) and Lourdes Convent High School (Saligao) have been invited for the talk.

The Motivation talk is being held by the ACAZ under the leadership of its Animator Fr Clifford Cardozo, Secretary Damian Simoes and Members Nelta Fernandes and Domnic Pereira.

Zone) Silvia D’Souza, Deputy Education Officer Jangam, Canacona ADEIs and BRC’s of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Canacona were the other officers from Goa that accompanied the Delhi delegation.

The visit by the Delhi team is reportedly to study the functioning of government schools especially in rural villages of the country.

The delegates have reportedly visited the high school at Sadolxem as a sample school and had a minute observation of the school’s functioning, its overall cleanliness, neatness and infrastructure at the school.

According to school sources

at Sadolxem, the visiting team from Delhi appreciated the school’s various set up including the learning avenues offered to the students and congratulated the school headmaster, staff and students for the excellent performance.

The delegates also commented about the positive inv o l v e m e n t o f P TA a n d surrounding community to uplift the school.

According to Sadolxem Headmaster Ulhas Pai Bhatikar, the delegates took keen interest in the functioning of school’s close circuit cameras and sought a demonstration of the equipment.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT SANGUEM, JULY 2

Josephine Fernandes has been elected sarpanch of Kurdi-Wadem Panchayat by 4-3 votes at a special meeting in the panchayat.

The elections to elect the new sarpanch followed from the resignation of former sarpanch Arun Matkar in accordance with a mutual understanding among panchas in the seven-member panchayat.

Though according to the mutual understanding, Kushta Goankar was to be elected as Sarpanch, but differences cropped up among some ruling members headed by Gauri Gaonkar, where Gauri Gaonkar’s group allegedly had plans to elect Gauri Gaonkar as sarpanch in place of Kushta Gaonkar.

After learning of plans by the ruling group, Kushta Gaonkar decided to teach the group a lesson b y f o re g o i n g h i s t e r m t o Josephine Fernandes. During the elections held for the post Kushta Gaonkar, Prashant Gaonkar and Arun Matkar supported the candidature of Josephine Fernandes.

It is for the second time that Josephine Fernandes is now elected to the post of sarpanch during the current term of five years.

After the elections, allegations were cast by Gauri Gaonkar and her group against Josephine Fernandes for allegedly distributing money to some panchayat members.

‘No work get pay’ at MMC HERALD REPORTER VASCO, JULY 2

The doctrine of ‘No work, no pay’ is a fundamental axiom in industrial relations, but the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) sometimes adopts the doctrine ‘No work, get pay’.

A 55-year-old MMC gardener probably enjoying best of his employment days at a time where hundreds of youth are still struggling to find a suitable job.

Ulhas Padval reports to work every day and relaxes outside the Chief Officer’s (CO) cabin, doing virtually nothing.

According to sources, the MMC, on the basis of a complaint by an influential former chairperson, has punished him by asking him to seat outside the CO’s cabin.

“Since the last 15 days, I am seating idle outside the CO’s cabin without any work,” said angry gardener Ulhas Padval.

“My attendance is considered and I am getting my salary. Some councilor has used influence to punish him mainly because of a personal grudge,” Padval added.

Incidentally, Padval claims he was victimized earlier as well when he was shifted to

work at the crematorium, despite being aware that he has been working as a gardener for last three decades.

When contacted, Chief Officer Gopal Parsekar said some

councilors had complained that Padval was irregular at the garden and that he is one of the most undisciplined workers in the council.

Former councilor Carlos Almeida said that since the

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Forest officials along with locals try to locate pug marks of leopard.

Photo by Amresh Parab

were visible. They searched in all the probable locations but there was no clue of pug marks.

The rains may have washed t h e m a w a y, ” s a i d S a n ke t Kavlekar of the Animal Rescue Squad.

“There have been incidences where people had reported missing domestic animals.

gardener is close of an MLA, he is being victimized by a rival politician.

“The council administration has not followed the procedure to punish him. He should

Punished gardener Ulhas Padval of Mormugao Municipal Council while seen seating outside the CO office in MMC building.

Photo by M Prabhav

Ramnathi residents voice concern over leopard’s presence Residents of Ramnathi have expressed concern over reports of a leopard on the prowl.

A few days ago, villagers had claimed to have cited leopard and this has prompted forest officials to investigate the matter.

Villagers along with officials from the Bondla wildlife sanctuary searched the Ramnathi hillock on Wednesday but could not find any pug marks in the area.

It may be recalled that last year, residents had claimed to have sighted a leopard and pug marks where also located in fields.

Recently, a trap was laid in the premises of GMV’s institute after the staff claimed to have identified pug marks. However, this effort to nab the wild cat also proved futile.

“I got to know from villagers of the presence of a leopard and I contacted the Bondla Wildlife officials. However no pug marks

Josephine elected sarpanch of Kurdi p’yat

Though I haven’t seen the leopard, but I feel the animal could be in the area,” he added.

S a i d Tu ka r a m G a u d e , a farmer: “We can’t stay away from farming even though the leopard may be in the area. Many farmers have seen the wild cat and even domestic animals have been killed by the animal.”

Surveillance cameras at MMC remains a distant dream Civic body yet to prepare estimates

HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JULY 2

Surveillance cameras intended to bring employees under scanner is a non-starter at the Margao Civic body.

It’s exactly a month since Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat announced that surveillance cameras will track the movement of Civic employees remains a distant dream.

In fact, inquiries have only revealed that the Civic body has till date not even prepared the estimates, leave alone floating tender to install the surveillance cameras.

Incidentally, the Chief Minister had made the announcement that the cameras will be put in place within a month’s time based on the assurance given by the Civic body. In fact, Kamat had called for installing surveillance cameras not only in the Margao Civic body, but in all the government offices to keep a check on the employees.

It is learnt that a private firm, which had evinced interest to

n Incidentally, the CM had made the announcement that the cameras will be put in place within a month’s time based on the assurance given by the Civic body. In fact, Kamat had called for installing surveillance cameras not only in the Margao Civic body, but in all the government offices to keep a check on the employees. install the surveillance cameras and the monitoring system, have not got back after showing initial interest to put the cameras in place A total of 29 cameras are required to cover the entire Civic body to maintain a vigil on the employees. The entire system may cost the Civic body around more than Rs 1 lakh, sources said.

Municipal officials said the Civic body would pursue the matter with the contractor and if required would even approach any other agency to ensure the surveillance cameras are in place

GOACAN’s road safety drive at Nuvem

BY HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JULY 2

In continuation of the Road Safety Week, GOACAN organised an awareness action at Nuvem to caution motorists and riders on the importance of wearing seats belts, helmets, and maintaining speed limits.

Volunteers displayed banners and carried placards with various messages on Road Safety and Traffic Management.

During the awareness action it was noticed that in many cases where drivers were using seat belts, the co-passengers were not using the same and they were surprised to know that the co-passengers must also use the seat belt. Some other drivers who were under the impression that seat belts need to be used only on Highways, were instructed that seat belts must be used at all times for their

safety.

Also a number of motorcycle riders were found wearing the helmet without fastening the helmet strap and were cautioned that such a practice was unsafe, as in case of an accident, the helmet would be detached from the rider.

During the awareness action it was observed that drivers of vehicles of various Goa Government Departments as well as some of the Goa Police were found not using seat belts. In this connection GOACAN has decided to write to S. K. Srivastava, Chief Secretary, Govt of Goa as well as to Bhim Sain Bassi, Director General of Police that the drivers of vehicles of the Government departments and the Police must use the seat belts. Moreover the Directors and Senior officers using the vehicles must take responsibility and instruct the drivers to act

Bicholim family escape tree crash

be served with a show-cause notice or a memo. He cannot be simply punished like that.

Moreover, he is being paid a salary for nothing and this is not good trend,” added Almeida.

Antao is Guirdolim sarpanch

BY HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, JULY 2

Jose Antao was unanimously elected Sarpanch of the Guirdolim Village Panchayat at a specially convened meeting held on June 30 The vacancy of Sarpanch arose in the Panchayat following the resignation of Elssie Diniz who held the office since the general Panchayat elections.

While the outgoing Sarpanch Elssie Diniz proposed Mr. Antao’s name, Deputy Sarpanch Sanjay Zambodkar seconded it.

All the seven members of the Panchayat were present for the meeting. Antao was declared elected unopposed as there was no other candidate in the fray.

AOVP in the Block Developmenet Office, J K Chari was the Presiding officer.

Antao who has earned the reputation of personally supervising the works in his ward, said he would strive to make the village clean and green.

Bicholim fire personnel clear the tree that fell on a house at Harijanwada-Bicholim.

Photos by Vishant Vaze HERALD CORRESPONDENT MAYEM, JULY 2

A family had a lucky escape when a jackfruit tree came crashing down on their house at Harijanwada-Bicholim recently.

Sagun Ramgo Parwar and his family had barely gone to sleep, when they heard a loud noise and rushed out of the house. Moments later, the tree fell on their house, damaging two rooms and causing a loss of about Rs 40,000.

Bicholim fire brigade personnel informed that they managed to avoid further loss to property.

The fire brigade team was led

by SFO Laxman Naik.

Meanwhile, the Parwar family has requested the Bicholim Mamlatdar and deputy collector to cut the remaining portion of the tree, which is endangering the lives of the people.

The affected villagers, who have lost their houses due to

uprooting of trees during the monsoons, have also requested authorities to provide immediate financial assistance.

Mandrem sarpanch resigns HERALD CORRESPONDENT PERNEM, JULY 2

Mandrem sarpanch Mahesh Konadkar has tendered his resignation from the post citing personal reasons.

In his resignation letter to the Pernem Block Development Officer, Konadkar cited personal reasons, which compelled him to quit the office.

Sources informed that Konadkar was asked by the ruling panchas to step down to pave way for Deputy Sarpanch Raksha Kalshavkar.

Hike in paddy support price likely to attract more farmers in Canacona HERALD CORRERSPONDENT CANACONA, JULY 2

The government’s declaration of increased support price to paddy from this year has given hope to more farmers to resume Kharif cultivation in Canacona taluka this year.

According to Agriculture Department sources, the government has increased the support price for paddy from Rs 5 per

kilo to Rs 7 per kilo.

This seems to have spruced up more farmers to take-up paddy cultivations during this kharif season in Canacona and if agriculture sources are to be believed, over 2500 hectares of paddy fields in Cotigao, Gaondongrim, Shristhal (Nuem, Gulem, Asali, Vaizawado), besides part of Poinguinim, are likely to be taken up for paddy

cultivation this year.

Different variety of paddy seeds such as Jaya, Jyoti, KarzIII, MO-17(Revthi) are sold at a subsidised rate of Rs 12/-per kilo, while government tractors are available for 50% subsidy rates at Rs 125 per hour for ploughing works, while power tillers are available at Rs 82 per hour.

According to Zonal Agriculture Officer Rajesh Dessai, those who

had availed of government subsidy while purchasing tractors/powertillers and are renting out the same to the benefit of other farmers, can also get subsidy available at the government rate.

The ZAO also informed that subsidy is also extended to ST farmers on purchase of fertilizers.

Farmers taking up cultivations of chilly/vegetables, besides

at the earliest.

It is not out of place to mention here that the Margao Civic body had a brief experiment with the biometric finger scan reader, but the system was abandoned following protests by the Civic employees.

The bio-metric reader is presently lying idle after the Chief Minister last year directed the Civic body to keep the system in abeyance. In fact, the Chief Minister told the Civic body that there’s no need of the biometric reader anymore after the surveillance cameras are put in place.

small nurseries on hilly/sloppy areas can reap the ‘Jalkund scheme’ benefits, where each farmers are paid around Rs 17,000.

Under the Jalkund scheme, farmers have to dig a pit of 4 metre length, 2 metre width and 1.5 metre depth to harvest rain water for their cultivation and protect it from animals and children by erecting lamp posts and

Silpaulin (supplied by the government free of cost).

Cashew grafts of Vengurla-4 and Vengurla-7 are also available at Rs 8 per graft and the department is providing door delivery for the same.

According to ZAO Dessai, 6,000 grafts, which are sufficient for 200 hectares, are already given away till date in Canacona.

accordingly so that the Goa Government sets an example, by leading from the front in matters of Road Safety.

The Awareness action was undertaken with the joint support of the Directorate of Transport represented by Asst. Motor Veh i c l e I n s p e c t o r s Fr a n c i s Quadros, Vinay Alve & Sohan Naik and the Goa Traffic Police represented by M.K. Dessai – ASI, Damodar Mistry - Head Constable & constable Apa Satpalkar.

Meanwhile GOACAN will promote the scheme of Traffic Wardens in Managing Traffic and highlight the dangers of using Non-ISI mark fake helmets for Road Safety during the Week by organising special actions.

Shirgao panel to build temple at tree crash site HERALD CORRESPONDENT BICHOLIM, JULY 2

The Shirgao Devasthan committee has decided to build a new small temple and plant a new sapling at the site, where the banyan tree fell due to heavy rains recently.

Speaking to Herald, Shirgao Devasthan committee President Digambar Gaonkar said the place where the tree fell had religious importance.

“The tree was about 500 years old and had religious importance from the point of view of the famous Shirgao jatra,” said Gaonkar.

“We knew that it was about to fall, but when we took blessings of the goddess (prasad), we were told not to harm it, so we did not try to cut it,” added Gaonkar.

“The tree fell on Friday night on the day of Vatapoornima without harming anyone and later after consulting the goddess, we allowed the fire brigade officials to cut it,” he said.

The tree was the place under which the fire pyre (Homkund) was placed on the day of the jatra. The devotees would cross the fire on the occasion. It also withstood these flames of the Homkund every year.

After the tree fell, all the mahajans called a meeting and persons from homkhund community at first chopped some of the wood and later the task was handed over to the fire brigade.

The fire brigade officials worked tirelessly for the entire day on Monday and were able to clear half of the debris. “It will take another one or two days to clear the entire area,” a fire force official told Herald.

The devasthan committee has now decided to renovate the area. It is also decided to build a small temple of the goddess Homkund and plant a sapling of a banyan tree on some auspicious occasion.

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Upcoming monsoon session of parliament will be ‘stormy’: BJP PTI CHENNAI, JULY 2

BJP today said the upcoming monsoon session of the Parliament would be made a “stormy” one and that it would coordinate with other opposition parties to “corner” the government on fuel price hike and price rise.

Senior BJP leader M Venkiah Naidu told reporters here that the July five nation-wide strike called by his party was aimed at "opening the eyes" of the government to the sufferings of people.

“We will also confront the government in the parliament during the monsoon session. We will corner the government and coordinate with other opposition parties (for this purpose).

It will be a stormy session,” he said.

Instead of “redrawing its taxation policy” on petroleum products, the Centre is just passing

the burden on common man and the hike in fuel prices will have a cascading effect on prices of essential commodities, Naidu added.

The Congress-led UPA has “failed on every front,” including checking the Maoist menace, he alleged.

Asked about BJP's ties with JD(U) in Bihar, he said the combine had been giving good governance and “we will fight elections together.”

“No conditions have been put to us by JD (U) leaders as reported in a section of media," he said.

Ties between the two parties had strained recently when JD (U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took exception to an advertisement showing him joining hands with his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi.

Rope in army to fight Naxals. says Sushma PTI RAIPUR, JULY 2

Leader of opposition Sushma Swaraj today said that the BJP will pressurise the Centre to rope in the army to fight Naxals in the affected areas.

“BJP leadership wants that services of army should be used in the Naxal-hit areas of the country to thereby put an end to the problem,” Sushma told reporters at a press conference here.

The senior BJP leader was in the district to participate in the price rise protests.

There are no two-views in the BJP over the Naxal menace and the party will pressurise the Centre in the upcoming monsoon session to utilise the army in the extremists-hit areas, Sushma said. “ Sushma also paid tributes to the slain jawans and said that the killings of paramilitary forces in the State should be stopped.

Children carry harvested paddy on their head at Dalgoan, about 105 kms from Guwahati on Friday.

Nine held in murder case PTI

MUMBAI, JULY 2

Nine persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Farid Tanasha, suspected henchmnan of the Chhota Rajan gang, police sources said today.

“Nine persons have been apprehended and some more have been detained for the murder of Tanasha,” the sources said.

Tanasha was shot dead on June 2 by two sharp shooters who fired five bullets from their two 7.65 revolvers from a close range inside his house in Tilak Nagar Colony building at suburban Chembur.

Uproarious scenes in West Bengal House PTI KOLKATA, JULY 2

The West Bengal assembly today witnessed uproarious scenes with Opposition Trinamool Congress demanding resignation of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, accusing him of misleading the House on killing of former CPI(M) MLA Ananda Das. TC member and opposition leader Partha Chatterjee claimed the chief minister, who charged the Mamata Banerjee-led party with the killing, had misled the House. He warned the party is contemplating a privilege motion against Bhattacharjee.

Chatterjee said the June 29 killing of the former legislator was an “example of failure of police and Bhattacharjee who is the minister in-charge of the department.”

He alleged that police had failed to make headway in the probe into “killing of 300 Trinamool Congress and Congress workers including in Singur and Nandigram.”

Earlier, the entire Trinamool Congress bench led by Chatterjee came down to the well with placards reading 'Go away Buddha -- leader of political clashes', 'Killer Buddha go

away' and 'Buddha resign'.

Slogan-shouting Trinamool members also encircled Speaker H A Halim's table demanding they be allowed to speak.

Chatterjee claimed that the killing of Das was a fallout of factional feud in the CPI(M) and rivalry with RSP, a major Left Front constituent.

Later speaking to reporters, CLP leader and WBPCC President Manas Bhuniya also accused the chief minister of misleading the House and ashed him to quit his Home (Police) department as he was “overburdened”.

Bhuniya “ruled out” the hand of any Opposition party in Das' killing and demanded a CBI investigation into it.

Bhuniya claimed the transfer of Birbhum Superintendent of Police Rabindranath Mukherjee, which the chief minister had announced in the House yesterday, was in violation of a Supreme Court order and administrative procedure.

He charged that when Congress MLAs were attacked at Mangalkot in Burdwan district last year, no action was taken against the then SP R Rajshekharan despite several complaints against him.

‘Jharkhand guv should suggest dissolution’ PTI JAMSHEDPUR, JULY 2

Jharkhand Governor M O H Farook should recommend for dissolution of state assembly as no party has yet come forward to stake claim for government, BJP’s state unit President Raghuvar Das said today.

Though one month has already elapsed, no party or alliance staked claim to form a government in Jharkhand.

Hence, the governor should recommend for dissolution of the State assembly without any further lapse of time to pave way for fresh elections, Das told a press conference here.

To a query whether BJP would take initiative to form a government, Das said his party has taken a clear stand and demanded for dissolution of the state assembly first.

Das refused to comment when asked about the recent JMM statement that it would rethink to form a government in case any national party took initiative in this regard.

Criticising the UPA government’s decision to hike the prices of petroleum products, the former deputy chief minister said it has badly affected the masses in general and the poorer section in particular.

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Divine Cult or Divine Solution?

Vol No CX No: 170 Goa, Saturday 3 July, 2010

KTC’s perennial penury

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here are no easy ways out for the Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC), Goa’s state-owned transport service, which is mired deeply in the red. The KTC’s new chairperson, Priol MGP MLA Deepak Dhavalikar, has come up with a slew of proposals that he says will pull up the beleaguered corporation by the bootstraps. The new boss seems to have done his homework. His analysis of the corporation’s finances reveals that on average, the KTC earns Rs18 per kilometre, but spends Rs30 per kilometre every day, giving a stupendous loss of Rs12 per kilometre per day. This means that the corporation recovers only 60 per cent of its costs through its revenues.

This is bad, but not awful. A study done in 2004 by two researchers from Rutgers University of New Jersey in the USA jointly with an officer of the Indian Railways reveals that bus transport systems in most large cities in India cover about 70 to 90 per cent of their operating costs. The KTC does better than Kolkata’s bus transport system, for example, which covers only 42 per cent of its costs through passenger fares. However Delhi (72 per cent), Mumbai (80 per cent) and Hyderabad (92 per cent) do much better. Bangalore is India’s only metropolitan bus transport system that is actually profitable (105 per cent).

It is clear, therefore, that passenger bus transport operations, for the most part, do not break even. This is something that the Goa government needs to recognise. Like it or not, it is going to have to subsidise the KTC to some extent.

Meanwhile, however, let us see the secrets of those bus services that do well. Mumbai’s BEST not only runs a transport service but also provides electricity to most of South Mumbai.

The profits from the electricity distribution operations not only subsidise the bus service, but leave a small surplus. As far as both Hyderabad and Bangalore are concerned, their corporations contract bus services to private companies (mostly IT outfits) at attractive commercial hire rates, accounting for their better overall performance.

Mr Dhavalikar would do well to study the more successful transport systems in other parts of the country before he comes up with ‘solutions’ for Kadamba’s plight. Some of the measures he has suggested make eminent sense, especially centralising the spares operations, but others do not. Neither buying ticket vending machines for the buses nor introducing an extra stop for the non-stop shuttles is going to yield anything significant. The former, in fact, will only make a bigger hole in the corporation’s coffers.

Kadamba’s basic problem is inefficiency and corruption.

Its bus depots are prime real estate, but the income from renting shops is pathetically small. There have been innumerable allegations of KTC officers operating spare parts rackets. Some have even been caught, but have escaped punishment. Conductors are known to give passengers a ‘concession’ if they don’t insist on tickets. KTC buses are invariably scheduled so that they leave just after private buses running on the same route, so that the latter get to pick up all the passengers at the stops. Private bus owners demand fare hikes but don’t implement the raised fares, effectively making KTC buses more expensive than their competitors.

While some leakage takes place at lower levels, most of it comes from people in responsible positions. This cannot be allowed to continue. KTC needs a spring cleaning. The ring leaders of these rackets have to be caught and punished.

But, even if all the leaks are plugged, the KTC is unlikely to break even. No matter; at least it can come up to the operating levels of New Delhi or Mumbai. Some more revenue can be generated by emulating the Hyderabad and Bangalore corporations. Realistically, though, the government is going to have to come up with the rest.

in 1940, the church regained its rights to administer its associations and funds, states tEotÓnio r. DE soUZA

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he Governor José Ferreira Pestana authorized the Goan administrator-historian Felippe Nery Xavier in 1847 to consult any nonconfidential official documentation he might require to write the history of the Goan village communities. Those interested in the subject are grateful to him for the sources and information he made available through his various publications.

Admittedly, as State functionary he could not be critical of many situations he observed and studied, but left for posterity, valuable documentation that is difficult to find today. He may be considered a true precursor of the modern historiography of rural Goa, anteceding the praiseworthy contribution of the Portuguese administratorhistorian J.H. da Cunha Rivara, whose position as General Secretary of the Portuguese State of India gave him a privileged status and power that permitted him to leave his mark on the political and cultural history of Goa. In his Bosquejo Histórico das Communidades (Nova Goa, Imprensa Nacional, 1852) , F. N. Xavier provides quantified data in a way that only in more recent times historians have learned to appreciate and practise. Part II of that study contains many details village-wise about their churches, including when and how they were built, repaired, enlarged and maintained. It is curious to note that when Archbishop Fr. A. Brandão sought to take over the jurisdiction of the Salcete churches from the Jesuits in the latter half of the 17th century, they appealed to the king to intervene in his capacity of GrandMaster of the Order of Christ with privileges conceded by the Popes to look after the Church at home and overseas in the Portuguese-controlled domains.

The kings seized this occasion, and ever since there were recurrent cases of royal intervention, leading to almost a total take-over of the economic administration and supervision of the confrarias and fábricas in the course of the 18th century.

The conflict between the Archbishop Fr. Inacio de S. Teresa and the Jesuits was a repeat of the Brandão scene in the 1720s. This time the archbishop went about inquiring into the personal scandals of the Jesuit parish priests in Salcete.

He got women to confess their clandestine relations with some of those priests. However, the Archbishop did not get on famously with the State authorities as well. Under Pombaline regime, the Jesuits were sacked, but the Archbishops too had their wings clipped. The situation of liberal politics was no better for the Church, particularly since 1834. The policy continued under the re-

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It’s a business

Atul Raikar, Arrosim As my children begin another academic year, parents like myself have to put up with unaided schools once again demanding higher

100 Years Ago PRIMEIRO DIARIO NAS COLONIAS PORTUGEZAS

3 July, 1910

City Plan Via a Decree from the Police Control of Vasco da Gama, the rest of coconut trees from the few bye-lanes, are going to be chopped and sold to ease the way for the planned for the future City.

Communal Conflict To avoid a bigger conflict between the Hindus and the Muslims, due to important posts occupied by the former in the United Provinces, some providential measures are being adopted by the Government as suggested by the Indian Telegraph.

Vendors Threatened The vegetable and other road side vendors are complaining that a gang of barefoot youngsters are threatening them of dire consequences unless they part with their profits.

Spectacles Invented Monsieur Sommier, the Chief of French Police, has created spectacles through which the wearer can obtain the rearview without turning.

Jerome Goes, by email The letter ‘Sting Corrupt Officials’ by Vishant Shirodkar (Herald, 14 June) is right. Corruption is rampant in every department. But the employees say they are justified in taking money, because their job cost them in lakhs.

A job for a traffic inspector costs about Rs25 lakh. Even an LDC clerk pays Rs7 to 10 lakh; ask any parent that has an educated daughter or son who wants to work for the government.

Corruption breeds corruption. Every employee feels they have invested, and wants the money back. That is business.

‘Mera Bharat’ debate Vincent Rego, Dubai With regard to Maya Dessai’s letter ‘Mera Bharat Mahaan’ (Herald, 30 June), she has misunderstood the concept. What Radharao Gracias tried to project in his article ‘Chauvinism versus Patriotism’ (Herald, 25 June) is the real scenario in India today. It is nothing against the country.

Maya is talking about the white wash that can be seen from outside. But if you look from inside, it is a mess – full of corruption, dirt and filth that nobody wants to clean up. My heart bleeds for the poor masses that are the worst sufferers. Maya should rather think about the root cause of what our country is going through.

Why bash Ronaldo?

Jonathan, by email After Portugal’s defeat to Spain, Cristiano Ronaldo drew much flak from the media and Portuguese supporters. After the match, the media concentrated only on Ronaldo, as if the entire Portuguese soccer team had just one player!

rina, to reduce the frauds and misappropriations.

It was not uncommon to find debtors to the Churches as treasurers of their fábricas and confraternities. A decree of February 24 , 1788 sought to put an end to this abuse. But all the decrees of the archbishop had produced little tangible results.

It is against this background that one should seek to explain how and why the grand church buildings, new or rebuilt, could mushroom all over the Old Conquests in Goa through the 18th until mid 19th centuries. Some Portuguese art historians on look-out for green pastures have been throwing-up wild suggestions to explain the grandeur of the Church architecture and paintings in Goa in order to emphasize the uniqueness of the so-called “Indo-Portuguese art”. The growing influence of the native clergy in the 18th and 19th centuries and their inter-caste rivalries have been high in the order of such explanations, forgetting that there could be situations of common interest wherein caste rivalries could be forgotten.

is Goa A safe place?

s Goa a safe place to live in? Well that is the big question on everybody’s mind. A recent survey conducted by ‘Tripadvisor’ showed that Delhi was the most unsafe city in the country. The national capital is followed by our very own peaceful(?) Goa. In fact Goa has even beaten Mumbai to the third place as the most unsafe tourist destination in the country. Interestingly the survey also showed that Baga beach is the third dirtiest beach in the country. The dirtiest being Juhu beach in Mumbai followed by the Marina beach in Chennai. What should really bother our politicians is the fact that even though tourism is the bread and butter of Goa’s economy, the State is being seen as an unsafe tourist destination. But then does it really bother our politicians? Hardly. Our politicians still keep on harping that Goa is a safe place for tourists, even though there have been several assaults on foreigners. Be that as it may. How many Goans feel safe living in Goa? A survey in this regard carried out among Goans would probably throw up some startling facts. The older generations always keep talking

Your column ‘100 years ago’ (Herald, 1 July), talks about the employment of non-Goans in the works carried out in the Mormugao Port in 1910. That was during the Portuguese era. Has freedom changed anything? The present MPT administration is now out to displace Goans who are not their employees!

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publican regime since 1910. It was only in 1940, by the Acordo Missionário of the Salazar regime, that the Church regained the rights to administer the pious associations and their funds.

Leopoldo da Rocha, a former priest and professor at the Rachol seminary, presently in Portugal, is the author of one of the best studies that we know of the Church confraternities in Goa. His doctoral thesis in canon law titled As Confrarias de Goa, was published in Lisbon in 1973. It would be worthwhile to publish an English edition of this study based on a thorough archival research. Only those who are ignorant of the history of the confraternities and fábricas of the Churches in Goa, can today resent the suggestions of Government intervention in regulating their functioning.

Leopoldo da Rocha’s research reveals how the State intervention and legislation was greatly beneficial to checking the gross mismanagement of Church funds, despite the dedicated efforts of some archbishops, like D. António de Neiva Brum e Silveira, and especially Fr. Manoel de Santa Cata-

Tongue in Cheek

fees than last year. The fee receipt that has been sent home clearly mentions that these are ‘provisional fees, subject to approval’.

This means there is no approval obtained.

The school authorities are openly flouting the rules, and testing the patience of parents.

This needs to end somewhere. The best way to do it is to impose a fine and imprisonment on the head of the institution. Their greed for money has driven them crazy.

MPT & non-Goans

HistoricAl ExplorAtions

It is generally forgotten that in 1738 the Marathas mounted a major military offensive against Goa and several churches were raided and burnt in that occasion. It came to be known later that it was a diversionary strategy of Chimaji Appa, whose main target was Bassein. The Portuguese authorities in Goa were running for funds to meet the threat. The village communities of Goa were called upon to contribute fixed amounts in two installments. The Church confraternities were invited to loan their silverware to the Mint for coining. Interestingly, the State Council decided that all able-bodied servants / slaves should be recruited for defence, and each of the five major religious orders should provide companies of 50 religious each for assisting in the trenches and fortified outposts that were clearly identified in the same Council proceedings. They were to operate in day and night shifts. The natives were to be watched closely for their usual unwillingness to fight.

Such situations of crises and fresh demands for funds had made the village communities the milching cows of the colonial state. F.N. Xavier provides detailed tables of the moneys paid by each village of the Old Conquests during 17801839. They were always called euphemistically «donativos», suggesting that they were willing contributions. The provinces of Salcete, Bardez and Ilhas paid in proportion of 3:2:1. One can see there clearly how much was extracted from each village for the purpose of cult, and other expenses, including the construction of the proposed new capital in Mormugão in 1776, a plan that was later abandoned in favour of Panjim or Nova Goa. But there is one feature in the State supervision of the village and Church funds.

That feature has not been noticed by researchers so far and could provide a clue for the surge of the church constructions or enlargements.

A clue that may be well applicable till our own times! Unlike other expenses which required prior State permission, the funding of churches and cult required no such permission. The village headmen raised such funds with much enthusiasm, often in collusion with their respective parish priests and in fraudulent manner. Under the guise of divine cult much money was pocketed for private use (“para a sombra delle converterem as mesmas fintas para os seus usos particulares”). It is not surprising if this was a loophole that the Goan natives had discovered to meet the ongoing crisis of the colonial regime and its habit to impose fresh taxes upon the native population.

about those-good-old-days when they would sleep in their homes with their windows open. Mind you during those days, window grills were unheard of. Now we are not safe in our homes even when our doors and windows are fortified with iron grills. Our women are not safe. We have our very own version of a serial killer and ‘Jack the Ripper’. We have our own brand of rapists who seem to have a liking for white skin. Some of our politicians are known to have spent time behind bars. The one who has not, is on the run. This very politician had the audacity to say that Goa is the “rape capital” of the country. He was probably right in saying so. But then it was his sacred duty to make Goa a safe place for the women-folk. He failed in his duties quite miserably. How safe are our roads? Many lives have been lost because of the pathetic conditions of our roads. A light shower and the potholes on our roads open up like festering wounds. There seems to be no remedy for the malady. It pays to say a small prayer before hitting the road on your vehicle. For even if you obey all the traffic rules there

Letters to the Editor

Letter of the Day

Towards a Police State?

Dr Francisco Colaço, Margao

Though our chief minister’s latest political move is being hailed by some as a masterstroke, it is sad to see the Congress party in Goa decaying to the point of becoming the antithesis of what its founding fathers envisioned. That apart, what worries me the most is that our beloved land is fast inching towards becoming a police state.

The unfolding scenario leaves us wondering whether the Goa Police are being used today as a mere toy by those who control our destinies. We see the scandalous, the immoral and the corrupt go scot-free (provided they don’t rub the powers-that-be the wrong way). Conversely, the innocent who raise fingers against strongmen (like those who protest against environmental crimes) can be threatened into extinction.

The ferocity with which former Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco’s case has been pursued is something to watch. Let it be so. But the blatant manner in which the Atala drugs case has been brushed under the carpet bares the other side of the coin; a grim reminder that those who rule us thrive on opportunism, political expediency, halftruths and half-justice that borders on vendetta.

Not that the BJP regime was any better, but surely, with the Congress firmly in the saddle, we are in for times of greater moral decay.

Salazar in a new avatar?

Crime Branch, is thy name PIDE? Note: PIDE or ‘Policia Internacional de Defesa do Estado’ was Salazar’s dreaded secret police, like Russia’s KGB or Israel’s Mossad.

One must remember that Cristiano is only human. He too is disappointed after the defeat. Let us give him some much-needed breathing space. I am sure this talented young player will continue to entertain us with great football.

Tech in football Belinda Braganza, by email This is in response to the letter ‘England denied’ by Errol D’souza (Herald, 1 July).

Errol says that football should use hi-tech digital video replays for fair play, like cricket.

I disagree.

Some technology should be used, like in hockey, where the teams get two chances to challenge the referee’s decision. If the first challenge turns out false, the team loses the second one too.

If this is introduced in football, it will not only make matches more interesting, but help to bring about justice and fair play.

But if technology is used throughout the match, it will spoil the fun.

By Adelmo Fernandes

could be someone out there driving like hell. He is probably high on the bottle that cheers, or could be having a heated discussion on his cell-phone. Can the food we consume be considered safe?

In the past we have heard of adulterated food. We probably thought that fruits were the safest food we could consume. Unfortunately artificial ripening of fruits has been the order of the day. We could probably end up with cancer by consuming those artificially ripened mangoes. We are in the midst of the South West Monsoon. The roads have already started flooding and the water keeps entering our homes. The hills which have been cut to make way for mega housing projects have caused land-slides burying the old houses on the way. Electric poles uproot leading to unscheduled power shut-down. Indeed in Goa it is not only the tourists who feel unsafe, probably every Goan feels the same way too. It is only the Almighty God who sees that no harm comes to us. Our politicians are more concerned about keeping their position and their seat of power safe. May God keep us safe.

Time for Dr Hubert Fatima Sardinha, Margao I salute Dr Hubert Gomes on opening a health centre in the memory of his late mother, Dona Angela Mesquita, which will benefit the underprivileged.

Enough is enough. Goans have reached a saturation point. It is time for a change. That is why Dr Hubert has accepted to contest elections at the request of the people of Benaulim.

Dr Hubert is a personality with foresight and is determined to work for the downtrodden, unlike seasoned politicians, who tread on the downtrodden. Likeminded people should come forward and fight against corruption in Goa. Let us end the nexus between non-Goan builders and our mighty hefty politician.

Waka waka, amkam naka, selling of Goa!

Rot starts at the top Aires Rodrigues, Ribandar Today, politics is all about convenience and

opportunism. Principles, policies and ideology have long been thrown out of the window. It is only money and muscle power that determines the outcome of elections. Unless you have a criminal charge or two to your credit, you should not contest elections and, if you don’t, you should not expect to win.

One party ticket per family is another farce. If Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi can contest in the same state at the same time, why have a different yardstick for the rest?

Scam on the way Reuben S, Chicalim The news that the Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC) wants to lease out its lands to ‘spruce up its revenue’ should ring warning bells. The new KTC chairperson wants to ‘lease’ prime properties to big builders for construction of malls, hotels and other mega real estate projects. What is the purpose of leasing such valuable assets that will eventually generate minimal revenue through rents?

The government has acquired a habit of acquiring lands for ‘public purpose’. These lands are then conveniently re-assigned for an altogether different, often ‘private’ purpose. Can the chairman please explain why pre-existing lands cannot be used for other government purposes, instead of transferring them enmasse to builders?

Mapusa’s woes Jyoti Shetgaonkar, Morjim I fully agree with the views expressed by Vasanti Alornekar in her letter ‘Probe Mapusa Council’ (Herald, 29 June). It is high time that the government institutes a probe into the working of the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC), whose cupboards are full of skeletons.

Everyone, including the CM and the local MLA, can see the congestion caused by builders who have grossly violated all rules.

But no action has been taken against illegal buildings, even though everyone living in Mapusa and around is put to great inconvenience.

People visiting Mapusa for official work cannot park their vehicles because the builders have not left any space for parking.

Buildings have been allowed even on steep slopes. Only a judicial inquiry will reveal all the muck that has accumulated.

Paths of Wisdom The Shrewd Manager (Luke 16: 1-13) Jesus said to his disciples, “A rich man appointed a man to manage his property. He was told that the manager was wasting his money. So, he called him and asked, “What is this I hear about you? Give me a complete account of how you have handled my property, because you cannot be my manager any longer.” The servant said to himself, “My Master is going to dismiss me from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough to dig ditches, and I am ashamed to beg. Now, I know what I will do!

Then, when my job is gone, I shall have friends who will welcome me in their homes.”

So, he called in all the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, “How much do you owe my master?” “One hundred barrels of olive-oil”, he answered. “Here is your account,” the manager told him, “sit down and write fifty”. Then he asked another one, “And you, how much do you owe?” “A thousand sacks of wheat”, he answered. “Here is your account,” the manager told him; “write eight hundred”.

As a result, the master of this dishonest manager praised him for being so shrewd, because the people of this world are more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light.”

Jesus said “And so, I tell you: make friends for yourselves with worldly wealth, so that when it gives out, you will be welcomed in the eternal home.

Whoever is faithful to small matters will be faithful in large ones; whoever is dishonest in small matters will be dishonest in large ones. If, then, you have not been faithful in handling worldly wealth, how can you be trusted with true wealth? And, if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what belongs to you?

You cannot serve both, God and money.

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opinionated Too little too late for Bhopal victims

By S Kamat he Bhopal gas tragedy case is taking a more curious turn. In trying to allocate blame for the release of Warren Andersen of Union Carbide and to allow him to leave the country, the common man is bewildered at the number of ‘not mes’ that is coming out of the present and past Congress leadership, with the progeny of the past leadership speaking up for their fathers, along with the ball being shunted between the Centre and the State.

It is almost like the game we used to play when we were children while sitting in a circle as to behind whose back the handkerchief would lie. Similarly there is a desperate game of stonewalling being attempted so that the truth does not come out and to pass the buck so that none in the Congress gets tainted. This, while we all know that the Congress party has been complicit in letting Warren Andersen leave the country and to allow Union Carbide get off the hook in terms of payment of damages.

Has our present breed of politicians not even heard of the time honoured tradition that the buck stops with the boss? In this case, it should have clearly stopped with Arjun Singh, the then CM of Madhya Pradesh and Rajiv Gandhi as the PM at the Centre. No amount of pussy-footing is going to change this fact of life or clear reality. The more the Congress beat about the bush, the more complex will the issue play when we were children while sitting in a circle as to behind whose back the handkerchief would lie. It is not only the Congress who is to be blamed for this matter, since the succeeding NDA government did nothing either, to pursue the matter with the Union Carbide or the US government, nor did it involve itself with serious efforts to bring relief to the victims in Bhopal.

To put a seal on the whole matter, the present PM has put in place a GoM and asked them to come in with a report within 10 days on the future course of action in matters relating to the Bhopal gas tragedy. Why was such a GoM or high power governmental committee not constituted earlier? Why were matters relating to clearance of the affected site not taken up earlier or at least after the Supreme Court judgment on the matter? Why was absolutely nothing done, for the Bhopal gas victims? Why were they only paid a paltry sum of Rs. 25,000 when even then for railway accident victims we were paying at least one lakh? Why was no separate commission set up by the State or Central government to look into the matters of relief and rehabilitation of the victims?

We cannot blame the judiciary on this matter - the Supreme Court which decided on the first settlement nor the Bhopal court which came out with the present judgment on the extent of guilt and sentencing of the Union Carbide India personnel.

The reason for this is that, the Supreme Court at that time took a decision based on what data it was given and clearly they could not go out on a limb and say that more should be done since the extent of tragedy was not brought home to them. Similarly the trial court in Bhopal has no precedent by law to deal with this tragedy and if the executive branch wanted a harsher punishment they should have made a special law or amended an existing one to deal with the tragedy. Why did the executive branch sleep on this matter?

The initiative that the PM has taken on the GoM has been because like they say – ‘the muck has started to hit the ceiling’, and it is time to find means to seal the lips of the people. How can this be done but by initiating steps to do precisely the same things that should have been done as soon as the site became safe for people to enter and deal with toxicity and to provide better health care to the victims? And then finally the icing on the cake literally is to throw in some money as a sop to the victims which is now being talked of to be about Rs. 10 lakhs.

In India money surely stops all talk and erases ill will. If the victims had let the ball go around a little more on the allocation of the blame game and the buck came nearer and nearer to the late Rajiv Gandhi , then the money would have been larger. But then like they say the victims could not afford to wait any longer and neither the present government or the Congress party could allow the stain to become bigger and therefore what they are getting, they deservedly are entitled to it. But then what of those that have died in the interim, for lack of care and those that have been born during the tragedy and are facing health issues. Should we call them the ‘Lost Generation’ of Bhopal! Summarising this tragedy shows the uncouth, uncaring, irresponsible face of our politicians of every political hue, who are capable of the highest degree of cruel insensitivity but when it comes to saving their skin would not stop to any extent to wash themselves clean of any taint. God help India!

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US backs Indian efforts to train Afghan forces PTI WASHINGTON, JULY 2

The US has said it is "very supportive" of the Indian effort to train Afghan security forces, amid reports that President Hamid Karzai has agreed to send a group of military officers to Pakistan for training.

“We are very supportive of the Afghan army and police taking advantage of international offers to provide professional military education and training to their security forces. Obviously it is an Afghan decision, in terms of which are those opportunities Kabul wants to take advantage of,” US Under Secretary of Def e n c e f o r Po l i c y, M i c h e l e Flournoy, said.

There already are a number of Afghans training in India and benefiting greatly given the professionalism of the Indian military and what they can provide, she said.

“So, we are very supportive of that effort,” Flournoy said yesterday in response to a question after her address on 'Investing in the future of US-India defence relations' before the Washington Chapter of the Asia Society.

Flournoy's remarks came a day after 'The Washington Post' reported that Karzai had agreed to send a group of Afghan military officers to Pakistan for training.

“The move is a victory for Pakistan, which seeks a major role in Afghanistan as officials in both countries become increasingly convinced that the US war effort there is faltering,” the daily said.

In her speech, Flournoy said India was playing a critical and positive role in Afghanistan's economic and social development, and that help will continue.

“We highly value India's role and, frankly, the sacrifices that

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WASHINGTON, JULY 2

The US has said that its proximity to India should not be seen as a threat to China and vice versa and reflected that the security of Asia's dominant powers, India and China, cannot be viewed as a zero sum game. “:A safer, more secure India that is closer to the United States should not be seen a threat to China, and vice versa. Indeed, all three countries play an important role in that region's stability,” a top Pentagon official Michele Flournoy said.

Noting the Obama administration's commitment to strengthening regional partnerships, Flournoy, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy said it no longer makes sense to discuss the increasingly interconnected region in terms of “East Asian”

security, or “South Asian” security.

“It also means that the security of Asia's two dominant powers can no longer be viewed as a zero sum game,” she said in a major policy speech on IndoUS defense relationship on 'Investing in the Future of US-India Defense Relations,' at the Washington-chapter of the Asia Society.

The US, she said, welcomes the growing cooperation between India and China on security affairs in recent years and both India and the US seek a closer relationship with China, while encouraging Beijing to be more transparent about its military capabilities and intentions.

The Pentagon official said: “I am here to tell you that we see India as far more than a vital partner on these issues... It is also an

indispensable partner in addressing all of the regional challenges we face".

“And in the coming years, I believe India will strengthen its role in the security of its region,” she said adding that India's success was very much in America's national interest.

She said India has long been a "bellwether" for the challenges and aspirations of a host of other nations inspired by its success, a fact that makes its success more important.

She noted that critics in Washington and New Delhi have suggested that the Obama administration is not as committed to US-India relations as its predecessors were, and that it views India solely through the Af-Pak lens.

of cooperation that they have not experienced before, but it is not going to be easy to get there.

Flournoy said the US has no plan to abandon Afghanistan after July 2011, when the drawdown of its troops would begin.

She said the US has enduring commitment to the region.

“We have learned our lessons from history. We have no plans to depart the region and to abandon Afghanistan anytime soon,” she said.

“Everything has to be seen in the context of a long- term commitment to both the security and development of Afghanistan. That said, he (Obama) also identified July 2011, as an inflection point in our strategy, when the surge of forces would end, and a process of transition would begin, based on the conditions on the ground,” Flournoy said.

PTI KOLKATA, JULY 2

The Calcutta High Court today declared as unconstitutional reservation on religious grounds while allotting flats built by a government agency.

A division bench of Chief Justice J N Patel and Justice B Bhattacharjee hearing a PIL held that there was no provision for reservation on religious grounds in the Constitution.

Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority, a West Bengal government agency, had on March 10 floated an advertisement for sale of nearly 300 flats at Baishnabghata in the southern outskirts of the city.

The brochure said there would be 26 per cent reservation in allotment of the flats for religious minorities like Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, etc., counsel Kaushik

Airmen trainees display their skills in martial arts during the passing out parade at the Air Forec Station at Avadi in suburban Chennai on Friday

Health Secy accused of scuttling project PTI NEW DELHI, JULY 2

After accusing babus of indulging in “red-tapism”, Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi today specifically targeted Health Secretary Sujatha Rao charging her with creating hurdles in the path of his “dream” project of a dedicated medical portal.

The creation of the portal had been announced by Trivedi along with National Knowledge Commission chief Sam Pitroda in November last year.

The minister told PTI that around two months back, there had been a meeting of all the stakeholders, including Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Pitroda, National Informatics Centre Director General B K Gairola, UIDAI chief Nandan Nilekani and around 80 young graduates from universities like Harvard.

“There were seven joint secretaries sitting there (at the meeting), nobody said anything then.

Around 15 days later, Sujatha Rao said she is not being able to understand anything, so she wants to go to Nandan

Nilekani,” he said.

According to Trivedi, when he told Rao that Azad was on board with the project, she reportedly told him, “What does the minister know”.

When asked if he had spoken to Azad on this issue, Trivedi said he had not done it as the Union minister was abroad.

“Azad had given the sanction.

I have nothing against any individual,” he said.

“At least talk to the experts, try to understand. You reject it, but before that go through the process. Suddenly you just throw it out. My duty is only to try,” he said.

“It was one of my dream projects. We had more than 80 college kids from Harvard and India working on it, The concept paper had been prepared by Sam Pitroda and the project was supposed to be implemented by the NIC,” he said adding that the whole idea was to put everything on record.

Rao, who is in Bhopal for a meeting, refused to react immediately. She had yesterday said, “The idea of the project was good, but they (proponents

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health facilities and get their children admitted to schools,” Dikshit said.

The chief minister launched the survey by filling the form of a paralysed homeless woman named Shakila. The form asks one about where he or she lives, family, occupation, income and other particulars.

Dikshit said the counting will be done in the night as it is the “best time” when one could find

of separate the two countries.

India has played a very important role in economic and social development in Afghanistan in multiple sectors and we would like to see them continue to play that role,” she said.

“I think, with regard to India and Pakistan, there is an inherited distrust between the two countries and we are very supportive of whatever steps they take in being transparent with one another and take some confidence-building measures," Flournoy said.

"Because the truth is that they all have a stake in the stability of the region."

She said the US has strategic partnerships with all three countries -- India, Pakistan and Afghanistan -- and one of the things it continues to try to press is its belief that common stake in regional security can actually bring them to a place

Proximity to India is not a threat to China: Pentagon

Delhi begins to count its homeless lot Aiming at including the homeless people in the 2011 Census and providing them facilities accordingly, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today launched a survey for them with assistance from UN Development Programme.

“There are lakhs of homeless people in Delhi, who are not registered and so they do not have any kind of identity card.

Because of this they cannot avail benefits of the social welfare programmes,” Dikshit said.

She said the aim of the survey is to include all those people in the current Census.

The survey, said to be the first of its kind in the country which involves 24 governmental and non-governmental organisations, will take two months to complete, she said.

It will be conducted in 15 divisions of the city. Later, initiative will be taken to get the names of the homeless incorporated in the census.”A register will be made and according to that homeless people will be given ID cards, BPL cards so that it becomes easy for them to avail

India has made in support of this mission, in building economic and social opportunities in Afghanistan. We see India's continued involvement in Afghanistan's development as a key part of that country's future success," she said.

The Pentagon official, a key confidante of US President Barack Obama, acknowledged of rivalry and distrust between India and Pa k i s t a n o n t h e i s s u e o f Afghanistan.

“Certainly, given the historic tensions between India and Pakistan, both countries tend to view Afghanistan through that prism,” she said in response to a question.

The US is very supportive of any steps that the Indians and Pakistani government choose to take to deal with the issues directly between them and to reduce tensions and build confidence, Flournoy said.

“But in Afghanistan, I would sort

HC against quota based on religion

these people at their places.

The chief minister also said that after the survey, Delhi government will have accurate figures of the homeless and then it will be easy to accommodate them and provide them adequate facilities.

Speaking on the occasion, Patrice Coeur-Bizot, UN Resident Representative, said, "The survey would serve as the basis for their inclusion in the National Popu-

lation Register and would be more effective in designing and implementing the targeted interventions to improve the lives of the poorest."

The homeless survey is supported by UNDP's 'Innovation Support for Social Protection' project which aims at "equal access to the multitude of social welfare schemes" that the city government have implemented for the vulnerable population

of project) were asking for Rs 146 crore for five years and after that another Rs 25 crore for maintaining it.

“So there is a financial implication involved and the concept paper cannot be immediately the basis for releasing funds and getting action going," she had said.

Trivedi had yesterday said that the bureaucracy was engaging in red-tapism. "If you have all these young kids of India, who have just graduated from the colleges and universities, if you give them the Health Ministry then they can run it much better than the bureaucracy,” he said.

The minister today said “There are some very serious issues.

The larger debate should be what should we do. The ailment

has been there for generations together.”

Trivedi claimed the same has happened to him on several projects. “This thing started happening as soon as I took over,” he added.

“What do you do with them (bureaucracy). There is no accountability. This is a much big issue. Unless we address it, Maoists will grow, terrorism will grow”.

“We are in a huge mess. The entire health system is for just 20 per cent of the rich,” he added.

On the bureaucracy, he said, “ They (bureaucracy) don't bother. No minister can do anything. Their promotion comes with seniority, that is the danger.”

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Oz scientists develop the perfect prawn REUTERS SYDNEY, JULY 2

Scientists have come up with a way to sati sfy Australians’ demand for prawns which have become the nation’s main Christmas fare — a genetically bred strain of larger, black tiger prawns that taste great.

After 10 years of careful breeding and research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) scientists have bred a larger tiger prawn which will reduce the need to import the popular seafood platter and barbecue food.

The new prawn, which has won five gold medals at Australian marine aquaculture shows in recent years, means an increase in prawn yield from an average of around 5 tonnes per hectare to 17.5 tonnes per

hectare. ‘’One of the (prawn) ponds actually achieved 24.2 tonnes per hectare, which is a world record,’’ Bruce Lee, director of the CSIRO’s Food Future Flagship.

With around 50 per cent of Australia’s prawn market imported from overseas, particularly China and Vietnam, the genetically-modified tiger prawn will deliver quality, sustainable seafood in large quantities, enabling Australia to reduce imports, said the CSIRO. “ Yo u c a n n o w p r o d u c e prawns, particularly at times of the year when you want them fresh. In Australia one would like to have fresh prawns is at Christmas time,’’ said Lee. The black tiger prawn is bred in drought-proof salt-water ponds in a closed loop system.

From Page 1 Sleuths move for arrest

Saturday morning as the application was filed at the fag end of the day.

When Assistant Public Prosecutor, Sarika Faldessai moved the application to the Judge for issuance of the warrant of arrest, Judge Gawas posted the matter for arguments on Saturday morning.

Earlier, PI Sawant along with personnel of the investigating agency came with a bunch of files in the court and was huddled with the Assistant Public Prosecutor outside the court room as well as in the Prosecutor’s room for a long time, discussing points for arguments before the Judicial Magistrate tomorrow morning.

The investigating officer was tightlipped on the grounds cited by the prosecution to issue warrant of arrest against the former tourism minister. Sources in the know, however, said the investigating agency has mentioned in the application how the Benaulim legislator has been avoiding interrogations by the agency since the last one month.

Munde mocks cops

Leader Manohar Parrikar said the price rise was evident when the Congress was in power. “Congress is solely responsible for inflation which has touched double digits and they are nothing but liars”, Parrikar said.

North Goa MP Shripad Naik said it would be difficult for the common man to survive with rising inflation and accused Congress of corruption, which had led to the price rise.

Shiroda MLA Mahadeve Naik said they would launch a drive against bogus entries among voters in Shiroda constituency.

“There are over 400 bogus entries in Shiroda constituency and I along with supporters will see to it that these bogus entries are removed. People also should check their names in the electoral rolls”, said Naik.

NCP opens doors

When asked to share his party’s vision keeping in mind the future Assembly elections, the NCP President didn’t have much to say and tossed questions pertaining to seat sharing and others to the party’s High Command.

Answering questions over its absconding MLA Mickky Pacheco who was denied anticipatory bail on three occasions, he said the law will take its on course. However, he mentioned the absconding MLA continued to be a NCP man.

ESG proposal the ESG with regards to the substandard works carried out by the particular contractor agency.

They had also pointed out various discrepancies in work execution in relation to the tender specification.

Beware, kids

The report stated that samples of rings, despite being small in size, contained 90 per cent lead above the permissible limit as compared to the other items.

“It indicates that lead is being used as a malleable material and for giving durability and better shape to the jewellery, along with being corrosion resistant,” Aggarwal told PTI. According to the NGO, World Health Organisation has labeled lead as the foremost environmental pollutant, having the capability to permanently lower the IQ of children.

“The problem of lead in blood levels is under recognised in the country. There have been instances of pica, which is an abnormal tendency with children to eat things other than the usual food, which may be due a higher chances of exposure to hazardous materials in environment”, said Dr Arvind Taneja, pediatrician at Max Super Speciality.

US to welcome best, brightest, says Obama PTI WASHINGTON, JULY 2

President Barack Obama has pledged to fix America’s “broken” immigration system to ensure that the US will remain a magnet for the best and the brightest from countries like India.

In his first major policy speech on the thorny issue of immigration, Obama revealed the broad contours of his vision of reform, which if implemented would be helpful to hundreds and thousands of people from countries like India, who are professionals and law abiding and add value to the American society.

“We should make it easier for the best and the brightest to come to start businesses and develop products and create jobs. Our laws should respect families following the rules, instead of splitting them apart,” he said on his third major domestic agenda after health care and financial reforms.

He said the presence of about 11 million illegal immigrants makes a mockery of all those who are going through the process of immigrating legally.

“Indeed, after years of patchwork fixes and ill-conceived revisions, the legal immigration system is as broken as the borders. Backlogs and bureaucracy means the process can take years,” he observed.

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No more search of Sikh turbans at UK airports PTI LONDON, JULY 2

Bowing to pressure, Britain has asked security staff at airports not to undertake humiliating search of Sikh turbans as part of the security drill.

In May, under European legislation, security staff were told they could pat down and unravel a Sikh’s turban if the metal detector bleeped as they walked through.

B u t t h e s e p o w e r s w e re branded as unacceptable by the religion’s leaders in Britain and the Department of Transport has had to act quickly.

Now the Department for Transport has been forced to issue a memo to airports warn-

ing them to stop the searches.

Sikhs who set off alarms at airport body scanners will now have their turban scanned by a hand held wand, and will only be subjected to searches by hand if metal is detected in the turban.

“On Thursday the Department for Transport advised all UK airports to continue using the previous methods of screening religious headwear, which eliminates the need to carry out hand searches. We have reacted accordingly,” a spokesperson for the Birmingham International Airport was quoted as saying by Daily Mail.

The decision comes after leading Sikhs branded the moves “humiliating and offensive”.

Dr Indarjit Singh, a British Sikh, and adviser to the Commission for Racial Equality, said that the legislation was unacceptable.

“It is considered very offensive to remove or touch a Sikh’s turban, especially in public,” he said.

“If there is a cause for concern, the individual should be taken

into a private place where they can be properly searched, with the lightest possible touch.”

Harmander Singh, principal adviser to Sikhs in England, said: “Sikhs are being unfairly targeted. As far as I’m aware, there haven’t been any exploding turbans at airports yet.

“Just because Osama bin Laden chooses to wear one

doesn’t mean that Sikhs should have to suffer.”

Sikhs who set off alarms at airport body scanners will now have their turban scanned by a hand-held wand, and will only be subjected to searches by hand if metal is detected in the turban.

Rwandan Pastor accused in genocide held REUTERS KAMPALA, JULY 2

A Rwandan pastor accused of leading and coordinating attacks on his country’s minority Tutsis during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has been arrested in Uganda, a police spokeswoman said today.

Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi, a pastor in the Kigali-Rural prefecture, was taken into custody on Wednesday in Isingiro district, southwest Uganda, Judith Nabakoba told Reuters.

Uwinkindi is accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) of genocide and crimes against humanity during the slaughter in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed. ‘’The information I have is

that he entered the country on Tuesday from the Democratic Republic of Congo but our intelligence operatives were tracking him and he was arrested on Wednesday,’’ Nabakoba said.

She could not confirm whether Uwinkindi had been transferred to the custody of the tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania.

According to an ICTR indictment, Uwinkindi ‘’led a group of killers to look for and exterminate Tutsi, in particular Tutsi civilians from Kanzenze commune’’.

He is the second Rwandan genocide suspect to be arrested in Uganda in less than a year.

In October 2009 Uganda

seized another suspect, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, after he slipped into the country from Congo.

Nizeyimana was a former deputy intelligence chief in Rwanda and was accused of genocide, complicity in genocide and public incitement to commit genocide.

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Cut CEO salaries on poor showing; cap raise: RBI PTI MUMBAI, JULY 2

Aiming to discipline the financial sector, the Reserve Bank today proposed slashing salaries of CEOs and directors of private banks on poor showing and limiting increases to 15 per cent.

The draft regulations on compensation of private banks, based on sound risk management and productivity linked principles, comes within days of the US Congress passing a major financial reform bill to discipline firms on Wall Street.

Interestingly, a Finance Ministry panel has only this week recommended better pay for chiefs of public sector banks.

Executives of state-run banks are perceived to get salary packages way below that of their private sector counterparts.

The country's largest private sector bank ICICI Bank's chief Chanda Kochhar got a remuneration of Rs 1.73 crore in 2009-10, as against market leader and state-run lender SBI chief O P Bhatt's Rs 26.51 lakh.

As per available data for fiscal year 2009-10, the number of top executives at private sector banks getting remuneration in excess of Rs one crore a year is more than that of their counterparts in any other sector.

As per the latest data, about 25 private sector bank top executives, including chiefs of ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and DCB, figured among the 200-odd such persons during the year ended March 2010.

While the government fixes the salaries for public sector bank chiefs, the private banks need a clearance from RBI for

remuneration of their top executives, but currently there is no cap.

On its part, RBI proposed limiting annual salary hikes of CEOs or wholetime directors of private banks to 10-15 per cent, besides a provision for slashing remuneration in case of poor financial showing.

The proposals were part of the draft regulations on compensation of private sector, local area and foreign banks and are significant given the fact that high salaries and bonuses of bankers (despite their institutions faring badly) were blamed for the 2008 global financial meltdown.

"In case of wholetime directors (WTDs)/CEOs, the annual increase in fixed pay should not be generally more than the range of 10-15 per cent," the draft said.

In the draft, the RBI said guaranteed bonuses are not consistent with sound risk management or productivitylinked principles and proposed that they should not be a part of the compensation plan.

As such, bonus should only be given for hiring new staff and be limited only to the first year, the draft said.

However, this payment should be in the form of employee stock option (ESOPs) only, since advance payments would create "perverse" incentives and promote undue risk taking.

The RBI, however, suggested autonomy for private sector banks for paying perquisites to the senior staff in line with the existing practices.

The central bank also proposed that private sector banks must ensure that there is a proper balance between fixed pay and variable pay.

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Premier Rio SUV in Goa

"At higher levels of responsibility, the proportion of variable pay may be higher. The variable pay could be in cash, stock-linked instruments or mix of both," the draft proposal said.

However, deterioration in financial performance of the banks should generally lead to contraction of variable pay.

Where the variable pay constitutes a substantial portion of total pay, 40-60% of this remuneration must be deferred for a minimum of three years.

A substantial portion of deferred variable pay should be awarded in shares or sharelinked instruments like ESOPs and should conform to SEBI guidelines. The remaining portion of deferred compensation should be paid as cash compensation gradually.

In case, there is negative contribution of the bank in any year during these three years, any unpaid portion of deferral compensation should be clawed back.

In case of foreign banks, RBI said, if the compensation was not properly aligned to risks or there are other lacunae, the issue would be taken up with the home-country regulator.

Private sector banks are suggested to submit a copy of their compensation policy to RBI. The draft also proposes to make it binding on private sector banks to constitute a Remuneration Committee in the Board.

Currently, the compensation committee of each of the foreign and private sector banks clears salaries of CEOs and then refers it to the RBI for its final nod, but it is not binding.

As for public sector banks, remunerations of chairmen are fixed by the government.

PANJIM (HBD) – India’s first compact diesel SUV has hit the Goa market with the inauguration of the Sonoo Premier showroom at Porvorim, recently.

Sonoo Premier are the dealers for Premier Rio SUV in Goa. The showroom located at Sansha’s LaJoy Complex, at NH 17 Porvorim was inaugurated at the hands of Ravi Naik, Minister for Home, cooperation, women and child development and animal husbandry.

Vishwajeet Rane, Minister for Health and Agriculture was the guest of honour.

Sensex sheds 48 points PTI MUMBAI, JULY 2

The BSE benchmark Sensex dropped for the second straight session today and ended 48 points down as investors preferred to stay away from riskier assets like stocks amid worries over the pace of the global recovery.

In a choppy session, the Bombay Stock Exchange’s 30-share barometer ended at 17,460.95, down 48.38 points, or 0.28 per cent. The bellwether opened firm on positive domestic cues, but failed to sustain the gains till the end of session as heavy selling emerged in the second half of trade dragging the index down to touch a low of 17,426.78.

The wide-based 50-share Nifty Index of the National Stock Exchange also lost 0.27 per cent to 5,237.10 points.

PTI MUMBAI, JULY 2

Mortgage leader HDFC announced a new concessional rate home loan scheme, where it will charge a low 8.25% interest from borrowers in the first year. Within days of state-run SBI extending its 8% teaser rate home loans till Sept, private sector giant HDFC said that it would offer 8.25% initial interest rate till August 31.

The 8.25% rate would be charged till March 31, 2011, and would increase to 9.25% for the next one year, that is till March 31, 2012.

Pursuant to that the prevailing floating rate would be applicable for the balance term of the loan tenure, HDFC said.

Deora flays Oppn for 'misleading' people on fuel PTI BANGALORE, JULY 2

Oil Minister Murli Deora today indicated there would be no rollback in fuel price hike and hit out at Opposition for "misleading" people on the impact of the rise.

"What is there to roll back.

The increase was necessitated because of huge under-recoveries that the government and oil companies are bearing," he said when asked whether government would withdraw the hike following criticism by Opposition and the call for a nationwide stir on July 5. Deora accused Opposition of misleading people on the issue.

"The BJP and left which

Pranab to meet state FMs on GST PTI NEW DELHI, JULY 2

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet his state counterparts on July 21 to discuss constitutional amendments needed to roll out the proposed GST and the compensation package for the states for the possible loss of their revenue due to this new indirect tax regime. "The Finance Minister will meet the state finance ministers to discuss compensation packages and constitutional amendment required to implement the GST," a ministry official said.

Before meeting Mukherjee, the empowered group of state finance ministers, headed by West Bengal finance minister Asim Dasgupta, will meet on the same day and discuss the constitutional amendment draft prepared by the law min-

istry to implement GST besides the compensation package for the states for any possible revenue loss they suffer due to GST rollout. "We expect the draft constitutional amendment from the law ministry next week to implement GST. Some kind of preliminary approval of the empowered committee of state finance ministers is required (for this draft).

For that we would send it to them before the meeting," the official added. The finance ministry had explored the feasibility of introducing a Fourth List (Union List, State List and Concurrent List being the other three) in the Constitution that gives both the Centre and the states equal taxation powers, as currently the Centre cannot impose indirect taxes beyond manufacturing, while the states cannot levy service tax.

never agreed on other issues had curiously ganged up against price hike," he said after a meeting with top officials of various oil companies and government officials.

The minister, here to launch Indian Oil's Chennai-Bengaluru petroleum products pipeline and Rajiv Gandhi Gramin LPG Vitarak Yojana, wanted the Opposition to explain to people the reason for the hike instead of going ahead with the strike plan.

"Give us a chance, see how the policy is implemented first," he said, claiming the hike would not adversely impact prices except for some marginal impact.

ING Life on Rs 240 cr expansion

"The increase translates to less than Re 1 a day on domestic LPG and 26-27 paisa a day on kerosene which is not a very huge rise," he said.

The government, he said, had borne a loss of over Rs one lakh crore for subsidising rates of diesel, LPG, Kerosene and petrol. Even after increasing the prices, the government would continue to bear losses.

Citing examples of neighbouring countries, he said the prices there were much higher in comparison to India, where kerosene prices were lowest in the world and LPG prices were among the lowest among countries importing the product.

AGENCY NEW DELHI, JULY 2

AGENCY BANGALORE, JULY 2

ING Life India is investing Rs.240 crore on its expansion plans in fiscal 2010-11, the Netherlands-based financial behemoth said Thursday.

'The additional capital will be utilised to expand our distribution network, improve productivity and efficiencies,' ING Insurance chief operation officer Tom McInerney told reporters here.

With the latest infusion, the cumulative or total capital invested since ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Ltd began operations in India in 2001 will be Rs.1,467 crore.

The company's five-year expansion plan includes growing its business by five times and customer base to five million from over one million.

With much of its relevance lost as a business entity after the signing of a gas supply deal with Mukesh Ambani led RIL, Anil Ambani group firm RNRL will merge with sister concern Reliance Power. Market worth of the combined entity at today's price would be Rs 50,000 crore.

The merger, possibly through a share swap deal, would be considered by the boards of the two companies on July 4. Rumours of the deal pulled down the share prices of both RNRL and Reliance Power at the close of the trading on bourses.

Spokespersons of the group firms remained tightlipped about the rationale and modalities of merger, which would create an entity whose market cap would still be less than half of the initial market value of Reliance Power alone.

Aban Offshor, 845.5, 855, 828.45, 834.3 Abb Ltd., 860.05, 865, 860.05, 861.45 Abg Shipyard, 264.7, 264.7, 257.1, 258.75 Acc Limited, 866.6, 868, 858.3, 863.05 Adani Enterp, 535, 544, 531, 537.35 Aditya Birla, 764.7, 771, 755.35, 768 Allahabad Ba, 161, 161.4, 159.6, 160.1 Alstom Proje, 660.4, 672, 655.65, 660.35 Ambuja Cemen, 122, 122, 111.9, 112.75 Andhra Bank, 129.95, 130.6, 129, 129.5 Ashok Leylan, 63, 63.5, 62.3, 62.55 Asian Paints, 2339.95, 2357.8, 2312, 2320.8 Axis Bank Li, 1235, 1248, 1232.1, 1237.2 Bajaj Hindus, 116.85, 118.4, 116.1, 116.65 Bank Of Baro, 720, 725.1, 712.2, 715.55 Bank Of Indi, 359, 362, 354.2, 357 Beml Limited, 1000, 1014.8, 996.2, 1000.2 Bharat Elect, 1714, 1740, 1711, 1723.25 Bharat Forge, 288.3, 297.65, 288.3, 294.25 Bharat Petro, 665, 674, 661.25, 666.75 Bharti Airte, 265.5, 265.85, 263.1, 264.7 Bhel, 2428, 2452.45, 2382.65, 2391.9 Bhushan Stee, 1415, 1436.8, 1410.1, 1415.75

On the first day of its listing on February 11, 2008, R-Power had seen its market cap soaring to Rs 1,23,000 crore, albeit for a brief while, and later the stock had slipped way below the issue price of Rs 450 a share.

As a damage minimisation, the promoters had issued bonus shares to salvage the share price, which is still less than half at nearly Rs 175 as of today.

On its first day on bourses, post the country's biggest ever IPO of Rs 11,500 crore that is still the only IPO that Anil Ambani's group came out with ever since he split from elder brother Mukesh in June 2005, R-Power figured among the top 10 valued firms, but currently ranks 30th.

On the other end, RNRL was born out of the demerger of Dhriubhai Ambani's Reliance empire five year ago. The purpose of creation of RNRL was

Biocon Limit, 324.7, 326.45, 316.1, 317.05 Bombay Dyein, 487.1, 488.9, 481, 483.35 Bosch Limite, 5425, 5448, 5365, 5376.15 Brigade Ente, 133.5, 135.5, 132, 132.7 Cairn India, 295.35, 299.8, 293.25, 295.9 Canara Bank, 456.45, 458.8, 448, 451.25 Central Bank, 142, 142.4, 138.1, 140 Century Text, 456.4, 463.55, 454.4, 461.4 Cesc Ltd, 376, 379.7, 373.65, 374.65 Chambal Fert, 66, 67.6, 65.05, 67.25 Chennai Petr, 255, 268.3, 253, 262.6 Cipla Ltd, 334.5, 338.8, 334.5, 336.8 Colgate Palm, 840, 849.75, 836, 839.9 Container Co, 1344, 1427.7, 1332.15, 1382.5 Crompton Gre, 259.7, 259.7, 250.3, 251.65 Cummins Indi, 596.85, 599, 588, 593.2 Dabur India, 207.7, 208.85, 201.1, 201.65 Deccan Chron, 123.1, 124.35, 121.9, 122.6 Dish Tv Indi, 46, 46.9, 45.3, 45.55 Divi’s Labor, 779.7, 782, 767.5, 770.05 Dlf Limited, 283.75, 287.2, 280.5, 282.35 Dr. reddy’s, 1435.95, 1454.2, 1431.4, 1435.8 Edelweiss Ca, 480, 489, 476, 480.45

for sourcing, supply and transporation of fuels, primarily natural gas.

As per the demerger scheme, RNRL was to source natural gas from Reliance Industries and trade it to ADAG power plants including the proposed mega 7,800-MW Dadri unit near here being set up by R-Power.

However, with the Supreme Court on May 7 upholding the government policy on pricing and utilisation of natural gas, RNRL almost had no role left in supply of gas to R-Power.

According to government's Gas Utilisation Policy, trading or profiteering from natural gas sales is not allowed – no company can buy the fuel from a producer and sell it to an end consumer like a power firm for a margin.

Suppliers like RIL can only enter into a Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement (GSPA) with an actual user of gas.

Educomp Solu, 529.2, 535.5, 524, 526.35 Eih Limited, 122.65, 124.5, 120.4, 120.95 Engineers In, 323.95, 365.4, 323.95, 360.8 Essar Oil Lt, 141.5, 143.7, 139.45, 140.4 Essar Shippi, 86.5, 87.85, 84.25, 85.25 Exide Indust, 130.65, 131.15, 127.1, 128.4 Federal Bank, 317.95, 333.5, 316, 330 Financial Te, 1332.05, 1360, 1330.1, 1355.45 Gail (india), 467.5, 474.4, 459.5, 461.8 Gammon India, 222, 222, 215, 218.9 Glaxosmithkl, 2205.8, 2205.8, 2155, 2160.2 Glenmark Pha, 271.6, 276.35, 270.5, 275.35 Gmr Infrastr, 60, 60.8, 59.65, 60.15 Godrej Indus, 166.9, 173.75, 166.1, 169.9 Grasim Indus, 1845, 1858.8, 1820, 1827.1 Great Offsho, 449.4, 452.65, 442, 445.7 Gtl Infra.Lt, 47.25, 47.5, 45.3, 45.8 Gujarat Mine, 127, 127.8, 125.3, 125.75 Gujarat N R, 63.6, 64.8, 62.5, 62.7 Gujarat Stat, 103, 103.2, 99.55, 100.6 Gvk Pow. & I, 44.05, 44.7, 43.2, 43.4 Hcl Technolo, 361.1, 364.95, 351.5, 352.95 Hdfc Bank Lt, 1907.4, 1923.35, 1899.95,

1912.85 Hdfc Ltd, 2915.4, 2937.9, 2906.6, 2916.25 Hero Honda M, 2020.15, 2041.1, 2015, 2020.95 Hindalco in, 142.95, 145.4, 141.6, 143.75 Hindustan Co, 117.6, 119.2, 116.8, 117.55 Hindustan Ma, 71.2, 73.25, 70.5, 71.35 Hindustan Pe, 474, 481, 471.4, 475.2 Hindustan Un, 272.5, 273.5, 267.2, 268.4 Hindustan Zi, 958.5, 966.8, 938, 940.7 Housing Dev, 244, 248, 239.6, 240.7 Icici Bank L, 842.5, 847.75, 833.2, 840.05 Idea Cellula, 59.8, 60, 57.8, 58 Ifci Ltd, 58.85, 58.85, 56.4, 56.75 India Cement, 106, 107.5, 105.55, 106.55 India Infoli, 96, 96.2, 94.5, 94.75 Indiabulls F, 140.2, 142.6, 138, 138.4 Indiabulls R, 156.8, 158.1, 153.85, 154.8 Indian Bank, 227.85, 227.85, 220, 220.7 Indian Hotel, 105.3, 107.4, 104.45, 104.7 Indian Oil C, 402, 409, 399.25, 401.3 Indian Overs, 104.05, 104.95, 102.65, 103.15 Indus Dev Ba, 118.6, 120.6, 117.9, 119.25

Though it had signed a Gas Sales Master Agreement (GSMA) with RNRL expressing its intent to supply natural gas from eastern offshore KG-D6 fields, RIL can enter into a GSPA only with R-Power which is to implement the Dadri or other power plants of ADAG. The apex court had on May 7 rejected RNRL's plea for gas from RIL at rates arrived in a private family agreement, saying the government alone had the right to approve the price of fuel and fix its user.

The apex court said RIL can sell gas to RNRL at government-set prices of USD 4.2 per million British thermal unit and asked the two to enter into fresh agreement.

The new GSMA, entered into last week, was to replace the four-year-old GSMA between RIL and RNRL for supply of a minimum 28 million cubic metres per day of natural gas at USD 2.34 per mmBtu. Indusind Ban, 205.55, 208.5, 204.9, 205.95 Infosys Tech, 2774.95, 2774.95, 2716, 2727.5 Infra. dev., 182.9, 183.2, 179.15, 179.8 Ispat Indust, 17.7, 17.9, 17.65, 17.75 Itc Ltd, 305, 305.95, 301.8, 302.55 Ivrcl Infras, 189.65, 190.1, 185.9, 186.95 Jai Corp Lim, 246.95, 263, 246.8, 253.95 Jaiprakash A, 128.3, 130.4, 126.5, 127.1 Jet Airways, 525.2, 533, 525.05, 526.8 Jindal Saw L, 200, 200.65, 196.05, 197.5 Jindal Steel, 613.5, 621.4, 611, 615.2 Jsw Steel Li, 1040, 1047, 1020, 1029.75 Kotak Mahind, 772.2, 775.9, 756.7, 759.45 Lakshmi Mach, 2060, 2082, 2015.65, 2024.05 Lanco Infrat, 66.55, 67.25, 65.15, 65.75 Larsen & Tou, 1798.2, 1812, 1780, 1786 Lic Housing, 975, 986, 965, 968.45 Lupin Limite, 1930, 1949, 1922, 1932.25 Mahanagar Te, 66, 66.95, 64.6, 65.1 Mahindra & M, 618.9, 621.4, 601, 602.35 Maruti Suzuk, 1400, 1425.8, 1381, 1415.9 Max India Lt, 158, 159.4, 156.35, 158.35

Glodyne Technoserve buys US Co PTI MUMBAI, JULY 2

Glodyne Technoserve has completed the acquisition of USbased infrastructure management services firm, DecisionOne, for a total consideration of USD 104 million, a top company official said.

"We have completed the acquisition of DecisionOne for USD 104 million. This will give us several blue-chip clients in the high-potential US and north American markets and strongly enhance our position in the infrastructure management services (IMS) space," Glodyne Technoserve's CMD, Annand Sarnaaik, said here today.

Govt for pan India toll automation India will soon see a uniform electronic toll collection system on its national highways, increasing the revenue, curbing leakages and ensuring smooth travel across the country.

The system, which will use passive RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, is likely to be in place by May 2012.

'Passive RFID will ensure that a person can travel from Kashmir to Kanyakumari without stopping anywhere. The revenue leakages at present is at least 15 percent of the toll collection, which comes to about Rs.300 crore,' said Road and Transport Minister Kamal Nath.

RFID technology is a tracking system and has widespread applications across several industries like retail and logis-

RNRL, Reliance Power to merge PTI NEW DELHI, JULY 2

Ravi Naik, Minister for Home, co-operation, women and child development and animal husbandry cutting the ribbon to inaugurate Sonoo Premier showroom in Goa.

HDFC offers home loan at 8.25%

While RIL and RNRL have refused to share details of the new GSMA, sources in know of the development say the new contract does not mention the volume, tenure or price of gas, but only lists the requirement of gas at ADAG's proposed units, including the 7,800-MW Dadri plant near here and the Shahapur plant in Maharashtra.

Supplies may have also been sought for expansion of the 220-MW Samalkot plant in Andhra Pradesh, the 48-MW Goa project and the 165-MW Kochi plant.

Once gas allocation is approved by an Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, RIL will enter into GSPA with R-Power for the specific plants of at the price and tenure determined by the government.

ADAG plants may be at least 27-30 months away from taking first gas.

Maytas Infr., 209.5, 210.9, 205.5, 206.25 Moser-baer (, 68.4, 68.7, 67.05, 67.45 Mrpl, 77, 84.45, 76.4, 82.9 Nagarjuna Co, 189, 190.65, 185.5, 187.35 Nagarjuna Fe, 31.7, 33.35, 31.7, 33 National Alu, 428.05, 434.95, 425.15, 429.3 Neyveli Lign, 161.5, 163.5, 159.2, 160 Ntpc Ltd, 200.5, 203, 200.15, 202.45 Oil And Natu, 1300.5, 1325.4, 1300.5, 1306.3 Omaxe Limite, 95.3, 95.3, 93.6, 94.1 Oriental Ban, 321.9, 322.05, 317, 320.3 Pantaloon Re, 424.4, 424.8, 415.1, 419.1 Parsvnath De, 122.6, 124.2, 121, 122.35 Petronet Lng, 77.1, 79.95, 77, 78.65 Power Fin Co, 298, 300.1, 292.5, 294.15 Power Grid C, 103.6, 104.25, 103.1, 103.55 Praj Industr, 81.65, 82, 80.05, 80.9 Punj Lloyd L, 133, 135.4, 133, 133.5 Punjab Natio, 1025, 1064, 1022, 1046.2 Rajesh Expor, 82.2, 83.8, 81.05, 81.85 Ranbaxy Labs, 463, 464.9, 455, 456.05 Rashtriya Ch, 83.35, 87.15, 83.35, 85.65 Rel. nat. re, 65, 67.95, 60.05, 63.95 Reliance Cap, 754.8, 767.85, 751.1, 757.3

tics.

The government had constituted a committee headed by former Infosys chief executive and Unique Identification Authority Chairman Nandan Nilekani for this purpose.

'The challenge was to have a technology which was modern, user friendly and has international standards,' said Nath.

The RFID tag, will be stuck on the windscreen and cost about Rs.100, while the toll booth will have a tag reader, which is expected to cost about Rs.2 lakh.

A vehicle owner can 'recharge' the account for the vehicle (the account number will be the RFID tag number), and when the vehicle passes through the lane of any toll plaza across the country, the appropriate toll will be debited from the account.

SBI opens branch in Dharavi MUMBAI: As a part of its financial inclusion plans, public sector lender, State Bank of India, today set up a specialised micro-finance branch in Asia's largest slum area, Dharavi, here today.

This is the second such branch opened by the bank in the country, the first being at Bhopal, which it established in 2008.

BOARD MEETINGS Ayoki Merc Gagan Polycot Net 4 India Dhunseri Tea Gujarat Foils Rammaica India Farry Inds Mayur Floorings Remi Securities Source: Indiainfoline.com

Reliance Com, 195, 195.8, 189.5, 190.85 Reliance Ene, 900, 910, 900, 901.37 Reliance Ind, 971.5, 1004.2, 970.55, 976.2 Reliance Ind, 1076, 1083.95, 1065.3, 1068.95 Reliance Pow, 169.95, 177.95, 169.7, 175.3 Rolta India, 167.05, 169, 165.15, 166.05 Satyam Compu, 92.3, 92.8, 90.6, 91 Sesa Goa Ltd, 351, 353.7, 345.2, 346.9 Shipping Cor, 157.75, 158.6, 156.5, 156.7 Siemens Ltd, 716.1, 726.9, 712.2, 719.25 Sintex Indus, 316.7, 321.5, 314.55, 315.45 Sobha Develo, 293.75, 293.9, 286, 287.8 State Bank O, 2265, 2279.9, 2257.35, 2265.05 Steel Author, 189.3, 192.3, 189.25, 190.05 Sterlite Ind, 165, 165.85, 160.05, 160.7 Sun Pharmace, 1752.65, 1775.8, 1750, 1755.8 Sun Tv Netwo, 432, 439.4, 426.25, 429.75 Suzlon Energ, 57.5, 59.75, 57.25, 58.5 Tata Communi, 260.6, 262.6, 258.25, 258.75 Tata Consult, 734.8, 746, 730.85, 743.8 Tata Motors, 770, 775.85, 763, 766.4

Tata Power C, 1302.75, 1318.8, 1302.75, 1310.5 Tata Steel L, 475.1, 481, 471.15, 474.95 Tata Tea Ltd, 122.2, 122.2, 120.05, 120.8 Tata Teleser, 22.1, 22.2, 21.55, 21.65 Tech Mahindr, 738.6, 744, 730, 732.6 The Ge Shpg., 291.7, 293, 288.1, 290.25 The Phoenix, 218.9, 220, 215, 216.15 Thermax Ltd, 745.65, 750.8, 740, 746.85 Titan Indust, 2350, 2365, 2316.5, 2322.7 Torrent Powe, 342, 351.25, 337.05, 348.95 Triveni Engg, 103.3, 104.5, 102.95, 103.35 Tv18 India L, 96.2, 96.75, 93.5, 94.3 Uco Bank, 78.2, 78.7, 77.55, 78.1 Ultratech Ce, 869.05, 890, 854.55, 870.55 Union Bank O, 314, 316.45, 310.05, 310.8 Unitech Ltd, 73.1, 73.65, 72.3, 72.6 United Phosp, 182, 184.7, 180.1, 182.3 Videocon Ind, 211, 213.5, 208.3, 209.25 Vijaya Bank, 62.8, 63.45, 61.25, 61.5 Voltas Ltd, 200, 203.8, 199.55, 201.95 Wipro Ltd, 376.15, 388, 372.55, 385.6 Yes Bank Lim, 269, 273.9, 265.85, 267.8 Zee Entertai, 300.7, 302.45, 291, 292.55

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Berdych ousts Djokovic, faces Nadal

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Tomas Berdych swept Novak Djokovic in straight sets at Wimbledon on Friday to reach his first Grand Slam final.

The 12th-seeded Czech, who upset six-time champion Roger Federer in the quarters, kept up his sparkling run with a 6-3, 76 (9), 6-3 win Friday over the third-ranked Serb on centre court.

Spain’s Rafael Nadal reached his fourth Wimbledon final with a 6-4, 7-6, 6-4 win over Britain’s

3rd Div football

PANJIM (HSD) – The GFA’s Third Division football league will kick off in the second week of August. Clubs registered with the GFA for 2010-11 season which are participating in the Third Division League have been asked to collect forms for registration of players and submit them for preparation of cards. Forms for registration of at least 15 players have to be submitted to GFA ten days before the first match.

Mariano football finals

BICHOLIM (HC) -- Fernandes Brothers and Friends Bicholim will organise the Mariano Fernandes memorial football finals on Sunday July 4 at 4.30 p.m. at Chatrapati Shivaji Maidan, Bicholim.

The function would include felicitation of SSC students and distribution of stationary for needy students.

Street football at Taleigao

PANJIM (HSD) -- Solfa Boyz, Taleigao will organize a one-day street football tournament near Ideal School, Taleigao on July 4.

Spot entries will be accepted (limited entries). This is a sport which is highly rated in Brazil, as big players like Romario, Ronaldo and Robinho have all come up through this version of football.

Teams may report at 9 a.m.

Post for Pango HERALD CORRESPONDENT MARGAO, JULY 2

The Goa Football Association has named its member, Anthony Pango as chef-de-mission of Goa Santosh Trophy football squad.

Meanwhile the preparatory camp will start on July 12 at Chowgule College’s artificial turf.

Andy Murray.

The second seed, who won the title in 2008 but missed the tournament last year through injury, will face Czech Tomas Berdych in Sunday’s final.

Nadal took the first set with a single break when Murray sent a crosscourt forehand wide leaving the Scot banging his fist against his side in frustration.

In an enthralling second set, Murray had set point on his serve at 6-5 in the tie-break but Nadal saved it with a fantastic drop volley before extending

his match lead.

Murray started brightly in the third set breaking Nadal to love to the delight of the partisan centre court crowd but their joy did not last long as Nadal broke back in the eighth game and broke again to seal victory when Murray lashed a volley long.

The 24-year-old Berdych is the first Czech to reach the men’s final at the All England Club since Ivan Lendl in 1987.

The only Czech to win the men’s title was Jan Kodes in 1973.

“The feeling is absolutely amazing. It is really tough to describe,” Berdych said. “Every young kid, from the first time he hits the ball and thinks to be a tennis player, this is the dream to be in the final of any Grand Slam. This is definitely the biggest tournament for me.”

Berdych dictated most of the play with his big first serves and punishing forehand, and seized command of the match by winning a dramatic second-set tie-breaker.

Berdych lost serve just once in 16 games and broke Djokovic three times. The Czech had 11

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aces, 34 winners and 17 unforced errors.

It was Berdych’s first win over Djokovic after two defeats.

Djokovic, winner of the 2008 Australian Open, fell short in his bid to reach a third Grand Slam final.

“He was just a better player today on the court,” Djokovic said. “When I had the opportunities, I didn’t use them. In important moments I served some double faults. I was a little bit unfortunate in some points. But definitely didn’t take my chances and he used it, so he deserved

Sporting Club of Davorlim were lucky to defeat Cana Benaulim Sporting Association 8-7 via the sudden death to move into the semi-finals of 34th Cana Benaulim inter-village football tournament organised by Cana Benaulim Sporting Association at St John Baptist ground, Dando, Benaulim on Friday.

Sporting Club of Davorlim were trailing 0-1at half time.

Cana Benaulim Sporting Association came close to surging ahead early in the game, but

to win.”

Saturday’s women’s final pits defending champion and threetime winner Serena Williams against 21st-ranked Russian Vera Zvonareva, playing in her first Grand Slam title match.

“I don’t care what everyone says,” the 25-year-old Zvonareva said. “I know if I can play my best tennis I can beat anyone on the other side of the net.

That’s what I’m going to try to do on Saturday. I never look at any odds or comparisons. It’s not important to me.”

Divisions within the ICC today deepened with Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand asking John Howard not to withdraw his candidacy for the vicepresident's post even as new President Sharad Pawar hit back at his detractors saying the former Aussie PM did not have the numbers.

A day after the ICC conclave in Singapore, Howard got the backing of Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard who said he should give it another shot despite being rejected by the powerful Asian Bloc, raising speculation of a race divide.

Pawar, however, rubbished suggestions that rejection of Howard's candidacy would divide world cricket.

"The majority did not support him. Ultimately in any democratic organisation, there has to be support from the majority but that was not there in his case," he told reporters on his from Singapore.

UPA govt to clip Pawar’s wings?

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In a possible attempt to clip his wings, the Congress is mulling over the division of Agriculture and Food and Civil Supplies Minister, Sharad Pawar's portfolios, in the immediate aftermath of his assumption of office as the International Cricket Council President.

According to CNN-IBN, sources have indicated that the veteran Maratha leader might be relieved from his duties as the Food and Civil Supplies Minister.

Pawar has faced the flak of the opposition and his alliance partners for not being able to control the sky-rocketing food prices, and has been accused of devoting more time to cricket than his national responsibilities.

Reports suggest that members of the Congress feel that

burdened with the responsibility of being the ICC President, the NCP supremo may not be able to discharge his responsibilities with the required amount of diligence.

However, the former BCCI chairman thinks otherwise, and has suggested that although he will have to be in Dubai for 3-4 days every month, it will not impact his work back home.

“Dubai works on Saturday and Sunday, so generally I have to spend three to four days in a month. It's a matter of a twohour flight, so I think there won't be any difficulty. Secondly, I will discuss with Prime Minister about my responsibilities and will take appropriate decision that my government work is not affected,” he said on Friday.

Rising food inflation, clubbed with next year's state elections in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu,

are raising many an eyebrow amongst the DMK and the TMC, two of UPA's key allies at the centre.

"I may suggest for more hands. I had asked for three ministers but they have given only one. If I request to reduce some of my work, we may find some solution. I won't allow my work in government to suffer," Pawar said.

Menwhile, Pawar said there will be no division in world cricket despite the rejection of former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard's candidacy for ICC vice-president.

Howard's nomination was turned down Wednesday at an ICC executive board meeting in Singapore, where up to six of the 10 full members of the sport's world governing body signed a letter opposing him.

"The majority did not support him. In any democratic organi-

Plea to raise number of PE teachers in schools HERALD SPORTS REPORTER MAPUSA, JULY 2

Accountability and documented targets are the need of the hour if Goa aims to take full advantage of the new Sports Policy, stressed Professor L. R.Vaidhyanathan at Gomantak Maratha Samaj Hall, Panjim on Friday.

Vaidhyanathan, who is the chairperson of Karnataka State Sports Policy Committe was addressing the PE teachers and Headmasters and Principals of schools and higher secondary schools at the one-day programme organised by Direc-

torate of Sports and Youth Affairs.

Quoting from the 2007 U.N. resolution, Vaidhyanathan said, “It is the right of every child to play and be healthy,” and remarked that once you integrate physical education with academics in schools one can create emotional stability and avoid depression and suicidal tendencies.

The PE teachers when asked to air their views said that there is need to have one more PE teacher wherever the total strength of the school students is 300. They also felt that PE

teachers should not be asked to take up other subjects and that a mechanism should be introduced to regulate the number of entries at the competition level.

Dr Susana D’Souza, DSYA director, acknowledged that the Sports Policy was still in its infancy stage and that schools were provided with the marking scheme late. “As such I have asked the heads and teachers to submit in writing to the department any individual problems that they are facing. The ball is in you court,” she remarked.

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Oz, NZ PMs back Howard

Ozie Fernandes’ feeble shot went straight into the waiting hands of Sporting Club of Davorlim goalkeeper.

Later, Xamaro Rodrigues too came close to breaking the deadlock but a pass from Alfred Fernandes went straight into the waiting hands of the Davorlim goalkeeper.

After a couple of misses, Cana Benaulim Sporting Association found success midway in the opening session as Polvin D’Silva bulged the net off a pass from Carlos Fernandes.

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sociation continued to attack after change of ends and kept up the pressure on the rival citadel but they could not increase their tally due to poor marksmanship.

A lot was expected from Sporting Club of Davorlim but they were subdued and hardly troubled the rival defence.

Sporting Club of Davorlim in their last ditch effort succeeded as Anthony Fernandes’ cross from the lef t slipped off Benaulim goalkeeper Hubert’s hands and

l u r k i n g s t r i k e r Ro s e b u d Gomes made no mistake in sending the ball to the far corner of the net.

In the ensuing penalty shootout, Rosebud Gomes, Bonnie Niasso, Venson Figureido, Piedade Colaco, Peter Fernandes, John Fernandes and Agnelo Dias were on target for Sporting Club of Davorlim while Santan Fernandes, Xamaro Rodrigues, Alfred Fernandes, Polvin D’Silva, Carlos Fernandes and Ozie Fernandes converted for Cana Benaulim Sporting Association.

Sharada Mandir School (Mira Mar) administrator, Oscar Gonsalves, alongwith Eunice De Sa, principal, Sanjeev Patil, Lovelina Rodrigues, Stany Lobo, Tukaram Shetkar receiving the overall championship trophy (2009-10) from Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat in the presence of Dr Susana D'Sousa, Director of Sports and Youth Affairs at Kala Academy, Panjim on Thursday. Sharada Mandir were crowned overall champions in inter-school tournaments for the second consecutive year.

sation, there has to be support from the majority but that was not there in his case," Pawar said.

Pawar said he did not think the decision would become divisive in world cricket because Howard's case was discussed both individually and collectively - including among his supporters, Australia, England and New Zealand.

Howard, the joint candidate of the Australian and New Zealand cricket boards, has indicated he will not withdraw his nomination for the vice-presidency, which would lead to the presidency of the ICC within two years.

Pawar believed that the biggest challenge for him at the ICC will be to preserve all the three formats of the game Twenty20, one-day and Test matches.

Resha to lead cricket team HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, JULY 2

Wicket-keeper Resha Rawal will lead the Goa senior omen’s cricket team for South Zone inter-State tournament to be held in Bangalore from July 713. Salma Divkar has been named vice-captain) The other members of the squad: Shikha Pandey, Santoshi Rane, Marlene Colaco, Sunanda Yetrekar, Nikita Malik, Teena Volvoikar, Krutika Naik, Freeda Pereira, Surat Gawas, Pratiksha Gadekar, Deepti Parab, Shilpa Gawas, Crista Souza. Collin Rodrigues coach. Kishori Haldankar manager. Alisha Gracias physio.

Anuja Gaunekar video analyst.

Custodio memorial soccer: Dramapur Sports Club v. Davorlim Sports Club, Raia panchayat ground, 4.30 p.m.

34th Cana Benaulim soccer quarters: Varca Sports Club v. Parish Youth, Nuvem, St John Baptist ground, Dando, Benaulim, 4.45 p.m.

Asked whether the rejection would divide world cricket, Pawar said, "I don't think so. We have discussed the matter individually and collectively with everybody including Australia, England and New Zealand. We took a collective decision."

Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket are already seething in anger over Howard's rejection and Gillard and Kiwi PM, John Key echoed the sentiment.

"John Howard, passionate, passionate cricket fan. I share some of the concerns he's voiced publicly about the kind of factors that are influencing this decision," Gillard told 'Fairfax Radio today.

"I'd be very happy to offer full support for John Howard to get this role," she said.

The 70-year-old Howard has refused to back out and said he was disappointed by the Asian bloc's refusal to specify reasons for not supporting him.

Key said the Howard would make a "fantastic" ICC President.

"I know John well; I met him on numerous occasions when I

was leader of the opposition and as Prime Minister. I think he's been a tremendous leader of Australia. He's a great administrator and he loves his cricket ... even if he can't bowl very well from what I've seen on TV," Key joked.

New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan has also backed Howard.

"We were single-heartedly behind John Howard. NZC is held up as a model of good governance in terms of having independent directors who do what is best for cricket ... but that obviously doesn't apply to the ICC and that is a shame," he fumed.

However, Zimbabwe Cricket chief Peter Chingoka justified the rejection saying that the former Australian Prime Minister was not experienced enough for the job.

"No one has a problem with an Australian candidate, no one has a problem with a New Zealand candidate - if it's an individual we can accept," Chingoka said.

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BY DOLCY D’CRUZ HERALD FEATURES tarting life all over again is not easy especially in a different country.

Noora Maria Lobo adjusted to life in a white-dominated society with ease and has formed a theatre group with three other British students. Known as ‘Unfortunate Theatre’, speaking to Noora for even a few minutes reveals that she is passionate about making acting her career, something that is very close to her heart. She understands every aspect of it and puts her mind, body and soul into her performance on stage. A youngster living in Plymouth with her family, she is currently doing her Masters in Theatre and Performance at the University of Plymouth in the UK. Noora never had stage fear. From a very young age, she was taught to perform by her grandfather, John Joseph Lobo, a violinist who played for the Mae De Deus Chapel in Corjuem. He used to teach Noora to sing songs and act in khell tiatrs in Corjuem. “In those days for feasts or parish gatherings, the villagers would get together and sing songs and stage short skits. That was the time when I started taking performing serious. My mom Unelia Joao and my grandfather thought it would be my hobby, but I had other plans,” says 21-year-old Noora.

Noora studied in St Thomas Girl’s High School, Aldona, where she grabbed every opportunity to get on stage. Whether it was participating in assemblies or school events, she was always on stage to add some spunk to the event. Noora moved to Feltham at the age of 12, where she had to start all over again.

“When you travel to a new place with a different culture, you are torn between fitting into your new place and longing for your roots. It is hard to m a ke d e c i sions, and you have to be open-minded.

I was in a completely white society, yet I managed to make friends and study without any difficulty. You have

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to be unbiased and not think that people are racist. If you think they are racist even when they are not, it can be very disturbing. I have adjusted to the new lifestyle, but I come back to my roots at every given chance,” says Noora, who is in Goa for her holidays.

At St Paul’s Catholic College, she joined the Drama Club and scored well in drama classes. At the end of the final term of college, Noora played Mrs Higgins in the play ‘My Fair Lady’. Nearing the end of college, she had to convince her mom, a Biology teacher, to allow her to pursue a degree in Theatre. Fortunately, her Biology grades were lower than her Drama grades, making it easier to get into the University of Plymouth for Theatre and Performance. “I fought and argued for nearly three months with my mom to choose drama, as I wanted something I enjoyed doing. I did study well, but yet fared well in Drama compared to Biology,” she explained.

For the undergraduate degree in Theatre and Performance, she played a role in ‘The Chairs’ written by Eugene Ionesco, followed by a performance of ‘Alma Extraviada’. Her final performance, a play called ‘Every Sukrar’, was based on the scenes of Mapusa’s Friday market. Noora had to form a group of theatre students and she named the group ‘Unfortunate Theatre’.

The other members of the group are Abbie Heath, Jade Appleby and Harriet Turner.

“I remember coming to the Friday market with my mother and, whenever I used to pass the fish market, I would notice a garbage dump with children playing around it. As the only daughter, I would tell my mom: ‘Let’s take one child home, no one will know.’ Those memories influenced me to write a play on how these children survive in the market, as their life is a struggle. It dealt with human trafficking, women’s issues and snatching away of innocence from one’s childhood. It was difficult making my group members imagine a Friday market, as they had never been to Goa. I didn’t give them any Konkani words except for ‘poti’ and ‘Sukrar’, which were important for the play. The play opened with the scene showing a huge dump of garbage with real fish and waste, so as they entered the auditorium, the audience could really sense that they were in a market.”

She adds, “The play had story telling, narratives, shadow effects and movements. It was well received by the audience, which consisted mainly of Britishers. Based on that performance we have now been assigned a play that is designed on saving the woodlands that are preserved by the National Trust. We are planning to recreate ‘Alice in Wonderland’ with props like life-sized teapots, teacups, fairs and the Mad Hatter.”

Noora also acted in a Konkani tiatr, ‘Punn Tu Goenkar,’ directed by Fr Lucas Rodrigues, where she played three major roles: “This was my debut in tiatr. It was a great experience, as I worked with John D’Silva, Nato, Olga and Anil Pednekar. I learnt a lot from them. The tiatr was actually based on Goans in London, and was performed only in London.”

Regarding her current syllabus she says, “The current degree involves a lot of the technicalities behind the scenes, like making a performance come alive, lights, stage settings and costumes. Besides acting, the course also deals with intercultural and cross-cultural theatre and dance practices, dance theatre and physical theatre, choreography, gender and sexuality in performance. They also teach Ashtanga Yoga and the Kerala martial art of Kalarippayattu, as physical movement in drama.”

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Walking Down the Road to Success Success doesn’t come easily. One has to persevere to bask in its rays. One such example is Sameer Anil Salgaocar, who holds key positions in various government departments. Raised in a family of industrialists, Sameer nurtured a desire to create value through conviction and perseverance. This down-to-earth personality enlightens us on how to begin on the road to success

BY REMEDIANA DIAS Do you have a ‘most important advice’ for a person considering working for themselves?

What is most important will vary with each person. Some will need to discover themselves first, others just need to get off their butts and start. If someone is not confident of their abilities, I would encourage them to get a sales job in a retail establishment. Promotions come quickly in retail; they will get experience in all sorts of business disciplines – sales, buying, inventory control, income statements, and lots of other important knowledge. They will also get the chance to enter management and discover if they enjoy that relationship.

If they decide to go out on their own, they will have the basics for success, along with knowledge of their own strengths and weaknesses.

So what makes the difference in starting styles; how would a person find where they fit?

Personalities. Some learn best getting face-to-face with clients. Others need to get face-toface with themselves first. Everyone needs to keep learning and challenging themselves if they expect to be successful. There are many good inspirational books or biographies of successful people that a person can read. I usually read three or four books at a time. I always make sure the book I read before going to bed is inspirational. I also listen to motivational tapes or books on the tape deck in my car. Music is nice, but it will not help me develop a winning outlook. A lot of your ability to apply yourself comes from your own determination; you develop that by immersing yourself in positive information.

I hear what you are saying about reading biographies. When I read about George Muller, I found out a great deal about the flexibility of faith and its application. Is there one biography you have read that stands out?

Henry Ford. An original thinker and a great success at accomplishing what he set out to do.

He had a top notch group of engineers, many of the best. He told them he wanted a V8 engine; they said it couldn't be done. He kept going back and asking how they were doing on the V8, and they kept saying it was impossible. After a year or so, someone had an idea of how it might be done. And it was done…

Was there anything else that impressed you about Ford?

I like his saying, ‘Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.’.

How do you organise yourself?

I'm a firm believer in the 80/20 rule – 80 per cent of your sales come from 20 per cent of your clients. The key is to put 80 per cent of your effort into the 20 per cent that are your best customers. Many companies ignore their clients while they beat the bushes for new customers. They have it backwards. You need to take care of the customers you have. They will re-buy and supply referrals that are pre-sold by the client's stories about your service.

The Perfectionist creates Confusion… on Twitter!

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he latest star addition to join the tweeting scene is none other than the perfectionist Aamir Khan, who in just a span of three days had a following of over 70,000. But his fans were faced with a huge confusion, when they discovered two similar IDs and wondered which one belonged to the star.

The two IDs @aamir_khan and @aamir_khanAamir, both active and displaying the similar tweets, got fans in a stir, when they couldn’t figure out which was the real Aamir.

However, the chaos dissipated when the truth surfaced. This is what the latest tweets on the latter username read, “this is not real Aamir...real ID of Aamir is @aamir_khan ...lolz,” adding, “somebody made this account and deleted or changed his username...I just overtook this username.”

The tweets between Aamir Khan and other Bollywood actors also exposed his real Twitter ID. “Morning! Told you of the 'madness' you would create… barely 2 days and over 70,000 followers… that's immense,” tweeted Amitabh Bachchan, to which Aamir replied, “Thanks to you, sir.”

Well Aamir seems to be doing well on the social networking front as well as in his career.

The latest buzz being that Aamir has been chosen to star in Danny Boyle’s upcoming project, ‘Bombay Velvet’ to be directed by Anurag Kashyap. Although there is no confirmation about this, Anurag seems positive that Aamir would be excited to take up the assignment which is tailor made for him.

While the other productions are eager to work with the Khan, he is busy promoting his own production, ‘Peepli Live,’ looking for innovative ways of doing the same. This time he has taken to poking fun at himself in the promos of the film. “It's a prank on me. It's slightly new style of promoting a film. We are hoping it stands out in terms of marketing, as the film has no stars,” said Aamir.

The promo shows a reporter filing from a village named Peepli about the film. He is standing in front of a makeshift stall selling chips and biscuits. The products are named Gajni and Amir Khan (both spelt wrong) and have Aamir's picture on the wrap. The reporter says: "Let's see whether the film becomes a hit or Aamir will live his life selling wafers, biscuits and chips of his name."

Once the camera is switched off, the reporter pokes fun at Aamir, saying: Bhaiya roj roj nehi banti Lagaan. Pagal ho gaya hai, kuchh bhi banata hai. (Lagaan is not made everyday, (Aamir) has gone mad, he just makes anything)". So now, let’s hope this ‘anything’, is as good as his previous productions.

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ameron Diaz believes that monogamy is an outdated concept. The actress, who has most recently been romantically linked to baseball player Alex Rodriguez, thinks that it's perfectly acceptable not to spend your life with one partner.

“Relationships can last two, five or 20 years. I don't believe in sharing your bed with the same person your whole life, though. That might be a reality for some, but it surely isn't for me,” she said.

‘Charlie’s Angel’ star, Cameron has enjoyed a string of high-profile romances with the likes of Justin Timberlake, Matt Dillon and Jared Leto.

She believes society puts too much pressure on people to get married

and says there is nothing wrong with staying single. “You don't find true love, it finds you. Somewhere out there, there's someone you can share your love with.”

“Our society tries to makes us believe you’re ready for love at 18, have to get married and spend the rest of your life with the same man.

That’s not the ideal anymore these days. Some people find their true love at 50 and with today’s life expectancy you could live another 50 years with that person. Just imagine having to sleep with the same guy for 20, 30 or even 50 years. If you can’t you shouldn’t go there,” she added.

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‘World of Books’, a 1-day workshop on books, organised by the Kala Academy, Panjim will be held on July 4 from 10:30am onwards at the Kala Academy, Panjim. Call 2420452.

‘Gadad Tinsana’, in memory of the legendary Goan poet, the late B B Borkar will be held on July 8 at 4:30pm at the Kala Academy, Panjim. It is organised by the Department of Art and Culture and the B B Borkar Birth Centenary Committee. Call 2420452.

A Ponda Taluka Interschool and Higher Secondary School Level Essay Competition will be held on July 18 from 10am to 12pm at the Saraswati High School, Kawale. It is organised by the Gomantak Maratha Samaj as part of the Dayanand Bandodkar birth centenary celebration.

Free yoga sessions, held by the Sri Ram Yoga Mandir Trust, Gujurat will take place from July 3 to 9 from 6am to 6:45am at the Radhakrishna Temple, Panjim and on July 4 from 11am to 1pm at the Rotary Community Centre, Vasco.

Call 9422443421.

Free Sanskrit speaking classes, conducted by Siddharth Seva Pratishthan are being held till July 12 from 6pm to 7:30pm. Call 9260039334, 9270159090 or 9762471782.

An open invite to Goan artisans to participate at ‘Dilli Haat’, a traditional Indian market in New Delhi is made by the Goa Handicrafts, Rural and Small Scale Industries Development Corporation (GHRSSIDC). It will take place from August 26 to September 8.

The GHRSSIDC will have 25 stalls for Goan artists. Registration closes on July 5. Visit GHRSSIDC, Crafts Complex, Neugi Nagar, Panjim. Call 2224478, 2225328, 2414916 or 2417914.

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HERALD FEATURES ala Academy has finalized the programme of its Fifth Khell Tiatr Festival in collaboration with West Zone Cultural Centre, Udaipur. The festival will be held from July 12 to July 21 at the Dinanath Mangeshkar Kala Mandir, Panaji. The shows will commence daily at 7pm on the respective dates of performances. This year the festival has been dedicated to the memory of Late Menino Afonso, renowned artist of Khell Tiatr stage.

As per the finalized programme, the inaugural show of the festival ‘Tum Amka Naka’ written and directed by Dominic Carvalho will be staged by JM Productions, Majorda on July 12. ‘Koxtt Tarvotteanche’ written and directed by Menino de Bandar will be staged on July 13 by MB Productions, Benaulim. SMS Arts, Vasco will present ‘Ghor Moddat Ghorabo Samballat’ written and directed by Maxcy Pereira on July14. ‘Fatlean Poi’ written and directed by Mario Menezes will be staged on July 15 by Menezes Theatres, Chinchinim.

Anil Olga Productions, Quitula, will stage ‘Xim Mer Assounk Zai’ written and directed by Anil Pednekar on July 16. ‘Puro Ami Tras Kadleat Te…’ written and directed by Alfredo Fernandes will be stage on July 19 by Alfi Productions, Divar. Comedian Domnic and Luis Bachan, Bandora-Ponda will present ‘Matiechem Bhangar Korunk’ written and directed by Comedian Dominic on July 20. The concluding show of the festival ‘Cake’ written and directed by Pascoal Rodrigues will be presented by PR Productions, Majorda on July 21.

Tickets for each show will be available at the Kala Academy three days in advance of the performances in the festival.

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HERALD FEATURES he state round of the ‘Limca Book of Records Quiz, 2010’ was recently held at the Don Bosco, High School in the city. The team of Anil Kumar and Shahish Surme, from the Navy Children School, Vasco, emerged victorious, while Raj Kunkolienkar and Shantanu Kulkarni from Mushtifund High School, emerged as the runners up. The Navy Children School, Vasco will be amongst the 80 schools all set to compete in the semi finals.

The quiz saw the participation of about 90 students from 50 schools, out of which six schools competed in the city finals – Kendriya Vidyalaya Vasco, KV INS, Navy Children School, Regina Mundi High School, Sharda Mandir School, Mushtifund High School.

The Limca Book of Records Quiz 2009 was a success and so was this year’s programme that was organised to continue its journey of promoting knowledge and awareness amongst the young minds of the country. The multi-city initiative has been launched in partnership with ‘Know and Grow with Derek’ and a series of quiz competitions are being organised across 3500 schools across 100 cities divided into 4 zones. The quiz is being organized in three stages – Inter-school level, Semi-Finals and National Finals from April to December, 2010.

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iatr Academy of Goa (TAG), in collaboration with Carmel College of Arts, Science and Commerce for Women, Nuvem recently organised a one-day workshop on tiatr at the auditorium of Carmel’s College.

The first session on ‘History and Format of Tiatr’ was guided by Tomazinho Cardozo, President of TAG. The students were made aware of the history of tiatr and the original format due to which a tiatr is considered a unique dramatic form.

The second session on ‘Script and Lyrics Writing’ was conducted by Joe Rose, a popular tiatr artiste. Joe Rose, is a scriptwriter and lyricist, besides giving theoretical knowledge about script and lyrics writing, he also enriched his presentation with personal experiences of writing scripts and composing songs.

The session on ‘Direction and Acting in Tiatrs’ was conducted by Fr Nevel Gracias, a writer and director of tiatr. Besides, theoretical aspects, Fr Gracias stressed on practicals as far as acting is concerned.

The presentations were substantiated with entertainment programme presented by Ben Evangelisto and Janet which included solo singing, duets and acting.

The workshop was inaugurated by the Principal of the College, Dr (Sr) M Aradhana A C by lighting the traditional lamp in the presence of Tomazinho Cardozo, Joe Rose and Head of Konkani Department, Queenie Viegas. During the valedictory function, the participants of the workshop, almost 65 students, were awarded with certificates of participation.

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MOVIE REVIEW

BY KESHAV NADKARNI

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I Hate Luv Storys

Director: Punit Malhotra Cast: Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Sameer Dattani, Sameer Soni, Bruna Abdullah, Ketki Dave Rating: he ‘chocolate’ hero Imraan Khan is back with what he does best in this week’s romantic comedy titled ‘I Hate Luv Storys’. The title itself being an irony as most of Bollywood’s fans, young and old, all love ‘love stories’ and the fact that some of the Indian Film Industry’s big money spinners are romantic stories. In this new offering, Imraan paired up with Sonam Kapoor to deliver a scintillating romantic performance.

The movie revolves around the sets of a romantic film production, for which Jay Dhingra (Imraan Khan), is an assistant director to Veer (Sameer Soni). The problem arises when Jay, a practical, no-nonsense person is fed up of making movies that revolve around a love story. Working for another love story, is when he encounters the production designer, Simran Sharma (Sonam Kapoor), a hopeless romantic to the core who lives in the world of fantasy. She is engaged to a guy of her dreams, Raj (Sameer Dattani.)

The whole movie revolves around the two of these characters and how opposites attract. Somewhere in between is a love triangle, in which the true love finally emerges.

The movie is likable as nobody would hate a love story and to find out why exactly does Jay hate love stories, is the main catch.

So whether you are a hopeless romantic or not, the movie would be a real treat to watch for its light entertainment.

(Movies showing at Cine Samrat and Cine Ashok, Panjim)

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09:00 Sasural Genda Phool 10:30 Saath Nibhana Saathiya 13:00 Tere Liye 15:30 Chaand Chupa Badal Mein 18:00 Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya 21:00 Zara Nachke Dikha 22:30 Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya

09:30 Baat Hamari Pakki Hai 11:30 Aahat 14:00 Heyy Babyy 17:00 C.I.D 21:00 Comedy Circus Ke Superstars 22:00 C.I.D 23:00 Aahat

19:00 Planet Bollywood 19:30 Page 3 20:00 Best of Encounter 20:30 The Zoom Hot'list 21:00 Crime & Bollywood 22:00 Discography

09:30 Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale 12:00 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta…

14:00 Bahurani 17:30 Gutar Gu 18:00 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta…

18:30 Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo 19:00 Mrs. & Mr. Sharma Allahabadwale 19:30 Lapataganj 20:00 Gutar Gu 21:00 Papad Pol 23:00 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta …

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Kala Academy announces Schedule Navy Children School win for Khell Tiatr Festival Limca Book of Records Quiz, 2010

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Kendr (TSKK), Porvorim will be held from July 12 to August 11 every Monday and Thursday between 9:45am to 12:45pm at Chicalim, Vasco. Call 2415864 or 2415857.

Learn to climb classes for kids and adults are being held every Saturday and Sunday at Succor, Porvorim by fitness trainer Kim and his assistant Olivia. Book in advance. Call 9422438186 or 9823128184.

A Biodiversity Awareness Workshop Programme, organised by the Department of Botany and Goa Union of Journalists (GUJ) will take place on July 3 at the Goa University. Call 2221345, 2221346, 2221347, 2451576, 2451376, 2456031, 2456108, 2456480 or 2221375.

Vedic maths classes will begin shortly in Calangute. Call 9822134831.

A Konkani Compering Workshop, organised by the Dalgado Konknni Akademi will take place on July 4 from 10:30am to 1pm at the Tiatr Academy of Goa, Campal, Panjim. Call 9881810832.

‘Fundamentals of Photography’, photography classes, conducted

by Tiger Studio begins on July 19 from 3pm to 5:30pm. Call 9822388450 or 9421742818.

The ASM Footbal Fiesta 2010 is screening the quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Clube Gasper Dias, Miramar, Panjim. Call 2462220 or 2462221.

‘I as in Icarus’ will be screened on July 5 at 6.45pm at the Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the Arts, Altinho, Panjim. Call 2421311.

Applications for various music examinations are open at the Bal Bhavan, Campal Goa. Registration closes on August 16. Call 2226823.

A health awareness camp, organised by the Goa Renal Support Association will be held on July 4 from 7:30am to 9am at the Alto-Porvorim Sports and Cultural Club, Porvorim.

Education

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09:25 Strange Wilderness 11:10 Dracula Ill: Legacy 13:00 The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice 14:50 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 17:15 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 19:10 Fanboys 21:00 Twilight 23:20 Aliens

08:45 "Crocodile" Dundee 10:45 The Pacific : Part Five 12:00 Star Runners 13:45 Sudden Death 16:00 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 18:45 Obsessed

08:15 Batwara 13:15 Life in a Metro 16:45 Krull 20:00 Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge 23:05 Na Insafi

09:30 The Dangerous Forest 12:30 Phool 16:00 Lajja 20:00 Dil Kabaddi

10:20 Where the Money Is 12:10 Butterfly on a wheel

14:10 Push 16:25 Bobby 18:45 Dirty Dancing 21:00 Ong Bak 2 23:10 Underworld: Evolution

08:30 Champion 12:00 Golmaal: Fun Unlimited 16:00 Khudgarz 20:00 Great Dharmatama 22:50 Kayda Kanoon

08:00 U Me Aur Hum 12:00 Krantiveer / Jaani Dush man Ek Anokhi Kahani 16:00 Aadmi 20:00 Mard

17:00 Wimbledon H/ls : Day 11 18:00 2010 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships 23:30 FIM Motocross World Championship 2010

10:30 Moto GP H/ls : TT Assen 11:30 Singapore International Open 12:30 Compaq Cup Tri Series 09 H/ls : Final: India vs. Sri Lanka 14:30 ICC Cricket Show 15:00 Winning Post 15:25 WWE: Super Star 16:25 Moto GP 2010 Qualifying : Gran Premi Aperol De Catalunya 19:30 WWE: Smackdown 21:30 Tour de France 23:30 WWE: Super Star

09:00 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa:Slovakia vs.

Italy 11:00 Indonesian Open : Day 3 14:30 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: Paraguay vs.

New Zealand 16:30 Global Football 16:58 Sportscenter Weekend

09:00 Nat Geo Specials : Bombay Rail: Part 1 10:00 Caught in the Act 11:00 Cruise Ship Diaries : Rock Concert 12:00 Nat Geo Women's Hour : Family 13:00 Nat Geo Weekends : Millau Sky Bridge

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09:30 Jhansi Ki Rani 12:30 Dance India Dance L'il Masters 14:00 Pavitra Rishta 17:00 Karz 20:30 Keshav Pandit 21:30 Dance India Dance L'il Masters 23:30 Kahani Ab Tak

09:00 Laughter Dons 10:00 Star One Horror Nights 11:00 Laughter Special 13:00 Laughter Ke Phatke 14:30 Star One Horror Nights 16:30 Bhool Bhulaiyaa 20:00 India's Magic Star 22:00 Star One Horror Nights 23:00 Geet

19:00 Whacked Out Sports 19:30 Spider-Man 3 22:30 Sony Style Tv Magazine 23:00 Supernatural : Sympathy for the Devil

09:50 Red Carpet 10:00 Let'z Go! 10:50 Red Carpet 11:00 Zoom Box 11:50 Red Carpet 12:00 Bollywood Revealed 13:30 The Zoom Review Show 14:00 Clozer 15:00 Plan 18:30 Let'z Go!

11:00 Csi: Crime Scene Investigation 12:00 Leverage 13:00 Destination Truth 14:00 Wipeout 15:00 Axn Action Awards 2010 15:30 Whacked Out Sports 16:00 Sports Crash 17:00 Destination Truth 18:00 Chuck

09:00 Boston Legal 10:00 White Collar 11:00 Glee 12:00 Rendezvous with Simi Garewal 12:30 Friends 13:00 Boston Legal 14:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

15:00 Desperate Housewives 16:30 30 Rock

17:00 V.I.P 18:00 Glee 19:00 Castle 21:00 America's Got Talent 22:00 Glee 23:00 V.I.P

09:00 2010 Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships 13:00 Gp2 Series 2010 15:00 Best of Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships H/ls 16:00 Best of Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships

17:00 2010 FIFA World Cup Matchday H/ls 18:00 Sportscenter Express : South Africa 18:30 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa : Pre-Show 19:20 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: Argentina vs.

Germany 21:30 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa : Post Show 22:00 2010 FIFA World Cup Magazine Show 22:30 Global Football 22:58 Sportscenter Weekend 23:00 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa : Pre-Show 23:50 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa : Paraguay vs.Spain

14:00 Lockdown : Arizona Tent City 15:00 Monkey Thieves : Hard Times 16:00 Most Amazing Moments : National Geographic's Most Amazing Close Encounters 17:00 India : Head On Air Crash 18:00 Wild Specials : Cat 19:00 Caught in the Act 20:00 Nat Geo Weekends : Sky scraper In The Round 21:00 Terraquiz 2010 : Quarter Finals 21:30 Terraquiz 2010 : Quarter Finals 22:00 Nat Geo Explorer : Anamalai - India Elephant Mountain 23:00 Mega Factories : Audi

07:00 Kids Club 07:30 Flavors 08:00 English News 09:00 Konkani News 10:00 Marathi News 11:00 Konkani Palkachim Noketram 11:30 Straight Talk 12:30 Flavors 13:00 English News 14:00 Konkani Movie 15:30 Fusion Concert 16:00 Kids Club 16:30 Flavors 17:00 Khell Tiatr 18:00 Konkani News 19:00 Marathi News 20:00 English News 21:00 Khell Tiatr 22:00 English News 23:00 Sao Joao 00:00 Konkani Duet 00:30 Flavors 01:00 Art of living 01:30 Fusion Concert 02:00 Kids Club 02:30 Flavors Note: Subject to Change

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Hotshot Villa on track to match Raul AFP PARIS, JULY 2

Should Spain get to the World Cup final, in-form striker David Villa could write a new page in the tournament's history and over-take Raul as his country's all-time top scorer in one match.

Whereas strike partner Fernando Torres has laboured in four scoreless appearances on his return from ankle surgery in April, Villa

appears to have the Midas touch.

Virtually ever ything the Barcelona new boy has touched has been turning to goal, the hiccup of an early loss to Switzerland aside.

For a generation, Spanish fans have been weaned on goals from Real Madrid goalscoring ma-

chine Raul, but suddenly his 44 goals in 102 games look mundane because 'Maravilla' has already smashed 42, in 40 games less.

Despite their stellar midfield and two of the best strikers in the world, Spain have generally been finding goals hard to come by, with just five in four games.

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Capello stays in charge of England AFP LONDON, JULY 2

Fabio Capello is to remain in his post as England manager despite the team's World Cup flop, the Football Association announced Friday.

Capello's position had been called into question after England were knocked out of the World Cup at the last 16 stage by arch-rivals Germany in an embarrassing 4-1 defeat.

But the FA, dismissing talk they might sack the Italian, said Capello would stay as national team manager.

Immediately after England's World Cup exit, Capello said he'd been told by the FA they would need two weeks to decide if they wanted him to stay on.

Capello's contract runs until after the 2012 European Championships and sacking him would have cost the FA millions

FIFA sets Monday deadline for Nigeria disappointing first round exit at the World Cup in South Africa.

Traditional African powerhouse Nigeria finished bottom of their group in South Africa with just one point from three matches.

Earlier FIFA's general secretary Jerome Valcke said he would meet the Nigerian executive member representing Nigeria at FIFA to discuss the decision.

"Nigeria went too far and Nigeria will be suspended if they don't change their position in the next 48 hours," Valcke told independent Talk Radio 702.

"You cant allow a government to say all national teams can't play anymore in any international tournaments."

He said the decision to suspend Nigeria would be in line with the governing body's efforts to retain the independence of football from political interference.

AFP JOHANNESBURG, JULY 2

Football governing body FIFA on Friday gave Nigeria until Monday 1600 GMT to reverse its decision to ban the national football team from international matches following its poor showing at the World Cup. FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot said that a letter had been sent to the Nigerian Football Federation on Friday setting the deadline to reverse the decision withdrawing the Nigerian team from international matches.

"Failure to do so will lead to the suspension of the Nigerian federation," he said.

Maingot also said that FIFA would send an official to the west African country to seek a solution to the impasse which followed the decision by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to ban the Nigerian national team from international matches following its

of pounds after they removed, shortly before the World Cup, a 'break' clause from the deal.

An FA statement issued Friday said: "The Football Association confirmed today that Fabio Capello will continue as England Team Manager.

"This followed a meeting of the Club England Board (Sir Dave Richards, Alex Horne, Sir Trevor Brooking and Adrian Bevington) and formal approval by The FA

main Board."

Sir Dave Richards said: "We are all still extremely disappointed at our performance in South Africa, and we believed it was important that we took some time to reflect on everything in a calm and considered manner back in England.

"After fully discussing our performance we remain convinced that Fabio is the best man for the job."

Loew heaps praise on ‘magic’ Maradona AFP CAPE TOWN, JULY 2

Argentina's Diego Maradona has been the target of criticism at the World Cup, but German coach Joachim Loew had nothing but praise for his flamboyant opposite number on Friday.

Maradona has been at loggerheads with Brazil's three-time World Cup winner Pele, who most recently on Thursday said the Argentine's previously troubled private life would affect his squad.

But Loew, whose team faces Argentina in the World Cup quarter-finals here on Saturday, had only fond memories of the former midfield maestro and said he was looking forward to crossing swords with him in Cape Town.

Asked where he was during the 1986 World Cup final when Argentina beat Germany, and in 1990 when Germany got their revenge, Loew said: "Off the cuff, I don't remember exactly where I saw them.

"But in 1990 I was in Switzerland and watched with some friends. Back then of course we had the extraordinary Maradona

playing.

"He galvanised the whole football world with the way he played. He was simply magic.

"Germany and Argentina of course is a big deal, an historical encounter. 1986 and 1990 were the culmination of Maradona's career and he left a mark on football like no other player has ever done before or since."

England looked tired

Loew said Friday his young team was still bursting with energy and raring to go, as opposed to a "tired" England who they knocked out of the World Cup The Germans ran riot against their old enemy in the round of 16, crushing them 4-1 and consigning English hopes to yet another failure.

Loew has a youthful team in South Africa, with their average age under 25, compared to England's golden generation.

Despite a gruelling season, he said he was not sure why England's players should have been so out of touch.

"I don't really know what could have made England tired," he said.

Owen defends Rooney AFP LONDON, JULY 2

Past and potential future Miss World contestants representing the competing countries at World Cup in South Africa.

Manchester United striker Michael Owen on Thursday defended under-fire teammate Wayne Rooney following his lacklustre performance for England in the World Cup. Rooney returned from South Africa without a goal to his name despite being tipped to take the competition by storm.

But Owen is confident that the 24-year-old can get back to his best after a summer break.

"People talk about Wayne after the World Cup because he is Wayne, but there were other players who didn't perform at the World Cup too," said Owen.

Art show examines India’s World Cup absence AFP MUMBAI, JULY 2

A crumbling concrete wall topped with goalposts divides an Indian art gallery. On one side are 126 iron footballs in glass cases. On the other, the low-pitched drone of vuvuzelas and a cheering crowd.

Getting from one side to the other of the sparse warehouse gallery in Mumbai is a challenge.

Visitors have to squeeze through a low, narrow opening in the wall to see the best footballers perform in the World Cup on a big screen.

But that is the point of installation artist Riyas Komu's work "Subrato to Cesar", a reference to Pune FC and India goalkeeper Subrato Paul and the Brazil number one Julio Cesar, who plays club football with Inter Milan.

"One is completely obscure, the other completely famous," said Abhay Maskara, curatorial director of Gallery Maskara and a friend of the artist, who is currently in South Africa documenting the tournament.

"It shows the distance, the divide between the two. What will

it take for things to come closer together? Right now, the distance is so great," he told AFP. The month-long festival of football has prompted passionate fans like Komu and Maskara to wonder why India, with a population of 1.1 billion people, has never made it to the World Cup finals.

Matches from the English Premier League are shown live on television in India, with top clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool attracting a loyal following.

World Cup matches are also being broadcast.

But despite a growing interest in the game -- more than 20 million people play football in India, according to world governing body FIFA -- India has a long way to go before it can challenge the best.

Five-times World Cup winners Brazil and its team of stars are number one in the FIFA world rankings, 129 places ahead of India, whose players passed virtually unnoticed among guests on the opening night of Komu's exhibition.

MAN OF THE MATCH Wesley Sneijder of Netherlands who scored the precious match winner.

Given its size, India should have many world-class footballers, said Maskara.

"We've seen smaller nations like New Zealand and African teams doing exceedingly well in the World Cup," he said.

"But it's not only about numbers. It's about nurturing people at the right age, having the right

resources and commitment."

As such, Komu's work suggests not only the actual divide between the big money stars of international football and India's best players but the physical barriers to success.

Rapidly-developing India's already crowded cities are becomi n g m o re p o p u l o u s , w i t h construction work robbing children of places to play football - or any sport, including the country's main passion of cricket.

Consultancy Ernst and Young said in a report published earlier this year that modern sports facilities were "woefully deficient" in Indian cities and sporting success is by accident rather than by design.

The Sports Authority of India said in its 2008-09 annual report that less than five percent of people had access to sports facilities and organised sport.

Spending was 13 rupees (less than a quarter of a dollar) per person. In Germany, the figure was four dollars per capita, Ernst and Young said.

Aminul Islam, a football writer who tracks the domestic game for

The Times of India and on his blog, www.footballwallah.blogspot.com, hopes the situation will change, pointing to the success of Asian teams Japan and South Korea.

Japan hardly registered in world football until the creation of the J. League in 1993 but have now competed in four consecutive World Cups, while South Korea, who have not missed a tournament since 1986, came fourth in 2002.

Revamping India's national league along similar lines would help, said Islam.

"Money is there in Indian football. There's a huge amount involved and more corporates are coming into the game. But the marketing hasn't been done," he added.

Developing grassroots football, adopting the techniques used to successfully sell cricket to promote the game and recruiting more experienced coaches like national team manager Bob Houghton would also help, he added.

"If such people are involved I think India might see a revolution," he added.

Xavi and Iniesta getting high pass marks

Blanc named French coach

AFP JOHANNESBURG, JULY 2

AFP PARIS, JULY 2

European champions Spain's return to the form in the 1-0 win over Portugal in their World Cup last 16 match showed that pass masters Xavi and Andrea Iniesta were fully back in tandem.

And that is an ominous sign for not only Saturday's quarterfinal opponents Paraguay but for any of the other six World Cup contenders left in the competition.

The Barcelona duo - pocket battleships as they both only m e a s u re 1 . 7 0 m e t re s ( 5 f t 5inches) - were at their mesmerising best against the Portuguese which delighted their former national coach Luis Aragones, who had predicted that the Portuguese would beat an off-colour Spanish side.

"We finally saw the Spain with its traditional passing game," he said after the victory.

Indeed it was from a typically precise passing combination from Iniesta and Xavi that David Villa scored the decisive goal in the second-half.

It is just as well for the devilish duo that Villa is on form for they have had to overburden him with their passes given the poor form shown by his strike partner Fernando Torres.

For both of them it is a welcome high point after both endured injury affected season's Xavi, the player of the Euro 2008 triumph, suffering a calf injury while Iniesta found it hard to shrug off a right thigh injury which looked to still be affecting him in the early stages of the tournament.

France's World Cup and European Championship winning defender L aurent Blanc was officially named national team coach on Friday, announced outgoing French Football Federation (FFF) president Jean-Pierre Escalettes.

The 44-year-old, who cut his teeth for the job in coaching Bordeaux to the 2009 league title, replaces Raymond Domenech, who stepped down after France's catastrophic World Cup finals campaign, though, he had already said he would not stay on in the post in any case.

"It is the good news of the morning," said 75-year-old Escalettes, who fell on his sword in the fallout from the chaotic events surrounding France's first round exit in South Africa.

"The France team will continue under the leadership of Laurent Blanc, who will have an extremely pugnacious sporting

project with the will to 'win' and in order to put the French team back on the rails in both a sporting and a moral point of view.

"It is imperative to take account of the mistakes of the past and ensure these do not repeat themselves," added Escalettes, who was speaking after the opening session of the General Council meeting where he is also formally presenting his resignation.

Blanc, who numbered Manchester United, Marseille and Inter Milan among the clubs he played for, will be assisted by his number two at Bordeaux Jean-Louis Gasset.

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Brazil fall to Oranje ambush Uruguay, Ghana into extra-time AFP JOHANNESBURG, JULY 2

The World Cup quarter-final between Ghana and Uruguay went into extra-time after both teams were locked at 1-1 at Soccer City on Friday.

Ghana scored first through midfielder Sulley Muntari with a 30-yard drive in first half stoppage time, before Diego Forlan equalised with a long-range freekick in the 55th minute.

1st semis Netherlands v.

Ghana/Uruguay June 6, 11.55 p.m.

Netherlands get lucky as Wesley Sneijder's cross is misread by Brazil’s Melo and Julio Cesar to fly into the far corner for the equaliser in the first quarter-final match at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa on Friday.

AFP PORT ELIZABETH, JULY 2

Brazil's dreams of a sixth World Cup title were shattered as the Netherlands came from behind to claim a famous 2-1 win in an enthralling quarter-final here on Friday.

An own goal by Felipe Melo, who was later sent off, and a Wesley Sneijder header enabled the Dutch to overturn Robinho's early opener and completely turn around a match that, at half-time, the five-times champions appeared destined to win comfortably.

The defeat means Brazil's campaign has ended at the quarter-final stage for the second successive World Cup while the Netherlands can look forward to a semi-final against Ghana or Uruguay having avenged their 1994 and 1998 lasteight defeats by the Brazilians.

The Dutch cause had not been helped by losing centreback Joris Mathijsen to a knee injury minutes before kick-off.

The consequent disruption to their defence was quickly apparent, and Robinho had already had one effort chalked off because of a debatable offside call against Dani Alves by the time he

gave the Selecao a 10th-minute lead. as the Brazilians started to dominate.

Melo delivered a ball from deep inside A Robinho dribble, a Fabiano flick and his own half through the heart of the suddenly Kaka was curling a shot towards Dutch defence, Robinho's run went un- the top corner, forcing Stekelenburg into tracked by John Heitinga and the forward an acrobatic save. was able to place his shot beyond the Sneijder's comfortably-saved free-kick left glove of Maarten Stekelenburg. was the only Dutch strike on goal before Juan might have made it two midway the break and he and his team-mates had through the reason to be half. The Roma grateful to star got across Stekelenburg his marker to once more secmeet an Alves onds before cross at the the interval, AFP near post but when his finPORT-AU-PRINCE, JULY 2 his shot was gertips dilifted high over A young Haitian football fan was so distraught at verted Maicon's Brazil's World Cup exit on Friday that he killed the bar. drive into the Heitinga, himself by leaping in front of a car, according to side netting. who had al- witnesses contacted by an AFP photographer.

T h e r e The 18-year-old died after the incident, which seemed no way ready been booked for an took place in Nerette, on the outskirts of the back for the off-the-ball trip Haitian capital, following Brazil's 2-1 defeat by the Dutch at that on Luis Fabi- Netherlands in the quarter-finals. stage. Yet within During the World Cup, Brazilian wins were cele- eight minutes of ano, was forbrated by street parties that brought a rare dash of tunate not to the restart they be sent off for colour and joy to a country still struggling to rebuild were level, a foul on Kaka after the devastation of the January earthquake. thanks in no

Brazil fan kills himself after exit

small part to a free-kick won by Arjen Robben's dive close to the right touchline.

The set-piece was taken short, enabling Sneijder to work the ball into space and deliver a left-footed inswinger into a congested goalmouth.

Cesar came off his line to try and punch the ball clear but collided with Melo and the ball skimmed off the midfielder's head and into the net.

Kaka had a chance to re-establish his side's advantage when Mathijsen's replacement, Andre Ooijer, sliced a clearance to him on the edge of the area.

But the playmaker's shot was placed narrowly wide and, three minutes later, Dirk Kuyt flicked on Robben's corner and Sneijder found space in the six-yard box to head the Dutch into the lead.

Melo was shown a straight red card for a stamp on Robben with 18 minutes left.

Cesar pulled off a fine stop to prevent Sneijder from claiming his second and only a last-ditch tackle ended Kuyt's surge through the Brazilian defence as the Dutch soaked up the late pressure and made their numerical advantage count on the counter attack.

Dunga feels the pain, Sparks fly ahead of ends reign Argentina-Germany clash AFP CAPE TOWN, JULY 2

Germany and Argentina have turned up the heat ahead of their eagerly-anticipated World Cup quarter-final on Saturday, with sparks flying as both sides trade barbs.

The two teams have an intense and long rivalry, with the Argentines beating Germany in the 1986 final before losing to them in the 1990 decider.

More recently, they met at the same stage in 2006 with Juergen Klinsmann's side going through 4-2 on penalties after over-cautious counterpart Jose Pekerman left Lionel Messi on the bench.

That shootout ended in a brawl when the South Americans reacted angrily after Germany's Jens Lehmann saved Esteban Cambiasso's spot-kick

to confirm victory. ters, but they are not better than The coaches are different now Argentina," he said. but the desire of both teams to The Germans will have Changet their hands on the World cellor Angela Merkel in Green Cup again hasn't changed.

Point Stadium watching and Argentina though have been coach Joachim Loew is hoping hit by concern over the fitness his young team can impress her of Messi, who did not train on by riding the wave of beating Thursday. The team insisted he England. only had a cold and would be "There is a very positive feelfine. ing in the team. We have gained Argentina, along with the a lot of confidence from taking Netherlands, are the only coun- a victory against England," said tries left with a 100 percent Loew. record and Manchester City striker KEY TO MATCH Carlos Tevez said Taming Messi and Tevez they do not fear With Messi the fulcrum of an Argentine Germany, who have side that looks unbeatable for pure firenot failed to reach power and Tevez a live wire capable of scorthe last eight since ing from anywhere, Germany have their 1938. work cut out. "(Germany) won Versatile captain Philipp Lahm will need their game and so to be on top of his game, marshalling his reached the quardefence to snuff out the threat.

AFP PORT ELIZABETH, JULY 2

Dunga admitted he would have to take the rap for Brazil's World Cup heartbreak after his four-year reign as head coach ended with a quarter-final defeat at the hands of the Netherlands.

"We are all responsible for this situation but I have the

Spain wary of Paraguay threat

continue to do so and we have one goal in this competition, in absolute confidence in him," Del a 1-1 draw with then reigning Spain will be wary when they 19.30 Argentina v. Germany Bosque insisted. champions Italy in their opening face Paraguay on Saturday in 00.00 Paraguay v. Spain "He shoulders a vast amount game.

Johannesburg's Ellis Park staof work for the team, sticks to But they have only scored dium of not making the same this competition Spain were the centre-backs (of the oppos- three times, needing penalties seen as joint-favourites along- ing team), draws out defences to advance past Japan in their mistakes as in the past.

Until two years ago when the side Brazil. and creates space for (David) second round clash following a But not all lessons had been Villa and other players behind 0-0 stalemate.

Spanish finally delivered on their learned as the Iberians stumbled undoubted promise by winning him."

However, star forward Roque the European Championships, in their opening group match Torres's strike-partner Villa, Santa Cruz, who plays for Manthey had been known as the and were beaten 1-0 by Switzer- who has been finding the back chester City in England, says it perennial chokers, or under- land. of the net, also defended his is unfair to judge the team's That seemed to focus minds, achievers. team-mate. strikers just on these last four though, and the Spanish reSuch was the bemusement Paraguay have conceded only matches. grouped and rediscovered their and indeed amusement in some form to move ominously into KEY TO MATCH quarters at Spain's repeated in- the last eight.

Paraguay's attack has been shot-shy and ineffective so far. ability to turn potential into Their one concern, if there is They failed to score against either New Zealand or Japan but achievement, that the term one, is that Liverpool forward they will most likely have to find the net against the talented "perennial underachievers" Fernando Torres has yet to find Spaniards. Spain will no doubt enjoy a lot of possession and seemed to have become a per- the net, but coach Vicente Del have been looking increasingly threatening up front as the tourmanent prefix to the word Bosque brushed aside any critnament progresses, so Paraguay will not be able to bank on Spain. icism of the former Atletico holding out at the back. They will have to take more risks going That was finally belied two Madrid star. forward and the pressure is on Roque Santa Cruz, Lucas Barrios years ago in Vienna when they "Fernando is our centre forand Nelson Valdez, none of whom have scored yet, to deliver beat Germany 1-0 to lift the Eu- ward. He has put in a lot of minthe goods. ropean title and coming into utes in four matches and will AFP JOHANNESBURG, JULY 2

TODAY’S MATCHES

greatest responsibility," Dunga said after his ten-man side went down to a shock 2-1 defeat that ended any hope he may have harboured of winning an extension of his stay in the post.

"We are all extremely saddened, we did not expect this," Brazil's 1994 World Cup-winning captain added.

"We knew it would be a delicate, difficult game. In the first half we played better than in the second but we were were not able to maintain the same rhythm.

"We could not maintain the same level of concentration. Any World Cup match is 90 minutes and it is the small details that count."

Dunga declined to criticise either Melo or goalkeeper Julio Cesar, who was at fault on the Dutch equaliser.

The eventual winner will play the Netherlands in the semi-finals in Cape Town on Tuesday.

It was in added time at the end of the first half, that Muntari struck a spectacular long-range drive to put Ghana 1-0 up.

Ten minutes into the second half, Uruguay won a free-kick just outside the area on the left and Forlan struck the ball perfectly, bending it over everyone’s heads and beyond the despairing reach of Kingson for the equaliser.

Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez sent on striker Sebastian Abreu with 14 minutes left in search of winner but neither side could break the deadlock and the match went into extra time.

A devastated silence fell over Rio de Janeiro on Friday after the country's dreams of a sixth World Cup title were crushed

by Holland in a stunning 2-1 defeat for the Brazilian team.

"It's truly a nightmare!" TV Globo's celebrated commentator Galvao cried.

In the streets of Rio, quiet reigned and the frenzied prematch drone of vuvuzelas and klaxons was long gone after Holland managed to equalize from a Brazilian own goal in the second half of the quarter-final match.

At Copacabana beach, where some 50,000 fans sporting their team's green and yellow colours had gathered, many were in tears, hanging their heads and refusing to speak.

It takes a brave creature to disagree with Paul, Germany's soothsaying octopus, who has an impeccable track record on World Cup predictions to date.

But step (or swim) forward Sayco, the dolphin from the Argentine port city of Mar del Plata.

Sayco's keepers at the city aquarium decided on Thursday to see if the friendly creature preferred to play with a ball in German red-black-gold or Argentine sky blue and white.

Leaping four metres out of the water, Sayco unhesitatingly went for the Argentine ball placed on a platform above his pool.

Locals immediately saw a positive omen, with Argentina

set to face Germany in the World Cup quarter-finals in Cape Town on Sunday.

Even so, Sayco does not have the track record of Paul, an eightlegged oracle in the Germany city of Oberhausen, who has shot to stardom for his spot-on predictions and who has forecast a German win.

Paul needed just eight seconds to make up his mind about the Germans' chances against England -- even though he was born in England -- and earlier in the tournament he correctly tipped wins over Ghana and Australia.

Not only that, he proved he is not just attracted by Germany's flag by correctly predicting a loss to Serbia in the group phase.

Brazil ..................1 *Uruguay............1

Netherlands ......2 Ghana................1

AFP BUENOS AIRES, JULY 2

*(Match gone into extra-time)

Maradona: God wants Argentina in final young fans, as they have before every game in South Africa, presented the coach with a press cutting from the successful 1986 campaign.

"Diego, we want to be in the final.

Hopefully this dream can be made true for us," the kids told 'El Pelusa' in front of the cameras.

With a smile, El Diego then replied to the youngsters: "Take it easy kids. I will see you at the final. If God wishes it, I will see you in the final. And God wishes it."

In the more than Combination shows Argentina's coach Diego 40-minute speech, Maradona gesturing during their first round t h e o u t s p o k e n matches of the 2010 Football World Cup. coach touched on a AGENCIES number of themes, PRETORIA, JULY 2 including the arrival of father Argentina's Diego Maradona Diego Sr. in South Africa. "The spoke on Thursday of his confi- old man told me he has a few dence that his side will reach health problems, but if we make the World Cup final, telling TV the final he is coming," he said, channel Canal 13 that God wants before discussing who will feahis side to be in the July 11 ture in the massive match against Germany on Saturday. showpiece.

"Demichelis is starting," he The announcement came in a piece filmed for Argentine tel- announced unequivocally, beevision in which a group of fore adding that he is unsure

Brazil’s Cup dream becomes a 'nightmare' AFP RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 2

Who’s right dolphin or octopus?

Others cursed Brazilian coach Dunga and Felipe Melo, the Brazilian defensive midfielder who scored an own goal and was later sent off.

"I was very surprised by the totally disproportionate emotional unbalance shown by the team af ter the score was equalised," former Brazil footballer Walter Casagrande Junior told TV Globo.

In a Copacabana bar, fans consoled each other and drowned their sorrows in beer, accompanied by appropriately downbeat music.

Elsewhere across the country, bitter fans who had gathered to cheer on their teams slowly dispersed in the knowledge that their next shot at another title won't come until 2014, when Brazil will host the World Cup.

MORE SPORTS ON P 13, 16, 17 who will partner him in the crucial area of central defence.

"Samuel or Burdisso? We are still analysing all the options."

Meanwhile, German football legend Franz Beckenbauer expressed his amazement on Friday at the criticism of Argentinian coach Diego Maradona which has emanated mainly from Brazil's three-time World Cup winner Pele.

Beckenbauer - whom Maradona is attempting to emulate in winning the World Cup both as a player and as a coach - said that he disagreed with Pele's claim on Thursday that Maradona's previously troubled private life would affect his squad - who take on Germany in the World Cup quarter-final on Saturday in Cape Town.