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Goa
News Clips
by
Joel D'Souza & Fred Noronha
- Goa
to host Fashion Week
The most awaited event in the calendar of the Indian fashion world, the India
Fashion Week, might be held in Goa from 18 to 24 July. The Fashion Week regularly
attracts thousands of people including corporate and showbiz celebrities,
international and national fashion buyers, tourists and other fashion lovers.
The event has, over the past few years, been held only at Mumbai and Delhi
but the FDCI is actively considering Goa as the venue for this year's IFW.
(GT)
- Saved
from Auctioneer's Hammer
Two vintage cars that transported governors across Goa for several decades
have been saved from the auctioneer's hammer after Governor Kedar Nath Sahani
showed keen interest in retaining the cars. The black-coloured vehicles Mercedes
Benz and Cadillac--which were imported by the Portuguese from Germany and
the USA respectively in 1959, were due to be auctioned off, apparently after
several governors found that they were just ornaments in the Raj Bhavan garage.
But now the Mercedes Benz will be sent to the Goa state museum while the Cadillac
will be used on ceremonial occasions. (GT)
- Bridge
at Corjuem
A
proposed bridge between Aldona and its eastern island-ward of Corjuem, is
expected to bring much relief to the 3500-odd inhabitants of this rustic island,
once famous for its onions and chillies. The proposed cable-stayed bridge
will be 210-metre long and is expected to cost around Rs.21 crore, according
to Mr Jude Carvalho, the deputy manager of the Goa State Infrastructure Development
Corporation which is co-ordinating the project. (Joaquim Fernandes in NT)
- "Mapusa
will never become Mhapsa"
Nationalist Congress Party general secretary and spokesperson Surendra Furtado
has challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party legislature representatives that
Mapusa town would never be known as Mhapsa. (H)
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