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Goa News Clips
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Agonda sailor succumbs
to attack in England
 CANACONA,
Oct 22: A young sailor
from Agonda employed on cargo ship "The Garonne" was killed on
October 20 night after he was mercilessly attacked by a group
of 20 teenagers outside a hotel in Southampton-England. The
death of Gregory Kiran Fernandes (32) has outraged people all
over England and has shocked residents of the coastal villages
in Canacona taluka. He had gone on a night-out at the Falcon
hotel in Southampton along with a colleague.[H]
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‘Sea level rise may
spell doom for Goa’
Dated 2007-10-20
If Goa experiences one metre sea level rise (SLR), the State
is likely to lose nearly 4.5% of its total area, warned Dr
Nandkumar Kamat of Goa University. He gave a detailed
presentation on what impact Goa is likely to face if SLR rises
steadily, at a two-day media workshop organised by Goa Marathi
Patrakar Sangh, National Institute of Oceanography, World
Wildlife Fund and Goa Government being held at Dona Paula.
He said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
representing the thinking of the world community of climate
scientists presented a report in February this year, stating
that by 2100 the seas would probably rise by 18-59 centimetres.
The worse case scenario is about one metre, he said.
Seas, he said are rising faster than predictions of most
pessimistic computer models adding that there are danger signs
for Indians emanating from these developments. Studies have
shown that sea level has risen at the rate of 2.5 mm per year
along the Indian coastline since 1950s. The mean SLR for
India’s coast is between 15 and 38 cm by mid-21st century, Dr
Kamat said. The rapid urbanisation along the coast might spell
doom for the cities. |
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The Snakes of Goa
Literati invites you to a session on The Snakes of Goa by
Rahul Alvares on 28th October 2007 at 11.30 a.m. There will be
a slide presentation followed by a discussion. The talk will
cover different aspects described in his book The Call of the
Snake including how to identify snakes, myths about snakes,
how to deal with snake bites etc. Rahul’s travels through the
snake world of India which resulted in his book "Free From
School" in which he describes the benefits of his year away
from school shall naturally be a essential part of his
presentation. For those of you who don’t know Rahul, Rahul
learnt snake handling at the Pune snake park, spider rearing
at Madras, and croc handling under Romulus Whitaker at the
Croc bank in Mammallapuram. Rahul has been retrieving snakes
from human habitations in north Goa for the last eleven years
and has rescued more than 800 snakes. He also edits an on-line
newsletter on this work called "The Creepy Times". |
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Divine Retreat Centre to
start branch, spiritual channel in Goa
MARGAO:
Fr Augustine Valooran, the
director of Divine Retreat Centre, Muringoor, Kerala, called
up the PWD Minister and Save Goa Front president Churchill
Alemao at his Varca residence on Friday afternoon regarding
the acquisition of land for the commencement of a retreat
centre at Verna, as well as the spiritual Divine channel that
is to start shortly in the state. [GT]
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LAND DEMAND UP AS
DABOLIM AIRPORT EXPANDS
PANJIM:
On May 12, 2006, when officials from Airport Authority
of India, Ministry of Defence and Goa's Deputy Chief Minister
met in New Delhi, the agenda was simple - AAI wanted land from
the Navy and state government to expand Goa's only airport at
Dabolim. While Navy agreed to give 9 acres of land to jointly
develop with AAI a parallel taxi track and also provide more
additional space for Indian Oil fuel dump, the state
government agreed to provide 5 acre land to shift the present
Airport Authority House Colony, besides additional land for
parking between the railway line and highway. Though the deal
had been fixed on paper, in reality, this has led to an
internecine conflict between each embroiled party. Despite the
fact that the Navy has handed over 8.8 acre land in March
2007, AAI is unhappy that 2.52 acre of this land is the same
land, which was handed over to them by the state government in
2006. In other words, AAI claims that they have only got 6.25
acre land from the Navy and are demanding the remaining 2.52
acre. [Preetu Nair, GT] |
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