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Goa News Clips
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Guides 'evicted' from
Basilica
OLD GOA, July 3: Guided
tours inside the Bom Jesus Basilica at Old Goa would now be a
thing of the past. In a drastic move, tourist guiding
activities inside the Bom Jesus Basilica have now been banned
with immediate effect. The move comes in the backdrop of
severe criticism voiced by the Catholic community that
tourists were barging into the Basilica during religious
services... "These restrictions in the churches at Old Goa
were long overdue. Most of the tourists visit the churches at
Old Goa without proper attire and without maintaining proper
decorum," said Carambolim sarpanch Wilson Valladares. (H) |
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Rains in State above normal
PANJIM, July 2: Although
earlier reports claim that this year's rainfall could be below
normal, Goa can heave a sigh of relief as its annual total
rainfall recorded till July 2 is above normal. According to
the IMO office, the annual total rainfall till July 2 is 176.1
mm more than last year. (H) |
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Working in govt hospital
for 5 years mandatory for docs
PANJIM: The government
pressed the alarm bells in the wake of shortage of manpower to
work in hospitals and decided to make it mandatory for all
doctors passing out from Goa Medical College and Goa Dental
College to work in a government hospital for 5 years or pay
the bond money of Rs.3 lakh. In a Cabinet decision on July 4,
it was decided to take measures to sustain the required
strength in maintaining health and medical care services to
people in government hospitals, especially in the rural areas
to ensure that doctors joining GMC and GDC stay on for five
years or in lie invoke the bond signed by them. (GT) |
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Morjim tenants up in arms
over sale of land to Russian national
MAPUSA, July 4: Notices
sent to right persons at wrong addresses, notices sent to
persons dead for over 25 years, forged signatures on
acknowledgements of mutation notices and such alleged
irregularities in the surreptitious sale of land to a Russian
national has shocked and angered tenants of a beachside
property at Tembvaddo in Morjim village. (NT) |
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RESTAURANT OWNER'S MURDER
AT SALIGAO BAFFLES COPS
PANJIM: In a gruesome and
baffling murder barely a few yards from the Calangute police
station, a restaurateur, Anuj Joshi, 43, was found lying dead
on the first floor bedroom of his hillside bungalow with his
throat badly slashed on July 2 morning. A spanner, a knife and
a jacket with a small radio set was found by the police but
the victim's mobile was missing. Joshi had returned home
around 3.30 am after closing "The Bar", a very popular pub and
watering hole for tourists as well as locals. According to the
watchman, who had opened the gate for him, Joshi received a
call soon after on his mobile and he was heard chatting
jovially with the caller. Joshi was a smiling face in the
business and very popular. (GT) |
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Goa Consumer Network joins
'drive against bribe'
PANJIM, July 2: Goa Civic
and Consumer ACtion Network ha sjoined the 'drive against
bribe' using the Right to Information Act 2005 as part of the
national campaign launched on July 1. GOACAN has completed
training sessions with Consumer Forum volunteers who will
undertake the campaign in their respective villages over a
period of 45 days ending August 15. (H) |
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Plans afoot to market
surplus fruit products
PANJIM, July 2: Plans are
afoot to market surplus fruit and fruit products of Goa. A
pilot project will be taken up in Ponda, from where local
fruit and fruit products will be exported to other parts of
the country under a common brand name. "It will be taken up
under its new scheme 'sphurti', which was designed two years
ago to boost small-scale industries," stated HD Mashelkar,
Managing Director of Goa, Daman and Diu Khadi and Village
Industries Board. (H) |
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Villagers told not to
oppose 'Goa Energy' project
BICHOLIM: Chief Minister
Pratapsing Rane called upon the Amona villagers not to oppose
'Goa Energy' project, which will create employment for the
residents of Amona-Bicholim. (GT) |
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