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Goa News Clips
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Holi Celebrated
 MAPUSA,
Mar 15: The Hindu community in Goa celebrates the festival of
colour - Holi - today. Groups of youngsters were out this
morning with pockets full of coloured powder and bucketfuls of
coloured water, revelling. |
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Shaistah depicts Indian
women faithfully
 CALANGUTE,
Mar 15: Shaistah Thapar is the only Goa-based artist among the
five-women displaying their captivating creations at the
ongoing exhibition "Colourama: Indian Women Artists 2006" at
Art Chamber Galeria de Belas Artes in Calangute. Shaistah
excels in Indian women's
portraits, with pastels for her medium, with a very good
background technique and detailing. She says, "Women are
basically deep - in their homes, careers, their problems - and
have the capacity to take on as much as they can. I gell very
well with their grace and style of dress." |
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Mishap at Sangolda slope
 SANGOLDA,
Mar 15: Several foreign tourists travelling in a coach on a
sightseeing tour had a providential escape when the vehicle
swerved off the road at the Sangolda curve and landed several
feet down, after somersaulting. The top of the vehicle has
been totally destroyed. The driver - nicknamed Tarlo - and all
the passengers escaped unhurt except for a few bruises. (GoaNewsClips) |
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Call Centre becomes
operational
Goa's first 100-seater
International Call Centre has now gone live and is completely
operational from march 10: The Saple Infotech Private Limited
(SIPL) Call Centre currently occupies three floors in
Figueiredo Complex, Vasco. SIPL chief operating officer,
Anurabha Pal, said although started on a small scale, it would
e generating employment for 200-300 more people in Goa in the
next few months. (GT) |
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Terminal cancer patients
can hope for home care service soon
PANJIM, Mar 15:
Terminally ill cancer patients might not require active
treatment like chemotherapy or radiotherapy but instead they
require the support, care and counselling to cope up with the
physical pain, social, psychological and financial pressures
that grip their lives. Following the example of places like
Mumbai where home cares service for terminally ill cancer
patients is handled by a team of medical volunteers, a couple
of months back the Goa Medical College tied up with the NGO
Global Cancer Concern India to start a similar kind of "home
care service for terminally ill cancer patients" in Goa. Mary
Fernandes, the nurse appointed to start the service, has
already started counselling patients from march 7 at the GMC.
(H) World's wettest spot lacks water.
Cherrapunji village in India's northeast is known as the
world's wettest spot with an average annual rainfall of about
1,200 centimeters. Ironically, water is the scarcest commodity
here. Located 6 Km from Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya,
and perched on the edge of a cliff around 1,290 metres above
the sea level, Cherrapunji holds the record for receiving the
highest rainfall in a year and also in a month. But despite
the torrential rains, water is the scarcest of commodities for
the dominant Khasi race here. (NT) |
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HE WANTED TO BLOW UP VASCO:
DGP
PANJIM: During is
two-day long interrogation, Tarique Jallal alias Battlo, the
militant who was arrested at the Margao railway station,
disclosed that he had plans to target the Mormugao Port Trust,
Indian Oil Terminus, the airport and railway stations,
Director General of Police Neeraj Kumar said yesterday. The
terrorist was in the process of setting up a base for terror
activities in the Sate but had no plans to target tourist and
religious places. Battlo, a Science graduate, had
undergone one-year Radiology course and also computer
training. According to the police, the accused is a member of
the Pakistan-based Tehrique-ul-Muhahiddin, which works under
Lakshar-e-Toiba. Battlo, who is in Goa since July last year,
had been living on financial aid from
Pakistani agencies. Investigations reveal that his father
Jalauddin Battlo is presently working in the Indian army. (GT) |
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Eternal melodies
Sa Re Ga Ma (India)
Ltd, Kolkata, have released two more albums of vintage Konkani
classics. These compilations done by Felix Correia of FC
Global Music, is a collection of Chris Perry's Golden Hits and
another from the late Alfred Rose, Goa's Musical Hero. (JP
Pereira, NT) |
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India Inc Picks Up Speed
REUTERS
New Delhi, March 11:
India's industrial output picked up speed in January to rise
8.3 per cent from a year earlier, soothing analysts' fears of
a slowdown and raising the chance of an interest rate rise in
April.
Manufacturing, which makes up more than three quarters of
industrial production, increased 9.2 per cent in January from
a year earlier compared to December's 5.9 per cent rise.
"Industrial output was way ahead of expectations on the back
of a strong recovery in manufacturing sector output," said Shuchita Mehta, Chief India economist at Standard Chartered
Bank in Mumbai. "We expect strong corporate capex demand along
with public infrastructure spending supporting industrial
growth. Therefore we expect (the central bank) to hike rates
in April," she added.
Federal bonds took the figures in their stride, with the yield
on the benchmark 10-year bond unchanged from shortly before
the data at 7.40 per cent. The rupee was also little changed
at 44.4950/5050 per dollar.
The strong expansion in January followed a revised 5.3 per
cent annual growth rate in December. It stood at 6.1 per cent
in November, below the 8 per cent growth seen for most of
2005.
"The December data was disturbing. There was an
apprehension that early signs of slowdown has set in. This
data gives new confidence. This ensures continuity," said Rupa
Rege Nitsure, economist with Bank of Baroda in Mumbai.
"The December data was an
aberration." |
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INDIA 2006 CROP FORECAST
BRIGHT: HEAVY RAINS
More than 600 million Indians live off the
land, which means consumer demand is driven by rural incomes,
and prospects are bright for farm sector expansion in the year
ending March 2006.
The government estimates
Asia's third-largest economy will expand by 8.1 per cent this
fiscal year, which ends on March 31. Further ahead, a weather
official said on Friday that the rainy season between June and
September 2006 was likely to be normal due to favourable
weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean.
Given
the good outlook for the year ahead, the prospect of more
interest rate increases is weighing on analysts' minds. The
Reserve Bank of India surprised markets in January by raising
its key short-term rate by a quarter of a percentage point to
5.5 per cent, citing rising domestic demand, higher oil prices
and increasing corporate borrowing as risks to inflation.
January
capital goods output, a barometer of industrial activity, was
up 26.3 per cent while output of consumer goods, including
vehicles and televisions, rose 7.2 per cent.
Yet data
out on Friday also showed the wholesale price index, India's
most widely tracked inflation measure, rose a
slower-than-expected 4.29 per cent on the previous year in the
week to Feb. 25, down from the previous week's 4.34 per cent. |
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