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Goa News Clips
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Public rally to protest
'Regional Plan 2011'
 PANJIM:
Save Goa Forum will organise a massive public rally to protest
against the 'Regional Plan 2011' at Azad Maidan on December 18
at 3 pm. According to Save Goa Forum convenor Dr Oscar Rebello,
"Goa, today, is at the crossroads of her very existence. Her
soul, her identity and her beauty is being mercilessly sold
off, all for the petty gains of a petty few, in the guise of
sinister Goa Regional Plan 2011." "Besides the destruction of
Goa's beauty, her culture and her heritage, we are set to
witness an unprecedented social disaster if mega five-star
projects like townships, condominiums, golf courses, resorts
take root in our precious land. Besides being greedily
resources intensive all these megalomaniac projects envisaged
in the 'Regional Plan 2011' will trigger off a wealthy and
powerful new wave of migrant influx who have the potential to
relegate indigenous and already settled Goans into a
politically irrelevant minority in their own land. Also Goa's
already over-burdened infrastructure, garbage and sewerage
disposal and law and order situation will collapse if this
plan comes into effect," he said. [GT] |
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River Princess to
'disappear' from Goa coast
 PANJIM:
Finally, the 'reign' of "MV River Princess" over Sinquerim
coast will come to an end soon, much to the relief of the
citizens and environmentalists alike. The vessel, which ran
aground off Sinquerim coast in June 2006, will now be
re-floated and towed 12 nautical miles from Goa coastline
within the next three months. Speaking to reporters after
launching the re-floating work at Sinquerim, Deputy Chief
Minister, Dr Wilfred de Souza said that the vessel had become
an eyesore and a nuisance for the lat six years. He said that
the contract had been awarded to M/s Jaisu Shipping Company
Pvt Ltd, Kandla, and added that his priority would be to see
it disappear from the coast of Goa. "We are paying them Rs.5.5
crore to refloat and tow it away," he said. [GT] |
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Willy warns action
against encroachments by shack owners
PANJIM: Expressing concern
over the large scale encroachments by shack owners at the
Sinquerim beach, Deputy Chief Minister Dr Wilfred de Souza
warned that the tourism department would initiate action
against them. Dr de Souza, who had gone to launch the
re-floating work of the grounded vessel at Sinquerim was
shocked when he found that most of the shack owners had
violated the terms and conditions and had put up more beach
beds and umbrellas than the sanctioned numbers and a large
number of chairs and tables and that too near the sea shore. [GT]
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Portugal President to
visit State
PANJIM, Dec 7: The
President of the Republic of Portugal is scheduled to visit
Goa in January next year to witness the signing of a historic
Memorandum of Understanding between the Chambers of Commerce
of Goa and Lisbon. Various aspects pertaining to exchange
programmes between Goa and Portugal on technical strengths,
transfer of technology, joint venture promotions will form a
part of the MoU. To set the stage, Ambassador of Portugal to
India, Joaquim Marques, was in Goa earlier this week. [H] |
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Set up panel to examine
status of Christians: Dr John Dayal
PANJIM: "An equivalent of
the Justice Sachar report set up for Muslims should also be
set up for Christians in India," said the All India Catholic
Union national president Dr John Dayal. He said that the main
reason for his Goa visit was because there was no media
hostility in the state as compared to places like Madhya
Pradesh and Delhi. He also spoke about the pathetic conditions
of Dalit Christians outside areas like Goa, Mumbai and Andhra
Pradesh, a majority of the Catholics in India are Dalits. They
suffer as much as their Hindu and Muslim brethren, yet there
are no acts to protect them. Their literacy level is about 40
to 47 per cent despite there being over 50,000 Catholic
institutions in the country. [GT] |
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Israel To Open Drug
Rehab Centre In Goa
PTI Excerpt
JERUSALEM: Israel will open a drug rehabilitation
centre in Goa to provide treatment to its young "backpackers"
who abuse drugs during their stay in India, officials here
said. Some 2,000 out of the 40,000 Israelis who visit India
every year are thought to be taking drugs, many of them
backpackers (budget travellers).
About 600 of them are brought back badly hurt. A centre called
Beit Ha Haam (the warm house) has been operating there for
almost six months and the Israel Drug Authority is pitching in
with further support, officials said.
The centre will be formally launched next week during the
visit of deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and
Industry, Eliyahu Yosef. Yosef will also be meeting Israeli
backpackers in Goa during the trip.
The issue of Israeli youngsters taking drugs in India is being
seen with concern and the director of Israel Drug Authority,
Haim Messing, will be accompanying the deputy Prime Minister
during the trip.
The Israeli embassy in New Delhi is also considering launching
an awareness campaign issuing a "Do's and Don’ts" brochure for
Israeli travellers. |
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IFFI-2006
concludes
NT Staff
Reporter
Panaji, Dec 3: The curtains came down today on
the 37th edition of the International Film Festival of
India, at the Kala Academy Complex, with the
well-known Bengali actor-director, Aparna Sen
predicting that the film festival would be known all
around the globe as the Goa International Film
Festival, in the near future. |
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Chinese film bags Golden
Peacock Award at IFFI
http://www.chinaview.cn
2006-12-04
16:48:43
 BEIJING,
Dec. 4 -- Chinese film "The Old Barber," directed by Hasi
Chaolu, won the Golden Peacock Award at the 37th International
Film Festival Of India (IFFI) today.
The 105-minute film, produced by Li Shuihe, is a story about
the pure art of the barbers in Beijing.
The top award consists of a citation and a cash prize of Rs
ten lakh. (22,421 U.S. dollars)
Chinese film "The Old
Barber"
The Silver Peacock Award and a cash prize of Rs five lakh
(11,210 dollars ) went to An Kung-Lee of South Korea as the
Most Promising Director for her film "A Short Life."
The Special Jury Award, comprising a Silver Peacock and Rs
five lakh in cash, went to Bangladeshi director Abu Sayeed's "Nirontor"
which is also the country's official entry to the Academy
Awards in the Foreign Language category this year.
The Chinese film outwitted ten other movies in the competition
section which had entries from Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil,
Chile, Germany, China, India, Iran, Israel, South Korea and
Taiwan.
The Golden Peacock and other awards were presented at the
concluding function of IFFI at Kala Academy here in the
presence of Goa Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane, Information
and Broadcasting Secretary S K Arora and actress-turned film
maker Aparna Sen.
(Source: CRIENGLISH.com) |
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