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IN BRIEF China briefed on PoK activity India today conveyed its concern to China over its “activity and presence” in GilgitBaltistan Pakistan-occupiedKashmir region in the backdrop of reports that up to 11,000 Chinese troops had moved in there. Indian Ambassador to China S Jaishankar met Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Zhang Zhijun to convey anger and concerns in India. — (PTI)

Plane crashes in Dubai A cargo aircraft today crashed near Dubai International Airport, and the crew members were killed in the accident, local TV channels reported.

The plane came down on the Emirates Road motorway, setting some cars on fire, a news agency reported. — (PTI)

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Vasco murder solved 19-yr-old admits killing Dourado HERALD REPORTER VASCO, SEPT 3

A month after Naresh Dourado of Vasco was brutally murdered at Chicalim, Vasco police achieved a major breakthrough by arresting a youth from Khariwado, Vasco in connection with the murder.

Snehal Dias (19) of Non-Mon in Khariwado, Vasco was arrested on charges of murdering Dourado (26) on August 2 in the flat of his (Dourado’s) brother at Chicalim.

The gruesome murder had shocked the State and Vasco police was under constant pressure to nab the culprit(s) at the earliest. (Related report on pg 2) Speaking to reporters in the presence of Deputy Superintendent of Police Mahesh Gaonkar and Police Inspector Braz Menezes, Superintendent of Po-

Snehal Dias

lice (South) South Allen De Sa evaded a volley of questions and declined to disclose more details in the case.

“Since the case is at the initial stage, it will be premature to comment on it. We are investigating all aspects of the case,” added De Sa. De Sa said the accused, Snehal Vincent Dias, had confessed

to the crime and said he had killed Naresh in his brother’s flat at Chicalim.

“After confirming various angles into the case, the accused was linked to the case and moreover, the accused was known to the deceased. During interrogation, Dias confessed to the crime,” said the SP. “The accused was recently arrested by Panjim police in connection with a motorcycle theft.”

“On August 18, he was brought from the Panjim police station to the Vasco police station on a transfer order and was placed in judicial custody,” he said.

“Since Dias was in judicial custody in connection with a theft case, he was taken by Vasco police for interrogation (Continued on page 10)

ICC suspends ‘fixing’ trio, Pak smells a rat PTI LONDON, SEPT 3

For the first time in its history, International Cricket Council (ICC) today suspended Pakistan’s Test captain Salman Butt and his two teammates accused of ‘spot-fixing’, prompting an angry outburst from Pakistan which saw a “conspiracy” and sought to insinuate that its President Sharad Pawar may have had a hand.

Five days after the scandal rocked world cricket, the ICC cracked the whip by suspending the tainted trio of Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir but declined to specify the charges brought against them.

On a day marked by a war of words between the ICC and Pakistan, the spotlight was on the players as well as they were subjected to a fresh round of interrogation by the Scotland Yard.

The ICC said the three players

Hindu temple partly gutted in UK, none hurt PTI LONDON, SEPT 3

The Hare Krishna Temple in the east Midlands town of Leicester was partly gutted when suspected gas bottles used for cooking in the temple exploded.

Temples authorities told Press Trust of India that all those present in the temple were safe, and had been accounted for. However, some individuals received minor injuries to their hands and faces from the shrapnel.

Leicester, has a large population of Indian origin.

Firefighters were searching the wreckage of the temple and crews were using specialist equipment to enter the damaged building. Eyewitnesses said windows had been blown out.

have been notified officially of the offences they are alleged to have committed and have been provisionally suspended pending a decision on the charges.

“In accordance with the provisions of the code, this means they are immediately barred from participating in all cricket and related activities until the case has been concluded,” the ICC said in a statement.

“They have a right to contest the provisional suspension and a further opportunity to defend these charges at a full hearing

before an independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal in accordance with Article 5 of the code,” it added.

But within hours of the suspension, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Britain, Wajid Shamsul Hasan threatened to sue the ICC for its unethical decision of suspending the players and sought to insinuate that Pawar had a hand in the decision.

Hasan said the ICC was trying to make Pakistan a “scapegoat” for its inefficiency.

Chief of the Air Staff, P V Naik directing Group Captain Sachin Tendulkar to address the audience after conferring on him the honorary rank of Group Captain in New Delhi on Friday.

River Princess removal: SMIPL getting cold feet?

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

Has Salgaoncar Mining Industries Pvt Ltd, (SMIPL), which had been flaunting its interest in wanting to remove the grounded M V River Princess free of cost, developed cold feet after the State government agreed to offer it a first chance to do the job?

The SMIPL failed to attend a joint meeting convened by the State Disaster Management Authority today morning to negotiate with the bidders for removal of the vessel.

Swapnil Naik, director of tourism when contacted said a representative of SMIPL was not present for the meeting but a letter containing certain terms was submitted by it.

The meeting was headed by Revenue Minister Jose Philip D’Souza as Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who is also a chairman of the State Disaster Management Authority, is in Delhi for Congress elections.

The SDMA is now likely to meet in the next two days to finalise the bidder as the court hearing on the public interest litigation (PIL) of River Princess Hatao Manch (RPHM) is fixed for Monday.

It must be recalled that the

Suicide bomber strikes Pak PTI ISLAMABAD, SEPT 3

At least 60 people were killed and nearly 200 others injured today when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in a Shia procession organised to mark Al-Quds day in Pakistan’s southwest city of Quetta.

The bomber, appears to be an Uzbek and in the age bracket of 20 to 22 years, was among the crowd and detonated explosives on reaching the Meezan Chowk in the Quetta city, the capital of Balochistan, shortly before 3 pm, police said.

Dramatic footage aired on Geo News captured the blast, which occurred as the marchers were shouting anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian slogans to mark the International Quds day to express solidarity with the peo-

ple of Palestine.

About 60 people were killed, The Nation newspaper quoted police and civil officials were quoted as saying. TV channels quoted officials at hospitals as saying that they had received about 100 injured people.

The driver of a TV channel was killed while seven reporters and cameramen of various channels were among the injured.

People screamed in panic and ran helter-skelter after the blast.

Several men cowered in fear and tried to hide behind cars and motorcycles. Armed youths who were part of the procession started firing after the blast.

Many persons sustained bullet injuries, officials said.

The procession was organised by the Imamia Students’ Organisation, the Shia youth wing of

Balochistan.

Meanwhile, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan commander Qari Hussain claimed responsibility for the suicide attack, saying though his group is fighting the United States and the Pakistani government, “Shiites are also our target.”

The attack on the procession came hours after two terrorist strikes left as many persons dead in the country’s restive northwest.

Balochistan police chief Malik Iqbal confirmed the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.

He said police had asked the organisers of the rally to change the route due to fears of a terrorist attack.

“The head of the suicide bomber, appears to be an Uzbek and in the age bracket of 20 to 22 years, has been taken into custody,: said a police official.

Crumbling, faulty walls make prisons porous VIbHA VERmA PANJIM, SEPT 3

The crumbling walls of the State’s oldest fort-turned-jail or the faulty walls of the newly constructed Sada sub jail are the stuff of harrowing tales of porous prisons every time inmates flee.

The authorities themselves maintain that the Central jail at Aguada is ageing. The recent collapse of cell number one where notorious drug dealer

PRISONERS IN JAILS MALE

Convicts Remand Undertrials

AGUADA MAPUSA MARGAO PANAJI VASCO TOTAL

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David alias Dudu Driham was lodged, paints a grim picture of this jail, which was once a highly secured place.

Jail sources confirmed that three prisoners – two Israeli undertrials and a local accused –

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28 37 62

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were shifted to another cell after the cell crumbled unexpectedly.

With the proposal for the Colvale central jail hanging fire, the authorities have to make do with the existing prisons which are highly prone to jailbreaks.

Also, the role played by jail staff in letting the prisoners loose adds up to the problem.

Sada sub jail is already in the limelight for all wrong reasons after three prisoners – doublemurder convict Hitler Fernandes and undertrials Abhijit Patil and Seby Ferrao wanted for murder and theft, respectively – dug a hole in its wall and escaped. Abhijit was traced and arrested.

Additional Inspector General (Continued on page 10)

government has already declined to grant SMIPL ownership of the vessel, a pre-condition it has set for removing the vessel.

Skipping of today’s meeting

by SMIPL has strengthened apprehension of the government authorities about its real intentions.

“It had never imagined that the government would agree to its demand but situation has changed now and it probably doesn’t know what to do and hence these delaying tactics,” said a government officer commenting on absence of SMIPL in today’s joint meeting.

The government authorities also believe that SMIPL doesn’t have necessary capability to actually remove the vessel and are doubtful that it will able to execute the work within one fair season (220 days) as claimed by it.

Meanwhile, the members of SDMA negotiated with other two bidders — Titan Salvage and Madgavkar Salvage.

The director of tourism clarified that none of the two bidders have claimed ownership of the vessel as precondition for removing it.

Singaporean company, Titan Salvage is the only bidder which (Continued on page 10)

Bihar cop found dead, search on for three others PTI LAKHISARAI/PATNA, SEPT 3

The bullet-ridden body of one of the four policemen taken hostage by Maoists after Sunday ’s encounter in Bihar ’s Lakhisarai district was found today lying in a pool of blood, as the deadline for swapping them for eight Maoists expired at 10 a.m.

The body of Lucas Tete, an assistant sub-inspector of the Bihar Military Police, shot in the chest was found at the Simra Tari Sringirishi dam in Kajra police station area, about 150 km from Patna, Superintendent of Police, R K Mishra said.

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Ore stolen, sold back to Sesa, charges Parrikar HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

Endorsing claims about rampant illegal mining, Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar on Friday alleged that mining ore from Sesa Goa is being stolen and sold back to the Company.

“I don’t know whether Prasun Mukherjee (MD, Sesa Goa Ltd) will know that nearly two per cent of Sesa mining ore is stolen and sold back to them…” he said at a two-day seminar on ‘Mining and Human Rights Violation’ at Dona Paula.

The MD replying to the statement asserted that Sesa Goa had made several efforts to halt illegal mining trade. “There may be stealing going on. Whenever we have caught such (illegal) cargo, we faced issues while perusing the matter…we do not procure stolen mining ores… there are issues to pursue the matter,” he said without getting into details.

He said that the due process required to bring the illegal ore dealer to book could not be fulfilled in Goa. Earlier, the former chief minister highlighted that mining has paved its way especially in secluded areas of Goa, inhabited by tribal population who depend on agriculture for living.

“Violation starts right from the time the land is snatched… and conversion of agriculture land. It is mostly located in areas where people are poor, unaware of their rights, especially the tribals who depend on agriculture,” he said at the seminar at-

Scarlet case hearing adjourned HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

The hearing on the issue of missing pages from Scarlet’s diary was adjourned as the public prosecutor representing Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the death trial could not be present today.

CBI was supposed to file a reply before the Goa Children’s Court over the applications filed by two accused- Placido Carvalho and Samson D’Souza stating that the pages from the victim’s diary, an important part of prosecution, are missing.

Accordingly, on August 27, Goa Children’s Court President P V Savaikar directed CBI to file a reply to the application by September 3.

However, in the absence of PP S R Rivonkar CBI could not file a reply. The matter will be now heard on September 17, 2010.

The key witness in the Scarlet Eden Keeling death case, Murli Sagar, would be also cross examined on the same day. The witnessed had deposed before the Court last month. His cross examination was deferred after victim mother Fiona Mackeown confirmed her dates of Goa visit.

The diary, which was recovered from room of Scarlet’s boyfriend Julio Lobo during investigation, was identified by Fiona during her cross examination before the Court, last month.

The diary had several sketches drawn by her daughter.

Scarlet body was found on Anjuna shore on February 18, 2008. After initial investigations by the state police, the case was handed over to CBI. Both the accused are charged of drugging, raping and leaving the girl

…hints at police-illegal mining nexus HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, SEPT 3

Hinting at the police-illegal mining nexus at Bicholim, Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar alleged that Bicholim police inspector would escalate as the richest man, if his posting at Bicholim prolongs for another year.

“If the Bicholim PI continues there for another year, he will be the richest man. He will be richer than any drug pushers…I am making this statement with full knowledge,” he alleged though preferred to conceal the name of the PI. tended by large number of students, activists and others.

He reeled off names of the villages – Rivona, Neturli, Verla, Sarjini - where their properties were claimed by miners to multiply the trade.

Parrikar claimed that mining volume in the recent times has multiplied double the time the mining ore was exported five years back.

“This year about 46 to 47 million tons iron ore is exported, which five years ago was about 22 million tons…the quantum has jumped high,” he said.

In a question by a student on strategies to control rampant mining if he was the chief minister of Goa, Parrikar’s replied on steps that could be undertaken while giving permission to mining leases.

“I feel better compensation should be given to occupants of the land… I believe in Switzerland’s policy and I feel that people and village panchayats should be given the right to decide on any proposal,” he said

shooting back at the ruling Government.

He added, “What I can do as a CM and what I am saying will be slightly different as the mining policy is the Central Government law and the role of the state Government is limited.”

Parrikar further pointed out that 56 per cent of the land in Sanguem - water tank of the state – was given on mining leases. “The taluka is the catchment area of water that not only supplies water to South Goa but also some parts of North Goa. Human Rights violation is serious as 70 percent of rights of the locals are violated even without knowing the reality,” he alleged.

He said he believes in sustainable mining but the “greediness” to earn higher income was leading to rampant illegal mining in Goa. The two-day seminar is hosted by Youth for Goa in collaboration with the International Centre and Department of Political Science at Goa University.

HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

Margao Municipal employees resorted to a flash strike on Friday morning in response to a call given by the Goa Municipal Employees Association to protest against the Council’s decision to withhold salary to an UDC. Garbage vehicle drivers and sweepers struck work for nearly an hour between 6 am to 7 am before MMC Chief Officer Y B Tawde rushed to the civic body and assured the agitating employees that he would issue immediately directions for the release of the UDC’s salary.

It was only after Tawde gave the assurance that association general secretary Anil Shirodkar withdrew the strike call and the garbage trucks rolled out of the

municipal garage. The strike by the employees even affected chief officer as there was no driver to drive his official car, forcing Tawde to rush to the municipal building at around 7 am in a private vehicle.

During discussions between the chief officer and the Employees Association in the presence of the sweepers and truck drivers, Shirodkar contended that the municipality has no right to withhold the salary of an employee on flimsy grounds.

He pointed out that note put up by the municipal chairperson Savio Coutinho to the chief officer to withhold salary of the UDC was malafide and illegal in nature. “How can you simply withhold the salary of employees? The employees have fam-

Having nabbed the accused, Snehal Dias, in connection with the murder of Naresh Dourado at Chicalim, Vasco police officials were flooded with congratulatory messages on Friday.

The news of Snehal’s arrest spread like wildfire around the State and even abroad, as a number of people sent SMS and text messages to PI Braz Menezes and DySP Mahesh Gaonkar on their mobile phones.

“We sincerely express our gratitude that you have nabbed the accused,” wrote Deepak (Naresh’s elder brother from Dubai), in his SMS to PI Menezes.

The social networking site

Unattended tar balls cause resentment among Colva locals

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

Goa Children’s Court today rejected bail plea of Snehal Gaonkar’s parents, accused for kidnapping and killing 16-year old Utkarsha Parab.

Santosh Raut and Sumedha Raut are currently in police custody along with their daughter.

T h e a c c u s e d a re f a c i n g charges of murder by poisoning the school girl under Sections 302 and 328 of the Indian Penal Code.

Utkarsha, who was released by the police from her kidnappers based on missing complaint, lodged by her father, last month later died at the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim on July 27.

According to Valpoi police, the incident took place on July 16, when the accused allegedly picked up her niece (victim) from her school at Poriem-Sattari and took her to an isolated place in Bicholim, where she allegedly confined her to a room with the help of her parents. The girl was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition by the police.

The medical examination of the victim had revealed that the girl was poisoned through food during her confinement.

Police had said that Sumedha convinced her daughter that by kidnapping Utkarsha they could put pressure on Snehal’s estranged husband.

Goa Children’s Court today convicted 32-year-old Vishal Devidas for raping 13-year-old girl in Rivona village, in December 2006.

The President P V Sawaikar convicted Devidas for raping the minor girl while quantum of sentence will be decided on September 13, 2010.

According to the police complaint registered by Quepem police, the accused on December 1, 2006 forcibly entered into the house of victim and raped her by dragging her into the bedroom.

Victim’s mother in her complaint had stated that the accused had entered into the house of victim and caught her neck while she was cooking at 10.30 am.

The accused was arrested on January 05, 2007 after victim and her brother identified him and was charge-sheeted on January 1, 2008. However, he was granted bail on February 6, 2007.

The medical examination conducted on the girl confirmed penetration.

ilies to look after”, he reminded the chief officer and refused to withdraw the strike till the UDC was paid his monthly salary.

The Association also raised the question over the powers of the Chairperson to sign the salary cheques when the Chief Officer is the drawing and disbursing officer.

Shirodkar later told newsmen that since the Chief Officer has assured to pay salary to the UDC, the employees have decided to withdraw the strike in the interest of the city. “We had no intention to harass and put the citizens to hardships. That’s why the strike call was withdrawn the moment the Chief Officer promised to release the salary of the UDC”, Shirodkar added.

Mounds of tar balls awaiting transportation from the Colva-Betalbatim beach stretch for the last two days.

Photo by Sidharth Mehta HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

Five days after the oily substance invaded Salcete’s coastline, mounds of tar balls continue to adorn the ColvaBetalbatim stretch of the beach till date.

While tar balls have almost disappeared from the entrance to the Colva beach, the situation is not rosy if one goes further down from Gaundalim towards Betalbatim.

Tar balls collected on the beach during the beach clean up operation continues unattended till date, raising fears

1 held for burglary at Nessai HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

The Maina Curtorim police have arrested one person in connection with the Nessai burglary case.

Police said the 20-year old accused was arrested after his anticipatory bail application was rejected by the South Goa sessions court.

When contacted, the police said the accused has been arrested to ascertain his role in the burglar y, adding that whether the accused was involved in the burglary or not will be known only after interrogations.

PSI Suraj Samant is investigating the case.

Andhra native found dead on fishing trawler HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

A 35-year old native of Andhra Pradesh, who was working as a Tandel on a fishing trawler, died on the fishing vessel on Friday.

Cuncolim police said that Gajendra was found dead in the fishing vessel when it was anchored at the Cutbona fishing jetty.

Police have ruled out foul play.

Further investigations are on.

Cuchelim duo held for porn CDs in Mapusa market HERALD CORRESPONDENT PORVORIM, SEPT 3

MMC workers protesting outside the Municipal building on Friday against the non-payment of salary to an UDC. Photo by Santosh Mirajkar

‘Facebook’ had a page on ‘Justice for Naresh’ and friends also posted messages lauding the Vasco Police for cracking the case.

Friends and close associates of the Dourado family made their presence felt at the Vasco police station and personally congratulated DySP Gaonkar and PI Menezes.

When reporters informed Naresh’s father that the police had nabbed the accused, he broke down and said his son did not deserve such a cruel death.

SP South Allen De Sa also commended the efforts of the Vasco Police.

“First of all, let me congratulate my DySP Mahesh Gaonkar

and PI Braz Menezes and his team, who really slogged hard to crack this case.”

“The case was completely ‘blind’, but due to dedicated concentration of DySP Gaonkar and PI Menezes, the case was solved,” said SP De Sa. “Curiosity among the people of Goa with regard to the case was high, as police was getting calls inquiring when the case would be resolved,” he said.

However, in the last one month when media had visited Vasco Police station, the PI’s office used to remain close from inside.PI Menezes did not want any disturbance, as he was busy questioning relatives, friends and colleagues of the deceased," said SP De Sa.

32-year-old convicted for raping 13-year-old

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

Workers protest MMC decision to withhold UDC’s salary

Vasco cops hailed for nabbing Chicalim murder accused HERALD REPORTER VASCO, SEPT 3

Snehal’s parents bail plea in murder case denied

Tributes paid to ex-MLA HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

Rich tributes were paid to former MLA Krishnanath Baburao Naik at a condolence meeting held in the city here on Friday evening.

Various speakers recalled the contributions of the late Shiroda MLA in the field of education and for the upliftment of the Bahujan Samaj.

North Goa MP Shripad Naik, Fatorda MLA Damu Naik, Chairman of the Law Commission Ramakant Khalap, Adv Cleofato Coutinho, Datta Damodar Naik, Madhukar Naik, Shambu Bandekar, and Vishnu Surya Wagh condoled the death of the former legislator.

Mapusa Police on Friday afternoon arrested two more persons from Cuchelim-Mapusa on charges of selling pirated and pornographic CDs in the Mapusa market.

Police seized 42 pornographic and pirated CDs from Mohan T Gangamali and Kissan R Ramappa Hulkeri.

Mapusa Police have registered an offence against the duo under Section 292 of Indian Penal Code. ASI Parab and PSI Uday Gaude are investigating the case.

Police informed that they will continue their drive against such dealers.

It may be recalled that on August 31, Mapusa Police had arrested Suresh Tukaram Morajkar (53) from Bountawaddo-Assagao on charges of selling duplicate and pirated CDs in the Mapusa market.

NCP convention on Sept 5 HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, SEPT 3

The Nationalist Congress Party will hold convention of party workers/well wishers on September 5 at 3.30 pm at Sirsat Hall, Mapusa.

Bhaskar Jadhav, Maharashtra State Minister for Urban Development, has been consented to be the chief guest.

that the oily substance may go back to the sea during the high tide.

Social activist and convenor of Colva Civic and Consumer Forum, Judith Almeida bitterly protested against the attitude of government agencies in attending to the menace. “Despite assurances from the Environment Minister Aleixo Sequeira, we have not seen any worker on the Colva stretch of the beach during the last two days. Heaps of tar balls lay on the beach without being lifted away for its scientific disposal”, Almeida lamented.

What has caused resentment amongst the locals is that the heaps of tar balls are left unattended on the beach.

Locals say that the operation clean up may go waste if the tar balls return back to the sea during high tide.

Meanwhile, officials of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) returned to Colva Beach once again on Friday.

Apart from collecting samples of the oily substance, the NIO officials also measured the size of the tar balls and conducted further investigations on the beach.

No takers for 24 commercial shops inside Bambolim subway HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

A 62-metre long subway across the NH 17 outside Goa Medical College (GMC) & Hospital at Bambolim has definitely helped to curtail accidents during last one year but interestingly 24 commercial shops inside the subway “have no takers.”

While there are no clear answers as to why the shops at prime location in Bambolim have failed to attract buyers two departments of the government — Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) and PWD are competing with each other to disclaim their responsibility towards these shops.

The subway was constructed to stop growing accidents along this stretch of the NH 17.

Accidents happened here mostly when people crossed the highway either to go to GMC or otherwise.

The GSIDC constructed the subway at the cost of Rs 6.60 crore. When contacted the Managing Director of GSIDC Sanjit Rodrigues confirmed that there are no takers for the shops even as many stalls within 100 metres radius of the subway are make roaring business.

A year ago GSIDC conducted a census and found that on an average about 4000 persons use the subway on any given day. But it’s a headache that 24 shops have no takers .

Since completion of the project in January 2009 — the GSIDC has advertised twice on the availability of the shops but so far the response has been poor.

“It could be a clause in the tender that says occupants of the shops will vacate if this stretch forms part of the expansion plan for NH 17,” pointed out a GSIDC officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

He further says subway can be protected but all depends on the plans of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).

This piece of information certainly can’t be enough guarantee for any businessman wanting to invest lakhs of rupees in setting up a shop.

The GSIDC found in a lurch when PWD declined to take possession of the shops and left it to GSIDC to find buyers for the shops.

The GSIDC claimed that PWD being a client department as highway comes under its jurisdiction it should take the responsibility for shops.

When contacted the Principal Chief Engineer of PWD, J J Rego denied that PWD is the client department. The GMC is the client department, he adds.

Interestingly, Dr Rajan Kuncolienkar, Medical Superintend of GMC, said GMC might have expressed the need for a subway due to high frequency of accidents but it doesn’t mean it is a client department.

Meanwhile, owners of the stalls and gaddas selling varied items from meals, tea and coffee, to vegetables and fruits lined-up outside GMC complex, are a worried lot.

“They are likely to be affected if subway shops are open up for business,“ pointed out a GSIDC officer.

Jose Philip, Mauvin keen to dominate Dabolim constituency HERALD REPORTER VASCO, SEPT 3

The rift seems to growing wider between Revenue Minister Jose Philip D’Souza and his cabinet colleague Deputy Speaker Mauvin Godinho, with both leaders keen to dominate the newly carved Dabolim constituency.

If supporters of both leaders and political analysts are to be believed, the growing political rivalry among the two leaders due to the desire to gain political grip over the new Dabolim constituency.

Dabolim Constituency comprises three municipal wards from Vasco constituency (home territory of D’Souza) and two village panchayats (Chicalim and Dabolim).

A verbal clash between both leaders was evident during the Dahi Handi celebrations on Thursday. Godinho’s supporters gave him a rousing welcome in Vasco, prompting D’Souza’s supporters to organise a similar event barely 50 mts distance from each other.

In the recent past, Godinho has re-energized the Vasco Congress Block, which had been dormant after the Vasco assembly seat was allotted to its alliance partner NCP. In his speech on Thursday, Godinho expressed his desire to develop Vasco city and said he considered entire Mormugao taluka as single constituency in terms of his priority for development.

“If people of Vasco want me to work for the development of Vasco, I will stand with them. After their repeated requests, I have shown interest in the development of Vasco,” said Godinho.

Interestingly, as soon as Godinho finished his speech, D’Souza made his entry at the opposite stage of Dahi Handi organized by ‘City Boyz’ with a rousing welcome of fire crackers.

Without naming his political rival, D’Souza said he is capable of developing Vasco and he did not want anyone to interfere in his consistency.

“I respect the coalition dharma and I don’t interfere in others consistencies. In terms of development among the three legislators in Mormugao taluka, I have pumped in maximum funds for the development of Vasco,” claimed D’Souza.

Both leaders had engaged in a proxy war to checkmate each other in different elections on several occasions. If D’Souza has succeeded in defeating Godinho’s candidate in the communidade election, then joint efforts of BJP and NCP for Sancoale ZP election was foiled by Godinho.

The double inauguration of St Jacinto Bridge by D’Souza, claims over development of airport road by both political leaders have further widened the rift. Godinho’s recent announcement that he would take the lead in the ensuing Mormugao Municipal Council election has further angered D’Souza.

KRC detects 90 cases of unauthorized travel HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

A special ticket checking drive conducted by Konkan Railway between Mumbai and Kankavali Section unearthed unauthorized travel on the trains.

Around 90 cases of unauthorized travel, including five cases of passengers traveling with excess baggage were detected and railway dues amounting to Rs 66,610 were recovered from the violators.

The drive was carried on running trains on the KR route between August 23-29.

KRC said that passenger trains viz. Konkankanya, Mandovi, Janashatabdi, Mangala, Netravati, Matsyagandha, Amritsar Kochuveli Weekly Exp, Sawantwadi-Diva Passenger, RatnagiriDadar Passenger and Ratnagiri -Chiplun Station Platforms were checked during the drive.

Stock witness summoned HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

The prosecution’s stock witness Prakash Metri has been summoned by the Mapusa Judicial Magistrate First Class to appear before it on Saturday in connection with drug peddler Yaniv alias Atala Benaim’s overstaying trial.

Sources informed that JMFC directed Crime Branch to summon Metri to remain present before the magistrate, even as it has already issued non-bailable warrant against Atala, who is missing since a month.

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Discriminated teachers vow to agitate till demands met To observe Teachers’ Day as ‘black day’ HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

Senior retired teachers under the banner of Discriminated Teachers’ Forum on Friday said they would be observing this Teachers’ Day as a ‘black day’ to protest against the failure of the Government to resolve genuine demands that arose due to their pre-mature retirement at 58.

To draw the attention of the Education Minister and the Chief Minister, the teachers with black bands tied on their hands have decided to march to the Kala Academy on September 6, the day of the official function of the Government to felicitate State awardees.

The teachers will meet at the Azad Maidan at 9.15 am on the said day from where they will march to KA to highlight their grievances.

Addressing a press conference, President of DTF Neves Anthony Rebello said they had been forced to resort to this measure

because the Government has been only giving them assurances for the last 14 months.

We have informed the CM and Education Minister about our morcha 15 days in advance, he stated.

Rebello said they will not allow the CM and Education Minister to leave the venue on September 6 till they announced what steps they have taken into their grievances.

“They’ve been telling us of studying the matter. How long more do we have to wait?

Does it take this long to study the matter?” he asserted.

He, however, clarified the ‘morcha’ and the gathering at the venue would be Gandhian in nature. “We don’t want to disturb peace; we only want a genuine solution for our genuine demands. Police presence will not deter us from our agitation,” he mentioned.

Rebello observed the financial implications to meet the demands of 1,019 of them was less than Rs 8 crore. “The Government

was willing to spend Rs 100 crore for preparing feasibility reports of unfeasible projects.

Compared to this the amount of Rs 8 crore was peanuts,” he lambasted.

The DTF President maintained they would continue to agitate till heir demands were met. “Some of our teachers are nearing 70, but that doesn’t mean we will keep quiet.

We will continue to come on the streets till the Kamat Government also explains to us what made his Government revert back the retirement of teachers to 60 from 58,” he mentioned.

Rebello said another thing the DTF wanted to strongly point out was the harassment of teachers by police, especially Porvorim PI Devendra Gad. He alleged PI Gad had filed false cases against the agitating teachers.

He said while senior police officials had given clean chit to their agitation on July 19, Gad had moved to implicate the senior teachers by filing false cases.

8 teachers to be honoured with State awards

Chandrabhaga Shetgaonkar

Dattatray Ghanekar

Maria I. Gonsalves

HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, SEPT 3

The Government will honour eight distinguished teachers with State Awards in various categories on the occasion of 49th Teachers Day to be celebrated on September 6 at Dinanath Mangueshkar Hall, Kala Academy, Panjim at 10.30 am.

The teachers selected are in the category of Primary Teacher, Assistant Teacher, Teacher Grade-I, Headmasters of High Schools, and Principal of Higher Secondary School will receive State Awards 2010 including a cheque of Rs25,000, merit certificate and memento for their meritorious

Premanand Mahambre

Workers from the Bondla wildlife sanctuary rescue the trapped leopard.

Photo by Amresh Parab

A female leopard was rescued after being trapped in a wire supposedly laid to catch a wild boar at Shirshire-Borim on Friday morning.

The incident came to light when one of the villagers noticed the animal frantically trying to release itself from the trap.

The villagers then alerted the Bondla wildlife sanctuary and a team was rushed to the site.

It was a difficult task for officials from the Bondla wildlife sanctuary and North Goa Forest department, as they struggled for nearly two hours in a bid to rescue the leopard.

They first fired four tranquilizer shots, but it yielded no results. Two tranquilizer shots missed their target while two others could not sedate the wild cat.

Later, the officials decided to manually inject the tranquilizer and it was successfully carried out with the help of a net used as a protective shield.

Villagers claim that they have witnessed leopard movements in the area since the last two years.

Shrikant More

service to the society.

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat will be the chief guest and Minister for Education Atanasio Monserrate will be the guest of honour.

The awardees are primary teacher- Chandrabhaga A Shetgaonkar, Government Primary Teacher, GPMS, Socorro, Porvorim; Shankar K Budke, Government Primary Teacher, GPS, Talsai-Dharbandora, Sanguem.

Secondary Teacher- Subhash D Lotlikar, Assistant Teacher, Sacred Heart of Jesus HS, Carmona; Dattatray K K Ghanekar, Assistant Teacher, People’s High School, Mala-Panjim; Headmasters- Premanand P Mahambre,

Trapped leopard rescued at Borim

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Shankar Budke

The incident spread like wildfire as a large number of people flocked to the site to catch a glimpse of the leopard and the rescue operations.

Forest officials had a tough time in cordoning off the area, as curious onlookers tried to come as close to the wild animal as possible.

According to officials involved in the rescue operation, a large number of people could have provoked the leopard.

"We even warned onlookers that they could run the risk of being attacked by the leopard, but this did not deter them," an official told Herald.

According to Deputy Conservator of Forest, North Goa, G T Kumar the rescued leopard was safe and had no injuries.

"The animal is safe and has no injuries. We are thankful to the people for cooperating with us. It was trapped in the wire and we managed to free the animal without hurting it. Luckily, the wire also did not damaged its skin," said Kumar.

"The leopard will be kept under observation for the next 48 hours before it is released into the wild," he said.

Ciabro assaulted me, complains Orlim Sarpanch HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

Former Orlim Sarpanch Godfrey Rodrigues has complained to the Colva police stating that he was allegedly assaulted at Varca on late Thursday night.

In his complaint, Godfrey alleged that he was assaulted by Ciabro Alemao at Varca while proceeding home last night. He also alleged that his cell phone was taken away during the incident.

Firmly denying the allegations, Ciabro, however, said that no assault incident had taken place as claimed by Godfrey and termed the allegations as political motivated.

Subhash Lotlikar

Subhash Naik

Headmaster, Dayanand HS, Chodan, and Maria I C Gonsalves, Headmistress, St Thomas HS, Cansaulim; Shrikant More, Teacher Grade-I, Smt Parvatibai Chowgule College, Margao and Subhash N Naik, Principal, Saraswat Vidyalaya Purshottam Walawalkar Higher Secondary School, Mapusa.

Prizes will be given to the taluka office of ADEI for last year’s Teachers Day’s highest collection based on the population ratio and a special prize for the highest collection.

1st Mormugao Taluka, 2nd Tiswadi Taluka and 3rd Bicholim Taluka and Special PrizeSalcete Taluka.

RND employees held for gambling

PORVORIM, SEPT 3 (HC) -- Porvorim police on Friday afternoon arrested 11 employees of the River Navigation Department (RND) on charges of gambling in the compound of the RND workshop at Britona.

“Police were patrolling at Britona at about 12.30 pm, when they found some persons in the compound of the RND workshop at Britona. Police entered the compound and found 11 people playing with the cards,” informed Police Sub Inspector Gadekar.

Police arrested 11 persons under Gambling Act and recovered gambling cards and cash of Rs 12,600.

Porvorim police has confirmed that the arrested persons are employees of the RND. The accused were produced before Judicial Magistrate First class and were later released on bail.

Road contractors threaten to boycott work HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

Condemning the government’s failure to release payments amounting to a whopping of Rs 80 crore, The All Goa Road Contractors Association has decided to boycott all work from Monday if payment are not released by then.

Association President, Subhash Desai condemned the government’s attitude for not releasing the payment of contractors for more than six months. He said the government owes the contractors payments amounting to Rs 80 crore, adding that the payments have not been done till date despite promises by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to release Rs 55 crore.

“Till date, no cash assignment has come. We are waiting for the government to honour its promise”, he said.

What has upset the contractors is the fact that PWD engineers continue to float fresh tenders on the directions of MLAs and ministers despite

knowing the facts.

The contractors have also condemned ex-director Shripad Naik for all the mess, and alleged that Naik continues to control the allotment of funds as well as the cash assignment even after retirement.

While condemning the Jt

Director of Accounts, Lotlikar for not releasing the cash assignments in time, causing harassment to the contractors, Association president said the contractors have now decided to hold a meeting on September 6 at 11 am at the PWD complex, Fatorda

to chalk out the future course of action.

“The contractors are determined to boycott the tenders till the government releases their payments”, Desai asserted and urged the government to release their pending payments worth Rs 80 crore.

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Truck driver caught dumping debris in Merces, handed over to police P’yat suspects construction of connecting road HERALD CORRESPONDENT MeRCeS, SePt 3

Panchayat member Vinod Gaonkar distributes uniforms to Anganwadi students at Costi-Sanguem.

Photo by Alfred Fernandes

SANGUeM (HC): Kalay Panchayat member Vinod Gaonkar distributed umbrellas to school students at a special function at the Government Primary School, Costi Kalay in Sanguem.

Gaonkar also distributed uniforms to the anganwadi students in the village.

Speaking on the occasion, Gaonkar urged two big companies operating in the village to look after the educational needs of the villagers.

“Many students in the village are compelled to drop out from the school due to financial difficulties. If the two companies operating in the village are to assist the students in their educational career and provide financial help, then many cases of school drop out would have been curtailed in the village,” claimed Gaonkar. “the two companies have done a lot good for the villagers, particularly in the field of sports and cultural activities. A school bus is also been provided for the students. But financial help and support to continue studies for the financial ridden students will be remembered for long by the villagers,” added Gaonkar.

PtA President Suhas Naik thanked Gaonkar for his kind gesture and for providing the school students with the umbrellas.

Anganwadi teacher Mansi Naik and former sarpanch Sarita Gaonkar were also present on the occasion.

Medical camp organised

PANJIM (HND): Nuvem Charitable trust organised a free medical camp in association with health care giant Hindustan Unilever group for the needy persons of Nuvem, recently. More than 130 needy persons availed the benefit of the camp.

Prominent group of doctors from Hindustan Unilever checked the patients and administered free medicines to the participants.

Hindustan Unilever group was represented by Satish. the Chairman of the trust Peter Dourado in his address stressed the need to make Nuvem a strong village in the area of health.

Ponda Jaycees also participated and supported the camp along with their delegates. they expressed great satisfaction and commended the Nuvem Charitable trust over the excellent and impressive organizational skills in setting up the camp. the chief guest of the function Fr Alvaro Martins thanked and appreciated the trust members for their efforts in organising such an excellent programme and appealed to the Hindustan Unilever group to support the Nuvem village in the health sector.

Camps on cervical cancer

Participants at one of the cervical cancer awareness camp.

PANJIM (HND): Rotary Club of Porvorim recently conducted ‘Cervical Cancer’ awareness camps at Shanti Nagar, Porvorim and Immaculate Conception Church Hall, Panjim respectively. the awareness camps conducted under the presidency of Rotarian Rajan Naik, were largely attended and the enthusiasm of the participants led them to educate their friends and neighbours, prompting a larger gathering of participants for screening and testing at the Mandovi Clinic and Hospital, Alto-Porvorim. the Club has undertaken such camps for the last 3 years under the aegis of “Parkash Cancer Aid Projects” in association with Mandovi Clinic & Hospital, Alto-Porvorim. those interested in attending such camps should contact Club president Rotarian Rajan Naik on 9326100755.

Patriotic singing contest held

Merces Sarpanch Deepika Shirgaokar along with her deputy, Yateen Palekar, and other panchas of the ruling party, had gone to serve notices on illegal activities at Morombi-O-Pequeno in Butem Bhat, Merces.

Instead, they caught redhanded a truck driver illegally dumping construction debris in the low-lying area, which is full of mangroves.

On questioning, the driver informed the Sarpanch and others that he was directed to dump the debris by one Rego, who runs a restaurant at Panjim.

Later, Deputy Sarpanch Yateen Palekar alerted the Old Goa police to hand over the truck driver to them. the sarpanch and all other panchas waited for over two hours before two constables from Old Goa police made their appearance at the scene. the cops then informed the panchayat members that they had been told to attach the truck. However, panch Sunil Kalangutkar begged to differ and asked the police to first conduct a panchanama before attaching the truck, since he suspected that it could lead to manipulation.

On hearing this, one constable called up his seniors and informed them of the development.

Later, PSI Ramesh Shirodkar

Vaz hails Gandhi’s election as INC president HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, SePt 3

Goa State Chief Organiser J t Vaz has congratulated Sonia Gandhi for being elected unanimously as President of Indian National Congress for the fourth consecutive time.

She has now achieved the distinction of being the longest serving president of INC during the 125 years of its existence.

In her tenure as president, Congress has ruled the country for more than 6 years.

In a press note issued here, Vaz said that Sonia deserved such an honour due to her dedicated and selfless service to the Indian National Congress and the country.

Case filed against Corlim panch HERALD CORRESPONDENT OLD GOA, SePt 3

Old Goa Police on thursday registered a case against a Corlim Panch member on charges of abusing and threatening the Corlim panchayat secretary.

In his complaint, Panchayat Secretary Basilio Pires told Old Goa Police that one of the panchas threatened him and had abused him in front of other panchas, while the panchayat meeting was going on.

Old Goa Police has registered the compliant under Section 353 and is investigation the case.

PANJIM (HND): GVM’s SNJA higher secondary, Ponda and S S Samiti high school, Ponda emerged winners in the college and school category respectively at Rang de Basanti, 4th inter school and collegiate patriotic singing competition hosted by Yuva De Goa. the event was hosted in association with Art and Culture department at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao.

In the school category, Damodar high school, Margao won the second place whereas Almeida High school, Ponda bagged the third place. In the college category, S S Samiti higher secondary bagged the second place whereas Chandrabhaga tukoba Naik higher secondary, Curchorem bagged the third place. New era High school, Margao won the presentable group award. the competition was judged by Fr Peter Cardoz, Yatin talaulikar and Akshada talaulikar.

Fatorda MLA Damodar Naik was the chief guest at the valedictory function and gave away the prizes. Yuva De Goa president Rituraj Prabhudesai welcomed the guests whereas event coordinator Harish Chari proposed the vote of thanks. Bhavesh Jambaulikar presented the annual report. Mangirish Salelkar and Prital Faldesai compered the event. earlier, the gathering offered condolences to literary stalwart late Ravindrabab Kelekar on his death. Yuva de Goa Award 2010 was given to Dr Diwakarji Velip for his free service rendered to the society in medical field. Vijay Shridhar desai was also honoured on the occasion.

Community Food and Nutrition extension Unit, inaugurated National Nutrition Week at Valpoi. the programme is organised in coordination with ICDS Project, Sattari.

Valpoi Municipal Council Chairperson Gujzar bi Khan stressed the importance of home made food for healthy living. She also explained the consequences of bad effects of consuming fast food. She appealed to the participants to pass on the message of good nutrition for the well being of community. Nanaya Priolkar, CDPO, ICDS, Sattari, also spoke on the occasion. earlier, technical assistant

Legal literacy camp

PANJIM (HND): the Calangute Free Legal Aid Cell of V M Salgaocar College of Law in association with the North Goa District Legal Services Authority, Bardez taluka Legal Services Committee will conduct a legal literacy camp on September 5 in the Calangute Panchayat Hall, at 4 pm, on the topic ‘Child abuse and protection of Child rights’. the purpose of this programme is to create awareness on various laws which affect the public. the session will be presided over by Dr Nishta Dessai who will speak on the subject 'Goa Children's Act, and Rights for Protection of a Child', S Patil will speak on the subject ‘Rights of Consumer under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986’ and Adv P Banaulikar will speak on ‘Free Legal Aid’. the camp is open to all the citizens of Bardez, social workers, NGOs, Mahila Mandals, advocates, etc. the camp will be co-ordinated by Prof Ranjana Ferrao.

ICAR seminar

Old Goa PSI Ramesh Shirodkar conducts the panchanama while Merces Sarpanch Deepikar Shirgaokar and panch Venita Gracias are engrossed in discussion.

Photo by Manuel Vaz

went to the site and conducted the panchanama, before attaching the truck.

Speaking to Herald, Sarpanch Deepika informed that illegal activities are thriving in the area and to stop these activities, she along with her deputy and other panchas had come to serve/paste notices to those involved.

"On reaching here, we noticed a truck in the process of dumping construction debris and immediately called up the police," she added.

Panch Girish Uskaikar informed that the illegal dumping activity has been going on for months and it is meant to build a connecting road to the highway, so that they can carry on the illegal activities on a larger scale. "these activities have to be stopped now or else it will pose a major law and order problem in the future," he added.

Deputy Sarpanch Yateen Palekar said that the conduct of illegal activities has reached a huge proportion and the area

now resembles a slum with godown, scrapyards, garages, etc mushrooming at will.

Yateen further highlighted how, despite their presence, the activities are going on without any fear for local authorities, which only goes to show that these illegalities are conducted under the blessing of politicians. ex-Sarpanch Sandhya Hoble, ex-Sarpanch Venita Gracias and BJP's St Cruz president Pramod Kamat were also present at the site.

Hill-cutting at Chicalim stops after CVAC intervention HERALD REPORTER VASCO, SePt 3

Rampant hill-cutting activity at Chicalim since the last 15 days has come to a standstill, after the Chicalim Village Action Committee (CVAC) and local residents lodged a complaint with concerned authorities on Monday. the builder failed to display a board stating the construction licenses granted by the concerned authorities and carried hill-cutting activities for the last few days.

However, when media persons visited the construction site on Monday, the owner, who wished not to quote his name, claimed that they have applied for permission from tCP for hill cutting, as they feel that the project is environment-friendly project.

“We are not cutting the entire hill, but leveling it in a step manner to build six villas on each step, besides building with 26 flats, ring road and a flyover connecting the villas from NH-17A that passes at the foothill of the property,” stated the owner.

He further informed that the project is environment-friendly and people, who are objecting to it, are free to view the construction plans. the CVAC on Monday lodged its complaint with Chicalim Panchayat and Member Secretary of Mormugao Planning and Development Authority for alleged hill cutting at Chicalim.

Speaking to media, CVAC Secretary Rui Araujo said since

Nutrition week inaugurated HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, SePt 3

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Gajanan Naik tari welcomed the guests and the gathering and stated the importance of celebration of the Week. A quiz competition on nutrition and health and also a cooking competition on nutritious food items was organised for ladies in the locality.

Lalita Khot, Rehat Shaikh, Jyostna Naik were the winners of the quiz contest while Vanita Chari, Sneha Manerkar, Suchita Naik, Annada Pokle and Manisha Dalvi were the winners of the cooking competition. the chief guest gave away the prizes.

A mini exhibition on complementary food, fruits and vegetable was also held on the occasion.

WEATHER REPORT Max Temp: 30.40C Min Temp: 24.20C Humidity: 82% Rainfall past 24 hrs: 8.4 mm Seasonal Total: 2946.4 mm Forecast: Few spells of rain or thundershowers would occur.

PANJIM (HND): ICAR Research Complex for Goa and Centre for environment education (Cee Goa State Office), Alto-Porvorim, in collaboration with Association for Coastal Agricultural Research will organise a seminar on ‘ecosystem and Biodiversity: Goan Perspective’ on September 4 at its premises.

Power Minister Aleixo Sequeira will be the chief guest. Dr A K Singh, deputy Director General, Natural Resource Management-ICAR, New Delhi, will preside over. the seminar would cover the various areas for deliberation, for the benefit of students, academicians and all those dealing with ecosystems and bio-diversity. experts from Central/State departments, university and ICAR will deliver lectures on the subject, on the occasion.

Thanksgiving for Mother Teresa

PANJIM (HND): the Missionaries of Charity sisters will be praising and thanking the Lord for the birth centenary of Blessed tereza of Calcutta (Mother tereza) on September 5. A film on Mother teresa’s legacy will be shown at 9.15 am. this will be followed by the Holy eucharist which will be presided by Archbishop Patriarch Philip Neri Ferrao at Se Cathedral, Old Goa at 10 am.

Felicitation programme

PANJIM (HND): Daivadnya Brahmin Samaj Seva Sangh will be holding the felicitation programme of students X who have secured above 70 per cent marks in the examination held in March/April, on the occasion of teachers’ Day on September 5 at Lingayat Hall, near Adarsh hall, Margao at 4.30 pm. Goa University Registrar Mohan Mahadev Sangodkar will be the chief guest and Ann Institute of Hotel Management and Catering technology Chairman Anandrao N Nagvenkar will preside over the function. Senior teacher Manohar Kashinath Pednekar of Ramakant Khalap Madyamic Vidyalay Mandre will be felicitated on the occasion.

Adventure cycle ride

PANJIM (HND): the Goa Cycling Club will be doing an adventure cycle ride from Mapusa to Siolim and back via Camurlim on September 5 at 7.30 am. Participants should assemble at Kamat Gardens, near St Xavier’s College, Mapusa.

A distance of 25 kms will be covered and the ride difficulty is medium. Participants should bring own cycles, water and rehydration supplements. For further details contact Brian on 9860027156/9158880300 or Joseph on 9822166165.

Teachers’ Day programme

Alleged hill-cutting carried out by a prominent builder near Sai Service at Chicalim.

Photo by M Prabhav

a portion of the property, according to draft Outline Development Plan 2001, is a natural reserve, it is not permissible for hill cutting and the builder has not displayed board.

He further said a villager, edward tiegel, residing in the neighbourhood of the construction site has complained to CVAC that the builder has not displayed hill cutting license, which is mandatory under Section 17 A of town and Country Planning Act, when a hill is having gradient steeper than 1:10. “the hill is obviously having a gradient steeper than 25 per cent or 14 degrees, thus no

permission can be granted in such circumstances for cutting hill,” alleged complainant tiegel in his complaint. tiegel alleged that when they asked for hill-cutting permission, as they also own a property close to the present site, they were denied it by the authorities.

As per the tCP Act, the applicant has to obtain permission from Chief town Planner under Section 17A of the Act (Prohibition on cutting of hilly land and filling up of low lying land, etc), Hilly land or sloppy land that includes any land having gradient of 1:10 or more require permission.

El Charro’s festive offer

PANJIM (HND): Lions Club of Panjim Mala Fontainhas will observe teachers’ Day programme on September 5 at 5 pm.

On this occasion teachers from various Institutions, including a senior journalist will be felicitated at a function to be held at Don Bosco High School, Panjim. the following senior teachers will be felicitated at the hands of ezilda Sapeco, Chairperson of Goa State Women's Commission for rendering yeomen service to the society in the field of education. Prof Dattatray S Bendhe (retired), Principal, S S Dempo College of Commerce & economics; Fr Wilfred Fernandes, Rector Don Bosco; Dr Marie Raj, Principal Don Bosco College; Fr earnest Saldanha (retired); Herman Rego, Kamini Kundaikar, Prisca D'Souza, all from Don Bosco High School Panjim; Hafifa Khwaja and Bertha Barros (retired) from Our Lady of Rosary Convent High School Dona Paula; Mumtaz Shaikh and Drucilla Velho (retired) from Mary Immaculate Girls High School, Panjim.

Appreciation certificates will be also given to Fr Paul D'Souza, Rector Don Bosco, Fr tamatur Cardozo, Principal HSS Don Bosco and Fr Domnic Savio Fernandes, Principal Don Bosco for working tirelessly with dedication in imparting education to the society. executive editor of Goa today Vinayak Naik will also be felicitated for his contribution in the field of journalism.

Ghumat Aarati workshop

PANJIM (HND): Doordarshan Kendra, Panjim will telecast a workshop on Ghumat Aarati in its live phone in programme ‘Hello DD’ on September 6, from 6 to 7 pm.

Prakash Naik will answer to queries of viewers while Govind Bhagat will moderate the show. the programme will have live demonstration of Ghumat Aarati in the studio, during the programme. this kind of programme is being telecast for the first time by Doordarshan Kendra, on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Viewers may dial 2225204 or 2222424 for their queries.

Pilgrimage to Old Goa

PANJIM (HND): the annual pilgrimage of Panjim citizens to Old Goa will leave on September 5 at 9.30 am, followed by mass at 11 am in the Basillica of Bom Jesus in honour of the glorious St Francis Xavier, Apostle of India to invoke God's blessing through his intercession. there will be free launch service (boat) leaving from Captain of Ports, Customs jetty, at 9.30 am and will return at 2 pm.

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In the festive season of Ganesh Chaturthi, el Charro has come out with a festive offer, with consumers getting two tequila shot glasses on purchase of every bottle. eL CHARRO GOLD: elaborated with the best blue agave of the region of Los Altos de Jalisco, this tequila of golden yellow color, with an intense oak scent, balanced and light; is specially elaborated to join

and make your cocktails, the most delicious form to taste mixed tequila. eL CHARRO SILVeR: this tequila is not put under any process of ageing or maturing, but under a final period of resting before being bottled. el Charro Silver is for those who appreciate the distinguishing flavor of pure agave without the mixture of other flavors. el Charro Silver the true flavor and scent of the blue agave.

POWER sHuTdOWn SEPTEMBER 4 BetALBAtIM: From 9 am to 3 pm. Areas affected are Seraulim, Betalbatim, Munghul, Pedda Benaulim, Pavasa Church.

COLVALe: From 9 am to 5 pm. Areas affected are Revora, Nadora, Bombay centre, Colvale and areas under Chicalim, Camurlim panchayats and surrounding areas. tALeIGAO: From 9 am to 2 pm. Areas affected are Dando, Mitra Bazaar, Hyundai workshop, Carmina Po complex and surrounding areas.

SEPTEMBER 5 BetHORA: From 9 am to 3 pm. Areas fed from Shiroda Nirankal, Bonbag and Bethora Industrial estate feeders will not have power supply.

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GOACAN for state-of-the-art bus terminus in Margao

The garbage menace at the KTC bus stand.

HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

The sorry state of the KTC bus stand, Margao came to the fore on Friday, as activists called for the construction of a state-ofthe-art bus terminus in the Commercial capital.

Uncollected garbage was strewn all over the bus stand near the toilet block, while the shed erected 23 years ago in 1987 lacked basic facilities for the commuters as well as the drivers and conductors.

GOACAN Coordinator Roland Martins said the bus shed was inaugurated way back in 1987 by then Chief Minister, Pratapsing Rane, adding that promises to build an ultra modern bus stand in the city has remained only on paper.

“Today, GOACAN volunteers

Photo by Santosh Mirajkar

have distributed slips to the citizens to get united to improve the condition of the bus stand.

There are no proper toilets, while the bus stand lacks resting place for the drivers. There’s no proper stand for the motorcycle pilots and the rickshaws”, he added.

Martins and other volunteers on Friday participated in an awareness action at Margao today as part of its ongoing Bus Commuters Rights Awareness Fortnight and called upon the Goa Govt to protect the interests of the bus commuters.

The awareness action which had the participation of consumer forum volunteers from South Goa highlighted various demands of the bus commuters.

Volunteers armed with placards and colourful flags distributed

information slips to the commuters of the Kadamba Transport Corporation as well as the private buses.

The main focus of the awareness action was the demand for a proper bus stand for Margao city. It maybe recalled that since 1987, commuters have had to make do with a temporary bus shed which was inaugurated by the then Chief Minister Pratapsing Rane during the year Goa got Statehood. ”Although 23 years have passed, the commercial capital of Goa has not yet seen the construction of a full-fledged bus terminus, although successive governments have built bus stands at Canacona, Cuncolim, Shiroda, Ponda and now Assonora among others,” he added.

Mapusa Kadamba bus stand in garbage mess HERALD CORRESPONDENT PORVORIM, SEPT 3

The Kadamba bus stand at Mapusa has become a dumping ground for garbage, inconveniencing the commuters using the bus stand.

Garbage is being dumped by the shopkeepers everyday, but it is not being lifted either by Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC) or Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) for days together, due to which the garbage naturally begins to rot gradually and starts stinking.

Garbage that has been accumulated at KTC bus stand is causing discomfort for the public and also poses serious threat to the health of the public.

To make matters worse, the site is also being used as urinal by the public. Though there is a Sulabh Shouchalaya in the premises of Kadamba bus stand, people are seen urinating at the dumping site of the garbage, which presents a sorry sight not only to the tourists who visit the bus stand, but also to the locals.

The matter was brought to

Newly appointed Belgaum Superintendent of Police Sandeep Patil has assured to take steps to stop unnecessary annoyance caused by the police to Goan visitors in Belgaum.

Speaking to Herald, SP Patil, who assumed charge on Wednesday as the new SP of Belgaum, said the Belgaum police would be asked to adopt a friendly attitude to the many Goans who visit Belgaum everyday.

An IPS officer of the 2004 batch, SP Patil had earlier served

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

The Fisheries Department started pooling in resources to give all seven jetties a facelift to improve working conditions, but deterrent amenities at Malim Jetty have affected work to a certain level. The jetty has over 4000-odd workers on 325 trawlers.

The jetty faces numerous problems like maintenance, expansion, etc. The five-year-old proposal of extending the jetty to 100 metres was though approved it was reduced to 50 metres, which is hardly a solution, said chairman of the Mandovi Fishermen Co-operative Society Menino Afonso.

The tender for the same was issued some four months ago and awarded to a Goan contractor a month back with a deal of two years. Former chairman Sitakant Parab had informed that the age-old jetty required additional 200 metres space as against the present 110 metres, to ease out congestion.

“The society has trawlers measuring from 65 metres to as small as 25 metres, which are docked at the jetty. Due to space constraint, winds and strong currents, they collide resulting in damage. Our proposal is though accepted, 50 metres extension will not help,” Afonso complained.

Of the total fishing boats,

250-odd boats are reportedly made of wood and remaining are fibre boats. The Society is in process of getting 25 more trawlers of 65 metres each.

The jetty for over a decade and half is barred from getting direct water supply despite connection from the Public Works Department.

“In a day we require 14 to 16 water tankers for drinking and separate six-to-10 tankers for ice-plant. The Society currently requires approximately Rs eight lakh annually but facilities are negligible,” he rued.

Counting on additional amenities, the jetty lacks ‘fish selling platform’ and ‘auction sheds’ but yet again, these projects are held up with the PWD for three years, Afonso further said.

LABOUR PROBLEM: The apparent care-a-damn attitude of the government towards the cyclonic storm victims has also stalled fishermen from venturing into the sea. Cyclone Phyan lashed the western coast claiming lives of several fishermen of which, 38 fishermen from Malim jetty lost their lives. Besides, four trawler boats, 15 purse seine nets and some 20 small dingies were also drained out in the cyclone.

The government was quick enough to announce compensation of Rs one-lakh, but as on date, families of the victims have

Now, sign register to buy ration!

HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

Next time when you go to purchase ration at fair price shop in your area, please ensure that you sign a register for purchases you make.

From September 1 all fair price shops in the State are required to maintain a register wherein every card holder who buys ration has to sign for purchases he make.

Speaking to Herald Gurudas Pilarnkar, Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, said this has been done to ensure that unsold ration is not sold in

the open market.

“We received many complaints that ration not picked up by ration card holders is later sold in the open market but now we will able to keep check on fair price shops, “ he says.

This exercise will help the department to ascertain that the quantity of stock left unpicked at a particular fair shop will be equally shared among ration card holders of that shop along with fresh stock.

So if wish to have more ration then please sign the register after buying your stock, appeals the director of Civil Supplies.

Govt plans to upgrade 100 schools, says CM Garbage dumped in the premises of Kadamba bus stand at Mapusa.

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the notice of the officials of MMC and Kadamba Transport Corporation and was also highlighted by the media several times, but in vain.

Member of Adhoc Committee of Shiv Sena Philip D’Sousa has written a letter to the Director of KTC at Porvorim, stating that the dumping of garbage in the premises of Kadamba bus stand should be stopped forthwith and garbage bins should be made available for the travelling public.

“Urinating in the open should also not be permitted,” added D’Sousa in his letter.

Shiv Sena has warned the KTC that if necessary measures are not taken to prevent dumping of garbage in its premises, then they will be forced to force to take the action in Shiv Sena style.

Belgaum SP assures halt to harassment of Goans HERALD CORRESPONDENT BELGAUM, SEPT 3

Malim jetty gets congested, expansion remains distant dream

at Bellary and Kodagu and was the Davanegere Superintendent of Police, before being transferred to Belgaum to replace Sonia Narang, the first woman police superintendent of Belgaum, who has been transferred as South Bangalore DCP (Law and Order).

Stating that Belgaum had a record of having many excellent police officers, he said he too feels privileged to being at Belgaum.

“To get hold of the first hand information, I shall visit the entire Belgaum district, the biggest district in the region,” he ascertained adding that safety of all

HERALD CORRESPONDENT VALPOI, SEPT 3

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said the government has taken up 100 government-run schools for up-gradation through GSIDC on priority basis.

Kamat was recently speaking during the foundation stone laying ceremony for the school building at Bhirondem-Sattari.

Government has planned to upgrade as many as 100 schools in the State beginning with the two government high schools and one primary school, each at Honda, Guleli and Bhironda in Sattari taluka.

Kamat laid the foundation s t o n e i n t h e p re s e n c e o f Speaker Pratapsingh Rane, Health Minister Vishwajeet

Rane, Director of Education Dr Celsa Pinto, Bhirondem Sarpanch Udaysingh Rane and other dignitaries.

Speaking further, Kamat said the upgrading of these schools equipped with all requisite educational facilities was necessary for the betterment of the student community and also to promote quality education in the State.

Speaker Pratapsingh Rane said the project of up-gradation of the schools is being done as part of government endeavour to equip government-run schools with adequate infrastructural facilities.

Bhirondem Sarpanch Udaysingh Rane also spoke on the occasion.

the citizens in the district was his foremost priority.

“Under the guidance of the Director General of Police, I will be initiating people centric programmes in the district, which would further enhance common man’s faith in police,” affirmed SP Patil.

“Moreover, apart from giving priority in maintaining law and order, streamlining the rising traffic menace is on priority,” he said.

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Chief Minister Digambar Kamat unveils the plaque during the foundation stone laying ceremony for the school building at BhirondemSattari.

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To my father on his 70th birthday

By Tanya Verlekar Kenkare

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hat happens when you have a father who is the best in the world? Your brother and husband have a rough time. Why? Because the high benchmarks set don’t allow them to even come close to their respective roles as fathers. But jokes aside, on the eve of my dad's 70th birthday, I feel proud and blessed; not just today, but every day of my life.

A time arrives when you tread your own path. But to know that there is a person who stands by you through thick and thin is nothing short of a blessing.

That person, to me, is my dad, V B Prabhu Verlekar.

He taught me how to ride my first bicycle, to let me experience life beyond my shores, to dream and know that the sky is the limit, to learn how to fight challenges, to be positive and face life with a passion; advice that he follows till this day.

A chartered accountant whose hard work and per-

severance made him a benchmark in his field, his ability to keep pace with the times always amazed me. Talk to him about anything – finance to design, Bollywood to food, places to people – and he has the latest on it.

His enthusiasm to acquire knowledge, experience new places, keep in touch with the latest technology,

V B PraBhu Verlekar and give back to society is hard to believe. His mind always seems to be ticking for something new to move on to, to learn and to share. How many of us, half his age, embrace life with even half his passion?

His idea of expressing joy? Feeding me, you and whoever else is home. I bet my mother became a better cook because of his passion to feed people to their heart’s content. During Diwali, he would invite slum children to our home, bathe and clothe them, and give them food and sweets. I'm sure having a supportive wife made it

easier. Even when his son-in-law visits, my parents actually prepare a list of what they are going to feed him.

He is not just my father, but my philosopher and guide (I'll leave the ‘friend’ bit to my mother); someone I feel immensely proud of. I consider him next to God, not just because he is my parent but because of the person he is.

He is humble, a perfect human being, who has always been able to empathise with the common man on the street. A man of substance, he has fulfilled both his personal and professional duties sincerely, with utmost truthfulness, in the best way possible.

He can relate to anyone. To his grandchildren he is the ever playful granddad, ready to take them to the beach, play chess or even 'doctor-doctor' with the youngest. He discusses their little worlds with great interest, and keeps updated with events in their lives.

Your special day, Papa, is just an opportunity to express what we feel everyday. You are the best and we are blessed. Happy Birthday!

received only Rs 50,000. The official entails, “The Chief Minister (Digambar Kamat) had asked us to furnish a report on the total loss including trawlers and nets to the Fisheries Department.

We submitted the report in a month’s time but we are not given complete benefits till date.”

This is yet another factor that fishermen almost all of whom belonging from other States have not turned up for work in Goa this year. “Of the total fishermen, only 35 percent labourers have turned up to job and only 50 percent trawlers are in the sea…We incurred a loss of approximately Rs 15 crore,” said the Malim chairman.

GARMIN EQUIPMENTS: Even as Fisheries Department claimed of distributing Garmin equipment kits comprising Global Positioning System (GPS), Very High Frequency (VHF) and fish finders to trawler owners in response to their proposal, the jetty officials rue that the most important system – Vessel Tracking System is not yet made available to them.

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A Tale of Two Worlds

Vol No CX No: 224 Goa, Saturday 4 September, 2010

Settling scores with Sonia

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hy is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) so obsessed with who becomes the President of the Congress?

More accurately, why does it have such a visceral hatred for Sonia Gandhi? Her re-election as the Congress President for the fourth consecutive time – which makes her the longest serving head of the party – has come in for sharp criticism from the BJP. Party President Nitin Gadkari taunted Sonia Gandhi over her re-election as Congress President, saying that the post seems to be “reserved for the Gandhi family”. Extending backhanded congratulations, he said: “She should set a precedent as she did by refusing the post of prime minister [after the 2004 parliamentary polls].” Referring to himself, he said that only in the BJP could a simple party cadre like himself become party president.

That is not true. Gadkari forgets two things. First, he has been planted in his post by the ‘first family’ of the BJP, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Without the nod of the all-powerful RSS, he could never have become BJP President.

Second, those who are not members of the Nehru-Gandhi family have become presidents of the Congress. Till the late Indira Gandhi split the Congress after she was expelled from the party in 1969, its presidentship was never a monopoly.

More recently, after the assassination of the late Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, it was P V Narasimha Rao who became Congress President, a post he held till the Congress was defeated in the 1996 Lok Sabha election, when he was unceremoniously replaced by Sitaram Kesri. The latter lasted till the 1998 election, which the Congress lost even more badly. It was then that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) voted to remove Kesri, and appointed Sonia Gandhi in his place.

The problem for the Congress was that under the stewardship of Rao and Kesri, the party lost ground. For eight years from 1996, it was in the wilderness. It was Sonia Gandhi who resurrected the Congress and brought it back to power in 2004. Then, despite anti-incumbency, she led the party to an even greater victory in 2009. When the Congress has a sureshot winning formula, should it be changed? And what gives the BJP the right to object? Has the Congress ever public commented about who should or should not be the BJP President? Has it ever openly derided Nitin Gadkari as an RSS puppet?

Dynasties in Indian politics are not a Congress monopoly.

What about the Abdullahs and the Muftis in Jammu and Kashmir, or Karunanidhi’s extended family in Tamil Nadu? Can we forget BJP ally Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Lalu Yadav’s husband-wife duopoly in Bihar, or Mulayam Singh Yadav’s father-son diarchy in Uttar Pradesh, the Lals of Haryana or the Scindias in several states?

But the reason why the BJP hates Sonia Gandhi with such intensity is that despite being born an Italian named Sonia Maino, daughter of a small-time building contractor, and raised in a conservative Roman Catholic family near Turin, she has overcome all the handicaps of birth, upbringing and language to find a place in the hearts of India’s poorest people as a daughter-in-law of the country. She has successfully used the power of Indian tradition to outwit those who claim a monopoly over it. Is it any wonder that they hate her with an uncommon passion?

But the BJP needs to learn from its mistakes. It has, in the last two elections, tried to personally vilify Sonia Gandhi.

Both times it has spectacularly failed. Doesn’t the party brass realise that the more muck they throw, the more it sticks to them as well? The BJP has a brand new leader. Isn’t it time for some brand new thinking too?

We are creating imaginary rights and even endorsing legislation to give them effect, says AVertHAnUs l d’soUZA

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e live simultaneously in two distinct worlds – more different than chalk is from cheese. It is not an easy feat. We live in the here-and-now and in the hereafter; in the corporeal world and in the spiritual world; in the tangible world of the senses and in the non-tangible world of ideas and ideals; in the confines of our own individual selves and in society together with others. It is a strange world that we inhabit, if only we stop to give it some consideration.

Philosophers have tried to explain this mystery for as long as recorded history. Plato, the great Greek philosopher, held that we live in a shadowworld, a world of images and reflections of the ‘real’ world outside. This point of view is shared by ancient Hindu philosophy, which holds that what we consider to be reality is, in fact, only ‘maya’ or unreality. This philosophy holds that ‘reality’ is beyond our comprehension. We can only grasp at its images and reflections.

The present age, which Hindu philosophy designates as the ‘age of darkness’ (kalyug), is the most materialistic age ever known to humankind.

All our energies are dedicated to living according to the epicurean principle: eat, drink and be merry because tomorrow we die. The Epicureans were steeped in a world of pleasure and sense gratification – not very different from the hedonism of present times. But we seem to have failed to draw the lesson that one can never contain air within one’s closed fists; one can never capture one’s own shadow; one cannot contain infinity in the finite mind.

We live as if there is no tomorrow. We have organised our political and economic systems as if there is no need for individual space and personal liberty. We are hell bent on endowing our governments with powers over our private lives while, at the same time, proclaiming that we believe in individual freedoms. We have abdicated our responsibility to build a peaceful society, and entrusted this task to governments that neither understand what freedom is, nor have the necessary tools to bring about freedom.

To speak about governments ensuring individual freedoms is a contradiction in terms. We live in a world of strange contradictions. We launch wars to preserve peace. We set up military dictatorships to ensure civic liberties. The listing of such contradictions would fill an entire library.

But let us look at just a few striking examples.

The education of a child, which is the most in-

MorAl ConsiderAtions dividual and intimate enterprise, has been handed over to the government, which now not only decides what a child must learn at what age, but also determines how the child should learn. The government decides the curriculum and the qualification of the teachers. It decides what kind of food the child should be fed and what kind of books it should read. The absurdity of this situation is highlighted in the fact that the government has now approved the teaching of the reproductive process to kindergarten children; all in the guise of giving them ‘sex education’ even before they are prepared for it.

The Government of India is now considering a Bill to control all so-called ‘fertility’ (or is it ‘infertility’?) clinics in the country. Instead of assisting infertile married couples to have babies, the Bill approaches the question of ‘fertility’ as a lucrative commercial enterprise that, according to the Law

Commission, has been described as an ‘industry’.

Even the Supreme Court of India was aghast at the callousness of this approach, which considers babies as commodities.

According to the draft Bill, assisted reproductive technologies will be made freely available to anyone and everyone who desires them, irrespective of whether they are legally married couples, simply living together or even if they are single, lesbian or homosexual. The basic flaw in the Bill is that it is based on the principle that the latest technology should be made freely available as a commercial enterprise, rather than be used to assist infertile married couples to have babies.

The most tragic aspect of the Bill is that it seeks to empower the government to become the sole monopolistic operator of the technology of assisted reproduction. The government will be the sole repository of all information con-

cerning the donors of sperm and oocytes, the medical status of surrogate mothers, and the details of the ‘parents’ who will purchase the children for a handsome amount.

Another aberration that is quite obvious to those who want to see is the twisted way in which women want to be treated as equals.

Women not only want to do jobs that were hitherto exclusive to men (which is perfectly legitimate), but they also want to discard their femininity and become male (which is not).

The latest example of this is a group of women that call themselves Raelians (named after a French racing car driver who saw a vision in which all life on Earth was engineered by extra-terrestrial beings). The Raelians observe an annual ‘Go Topless Day’, to demand their ‘constitutional right’ to go topless in public. Their argument is that if men can go bare-chested in public, women should have the same ‘right’. Is this equality? How will the ‘right’ to go about bare-chested in public enhance the dignity of women and give them equal status with men?

In a similar twist of reason, homosexuals are demanding the right to use toilets and rest rooms reserved for women, on the ground that they have equal rights to all public facilities. According to them, restricting toilet facilities along sexual lines amounts to discrimination and violates their rights to equality.

A certain insanity has begun to pervade our society, which blurs distinctions between the real and the imagined. We are creating imaginary rights and even endorsing legislation to give effect to these imaginary rights. Our perception is skewed to such an alarming extent that we cannot distinguish right from wrong, or real from imaginary. This is quite pervasive in the multitude of so-called ‘Reality Shows’ on popular television channels. What passes for ‘reality’ is unreal; the product of sick minds.

We need to wake up to the fact that we are living in a world in which there is a conflict between good and evil, between the noble and the brutal, between the spiritual and the material.

St Paul described this in the best possible way: “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate... For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.” (Rom.7:14). In theology, this is called the Consequence of Sin, a reality that all humankind would do well to acknowledge.

story of a Princess

Tongue in Cheek

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he was elegant, beautiful and graceful in her movements as she sailed across the globe. She traversed the seven seas and weathered all the storms that came her way. At times she was battered and bruised, and down, but she was never out. She was strong and sturdy, a combination of brawn and beauty.

All went well till the day she reached the sea off a place called Goa. The princess had heard of the tiny state in the India and was eager to reach the shores of this ‘Pearl of the East’.

One stormy day, the princess entered the waters off the Goa coast. All of a sudden, she was drifted off from her normal course by a strong wind. She lost control and was slowly dragged near the shores of a famous beach, and got stuck in the sand.

She was grounded. That is when all the trouble started for the princess. In the normal course, the authorities in charge would have done everything they could to get her out of the sand. But then she had run aground in Goa, where playing ‘sossegado’ is the name of the game.

No one in the form of a prince came to the aid of the princess.

It seemed that there was not a single prince in the entire state of Goa who would come forward and rescue the princess in distress.

The princess had to spend the day in the sweltering sun and the night in biting cold. Nobody seemed to bother about the princess. Her whole body seemed to ache and her skin began to peel off. She was struck by several maladies.

Days turned to weeks, weeks to months, months to years and to one whole decade. The poor princess lay there, subject to the vagaries of nature. The local government got into a tangle as to who should save the princess.

The locals began to blame the princess for all the trouble that came to the state. She was like a bad omen. As time passed by, the princess died. She met a watery grave. What was left of a once beautiful princess was just skin and bones.

The dead body could hold together no longer. It began to disintegrate. The body was breaking into two. But even then the

By Adelmo Fernandes local government would not give it a decent burial.

Some were talking of taking the dead body away and cutting it up. Others were talking of cutting the dead body right there where it lay, and then carting it away. And those in power could not make up their minds...

So the corpse of the princess began to rot and disintegrate.

With every passing monsoon, the condition of the corpse became worse. The local courts took pity on the plight of the princess and intervened. They wanted the concerned authorities to act fast and give the princess a decent burial, so that her soul could rest in peace.

But then, her body began to rust into pieces. The local authorities, it appeared, did not have the conscience not to allow the poor princess to suffer even in death. The plight of the MV River Princess continues to this very day, as the government cannot make up its mind about who should remove what is left of the corroded ship.

This tragic story is ‘To be continued…’

Letters to the Editor Barking dogs seldom bite Juliano Baptista, Cortalim This is a reply to all ‘Goans’ from abroad who write in the papers with great words of advice. While it is wonderful to see that are interested in your motherland and deplore today’s politicians who are feeding Goa to the dogs, it is absurd that you sit at your computers to write letters from thousands of miles away and take no action.

Please quit your lucrative jobs abroad, come here and join the fight. You have absolutely no idea how hard it is to fight these rogues, who have tons of money power.

The village groups of Goa are fighting tooth and nail for the people. They have achieved a lot so far, and are the real heroes.

100 Years Ago

PRIMEIRO DIARIO NAS COLONIAS PORTUGEZAS

4 September 1910 Dias memorial

Friends and admirers of Dr Miguel Caetano Dias, Chief of Medical Services of this state, met at the Hall of the Commercial Association to discuss ways to raise funds to erect a marble bust, or at least award the amount to the best of students from the Medical College. A letter of appeal has been entrusted to his relative Dr Jose Maria da Costa Alvares.

Steamship located

The Steamship ‘Tristan’, which had disappeared on the high seas, was found by two Men-of-War totally dismasted, with broken helix, waywardly floating at the mercy of the tides.

Betul Health Centre

The locale to establish the Betul HealthCentre, which also is going to tend to the needs of the villages of Carmona, Velim, Assolna, Cuncolim, as well as those in the periphery of Araly de Quepem, was determined.

But this wasn’t accomplished overnight, and certainly not by writing letters in the papers.

I am not saying that choosing a lucrative career in another country is a sin. But if it is your choice to tuck your tail between your legs and run, please do not advise us.

We have good leaders. What we need is support with action. Barking dogs seldom bite.

Why not work abroad?

Jerome Goes, London Diogo Furtado (‘Wisdom from afar’, Herald, 2 Sept) does not know that Goans who have worked abroad have contributed to the welfare of their families in Goa, many from poverty to a respectable life. Can any Goan have a decent life with the payment they receive from private firms in Goa that pay paltry amounts?

A government job cost lakhs of rupees.

How many can pay to get these jobs? Ask any contractor how much money has he to part with to bag a tender, and how much bribes he has to pay to obtain his final payment.

If he is a true Goan, let him ask the Alemao brothers how they have amassed so much wealth.

Councillors & consultants Carmen D’Souza, Dona Paula Your letter of the day ‘Fraud in Panjim Market’ (Herald, 2 September) is only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ when it comes to corruption in the Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP). Earlier, we had the huge car parking scam and others.

This is not surprising. By and large, the CCP councillors are scamsters. The rot extends from the Mayor to the co-opted members. These frauds are now after people making an honest living by washing cars.

What I find really disgusting however, is their attempts to gain legitimacy by hiring mercenary consultants. These fraud consultants do the councillors’ bidding for a meal and a few drinks, from attacking reputable citizens to producing pseudo-scientific reports to support bogus projects, which are nothing but money-making rack-

Letter of the Day

Parking problems & Panjim Lisa Dias-Noronha, Chorão I agree with your editorial ‘No alternative to pay parking’ (Herald, 11 August). Builders and owners of buildings often do not allocate adequate parking space. Parking has become a nightmare in Panjim. Drivers have now resorted to triple parking!

I request you to invite residents and visitors of Panjim to offer solutions to this problem. To kick-start this forum on parking solutions, here is mine: Panjim is a beautiful city. Parts of it can be made into pedestrian-only zones. Now that the Municipal Garden is getting ready, one such area could be around the garden.

I know no one is going to like this suggestion; but the next one is the real problem solver.

We should have narrow, low streetcars – hop-in-hop-out vehicles (like the one Cidade de Goa sends to Panjim) – which ply in loops around the city at regular intervals. I would be most happy to leave my car in a safe parking lot outside the city, buy a monthly / weekly pass and hop-in-hop-out of future Panjim city streetcars, which I would like to call ‘Desire’. These streetcars would also boost tourist traffic, as one can take sightseeing rides in them.

My next suggestion is ‘cycle taxis’. You could cycle to Café Tato or Café Bhonsle for a snack, burning calories before and after. In Amsterdam, the municipality has ‘cycle taxis’ which you can use for free. At the end of the day, the municipality collects the cycles and redistributes them around the city. Now that is real municipal service!

Those who can draw should send in some designs for the streetcars. Let us be part of the solution. ets.

It is well known that prostitution of science is the second-oldest profession. These worms should jump into a compost pit and become honest and productive for the first time in their lives.

Why not BJP? Nathan de Almeida, Alto Porvorim Jose Maria Miranda in his letter ‘Weed out Christianity’ (Herald, 31 August) rightly castigates Khanapur BJP MLA Pralhad Remani’s call to ‘weed out Christianity’. But his conclusion that BJP will not succeed in wooing the minorities is wrong.

Leader of the Opposition Manohar Parrikar recently provided facts and figures to prove that the ruling Congress government has denied job opportunities to the minorities. Out of 11,000 government vacancies filled during three years Congress rule, only 700 jobs went to minorities, which comprise over 30 per cent of the population. This is

injustice.

The Congress has sent wrong signals to the unemployed youth of the minority communities, and Goans have joined the BJP, irrespective of caste or religion.

Stop wooing minorities Jerry Fernandes, Saligao I fully agree with Sameer Khan’s letter ‘BJP and minorities’ (Herald, 26 August). It is no point having useless meetings with religious heads and wooing minorities with silly apologies and lies of innocence.

If the leaders of the BJP really want to win the confidence of the minorities and remove that infamous ‘communal’ tag (as Arti Mehra expects to do), why don’t they re-build the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya? Why are they still glorifying the chief architect of the infamous Gujarat riots in 2002 (Narendra Modi) and not giving justice to all the victims? Why aren’t they taking action against their own outfits like the RSS, VHP,

Bajrang Dal, etc, which were openly involved in carrying out attacks against the Christians in Orissa, Gujarat and Karnataka?

Paths of Wisdom

Exhibitions & protests Nelson Lopes Chinchinim Exhibitions are to display goods and promote sales. They offer outings for families, and discounts for shoppers. Many of those displaying goods are locals. Why don’t those who think exhibitions are a ‘profitable proposition’ book stalls?

Monopolies are not in the interest of the buyers. Political patronage for limited personal gain should not be couched as a lawand-order problem.

Eco-friendly Chovoth Girish Gaonkar, Kurdistan, Iraq Very soon we will be celebrating the Ganesh Festival. Previously, Ganesh idols were made of clay, which represents mother Earth.

Nowadays, many people buy Ganesh idols made of Plaster of Paris, with artificial colours, that badly affect the environment.

We also spend a lot of money on firecrackers, which cause noise pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, water pollution, etc.

It is my appeal to all Goans: opt for ecofriendly methods to celebrate the Ganesh festivals and save our beautiful planet.

Rein in panchayats S N D Poojary, Miramar Some village panchayats function in the most bizarre manner, challenging the authority of the state and even going against the Constitution. Elected panchayat members oppose everything proposed by the government, as if they are independent republics.

Reasonable opposition is a part of democratic functioning; but pathological opposition at the cost of the general good goes against the basic tenets of democracy. The recent judgment of the High Court of Bombay upholding the authority of the Directorate of Panchayats to control the functioning of village panchayats is most welcome.

Bear One Another’s Burdens

My brothers, if someone is caught in any kind of wrongdoing, those of you who are spiritual should set him right; but you must do it in a gentle way. And keep an eye on yourselves, so that you will not be tempted too. Help to carry one another’s burdens, and in this way, you will obey the law of Christ. If someone thinks he is somebody when really he is nobody, he is only deceiving himself. Everyone should judge his own conduct. If it is good, then he can be proud of what he himself has done, without having to compare it with what someone else has done. For everyone has to carry his own load.

The man who is taught the Christian message, should share all the good things he has with his teacher.

Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a food of God. A person will reap exactly what he sows. If he sows in the field of his natural desires, from it he will gather the harvest of death; if he sows in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit he will gather the harvest of eternal life. So, let us not become tired of doing good; for if we do not give up, the time will come when we will reap the harvest. So then, as often as we have the chance, we should do good to everyone, and especially to those who belong to our family in the faith.

(Galatians 6; 1-10)

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Tar balls keep Tourism Dept busy HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, AUG 3

The Tourism Department (TD) is working round –the-clock to take stock of the tar balls, which have been washed ashore at some beaches during last 48 hours. It has employed about 200 strong labour force to clean the affected beaches.

Swapnil Naik, Director of Tourism, said “tar balls washing ashore is an annual phenomenon during this season. We are in touch with the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and are consulting with them on the occurrence. Close to 200 personnel are working roundthe-clock to ensure that the beach cleaning operations proceed smoothly. ” A joint inspection of the affected areas was carried out

n According to NIO the appearance of tar balls along the West Coast of India is an annual phenomenon from May to October, generally arising when an oil-slick occurs in the vicinity. hours after the tar balls were first washed ashore by Tourism Minister Nilkanth Halarnkar, Environment Minister Aleixo Sequeira along with director of tourism and officials of Goa

State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB).

According to NIO the appearance of tar balls along the West Coast of India is an annual phenomenon from May to October, generally arising when an oilslick occurs in the vicinity.

Changing patterns of the weather and tides play a large role in determining whether the appearance of tar balls will continue over the next few days.

The last 48 hours have seen tar balls wash along sections of the beach stretch of Colva to Velsao.

Scientist from Nagpur based National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) are expected to arrive in State early next week to conduct a closer study on the phenomenon.

Youth urged to support traditional occupations HERALD CORRESPONDENT MAYEM, SEPT 3

Sahitya Academy award winner Hema Nayak has advised the youth not to run after jobs and on the contrary called upon them to support agriculture and other traditional occupations.

She was addressing the students of Narayan Zantye College Bicholim in one of its function held recently.

Arpita Gore, Judy D’Souza, Prof Pravin Sawant and assistant Prof Rajesh Amonkar also spoke on the occasion.

The needy students were distributed free books from the College library on the occasion. Saili Naik compered the function, while NSS Officer Paresh Lingudkar proposed the vote of thanks.

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Civic engineers need to be innovative, says Neri HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, SEPT 3

Water Resources Minister, Filipe Neri Rodrigues has called upon civic engineers to adopt innovative methods and materials for development of the state and the country.

Speaking at the two-day All India Seminar on Innovative World of Civil engineers organised by the Goa state centre of the Institution of Engineers (India) at the Ravindra bhavan here on Friday, Filipe said that innovation would save the country from technological blackmail from foreign countries. “Innovation will help the country to develop our own technology instead of copying cheap foreign technology”, he said

The minister said that innovative methods should be adopted by the civil engineers keeping in mind the ecology and environment of the region instead of adopting imported technology. He further stressed the need to create structures which are safe for the common man.

In his key note address, former Roorkee University ViceChancellor, Dr. Jagdish Narain called upon young engineers and professionals to pay attention to the challenges before them and strike a direction to find so-

Slogan contest for school children HERALD NEWS DESK PANJIM, SEPT 3

The Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights will organise a slogan competition for students studying upto Std X for creation of a conducive educational environment among the people, for getting admission to their children in school to give benefit under Right to Education (RTE) Act. The students studying upto X level who are interested to participate in the competition are requested to submit the slogan on ‘Right of Children to free and compulsory Education Act 2009’ depicting pictures with slogans like trumpet, butterfly, children paying around the school, fields, etc and other related subject.

The students participating in the slogan competition should write slogan in English/Marathi or Konkani in neat and clean script on clean white paper and send the slogan with his/her name, standard and school name addressed to the Chairperson, Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, 3rd floor, Sakahardande Apartment, Dr Dada Vaidya Road, Panjim on or before September 20.

Fo r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t o n 2421870 or in person during office hours.

lutions which are climate friendly and energy efficient. “We have to face areas which need attention like environmental problem, pollution control and waste management and water. Not enough attention has been paid on pollution control and waste management”, he said.

Chairman of Civil Division Board, The Institution of Engineers(India) Eng Sisir Kumar Banerjee inaugurated a building products exhibition on the occasion and also addressed the delegates.

The exhibition has twenty stalls displaying very innovative building products. The inaugural session was followed by three technical sessions and three products presentations. The topics covered were innovations in Bridge Engineering by Dr Mahesh Tandon, civil structural Design sof tware by Genesis AutoDesk, Seismic base isolation as structural response reduction and retrofitting tool by Dr P Savoikar and future trends in India of formwork technology

by Raj Lakhani.

Parents urged to keep strict watch on children HERALD CORRESPONDENT MAYEM, SEPT 3

Noted scholar Pandurang Nadkarni has called upon the parents to give utmost dedication to create bright future of their children by keeping a watch over their day-to-day activities.

He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the workshop on ‘National Talent Search’, organised by Bicholim Taluka School Group Committee in association with Bharat Vikas Parishad, Bicholim unit, at Deendayal Bhavan, Bicholim, on Wednesday.

Group President Ramchandra Garde, Sagar Shetye, Makarand Kamat and education officer Sarveda Gaonkar were present on the occasion.

Speaking further, Nadkarni said parents should keep a watch over day-to-day activities of their children, especially before they cross 8 years, which is high time when the brain starts developing.

Makarand Kamat briefed about the workshop, while Ramchandra Garde introduced the guests.

Sarveda Gaonkar compered the function, while Vishant Vaze proposed the vote of thanks.

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Bank duped of Rs 37 lakh PTI NAGPUR, SEPT 3

Two tricksters duped a local Canara Bank branch of over Rs 37 lakh by fraudulently withdrawing money after depositing bogus demand drafts, police said today.

Accused duo--Deepak Yadav and Mahesh Tikam prepared fictitious demand drafts of Rs

37,39,00 and deposited it with Canara Bank at the Sadar branch here and later withdraw the entire money, police said.

The Bank branch manager Krishna Jamde later realised the folly and lodged a complaint with Sadar Police Station. Offences under relevant section of IPC were registered against the duo, yesterday.

ACP’s son, daughter-in-law commit suicide PTI MUMBAI, SEPT 3

The son and daughter-inlaw of an Assistant Police Commissioner (ACP) allegedly committed suicide at their residence in suburban Malad here, police said today.

"The young couple-- Abhijit (27) and wife Ashwini (21)-- were found dead at their residence this morning. Abhijit, son of ACP Madhusudan Kurne, used his father's service revolver to kill self," Additional Police Commissioner, Ramrao Pawar told PTI. Preliminary probe has suggested that Abhijit may have shot his wife ahead of taking the extreme step himself, Pawar said.

The reason for the suicide is not yet clear, he said.

Their bodies have been taken to nearby hospital for postmortem.

K’taka threatens to launch legal battle on mining issue PTI BANGALORE, SEPT 3

Attacking the Centre for its apathy on the issue of banning iron ore exports, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today threatened to launch a legal battle over the issue.

"Why is the Centre sitting silent? Why has it not acted to check illegal mining and illegal export of iron ore in the country, particularly in mineral rich states where the menace is rampant", he asked as he came under fresh attack from Congress, which accused him of granting new mining licences.

"I will go to the Supreme Court. I will fight a legal battle", said Yeddyurappa, whose government has come under fire from the Congress and JDS over illegal mining issue.

State ministers and mining magnets Janardhana Reddy and Karunakara Reddy, both brothers, and their close associate Sriramalu have specifically come under opposition attack.

"Why is the Centre insisting

Curfew lifted from Anantnag, life returns to normal in Valley PTI SRINAGAR, SEPT 3

Curfew was today lifted from Anantnag after four days even as life returned to normal in the Kashmir Valley after hardline Hurriyat Conference suspended protests for the day, the last Friday of Ramzan.

"Curfew was lifted from Anantnag town this morning as the law and order situation improved and no untoward incident was reported from anywhere in the area over the past three days," a senior police officer said.

Curfew was imposed in the town on August 30 after a youth was allegedly killed in firing by security forces.

However, curfew was imposed in Kunzar area along the Srinagar-Gulmarg road, 35 kms from here, following protests, official sources said.

They said the residents

were protesting against the alleged police inaction in the case relating to the murder of 17-year-old Sameera last month.

Elsewhere, in the Valley, life returned to normal after Syed Ali Shah Geelani-led Hurriyat suspended the agitation programme in view of the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramzan.

Shops and other commercial establishments opened early in the morning as people flocked markets to make preparations for Id. The unusually high rush in the markets was due to the agitation calendar issued by Geelani yesterday which exempted September 5 and nine from strikes before Id. However, schools and government offices remained closed today after the state government announced a public holiday.

Three die, 42 hurt in road mishaps PTI ROURKELA, SEPT 3

Three persons were killed and 42 others injured, 12 of them seriously, in three separate road accidents in Sundargarh district on Thursday, police said here today.

One school going boy, Bikash Dang (7) succumbed to his injuries on way to hospital while his schoolmate, Biswajeet Dash (7) and one Shankar Dash (30) were admitted to Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) here with serious injuries.

Shankar of Vedvyas area of the city was on the way to a nearby coaching centre with

two boys on a cycle when a speeding iron ore laden truck hit him near Vedvyas Chowk, on the outskirt of the city.

In a similar mishap, one Kishore Kujur (17) died and two others were critically injured when they hit by a speeding truck near by-pass road in Rajgangpur town, 45 km from here. The public put up a road block and torched the truck before police arrived on the spot.

In another accident at Jharbeda near Rajgangpur town, 38 persons were injured, 8 of them seriously when a passenger tempo in which they were travelling got overturned on SH-10.

Dedicated police force in MP to fight cyber crime PTI BHOPAL, SEPT 3

In a bid to curb and tackle growing crime in the cyber space, Madhya Pradesh Police has decided to constitute a dedicated Cyber Police Force by enrolling over 100 personnel in the first phase.

"We have sent a proposal to recruit over 700 police personnel for the newly-created Cyber Crime Cell of Madhya Pradesh and the police headquarter has initially given its nod to recruit 106 dedicated Cyber police force in the state," Inspector General (IG), Rajendra Mishra told PTI. "We will recruit Plus-II pass out candidates with basic knowledge of computers and then train them in the advanced computer applications by offering them diplomas, BCA and MCA degrees," he said.

Those who successfully complete the diploma course will be inducted between the ranks from constable to Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), BCA pass outs as Sub-Inspector to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and MCA as Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), the IG said.

They will not only be trained in handling hardware and software, but also in Cyber laws to counter the challenge posed by the new generation of criminals using sophisticated electronic gadgets to commit crimes of diverse nature, he said.

Mishra said despite discharging their duties with a skeleton-staff of just 20 personnel drawn from different wings of the police, the cell was able to solve major Cyber crimes including fraud of Rs 17 lakh committed by a Nigerian national.

"A total of 15 foreign nationals were arrested by the Cell indulged in major cyber crimes in the state. The arrested persons belong to Nigeria, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Swajiland, Kenya, Australia and UK," the IG said.

The Cell has also solved 40 per cent of mobile-theft cases in the state.

To a question on whether advent of technology has helped in improving the crime detection rate, Mishra said though the detection rate has certainly increased, number of crimes specially in cyber space too have increased with the new technology.

on exports? What action has it taken to check illegal export?

Why are your hands tied? Who is behind this?” Yeddyurappa asked after former opposition Congress leader in the legislative council V S Ugrappa called him a "liar" and charged him with granting mining licenses.

Yeddyurappa, however, brushed aside the allegations as "politically motivated" and asserted that he had recommended issuing of mining licences in respect of two cases, that too only for value addition.

The Centre did not grant mining licence to Central PSU Visveswaraya Iron and Steel Ltd, located in his home district Shimoga and to Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd, Yeddyurappa said and alleged it was because these firms cannot offer "anything", unlike others.

Yeddyurappa appealed to the Centre to permit him to ban exports for an year.

He again charged that it was Congress and JDS leaders who were involved in illegal mining and illegal exports and the ongoing Lokayukta probe would "bare it all".

Yeddyurappa said he was ready to appoint another Upa Lokayukta within 15 days to assist the Lokayukta in the illegal mining probe and equip the institution with additional staff.

He said CID had already filed cases against 58 companies for alleged mysterious disappearance of five lakh tons of iron ore from Belekere port and arrested the Port Conservator Mahesh Biliye in this connection.

"Who are these companies.

Let Congress leaders come out

with their names", Yeddyurappa dared.

Ugrappa had two days ago accused Yeddyurappa of sanctioning 17 fresh mining licences and demanded his resignation.

Yeddyurappa released a list of firms recommended to the Centre for granting of mining licence by previous Congress and JDS governments.

Arms recovered in Kishtwar PTI JAMMU, SEPT 3

Security forces recovered arms and ammunition after a brief encounter with militants in Kishtwar district, police said today.

Acting on a tip off, troops of Rashtriya Rifles and police launched a search operation to track down a group of militants in Tandar forest area in the district last night, they said.

Militants fired on the troops, who retaliated resulting in an encounter, they said, adding after the gunbattle, troops recovered arms and ammunition, including an AK-rifle, a Self Loading Rifle with ammunition, three AK magazines and 30 rounds from the area.

The search operation to track down militants, including Shabir and Zakir among four ultras, is going on, they said.

Meanwhile, three militant supporters were arrested by security forces in Rajouri district.

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and police managed to crack the case,” the SP added.

When asked for the motive behind the brutal murder and if others were also involved, De Sa declined to reveal further details.

Dias was also allegedly involved in motorcycle thefts at Old Goa and Vasco.

Incidentally, the family had refused to bail out Dias in the theft case, assuming that he would repent and change his behaviour.

When asked if the police had recovered Naresh’s mobile phone and laptop, De Sa replied in the negative.

It may be recalled that police had traced the missing Chevrolet Spark car (GA-06-D-4306) at Aradiband, Taleigao.

Vasco police have arrested the accused under Sections 302, 449, 450, 397.

River Princess removal

submitted that it would able to remove the vessel within a period of six months whereas Madgavkar Salvage said it would need three years to totally remove the ship wreckage.

The Singaporean company has also agreed to give performance guarantee at the rate of 10 per cent of the tender amount Rs 125 crore as quoted by it, said Naik.

It may be recalled that the government had zeroed on Titan Salvage but could not go ahead with awarding the tender after SMIPL ran a public campaign casting aspersions on the government’s decision.

Crumbling, faulty walls

of Prisons M P Porob said that the sub jail is undergoing a facelift.

“The basement cells of Sada jail, which comprises of three big and one small prison cells, are under renovation,” he said.

The building built of bricks will now have an additional concrete wall constructed, giving no chance to prisoners to escape.

“It is very easy to dig a hole into the wall made of bricks but the same will not be the case for concretised blockades. After this construction, if any body tries to dig a hole, they will fall in the gap between the old wall and new sturdy wall,” said a source.

The Sada jail escape had led to suspension of two assistant jailors Uday Shirodkar and Manuel Travasso and jail guards Vasu Pednekar and Dilip Gunelarkar.

The history of jail breaks stares at the authorities, who have miserably fail to arrest the fleeing jail birds.

In 2007, on Ganesh Chaturthi day, 14 prisoners from Margao judicial lock up fled from their respective jails. Seven were later traced and arrested and rest are roaming scot free .

Ironically, the Sada jail has no jailor and a head guard. Deputy Collector Levinson Martins told Herald that they have deployed three special staff to maintain strict vigil over activities within the premises.

Vasco Sada jail presently accommodates 28 convicts, 62 undertrials and 37 accused on remand. Whereas, Aguada jail has camped a total 183 accused as against the present capacity of 154.

Aguada has currently lodged seven female convicts, 17 undertrials and five remand accused while remaining of the total – 154 prisoners are male convicts. While, the number of prisoners lodged in Sada jail is equal to the total 150 prisoner capacity of jail, of which 24 are convicts and 10 foreigners.

A murder convict, Ramesh Jadhav serving life sentence at Aguada had escaped on March 23, 2006. He was traced and arrested thereafter.

Apart from the escape episode, one accused from Aguada jail – Obi Okafor who attempted suicide last Thursday is still undergoing medical treatment at Goa Medical College and Hospital at Bambolim.

Two accused from Aguada and Mapusa lock-ups are taking treatment at the Institute of Psychiatric and Human Behaviour at Bambolim even as three accused from Mapusa jail have been shifted to outstation jails – two at Karwar district jail at Karnataka and one at Tihar Jail in Delhi.

Corruption among some prison guards is one amongst other factors leading to prohibited actions occurring in jails, which according to a senior officer, is common in other State jails, as well.

Porob claimed that strict actions are taken if the illegalities are brought to his notice.

Asked if the the number of escapes were taking a toll, the officer only replied “Nobody wants to be confined behind four walls.”

Inspector General of Prisons Mihir Vardhan told Herald that they organise regular extra curricular activities for all prisoners to keep them occupied. “We hold festival celebrations, cultural events and workshops. Besides, we keep them engaged through various classes including tailoring, book binding, printing, paper art, handicrafts, carpentry, mess and bakery in the jail premises,” he said.

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opinionated Bangkok forum Dom Francisco da Piedade Rebelo

seeks solution to Kashmir PTI ISLAMABAD, SEPT 3

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By Jose Maria Miranda

mong the Goans who made a mark in the Catholic Church in Goa, one stands out, due to his intelligence, vast knowledge of the local conditions and extraordinary administrative skills. He rose to become the first Goan Bishop to head the Church in Goa: Dom Francisco da Piedade Rebelo.

Though priests born in Goa or hailing from Goa headed various important dioceses and Archdioceses in India and even in some Portuguese colonies, we were not fortunate enough to have one of our own heading our Archdiocese during the Portuguese regime.

Hailing from a well-known and deeply religious family from Margao, D Francisco was the son of Joao Fenelon da Piedade Rebelo and Perceliana da Piedade Miranda, and the nephew of Mgr Ganganelli Rebelo, a reputed Rector of the Major Seminary of Rachol for many years.

Born in Margao on September 4 1891, Francisco Rebelo studied for the priesthood at the Rachol Seminary, passing out with flying colours. He was ordained priest on September 26 1915 and was immediately posted as Asst Parish Priest at St Francis Xavier Church, Dabul, Mumbai, which was then under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Goa & Daman.

Returning to Goa, he occupied various important positions at the headquarters of the Archdiocese throughout his active life, barring a very short spell. He was perhaps the only priest who served under four Patriarchs of Goa: Dom Mateus de Oliveira Xavier, Dom Teotonio Vieira de Castro, Dom Jose da Costa Nunes and Dom Jose de Vieira Alvernaz. When Dom. Jose da Costa Nunes, later a Cardinal, was appointed Patriarch, he elevated Fr Rebelo as Chancellor in 1942 and in 1953 the next Patriarch, Alvernaz, made him the Vicar General of the Archdiocese.

His intelligence, his vast experience at the Curia and his outstanding administrative qualities, stood him in good stead, and he was chosen as the local Bishop, despite his advanced age, to head the Archdiocese in the absence of Patriarch Alvernaz, who had migrated to Portugal soon after Liberation. Monsignor Rebelo, (as most of us knew him at that time) was virtually in charge of the Archdiocese, from December 1961. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop to the Patriarch in November 1963, and later elevated as Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese sede plena by Pope Paul VI in 1966.

Affable and down to earth, Bishop Rebelo used persuasion rather than authority to deal with his priests, who easily acceded to his suggestions and instructions. His rich experience and administrative acumen helped him in steering the Archdiocese with dignity and aplomb during its most difficult days after Liberation and the Vatican Council II. He was at the helm of affairs when the vernacular tongue substituted Latin in the Church Liturgy. And, he was instrumental in getting the New Testament printed and published in Konkani. He gave an impetus to education by encouraging various Churches to open schools, allowing children of families living in the villages, who could not afford to go to cities, opportunities for personal and academic growth and advancement. In short, Bishop Rebelo was a man who, despite being a septuagenarian and having lived in a conservative environment, was able to discern the signs of times and adapt himself to the pastoral exigencies of the day.

Bishop Rebelo resigned voluntarily in 1972 and Bishop Raul Gonsalves was inducted in his place as the Apostolic Administrator.

As we celebrate today another anniversary of his birth, we pay our humble homage to Bishop Rebelo a great and spiritual man, the first son of our soil to head the ancient, primal and prestigious See of Goa.

25 cops hurt in Tajikistan suicide blast Reuters DUSHANBE, SEPT 3

A suicide bomber car bomber blew himself up and wounded 25 policemen at a police station in northern Tajikistan on Friday, the interior ministry said.

An Uzbek militant group with links to al Qaeda was probably behind the attack, the ministry said. ''Those who carried out the blast are most likely members of the Islamist Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU),'' it said in a statement.

Tokhir Normatov, chief of staff at Tajikistan's interior ministry, told Reuters it was not clear whether the bomber killed anyone else, but said the death toll was likely to rise.

The attack occurred in Khujand, some 340 km north of the capital Dushanbe and near the border with Uzbekistan.

Tajikistan also has a porous 1,340-km border with Afghanistan where the IMU are also active.

India and Pakistan should facilitate talks among representatives from all parts of Jammu and Kashmir in order to find an amicable solution to the dragging issue, according to participants at a recent Track-II dialogue.

The participants further agreed that Afghanistan's future should be the exclusive domain of the Afghan people and that all other countries should refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of that nation.

Opinion-makers and experts on foreign and defence issues took part in the Chaopraya Track II dialogue held in Bangkok during August 28-30.

The Pakistani side was headed by former minister Sherr y Rehman and the Indian side was led by defence expert Gen (retd) Dipankar Banerjee.

The talks, organised by Jinnah Institute, a new Pakistani think tank, and India's Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, deliberated on the situation in Afghanistan as the conditions in the war-ravaged country have a direct impact on India-Pakistan ties.

At the end of the interactions, a consensus document was agreed on by the participants, Rehman said in a statement.

The participants suggested that New Delhi and Islamabad should consider activating the back-channel on Jammu and

Kashmir to complement the bilateral talks.

They called on India and Pakistan to implement, in letter and spirit, the series of existing CBMs, particularly those relating to easing travel and trade across the Line of Control.

They also appealed to the two countries to urgently initiate measures to build trust and confidence among the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

The participants emphasised the need for continued bilateral engagement, especially at official and functional levels.

They welcomed the forthcoming meeting of Foreign Ministers and expressed the hope that this would take the dialogue process forward.

To build trust and confidence, the participants recommended exchange of visits by military delegations especially at the level of services chiefs, and similar exchanges between intelligence agencies.

There was consensus among participants that both sides must "actively collaborate to facilitate the prosecution of terrorists being tried for acts of terrorism" and they proposed that the two countries must respect each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, and refrain from interference in each other's internal affairs.

Japan imposes more sanctions on Iran Reuters TOKYO, SEPT 3

Japan slapped additional sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme on Friday, following the United States and European Union in pressuring Tehran despite Tokyo's reliance on oil imports from the country.

The sanctions that go beyond requirements in a prior UN Security Council resolution include restrictions on doing business with 15 Iranian banks that could contribute to nuclear activities and a halt to new energy-related investments in Iran.

But resource-poor Japan did not impose any restrictions on oil from the country, which accounts for 10 percent of its crude imports, making it the

fourth-biggest supplier after Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar. ''We took those steps as they are necessary to push for nuclear non-proliferation and prevent its nuclear development,'' Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku told a news conference. ''We have traditionally close relations with Iran and from that

standpoint, we will patiently encourage the country towards a peaceful and diplomatic solution.''

While the two countries have traditionally enjoyed relatively friendly ties, Tokyo has been urging Tehran to respond to global calls to suspend nuclear enrichment activities and return to the negotiating table.

The US and other Western

powers fear Iran's nuclear work is aimed at bomb-making, a charge Tehran denies.

Back in 2006, when tension was growing between the US and Iran over the country's uranium processing and nuclear power development, oil developer Inpex Corp cut its stake in the Azadegan oil field project to 10 per cent from 75 per cent.

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Oil's rangebound 2010 catches out price bulls Slum population REUTERS GENEVA, SEPT 4

An oil market that has traded mostly between $70 to $80 a barrel in 2010 has caught out some of the oil bulls on Wall Street calling for higher prices, and some now see rangebound conditions prevailing into 2011.

Goldman Sachs in January expected the benchmark U.S. oil price to average $94 a barrel this year, the highest forecast in a Reuters poll at the time. Its latest prediction is $80, close to the actual 2010 average so far of $77.90.

Barclays Capital predicted $85 for this year in January.

The bank trimmed its forecast to $78 a barrel last week, citing

"macroeconomic disquiet" for the revision.

"The gradual recovery in oil prices is likely to prove slower and bumpier than our earlier estimates," said Costanza Jacazio, an analyst at Barclays.

"We continue to see limited downside from current levels, however."

The revisions suggest any continuation of oil's bull run is likely to be deferred, something consumers and governments around the world would welcome at a time of concern about the pace of economic growth.

Prices had soared from 2002 until mid-2008 as demand led by emerging economies such as China strained supplies,

peaking at a record high near $150 in July 2008. Oil collapsed to below $40 by December as the economic crisis hit demand.

Demand has risen this year but so have inventories, which are at a record high in the United States. Supply from outside the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has also been stronger than expected.

Banks such as Barclays and Goldman produced some prescient calls on the oil price during the boom. Goldman energy equities analyst Arjun Murti, in 2005, was one of the first to predict $100-a-barrel crude.

Barclays in 2004, when oil was trading at the then-extra-

ordinary level of $40 and many pundits expected the boom to fade in 2005, instead accurately called for the rally to persist.

MOST ACCURATE SO FAR So far this year, the Wall Street bank that has most accurately forecast prices is J.P. Morgan, based on data collected in Reuters polls.

In January, it expected an average of $78.30 and in August predicted a price of $77.25.

"We believed there would be more supply-side flexibility," said Lawrence Eagles, global head of oil research at the bank. "As a result of that, we've seen a much more balanced market."

Economists at OPEC, which

as the producer of more than a third of the world's oil has good insight into demand levels, also made an accurate call on the oil price.

The group said in April oil would probably trade around $70 and $80 a barrel in coming months.

While many analysts expect prices to move higher in the medium term, forecasts for next year have been coming down.

Barclays reduced its 2011 price forecast by $7 to $85 last week. Its previous 2011 prediction of $92 was more than $8 above the consensus in the latest Reuters poll.

Goldman currently has the highest 2011 oil price forecast

of the big Wall Street banks at $98.50. It declined to comment on any changes to the prediction.

Barclays says prices could prove to be firmer than it expected should sentiment about the economy become more optimistic or if political tension over Iran and in Iraq -- both major oil exporters -- worsened.

J P Morgan's prediction for next year is only a little higher than this year's at $79.25.

"There is still a lot that could change over the course of the next few months, but the odds favour a relatively rangebound market even going forward over the next 12 months," said Eagles.

59% pros to quit jobs due to no promotion: survey PTI MUMBAI, SEP 3

A majority of Indian professionals are likely to quit their jobs this year due to lack of promotional avenues despite good work results and a lack of communication and involvement by their top managements, according to a survey .

For 59 per cent of respondents, finding that the next rung in the career ladder is a no-show was the top "get me out of here" factor, a survey by Regus, revealed.

Lack of communication and involvement by top management was the other big reason for most professionals to quit their existing jobs, 50 per cent of respondents said.

Another 30 per cent said that they would leave a company which lacked 'vision'.

The job market in India is likely to get crowded after the

summer vacation as Indian professionals may quit their existing jobs unless they are promoted, it said.

Over 15,000 business respondents from the Regus global contacts database were interviewed during the February-March 2010 period and the survey was managed and administered by Marketing UK, an independent organisation, Regus said in a press release issued here.

Regus ia a leading global provider of innovative workspace solutions.

Regus' Country Head, Madhusudan Thakur, said "as workers pack up their swim-suits and towels after the holidays, they are more likely to dwell on the pros and cons of the job that is waiting for them at home."

According to reports, one of the effects of the economic re-

covery taking shape presently is that many more employees have started quitting their jobs and looking around for new ones, Thakur said.

"Businesses that are not providing all the trimmings may be heading for a brain-drain of their best talent," he added.

As the economy perks up, employees will flock to businesses that promise them better conditions and not necessarily the biggest wage, he said.

The survey also asked workers what companies could do to avoid a brain-drain of their best talents.

Aside from a pay-rise, in India, 42 per cent of the respondents said that flexible work timings are increasingly becoming important for them.

They declared that the ability to flex their work-hours was top of their wish-list.

Beer finds favour over spirits in slow recovery REUTERS HANOI, SEPT 4

Big brewers like Anheuser Busch InBev are seen as a better bet than spirit giants Diageo and Pernod Ricard to gain from the uneven world recovery in which only emerging markets are showing strong growth.

The brewers are slaking more thirsts in Latin America, Asia and Africa as drinkers turn first to beer rather than more expensive spirits as economic growth picks up, while fears over a big jump in the price of grain to make beer are overdone.

Meanwhile, the big spirits groups have less exposure to emerging markets than the beer companies and have struggled with weak European sales, especially in Spain and Greece, and as drinkers have sought out cheaper whisky and vodka in recession.

Pernod has shown stronger profits growth than its bigger rival Diageo but its share performance has been dull compared with the big brewers who have seen a big boost from buoyant beer markets in places as far apart as Brazil and China.

"We struggle to see why the marginal buyer would prefer spirits and Pernod to beer and AB InBev," said analyst Rob Mann at brokers Collins Stewart.

Analyst Mike Gibbs at JP Morgan Cazenove says he continues to prefer the brewers to the distillers and believes AB InBev deserves a significant premium to reflect its low risk, very strong cash flow and improving top line sales outlook.

The world's top four brewers AB InBev, SABMiller, Heineken and Carlsberg already trade on a premium to the globe's top

Sensex closes 29 pts down over RBI rate hike fears PTI MUMBAI, SEPT 3

The BSE benchmark Sensex today took a breather and closed 29 points lower as rising food inflation evoked worries of a further rate hike by the RBI this month.

Cutting short two days of consecutive gains, the Bombay Stock Exchange’s 30-share barometer ended the session at 18,208.78, down by 29.53 points, or 0.16 per cent.

Firm cues from Asian and European markets also failed to boost the Sensex, owing to uneasiness over high valuations. The main index fluctuated between a high of 18,316.32 and a low of 18,206.50.

two spirits group Diageo and Pernod, and some think the gap could widen further.

Belgium-based AB InBev, the brewer of Budweiser, Stella Artois and Beck's, has a 50-50 earnings split between emerging and mature markets and has bought forward its grain need for 2010 and 2011 which protects it from higher input costs.

Its exposure to mature markets is heavily weighed to the United States which accounts for 42 percent of group profit and although beer volume growth is sluggish there, the group expects to raise beer prices in the second half of this year.

Analysts say modest sales growth at the group will be translated into strong double digit earnings growth by cost savings and debt re-

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duction following its $50 billion acquisition of U.S. brewer Anheuser Busch in November 2008.

Other brewers are upbeat with Miller Lite and Peroni brewer SABMiller, which earns over 80 percent of its profits from emerging markets, saying its beer volumes turned positive in June, while Heineken will gain from its acquisition of Mexican brewer FEMSA and Carlsberg from better trading in Russia.

This has seen AB InBev shares trade at 17.5 times forecast 2010 earnings, with SABMiller on 16.6, Heineken on 14.6 and Carlsberg 15.9, all ahead of Pernod and Diageo on 14.2 and 13.9 for their financial year to end-June 2011.

Analysts say the four big brewers have larger exposure to fast-growing emerg-

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ing markets than the two spirits groups and higher underlying sales growth while they have been quick to slash costs and put up price in West Europe and North America.

Both Diageo and Pernod only have around one third of their sales in emerging markets and have struggled in the tough markets of southern Europe like Spain and Greece and see little uptick in the big United States spirits market.

Both showed underlying sales growth of 2 percent in their financial years to endJune 2010, but Pernod translated that to a 4 percent operating profit growth compared with Diageo's 2 percent helped by the French group's bigger exposure to fast-growing Asian markets.

Analysts say Pernod's

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higher profit growth compared with Diageo is offset somewhat by concerns over its debts of 10.6 billion euros ($14.2 billion) which were heightened by its takeover of Absolut vodka maker Vin & Sprit in 2008.

Diageo, which has a market value twice that of Pernod, has debts of almost 7 billion pounds ($10.8 billion).

Graeme Eadie at UniCredit Bank is another analyst to favour the brewers as he sees them as less risky stocks with better growth prospects.

"While Pernod appears to be weathering the economic downturn better than its spirits peers, we still think it is too early to be positive on the stock given the high level of debt and the prospect of modest organic profit growth," Eadie said.

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to be over 93 m AGENCY NEW DELHI, SEPT 3

India's slum population is projected to rise to 93.06 million by 2011, or 7.75 percent of the total population, say a report of an expert committee set up by the housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry.

The report of the committee on slum statistics, headed by Pranob Sen, the principal adviser to the Planning Commission, was released by Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja here Friday.

Selja said the target of achieving a slum-free India in five years, as outlined by President Pratibha Patil in her speech to parliament in 2009, was 'not unachievable' unless states cooperate fully.

She said the committee's first priority was to suggest suitable adjustments and create a reliable statistical model based on the data of 1,743 towns and cities enumerated in the 2001 census. The committee applied this model to estimate slum population in all 5,161 towns and cities in the country.

'By this model, the estimated slum population of the country in 2001 comes to be 75.26 million and the projected slum population for 2011 is 93.06 million,' she said.

The 2001 census had put the slum population at 52.4 million.

The committee has also suggested that an urban information management system on slums should be created and each state that gets funds from the ministry should indicate time-bound plans for addressing issues concerning slum clusters.

The committee was also tasked with suggesting an uniform definition of slum which can be adopted by the government for its Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) that seeks removal of slums and has recommended that contiguous area with 2025 households having slum-like characteristics be taken as slum area.

It has recommended checklists for the purpose of identification of slums and said that households having roof material other than concrete, not having facility of drinking water, drainage and latrine should be treated as having slum characteristics.

Selja said there was problem of under-reporting by states as areas not notified as slums were not counted by them.

Noting her ministry was a bit hamstrung in the absence of complete data concerning the slums, she said that urban population was growing and there were many challenges in the task of making cities free of slums but funds would not be a constraint.

'The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government has committed itself to Rajiv Awas Yojana. Based on the preparatory work done by states, money should not be a constraint,' she said.

The committee has recommended that Registrar General of India, which is conducting the 2011 survey, should share lay out maps with the MHUPA as an aid for slum surveys.

The 2001 census had put the urban population at 286 million. Ministry officials said that 40 percent of the country's population will be living in the urban areas in the next two decades.

Suzlon bags contract for wind turbine AGENCY NEW DELHI, SEPT 3

The country's largest wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy Friday said it has won a 30 MW wind turbine order from Bhubaneswar-based mineral developer Altrade Group.

Suzlon said it will operate and maintain the turbines which is will be installed at wind farms in the Jaisalmer and Jodhpur in Rajasthan.

'The project will extend Suzlon's leadership of the Rajasthan wind market taking the total installed base to over 700 MW,' the company said in a statement.

BOARD MEETINGS Bajaj Global Koutons Retl KS Oils Livingroom Life Triumph Intl Gateway Distr ORG Informatics Gujarat Nat Res Source: Indiainfoline.com

MF FUNDA FORTIS MUTUAL FUND has approved September 8, 2010 as the record date for declaration of dividend under dividend option of Fortis Dividend Yield Fund.

The quantum of dividend will be Rs 1.50 per unit on a face value of Rs 10 per unit.

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Need to reduce coal dependence: IEA AGENCY NEW DELHI, SEPT 3

India will need investment of $4.5 trillion in the energy sector to cut carbon emissions as part of a global initiative to reduce global warming by 2050, the International Energy Agency Executive Director, Nobuo Tanaka, said here Friday.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said global emissions of carbon dioxide have to come down by 50 percent to limit the increase in average temperate to between 2 to 2.4 degrees

Alok Ind eyes Rs 12,000-cr Rev in 3 yrs PTI MUMBAI, SEPT 3

Textile major, Alok Industries, is eyeing a three-fold growth in its revenues over the next three-years to Rs 12,000-crore as it plans a major expansion in both domestic and overseas markets, a top company official said.

The company's current turnover is Rs 4,300-crore.

"We are looking at tripling our revenues over the next three-years and most of the growth would be coming from our textile division--our main business," Alok Industries' Managing Director, Dilip Jiwarajka, said on the sidelines of an event organised by Technopak on the textile sector here today.

He also said that the company plans to open 80 Store 21 outlets in the UK this fiscal.

The company's CFO, Sunil Khandelwal, said that Alok Industries has lined up a capex of Rs 700-crore for FY 11 and the funds would be used in expanding capacity of its current textile units and opening more stores of its retail arm.

The rest would be used in expanding its fabric balancing and incremental capex, he said, adding that the company would be expanding the capacity of its cotton spindles from the present 3,00,000 units to 3,50,000 units by October.

centigrade.

In contrast to the US and China, India's per capita emission is low and it would increase by 10 percent by 2050.

But if the IPCC requirements were to be met, India would have to shift from coal-based economy to other sources like wind, solar, hydro and nuclear power.

And this would require massive investments, said Tanaka, launching the IEA's Energy Technology Perspectives 2010 here.

'India would need an investment of $4.5 trillion from here till 2050,' Tanaka said, talking

about this best case scenario, which IEA has termed as 'Blue map scenario'.

He said more than half of the amount- $2.8 trillion- would have to be invested in the transportation sector, while another $1.2 trillion would be in the power sector.

India, however, would accrue fuel savings 'amounting to $8 billion' from having a diverse and sustainable energy basket by then.

The IEA calculates that the world would need an investment of $316 trillion by 2050 to meet the target of halving emissions by 2050.

Tata Steel in talks for Rs 25k cr PTI NEW DELHI, SEPT 3

Tata Steel is in discussions with banks to raise loans worth 3.5 billion pounds (over Rs 25,000 crore) for its UK unit. Tata Steel is in talks with 11 banks for loans to the tune of 3.5 billion pounds for the company''s UK unit.

BNP Paribas SA, Credit Agricole CIB, HSBC Holdings Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc are among the banks that may lend 2.5 billion pounds over a period of five years, it said. According to the report, Citigroup Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, Standard Chartered Plc and ING Vysya Bank Ltd may also provide the funds.

Economy still not out of turmoil, says Murdoch REUTERS NEW YORK, SEPT 4

News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said the global economy is still in an uncertain state and the media industry is going through a fundamental transformation that is unpredictable "I do not believe we are out of the turmoil yet. Sovereign debt pressures, soaring deficits and unacceptable U.S. unemployment levels are key obstacles to the global economic recovery," said Murdoch in a letter to shareholders in his

company's annual report published on Thursday.

"Others may see more positive signs, but I believe until these issues are addressed, markets, governments, currencies and consumer behavior will be unpredictable," he said.

Murdoch was bullish about how his company, which owns the Fox TV networks, newspapers like the Wall Street Journal and Hollywood studio Twentieth Century Fox, had navigated both the difficult economic environment and threat to traditional content business models

India looks at S America for farm revolution AGENCY NEW DELHI, SEPT 3

India, looking to launch a second green revolution to boost its food security, has begun looking at distant South America where countries have been able to ramp up food production with new technology and farming methods. And to take lessons first-hand, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar will visit Argentina, Brazil and Mexico this month.

'India has much to learn from the best practices of South America, especially Brazil and Argentina,' R. Viswanathan, Indian Ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, said during a visit here.

The South American countries have overtaken the United States in soya production, accounting for 50 percent of global production, and significantly denting the American domination in the agri-business sector.

With large swathes of land in a sparsely populated region, which accounts for 26 percent of global freshwater reserves, South American nations have the highest yields per hectare.

For Indian companies, which have been looking at farmlands for their agri-business, there is another attraction-- the technologies that have been indigenously developed in these countries and applied in farming.

A revolutionary method is 'no-till farming', which is applied in 80 percent of the land cultivated in the Mercosur countries (a trading bloc comprising Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay,). In this kind of farming, land is not ploughed. Instead, the agricultural residue of the last plant is allowed to enrich the soil. The seed is then injected into the soil through special machines.

Another technology which Pawar is likely to see in Argentina is the Silobag-- a polyeutherane bag that can store up to 200 tonnes of foodgrains on the field itself - that saves costs on building concrete storage units.

'We have brought this to the notice of the agriculture ministry,' said Viswanathan.

India faces a shortage of 15 million tonnes in storage capacity, one of the main reasons why hundreds of tonnes of food grains are wasted every year in the country. The technology figured at a meeting between Pawar and his Argentine counterpart, Julian Andres Dominguez here earlier last month.

Moreover, India can look to replicate the success of Argentina in turning agriculture into a high-technology sector.

Viswanathan referred to the Argentine group Los Grobos, which has brought the outsourcing model to agriculture.

Los Grobos cultivates 270,000 hectares in Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, without owning a single plot of land.

It uses 'precision farming', which employs software to determine the input distribution and monitors by satellite the location of the seeds and sprayer machines. At the same time, soil monitors give realtime information, helping the group head office to decide on the nutritional and other parameters.

All this could be brought to India for trial.

Also, Indian companies can move to the continent to take advantage of the available technology and expertise for business in the agricultural sector.

Viswanathan said Indian entrepreneurs should vigorously explore the region 'since South America has an agri-business ecosystem like the IT ecosystem in India - export-oriented with competent human resources and service providers that allow investors to focus on output and returns.'

South America is a major source of oilseeds. It exports soya and sunflower oil worth $1 billion to India annually. It is learnt that the Indian delegation led by Pawar would explore increasing the supply of edible oil and pulses to the subcontinent as domestic output has not been able to meet galloping demand.

Zoom into universe via Windows AGENCY BANGALORE, SEPT 3

Global software major Microsoft has designed a computer programme that allows you to scan the universe and zoom into outer space through its Windows.

'We have designed a virtual telescope that can be run on Windows or a web client with our Silverlight plug-in to tour the universe and zoom into outer space,' Microsoft research programme manager Yan Xu said at a demo work-

LAUNCH PAD

Taan Gingerade launched PANJIM (HBD) -- Western Beverages manufacturers of Twist premium mixers and Taan packaged water and soft drinks have introduced Gingerade.

Taan Gingerade contains all the goodness of real ginger, since it is made from actual extracts of ginger root. These extracts are derived in the latest technique, so as to include maximum goodness and properties of ginger without any loss.

These extracts are in the form of oleoresins, which impart the final product properties of both pleasant natural ginger aroma and a sharp natural ginger taste, which prevails on the palate for quite sometime.

Taan Gingerade is a health drink and passes on all the health properties and benefits which natural ginger provides.

It is a carbonated beverage product packed in 250 ml take away pet bottles. The maximum retail price is Rs 10. The whole sale price of a case containing 24 bottles is Rs 200.

Marsh launches insurance cover for water utilities MUMBAI (PTI) -- Insurance brokerage firm Marsh India, a subsidiary of US-based Marsh Inc, today launched a specialist contamination insurance product for water utilities for strengthening their resilience to risks in the wake of tightening regulatory frameworks. Marsh is the first company in India to offer such a product for drinking water contamination, including losses associated with a terrorist attack, extortion costs and goodwill payments to customers.

Launching the product, Marsh India Country Head and CEO Sanjay Kedia said, "traditional property and liability policies often provide limited protection against serious water contamination incidents even though such incidents can have serious regulatory, financial and reputational implications for a utility." "The costs associated with clean-up, providing bottled water, customer communication and compensation can be high." "Marsh plans to work with insurers to structure and launch the product in line with market and regulatory requirements here," he said. This insurance can provide cover of up to 10 million pounds for accidental contamination, malicious contamination or extortion relating to the water supply.

This includes payments to domestic and business customers affected by the contamination and those suffering from injury or illness caused by consuming the polluted water.

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Touted as a worldwide telescope, the programme enables students and scholars to conduct astronomical research, promote science education and create entertainment.

'As a virtual platform for the universe or outer space, it has huge data of images collected from Hubble and 10 other earth-bound telescopes,' she said. As a space telescope, Hubble is the largest and most versatile observatory in the earth's orbit since 1990.

Built by the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), Hubble takes extremely sharp images of the universe, solar and other planetary systems without the distortion of the earth's atmosphere.

'At a click away, one can go on an astrological tour dating back to 1500 BC, trace objects in outer space or track an eclipse and even watch the Chinese Valentine story,' Yan pointed out.

The Valentine story is a love story of the seventh daughter of Emperor of Heaven and an orphaned cowherd, who are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the Chinese calendar.

The extra-terrestrial tour through the telescope comes with commentary also in Hindi, the widely spoken language in India, and in other languages, including Chinese, German, Russian and Spanish of Latin American version.

'You can also view the sky in many wavelengths of light through the telescope,' Yan noted.

As a joint project with Johns Hopkins University, the Seattlebased Microsoft research lab loaded best images also from various satellites and wove them to produce a comprehensive view of the universe.

The objective is to offer aggregate scientific data from telescopes, observatories and

institutions for temporal and multi-spectral studies through an internet-based portal www.worldwidetelescope.org.

The data from sky, planets, solar system and the earth are categorised to access information easily.

The latest web-based version enables exploration of the universe with a browser on a PC or Intel Mac OS X using Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.

'The virtual telescope also showcases the largest seamless spherical map ever made of the night sky,' Yan claimed.

In collaboration with NASA, the company released a highresolution image of Mars for a three-dimensional experience of the red planet in the solar system.

'Though virtual observatory is not new, the unique feature of this telescope is that even a common man can go on a tour of the universe on a computer,' Yan added.

Harley owners group soon PTI MUMBAI, SEPT 3

The Indian arm of premium bikemaker, Harley-Davidson, plans to set up a Harley Owners Group, popularly known as HOG, in India shortly.

The HOG is a sponsored community marketing club, operated

by Harley-Davidson for its enthusiasts.

"We are planning to start the Harley Owners Group sometime in October. Any person who buys a Harley bike automatically becomes the member of HOG," Harley-Davidson's Director (Marketing), Sanjay Tripathi, said.

He, however, did not divulge the number of bikes the company has sold in the last one year through its four dealerships pan-India.

"We will soon be releasing the numbers," he added.

Before the company formally entered the Indian market last year with a dealership in Hyderabad, there were 200 Harley bikes in the country, Tripathi said.

The bikes are priced at between Rs 7 lakh and Rs 35 lakh.

Harley forayed in India after the Government allowed the import of high-capacity powered two-wheelers in 2007 from the US.

by new Web-based services from companies like Netflix Inc and Apple Inc. He highlighted successes for the company including convincing cable operators to pay retransmission fees for its freeto-air Fox broadcast networks and the record-breaking 3D movie Avatar, now the biggestselling movie of all time.

"I am only half joking when I wonder if there is anyone left on this planet who has yet to see Avatar," he said.

Murdoch described the 700 pence per share offer for the 61 percent of BSkyB it does not already own as "attractive" and a "logical and disciplined plan."

Under Murdoch's drive News Corp units have been pushing to seek new business models which embrace technology like e-readers and tablets like Apple's iPad. News Corp's Fox and Walt Disney Co's ABC broke with other major TV studios on Wednesday to strike a deal to launch a new 99-cent rental service for Apple TV. "Companies that do not innovate will struggle to survive," wrote Murdoch. "They will be digitally disoriented, quickly losing touch with their customers, who will be more technologically literate than those who seek to provide them with services and products."

SBI’s Rs 1 cr account PTI HYDERABAD, SEPT 3

After wooing the urban poor here with its `One Rupee Bank' account, State Bank of India (SBI) is now aggressively targeting the crorepatis.

The government lender has inaugurated first of its kind branch for High Networth Individuals (HNI) where it takes minimum Rs 1 crore to open an account, and that too on invitation only. `Kohinoor Banjara Premium Banking Centre' (named after the famed Kohinoor diamond that was discovered here), spread over 4,000 sq ft, offers specialised banking facilities like relationship managers, 24/7 lockers, extended banking hours, doorstep pick-up and drop facilities, in addition to pampering customers five-star amenities at the branch.

"We have opened as many as 50 accounts so far. We are confident of opening another 150 by the end of the current fiscal," Shiva Kumar, CGM, SBI, said.

According to bank officials, an attractive feature of the branch is lockers. "They are open 24 hours. People can come anytime and take or keep their jewellery and other valuable items. We have special dressing rooms for customers.

These will be useful for late night function goers as they would not have to take the valuables home," they said.

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Poetry is written with inspirational words and expressing it in a painting is no easy task. Shridhar Kamat Bambolkar took painting to the next level by using colours to express his feelings about Bakibab Borkar’s poems and will be presenting his works during the great poet’s birth centenary celebrations

BY JANICE RODRIGUES HERALD FEATURES he Indian Film Industry is famed for its music and though not many may know, the yesteryears had a lot of musicians from Goa who were drawn to the tinsel town of Mumbai, in search of greener pastures. One such musician is Balthazar Fernandes, who worked with some of the best music directors of the time. In this one to one, he revisits the past and speaks of his association with Goan music and culture.

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O n th e o c c a s io n o f th e music rele ase of Ko nkani fi lm ‘Tu m K it e m K o rt o lo A s lo ’, th e fi lm ’s m u s ic d i r e c t o r, Balthaza Fernandes r spoke to H erald about his journey in the Indian film industry

How did Bollywood happen?

I used to play the violin and teach music in a school in Bombay, and that was when Frank Fernandes, who gave music for movies like ‘Amche Noxib’, gave me a break in Bollywood. He asked me how much I was paid, and that time in 1960, we used to be paid only Rs150, and then he gave me the offer Rs300 and I took it. That’s how I made it into the film industry. I was always associated with him. He had a problem with writing, so I used to help him out with writing scripts and other clerical work; simultaneously I got into the music industry also.

How was the experience of working with so many renowned music directors?

I was with Kalyanji Anandji for a long time, I also worked with Sardar Malik, father of Anu Malik and many other music directors. It was a different experience altogether; they would dictate the tunes and I would write it down, arrange music for them. I was a violinist and besides that, I was an arranger and conductor for the orchestra.

How long were you associated with the film industry?

I worked with Kalyanji Anandji for about 11 years and then left it all to go back to my teaching career in Bombay and concentrated on playing, because as an arranger I was not appreciated, due to the clash of culture and upbringing. Mine was a more western kind of music, choral music which didn’t fit in the Indian film industry.

You were instrumental in composing tunes like ‘Mere desh ki dharti’, tell us something about that…

Well, I was involved with these songs because Kalyanji Anandji were composing the music and I used to arrange and orchestrate it, and while doing so we used to discuss every detail together, the mood of the song, what would the orchestra do, so all the tunes were a combined effort.

How has the industry evolved from the time you worked in it till now?

A lot of things have completely changed now with the changes in technology. First we used to have the whole orchestra playing together in a big hall, with about a hundred musicians, while the singer used to be in a cabin. And the whole thing used to be recorded as one track.

But today you can record one section at a time, like the rhythm sections, the violin section, and then the soloists and singer can come in later. What’s more is that it is now being done by one man, on the keyboards. The industry that time was more about team work and now it is done by one person.

How was it working with Sharon and Wilmix on this project?

I have used an orchestra of about 40 musicians in this film. It was really beautiful; I enjoyed working because it was my culture and my music, my language. Working with them made me realise that I have to do something for my culture. It took me about three months to compose the music for this film. I was given the script and tried to adapt the songs according the script.

Given the chance would you do other projects like this?

Of course, I would do anything to promote the language and culture. I remember one story which said that the Konkani language is going to be dead in about ten years and I got a shock; they had even given reasons for it, from the decline of ‘Mando’, to youngsters not talking the language anymore. I am happy that this film has subtitles in English; this will ensure that it will also go out of Goa and be enjoyed by both, people who understand Konkani as well as those who don’t.

Your advice to youngsters who have aspirations in music…

The younger generation has to take up to studying music as the methods of teaching music have changed a lot. It’s not like our times, when we had to go the church schools and learn the solfagio, by heart. The younger generation is much more lucky now as the mode of teaching have become easier, but nevertheless, I would advise the parents to teach the children to learn singing. The first step to learning music is to learn to sing.

BY DOLCY D’CRUZ HERALD FEATURES hridhar Kamat Bambolkar has painted 34 paintings for the exhibition ‘Ghan Barse Re’, each inspired by Padmashree Bakibab Borkar’s poems. With beautiful scenic splendour of the state and the skylines during the rainy season, each painting is unique in its own way. With dominating shades of blues and greens, Shridhar has used mediums like acrylic, watercolours and oil paints. “I concentrated on Goa’s beauty during the monsoons. I am a lover of poetry and I love Bakibab Borkar’s poetries. I painted the paintings inspired by different poems and Goa’s look in the rainy season. For the exhibition, I will even mention the lines taken from the Konkani and Marathi poems that inspired that painting,” says Shridhar.

Organised by Kala Academy Goa in association with the Directorate of Art and Culture, the exhibition ‘Ghan Barse Re’ is a tribute to Poet Bakikbab Borkar through visual language. The exhibition will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Digamber Kamat on September 4 at 3:55pm at Kala Academy.

Pratapsingh Rane, Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly will be the Chief Guest while Prafulla Dahanukar, an eminent painter, will be the Guest of Honour at the event. Vijayadevi Rane, Chairperson of Bal Bhavan Goa will be the special invitee. The exhibition’s inaugural will be followed by ‘Malharache Swarase Re’, a musical programme based on poems of Bakibab and arranged by Prof Purnanand Chari.

The exhibition is inspired by the verse, ‘Ghan varse re, Ghan varse re! Varse jalsar aale sarsar malharache swarasee re!’ “The exhibition is a humble offering to the poet for his legendary works in the field of poetry. I have made an attempt to express

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ans of the bubbly actress Juhi Chawla, known for her unique and charming laughter, have missed her lively charisma, but they have no reason to sulk because the actress says that she hasn’t left the industry and has no intention to do so.

Juhi, who has given voiceover for Sita’s character in 3D animation film ‘Ramayana – The Epic’, said she hasn’t quit the film industry and her admirers will soon get to see her make an appearance in director Onir’s ‘I Am’. She is very keen to continue doing films. “There may be gaps in between, but I am not going anywhere. I have a film called ‘I Am’. It has four short stories and in one of the short stories called ‘Medha’, Manisha and I are playing the lead,” Juhi revealed. This will be her third film with Onir after ‘My Brother... Nikhil’ (2005) and ‘Bas Ek Pal’(2006).

The actress, speaking about her experience at the unveiling of the first look of ‘Ramayana – The Epic’, said it was her first animation film and she didn’t find it difficult to emote Sita’s character. “I wouldn’t say it was difficult; since I didn’t have any visual to help me, I had to imagine the scene. Some scenes which I found really difficult were when Sita was in captivity of Ravan and had broken down while waiting for Ram,” said the former Miss India and multiple award winner.

She also said that since not many animation films are being made in India, actors lending voice to them is not in vogue yet, as much as in Hollywood where most of the big stars give voiceover in animation movies.

“We haven’t done it so far and also animation movies have come recently in our country. I will not be surprised to know that lot of people are willing to lend their voice. All the A-list stars abroad do it and it is considered ‘the thing’ to do,” said Juhi.

my feelings and emotions and capture the inner beauty as well as content of the poems through lines, forms, colours, textures and tones. The paintings are not interpretations but what I feel when I read the poetry. His language was so beautifully written that he even described colours in his writings. I found mediums like acrylic and watercolour quite suitable to achieve the visual impact of the rainy season,” says Shridhar who is also an act i v e t h e a t re personality in Goa. As this year was marked for Bakibab’s birth centenary celebrations, Shridhar had to start well in advance so that the exhibition would be ready on time. “The creative process started almost two years back as I had to read the poems and choose the ones I wanted to paint. I thoroughly worked on the 34 paintings during the last three months giving final touches. It is not that easy creating paintings from poetry, it is a difficult process as one has to enjoy the poetry and get in touch with it on a personal level,” informs Shridhar who is also the Vice President of the State Cultural Development Committee.

Born Balkrishna Bhagwant Borkar on November 30, 1910 in Curchorem, Bakibab Borkar was honoured in 1967 by Government of India with the Padma Shri to recognise his service in the field of Literature and Education. A great poet who has a notable standing in Marathi and Konkani literature, he is best known for his literary imagery in poems. He blended the spiritual and the physical elements into his poetic language. As a multifaceted genius and a poet and writer par excellence, he wrote in several languages including Konkani, Marathi, English and Portuguese.

Drew Barrymore gushes about Ex-love Justin Long

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rt reflects life in Drew Barrymore’s latest movie, ‘Going the Distance’, in which she co-stars with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Justin Long – as a couple having problems with their long-distance relationship.

That might have proved awkward for more self-conscious actresses, anxious maybe about displaying too many give-away feelings for their erstwhile partner in front of the camera, but for Hollywood trooper Barrymore – a veritable veteran of her art at a mere 35 – working with Long, she insists, just made the job a lot more fun.

“It’s very rare to show up to work every day and know you’re going to be working off a natural chemistry,” enthuses Barrymore, a child star from the age of six, after her endearing performance as the wild-eyed moppet in ‘ET’.

“Justin’s really someone with the sharpest wit that I’ve ever met. It is thrilling. You go out to dinner with him, and he’s like this nerdy, pasty, funny, weird guy – and then you watch the ladies!

He floors them with humour and I always found that very appealing and sexy, and I’m not the jealous type, I’m more like: ‘Isn’t he great?’”

From anyone else, this would seem like gushing beyond the call of duty, yet the more Barrymore continues her glowing tribute to Long – “I think he’s beyond talented and charming” – the more heartfelt and genuine her feelings for her co-star seem.

The one thing she stops short of confirming, however, is the state of their on-off personal relationship now, although both have shown up, albeit for separate chats, at the London press junket for the film, and it’s clear they could start up their very own mutual appreciation society.

But for now it seems that they are currently just very good friends, if only bec a u s e , w h e n a s ke d a b o u t f u t u re relationships, she muses: “I will find somebody, I believe. I’m not cynical, I’m not jaded – but I feel that maybe the next relationship will be something that’s really interesting, because it won’t be puppy love.

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Cast: Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal Director: Siddharth Malhotra Rating: nother remake? Yawn! This is the first thought that crosses your mind when you think about ‘We Are Family’ before you watch it. Because thanks to all the tacky, nonsensical, thoughtless, the filmmakershould-jump-off-a-cliff-in-shame kind of remakes, we have been scarred for life. ‘We Are Family’, thankfully, is not one such remake.

Maya (Kajol) is the perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three children, Aleya (Aanchal Munjal), Ankush (Nominath Ginsberg) and Anjali (Diya Sonecha). Despite being divorced from her husband Aman (Arjun Rampal), Maya has ensured that everything runs smoothly in her house.

When Aman introduces his girlfriend, Shreya (Kareena Kapoor), a career-oriented woman, the situation takes an unexpected turn. However, Maya is diagnosed with a terminal illness and circumstances bring the two women under the same roof. Can two mothers make a home?

The tense moments between Kajol and Kareena, the confrontation between the two and also the cold stares that they exchange time and again have been captured very well. The gradual transformation in Kajol's looks, from striking and energetic to pale and morose, is also well projected. The finale is the best part of the enterprise and can be best described in one word: Outstanding. Mohanan's cinematography is eye-catching and the locales of Australia only enhance the look of the film. Niranjan Iyengar's dialogue are decent at places, but a few lines are amazingly real. The background score by Raju Singh is first-rate.

For negatives, the film tends to stagnate in the middle of the second hour. One expects the story to move forward, but there's not much movement here. Also, the music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is a complete letdown.

As for the performances, Kareena is superlative as the younger woman who struggles to bond with her boyfriend’s kids and ex-wife. She looks stunning and lends the role her characteristic effortlessness. Arjun is fabulous as the dad and husband caught in the crossfire. The kids are adorable and well cast. But the film belongs to Kajol who amazes you with her nuanced performance. She is dark and light, hard yet vulnerable and she totally wins you over in the role of a cancer stricken mother who must choose the best for her children.

Overall, ‘We Are Family’ is a perfect family film with a good mix of emotions and humour.

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music through the medium of the radio with an aim to reach a farther audience. Ethel Da Costa, the station head of the radio channel spoke about the connection with the film, saying, “The station is connected with film music and launching music on radio would open up the listeners’ minds to the music.”

The film is slated for release on November 1, 2010 and will be screened at the First World Konkani Cultural Convention at Mangalore organised by Mandd Shobann to be held from November 25 to December 19, 2010.

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HERALD FEATURES oiree, a music society whose primary aim is fellowship and centered around performing, is having its monthly get together on Sunday, September 5, at 4 pm in Chicalim , Vasco. It is open to all musicians and music lovers who wish to perform or just participate. In fact, musicians of every genre are welcome; this is an ideal forum for new compositions, first performances, improvising and most importantly, for fellowship.

The soiree provides an opportunity for musicians and music lovers to perform and enjoy music in an informal setting. Those interested in performing or just being a part of this society can contact Devang Metha at devangmetha@gmail.com or 9673237501.

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BY HERALD FEATURES onkani films have a great fan following in and around the state and of late, quite a bit is being done to promote it.

Doing just that is Wilmix-Sharon Productions with their film ‘Tum Kitem Kortolo Aslo’ the music of which was launched in collaboration with Radio Mirchi on September 3, 2010. The event had the cast and crew going on air on the radio channel to promote the music of the film.

In the ensuing press interaction, Sharon Mazarello spoke about the film being an attempt to bring to fore the life of women.

“The film is about womankind, what are the plights of their life and about the questions life throws at them. It is about putting yourself in their shoes; hence the title, ‘Tum Kitem Kortolo Aslo?’”

The music, composed by Balthazar Fernandes who has been an assistant to famous Bollywood duo Kalyanji-Anandaji, has, in his own words, “a Goan touch”, and consists of nine songs. Balthazar has rendered the music of the film with the help of a 40-member orchestra from the Kala Academy Strings Ensemble. “Due to the lack of space, I had to record all the sections of the orchestra separately,” says Balthazar about the procedure of recording.

This was the first time that a Konkani film has released its

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raphy (NIO) and Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) will be held on September 8 from 9:30am to 5pm at International Centre Goa, Dona Paula. Registration closes on September 7.

E-mail prog@incentgoa.com. Call 9765404391 or 2452805.

Fado evening will be held on September 7 at 8pm at ‘Alfama’, Cidade de Goa, Dona Paula. Call 2454545.

The All Goa Toroloco Tequila Cocktail Competition is on for bartenders, both experienced and amateurs. Call 2262922, 2253377 or 2407030-71.

A Junior Oratory Contest for the late Avertano Furtado Rolling Trophy, organised by the Lions Club of Loutolim will be held on September 4 at the Margao Municipal Hall, Margao.

Call 9552002878 or 9923029197.

A state-level seminar and workshop, organised by the V M Salgaoncar College of Law and the Asian School of Cyber Laws, Pune will be held on September 4 from 10am in Panjim. Registration closes on September 2. Call 2462225.

‘ECAP 2010’, an exhibition of computers and their peripherals will be held on September 4 and 5 from 9am to 7:30pm at Hotel Mandovi, Panjim. Call 9604888000. E-mail info@graffitisys.com or info@goenche.com.

The fifth meeting of flat owners organised by GOACAN as part of its ongoing awareness campaign on consumer rights of flat owners will be held on September 5 at 4pm at the T B Cunha Hall, Panjim. Write to GOACAN, Post Box 187, Margao 403 601. E-mail goacan@gmail.com.

‘Portrait of My Teacher’, organised

by Big Foot, Lotoulim will be held on September 5. Call 9822581232, 9881533456, 9822151419 or 2777034. The exhibition of the photos will be inaugurated on September 6 at 11.30am. It will remain open till September 13 from 9.30am to 6pm.

Call 2777034.

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‘Ghan Barse Re’, an exhibition of paintings by Shridhar Kamat, a tribute to BB Borkar through the visual media will be on display from September 4 to 8 at Kala Academy, Panjim. Call 2420452.

‘83rd Annual All India Art Exhibition’ is announced by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi.

It will be held in two parts. Part I will be All India Painting and Sculpture Exhibition and Part II will be All India Drawing and Graphics Exhibition.

Registration for Part I and II is from September 13 to 20. The corresponding exhibitions for Part I and Part II will be held from December 15 to 29 and January 3 to 17, 2011, respectively. Call the Kala Academy, Panjim on 2420452.

The 3rd All India Annual Art Competition and Exhibition 2010, organized by Bhikuram Jain Foundation, New Delhi is open for entries. Registration closes on November 30. The exhibition and the award presentation ceremony will be held on February 12, 2011. Call the Kala Academy, Panjim on 2420452.

‘Classical Music Festival’, organised by the Directorate of Art and Culture and the Pandit Firoz Shah Dastur Memorial Foundation, Thane will be held on September 4 and 5 at the Goa State Museum, Patto, Panjim. The inaugural function of the programme will be held on September 4 at 5pm at the same venue. Call 2438103, 2438006 or 2437306.

‘Pravah’, a 2-day IRCEN Festival of Dances, organised by India International Rural Cultural Centre, New Delhi and the Kala Academy will be held on September 4 and 5 at the Kala Academy, Panjim. The inauguration of the festival will be held on September 4 at 6.30pm at the same venue. Call 2420452.

‘CRZ – 2010 Draft: Responses and Challenges’, a one-day seminar, organised by International Centre Goa, National Institute of Oceanog-

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The Film Emotional Atyachar Cas­­t: Mohit Ahlawat, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey Director: Akshay Shere Rating:­ he Film Emotional Atyachar’ is a road movie, plus black comedy rolled into one. The characters in the film are either grey or black and each is out to double-cross the other. ‘The Film Emotional Atyachar’ is unpredictable and keeps you guessing vis-à-vis what turn the story will take next. If unpredictability is its strength, there's a weakness as well: The screenplay isn't watertight.

The plot? A bunch of people all chasing a money bag. Vinay Pathak and Ranvir Shorey, a ruthless killer duo, small time dada Ravi Kissen and his tapori gang, gambler Abhimanyu Singh and Kalki, his glamorous moll and Mohit Ahlawat, a businessman in desperate need of moolah, all end up on the Mumbai-Goa highway hoping to lay their hands on the ill-gotten wealth before the eventful night fades out.

Debutant director Akshay Shere has handled a number of sequences well. The camerawork is perfect and the background score, effective.

But what didn't work is that the film had too little of two of the finest offbeat actors we currently have, Vinay Pathak and Ranvir Shorey, and too much of the side heroes who can hardly hold your attention, especially when the plot keeps spinning out of control.

The show belongs to Ranvir Shorey and Vinay Pathak. The duo is top notch and the camaraderie is superb. It's a tailor-made role for Ravi Kishan and he carries the tapori lingo well. Mohit Ahlawat is in sync with his character. Kalki Koechlin is charming and handles her part with amazing ease.

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SPORTS GOA, Saturday, 4 September, 2010

Sao Minguel sail into finals HERALD CORRESPONDENT CALANGUTE, SEPT 3

Clube Sao Minguel de Taleigao prevailed over hot favourites Candolim Sports Club 5-4 via the tie-breaker af ter both teams were involved in a goalless draw to move into the finals of All-Goa inter-village Mahabank Platinum Jubilee Trophy soccer tournament sponsored by Bank of Maharashtra and organised by A d a r s h Yu v a k S a n g h a t Calangute Association ground, Calangute on Friday.

In an exciting semi-final match, the teams failed to score

at full time. However, it was not Candolim's day as they missed a couple of on-the-edge chances.

With time running out, Candolim almost scored the winner but Kliebber’s shot hit the post and rebound into play.

Taleigao kept their cool to prevail over Candolim with Daniel Noronha, Cedric Peixoto, Levino Pereira, Gavin Araujo and Caetano Pinto scoring for Taleigao while Shankar Palienkar, Joelif Simoes, Sagar Balhkhande and Kliebber found the net for Candolim.

Clube Sao Miguel de Taleigao will now take on Nagoa Sporting Club on Sunday, September 5.

Wesley, Tanisi eye double HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, SEPT 3

Wesley do Rosario is poised for yet another double crown as he entered the finals of mini-cadets and cadets of 27th Salgaocar all-Goa Major Ranking TT tournament organised by Cortalim Gymkhana at Mangesh Maharudra hall, Cortalim yesterday.

Wesley beat Wandan Sakordekar 11-4, 11-6, 11-6 in the cadets semi-finals and Varun Gangadhar 11-4, 11-8, 11-7 in minicadets semi-finals. In the other semi-final, Nikhil Raikar defeated Atharva Nadkarni 11-6, 11-6, 1412 in mini-cadets while Mangesh Sakordekar beat Abner Cunha 11-7, 11-6, 11-8 in cadets.

Tejas Shivde defeated Yash Naik 10-12, 11-7, 9-11, 11-5, 116 and Krishal Peres beat Yash Salgaocar 11-6, 11-4, 11-7 to enter into sub-junior finals.

In the cadets quarter-finals, Sidhant Parekh beat Varun Gangadhar 11-3, 11-7, 11-8. Nandan

Sakordekar trounced Nikhil Raikar 11-4, 11-1, 11-2. Nandan Sakordekar beat Sidhant Parekh 3-11, 10-12, 11-4, 11-8, 11-7 while Abner Cunha defeated Amey Naik 11-6, 11-7, 12-10.

In sub-junior quarters Tejas Shivde defeated Nigel Menezes 11-5, 11-6, 11-7. Yash Naik beat Wesley do Rosario 11-6, 6-11, 11-8, 11-9. Yash Salgaocar defeated Tejas Moraskar 11-7, 1210, 11-9 while Krishal Peres Da Silva beat Pranav Naik 11-5, 811, 11-4, 11-4.

Earlier, in the sub-juniors Amey Naik beat Valencio Fernandes 11-8, 11-4, 11-6. Nigel Menezes defeated Joel Andrade 6-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-6, 11-6.

Richie Pinto beat Amey Shirodkar 11-5, 11-9, 11-9. Shreyas Aigal defeated Adfern Gonsalves 11-1, 11-6, 11-4. Leighan Fernandes beat Afron D’Silva 11-5, 11-3, 11-3. Nigel Menezes defeated Ronaldo Alvares 11-1, 112, 11-3. Bhavik Khadapkar beat

D Bosco, St Britto, Progress, Infant Jesus advance HERALD SPORTS DESK PANJIM, SEPT 3

Don Bosco HS beat St Anthony’s HS, Monte de Guirim 4-2 in the football tournament organised

by Saraswat Vidyalaya High School Khorlim, Mapusa, as part of their centenary celebrations.

Don Bosco scored through Jesus Estrocio, Ndidi E Chukwuma (two) and Asten Mendes.

Aniket Shipe and Ashwin Bansode netted for Monte de Gurim.

St Britto’s HS, Mapusa beat Fr Agnel, Pilar 1-0 with Arnold Fernandes being the scorer.

Progress HS Sanquelim beat Mae de Probes, Nuvem 4-1.

Alwin Cardozo scored two, Chukwudi Chukuwuma and Ganesh Thakur one each.

Stephen Colaco of Mae de Probes scored the team’s only goal.

Infant Jesus HS, Colva beat St Joseph’s HS Calangute in the tiebreaker 5-4.

Richard Shinde, Sunil Shetye, Roy Elariao, Geoffrey Pacheco and Brian Rodriguese scored for Colva school. The scorers for St Joseph were Prajot Kerkar, Shelton Bhogot, Zion D'Sousa and Cliphton Fernandes.

The semi-finals and finals will be played tomorrow.

Manovikas champs HERALD CORRESPONDENT MARGAO, SEPT 3

Manovikas English Medium School, Margao dethroned defending champions Fatima Convent High School, Margao 4-3 via the tie-breaker to win the Salcete Taluka U-14 girls inter-school football tournament at Government ground, M a n o r a , R a i a o n F r i d a y.

Manovikas were trailing 0-1at half time.

Kingfisher Goa Pro League: Faria Strikers Management v.

Salgaocar SC, Tilak Maidan, Vasco, 4.15 p.m.

Bajaj Allianz selection finals: Mapusa Centre v. Margao Centre, Don Bosco ground, Panjim, 3.15 p.m.

Fatima broke the deadlock midway when striker Eva Fernandes dribbled past a couple of defenders and unleashed a booming shot outside the box which gave no chance to the Manovikas keeper.

Crossing over, Manovikas came with renewed ideas as they made many openings into the rival territory and were rewarded soon after resumption when striker Simone Lalwani neutralised the lead seeing the Fatima goalkeeper advancing and Lalwani gently punted the ball into the net.

In the tie-breaker, Simone Lalwani, Rhea Shirwaaikar and Elida Cardozo were on target for Manovikas while Eva Fernandes and Sanita Tavares scored for Fatima Convent.

St Anthony’s High School, Majorda defeated Holy Rosary Convent High School, Nuvem 2-0 to claim the third place.

FIFA Women Referee Maria Rebello was the chief guest and distributed certificates. Earlier, Bevyln Colaco e Rodrigues, Salcete Taluka Sports Organiser welcomed. Later, she proposed the vote of thanks.

Richie Pinto 11-8, 11-4, 11-2.

Nigel Menezes defeated Mangesh Sakordekar 5-11, 119, 11-8, 11-9. Leighan Fernandes beat Shafran Usman 11-5, 11-4, 11-2. Amey Naik defeated Aditya Palekar 11-2, 11-4, 11-5. Tejas Shivde beat Bhavik Khadapkar 11-1, 11-4, 11-5. Nandan Sakordekar defeated Sidhant Parekh 4-11, 11-8, 11-8, 9-11, 14-12.

Tejas Moraskar beat Leighan Fernandes 11-6, 11-5, 11-4. Yash Naik beat Shreyas Aigal 12-10, 11-8, 12-10. Bhuvan Khadapkar defeated Tejas Patil 11-7, 11-7, 11-6. Wesley do Rosario beat Amey Naik 11-7, 11-7, 11-6. Krishal Peres Da Silva defeated Nandan Sakordekar 11-1, 11-6, 11-5.

Pranav Naik beat Bhuvan Khadapkar 9-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-8.

In the girls events, Tanisi Kirtani entered the finals of minicadets and cadets today. Tanisi beat Prutha Parrikar 11-6, 11-5, 11-4 in cadets semi-finals and R. Vaishali Chandana 8-11, 11-

9, 11-6, 11-3 in mini cadets semifinals. In the other semi-finals Arantxa Noronha beat Abigale Cunha 11-1, 9-11, 11-2, 11-7 in cadets while Abigale Cunha defeated Prutha Parrikar 11-6, 1311, 11-4 in mini-cadets.

Eleanor do Rosario beat Nisha Mahambre 11-4, 11-2, 11-2 and Devika Sood defeated Kefira Rodriguese 9-11, 11-6, 11-6, 7-11, 11-3 in juniors. In sub-juniors, Kefira Rodriguese beat Laxmi Shetye 13-11, 8-11, 11-8, 14-12 and Roshni Gopani defeated Tanisi Kirtani 11-6, 11-7, 8-11, 11-7.

Earlier, in the junior quarterfinals Eleanor do Rosario trounced Anolee Serrao 11-2, 11-1, 11-6. Devika Sood beat Laxmi Shetye 11-5, 11-5, 11-6.

Kefira Rodriguese defeated Anchal Verekar 11-5, 8-11, 7-11, 11-3, 11-8 while Nisha Mahambre beat Tanisi Kirtani 11-8, 1311, 6-11, 9-11, 11-8.

G Angel face Immaculate HERALD CORRESPONDENT MARGAO, SEPT 3

Guardian Angel High School, Curchorem will meet Immaculate Conception High School, Avedem, Paroda in the finals of Quepem Taluka U-14 interschool football at Tilamol Panchayat ground, Quepem.

In the first semi-final, Guardian Angel registered a hard fought 1-0 win over Our Lady Mother of Poor High School, Tilamol. The all-important goal was scored by Desvil Fernandes.

Guardian Angel came close to increasing the lead but Sweeden Pereira’s snap shot missed

the target narrowly.

In the other semi-final, Immaculate Conception, recorded a hard fought 3-2 win over Pope John XXIII High School, Quepem. Immaculate Conception led 1-0 at half time.

Immaculate Conception surged ahead when Jolliton Dias bulged the net.

Schubert Dias doubled the lead.

Pope John intensified their attack and their persistent forays paid off when Rin Joy Fernandes punished the rival goalkeeper. Pope John’s Jostan Costa restored parity midway in the second half. Harshad Dessai struck the match-winner.

GOA DIARY 5-a-side football at Panchwadi

PANJIM (HSD) – The United Friends of Mapa, Panchwadi will organise their 1st all-Goa 5-a-side football tournament at Digas ground, Panchwadi on September 5 and 12 at 10 a.m. The winners and runners-up will be awarded Rs. 8,000 and Rs. 6,000 respectively.

Spot entries will be accepted. Details may be obtained from Franky on 9850444492.

Adventure cycling at Mapusa

PANJIM (HSD) - The Goa Cycling Club will organise an adventure cycle ride (25km) from Mapusa to Siolim and back via Camurlim on September 5 at 7.30 a.m. Participants have been asked to assemble at Kamat Gardens, near St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa.

Details may be obtained from Brian on 9860027156 / 9158880300 or Joseph on 9822166165.

Navelim football tournament

PANJIM (HSD) -- Navelim Sporting Club will organise their 29th Gold Silver Rolling Trophy inter-village football tournament in memory of Joaquim Faleiro from September 5 at Rosary ground, Navelim.

Pro-League matches postponed

PANJIM (HSD) -- The Kingfisher Pro-League matches scheduled to take place on September 4 and 5 at Duler stadium, Mapusa have been postponed due to unsuitable ground conditions. Sesa FA were to play Churchill Brothers on September 4 while Goa Velha SC were to meet Sporting Clube de Goa on September 5.

Bajaj Allianz selection finals

PANJIM (HSD) - The Bajaj Allianz final selections will be on September 4 at Don Bosco ground, Panjim at 3.15 p.m. between Margao and Mapusa Centres. The bus will leave from Carvalho Petrol Pump, Mapusa at 2.15 p.m. and from KTC Bus Stand, Margao at 2.15 p.m. to drop the students and teachers at the venue.

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GOA, Saturday, 4 September, 2010

Judge me by my work for Goan football: Peter l Says, I am only responding to the call from GFA clubs

ElEctions HERALD SPORTS REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

Backed by supporters, football fans, well wishers and clubs, Peter Vaz, GFA vice-president and Sporting Clube de Goa president, filled up his nomination form for the post of GFA president, the elections for which will be held on October 24.

“The clubs had pleaded that I should contest the election in 2007 for the post of president, but I had preferred to contest as an ordinary member then, so that I could have a direct feel of the administration, meet the clubs, have a deeper insight of the working and get to know the pulse di-

rectly. In the past, I was also involved with the GFA work without having any post or being a member in the Executive Committee. I have duly graduated from grassroots to fulfil the hopes and aspirations of the clubs,” explained Peter, who proudly added, “I am a self made man.”

Even in 2007, the elected members proposed me as the v i c e - p re s i d e n t . S h r i n i v a s Dempo, who was also an elected member did not attend the very first meeting of the Executive Committee and so it is not correct to talk about humiliation.

“I was entrusted with several responsibilities all these years by the GFA, even when I was not in the Executive Committee.

I have executed all work with sincerity and dedication,” remarked Peter. “It is not necessary to occupy a chair to do work,” he pointed out.

“Everyone and most impor-

tantly the clubs know what exactly I have contributed all these years, they are the best judges.

They know my track record for Goan football. Forget Sporting, for GFA is totally a separate entity for me,” claimed Peter.

“I don’t believe in shouting from the roof top,” exclaimed Peter. However, his record, no doubt, speak volumes. He single-handedly, monitored, taken corrective measures and implemented in toto the construction of Duler Stadium at Mapusa. Most importantly, even before the additional land could be released to GFA, he had kept the plans ready for submission having liasoned with the architect. As a visionary, he came up with the concept of constructing rooms for accommodation of trainees, teams for residential camps or even tournaments.

It is Peter who also augmented the GFA coffers as he was instrumental in obtaining,

Peter Vaz handing over the nomination form to Victor Fernandes for onward submission to GFA secretariat on Friday.

Photo Rozario Estibeiro.

with the help of Government and other authorities, the commercial zone classification, thereby creating big assets for Goan football. “He had foresight,” a club member voiced.

Another club official, inter-

jected and recalled that it was Peter who was responsible for getting Rs 10 lakh from Zee TV, following arbitration proceedings which were solely handled

by Peter. “Everyone knows who or which team was involved in the sponsorship, deal which was

Savio raps Joaquim over ‘wrong people’ statement HERALD SPORTS REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

Blame it on some of the politicians for the sorry state of affairs in most of the sports in India. Look at what happened with the preparations of Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. I think sometimes these politicians should remain out of sports, that’s how GFA general secretary, Savio Messias reacted to GFA president Joaquim Alemao, Urban Development Minister’s caustic comments made at Shrinivas Dempo’s press briefing on Thursday.

Reacting to Joaquim’s statement “The GFA should not go in wrong people’s hands,” Savio told Prudent Media on Friday: “That comment of his was really very, very bad. A lot of people phoned me, people who heard the interview on the TV. I think it was a very

childish statement which Alemao made. I was his (GFA) secretary and I have been able to deliver.

I don't think so he has to have any fear GFA will go in wrong hands and so my other opponents also (other contestants) like Peter Vaz. He has also been an able administrator and a businessman and I don't think GFA will go in the wrong hands.”

“I think sometimes it's these

politicians who should remain out of football and sports. As we have seen what's happened in the Commonwealth Games (preparations). We have seen what's happening in the country, in most of the federations and we have seen in some of our associations in Goa. The associations have been captured by some of the politicians and I think that is the reason why

sport is going from bad to worse,'' Savio commented.

Our Sports Reporter adds: Generally, the comments aired at yesterday’s press briefing were not taken kindly by some.

Was it right for Joaquim to use that platform and speak in that tone? Isn’t it a case of calling the kettle black,? one queried.

Talking about no control over administration, relationships with AIFF, SAG, Govt and the acrimony, many felt that the GFA had its representatives in AIFF for the past seven years.

Whose responsibility was it to straighten things which were awful as they are now being alleged openly? many remarked.

If the situation was so bad as has been made out, many opined that there were several avenues which could have been availed of, like the meetings of Executive Committee and then most importantly, the General

n I think sometimes it's these politicians who should remain out of football and sports. As we have seen what's happened in the Commonwealth Games (preparations) -- Savio Messias Body Meetings. Or even Extraordinary General meetings could have been called to tackle serious issues. In fact, the last AGM praised the members of the Executive Committee.

In any case, it is for the 157 clubs to exercise their right and vote as per their conscience ultimately on October 24. That’s

signed in such a manner that it could not be terminated and the GFA could not even rope in a new sponsor. Peter, it was, who craftly negotiated the proceedings and managed to get Rs 10 lakh,” the official stressed.

“Peter dug the soil further, planted new seeds, looked after them as they germinated and tuned into a plant with passion, for football is his first love. He has toiled, gave his time, effort, energy and even money, and as such it is only natural that all that he did all these years without expecting anything in return, for Goan football and GFA, should be appropriately rewarded,” a club office-bearer summed up and hoped that the clubs will definitely express their gratitude. “He must be there when the plant gives the fruit.”

“You talk about all legal matters, and it is Peter who would be asked to take it up.

And, he not only accepted the

responsibility, but did all the follow up work subsequently, without any let up, till the disposal of the case, remarked a club member, who said he preferred to be anonymous since facts and figures were more important than dishing out names.

“The GFA is a body of football clubs with each club being a member of the association. The clubs have their own right to propose and second the candidates that they want. Unity is important and so they have asked me to file my nomination.

And, I am just responding to the call of the clubs,” confirmed Peter. “This time, I promised not to ditch them, because I know they are solidly behind time. So I am very serious, because they too are,” commented Peter.

“Unity is the need of the hour.

We need to work unitedly so that our goal, for first reinforcing what we have especially in

Final arguments on Sept 17 l Complaint against GCA

HERALD SPORTS REPORTER PANJIM, SEPT 3

The Goa State Chief Information Commissioner, Motilal Keny today fixed for September 17 at 10.30 a.m. the final arguments on the complaint filed by Advocate Aires Rodrigues against the Goa Cricket Association for its refusal to furnish information sought under the Right to Information Act. As directed by the Information Commission, GCA secretary appeared before the Commission today.

The GCA which is being represented by Advocate Mahesh Sonak today sought two weeks time to file their reply.

The Chief Information Commissioner directed the GCA to give an advance copy of their reply to Rodrigues by September 15 and fixed the final arguments for September 17.

After Rodrigues sought information from GCA on the fees paid to their lawyer Subodh Kantak, the association took the stand that it does not come under the purview of the RTI Act as it has not received any financial or other assistance from the Goa Government or the Sports Authority of Goa.

terms of infrastructure and then consolidating on youth development, grassroot, administration, decentralisation, so that we progress further steadily which will ultimately help Goans and Goan football to achieve greater heights and laurels,” reflected Peter.

“We need to take all the stakeholders with us. We need to revive all the sub-committees, but most importantly, empower them. Decentralisation is a must, alongwith effective coordination and liasoning. We need to introspect, add more infrastructure. I believe in delivering and not giving promises for I am a common club’s man.

And, I am available 24 x 7,” voiced Peter.

Clubs were unanimous that Peter need not tell, because his work shows.

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Euro 2012:@France, England, Italy bid for fresh starts European heavyweights France, England and Italy get the chance to put their disappointing World Cups behind them today as they kick off their Euro 2012 qualifying campaigns on a night for fresh starts.

The qualifying competition affords all three the opportunity to restore their battered confidence and rebuild tarnished reputations after they limped to humiliating early exits in South Africa.

France, who face Belarus in Paris, and Italy, who travel to Tallinn to play Estonia, have drawn a line in the sand under their World Cup failures by appointing new managers.

All is well for a great CWG:@Kalmadi As the month-long countdown for the Commonwealth Games begins, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, in the line of fire for tardy preparations, voiced confidence that "hitches" will be overcome and the event will be a great success.

The OC chief said there may be "hitches" here and there but everything is on track to host a "good Games" which take place exactly a month later.

Kalmadi and Dikshit, participating in a Games publicity function, said all the infrastructure in the city is ready and there is no reason to worry about the preparations.

Lightweights throw in the towel at US Open REUTERS NEW YORK, SEPT 3

There was an old-fashioned fight at the US Open but not the one tournament officials wanted to see.

Instead of happening on the court, the scuffle broke out in the upper deck, high above Arthur Ashe Stadium where and Philipp Petzschner were locked in their own battle.

Play stopped briefly as New York police handcuffed three rowdy fans and evicted them from Flushing Meadows.

The fracas in the stands came at the end of a day when some of the sport's heavyweights delighted in humbling lesserknown opponents in second round matches.

Each of the five featured matches on centre court were decided in straight-sets. At times the quality of tennis was breathtaking and the crowds roared their approval, but it was rarely a fair contest.

Roger Federer's victim was Germany's Andreas Beck. He won the match 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 in one hour 41 minutes and even the Swiss master himself was impressed.

Maria Sharapova was also in a hurry, belting Czech Iveta Benesova 6-1, 6-2 but neither of the former champions could match the ruthless display from Caroline Wozniacki.

Beckham hopes to return to action David Beckham hopes to make his return to action in LA Galaxy's match against Columbus Crew on September 11, the midfielder said on Thursday.

Beckham has been sidelined since March when he suffered an Achilles tendon injury, while playing on loan for AC Milan, that cost him a place in the England squad at the World Cup in South Africa.

Pakistan call up Shafiq, Irfan Pakistan have called up Asad Shafiq and Mohammad Irfan as replacements for the suspended Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif for the one-day series in England. ''Both the players are currently playing with the Pakistan A team in Sri Lanka and will now join the senior team by next week,'' a Pakistan Cricket Board official told Reuters today.

Saina slips to third in world rankings India's badminton player Saina Nehwal slipped one spot to number three in the latest world rankings.

The 20-year-old Saina had made a meteoric rise following her back-to-back title triumphs at the India Open Grand Prix, Singapore Open Super Series and Indonesian Open Super Series to reach the world number two spot.

‘Dhoni will face biggest challenge’ Former skipper Sourav Ganguly feels that current captain of Team India Mahendra Singh Dhoni would face a ''challenge'' after retirement of the senior players.

Ganguly believes that Dhoni's biggest challenge will be in the coming one or two years when Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman retire.

l Federer, Djokovic, Sharapova, Wozniacki in third round

Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, celebrates his win over Philipp Petzschner, of Germany, at the US Open tennis tournament in New York on Thursday.

The Dane needed just 47 minutes to inflict the dreaded 6-0, 6-0 ‘double bagel’ on Taiwan's Chang Kai-chen and remain on course for a meeting with Russian Sharapova in the fourth round.

Russia's Vera Zvonareva, Wimbledon finalist this year, and Belgium's Yanina W ickmayer, semi-finalist at the US Open last season, also registered easy wins on another steamy day when

the Extreme Weather Policy was i n v o ke d a s t e m p e r a t u re s climbed past 91 degrees Fahrenheit (33 Celsius).

A year ago, Kim Clijsters was the mom hogging the spotlight at the US Open. This time it is Mother Nature.

Unrelenting heat and swirling winds have transformed the last grand slam of the year into a battle against the elements and

now Hurricane Earl is approaching New York, threatening to dump gallons of rain on the city that never sleeps.

Petzschner landed a few blows on Djokovic but the world number three was way too crafty for the German, winning 7-5, 63, 7-6 to meet James Blake in the next round.

Djokovic's fellow Serb Jelena Jankovic, the women's fourth

l Becomes IAF’s honorary Group Captain l To fly Sukhoi soon to earn IAF wings l Supports young Indian brigade

PTI NEW DELHI, SEPT 3

The ICC should thoroughly investigate the spot-fixing scandal and take appropriate action against players who are found guilty, according to batting icon Sachin Tendulkar, who was today conferred the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.

The champion batsman also threw his weight behind the youngsters in the Indian team, who failed miserably during the tri-series in Sri Lanka, but asked them to minimise mistakes and learn to respond to situations swiftly.

Tendulkar said he was disappointed with the spot-fixing incident and felt if the scam, which has come to light after an "expose" by a British tabloid, turns out to be true it will bring "disrepute to the game".

"ICC should make a thorough probe in whatever had happened in England and take ap-

propriate action if the players are found guilty. If the allegations are true, they will certainly bring disrepute to the game," Tendulkar told reporters.

"I am no expert and not the one to comment while sitting here in India on something which happened in England.

But certainly it has disappointed me," he said when asked to comment on the latest crisis to have rocked the game.

"Integrity is extremely required to take the game forward and make it more globalised. It is important to have a clean image so that cricket heads in the right direction and I am sure ICC will take every measure to ensure the game moves in the right direction," he added.

Asked if he had heard of any Indian player being approached by bookmakers, Tendulkar said he had never come across any such instance.

"No, in my 21 years of international cricket, I have never heard of any Indian player being approached by bookies," said Tendulkar, who was speaking at a media interaction at the sidelines of a photo exhibition to celebrate his 21 years in international cricket.

The Indian icon also backed the young cricketers in the Indian team, who failed to make a mark in Sri Lanka.

Vuvuzelas set for blast off at CWG UNI NEW DELHI, SEPT 3

In a surprising way, Vuvuzelathe plastic horn- is likely to make an entry into the stadium for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, to be held here from October 3-14.

The organisers of the Delhi 2010 Games said the horn, which had rocked the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, will be part of Delhi's noisy celebration for the Games.

However, they are yet to get clearance on its entry into the stadium from the police. ''We have requested Lalit Bhanot to put in a request to the Delhi police to ask them which merchandise can be taken inside the stadium,'' Organising Committee treasurer A K Mattoo told mediapersons here yesterday.

Vuvuzela was a hit with fans

Sania exits women’s doubles too AGENCIES NEW YORK, SEPT 3

ICC should take action against guilty: Sachin

Australia face sponsorship problems at CWG Construction delays and other problems which have marred the build-up to Delhi Commonwealth Games have also led to sponsors giving a cold shoulder to participating teams with Australia today claiming that they will be 40 per cent short of the targetted sponsorship budget for the event.

Just 30 days left for the event but Australia are still USD 6.8 million behind the sponsorship target for the Games, the Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) chief executive Perry Crosswhite said.

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during the FIFA World Cup but had triggered complaints from most of the footballers later on.

Major sporting events, including tennis major Wimbledon do not go for its e n t r y. T h e horns were also banned from UEFA competitions such as the Champions League, Europa League and Euro 2012 qualifiers.

But the Premier Brands Limited (PBL) wrestler Sushil Kumar supports its entry into the stadium in Delhi for the next month's Games, saying India is a different case. ''As Indians like noise unlike Europeans, Vuvuzela's involvement with the game never matters, rather the product, which has been very successful in merchandising in FIFA, South Africa, it will bring positive response in India,'' Sushil told mediapersons here.

The Indian youngsters, including Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik and Rohit Sharma fared poorly in Sri Lanka and it was only Virender Sehwag's heroics that steered India to the final.

But Tendulkar contended that the young players cannot be labelled as incompetent on the basis of just one bad tour.

"The guys have done well. Just in the last tour, the graph was up and down. Sehwag batted exceptionally well and matches just rallied around him.

"But the youngsters will have to understand that they will have to play around the batsman or bowler, who are in good nick. They will be asked to play supportive role and they will have to start picking those signals," Tendulkar said on the sidelines of a IAF function to confer the honorary rank of group captain on him.

"In Sri Lanka we made the finals. We played well in patches and sometimes we were not up to the mark. But the mistakes that we committed, have to be corrected. And it is not last time that there were mistakes. In future there will be mistakes but we will have to minimise those," Tendulkar said.

"We have wonderful youngsters. A lot of planning is going on. It is not that players go to hotel and forget. Whole world is watching them and nobody wants to fail.

"Sometime we react (too

much). We will have to make sure that players get all the confidence. We have to be patient.

When we will have identified who will play in the World Cup, they will have to be given reasonable role so that they feel confident and up for the contest," said Tendulkar, who will soon fly Sukhoi frontline fighter plane as a part of his training to earn his "wings".

Asked if he feels that mind-boggling sums, offered in T20 leagues like IPL make the youngsters vulnerable to the lure of money, he said priority should be right.

"When I started playing, I didn't think of money because I loved cricket, it was my passion. If I make more money and score less runs, I can't sleep at night. There is no harm in having more money but the priority has to be right.

"Cricket has to be played in the cleanest way and in right spirit. When we play, we always play to win, whether it's IPL's first match or IPL final or CLT20 match. It has been the same all through my career," he said.

A lot of former cricketers like Ajit Wadekar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Kapil Dev and singing legend Asha Bhonsle have said in the past that Tendulkar should be awarded 'Bharat Ratna'.

When the Mumbaikar was asked for his view on this, he said,"It's a dream. It's the biggest honour. It is dream of every Indian. Who will not like to get Bharat Ratna."

seed, sur vived after being pushed to three sets by Mirjana Lucic. Russian Nikolay Davydenko, however, was left punchdrunk after being hammered 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 by Frenchman Richard Gasquet.

The casualty rate among the seeds in the first four days of the championship has been almost as brutal as the baking heat with 22 making early exits,

including six more Thursday.

Agnieszka Radwanska, Aravane Rezai and Maria Jose Mart i n e z S a n c h e z w e re s e n t tumbling out of the women's draw.

Davydenko was the highest men's seed to fall and was joined at the exit by Thomaz Bellucci and Croatia's 11th seed Marin Cilic, upset 5-7 7-6 3-6 7-6 6-1

by Japan's Kei Nishikori.

Pietersen apologises for Twitter outburst UNI LONDON, SEPT 3

Star batsman Kevin Pietersen offered England a ''big apology'' after he posted a remark on a social networking site calling his omission from national Twenty20 and one-day squads a ''**** up''.

The ECB are still considering whether to take disciplinary action against their star batsman.

Pietersen insisted yesterday that the error was ''just a mistake''. ''The Twitter thing came out in a way I obviously didn't want it to come out,'' he told 'Surrey

cricket.tv'. ''It was just a mistake.

It was a direct message, and as anyone who is on Twitter knows, you can send direct messages to your friends.'' ''So I must apologise that it ended up in the public domain, and also apologise for the language I used. I would never, ever swear on Twitter when going out into the public domain, so this is a big apology,'' he said.

Pietersen, who will play two four-day games and one more 40-over match for Surrey, insisted he had patched things up with the England hierarchy.

Sania Mirza's US Open campaign ended after she lost her women's doubles first round match on Friday.

The Indian ace and Russian partner Vera Dushevina lost to 11th seeds Alisa Kleybanova and Ekaterina Makarova.

Already out of the singles, the Indao-Russian pair lost 76(6), 2-6, 6-7(3) in a first round match.

Sania had lost to Russian 20th seed Anastasia Pavlyucjenkova in the women's singles second round.

Somdev lost in the men's singles and Leander Paes suffered a shock first round defeat in the men's doubles.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna have kept the Indian challenge alive by progressing to the second round of the men's doubles with their respective partners.