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HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

The Goa Assembly on Wednes-day witnessed noisy scenes asthe Opposition along with Al-dona MLA Dayanand Narvekarrefused to buy justification of-fered by Health Minister Vish-wajit Rane and rushed to theWell of the House shouting slo-gans over public-private part-nership of Mapusa districthospital.

Repea ted warn ings bySpeaker Pratapsing Rane tomaintain discipline went un-heard as protests continuedforcing the House to be ad-journed till 2.30 pm.

The BJP took on the HealthMinister during Question Hour

over his plans to run the newdistrict hospital in Mapusa onPPP mode.

The question on the statusof Mapusa hospital which hasbeen ready since 2008 wasraised by Mapusa MLA FrancisD’Souza.

The justification and subse-quent declaration by the HealthMinister that “he has no per-sonal interest” in running thehospital on PPP mode did notcut ice with the Opposition.

He said, the PPP mode wasfor efficient functioning of the

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HERALD CORRESPONDENT

MUMBAI, FEB 3

The coastline between Mum-bai’s Worli and Mahim is be ex-panded with geo-tubes andtonnes of sand by the Mumbaimunicipality, to create a beachthat will be “in the same leagueas Goa”. “Mumbai will soon givetough competit ion to thebeaches of Goa”, a municipalofficial told the media.

The plan to revitalise thebeaches between Mahim andWorli, which form the Mahimbay spanned by the picturesqueBandra-Worli Sealink bridge, willmaterialise in June, Chairpersonof the Municipal Standing Com-

mittee Rahul Shewale said. Heexplained that the plan is to ex-tend the beach line from thecurrent three metres to 50 m.The overall budget for the proj-ect is Rs 14 crore.

Mumbai Mayor Shraddha Jad-hav said it upset her to see the

waves crashing against the wallsof the Mayor’s official bungalowat Shivaji Park, Dadar, and shefelt nostalgic about the dayswhen people could walk on thebeach. At present, stones havebeen piled up to keep the wateroff the bungalow’s walls.

The Municipality is planningto use geo-tubes and 1.75 lakhcubic metres of sand to expandthe beach. The State Govern-ment’s Harbour Engineer P PDarade is working on the proj-ect. His plan is to deploy geo-tubes, fill them with sand tocreate a tube-like formation thatwould work as an embankment

Mumbai to build an artificial beach; ‘compete’ with Goa

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Home Minister Ravi Naik onThursday afternoon informedthe House that Cipriano Fernan-des death case will be handedover to the Special InvestigationTeam (SIT) headed by Superin-tendent of Police OmprakashKurtarkar.

The Home Minister was re-plying to a calling attention mo-tion tabled by BJP MLA DamuNaik over the issue.

The reply didn’t satisf yDayanand Narvekar, who ob-jected stating there can’t be an-other inquiry as the probe bythe Sub-Divisional Magistratehad stated Cipriano’s death oc-curred in police custody.

Casting aspersion over theHome Minister ’s intention,Narvekar asserted the SIT com-prised of police personnel andthe inquiry into Cipriano’s deathwon’t be fair. “Do you want togive those involved a clean

chit?” he questioned. Defending his decision, the

Home Minister said the investi-gation under the leadership ofKurtarkar will be fair as he wasan able and good officer withmany convictions to his credit.

But Narvekar asserted thiswas a murder charge and thepolice personnel responsiblewill have to face it. This decisionof handing over the case to SITwill make people believe theirchildren will never be safe in

police custody and their returnalive will never be guaranteed,he stated.

Naik said he will see that thepolice personnel from the Pan-jim Police Station were trans-ferred to some other place. Atthis Opposition Leader ManoharParrikar said there was no prob-lem in transferring personnelfrom Panjim, but it has to beensured alternate arrangementswere made to see that the policestation is not without policemen.

SIT to probe Cipriano’s deathNorth to go sans power

on Feb 6HERALD NEWS BUREAU

PANJIM, FEB 3

Most parts of North Goa will bewithout power supply on Sun-day morning, due to major main-tenance work at the Tivimsub-station.

According to a press note,there will be no power supplyto the talukas of Bardez,P e r n e m , B i c h o l i m a n dTiswadi from 7 am to 3 pm onFebruary 6.

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

It’s now official. The car in-volved in an accident at Mi-ramar in November 2010 wasdriven by none other thanDeputy Superintendent of Po-lice Mahesh Gaonkar himself.

Home Minister Ravi Naikmade the revelation on thefloor of the House on Wednes-day.

On November 25, 2010 oneSainath Arsekar filed a com-plaint with the Panjim townpolice station that an un-known driver in a whiteMaruti Swift knocked himdown on the road and spedaway from the spot leavinghim unconscious.

“During the course of in-vestigation, it came to lightthat the Swift car belongedto M K Gaonkar, DySP and hewas driving the said Swift carGA-06-D-1132 at the time ofthe incident”, Naik replied toan unstarred question tabledby Leader of OppositionManohar Parrikar.

The minister said that theincident occurred on Novem-ber 24, 2010 at about 10:30pm near the Goa Science Cen-tre when the Swift car driverknocked down Sainath onHero Honda motorbike GA-01-L-8245 proceeding in the

same direction. A case was registered under

Sections 279 (hit and run) and337 of the Indian Penal Codeand section 134 (a) (b) of theMotor Vehicles Act.

However, there was also acounter complaint by the sen-ior police officer alleging thatwhen he was returning home,he was chased by two or threebikers who hurled abuses at

Ravi exposesDySP GaonkarSays the police officer drove car in

Miramar hit & run case

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

PORVORIM, FEB 3

A security guard employed tosafeguard a bungalow at Sal-vador-do-Mundo ended upbeing the biggest security threatto the family.

The Manipuri-based securityguard was arrested on chargesof decamping with ornamentsand cash, all worth a staggeringRs 50 lakh from the bungalowon Wednesday.

In a swift operation, Porvorimpolice on Thursday arrested thesecurity guard, Rushikant Singhand three others in Bangaloreas they were trying to leave forManipur by the Guwahati-boundtrain from Bangalore.

The bunga low owner,Venkatesh Prabhu Moni told re-porters that he had gone toBangkok on January 27, 2011,for some personal work and re-turned on Wednesday at about

5.30 pm. However in the night, when

his wife went to the second floorof the bungalow to open thesafe, she found it opened andthe diamond and gold jewelleryworth Rs 50 lakh missing.

Besides, cash of Rs 50,000which was kept in the safe was

Guard strikes goldworth Rs 50 lakh

The bungalow from where the se-curity guard decamped with thevaluables.

Photo by Anil Shankhwalker

HARD FACTS: Rocks on the beachoutside the Mayor’s bungalow

Dudu getsbail on

conditionHERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Narcot ics Drugs and Psy -chotropic Substances (NDPS)Court, Mapusa today grantedconditional bail to alleged drugdealer David Driham alias Dudu.

NDPS Court in its order re-stricted him from leaving thecountry and asked to depositpersonal bond of Rs one-lakhwith two sureties in like amount.The court has also asked himnot to interfere with the inves-tigation and appear before theinvestigating authorities as andwhen required.

A team of Anti-Narcotics Cell,on February 21, 2010 arrestedDudu with several kilograms ofnarcotics near his rented bun-galow at Anjuna. A chargesheetagainst him was filed in theNDPS Court on December 13,2010.

The Israeli was lodged in Sadasub jail.

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Bombay High Court at Goa todayasked Goa Government to startfunctioning of Mapusa hospitalby March 31. The order waspassed in response to a PublicInterest Litigation filed by onePrakash Sardessai complainingthat the healthcare system inthe State was in bad shape.

The Division Bench compris-ing of Justices S B Deshmukhand F M Reis has told the Gov-ernment that the Mapusa Hos-pital should be equipped withIntensive Care Unit and TraumaUnit.

Senior citizen Sardessai hadalleged that hospitals in Goa areunderstaffed and that some de-partments function in an inap-propriate manner. He alsohighlighted the ill-functioningof health care system in theState and how poor patientswere ill-treated at Governmenthospitals.

The petitioner had also toldthe Court that pharmacies inGovernment hospitals were notsupplying medicines free to pa-tients. “Most pharmacies do notkeep adequate stock of life sav-ing medicines; hence, poor pa-tients are compelled to buy

HC deadline for Mapusa hospitalStart operations by March 31, Govt told

Ruckus in House over PPP

HERLAD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Bowing to pressure, Health Min-ister Vishwajit Rane today de-clared that he would step downfrom the Public Private Partner-ship (PPP) Monitoring Commit-tee after it was brought to hisattention by the OppositionLeader that he could not headthe Committee in capacity asminister.

The Health Minister made thestatement at a press conferencein the Assembly Complex onWednesday afternoon, after theHouse was adjourned.

Rane also clarified that Re-quest for Qualification (RFQ)inviting parties to run the newhospital on PPP mode would bewithdrawn as they had receivedjust one entry.

Earlier addressing a press con-ference in the Assembly Com-plex, Aldona MLA DayanandNarvekar had alleged that theHealth Minister was lying aboutPPP. “If PPP mode is beingworked out, how could theypublish RFQ inviting bids fromparties”, he asked.

He said, an advertisement was

Vishwajit opts out of Panel; bid cancelled

During the course ofinvestigation, it

came to light thatthe Swift car

belonged to MaheshGaonkar, DySP andhe was driving thesaid Swift car GA-06-D-1132 at the

time of the incident.

— Ravi Naik

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) Counsel S R Rivonkar’swithdrawal from the ScarletKeeling Eden case has come ata time when Fiona Mackeownexpressed reservations aboutthe way CBI probed the case.

Fiona, who launched a mas-sive campaign to get justice forher deceased daughter suspectsthat CBI investigation isn’t fool-proof to convict the accused.

“I understand that CBI is themost respected investigatingagency in India. However, theirfailure in the Arushi murder casehas eroded my faith in theagency,” she had said.

The 15-year-old school girl’ssemi-clad and bruised body wasfound on Anjuna beach on Feb-ruary 18, 2008. Two locals –Samson D’Souza and PlacidoCarvalho are charged with cul-pable homicide, molesting andleaving the British teenager todie on the beach.

Sources said that Rivonkarhad written to Goa Children’s

Court and CBI that he does notwant to continue fighting thecase. It is learnt that Rivonkarwas disturbed as the case trialwas dragging on for severalmonths.

When the trial began in March2010, Rivonkar had told re-porters that efforts would bemade to complete the trial byDecember 2010. But till dateonly 15 of the total 72 witnessesare examined.

Vikram Varma, Fiona’s coun-sel, has termed Rivonkar’s exitfrom the case as ‘unfortunate.’

“The credibility of the CBI

cannot be maintained withouteffective prosecutors. But I hopethat the CBI replaces him withan equally competent or betterprosecutor,” he said adding thatit was unfortunate to lose agood person like Rivonkar.

Meanwhile, even after threeyears after her death, Scarlet’sbody is yet to be buried. Coro-ner’s office in UK discoveredcertain evidences while conduct-ing an autopsy on the body andhence it refused to release theteenager’s body to her mother.

Adv Varma had said the Coro-ner’s statement assumes signif-icance as it must have reasonsto believe that the evidencescollected after conducting nu-merous tests would be askedby the court.

However, the CBI officials didnot consider these evidencesduring their investigation.

Two post-mortems were con-ducted on Scarlet’s body in GoaMedical College and Hospital.Her body was taken to UK inMarch 2008 where a third au-topsy was conducted.

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HERALD CORRESPONDENT

PORVORIM, FEB 3

Shiv Sainiks on Thursday morn-ing blocked mining trucks trans-porting iron ore from Reddy andShiroda in Maharashtra to Sirsaiat Karaswada junction in protestagainst the problems created bymining traffic.

The Shiv Sainik team led byits ex-Goa state chief RameshNaik and Ad-hoc committeemember Philip D’Souza startedblocking mining trucks arrivingfrom Reddy at Kharaswada junc-tion from 10 am. Within an hour,there was a long queue ofloaded mining trucks along thehighway.

Mapusa Police rushed to thespot and after having discus-sions with the Shiv Sainiks, theycleared the traffic.

Speaking to media, Naik

stated that nearly 500 miningtrucks are operating daily fromReddy/Shiroda to Sirsai minesright from 6 am.

“The ground reality is thatBardez taluka does not have theinfrastructure to handle heavymining traffic. The existing roadswere built long ago. This miningtraffic is responsible for the in-creasing number of accidentson these roads,” stated Naik.

“Further, life in these areas isaffected by pollution. Peoplehave to live, eat and drink withdust, which is now suffocating,”added Naik.

“This is our token protest toinvite the attention of the Stategovernment to the problemsgenerated by the mining activity.If the government fails to im-pose restrictions on the move-ment of mining trucks from

Reddy to Sirsaim, Shiv Sena willbe forced to intensify its agita-tion,” warned Naik.

D’Souza said life of the com-mon people has become unbear-able due to large number ofmining vehicles plying along theroad.

“The public transport systemhas also been badly affected dueto alleged rash and negligentdriving by the mining trucks,”said D’Souza.

“Despite the fact that pro-ceedings under Section 133 ofCriminal Procedure Code ispending before the Deputy Col-lector North Goa in this regardand this issue is being debatedstrongly in the Assembly session,the government has not takenany action to impose restrictionson the movement of mining traf-fic,” said D’Souza.

Shiv Sainiks block mining trucks at Kharaswada

Mining trucks blocked by Shiv Sainiks at the Kharaswada junction. Photo by Anil Shankhwalker

Noted musician Braz Gonsalves performing at Jazz Gospel concert at Kala Academy, Panjim, on Thurs-day. Around ten musicians performed at the jam-packed open-air auditorium.

Photo by Rozario Estibeiro

Fiona feels vindicatedafter Rivonkar’s exit

I understand that CBIis the mostrespectedinvestigating agencyin India. However,their failure in theArushi murder casehas eroded my faithin the agency.

-- Fiona Mackeown

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, FEB 3

PWD Minister Churchill Alemao’s politicalrivals – MP Francisco Sardinha and CWCmember Luizinho Faleiro – entered Alemao’shome turf on Thursday to build a retainingwall-cum-drainage around the places ofworship of the three religious communitiesat Rumdamol, drawing sharp reactions fromPWD Minister’s supporters.

While Faleiro told newsmen that whateverdevelopment one can see in Rumdamol wasundertaken during his tenure, Sardinha saidthat the people everywhere are forcingFaleiro to contest the coming Assemblypolls, adding that even the central partyleaders may force the CWC member to con-test the polls.

Both Faleiro and Sardinha visited theMasjid upon an invitation from locals, be-sides Rumdamol Panchayat and interactedwith the people. The duo left the venue bygiving assurance to the people that the pro-posal for the retaining wall and drainagewould be built under Sardinha’s MPLADscheme.

“Nothing has happened in Rumdamolafter my exit. The electronic media can takea look of the village. Cameras cannot telllies. What Faleiro has done can be seen byeveryone. It was my duty to do the devel-opment. I tried to do my best”, Faleiro said,taking a dig at the PWD Minister.

On the prospects of contesting the com-ing Assembly polls, Faleiro said he is occu-pying an important position in the partyand that the question of he contesting thepolls will be decided by the party leaders.“I am right now serving the party at the na-tional level. It all depends on my party lead-ers on my decision to contest the polls”,he added.

Interestingly, the South Goa MP FranciscoSardinha said that if the people are forcingFaleiro to contest the coming Assemblypolls, then the central leaders in Delhi mayalso force the former Navelim MLA to con-test the polls.

The MP expressed his satisfaction that

he and the CWC member were approachedby the Sarpanch and other Panch memberin the interest of development. “I have toldthem to give a representation on the de-velopment work. I have assured them toundertake the works”, he added.

Even as the two senior Congress leaderswere leaving venue, Alemao’s supportersbegan converging at the same place andlater termed the duo’s visit as purely polit-ical.

Rumdamol Panch, Nissar said thatChurchill’s close supporter and RumdamolPanch Nissar said that the PWD Ministerhas already sanctioned the work of the com-pound wall and drain and added that thetwo congress leaders came to Rumdamolin view of the coming polls. “We do notknow why Faleiro and Sardinha came to

the village today. The President of the Masjidwas not taken into confidence nor were allthe Panchayat members informed of thevisit”, Nissar.

He demanded to know how the SouthGoa MP has suddenly developed love forthe Muslim community when Sardinha hadearlier opposed setting up of the Kabrastanfor the community.

President of Durgamata Temple, GurunathAnand Naik expressed his surprise over thevisit of Faleiro and Sardinha to the villagewhen Churchill has been doing good worksince the last three years and half. “Theprocedure for the wall and drainage hasbeen completed by Churchill. We fail to un-derstand this politics when our MLA hasbeen doing good work for the village”, Gu-runath added.

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, FEB 3

The prime suspect in the sen-sational headless body murdercase, Jayesh Naik and his brotherRajesh on Thursday surrenderedbefore the Judicial Magistrate’scourt this evening.

The two brothers were laterremanded to 10 days police cus-tody after the Maina Curtorimpolice moved the court seekingtheir custody for 14 days ongrounds that the two brothersare required for custodial inter-rogations in order to identifyhis role in the commission ofoffense, locate his abscondingassociates, recover the missinghead of the deceased and alsoto recover the weapon used inthe commission of the crime.

Jayesh, who is the presidentof the Shri Swami Samarth Tem-ple, Rumdamol told waitingnewsmen that he is innocent andwill come out clean. “This is yetanother attempt made by thepolice to frame me up in a falsecase. I have full faith in the Judi-ciary and will come out clean”,he said, before being whiskedaway in a waiting police van.

The Maina Curtorim has sofar arrested three persons, in-cluding the brother of Jayesh,Govind, Vivek Dhamakale andNitin Dicholkar.

The police application seek-ing the custody of the accusedsaid that investigations have re-vealed that Jayesh was in con-

Nessai murder: two surrender in courtAnticipatory bail rejected

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, FEB 3

Additional Sessions Judge VijayaPol on Thursday rejected the an-ticipatory bail application ofRashikant Gauns, who waswanted by the police in connec-tion with the headless bodymurder case.

While rejecting the applica-tion, Judge Pol said the crime ismost heinous where a youngperson has been murdered by agroup of people and his headsevered.

The Judge said there is noth-ing on record to show that thepolice want to arrest the appli-cation due to some political ri-valry or due to some influenceor pressure.

“Case papers show that thearrest of the accused is soughtnot with the object of to humil-iate him by arresting him”, theJudge said, adding that there issufficient material on record toprima facie suggest the involve-ment of the applicant in thecrime, which is heinous in na-ture.

“Prejudice would be caused tofree, fair and full investigationsof the crime if anticipatory bailis granted to the applicant,” thejudge said, while rejecting theanticipatory bail application inthe interest of justice.

With an eye on polls, Sardinha, Luizinho enter Churchill’s turf

South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha and CWC leader Luizinho Faleiro on Alemao’s home turfin Rumdamol village, part of Navelim constituency. Photo by Santosh Mirajkar

Accused Jayesh Naik and his brother Rajesh whisked by the policeto a waiting police van after their surrendered to the Margao court.

Photo by Santosh Mirajkarstant contact with his associateswho are suspects in this crimebefore and after the commissionof offense as evident from theircontacts, call details and SDR.

Police investigations so farhave revealed that on the nightof January 9-10, around sevenpersons came to Pedda-Be-naulim in two vehicles, includinga Maruti Van and a Swift Dezireand took away the deceased Sul-tan Bellary.

The police said the deceased,a resident of Bellary, was beingtaken away on the pretext thathe is a thief and has committedtheft at Damodar store, Margao,belonging to Rajesh Naik.

Police sources said they are

on the look out of 2-3 personswho are required in police cus-tody to throw more light on theevents leading to the coldblooded murder and the recov-ery of the head of the deceased.

Commenting on the arrest ofJayesh and his brother, MainaCurtorim PI Sidhant Shirodkarsaid that the headless body casehas been finally cracked by thepolice. “The police are now try-ing to lay their hands on the headof the deceased. A couple ofmore accused will be arrestedby the police”, he added.

PI Shirodkar said that accusedJayesh will also be arrested intwo other cases registered atDavorlim village.

Margao blast:NIA opposes

release ofvehicleHERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, FEB 3

The National InvestigationAgency on Thursday stronglyopposed the release of the ve-hicle which was seized by theinvestigating agency in connec-tion with the Margao bomb blastcase.

This is the second time thatan application has been madefor the release of the vehicle,even though the previous ap-plication was rejected by theSouth Goa Sessions court tryingthe case.

Special Public Prosecutor, SB Faria, appearing for the NIA,strongly opposed the applica-tion for the release of the vehi-cle, saying that investigationsin the case are not yet com-plete.

The court will pronounce itsorders in the application at thenext date of hearing on February14.

The court will also pronounceits orders on the framing ofcharges against the two accusedpersons.

Police mull lookout circular on Dudu

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Goa Police is contemplating toissue Lookout Circular (LOC)against Israeli David Driham aliasDudu fearing that he might jumpthe bail.

Police spokesman Superinten-dent of Police (Special Branch)Atmaram Deshpande said thatjumping of bail is not under con-trol of police as Dudu is alreadyindicted and the case will shortlycome up for trial.

“His requirement is more withthe Court…We can initiate pre-cautionary measures to ensurethat he does not leave the country.The investigating officer may issue‘Lookout Circular’ against him sothat he does not cross the bor-ders,” Deshpande told reportershours after Dudu was granted bailby the Narcotic Drugs and Psy-chotropic Substances (NDPS) courton Thursday.

Deshpande said that Dudu willhave to remain present in thecourt as the indictment is alreadyfiled against him and trial will

begin soon.“His presence is also required

for investigating the police-drugmafia nexus, in which suspendedpolice sub inspector Sunil Gudlarwas caught on spy-cam allegedlypushing drugs. In view of freshrevelation made by his sisterAyala and girlfriend Zarina by ex-posing Gudlar, his presence be-fore the new investigationauthority (Central Bureau of In-vestigation) will be required,” hesaid.

Dudu was granted bail on abail bond of Rs 1 lakh and twosureties in like amount. He is or-dered not to interfere with theinvestigation, not to temper withevidence and not to leave thecountry.

Goa police were left red-facedwhen another Israeli drug dealerYaniv Benaim alias Atala, hadjumped the bail in 2010 and es-caped to his country. He washowever arrested by Interpol inPeru but the extradition processto bring him back to Goa is tak-ing time.

Illegal structurein Nagoa will

be demolished,CM tells House

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Chief Minister DigambarKamat, who also holds the TCPportfolio, on Thursday assuredSaligao MLA Dilip Parulekarthat he would call for demoli-tion of an illegal constructionin a low-lying paddy field (Sur-vey No 49) at Nagoa, Bardez.

Assuring Parulekar, the chiefminister said the land wherethe illegality is coming up is atenanted land where no con-struction can be done. “We willsee it is demolished,” he stated.

Calling the attention of theTown and Country Planning De-partment, the Saligao MLA saidthe government has been in-efficient as the Flying Squadconstituted for the purposedidn’t take any action.

Parulekar said the FormI&XIV which earlier had namesof three Goans was now re-placed with names of non-Goans. The Revenue MinisterJose Philip D’Souza earlier as-sured the MLA that he wouldlook into the matter.

The chief minister in hisreply disclosed, “Inspectioncarried out by the TCP Depart-ment on February 1 revealedillegal construction of smalllaterite wall house of dimen-sions 6 x 5.5 sq mts admea-suring around 33 sq mts ofarea and excavation for foun-dation of RCC columns for an-other large structure werenoticed.”

He said the department hadalready lodged a complaintwith the police citing violationof section 17A of TCP Act,1974. The department has alsoinformed the local panchayatand the deputy collector totake action against the illegalconstruction under provisionsof the Goa Panchayat Raj Actand the Land Revenue Code,he stated in his reply.

RP for Satteri, Quepen, Pondato be notified

in AprilHERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Chief Minister Digambar Kamattoday said that the RegionalPlan 2021 for Satteri, Quepenand Ponda will be notified nextmonth.

The RP 2011 for Pernem andCanacona was notified in No-vember.

Kamat said that the TCPBoard has passed the RP forSatteri, Quepen and Ponda, andthese will be notified thismonth.

Besides, he said, the OPDsfor Margao and Ponda havealso been finalized while hisgovernment has asked for Com-prehensive development plansfor Panjim, Mapusa, Ponda andVasco.

He also stated that the Uni-form regulation for panchayats,Municipalities and BDOs arebeing finalized

Anjuna girl rescued

from MumbaiHERALD CORRESPONDENT

CALANGUTE, FEB 3

Anjuna Police on Wednesdayrescued a minor girl from An-juna, who was kidnapped andtaken to Mumbai.

Anjuna Police team led byPSI Anant Gaonkar, Samir Gaunsand Babu M rescued the girl inMumbai and arrested two Biharnatives in connection with thecase.

According to Anjuna Police,the college student was be-friended by Mustaqin Nadaph(21). Nadaph then took the girlto Mumbai on January 31, whileher parents lodged a kidnap-ping case.

Anjuna Police team led byPSI Anant Gaonkar proceededto Mumbai in search of the girland the accused. The team suc-ceeded in nabbing the accusedand the girl, who were stayingwith a relative of the accused,Mehmoob P Alab.

The Anjuna Police team man-aged to nab the accused withthe help of the Daravi PoliceStation.

Anjuna Police returned toGoa on Thursday along withthe accused Mustaqin Nadaphand Mehmoob P Alab (26), bothnatives of Bihar. Nadaphworked as a waiter at a restau-rant in Anjuna, while Alab wasworking in Mumbai. PSI AnantGaonkar is investigating thecase.

HERALD REPORTER

VASCO, FEB 3

Worried parents and teachers of Mata HighSchool, Baina, have requested MormugaoPort Trust (MPT) to extend the time periodto relocate the school till the new infrastruc-ture is created for the school.

The parents have also questioned theschool management's lethargic attitude, stat-ing that it was fully aware that the lease pe-riod had expired in 2002 and yet, nopermanent measures were taken to resolvethe matter.

It may be recalled that a public notice byMPT seeking to relocate one of the oldestMarathi school in port town had generatedconcern among parents and students.

An emergency meeting was convened bythe Parents Teachers Association (PTA) onThursday to deliberate on the issue.

The PTA and all teaching and non-teachingstaff unanimously agreed that school wouldnot be shifted in the new premises until newinfrastructure is created for the school.

“If MPT is so desperate, it should allot itsold hospital, which is lying idle near Bainabeach, for the school premises,” demandedHigh Secondary PTA Chairman Shivaji Sawant.

Most parents regretted the MPT’s moveto publish a notice in media asking the schoolto vacate the premises, claiming that it hadaffected the morale of the students, which

in turn, would reflect on the academic ac-tivities of the students.

“MPT has been asking to pay a rent of Rs3.5 lakh annually if school wants to be runfrom the present premises, despite knowingschool accommodates mostly poor and mid-dle class students,” said Sawant.

He further said that the State governmenthas donated ample of land to MPT, Goa Ship-yard, Railways, Birla, but despite of that,none of these organizations are willing toaccommodate the school.

Sawant assured the students and parentsthat the school will not be shifted until newinfrastructure is created and they should notbe worried of it and should concentrate ontheir studies.

Most parents questioned the lethargic at-titude of the school management as no meas-ures were taken to resolve the issue despiteknowing that the lease period expired in2002.

Primary section PTA Chairman NarayanParsekar questioned as to why the manage-ment was keeping quiet on the issue.

“We will not leave this school, as this isthe only Marathi medium school in Mormu-gao taluka, in which children of paramilitaryforce transferred from Maharashtra are study-ing,” said student Megha Selar.

“Where we will go if this school is shutdown? Is there is any other alternative? Weare literally worried over our future,” saidanother student Sujata Gajdhare.

Baina school seeks time for relocating infrastructure

Mata School students listen to the assurance given by PTA chairman. Photo by M Prabhav

three per cent are three-wheelersand four per cent are light pas-senger goods vehicles.

Similarly around 30,000 ve-hicles exit the city daily, the pro-posal stated adding, the number

of vehicles entering the citywould increase considerably inthe coming years adding pres-sure on the existing infrastruc-ture including the two MandoviBridges.

After the old Mandovi Bridgecollapsed in 1986, new MandoviBridge was built with two lanesfor heavy and light vehicles,whereas, the old Bridge whichwas subsequently re-built is ex-clusively used by light andmedium vehicles.

The proposal was suggestedto the government keeping inmind the heavy rush hours inthe morning and evening.

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HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

After his government camein for severe criticism fromthe Opposition as well asthe ruling legislator, ChiefMinister Digambar Kamattoday ruled out privatisa-tion of any hospital in theState.

Earlier in the day, theHouse was adjourned overthe issue of governmentplans to privatize the Ma-pusa district hospital.

“ Le t me assure theHouse there are no plansto privatise any hospital inthe state,” he assuredadding there were someplans earlier which havenow been shelved.

He said that the govern-ment wants to privatizecertain departments of thehospital to give better serv-ice to the citizens.

“Even for availing thesefacilities the citizens willnot have to pay much asthe government will bearmajor of the costs,” he said.

Mining dumps policy:

Chief Minister said that hisgovernment will formulatea mining dumps policysoon.

“The department willidentify all the miningdumps in the state andprepare a data,” he saidadding “There are somedumps which are aban-doned. If anybody wantsto take the dumps then letthem pay the royalty andtake it.”

“But the person whotakes dumps will have topay full royalty. If nobodytakes it will be taken overby the government andauctioned”.

Kamat also reiteratedthat his government willnot grant any new miningleases in the state.

On the declaration ofnew mining policy, he saidit has been delayed as theCentre will soon pass theMMRD Act.

“Once the MMRD Act ispassed we will soon finalisethe state mining policy,” hesaid.

Under pressure, CM rules out hospital privatisation

Pledges publicaccountability Bill

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat today an-nounced that his government intends tobring in a Public Accountability Bill theassembly for effective delivery of publicservices.

Speaking on the floor of the House,Kamat said that the Bill would be formu-lated on the lines of those in Bihar andMaharashtra.

“Today if we have to streamline admin-istration and bring about an end to cor-ruption then the e-governance and theaccountability is must,” he said.

“The Bill envisages more effective de-livery of public services,” he said.

Further, as the state entered into the50th years into the liberation, Kamat re-iterated his stand that there should beno houses without powers.

“Even houses in the remotest of theplaces in Goa must have power supply,”he said adding if it is not possible due toany issue we will make it possible throughsolar energy,” he said.

“When we are celebrating 50 years ofGoa’s liberation, I want Goa be brighter,”he said.

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

In an endeavour to ease out thetraffic congestion entering thecity, Goa Traffic Department in2007 had proposed to build afour-lane flyover from Mercescircle of the National Highwayconnecting to the old and newMandovi Bridge.

The plan designed by the for-mer traffic superintendent ofpolice Atmaram Deshpande wassubmitted to the Public WorksDepartment chief engineer onMarch 16, 2007.

“A four lane flyover (is pro-posed between) Merces/Chim-bel circle of NH-17 (and) newMandovi Bridge for smoothand efficient movement of traf-fic (on NH-17 between Panjimand Porvorim/Mapusa) withoutgetting caught in the traffic atKTC circle,” reads the two-pageproposal copy tabled on thefloor of the House on Wednes-day.

The four-year old proposal,which is yet to take shape, alsosuggested construction of sliproad or service road for easymaneuvering of vehicles.

The design of a flyover wasaimed at easing the large volumeof traffic which is bound to in-crease with increase in vehicles,

Flyover proposal tabled in House

along the route. According to the traffic depart-

ment data, around 34,500 vehi-cles enter Panjim daily of which60 per cent are two-wheelers,32.5 per cent are four-wheelers,

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Opposition leader Manohar Parrikar todaycriticized the government over the dwin-dling rate of foreign tourist arrivals in thestate.

Bad publicity, killing fees and harassmentby police, dirty and overcrowded beachesis the major reason why the tourist arrivalsis dropping every year, Parrikar said

The former chief minister said that theforeign tourist arrival in the state has re-duced drastically.

“According to the Wall street journal Goa’sshare of foreign tourist has gone even belowBihar,” he said.

He said that the share of foreign touristin Goa has gone down from 4 per cent to2.3 per cent while Bihar’s share has goneup from 2.1 per cent to 4.6 per cent.

He said the increasing crime rate hasadded to Goa’s problems.

“In last 30 months there were 117 mur-ders, 99 rapes in 30 and 77 kidnappingcases,” he stated.

Besides, the high taxes levied on thetourism industry are also adding to prob-lems.

“For the first time in years the occupancyin hotels was only 20 to 30 per cent thisChristmas season,” Parrikar said.

Mining policy:Parrikar demandedthat the govern-ment immediatelyannounce the Min-ing policy for thestate.

He said that themining is rowing apotential seed of vi-olence in a statewhich is otherwise

peaceful.“Mining is degrading the environment

and the government has failed to controlit,” he said.

“If you see in the areas like Sanguem thenoise pollution of trucks is such that thestudents can’t listen to what teacher is say-ing in school,” he said adding “even thereis so much difficulty in driving and the fatalaccidents have been a regular case.”

“The final result of mining is just chaosand confusion,” he stated.

He also criticized the government forclaiming that mining is bringing in revenueto the state.”

“Major of the amount collected in formof taxes goes to the central governmentwhile the environmental damage has to beborne by the state,” he said.

Parrikar flays govt for drop tourist inflowDares Ravi to prove

drug allegations HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Reacting first time after the Home MinisterRavi Naik dragged his name into the drugsscandal, Opposition leader Manohar Parrikartoday said he was ready for any inquiry anddared the government to prove allegationsagainst him.

Naik had alleged that one Roy Fernandescarried out drug trade with backing fromthen chief minister Parrikar.

“One Roy you are talking about was thePA of a former minister and has been con-victed for a murder and presently out onbail and appealed in Supreme Court,” heclarified.

Parrikar said that when the home ministerknows he (Roy) was involved in drugs busi-ness why does he not appeal for withdrawalof his bail.

On allegation against him, Parrikar said,“Put me in jail if you have any evidenceagainst me what is stopping you from doingit. Did I come to you praying for mercy?”

“If you have documents act on it. I chal-lenge you to act if you have evidence I amready for any kind of enquiry,” he said.

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

The Urban Development Min-ister Joaquim Alemao has saida House Committee (HC) willbe appointed to conduct en-quiry into Panjim market scam.The Urban Minister Develop-ment minister made the state-ment on the floor of the Houseduring Question Hour onThursday after the Oppositionmembers attacked him overthe issue.

While Saligao MLA DilipParulekar tabled the questionseeking to know whether therewas any progress made in the

investigation of market scam,Opposition Leader ManoharParrikar also caught the urbandevelopment minister abouthis promises to enquiry intothe market scam.

The urban development min-ister was reminded of his as-surance given during lastsession of the assembly. Hethen offered to conduct an in-dependent enquiry through aretired judge as Oppositionmembers, specifically, Opposi-tion Leader Manohar Parrikarasked the minister if at all heknows the meaning of an in-dependent enquiry. “You had

House panel to probe Panjim market scam

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Rajendra Talak’s latest film ‘OMaria’ came in for much praisein the House on Thursday andthe same set off a debate onsaving Goan identity and theneed for a film institute in theState to nurture young talent.

Moving the congratulatorymotion, Deputy Speaker MauvinGodinho impressed upon a filminstitute for the State which hasbeen successfully hosting theInternational Film Festival ofIndia (IFFI) for six years.

Godinho said the instituteshould be set up to offer dif-ferent courses in film making.Secondly, Konkani films shouldget exemptions and the Gov-ernment should take upon it-self to screen them for somedays, he stated.

The deputy speaker said Goahas abundant talent and one dayhe won’t be surprised if theyhave Gollywood like Hollywoodand Bollywood. He also heapedpraise on Goa’s well-know singerRemo Fernandes whose songs,he said, uplifted the film.

BJP MLA Damu Naik said thefilm portrayed true Goanessence and the message wasland has to be saved at all costfor the people of the State.

Talak’s ‘O Maria’comes in for praise

Power ban on industries tobe lifted soon

HERALD REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

Power Minister Alexio Sequeiratoday announced that the banon release of power to new in-dustries would be lifted soon.

Clarifying to the points madeby the opposition leader, Se-queira said that the ban on re-lease of power was imposed dueto the shortage.

“We have finalized purchaseof 37 mw of power and it is justa matter of few days beforethings come to normal,” he said.

On the menace of plastic, Se-queira who is also the environ-ment minister said that hisdepartment is also on the vergeof solving the issue.

“There are people who liftplastic over a period of time butthere is no facility to dispose it,”he said adding “…now the de-partment of Environment is sign-ing a contract with a companycalled ACC Wadi, which will liftplastic and dispose it.”

HERALD REPORTER

VASCO, FEB 3

Verna Police arrested four col-lege students on charges ofstealing three laptops and threemobile phones from Birla Insti-tute of Science and Technology(BITS), Zuarinagar-Sancoale.

Apparently, BITS is hosting itsannual technical festival ‘Quark’,due to which students fromacross the country and Goa takepart in the festival.

“The four students, KrishnaTalwar, Murya Koli, ShrimantHalgi and Sharfraj Shaikh, hadallegedly gained entry into BITS

People urged to keep away

from vicesHERALD CORRESPONDENT

MAYEM, FEB 3

Dr Harichandra Nagvekar hascalled upon members of theDaivadnya Brahmin communityto remain aloof from all kindsof vices.

He was addressing the gath-ering after inaugurating theDaivadnya Cultural and Food Fes-tival 2011 organized by Sri Ma-hamaya Kalika SwayansevakMandal near Bodgeshwar Tem-ple Mapusa on Saturday evening.

Anandrao Nagvekar, Dr Shiv-anand Verlekar, Vassudev Ped-nekar, Dr Dulari Bandodkar,Eknath Nagvekar, Dee l ipNasnodkar, Prakash Haldankarand Deepti Pednekar were pres-ent on the occasion.

Dr Nagvekar called upon thecommunity to remain aloof fromall kinds of vices, which mayharm the community in assign-ing their role as Daivadnya Brah-mins while shouldering theresponsibility of the nation.

Four students held for stealing laptopscampus pretending to attendthe festival,” said Verna PoliceInspector Jivba Dalvi.

All the four students gainedentry into hostel rooms of thestudents and decamped with3 laptops and 3 mobi le

phones.PI Dalvi along with PIS S

Gawas rounded off the campusand frisked all the students andtraced the stolen electronicitems and three mobile phonesfrom the foursome.

assured in the House twice inthe past to order enquiry,” saidParrikar.

The Opposition Leader alsotold the minister that it wouldnot be easy to find a retiredjudge immediately. “It wouldmonths before a retired judgeis found to take up the job.From where you will get theretired judge, “ he said and de-manded that the ministershould announce House Com-mittee which he said, will con-

clude the enquiry within onemonth.

Earlier the minister informedthe House that of the 100 shopswhich CCP had found closed,37 were sealed. The balanceshops could not be sealed asthey were opened next day andshown to be occupied.

Apparently, a committee ap-pointed under the chairman-ship of Mayor has not donemuch progress and it is yet togive its report.

“But, we have politicians whospeak one thing here and goon to support projects like Ra-heja giving non-Goans freehand on land belonging to lo-cals,” he asserted.

Chief Minister DigambarKamat said ‘O Maria’ was aquality film. He appealed toGoans to take advantage of thefilm financing scheme of theState Government.

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UPcOmiNg EvENTS

A Little About Civics

State GovernmentThere are 28 states and 7Union territories in thecountry. Union Territoriesare administered by thePresident through an Ad-ministrator appointed byhim/her. The state govern-ments closely resemble theIndian government (com-monly referred to as the‘Union’).

District Councils - ZillaParishadZilla Parishad is a localgovernment body at thedistrict level in India. Itlooks after the administra-tion of the rural area ofthe district and its office islocated at the districtheadquarters.

Blocks – Tehsils/Talukas/MandalsA Tehsil is an adminis-trative division of theZilla Parishad. It gov-erns cities, villagesand municipalitieswithin its area, and re-ports ultimately to theDistrict offices. It is theultimate administra-tive office with regardto land records andrelated matters, likedisputes andacquisitions.

Municipal Corporation –Mahanagar PalikaA municipal corporation is

a local govern-ment body thatadministers a cityof population200,000 or more.Although it fallsunder the admin-istration of the

District, the municipal in-teracts directly with thestate government.

Municipality – NagarPalikaA municipality is an ad-ministrative division com-posed of a definedterritory and population;synonymous to a town.Ordinarily, a municipalitywould have 20,000 ormore people, but if it ex-ceeds 500,000 it is consid-

ered a municipalcorporation.

City Council –Nagar PanchayatA City Council is a

smaller form of a Munici-pal Corporation. It is anurban centre with morethan 30,000 and less than100,000 inhabitants. Asthe name would suggest,the Nagar Panchayat is theadministrative body for acity, albeit a smallish one.

Village Gram PanchayatGram Panchayats are localgovernments at the villageor small-town level. Theycan be set up in villageswith minimum populationof 300. Sometimes two ormore villages are clubbedtogether to form group-Gram Panchayats whenthe population of the indi-vidual village is less than300.

WardsThe area under a corpora-tion is further divided intowards. Individual wards orcollections of wardswithin a corporationsometimes have their ownadministrative bodyknown as ward commit-tees.

Government of

India

Above Flow-chart:Administrative Structure

of India

The government of India is modeled on both the UnitedStates federal government and the British parliamentarysystem. Like the US, India has a central government, andsate governments as well. However, the central govern-ment in India has greater power in relation to its states,and its central government is like the British system.

POWER SHUTDOWNFEBRUARY 4

PARRA: Between 9 am to 5 pm. Areas affected are Cancabandh,Khalapwada, Abaswada Canca, Sonarwado, Naikwaddo, FreitaswadoVerla, Vanciowado, Sorvemvaddo, Guirim and surrounding areas.

FEBRUARY 5

PANJIM: Between 9 am to 6 pm. Areas affected are Part of Panajicity, areas around Old Secretariat, Souza towers, Delhi Darbar,Neugi Nagar, People’s High School, PDA, Anna Rita Apartments,Jairam complex, Bhatlem, EDC complex, Patto Plaza, Patto, AzadMaidan, Panjim Residency, Fontainhas, TB Hospital, Shankarwadi,Mala and surrounding areas.

Bro Anil’s retreatPANJIM (HND): Bro Anil of Salvation Ministry will conduct

retreat on February 5 at Emerald Lawns, Parra, from 10.30am to 5.30 pm. The service will stress on healing, deliver-ance, word of knowledge and prophecies. Free bus servicewill be available from Aldona bus stand to Parra via Nachinolaand Moira and from Old Goa at Gandhi circle via Sao Pedro,Ribandar, Panjim and Porvorim. For further information ontransport, cal l 9823055659. For other detai ls cal l9763553575.

CM to open garbage plantPANJIM(HND): Chief Minister Digambar Kamat will inau-

gurate 10 M T Garbage treatment plant at Harvalem, Sankhalion February 5 in the presence of Speaker Pratapsingh Rane,Minister for Urban Development Joaquim Alemao, Ministerfor Health Vishwajeet Rane and MLA Pale ConstituencyPratap Gawas. The function will be held at Harvalem at3.30 pm. Ashok Kumar Acharya, Secretary for Urban Devel-opment, Anand Naik, Chairperson of Sankhali MunicipalCouncil, and Bhanudas Naik, Chief Officer and other Coun-cillors will grace the function.

Workshops on gardeningPANJIM (HND): Ashok Dande a specialist in landscaping,

rock gardens with over 60 yrs in various aspects of gardeningwill present two workshops on Organic Kitchen Gardens, Com-posting, Liquid Manures and Soil Fertility on February 4 and5 at Dande Gardens, Nagali, Taleigao, Panjim, From 10 am to6 pm, with break from 1 pm to 2 pm. For details and registrationcall 2464839 or 9822589738.

Meet at Passport officePANJIM (HND); Passport office, Panjim will hold a Passport

Adalat on February 5, from 10 am to 1.15 pm. The adalatwill be held at passport office, Passport Bhavan, Patto Plaza,Panjim. Applicants who have applied for passport and inwhich clear police report is received, but still pending formore than 30 days, are advised to register their publicgrievances in writing with the passport officer or throughemail: rpo.panaji@mea.gov.in. The applicants are furtheradvised to be present at passport office on the above saiddate with all original documents.

Course in clinical hypnosisPANJIM (HND): A basic course in integrated clinical hyp-

nosis will be conducted from February 18 to 20 at Margaofrom 9 am to 6 pm. The course is certified by ‘CaliforniaHypnosis Institute of India’ the only ISO certified Hyp-notherapy Institute of India and will be facilitated by LeonaFernandes, a psychologist and integrated clinical hypnother-apist. The course fees are Rs 6000 inclusive of meals andmaterials. Those who are 18 and above may register. Fordetails call 9823812611/ 9960431362/9960806655.

Br Michael’s retreat at MapusaPANJIM(HND): Br Michael Fernandes of Karuna Sadan

Ministries will be conducting a retreat in Hindi and Englishat Sirsat Lodge hall, Mapusa on February 5, between 10 amto 2 pm.

Naik honoured

PANjim(HND): Anil S Naik ofBharat Petroleum CorporationLtd has been congratulated bythe Corporation for having com-pleted thirty years of service withthe Corporation. He was alsobeen issued a certificate of ap-preciation for his three decadesof service which has been highlyappreciated by the corporation.

HERALD CORRESPONDENTPORVORIM, FEB 3

Panic gripped passengers on aferry along the Betim-Panjimroute, after water gushed intothe ferry reportedly due to over-loading of passengers and ve-hicles at Betim on Thursdaymorning.

According to reports, watergushed into the flat-bottomedferry 'Miramar' due to overload-ing of passengers and two-wheelers.

Trouble began when thelarger-sized (six-car capacity)‘Pernem’ ferry, which was plyingalong the route, developedsome technical problem onWednesday evening.

The River Navigation Depart-ment (RND) withdrew the ferryfrom the route and sent it forrepairs at its workshop at Betim.

The RND dispatched a smallerfour-car capacity medium ferry‘Miramar’ as a stop-gap arrange-ment along the Betim-Panjimroute.

Due to heavy rush of passen-gers and two-wheelers in thepeak hours on Thursday, watergushed into the ferry. RND staffhad to request passengers to

Passengers panic as water enters Betim-Panjim ferry

The overloaded ferry plying along the Betim-Panjim ferry route. Photo by Anil Shankhwalker

disembark from the ferry.There was commotion at the

ferry point, as none of the pas-sengers or the two-wheeler rid-ers were ready to disembark.The RND officials rushed to thespot and brought the situationunder the control.

The RND deputed its staff atthe Betim side and disallowedthe two-wheelers in the ferry.In the afternoon, limited num-ber of two-wheelers was per-mitted in the ferry.

When contacted, RND offi-cials informed that repairs ofthe ‘Pernem’ ferry is going onwar footing and that, the 'Mira-mar' ferry will be replaced withthe 'Pernem' ferry by late Thurs-day evening.

It may be recalled that mostpeople residing in Betim-VeremIt and adjoining villages regu-larly travel to and from Panjimby ferry services to avoid thelonger route via the Mandovibridge.

One convictedguilty for theft

attempt on bankBY HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, FEB 3

The South Goa Sessions Courton Thursday held guilty oneRobert Moraes, a resident ofCuncolim, in connection withthe attempt to commit robberyin the Margao branch of StateBank of Mysore.

The court, however, acquittedthe accused of the charges ofattempt to murder, but held himguilty under section 394 and398 of the IPC and under section5 and 25 of the Arms Act. Theaccused will now be heard onthe points of sentence.

The prosecution case was thatthe accused on August 4, 2005effected entry into the Margaobranch of the state bank ofMysore at 3.30 pm with an illegalrevolver with his face coveredwith mask and threatened thebank staff at gun point and at-tempt to commit robbery of cash.

The police further alleged thatthe accused fire two rounds fromhis revolver towards the bankmanager and attempted to killhim and further assaulted thebank cashier Agnelo Mendes byhitting the revolver on his face.

Public prosecutor BhanudasGaonkar appeared for the pros-ecution in this case.

HERALD CORRESPONDENTCALANGUTE, FEB 3

Residents of Nagoa-Arpora vir-tually forced their sarpanch todemolish an illegal structure inthe low-lying areas at RautaVaddo, Nagoa-Arpora on Thurs-day.

Sarpanch Agnelo D’Souzatook the drastic step followinga site inspection fixed as perthe demands of the villagers onThursday.

A large number of villagershad gathered at the site, wherea prayer house was being re-portedly constructed by un-known persons ostensibly withthe blessing of politicians.

However, timely action by vil-

Nagoa-Arpora Sarpanch forced to demolish illegal structure

lagers temporarily forced thedevelopers to rethink on the il-legal construction, which hadno permission, either from gov-ernment departments or thelocal panchayat.

However, the villagers do notrule out the possibility of theblessing of politicians in helpingthe unknown persons in theirillegal activity.

The villagers have also de-manded immediate removal ofthe columns, which have beenput at ground level, to stop fur-ther construction activity at thesite.

The sarpanch promised notto permit any illegal construc-tions in the village.

Over 300 agitated villagerspulled up Sarpanch D’Souza,Panchas Agostinho D’Souza andAsha R Palyekar for the gross ir-regularities and for not issuingstop work order for the illegalconstruction.

Panch Mahesh Korgaonkarand Secretary Krishnakant Gov-ekar were also present at thesite. Surprisingly, no other panchmember was present for the siteinspection.

The villagers in the presenceof the sarpanch demolished thealleged pump structure bybreaking the glasses and laterdemolished the illegal construc-tion of columns in the paddy.But they were stopped by An-juna PSI Chodankar from takinglaw in their own hands.

The villagers relented, butasked the sarpanch to expeditethe demolition of the structure.

Speaking to media, Sarpanch

D’Souza said: “The constructionis totally illegal, as it is beingdone in low-lying paddy fieldareas, where no conversion ofwhatsoever is possible.”

“The Panchayat has not givenany permission for the construc-tion in the paddy and it is en-tirely illegal,” he said addingthat he will not allow any Masjidto come up in his area.

Addressing media, Saligao ZPmember Michael Lobo statedthat the panchayat did not han-dle the issue seriously, as theyfailed to issue any stop workorder for the illegal construc-tion.

“No construction is possiblewithout the knowledge of thepanchayat thus squarely layingthe blame on the local body.The panchayat also failed tobring the illegal matter to thenotice of Anjuna Police,” saidLobo.

“The Flying Squad comprisingDeputy Collector (North) alsofailed to initiate prompt actionin the matter. Though they wereaware of the illegal constructionas per the site inspection onJanuary 4, 2011, surprisinglythere is no further communica-tion in the matter which goesto prove that the ‘Flying Squad’is a ‘Dormant Squad’,” allegedLobo.

“I urge upon the governmentto impress upon the Deputy Col-lector to immediately issue anorder for removal of the 40-oddcolumns to put an end to thefears of the villagers and avoidany untoward incident in thenear future,” warned Lobo.

HERALD CORRESPONDENTSANGUEM, FEB 3

Residents of Novo Waddo,Uguem-Sanguem, have opposedinstallation of a mobile towerin the residential area for whichthe panchayat have reportedlygiven ‘No Objection’ withouttaking the villagers into confi-dence.

According to sources, sincethe recent past, Uguem Pan-chayat is on a ‘No Objection’giving spree, as several NOC’sare allegedly given for pollutingunits without consulting the vil-lagers or discussing the matterat the gram sabhas.

The NOC’s clandestinely is-sued also involves basalt quar-ries within the panchayat area.The recent NOC’ being given isto the mobile tower in the res-idential area which the villagersstrongly oppose.

Incidentally, all the NOC’s aregiven by the deputy sarpanchwho is acting as sarpanch sincethe ouster of Sarpanch Mad-dhevi Shiddikar.

It may be recalled that thoughthe post of sarpanch at UguemPanchayat is reser ved forwoman, the male members aredenying the women panchasfrom holding the post as themale members are in majority.

Residents of Novo Waddo bit-terly complained of the effi-c i ency o f the panchaya tmembers and called for imme-diate revocation of the NOC is-sued to the company.

The residents have also de-manded stoppage of the con-

struction work of the tower tillthe time the matter is taken upat the gram sabha.

The villagers pointed out var-ious health hazard caused bythe deadly electro magnetic ra-diations emanated from the mo-bile towers, which directly affectthe human brain.

Moreover, the residents havealso feared of cancer diseasespreading in the area if thetower is permitted in the resi-dential locality.

A memorandum objecting theconstruction of the tower andimmediate stoppage of con-struction work of the tower willbe handed over to the authori-ties on February 3, informed avillager.

Sanguem residents oppose mobile tower in residential area

n According tosources, sincethe recent past,Uguem Panchayatis on a ‘NoObjection’ givingspree, as severalNOC’s areallegedly givenfor polluting unitswithoutconsulting thevillagers ordiscussing thematter at thegram sabhas.

n Over 300 agitated villagers pulled upSarpanch D’Souza, Panchas AgostinhoD’Souza and Asha R Palyekar for the grossirregularities and for not issuing stop workorder for the illegal construction.

Colva Sarpanch voted out

BY HERALD REPORTERMARGAO, FEB 3

Colva Sarpanch Angela Borgeswas on Thursday voted out ofoffice in a no confidence motion.

At a special meeting, the notrust motion tabled against theSarpanch was carried by 5-3votes after a brief discussion.The ouster of the Colva sarpanchis an indication of the realign-ment of political forces in thiscoastal village. It is an open se-cret that Angela Borges was aclose aide of the Benaulim MLAand former Tourism Minister,Mickky Pacheco.

Salcete Block DevelopmentOfficer, Uday Prabhudesai saidthat the deputy Sarpanch An-thony Fernandes is now holdingthe charge of Sarpanch.

HERALD CORRESPONDENTSANGUEM, FEB 3

The members of Kurdi WademFarmer’s Club on Thursday leda delegation to the office of Ex-ecutive Engineer (WRD) at Paji-mol-Sanguem to apprise him ofproblems faced by the agricul-turists in Wadem due to majorbreakdown in the pipeline sup-plying water to agriculturalplots.

The delegation was led byFranc i s co D’Cos ta , Rov i lGaonkar, Shrikant Gaonkar,Francs i co D’Cos ta , SonuGaonkar, Gokuldas Gaonkar,Joseph Cardozo and Caitano Fer-nandes.

The delegation informed theofficials that despite havinggiven a notice some four monthsago to the department to repairthe pipeline for regular and un-interrupted supply of agricul-tural water to the sugarcaneplantation, the officials havefailed to pay heed to the vil-lagers request.

The members produced tothe officials the video clippingsof the pipeline showing thedamaged portions at several

places and how it affects thesupply of water to the agricul-turists.

The members informed thatthe worst hit are the agricultur-ists having their plots in andaround Ganvliwadda ward,where the pipeline is damagedbadly.

“Due to irregular supply ofagricultural water, the farmersare facing huge losses on ac-count of low production andbad quality of crop,” Joseph Car-dozo told Herald.

Immediately after the dele-gation, the WRD officials com-prising Assistant Engineer Bakrevisited the affected site inWadem and conducted inspec-tion for taking immediate re-medial measures to regulate thesupply of agricultural water tothe village.

After the site inspection, theofficials assured the farmers ofrepairing the damaged portionof the pipeline within eight days.The farmers have howeverthreatened to agitate further ifthe department fails in repairingthe pipeline within the givendeadline.

Farmers panel wantswater supply restored to

Wadem agriculturists

HERALD REPORTERVASCO, FEB 3

Growing resentment amongKhariwado residents due tolikely demolition of structureshas forced Vasco police to pro-vide security to Mormugao Mu-nicipal Council (MMC) ChiefOfficer Gopal Parsekar.

Vasco Police Inspector BrazMenezes on Thursday deployedtwo police constables outsidethe chief officer’s office overMMC’ request that due to grow-ing resentment among the peo-ple of Khariwado, there is apossibility that Parsekar couldbe at the receiving end.

It may be recalled that fisher-men from Khariwado had con-fronted Parsekar and used abusivelanguage in his office over MMC’slethargic attitude to present factsin the High Court during the hear-ing for writ petition.

However, the council had sum-moned police on January 31 whenover 50-odd fishermen barged inhis office and confronted Parsekar.

Security cover forMorgmugao Council CO

As demolition issue is at thecentre stage, the officer hassought police force during officehours to avoid further chaos.

HERALD CORRESPONDENTCALANGUTE, FEB 3

Parra Sarpanch Benedict D’Souzahas criticised the North Goa ZillaParishad members for their de-mands of parity with the electedmembers of the Legislative As-sembly.

In a press release, D’Souzaquestioned the motives of theNorth Goa Zilla Parishad mem-bers on their unjust demands ofparity with the elected membersof the Legislative Assembly.

“The ZP members were wellaware of the status of the ZPmembers before the electionsand should have not contestedthe elections if they were un-happy with the schemes andperks extended to them,” hesaid.

“Why do they make a bigissue now after winning the elec-tions? Are they for social serviceor for monetary benefits forthemselves,” questioned D’-Souza.

“I do not understand the mo-tive of the ZP members in de-manding schemes on par withMLAs or increase in honorarium,that too a whopping Rs 15,000

per month when they are hardlydoing any work,” opined D’-Souza.

“In fact, panchayat membersare doing much more work ascompared to the ZP members,”claimed the sarpanch.

“Why do the ZP memberswant the government to extendinterest-free loans to them, topart with the electorate duringelections,” asked D’Souza.

D’Souza has called upon ChiefMinister Digambar Kamat notto consider the "unrealistic" de-mands of the North Goa ZillaParishad, as they were wellaware of the benefits or schemesavailable under the Zilla Pan-chayat and not to waste publicmoney.

NGZP members demand for parity with

MLAs draws criticismnWhy do they makea big issue nowafter winning theelections? Arethey for socialservice or formonetary benefitsfor themselves.

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Officials inspecthill cutting at Assolda

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

QUEPEM, FEB 3

A team of high-ranking govern-ment officials on Tuesday in-spected the rampant hill-cuttingactivity at Hodar-Assolda.

Acting on complaints fromresidents of Xeldem and As-solda, Quepem Deputy CollectorAgnelo Fernandes, ExecutiveMagistrate Quepem Sudin Natoand Deputy Town PlannerPrakash Bandodkar visited thesite and confirmed that a por-tion of a hill had been cut todevelop a plot. Bandodkar andhis assistant later took meas-urements of the hill cut.

Two residents of Xeldem, JohnTravasso and Abay Dessai, whoaccompanied the the inspectionteam, alleged that the hill cut-ting at Hodar had gone on de-spite a stop order issued by thenSDM Prashant Shirodkar in 2009.

The two residents allegedthat some government officialswere silent on the illegality andwere reluctant to take actionagainst those involved in thehill-cutting activities.

Incidentally, the inspectionteam that visited the siteclaimed that most houses onthe foot of the Hodar hillockwere illegal.

PWD disconnectsillegal water

supply at AnjunaHERALD CORRESPONDENT

CALANGUTE, FEB 3

The Public Works Departmentcancelled the water supply con-nection provided to a non-ex-isting house at Sorantto-Anjunaon Tuesday.

This was necessiated follow-ing a startling revelation by agram sabha member PradeepHarmalkar of Anjuna-Caisua pan-chayat at the recent gram sabha.

The revelation also brought tothe fore the illegalities undertakenby the PWD while the commonpeople struggle to have a genuinewater supply connection.

It may recalled that the An-juna-Caisua Gram Sabha had de-liberated on the illegal waterconnec t ion to P ra sad SChimulkar at Sorantto-Anjunafor a non-existing house or hutwhile the Panchayat body hadfailed to give any reply to themembers startling revelation.

Fresh pollsordered for

Cortalimcommunidade

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

CORTALIM, FEB 3

In a significant judgement, theAdministrative Tribunal has setaside the elections of the Pres-ident of Cortalim communidadefor the triennium 2009-12.

In his order, the AdditionalPresident of the Tribunal di-rected the Administrator ofCommunidades, South to con-vene the General Body of theCommunidade of Cortalim, com-ply with the provisions of lawand hold fresh elections.

It may be recalled that elec-tions were marred by protestsafter a section of shareholderscontended that the process ofthe election to the post of thePresident were vitiated since itwas not held as per the laiddown norms in the code of com-munidade.

The election to the post ofthe Treasurer and Attorney wasthereafter canceled and the elec-tions were called off.

Elisbao Vaz and SalvadorMenezes were the petitionersin the suit.

Cansaulim p’yat to elect

new sarpanchHERALD CORRESPONDENT

CORTALIM, FEB 3

The Cansaulim-Arrosim-CuelimPanchayat will elect a newsarpanch on February 4.

The elections is necessitatedfollowing the resignation of JoseManuel as sarpanch as per theunderstanding reached to rotatethe post which is likely to beoccupied by Minguel D’Costafor the remaining tenure.

Pledging support, oppositionpanch and former sarpanchMartha Saldanha gave her back-ing to the ruling group and saidthat the panchayat was united.

“Unity is the need of the hourif the panchayat has to do somedevelopment in the village,” Sal-danha said.

Cansaulim-Arrosim-CuelimPanchayat is perhaps the onlypanchayat in the constituencywhich is not in good terms withthe local ML A and DeputySpeaker Mauvin Godinho.

Instil common senseJustin Fernandes, Panjim/UK

I totally agree on your views on nationalhighways, as you have clearly mentionedthat the road widening should be restrictedto 35 metres. Enforcing this limit wouldsave more houses and the common manwill heave a sigh of relief. Fear stalks peo-ple’s minds as the rich have bribed theNHAI and PWD officials, to save their megahouses.

The NGOs and the opposition shouldsupport and help the poor and vulnerablepeople. If the NH comes out with a 45 or60 metre road width, the consequenceswill be disastrous. We need highways butnot at the cost of the common people.

May God come to our rescue and instilsome common sense in the minds on ourelected babus.

Ordinary toilets would doP L Fernandes, Old Goa

Our CM inaugurated an air-conditionedtoilet in Margao and extricated himselffrom criticism by saying that he only inau-gurated something which was already sanc-tioned and built, with contribution fromSulabh, aimed at providing world classservice.

I request him to built Sulabh toilets forpeople and visitors to Panjim, who some-times have to answer nature’s call in theopen at the new Patto Plaza and aroundthe area of Sesa Goa and Dept of Tourism.

Toilets need not be air-conditioned butshould be plain, clean and hygienic.

Fares by meterNelson Lopes, Chinchinim

The exorbitant fares charged by taxis, rick-shaws, and motor cycle pilots; over seem-ingly small distances is a tourist’s nightmare.However, fitting of a fare meter would solvethe problem.

But when the proposal for its implemen-tation comes up, the same is shelved forsome reason or the other. If the cost is aninhibiting factor, then the government caneither provide a subsidy or a loan.

Goa being a popular tourist destination,the high fares charged leave bad memoriesof an otherwise pleasant and memorablevisit.

State assembly sessionPachu Menon, Margao

If the proceedings at the on-going sessionof the state assembly are anything go by,a few legislators seem to be keen on jus-tifying their standing as the peoples’ rep-resentatives.

A few ruling faction members who camedown heavily against the government, areex ministers who have been stripped offtheir portfolios. They obviously want toprove that the ministers who were singledout, fared no better.

A healthy opposition is seen hauling thegovernment over the coals for its various

acts of omissions and commissions. Thesituation here in Goa is one notch better!With some members from the ruling partytaking up a defiant stance, the opposition’stask becomes easier. If the same legislatorswere noble in their intentions for Goanwelfare, we could not have asked for a bet-ter representation in the state assembly.

Rock solid sans principlesS N D Poojary, Miramar

The Raja of Telecommunications was finallyarrested by the CBI. The central governmentdid everything to cover-up the money trail.

The present CVC, P J Thomas, when hewas in the telecom ministry, put out athesis that the CAG could not inquire intothe allocation of spectrum, because it cameunder the domain of policy matters, whichthe CAG was not empowered to look into.

However, thanks to the intervention ofthe judiciary and the media, the reluctantcentral government was forced to act.

But still the Congress and the DMK main-tain that their alliance would not be af-fected.

It is true; in India, is there any rulingcombination that has broken up to upholda principle, if there is one?

Inflation deflates aam admiAllwyn George, Carmona

Inflation puts a severe burden on the com-

mon man, (aam admi) as his salaries arefixed and are not increased, when ratesare on a high. Inflation leads to a hike inbank interest rates.

It is a welcome step as bank depositsbecome attractive for investors, especiallythe common man, who likes investmentwith guaranteed returns.

But banks get crippled as NPAs soar.Higher interest rates leads to expensivehome and car loans and EMIs go up, which,again, is bad news for the common man. Tackling inflation has been the bane ofevery government and a tool for the op-position.

After petrol, it is only a matter of timewhen prices of diesel and LPG are deregu-lated, and inflation will continue its forwardmarch upwards.

Guv’s illusionArwin Mesquita, UAE

The recent speech by Goa’s Governor high-lighted the “Positive” state of affairs in thestate as illusionary. This is in sharp contrastto the actual situation.

Goa is in crisis, with respect to so manycritical issues like that of its identity andGoans being reduced into a minority, de-structive development, drug menace, Re-gional plan 2021 conspiracy and what haveyou. Somehow these issues do not appearto concern the Governor.

Therefore, are his views based on his

comfort in the Raj Bhavan complex, or dothey pertain to Goa?

Play constructive footballAnthony Ferrao, Colvale

The grievances forwarded by seven Bardezclubs against Saligao United’s inclusion inthe IInd division League has been well re-sponded by vice-president Lavinio Rebello.

Promoting a additional team for an un-derstandable reason, to IInd division, lieswith the elected GFA members. The par-ticipating team’s obligation is to play con-structive football, and not question anelected body’s decision.

f you don’t like a team, defeat them inthe league matches, and get them demoted.

In such a situation, having 35 teams inBardez IIIrd division, would put the rea-sonable strength of IInd division teams to12.

To add interest to the competition, achance should be given to at least 3 teamsfrom the 35 teams to get promoted.

Every year, two IInd division teamsshould be demoted to IIIrd division andthe 3rd last team of IInd division shouldgo in for a play-off to stay in IInd Division.

Multifaceted GoaAngela Ferrao, Siolim

When I come to Goa, it is to live with myfamily at home in our village where we allgrew up. But there is another Goa; wherethe party and the booze never stops.

I have read many letters in your paper,written by a few foreigners regarding their‘contribution’ to our state.

I have a message for them: Wake up andlook around. You are in a country with overa billion people. How does your presenceor absence make any dent?

Christine Russon’s statement in Heraldof 2 February is correct: It is a privilege,not a right, to visit another country. I haveobserved the arrogance of some whitetourists. Walking shirtless is not an Indianthing.

I urge decent people to speak out againstthis unhygienic and indecent behaviour. IfI have offended anyone, it shows that thesepeople are indeed living in a fool’s paradise,not Goa.

Our country has been hit by an unprecedentedspate of scams in recent months, each morescandalous than the other, that involves ever

increasing sums of money. The media has beenworking overtime in its quest for “breaking news”in hot pursuit of the so-called political leaders al-legedly involved in these rip-offs. On many an oc-casion, the journalists attempts to question themhas met with a standard retort “the matter is sub-judice, so I cannot answer” thereby ducking thequestion. Prominent among those using this linerecently, have been A Raja and S Kalmadi. One cannothelp but wonder what manner of legal succour theterm “sub-judice” provides to be used, so liberallyand conveniently, with the sole purpose of evadingembarrassing questions from the media. The term“sub-judice” literally means “under a judge” or“under consideration of a judge or court”. Section10 of the Civil Procedure Code deals with the “Doc-trine of Res Sub-Judice”.It provides that no court shallproceed with the trial of any suit, in which the matterin issue is also directly and substantially in issue in apreviously instituting suit between the same partieswhere such suit is pending in the same or any othercourt in India. However, a pending suit in a foreign courtdoesn’t bar the courts in India, from trying a suit foundedon the same cause of action.

For the application of the doctrine of Res Sub-judice,the following conditions must be satisfied: 1. A previ-ously instituted suit is pending in a Court. 2. The matterin issue in second suit is also directly and substantiallythe same as in the previous suit. 3. The previously in-stituted suit is still pending in same court or any othercourt in India. 4. The parties in two suits are same. 5.The court in which previous suit is pending has the ju-risdiction to try such suit.

Section 10 is enacted to prevent courts of concurrentjurisdiction from simultaneously trying two parallelsuits in respect of the same matter in issue.

Section 11 deals with a somewhat similar soundingterm “Res Judicata” which states that no court shalltry any suit or issue in which the matter directlyand substantially in issue, has been directly andsubstantially in issue in a former suit, betweenthe same parties, or between the parties underwhom they or any of them claim, litigating underthe same title, in a competent court to try such

subsequent suit or the suit or the suit in whichsuch issue has been subsequently raised, and hasbeen heard and finally decided by such court.Neither of these terms even remotely resemblesthe context in which they are used by our so-called leaders, who invoke a gag order on anymatter, which is in court. Is this rational or is ita ploy, to evade awkward questions?

In many countries, including India, it was con-sidered inappropriate to enter into an extensivepublic debate on a matter that is in court. The prac-tice has been abandoned in most countries; however,its origin is interesting. In countries where thejudicial process operates by the jury system, it wasbelieved that members of the jury selected fromthe lay public would be unduly influenced by publicdebate, rather than by evidence presented in court.Therefore, juries are often sequestered during trial.India follows the bench system; and the learnedjudges who are custodians of our laws, are appointedon the basis of their learning, wisdom and experi-ence. To suggest that they can be so influenced isto cast aspersions on their capabilities. Courts inrelation to petitions under the RTI, have already ruledthat “In so far as the matter being sub-judice is con-cerned, this Commission has, time and again, held

that a matter being under sub-judice, is not a groundto deny the information, unless covered under anyother exempted provisions of the RTI Act.” In yetanother ruling, “The RTI Act provides no exemptionfrom disclosure requirement for sub-judice matters.The only exemption in sub-judice matter is regardingwhat has been expressly forbidden from disclosure,by a court or a tribunal, and what may constitutecontempt of court: Section 8(1) (b).”

Even in regard to the matter where the prosecu-tion is still continuing, the Central Public InformationOfficer can provide the information subject to pro-visions of Section 10(1) of the Right to InformationAct, 2005 by applying the doctrine of severability.The speakers of the Lok Sabha and the Gujarat as-sembly are on record on different occasions, as hav-ing permitted debates in matters that are sub judice.With regards to media coverage, the Delhi HighCourt has ruled that writing about a sub-judice mat-ter, does not amount to trial by media, and it shouldnot be restrained.

The concern appears to be that in answeringquestions on a matter, that is sub judice, the in-dividual may be slapped with a contempt of courtorder. It is rather amusing to see that someonewho is accused of pilfering thousands of crores

of rupees, is so concerned about contempt. How-ever, this being the general concept, it is worthhaving a closer look.

1. Civil Contempt: Under Section 2(b) of the Con-tempt of Courts Act of 1971, civil contempt hasbeen defined as willful disobedience to any judg-ment, decree, direction, order, writ or other processof a court or willful breach of an undertaking givento a court.

2. Criminal Contempt: Under Section 2(c) of theContempt of Courts Act of 1971, criminal contempthas been defined as the publication (whether bywords, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visiblerepresentation, or otherwise) of any matter, or thedoing of any other act whatsoever which:

(i) Scandalises or tends to scandalise, or lowersor tends to lower the authority of, any court, or(ii) Prejudices, or interferes or tends to interferewith the due course of any judicial proceeding,or(iii) Interferes or tends to interfere with, or ob-structs or tends to obstruct, the administrationo f j u s t i ce i n any o the r manner.(a) ‘High Court’ means the high court for a stateor a union territory and includes the court of thejudicial commissioner in any union territory. Be-cause various judicial rulings appeared to goagainst the spirit of these definitions, the Con-stitution Commission (NCRWC) reviewed the sit-uation and as a result, the Contempt of Court(Amendment) Bill 2004 was passed by the LokSabha in 2006 whereby the court may permit inany contempt proceedings “justification by truthas a valid defense if it is in public interest andthe request for invoking it is bona fide.”

Mr Justice G N Ray in a highly elucidative lectureon August 31, 2008 summed it up as “Most publicmatters before judges are simply ‘in court’, andnot necessarily sub-judice to the extent that voic-ing one’s views about them publicly would meritcontempt charges”. Whilst criticising a learnedjudges’ competence, knowledge or integrity wouldsurely invite contempt proceedings, the merepublic discussion of a matter need not.

So, the next time a politician ducks a questionusing the sub judice excuse, feel free to tell himthat he is talking hogwash. (The author is a Member,NEC, Voluntary Health Association of India.)

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Writing about a sub-judice matter, does not amount to trial by media, says DR GLADSToNE A D’coSTA

OHERALDO

OHERALDO

4 February 1911New administrative codeIt is awaited by the mid of the currentmonth the new administrative code whichreports in maintaining the provisionaltitle in the actual administrative division.Earlier the Code did away, in total, themunicipal tutelage with the exception ofMunicipal loans.

New institution formedA new Institution denominated as ‘0 Con-selho de Provincia’ is being launched inGoa which comprises of delegates fromall the Municipal bodies which will besupervised by some higher authoritiesin regards to works in their respectivedistricts.

Reverend meets MinisterRight Reverend Monsignor Elviro dos San-tos, President of the Portuguese ParishClergy met the Minister of Justice to pleadwith him to appoint one secretary so thathe could present before him any sugges-tions forwarded by various Parishes inregards to separation of Church from theState.

Sub-judice or subterfuge

No EScApE

Goan MafiosiBreakfast of Champions

Do we use the word ‘mafia’ very loosely? I ask because ofthe number of times I read it in newspapers and magazinesnowadays. In my youth, the word was hardly ever used. It

probably caught on first with the book and then the movie; ‘TheGodfather’. There you had Don Corleone making offers that noone could refuse.

Initially, I associated the mafia with Italians in the US. But Hol-lywood notoriously labels and stereotypes anyone and everyone.Only much later I realised that Italians were mostly victims of themafia, which was overwhelmingly Sicilian, with their ‘la CosaNostra’ and their ‘Omerta’.

One associated the mafia in America with moonshine, gambling,prostitution, protection rackets, contract killing, vote rigging andassorted strong-arm tactics. It was only after the US InternalRevenue Service started nailing the Dons that lawyers and charteredaccountants moved in, and revolvers and sub-machine guns slowlygave way to profit-and-loss statements and spreadsheets.

In the Bombay of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, there used to be asmuggling mafia controlled by Dons like Haji Mastan, Yusuf Patel,Karim Lala and a few minor Khans. Those were the days of foreignpant pieces, perfumes, electronic goods and, of all things, razorblades. But the top spot was always held by gold. Import of theseitems was banned. It helped generate huge amounts of blackmoney, as white collar disposable income found its way into Swiss

Banks via the godfathers, bureaucrats, customs officers, and allthe others in the bribery chain.

Closer to home, during the 18 years I lived in Anjuna andCalangute, I saw tourism take off. The builder lobby came ridingpiggyback on tourism. Hotels and resorts soon gave-way to rent-backs. That’s when the construction industry was taken over bythe mafia. The small and medium Goan builders, commissionagents and land grabbers have now been swallowed by the Bombaybuilder and the Delhi scamster.

On the seaward side, small-time Goan goons with panchayatpatronage became mini-mafias, with rooms for prostitution andshacks for drugs, with help from taxi drivers and the men-in-uniform. Now they too are being marginalised by mega-mafiasfrom other parts of India; even neighbouring Nepal, Bangladesh,Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir… Even foreigners are moving in –Russians, Brits, Germans, Israelis, Swiss, Estonians, Ukrainians,Nigerians…

In quiet places like Arambol, Morjim, Keri and Palolem, foreignershave established their own enclaves complete with their ownlingua franca on menus, signboards and posters, as if they have‘Most Favoured Nation’ status.

All this was predicted almost two decades ago by Dr NandakumarKamat. Unfortunately, a prophet is never honoured in his ownbailiwick. Or, as my mercenary mate would say, “What does it

profit a man if he cannot leverage his own prophecy for financialgain?” Some even ridiculed the good ‘dotor’ by calling him aprophet of doom. Others labelled him as an agent of the tourismlobby in South East Asia!

In our quest for development and modernity, we Goans havecome a long way. We now have an iron-ore mining mafia, a sandand quarrying mafia, a drug mafia (but no drugs in Goa), an illegalpisciculture mafia, a gambling mafia, an international sex-trademafia, a scrap mafia, an electricity-stealing mafia and a water mafia.

But, instead of targeting these mafias, our government is goingafter NGOs and citizens’ groups that are raising their voices againstthese mafias, which can overwhelm civil society as we know it.These issues have been identified by the good ‘dotor’, who is trulya son of the Goan soil.

At least now let us wake up to the latest mafia he has identified– the ‘Hydrocarbon Mafia’. In his own words: “Goa is a central op-erations theatre, a secure mini-hub for interstate mafias dealingwith industrial alcohol and petroleum hydrocarbons. The GoanHydrocarbon Mafia has regional and national links, with a sizeablenumber of Nepalese and Bangladeshis – the international linksare yet to be discovered. The regional links cover the entire areabetween Silvassa and New Mangalore Port…”

When Goa is the smallest state in India, we must ask ourselveswhy we are so big when it comes to mafias.

Repayment of DebtBy Samir Khan

Abu Saied al-Khudri (may Allah bepleased with him) says that a deadbody was brought to the Prophet forfuneral service.

The Holy Prophet (peace and bless-ings of Allah be to him) asked if thedeceased was indebted and on gettingan affirmative reply he asked if he hadleft any property from which the debtcould be cleared and was told that hehad not.

The Prophet then asked others tosay the prayer (saying he would notdo it).

Ali, on realising the situation, cameforward and said that he would takethe responsibility of paying the deadman’s debt, whereupon the Prophetadvanced and conducted the funeralservice and said (as another reportsays),

“O Ali, may God save you from fireand grant you forgiveness as you re-lieved your Muslim brother.

Any Muslim who pays the debt ofanother Muslim is assured of indul-gence on the Day of Reckoning.”

(Sharhus Sunnah)

The Hadîth underlines the impor-tance of clearing the debt.

Even the man who has sacrificedhis life in the way of God, if he departswithout paying his debt, will not beforgiven as it concerns the rights offellow beings.

Unless the creditor forgives him,God will not.

If anyone died and had a mind torepay the debt but could not, then onthe Day of Judgement God will callthe creditor and ask him to forgo andgive him the boons of Paradise insteadand then the creditor will forgo.

But if despite being in a position topay, did not pay or got the creditor toforgo his claim then he cannot be for-given on the Day of Judgement.

Paths of Wisdom

By Anthony Simoes

No death wasprobed more

As if there weren’t enough probes already into thedeath in police custody of NRI chef Cipriano Fer-nandes, Home Minister Ravi Naik told the Legislative

Assembly yesterday that a special investigation team (SIT)will probe the custodial death. He told the House that allpolicemen who were present in the police station whenCipriano was in custody would be booked, as per the rec-ommendations of the magisterial enquiry into the incident.The SIT is to be be headed by Superintendent of Police OP Kurtarkar. There is no doubt that Mr Kurtarkar is a goodofficer. He headed the SIT investigating the bomb blastsallegedly engineered by ‘seekers’ of the Sanatan Sansthain Margao near Margao’s Narkasur procession in 2009.His team uncovered the entire conspiracy and identifiedall the alleged culprits, before the investigation wasofficially taken over by the National Investigating Agency(NIA). The latter practically got a readymade investigationon a platter.

But that is not the point. There are already a number ofprobes underway into the seaman’s death. Whenever thereis a death in police custody, the SP of the district has to for-mally notify the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC),which investigates the incident. North Goa SP Arvind Gawashas already filed a report before the NHRC, which is lookinginto the incident.

The government had asked Sub-Divisional Magistrate(SDM) Sabaji Shetye to conduct a probe into the matter.The SDM has submitted his report, which apparently rec-ommends booking relevant offences under the Indian PenalCode (IPC) against all the police personnel on duty at thepolice station during the time.

The State Police Complaints Authority (SPCA), chairedby Justice (Retd) Eurico Santana Silva also took suo motocognisance of a news report in ‘Herald’ and instituted aninquiry into Cipriano’s death. That inquiry is presently on-going, and all the different people involved – police per-sonnel, medical personnel, relatives and friends, otherwitnesses, etc – are being summoned to testify.

The Panjim Judicial Magistrate First Class (JNFC) ShabnamShaikh is also hearing a private complaint in this very matter,filed after a police station refused to register a First Infor-mation Report (FIR) about the custodial death. More orless the same people who have testified or are to testifybefore the SDM and the SPCA are being or have been sum-moned to do so before the JMFC.

And now this.

It is not our case that an SIT should not be set up to lookinto Cipriano’s custodial death. But with all these probesoperating simultaneously, it would seem that the policeand medical personnel will have little else to do exceptrush from one to the other, giving testimony. Under the cir-cumstances, before burdening them with one more probe,shouldn’t the government try to rationalise the situation?

Play like youmean it

Many of India’s cricketers – including captain MahenrdaSingh Dhoni – have said that it would be the best giftto Sachin Tendulkar if the Indian team wins the Cricket

World Cup, starting in just two weeks. The last time India wonthe World Cup was in 1983, when Sachin was just 10 years old.

If that’s what they really want, let our boys play like theymean it. After all, actions speak stronger than words.

100 Years Ago

PRIMEIRO DIARIO NAS COLONIAS PORTUGEZAS

Of appalling sustenance

and modern comfortsFatima Sardinha, Margao

While the aam admi is struggling to make ends meet on account of rising prices, ourelected leaders are busy fighting for higher posts.

Here we have the poor without three proper square meals a day, but an air-conditioned toilet to answer nature’s call. Our home guardian goes a step further andproclaims confidently “of all Roys in the world, mine is the best”.

The governance of Goa is fast becoming a family business, where the establishedpoliticians want to induct his or own family member. My message to all is not tosuccumb to the tricks of greedy politicians. The choice of casting your vote during anelection, and choosing the right candidate rests in your hands.

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The migrant vote bank

BY ADELMO FERNANDES

Not very long ago, a prominent Goan politician made astartling statement which caused quite a flutter in thestate. He told a group of Goans, who had visited him

with a demand, that he does not need their votes. This maynot be just an off-the-cuff remark, but has a lot of truth behindit. The sad truth is that many Goan politicians are banking onthe non-Goan vote bank. Many are sitting pretty with thethought that these migrants will never ditch them at the hus-tings. With this in mind, many of our politicians have builttheir own vote-bank consisting of migrant labourers who, insome constituencies like Vasco, could even outnumber theGoan population.

Every politician worth his salt, will see to it that a migrantis made to feel at home, as soon as he descends into thestate and decides to make Goa his home-away-from-home.The first thing that the migrant gets is the ration card, for theentire family. This is followed by the voter’s identity card.What follows is the water and electricity connection for hishome, and gifts and surprises, during the festive season. Andhey presto, the politician in question, is assured of the votesof the entire migrant family, probably for life. It must be saidthat migrants are very loyal voters. Once they decide to votefor a particular politician, this politician is assured of theirvotes, as and when he/she needs them. We Goans may not bevery particular in obtaining our ration cards and voter identities,unlike migrants, who make sure that they obtain one.

Moti Dongor is a perfect example of how politicians buildtheir strong voter base, step by step, or rather migrant by mi-grant. When another politician tries to try his/her luck in thisarea, the result is group clashes as was witnessed here recently,with each group supported by a politician. Incidentally,‘MotiDongor’ literally means ‘Pearl Mountain’. The ‘pearls’ (read asvotes) hidden in this mountain, are what attracts our vote-hungry politicians. In all this commotion, it is the Goan voterwho is isolated. Unlike a migrant voter, who does not lookbeyond the four walls of his house and the needs of his family,an average Goan voter will see as to how much developmenta particular politician has done in his/her constituency andwhether the said politician will be able to deliver the goods.

It is, therefore, much easier for a politician to attract a mi-grant voter, than to attract a Goan voter. With the Goan pop-ulation dwindling and the migrant population growing, it isprobably these migrants who will have the last say in electinga government in Goa in the not-too-distant future. Just likewe have had non-Goan councillors in some of our Municipalcouncils, the day is not far off when we may also have a non-Goan, as an elected representative, in the Goa legislative as-sembly.

God save Goa.

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HERALD NEWS DESK

PANJIM, FEB 3

The Konkani tiatr has evolvedas a powerful medium of masseducation and communicationsaid Director of Information andPublicity Menino Peres, who wasthe chief guest at the third Foun-dation Day celebration of theTiatr Academy of Goa (TAG) heldat Campal, Panjim on Thursday.Peres also launched the websiteof the TAG.

Speaking further Peres saidthat Tiatr over the years is de-veloping into unique modernGoan theatre and with the es-tablishment of TAG, Scientific

development of tiatr has begun.Peres reminded that Tiatr has along history which has foundits roots among the Goan audi-ence and is the only professionaltheatre of Goa. “I sincerely wishit becomes a powerful weaponfor social awakening” he added.Peres also lauded TAG for takingup several activities for the pro-motion of this and for the wel-fare of the artistes. He said thereare good days ahead for Tiatrand called upon the tiatr artistesto avail benefits of the schemesof TAG.

He also listed the schemes ofthe Department of Information

& Publicity on song and dramaand others and urged theartistes to make use of oppor-tunities these schemes pre-sented.

President of the TAG, Tomaz-inho Cardozo highlighted theactivities that have been takenup by the academy and activitiesthat are proposed for future.

Earlier Vice President TAGRoseferns welcomed the gath-ering and Member Secretary Vic-tor de Sa proposed the vote ofthanks.

Prominent tiatr artistes andfans were present at the func-tion.

Tiatr, a medium for mass communication: Peres

Director of Information and Publicity Menino Peres speaks at the third Foundation Day celebration ofthe Tiatr Academy of Goa at Campal on Wednesday. President of the TAG, Tomazinho Cardozo, VicePresident Roseferns and Member Secretary Victor de Sa are also present.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

CORTALIM, FEB 3

Miscreants damaged the win-dow panes of Sancoale Pan-chayat recently.

According to Acting SarpanchRamakant Borkar, the panchayatbecame aware only when thestaff as usual came to the officeto find the window panessmashed. However, the pan-chayat records were found to

be safe.While the motive behind the

incident is yet to be ascertained,police were immediately calledin.

Verna Police Inspector JivbaDalvi said the police have reg-istered a case for damaging pub-lic property. Some panchayatmembers however blamed theincident on the rowdy elementsin the village.

Miscreants damage windowpanes of Sancoale p’yat

Window panes of the panchayat damaged by miscreants. Photo by Alvaro Colaco

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

SANGUEM, FEB 3

Former state election commis-sioner and Director of FomentoGroup of Companies PrabhakarTimblo has apprised locals inSanguem over the developmentof municipal areas.

Timbo also had discussionwith the councillors and resi-dents over measures that couldbe followed to do away with thegarbage problem.

“Sanguem town accounts forless than a tonne of garbageevery day and if councillor fromevery ward draws a plan withfive like-minded residents fromevery ward then the accumu-lated garbage from every wardcould be systematically disposedoff,” he claimed.

The meeting was convenedby Sanguem Municipal CouncilChairperson Sanjay Raikar andwas attended by Vice Chairper-son Analina Fernandes andCouncillors Dr Revansiddh Naik,Deepak Marathe, SuryadattNaik, Agnelo Da Costa, ImtiazShaikh and Changuna Sal-gaonkar.

Talking on the developmentalneeds in the municipal area,Councillor Agnelo Da Costaopined the need to construct afootpath all along the 2-kmstretch of road from Pajimol toSanguem bus Stand, while Coun-cillor Suryadatt Naik cited theneed to demolish the existingstructure which houses govern-ment p r imar y s choo l a tSanguem to pave way for a morespacious building.

Dr Revansiddh Naik spoke atlength of the dust and noise pol-lution caused due to the move-ment of mining trucks viaSanguem town and urged for im-mediate need for the constructionof a by pass for mining trucks.

Timblo guided the locals onthe development aspects of thetown area and measures thatcould be adopted to do awaywith the garbage problem andnoise and dust pollution facedby the residents.

E a r l i e r, D r N a i k w e l -comed, while Dinesh Man-erkar proposed the vote ofthanks.

Sanguem locals apprised overdevelopment of municipal areas

Citizens from the town areaalso attended the meeting and

gave their valuable suggestionson the development aspects.

No-trust against Penha-de-Franca

dy sarpanch HERALD CORRESPONDENT

PORVORIM, FEB 3

Six panchas of Penha-de-FrancaPanchayat recently submitted ano-confidence motion againstDeputy Sarpanch Reshma RajeshAmonkar.

The signatories to the motionEknath Narvekar, Manisha Naik,Rajendra Naik, Jhanvi Bhosle,Rajesh Volvoiker and VisrantiDessai submitted the notice tothe Block Development OfficerMapusa.

The panchas have accused thedeputy sarpanch of misusingpowers and acting against therules of the Panchayat Raj Actand does not cooperate withthe panch members.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

SANGUEM, FEB 3

A Day Care Centre for senior cit-izens ‘Ummid Day Care Centre’was recently inaugurated atCollem.

Minister for Social WelfareSudin Dhavlikar inaugurated theCentre in the presence of ZPmember Rashmi Lambor, CollemSarpanch and others.

Under the scheme, which issponsored by the Social WelfareDepartment, funds to the tuneof Rs 1.30 lakh were sanctionedto Collem Panchayat for runningthe Day Care Centre for seniorcitizens, of which Rs 30,000 wasspent on furniture and purchaseof a TV set.

“Remaining Rs 1 lakh will bespent for the welfare of the sen-ior citizens,” informed ZP mem-ber Lambor.

The scheme was proposed byCollem Panchayat under the ac-tive help and support from Lam-bor.

Speaking at the inauguralfunction, Sudin Dhavlikar urgedthe public to apply for various

Day Care Centre for seniorcitizens opened at Collem

Minister for Social Welfare Sudin Dhavlikar speaks at the inauguralfunction of Ummid Day Care Center at Collem in the presence of ZPmember Rashmi Lambor and others. Photo by Alfred Fernandes

schemes formulated by the gov-ernment for the upliftment anddevelopment of people living inremote areas.

Dhavlikar complimentedCollem Panchayat for taking abold step in opening a Day CareCentre for senior citizens andassured all possible help to thepanchayat in the running of thescheme.

Lambor thanked the ministerfor social welfare for sanctioningthe scheme in Collem village forthe welfare of the poor people.

“The people living in remoteareas lack basic infrastructuraland entertainment facilities andthe opening of the Day CareCentre will benefit a lot to thepeople from the area,” addedLambor.

HERALD NEWS BUREAU

PANJIM, FEB 3

Poet and writer Dr BhikajiGhanekar has stated that the fu-ture of poetry lies in the handsof the youth.

He was speaking at the func-tion organised by ‘Ugte Molab’to release the book ‘Chitt’t Mho-jem Add’ddota’ written by AnilShankhwalker both in Devnagariand Romi script at T B Cunhahall, Panjim, recently.

“Today’s youth write goodpoetry and the teen poets arenot only thinkers, but they areincredibly courageous as theyput their personal thoughts intheir poems for the whole worldto see,” stated Dr Ganekar.

He further said poets shouldwrite on all subjects which con-cerns the common man andshould not restrict themselvesin writing on specific topic.

“Today, Goa needs the poetswho would hold great valuesthat have been handed downthrough the ages,” said Ganekar.

‘Ugte Molab ’ Pres identBharat Naik said poetry has gotthe strength not only of chang-

ing a person, but also the soci-ety.

“It is the bounden duty ofevery Konkani poet to preserveand promote Konkani poetryand keep it alive and thriving.A good poem can tell the realitywithout hesitation in fewphrases and thereby make a ter-rible impact, better than an ar-ticle, on the minds of thepeople,” said Naik.

Former Doordarshan directorYusuf Sheikh said Konknni lan-guage has got the status of of-ficial language because of theconcerted efforts made by greatwriters Gnyanpith AwardeeRavindra Kelekar, Prof ManoharSardessai, Bakibab Borker, Chan-drakant Keni, R V Pandit, whoare no more.

“It is now the duty of theyouth to work tirelessly and takeKonkani to a greater height,”said Sheikh.

In h i s speech , An i lShankhwlker has expressed hisgratitude and thanked ‘UgteMolab’ for taking the initiativeto release his book.

Earlier, Sunil Palker welcomed

Future of poetry in hands of youth: Dr Ghanekar

Dr Bhikaji Ganekar releases Konkani book ‘Chitt’t Mhojem Add’d-dota’ by Anil Shankhwalker.

the gathering and compered theprogramme, while Shoba Fulkarproposed the vote of thanks.

The programme was followedby the multilingual poetry meet,which was participated by poetsDr Bhikaji Ganekar, Bharat Naik,Yusuf Sheik, Ashok Chodanker,Ramesh Ghadi, Sunil Palker, AnilShankhwalker and NayanaAdarkar.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

SANGUEM, FEB 3

The prize distribution functionof various programmes and ac-tivities conducted by SanguemMunicipal Council (SMC) in as-sociation with the Directorateof Art and Culture was held re-cently at Sanguem.

SMC also felicitated promi-nen t pe r sona l i t i e s f romSanguem for their contributionto the society, while simultane-ous ly br ing ing repute toSanguem town.

Those felicitated on the oc-casion by Chairperson SanjayRaikar and others includedManuel Fernandes (Music), LataNandkishore Sanguemkar(singer and drama director),Utkarsh Karpe (drama artiste)and Siraj (singer).

SMC also felicitated Dat-taprasad N Sanguemkar, Wel-bery Fernandes, Parshuram Koli,Ziba Shaikh, Imtiaz Shaikh andHarish Borkar for their contri-bution in Karate and for winninggold medal at the interstate levelKarate Championship held re-cently at Ponda.

In the All Goa Solo SingsSinging competition, LaxmanNaik (Canacona) bagged the firstprize, while the second prizewas won by Sayyed Gauns andSiddesh Dulapkar had to content

with the third prize. ShaileshNaik, Aniket Daddikar andShrusti Karpe were awardedconsolation prizes.

The breaking the pot contestby hitting a ball (men) was wonby Anish Ahmed Patil. The sec-ond and third prizes werebagged by Jaywant Khande-parkar and Siddham respectively.

In the straw game for women,Seema Tari, Ketki and Jenita Fer-nandes bagged the first threeprizes. The first prize in the slowcycling was awarded to Jaywant,while Kenjoy and Mackson hadto content with the second andthird prize respectively.

In cock fight for seniors, thefirst three prizes were awardedto Rohit Naik, Kiran and Ander-son Fernandes. In Junior, AshleyD’Costa and Salim Patil baggedthe first two prizes. In breakingthe pot contest for women, thefirst two prizes were awardedto Nuyuya and Shanti Naik.

SMC Vice Chairperson AnalinaFernandes and CouncillorsDeepak Marathe, Queroz Cruz,Dr Revansiddh Naik, ChangunaSalgaonkar, Imtiaz Shaikh andFranskina Lima were also pres-ent.

Dr Revansiddh Naik comperedthe function, while Sanjay Raikarwelcomed and Deepak Maratheproposed the vote of thanks.

Prize distribution function held at Sanguem

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Born: 7-12-1935 Died: 3-2-2011

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“Pai, you will always be alivein our hearts because you werethe world’s greatest dad for us!”

Most beloved husband of Doris Rodrigues.Everloving Pai of Rosalina / Antonio Vaz, late Marietta,

Fazila / Dexter Pereira, Stephen / Susan, Eusebio / Pouciana, Marietta / Clayton D’Souza, Ben Melroy / Sapphire.

Doting Grandfather of Ray, Nathan, Gareth, Akash, Nikhil, Nial, Sian, Shroann, Rosella, Roselle, Evan, Slevin, Bevan.

Expired suddenly on 3-02-2011.

Funeral cortege will leave his residence, Sun Shine Bldg. (Panjim), on 4th Feb. 2011at 3.00 pm followed by Eucharistic

celebration and burial at 3.30 pm at St. Inez Church.

Buses will leave from St. Estevam (Cupa & Teen-Vater) at 2.00 pm sharpand from Divar (St. Mathias Church) at 2.00 pm sharp.

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Born: 2-11-1938 Died: 4-01-11Expired in Lisbon on 04,

January, 2011. Interred in Lisbon.

There will be a Eucharistic Celebration on the 4th February 2011 Today at

5.30 pm at St. Sebastian Chapal, Fontainhas. Offered by his family & friends.

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PTI

WASHINGTON, FEB 3

Some five months before the26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack,India had warned the US aboutincreasing `white faces’ in ter-rorist camps along Pak-Afghanborder and the attempt by jihadigroups to acquire fissile materialto "fabricate a crude bomb be-yond a dirty bomb".

According to a US diplomaticcable dated May 30, 2008, re-leased by WikiLeaks the thenNational Security Advisor M KNarayanan had said this during ameeting with the visiting AmericanSenators Russ Feingold and BobCasey in New Delhi.

According to the cable,Narayanan told the Senators thatthe US- India re lat ionshipamounts to much more thanjust trade links and defencedeals, but rather benefits froma mutual empathy.

Asked about terror ism,Narayanan related that trainingcamps on the Pak i s t an -Afghanistan border have at-tracted more "white faces".

"He also noted jihadi groupshave attempted to acquire fissilematerial and have the technicalcompetence to manufacture anexplosive device beyond a meredirty bomb," the cable said.

Narayanan lamented that na-tional intelligence agencies lacka common understanding at a

time when an incident such asthe 2006 blasts in Mumbai in-volved planning and fundraisingin up to 11 different countries,it said.

Regarding the May 13 blastsin Jaipur, Narayanan divulgedthat India has narrowed the sus-pects to the Harkat-ul-Jihad Is-lami (HUJI).

According to the cable,Narayanan also observed thatthe US no longer ignores ter-rorist attacks that occur in Indiabecause it has adopted a more"cooperative angle" to face thiscommon threat.

"He related that Indian intel-ligence has detected various tar-gets, including southern andnortheast Europe, Somalia andthe Middle East, but not the US.Non-state actors will intensifytheir asymmetric warfare, hepredicted, and pointed to theincrease in 'white recruits' de-tected by Indian intelligence interrorist training camps alongthe Pakistan-Afghanistan bor-ders," the cable said.

"Those recruits will not beused against India or Asian na-tions," he pointed out, addingthat he has warned his counter-parts of the development.

He also related that India hasfound a "manifest attempt toget fissile material," though ter-rorist groups have not yet ac-quired any.

India warned US of ‘white faces’ in Pak terror camps

PTI

WASHINGTON, FEB 3

Toughening its stand againstembattled Egyptian PresidentHosni Mubarak, the US has saidthe transition of power in theArab State "must start now" andasked its new Vice PresidentOmar Suleiman to probe the vi-olent attacks on demonstratorsby pro-regime activists.

"A transition of power muststart now," White House PressSecretary Robert Gibbs said athis daily news conference yes-terday. "The people of Egyptneed to see change."

When asked if it is okay forthe US that Mubarak leaves thepost in September when thecountry goes for presidentialelection, Gibbs said: "If you're

asking me if now is September, itis unseasonably warm, but it is not

September. Now means now."82-year-old Mubarak, a close

ally of the US who has been inpower since 1981, is facing thegreatest challenge to his auto-cratic regime in the wake of theprotests which began on Tues-day last week.

Noting that US PresidentBarack Obama has also calledfor immediate beginning of anorderly transition in Egypt,Gibbs said: "The administrationb e l i e v e s t h a t P re s i d e n tMubarak has a chance to showthe world exactly who he is bybeginning this transition thatis so desperately needed in hiscountry and for his peoplenow."

Gibbs' remarks indicated thatthe White House now clearlywants Mubarak to leave his post.

Also, Secretary of State HillaryClinton telephoned EgyptianVice President Suleiman, a long-time US ally, last evening andasked him to hold accountablethose responsible for violent at-tacks on pro-democracy pro-testers.

Their telephonic conversationcame as supporters of Mubarakfired at anti-government pro-testers in the Egyptian capital'sTahrir Square, killing six people.

US: Transition of power in Egypt must start now

An anti-government protester carriesrocks during clashes in Tahrir, or Lib-eration square, in Cairo, Egypt.

5 policemen killed in Russia

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MOSCOW, Feb 3

Five police officers were killedand one injured in an attack byunidentified gunmen in Russia'svolatile North Caucasus republicof Kabardino-Balkaria.

The gunmen yesterday brokeinto a cafe in the town ofChegem where road traffic po-lice officers were having lunchand shot them execution style,a spokesman for the federal in-vestigative committee told RIANovosti news agency.

Four policemen died on thespot and the other was hospi-talised. A criminal investigationhas been opened.

Earlier in the day, anotherpolice officer was reported killedin a drive-by shooting in thesame area. Circumstances sur-rounding the attack and rea-sons behind the shooting arebeing investigated at themoment.

Attacks by militants on policeand security officials are fre-quent in Russia's Muslim-domi-nated volatile North CaucasusRepublics as the federal author-ities have been clamping downon militant groups.

Executionrate in Iranalarms UN

AGENCIES

WASHINGTON, FEB 3

The head of human rights forthe United Nations has ex-pressed alarm at the number ofexecutions carried out by Iranin the New Year.

"We have urged Iran, time andagain, to halt executions," UNHigh Commissioner for HumanRights Navi Pillay said Wednes-day. “I am very dismayed thatinstead of heeding our calls, theIranian authorities appear tohave stepped up the use of thedeath penalty.”

At least 66 people were exe-cuted during January, accordingto Iranian media reports .Most of the executions werereportedly carried out fordrug offenses, although at leastthree involved political prison-ers, a UN statement said.

The UN response comes twodays after the United States con-demned the execution of a Dutch-Iranian woman whom Tehranaccused of smuggling drugs.

On Monday, the US State De-partment said it was “deeply con-cerned that Iran continues to denyits citizens their human rights.”Last month, the New York-based group, the InternationalCampaign for Human Rightsin Iran, said the Iranian regimewas on an “execution binge.”

“The Iranian Judiciary is onan execution binge orchestratedby the intelligence and securityagencies,” said spokesmanAaron Rhodes. The group saidthe number of unreported exe-cutions is even higher in politi-cally motivated cases.

Rhodes pointed to a recentexecution of Kurdish activiststhat he said had not been fullyreported to the public.

IANS

KATHMANDU, FEB 3

As Nepal’s parliament begana 17th round of election Thurs-day to choose a new prime min-ister, pre-poll developmentsindicated the seven-month-longcrisis would finally come to anend with the opposition Maoistsagreeing to support the rulingcommunists.

The four-way election waslikely to end in victory for com-munist leader Jhalanath Khanal,whose Communist Party ofNepal-Unified Marxist Leninistis the third largest in the house.

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Deadline for Mapusa hospitalthem from private pharmacies. They also cannot claim any reim-bursement for this”, he said.

The Court then appointed a team of commissioners to examinethe State’s healthcare facilities on basis of the allegations in thePIL. The report coincided with the allegations as in the detailedreport dated July 4, 2008, the commissioners highlighted the pa-thetic state of health facilities in the State.

Thereafter, the Government had submitted to implement varioussteps it proposed to remove the defects and deficiencies in thesystem. Advocate General Subodh Kantak had even assured thatthe Mapusa hospital would be commissioned for public fromMarch 2011.

Ruckus in House over PPPhospital and clarified that all services available at old Asilo Hospitalwould continue in the new hospital without burdening the patients.

Claiming transparency, the Health Minister said “the PPP modewas yet to be finalized although a consultant had been appointedfor suggestions”. He said a monitoring committee has also beenappointed by the Government which will decide the PPP mode.

At this point, Opposition Leader Manohar Parrikar pointed outthat a minister cannot become the chairman of the committeesaying it was a procedural lapse as per Central Vigilance Commissionguidelines.

“You will get into trouble”, warned Parrikar also highlightingthat PPP documents were not vetted by the Law Department.

Instead of offering any logical explanation, the Health Ministeraccused the Opposition Leader of sensationalising the issue.

Intervening, the Aldona MLA also caught the Health Ministeron the wrong foot questioning how the Government could floata Request for Qualification (RFQ) for running the hospital if PPPmode was not finalised.

He said the minister was lying and rushed to the Well of theHouse with a copy of RFQ published by the Government in a news-paper.

What followed was chaos where on one side Health Ministertried to make his point while Narvekar refused to accept the min-ister’s explanation. The Opposition which had doubted Rane’s in-tentions over the PPP, also followed suit.

Vishwajit opts outpublished in an English daily dated January 4. He also pointed outthat the RFQ was for transferring partial management of thehospital to a private party and had listed the services which arecurrently available in the Old Asilo hospital.

“There was no mention of the cardiac unit or other specialitieswhich the Health Minister was talking about in the House todaythat he wants to bring in the new hospital”, charged Narvekar.

Moreover, eligibility criteria set for the bidders in RFQ was alsodubious, he said.

Narvekar found it absurd that a company with a net worth ofRs 15 crore for three consecutive years could be eligible to run ahospital worth Rs 100 crore.

Further, Narvekar said, if a Society or a Trust wanted to applythe eligibility criteria was different. “Only a Society or a Trust withnet worth of Rs 100 crore could be eligible as per the RFQ”, hesaid.

He also reiterated his stand that privatisation of the Mapusahospital would not be allowed. “Studies have shown that attemptsto operate Government-run hospitals through privatisation havefailed in UK, US and other countries”, he said.

Ravi exposes DySP Gaonkarhim and tried to overtake his car.

Both cases were registered. Panjim police arrested Sainath soonafter he regained consciousness based on the counter complaint.But their alleged attempt to hush up the hit-and-run case wasevident as there was no action taken on complaint made by Sainath.

While senior police officers refrained from making any statement,Deputy Superintendent of Police Deu Benaulikar had said that acase of ‘accident’ was registered pending investigation.

The officer said that he would not be in a position to identifythe car driver unless the motorbike rider who was admitted in theGoa Medical College and Hospital gives his statement.

“We are yet to record the statement of the victim who can tellus the number of the car and other details”, he was quoted assaying on November 25, 2010.

DySP Gaonkar is the same officer who received accolades forarresting four Manipur-based militants including a high-profilewoman on a tip-off from Manipur police in January 2011. Thepicture of the officer walking in style along with the arrestedaccused was flashed all over.

Guard strikes gold also stolen. He immediately lodged a complaint with the Porvoirmpolice at about 11 pm.

Moni further informed that Rushikant, a security guard fromManipur, was working with them for the last four years and hewas familiar with the bungalow.

“When my wife was working in the kitchen in the morning, hemust have gone to the second floor and took out the key from mywife’s purse, which was kept in the cupboard and then openedthe safe”, Moni said.

“Thereafter, the security guard left the house at about 12.30pm, stating that he was going to Mapusa. Since he did not return,I feel he must have committed the theft”, said Moni.

On Thursday evening, Porvorim police arrested Rushikant atBangalore.

According to Superintendent of Police (North) Arvind Gawas,the Porvorim police disptached a team to Bangalore comprisingSub-Inspector Lakshi Amonkar and constable Vijay Gaekwad.

Police had information that the accused Rushikant had left forManipur along with his father. They also learnt that the accusedwas supposed to leave for Manipur by the Guwahati-bound trainwhich leaves from Bangalore at 11.30 pm.

The police team which had reached Bangalore by then arrestedRushikant at the station.

“Police recovered the gold ornaments and diamond jewelleryworth Rs 50 lakh as well as cash of Rs 50,000 from the accused”,said SP Gawas.

Artificial beachand obstruct the water from entering the area of the new, extended,beach, to be created by filling sand in the area between the tubesand the present shoreline.

Though Darade claims that harbour engineers have undertakensimilar works in Raigad and Thane, the geo-tubes were a completeand total failure at Goa’s Candolim beach, which has been erodingat an alarmingly fast pace, thanks to the M V River Princess,grounded off the beach.

However, environmentalist Rishi Aggarwal thinks it will be awaste of money. “The sewage and Mithi river waste is released inthe sea. People won’t put their feet in the dirty sewage water”, hepredicts. “The Government should first think of cleaning the sea.If they increase the beach size here, it would make water currentsstronger somewhere else, reducing the beach size there”, Aggarwalsays.

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Sensex rallies over 358 pts PTI

MUMBAI, FEB 3

In a strong pull-back rally, the benchmark Sensex today spurtedfor the second day, closing over 358 points up at 18,449.31 --biggest single day gain this year -- on across-the-board buying ledby realty, capital goods, metal and banking segments.

Investors shrugged off inflation and high interest rate worrieson indications from US and Europe that global economic recoverywas taking hold.

Marketmen said the rally was triggered by hectic short- cover-ings at lower levels amid domestic funds buying despite a spurtin food inflation and sustained capital outflows in the absence offirm direction from overseas markets.

BHARATI PAWASKAR

Attached to their family and an-cestral home, the Colaco cou-ple – Pradeep and Velda travelsto their furniture showrooms atMargao, Nuvem and Mapusa.By nightfall they are back toVelim, away from the hustle ofthe city life. Who says thatbusiness has to run in onesblood to do it successfully? Forthe Colaco couple – Pradeepand Velda had no businessbackground what so ever. Yet

VIP Blow Plast, Damro: Value for money

Pradeep Colaco with his family.

this proud couple says withgreat humility that they madeit by the grace of God, goodwillof customers, suppliers,friends, family and of course,their staff.

Pradeep learnt his first les-sons in business at an early ageas he shouldered the responsi-bility of an aerated water fac-tory started by his late fatherLawrie Colaco. Wife Veldajoined him in business as theystarted a general store cumcold storage in Velim wheremother Nita Colaco also lent ahelping hand. In year 1991Pradeep set foot in city of Mar-gao seeing an opportunity toopen a furniture shop near hisbrother-in-law’s shop, whileVelda looked after businessback home.

Pradeep soon became aBlow Plast (VIP) Distributorfrom a small retailer in 1991and from then on there was nostopping for with his honestdedicated hard work. He roseto become one of the top dis-tributors in the country for hiscompany. Incentive trips to sev-eral countries followed onachievement of targets yearafter year. This gave him the ex-posure to meet several top dis-

tributors from across the coun-try. And in the process learn alot of things. He says that hewould like to share some of thethings that helped him be suc-cessful.

Pradeep has valuable tips forupcoming entrepreneurs –

“Honesty, hard work, sincer-ity and transparency should bethe key words in business. Loy-alty to customer and suppliersis a must. For, if you could keepboth happy you made it! Neverrun after money. You may notmake money on a particularhard customer. But he is yourambassador for life. Value timeand keep appointments punc-tually. Put yourself in shoes ofyour customer. See that you arebest pay master to suppliersand staff. Keeping the shopsopen in Goa from 1pm to 4pm,unlike other shops, helps well

as many far of customers. Hav-ing infrastructure of own vehi-cles allows to have prompthome deliveries.” How true!

As time went by Pradeep wasdealing with leaders in the fur-niture industries for Interiorsand Exteriors for corporate,d o m e s t i chousehold andtourism indus-tries. Slowlywhenever op-p o r t u n i t i e scame he wouldgrab them. Nev-ertheless hemight not been successful withall. But he learnt from his mis-takes. Narrating the incident onhow he got in touch withDamro, South Asia’s largest fur-niture manufacturer, Pradeepanswers smilingly, “Simplegoodwill. The General Mangerin Blow Plast (VIP) with whom Ihad a long association joinedDamro. When it came to givingfranchise in South Goa hethought of me.” While Pradeepand his brother-in-law Rolandgot South Goa deal, their coun-terpart and also a friendPrabhu, started Damro’s in Pan-jim. Roland later decided thathe would start an exclusivekitchen showroom. Thus Home& Heart came into being inMargao.

“Yes, Damro enjoys a goodmarket share as it is a knownbrand,” says Pradeep, adding,

“We can furnish any apartmentor office in one working day –such is the choice and thestocks we have. We haveopened another furnitureshowroom at Nuvem close tothe existing Damro’s. This spa-cious showroom spreads overan area of 7000 sq ft with widerange of sofa sets, about 15mock up bedrooms and entireoffice furniture range.”

22 years in the business witha very supportive wife andhelpful staff Pradeep has seenups and downs in life. But hedid not shake or lose faith. “Wehad a big fire in our godown on26 October 2009 where entirefurniture was gutted down. Itwas a big blow,” says Pradeep.But friends and family stoodwith him strongly. Better halfVelda remains unfailingly thestrong women behind this soft

hearted man ingood times andbad times. Itwas then he re-alised his truevalue for thesupport he re-ceived from hisc o m p a n yDamro, friends,

suppliers, relatives and cus-tomers. “With God’s grace andsupport from all quarters,things returned to normalsoon,” Velda thanks her stars.

Pradeep is very much in-volved in Church activities.Through the village Panchayatand various NGOs he activelyparticipates in the welfare ac-tivities. Expressing his grati-tude Pradeep humbly says, “Ithink it’s time to return to thesociety what I have received allthese years,”

LIC launchestwo plans

PANJIM (HBD) -- Life InsuranceCorporation of India has todaylaunched two new plansnamely Bima Account – I andBima Account – II.

Bima Account – I is offeredto Policyholders between agegroup 11 to 50 for the terms 5to 7 years. No medical of thelife to be assured is requiredunder this plan. yearly pre-mium ranges from 7000 to14000. The premium can alsobe paid Half Yearly, Quarterlyand Monthly (ECS) mode.

Minimum Sum assuredunder the policy is 10 times ofyearly premium e.g. if yearlypremium is Rs. 10,000, mini-mum risk cover will be 1 Lakh.Accident benefit cover is alsoavailable.

Another plan, Bima Account–II (806) is having all the fea-tures of plan No. 805, exceptthat this plan is for longer du-ration of 10 to 15 years andmore risk cover is available.Under Bima Account- II mini-mum premium is 15,000 yearlyand there is no limit for maxi-mum premium. Plan is avail-able under non-medical andmedical schemes as per rules,for the ages between 8 to 60years.

PTIMUMBAI, FEB 3

L&T Infrastructure FinanceCompany is making a publicissue of Long Term Infrastruc-ture Bonds 2011. The company

proposes to issue secured re-deemable non-convertibledebentures aggregating uptoRs 100 crore with an option toretain an oversubscription ofup to Rs 300 crore for allot-

ment of additional bonds. Thebonds having benefits underSection 80CCF will open forsubscription on February 7,2011, and close on March 7,2011.

L&T to issue Infra bonds

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Jindal Steel, 637.55, 653.95, 633.05, 649.8Jsw Steel Li, 930.9, 934.9, 904.4, 926.3Kotak Mahind, 371.9, 381.95, 368.55, 378.55Lakshmi Mach, 2164.9, 2209.55, 2136.4, 2194.65Lanco Infrat, 48, 49.1, 47.3, 48.85Larsen & Tou, 1566, 1639.9, 1560, 1630.6Lic Housing, 173.4, 179.6, 171.75, 177.95Lupin Limite, 411.6, 424.85, 411.6, 422.8Mahanagar Te, 46.8, 48.05, 46.2, 47.85Mahindra & M, 694.1, 711.9, 694.1, 705.65Maruti Suzuk, 1210, 1229.9, 1205.3, 1218.2Max India Lt, 148, 151.9, 147.55, 150Maytas Infr., 176.1, 178.5, 176, 177.45Moser-baer (, 51.1, 51.5, 49.5, 50.35Mrpl, 67, 68, 66.25, 67.45Nagarjuna Co, 108.9, 112.35, 107.3, 110.8Nagarjuna Fe, 27.55, 29, 27.35, 28.6National Alu, 407.55, 424.1, 407.5, 421.7Neyveli Lign, 103, 105.9, 102.5, 105.35Ntpc Ltd, 180.5, 182.6, 178.5, 182.3Oil And Natu, 1183, 1199.35, 1173.1, 1195.4Omaxe Limite, 136, 138.55, 134, 137.85Oriental Ban, 332.4, 342.2, 330, 341.05Pantaloon Re, 286.5, 294.85, 283.75, 291.75Parsvnath De, 45.75, 45.75, 43.8, 44.2

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NEW DELHI, FEB 3

Talented batsman Virat Kohlifeels that it would be the bestgift to Sachin Tendulkar if theIndian team can win the cricketWorld Cup which will start inanother two weeks time.

"What he ( Sach in ) ha sachieved in his entire career, Idon't think anyone else will beable to achieve that. So it willbe a great thing if we can winthe World Cup not only for ourfans but also for Sachin who isa special person," the youngstercommented during an interac-tion with the media at a pro-motional event here today.

The U-19 World Cup winningcaptain feels that the biggest chal-lenge during the cricketing extrav-aganza will be to keep the externalpressures not affect their game.

"Playing World Cup in itselfis a huge pressure. There willbe people who would expect usto do well. The biggest chal-lenge will therefore be not to

get distracted by that and con-centrate at the job on hand,"the 22-year-old Kohli said.

The player who has four centuriesfrom 45 ODIs and enjoys a fantasticaverage of around 47 said he justtries to keep things simple.

"I just try to play accordingto my strength and not do any-thing special. With experienceof having played internationalcricket for the past two years, Ihave learnt that if one tries toohard for something special, onemight just spoil the ability todo things that come naturally.

"It's hard not to make mis-takes but with time you learnfrom them and the key to suc-cess is not repeating the samemistakes over and over again."

Kohli dismissed the notion thatinjury management has been a prob-lem with Indian players of late asthe likes of Sehwag, Gambhir,Praveen Kumar have all been injuredin the lead up to the World Cup.

"No player likes to get injured.But when you are playing so

much of cricket, the body tendsto get tired and thus injurieshappen. You may be the fittestguy around but suddenly youcan twist an ankle and be outof action for six months.

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NEW DELHI, FEB 3

Out-of-favour batsman Robin Uthappa reck-ons impact player Yusuf Pathan along withSachin Tendulkar will be India's trump cardsin the forthcoming World cricket Cup tobe held in the sub-continent from February19.

The hard-hitting Karnataka opener, whohas been out of reckoning since 2008, saidYusuf apart, Sachin Tendulkar's form over

the next couple of months will also becrucial to India's fortunes.

"Yusuf Pathan is the biggest surprise pack-age. He can do the talking with both batand ball," Uthappa told PTI from Visakhap-atnam where he is representing South Zonein the Duleep Trophy final.

The 25-year-old Karnataka player saidthat it would be a tough call between

Suresh Raina and Pathan for the num-ber seven spot.

"With Sachin back, it will be atough call... If he gets a chance,Yusuf can be really devastatingdown the order," Uthappa, whowas bought for a whopping USD2.1 million (approx Rs 9.66 crore)by Indian Premier League fran-chise Sahara Pune Warriors, said.

A vital cog in India's wheelduring the team's triumphantcampaign in the inaugural edi-tion of the ICC World Twenty20in 2007, Uthappa said the entirecountry will be behind Tedulkar,who, in all likelihood, would befeaturing in his last World Cup.

"No particular role should beassigned to him... Sachin Ten-dulkar should go there and belike Sachin Tendulkar. We must

send all positive energies and give all thesupport needed. Hope he is able to expresshimself fully. It will do wonders to the side,"he said.

Known for his clean hitting against fastbowlers, Uthappa said, "If all play to strengthand potential we can definitely win it. Wehave the class and recent history in the sub-continent is phenomenal. We are definitelythe best bet."

"Pressure definitely will be there. It's a

World Cup afterall, the competition of high-est standard. There is going to be pressureon players. Hype is pretty much normal.We must get used to this. I don't think hypewill have any negative impact on the side,"he said on the buzz surrounding the eventbeing co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka andBangladesh.

"We have a fantastic side, it's a prettysolid batting line-up and the team is shapingup really well. Virat Kohli is in super formand with Sachin, Sehwag, Gambhir at thetop of the order and Yuvraj, Dhoni in themiddle it's going to be a fantastic line-up,"Uthappa said.

"Yusuf down the order is fantastic. Wehave a variety of spin option and Ashwinand Piyush Chawla will back Harbhajan verywell. The selectors should be given creditfor picking this balanced line-up."

Uthappa refused to compare Dhoni's menwith Kapli Dev's 1983 World Cup winningside.

Yusuf can be really devastating down the order: Uthappa

Would like to win Cup for Sachin and country: Virat

Somdeventers

quarterssouth africa open

AGENCIES

JOHANNESBURG, FEB 3

Somdev Devvarman progressedto the singles quarter-finals ofthe ATP South Africa Tennis Openwith straight sets win over giantkiller Jesse Huta Galung in Jo-hannesburg, on Wednesday.

Galung had shocked thirdseed and world number 49 SerbJanko Tipsarevic in the openinground but the Indian scored aconvincing 6-3, 6-4 win over theDutch player in the secondround of the US$ 442,500 event.

It was the first meeting be-tween 110-ranked Somdev andGalung, who is placed 10 placesbelow the Indian on the ATPranking chart.

Somdev next faces SouthAfrican Rik de Voest, who gotthe better of eighth seed MichalPrzysiezny of Poland 6-3, 6-4 inhis Round of 16 match.

Three seeded players, includ-ing top seed and world number33 Feliciano Lopez of Spain,were knocked out from the ATP250 tournament.

PTI

MUMBAI, FEB 3

The IPL Govern-ing Council willtake a decisionon the three un-sold Indian play-ers, includingformer captainSourav Ganguly,at its meetinghere tomorrow.

No franchiseshowed interestin buying Ganguly at his baseprice of USD 400,000 during theauction on January 8 and 9.Wasim Jaffer and V R V Singhalso went unsold.

The IPL, in a letter to all theteams, had said a request hasbeen received from franchisesthat subject to them having suf-ficient balance on the salary capto pay at least the reserve priceof the relevant player, theyshould have the opportunity tosign unsold Indian players fromthe auction.

IPL's Chief Operating OfficerSundar Raman further said"the auction regulations wereclear that players not taken inthe auction could only play inIPL 2011 as replacement play-ers."

"Before the Governing Councildeliberates on this issue, Iwanted to get your view on this

issue and if yourfranchise is agree-able to : permitfranchise to buyany unsold Indianplayers from theauc t ion ; Thep l aye r can bebought only at hisreserve price".

Raman has saidf r a n c h i s e e sshould send theirviews by today

failing which it would be con-sidered that they were not op-posed to the request.

It is not known whether theletter from Mumbai Indians thatcriticised the way the IPL Players'Auction was held in the firstweek of last month would betaken up tomorrow.

In a letter written to theIPL, Indiawin Sports, whichowns MI franchise, had al-leged that players were auc-tioned through a pre-decidedorder of auction list, in con-trast to the earlier plan thatthey would be arranged intosets and the order by whichthey would be put under thehammer would be drawn ran-domly.

MI's letter also said that thischange was intimated to thefranchises just a day before theauction.

IPL: Ganguly’s fate to be

decided today

AGENCIES

COLOMBO, FEB 3

Opener Upul Tharanga struckan unbeaten century to steerSri Lanka to an eight-wicket winover West Indies under theDuckworth Lewis method in thesecond one-day internationalon Thursday.

Sri Lanka lead the three-match series 1-0 after the first

game ended in a no-result dueto rain.

Man-of-the-match Tharangamade a chanceless 101 off 143balls, including seven fours asSri Lanka comfortably chaseddown their adjusted target of197 off 47 overs after West In-dies had been dismissed for 203.

Tharanga shared partnershipsof 70 with captain Kumar San-

Tharanga guides Lanka to easy win

AGENCIES

NEW DELHI, FEB 3

‘Bat-obsessed’ Australian crick-eters were so infatuated withSachin Tendulkar's 1998 bladewhich gave Shane Warne night-mares that they bought the copiesof the willow to produce its ver-sions Down Under, former openerMatthew Hayden has revealed.

In his autobiography StandingMy Ground, Hayden writes thatAustralians "have massive loveaffairs with their bats" and a spe-cial version of Tendulkar's 1998blade was manufactured at aBrisbane factory.

"In 1998, the Australian teamthat was crucified in India bySachin Tendulkar became so in-fatuated with the little masterthat at least eight of them broughtback copies of his famous Vampirebat, and Brisbane firm GabbaSporting Products even produceda special version of it," Hayden,who retired from internationalcricket in 2009, wrote.

"Tendulkar's extremely heavybats were way too heavy for me.In fact, they may have even beentoo heavy for Tendulkar too. Fora time during his career he suf-fered from an acute case of ten-

nis elbow, and it was widelythought his heavy bats were par-tially to blame," he said.

Hayden also revealed histeam-mates' obsession withtheir blades, calling RickyPonting a "bat sabotager" alwaystrying to test others' willowswhile Mike Hussey "always trav-els with a set of scales to getthe weight of his bat right".

The b road - shou lde redopener, who scored 8625 runsfrom 103 Tests, claimed that hehas "never been a bat aficionado"but ended up using the uncon-ventional Mongoose bat while

playing for Chennai Super Kingsin the Indian Premier League.

"I have never seen a brandcatch fire like that. Indians arenot known for embracing left-field experiments. The Mon-goose caused enormous interestamong my teammates. Everyonepicked it up and played with itand were all eyes when I trainedwith it in the nets.

"Our Chennai captain MSDhoni was mortified when hefirst set his eyes on that Mon-goose. 'Are you going to usethat?' he asked me, and when Itold him I didn't know, he said,

'I'll give you any bat in my bagnot to use it.' When I first pulledit out for a game in IPL I couldsense the knives sharpening.

"When I was approached bythe Mongoose firm while com-mentating in England in the 2009Ashes series, I was open to theidea of using a differently shapedbat. I must admit I felt a bit anx-ious, because if I failed, the brandcould go down with me. I've al-ways thought Twenty20 cricketwas about entertainment, andthat there was room for experi-ment in many areas of cricketgear, bats included."

Aussies bought copies of Sachin’s bat: Hayden

Mahela Jayawardena congratulates Upul Tharanga at the SinhaleseSports Club (SSC) cricket ground in Colombo on Thursday.

gakkara (20) and an unbroken97 with Mahela Jayawardene (48not out).

West Indies, put into bat,were pegged down by accuratebowling and sharp fielding fromthe Sri Lankans. The Bravobrothers, Darren and Dwayne,top-scored with 39 each.

Lasith Malinga was the pickof the bowlers with figures ofthree for 30.

The third and final matchtakes place at the same venueon Sunday when the sides con-tinue their preparations for theWorld Cup starting later thismonth.

West Indies: CGay le c Sama-rawee ra b Mu -ral i tharan 28, ABarath lbw b Ku-lasekara 12, DarrenBravo lbw b Malinga39, R Sarwan run

out 21, Dwayne Bravo b Herath39, K Pollard b Malinga 4, C Baughnot out 28, D Sammy run out 4, NMiller c Jayawardene b Muralitha-ran 0, R Rampaul b Malinga 1, KRoach b Kulasekara 9. Extras: 18.Total: 203 all out. Fall of wickets:1-45, 2-45, 3-94, 4-132, 5-138, 6-175, 7-187, 8-187, 9-192, 10-203.Bowling: Malinga 10-0-30-3, Ku-lasekara 10-1-42-2, Mathews 4-0-20-0, Muralitharan 10-2-42-2,Dilshan 7-0-27-0, Herath 9-1-33-1.Sri Lanka: U Tharanga not out101, T Dilshan c Baugh b Rampaul11, K Sangakkara c Gayle bDwayne Bravo 20, M Jayawardenenot out 48. Extras: 19. Total: 199for 2. Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-102. Bowling: Rampaul 7-0-27-1, Roach 8-0-29-0, Sammy9-0-42-0, Gayle 4-0-18-0, DwayneBravo 5-0-29-1, Miller 6.3-0-33-0,Pollard 3-0-18-0.Man-of-the-match: U Tharanga

PTI

MUMBAI, FEB 3

Former Pakistan captain WasimAkram today backed ShahidAfridi to lead the side in theWorld Cup and hit out at theCricket Board (PCB) for delayingthe appointment.

Akram said Pakistan has thepotential do well in the mega

Akram slams PCB for not naming captain, backs Afridi

event but the side need to knowleader as soon as possible.

"Pakistan can be a dangerousteam. No one can altogetherwrite off Pakistan's chances inthe World Cup. They have thecapability to do well, but firstand foremost the captain has tobe named," said Akram.

"But they don't have a captainwith just 15 days left for thetournament. I don't know thereasons behind the delay. EvenShahid Afridi must be underpressure. The sooner the captainis named, the better for theteam," said the former all-rounder, who was a dangerouslower order batsman.

He backed swashbuckling all-rounder Afridi to lead.

"I would go for Afridi, althoughMisbah (Ul-Haq) is performingwell (as Test captain), but he'snot a magician. Afridi has beenthe captain for a reasonable pe-riod of time. The World Cup istoo close to change a captain.

Pak win series AGENCIES

HAMILTON, FEB 3

Pakistan won their first one-dayseries since November 2008when they beat New Zealand by41 runs in the fifth game of theirsix-match series at Seddon Parkin Hamilton on Thursday.

The victory, courtesy AhmedShehzad's 115 and a polishedbowling performance, gave Pak-istan an unassailable 3-1 lead inthe series, with only the finalmatch to be played at Eden Parkin Auckland on Saturday.

Pakistan made a below-par268 for nine, but New Zealandwasted a golden opportunity tolevel the series with only MartinGuptill (65) and stand-in captainRoss Taylor (69) posting anyscores of substance in their 227all out in 46.5 overs.

Pakistan:M Hafeezc N McCullum bMills 14, A Shehzadc Franklin b Styris115, K Akmal runout 17, Y Khan cStyris b N McCullum21, Misbah-ul-haq c

Oram b Styris 25, U Akmal run out32, S Afridi c Guptill b Oram 24, ARazzaq c How b Mills 3, W Riaznot out 2, U Gul c Ryder b Oram1. Extras: 14. Total: 268 for 9.Bowling: Mills 10-2-42-2, Bennett8-0-56-0, Oram 10-0-49-2, N Mc-Cullum 10-0-40-1, Styris 9-0-51-2, Franklin 3-0-21-0. New Zealand: M Guptill c UmarAkmal b Shoaib 65, J Ryder runout (Misbah-ul-haq) 0, J How cHafeez b Wahab Riaz 12, R Taylorlbw b Shahid Afridi 69, B McCullumc sub b Shahid Afridi 9, S Styrisrun out (Younis Khan) 9, J Franklinb Wahab Riaz 16, N McCullum bUmar Gul 14, J Oram c UmarAkmal b Umar Gul 10, K Mills notout 4, H Bennett b Wahab Riaz 3.Extras: 16. Total: 227 all out. Bowl-ing: Abdul Razzaq 4-1-19-0,Shoaib Akhtar 8-0-32-1, WahabRiaz 8.5-0-51-3, Umar Gul 7-0-28-2, Shahid Afridi 10-0-55-2, Mo-hammad Hafeez 9-0-34-0.Man-of- the-match:•Ahmed She-hzad.

Neville endsMan United

passion playAGENCIES

MANCHESTER, FEB 3

Gary Neville called an end toa glittering career of devotedservice to his beloved Man-chester United and Englandon Wednesday by announc-ing his immediate ret ire-ment.

The 35-year-old right backspent 20 years at United, play-ing over 600 matches for theOld Trafford club and helpingthem win a raft of trophies in-cluding the Champions Leagueand eight Premier League ti-tles.

"I have been a ManchesterUnited fan all my life and fulfilledevery dream I've ever had,"Neville said in a statement onthe club website.

"Obviously I am disappointedthat my playing days are at anend, however it comes to usall, and it's knowing when thattime is and for me that time isnow."

Nev i l l e b roke in to theUnited first team in 1992 andwas part of a renowned groupof players who came throughthe club's youth scheme in-cluding his younger brotherPhil, Ryan Giggs, David Beck-ham, Paul Scholes and NickyButt.

Pg12GOA, Friday, 4 February, 2011

R E S U L T SDempo 2 Viva 0

Man-of-the match: Ranty Martins (Dempo)

Salgaocar 1 Air India 1Man-of-the match: Tomba Singh (Salgaocar)

SPORTS

GFA First Division: SantaCruz Club of Cavelossim v.Calangute Association, Cun-colim ground, 4 p.m.

GFA Second Division: St Se-bastian St Cruz v. Dempo SC(Juniors), St Cruz ground, 4 p.m.

GFA U-14: Salgaocar SC (Ju-niors) v. Dabolim YC, TilakMaidan, Vasco, 4 p.m.

GFA U-16: Rossman CruzNagoa SC v. Colmorod Rat-waddo SC, Nagoa ground, 4p.m.

3rd Wilred Leisure Cup soc-cer: Betalbatim SC v. Sao Josede Areal SC, Curtorim ground,4.30 p.m.

Holy Cross soccer: MainRoad v. Dovandem, 3.45 p.m.;Aguada v. Chandravaddo, 4.45p.m., Rosary ground, Fatorda.

St Sebastian Boys soccer:Bambolim Boys v. Siro Boys, Fa-trade, 7 p.m; Jesus Nazareth,Siridao v. St Anthony, Goa Velha,8 p.m., greenfield, St Cruz.

AGENCIES

KANNUR, FEB 3

Viva Kerala’s misery in the I-League 2010-11 campaign con-tinued as the home team wasbeaten 2-0 by reigning leaguechampions Dempo in a RoundXIII match at Jawahar MunicipalStadium, Kannur on Thursday.

Viva Kerala went into thematch making some unexpectedchanges in the starting line-up.The team operated in a 4-1-3-2formation with their new sign-ing N P Pradeep playing the roleof a holding midfielder. TamilNadu’s V Murugappan found hisplace in the starting eleven in-stead of midfielder Ummer

Faroque. Felix Chimaokwu wasreplaced by Anil Kumar PK topartner CS Sabeeth in the at-tacking line.

The first half of the matchsaw Viva Kerala and Dempo cre-ating several goal scoring op-portunities but saw their effortsin vain as the goalkeepers playedon top of their game. ShahinlalMeloly and India internationalcustodian Subhashish RoyChowdhury did very well to pre-vent the half time score to re-main goalless despite severalchances on goal for Kerala andGoan outfits.

Dempo’s deadly duo RantiMartins Soleye and Roberto

Dempo edge out Viva Kerala Mendes Silva were quick to testthe resolve of the home team.It all began with Silva, alsoknown as Beto whose free kickfrom 35 yards out flew just wideof the goal in the 5th minute.Ten minutes later, it was RantiMartins who saw his shot flyingwide from a close range effort.

Viva Kerala created their firstopportunity in the 16th minutethrough An i l Kumar. Thecounter-attack began with aclearance from Chinta Chan-drasekhar to Anil Kumar whodribbled past the Dempo backline to take a pop on goal, butthe shot lacked accuracy. A cou-ple of minutes later, there wouldhave been a goal at the otherend if it was not for a divingsave from Shahinlal Meloly toprevent Beto.

In the 24th minute, ChintaChandrasekhar’s long throwfound Sabeeth who quicklytransferred the ball to Jimshadwho had Murugappan with

space. Murugappan took a shotfrom the edge of the box, butthis time too, the finish let downViva. In the 32nd minute,Sabeeth ghosted past the expe-rienced Dempo defender Ma-hesh Gawli and released AnilKumar on the left. Anil crossedthe ball to Sabeeth who playeda dummy to gift the ball toKarma who missed the target.

The chances were comingthick and fast for the hometeam. This time, Pradeep re-leased Sabeeth free of the de-fense. The striker crossed theball into the penalty area witha defender advancing to collecthe ball. Karma who was at theend of the cross couldn’t con-nect his shot into the open goal.

In the second half, ArmandoColaco’s side came out in searchof goals. Their movements werequick and precise and the hometeam had no answer for theirbrilliance.

The first goal came from Beto.

Match preponedHERALD SPORTS REPORTER

PANJIM, FEB 3

The 14th round I-League match between Churchill Brothers andJCT, which was scheduled to be held on February 19, will nowbe held on February 16, while Air India v. Chirag United, Round16 match scheduled to be played on February 26 has been post-poned by a day, according to AIFF.

Charles Dzisah fouled ClimaxLawrence 30 yards from the goaland the referee was quick togive the free kick in favour ofthe Goans in the 70th minute.Beto produced an excellent kickfrom 30 yards that hit the cross-bar and went in off the divinggoalkeeper.

Viva Kerala tried to respond,but the Dempo defence stayedsolid.

Dempo doubled the leadthrough Ranti Martins Soleye inthe 77th minute. The Nigerianreceived the assist from JoaquimAbranches who had just come

on to the field as a substitute.The cross met Ranti just outsidethe box and he didn’t wait totry a shot on goal. His effortbulleted into the back of thepost.

Despite much hype surround-ing Indian international N PPradeep’s debut for Viva Kerala,the player had a comparativelyuneventful match and glimpsesof his talents were only to beseen when he played the roleof the set piece taker. Along withPradeep, Anil Kumar also hadan off day today finding it hardto match the pace of the game.

AGENCIES

KHOLAPUR, FEB 3

In an entertaining encounter,Air India and Salgaocar dishedout a 1-1 draw in I-League atSahu Maharaj ground, here onThursday.

In an action-packed first half,both teams got equal opportu-nities to score but failed to getthe finishing act right. In the20th minute, Air India midfielderSukhvinder Singh took a shotwhich just missed the post by awhisker. Also Manjit Singh andOkorogor Praise were unable toscore off the free kicks in the38th and 40th minutes.

It seems injury has been neverending story for Air India as theyreceived another injury blowwhen their second goalkeeperK Kunal Sawant fractured hiswrist in an attempt to save theball in the 25th minute and willbe out of action for almost threeto four months.

Air India coach SantoshKashyap felt that his replace-ment Avijit Ghosh didn’t gettime to settle down and thatled to the team not being ableto win the tie which they couldhave won.

Salgaocar’s Yusuf Yakubu puthis side up in injury time (45+4’)

when he found the targetthrough his header.

Air India defence played theirpart as despite trailing by a goal,they didn’t allow Salgaocar strik-ers to consolidate on their onegoal advantage.

Okorogor Praise restored par-ity in the 79th minute to helphis team to snatch a crucial onepoint from the home match.After getting a cross from theleft from Collin Abranches, Oko-rogor tapped the ball in withease.

The worries for Air India justseemed to be mounting as aftergetting a yellow card in the 55th

minute Dhanachandra Singh wasonce again booked in the 85thminute and was ejected out ofthe field. The Manipuri defenderwill miss the all-important tieagainst Mumbai FC on February13.

Air India coach SantoshKashyap said, “It’s good thatafter conceding a goal we cameback and scored the equaliser. Iam happy that we got one pointfrom the match, but a win couldhave done wonders as we areplaying good and coming welleach match. I feel that afterKunal’s injury, Avijit didn’t gettime to settle down.”

Salgaocar draw with Air India

Aleixo Sequeira, Minister for Power and Environment giving away the winners prize to the captain ofSporting Club of Dorvorlim after Loutulim Panchayat Cup soccer finals.

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

MARGAO, FEB 3

Despite a 1-1 draw against AirIndia, Salgaocar Sports Club’scoach Karim Bencherifa waspleased with his team’s valiantperformance in the away match.

“We played a good game andI am satisfied with the perform-ance of the players,” he toldHerald from Kolhapur on Thurs-day evening.

Draw no problem forSalgaocar coach

Bencherifa was particularlyhappy with the way his teamplayed in the opening session.“Air India are a good side and itwasn’t going to be very easy butnow we are satisfied with thedisplay of the team. They havedone well considering that theground condition was not up tothe mark,” Bencherifa stated.

“It was always going to bedifficult to score on that surface.The pitch was hard and freeflowing soccer was difficult.” Onbeing asked about the team’sperformance in today’s match,”the Salgaocar coach said.

HERALD SPORTS DESK

PANJIM, FEB 3

Hot favourites Fomento Flamin-gos stormed into the finals ofPro-Badminton League organ-ised by Panjim Badminton Clubin association with SAG at in-door stadium, Campal, here onThursday.

In the semi-finals, Flamingosfeaturing Goa's top shuttlerFloyd Araujo, proved too stronga hurdle for Fallary Warriors.The Warriors won their opening

mixed doubles event but lostthe next three games with easeto give a 3-1 victory to Flamin-gos.

In the other semi-finals be-tween defending championsModels Eagles and strong con-tenders Caculo Chargers turnedout to be a see-saw battle, amatch where fortune fluctuatedfrom one game to the other.Caculo Chargers prevailed in theend, knocking out the defendingchampions 3-2 in the process.

Results: Fomento Flamingosbeat Fallar y Warriors 3-1.Navneet Nasnodkar and MalatiDani lost to Sandip Kanji andAnura Prabhudesai 19-21, 14-21. Krishnaraj Gauns and PranavSilimkhan beat Yash Angle andSanath Kamat 21-16, 21-14.Floyd Araujo and NavneetNasnodkar beat Chinmay andVaman Fallary 21-16, 21-10.Floyd Araujo beat Sandip Kanji21-11, 21-9.

Caculo Chargers beat Models

Eagles 3-2. Pankaj Naik and Ma-rina beat Darwin Barretto andAstha Gupta 21-17, 23-25, 21-19. Aniket Shenai and SaishSalelkar lost to Rahul Chan-drashekar and Chinmay Kamat14-21, 15-21. Pankaj Naik andKrushnan Naik beat ParagChauhan and Darwin Barretto21-16, 21-18. Aniket Shenai lostto Sunny Sawant 15-21, 22-24.Tanaji Sawant and P K Guptabeat Ajay Gupta and Anil Paigu-inkar 21-9, 21-19.

Fomento Flamingos, Caculo Chargers up

HERALD SPORTS REPORTER

MAPUSA, JAN 3

The GFA Second Division matchbetween Goa Police Sports Cluband Vaddy Sports Club, Merceswas abandoned in the 45thminute as Vaddy’s captain Verna-cio Gonsalves failed to wind hisway to the stands after being sentoff by the referee, at DSYA ground,Santa Cruz on Thursday. Thematch was tied 1-1 at that stage.

Vernacio was shown a straightred card in the 35th minute for

abusive language towards ref-eree Joao Pereira. Vernacio leftthe field but sat near his team’sbench. The fourth official askedhim to sit in the stands or goback to the dressing room, butVernacio refused as he felt itwas not safe to sit in the crowd.

The referee appealed to theVaddy management to ask theircaptain to leave. After ten min-utes of waiting, the refereecalled an end to the proceedingsand moments later the match

commissioner decided to aban-don the game.

“How can I ask my player tosit in the stands? He could beattacked by the rival fans andthere is no dressing room facility.In a match played yesterday atthe same ground, when theplayer was sent off, he was nottold to sit in the stands,” ex-plained Vaddy’s team managerPaul Fernandes.

Goa Police had taken a shocklead after just 84 seconds

through the intimidating PareshMorje, who stormed towardsthe goal and easily tapped inafter the Vaddy keeper missedthe ball totally with his at-tempted clearance.

Vaddy fought back and it wasnot long till they found theequaliser. Milton Negredopassed a free kick short to team-mate Ramesh Priolkar, who sawhis shot take a lucky deflectionoff a Goa Police defender on itsway into the net.

Vaddy-Police match abandonedl Red-carded player refuses to leave bench

The Goa State school archery U-14, U-17 and U-19 boys and girls teams which will participate in 56th National School Games in Belawadi,Pune from February 4 to 7 alongwith Ajay Yadav (coach), Gurudas Sawant (manager), Motilal Gaonkar (general manager), Gurudas Bandodkar(APEO in-charge), R N Tari (assistant director sports), C Talponkar (section officer), Chetan Kavlekar (secretary, Goa Archery Association),Laxmi Devi Sharma (coach) and Aruna Bhaduria (lady manager).

HERALD SPORTS DESK

PANJIM, FEB 3

Padre Conceicao College of En-gineering, Verna and MES Col-lege, Zuarinagar entered thesecond round of inter-collegecricket championship organisedby Goa University at Universityground, Taleigao plateau onThursday.

Padre Conceicao beat ShreeMallikarjun College by six wick-ets. Shree Mallikarjun battedfirst scoring 153 for 7 in 20overs.

Abhijit Patil (57), Dheeraj NaikDesai (32), Vinesh Satarkar (17),Sandesh Gaonkar (11) and SagarChari (11). Deepak Patel 3-24,Gunjal Desai 2-23 and Kushal

Shanbhag 1-20. PCCE scored therequired runs in 19 overs losingfour wickets. Gunjal Desai (35),Satyam Dessai (31), MayurGovenkar (31), Ekansh Tari (25)and Omkar Sardesai (12). A NaikDesai 2-32, Cavin Dias 1-23, Ab-hijit Patil 1-25.

In another match, MES Col-lege beat St Xavier's Collegeby five wickets. St Xavier'sscored 107. Sahil Warang (26),Sahil Sawkar (18). ShahabazKhan 4-18, Yeshwant Venkat-appa 2-13. Kalesh, Yogendraand Mahadev took one wicketeach. MES scored 108 for 5.Abhishek Naik (50), Vishnu Kw-erkar (29) not out. Kyle Ticlo4-25.

PCC, MES advance

RNP Salkaremerge champs

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MAPUSA, FEB 3

RNP Salkar HS, Chorao, took tophonours in the Higher Second-ary School inter-zonal softballfinals organised by DSYA at Ped-dem sports complex on Thurs-day.

In the girls finals, RNP de-feated St Theresa HS, Candolimscoring 21 homes against Can-dolim’s 1 home.

The boys finals was muchcloser, with RNP scoring 12homes and St Theresa HS,C a n d o l i m s c o r i n g t w ohomes.

Big win forCurtorim GymVASCO (HPR) -- In a one-sidedmatch, Curtorim Gymkhana scoreda 6-1 win against Mangor SC in theGFA Second Division play-off atTilak Maidan, here on Thursday.

Curtorim led 2-0 at the break.Deelip Velip struck a brace, RoyAlbuquerque, Mauvin Barretoand Sanjiv Silva scored one goaleach, while Margor conceededa self goal. Nazir Shaikh reducedthe margin for Mangor.

Leading from front, DeelipVelip struck the opener, while atthe fag end of the first half Mau-vin Barreto doubled the lead.

After change of end, CurtorimGymkhana were more dominantand they scored four more goalsto make their tally of half dozen.

Deelip Velip struck his braceto make the score 3-0, while laterRoy Albuquerque and Sanjiv Silvafurther consolidated the lead.

Pg 13SPORTSGOA, Friday, 4 February, 2011

Holy Rosary Convent HS, Nuvem U-16 boys handball State runners-up in PYKA tournament representing Nuvem panchayat organised by SAG,Panjim. Standing (l to r): Joel, Nikhil, Suraj, Royston, Milton and Selvin. Sitting (l to r): Selvin (PE teacher), Sr Divya AC (principal), Sr ChrissieAC (manager). Squatting (l to r): Savio, Clarrisson, Reagan, Nivio, Glisten and Shubham.

HERALD SPORTS DESK

PONDA, FEB 3

GHS Bethoda and MIBK Khan-depar entered the semi-finals inthe under-16 and Pragat iVidyalaya Borim, Navdurga HSMadkai and Symbiosis HS Borimmoved into the semi semi-finalsin the under-14 category ofPonda Youth Inter-SchoolsCricket Tournament organizedby Sports Excell to commemo-rate the Silver Jubilee of GVM’sGGPR College, Ponda.

GHS Bethoda, showing theirall-round abilities and stamina,first overcame Sharda EnglishHS Durbhat by seven wickets inthe morning and later in the af-ternoon defeated Navdeep HSTarvalem in the quarter-finals ina nail-biting encounter.

Tukaram was the star in bothmatches as he scored 19 againstSharda HS Durbhat and 22 not

GHS Bethoda, MIBK enter semis

out and claimed 4 wickets for 5runs including a hat-trick againstNavdeep HS.

In the other quarter-finals,

first timers with season ball,MIBK Khandepar defeated astrong Anandibai HS Madkaiwith 3 overs to spare and 9 wick-

ets in hand. Sunny with 4 bound-aries and six sixes scored 38 notout and was rightly adjudgedman-of-the match. He alsoclaimed the two opening wick-ets of Anandibai HS.

Navdurga HS Madkai overcameAnandibai HS A Madkai by 8 wick-ets with Sanket scoring 13 runsand claiming 2 wickets for 4 runs.He was declared man-of-the match.

Symbiosis Shiroda had theirsweet victory over GHS Bethodawith Ashilesh once again claim-ing the man-of-the match prizefor the second time in succes-sion with his 30 runs scored off4 boundaries. Symbiosis wonwith a margin of 23 runs.

In the last match, PragatiV idyalaya Borim defeatedAlmeida B by 17 runs. Yogeshscored 20 not out with 3 hits tothe fence and received the man-of-the match prize.

Naresh Gaunekar alongwith Principal P.M. Bhende presenting theman-of-the match award to Yogesh of Pragati Vidyalaya Borim.

Dausker Brothers winners of late Caetano Mendes All-Goa volleyball tournament organised by SangoldaLightning Club receiving the trophy from Tulio de Sousa in the presence of Nilkant Naik (deputy sarpanch,Sangolda), Bansi Naik and Lucy Mendes.

Weddingbells forClifford

HERALD CORRESPONDENT

MARGAO, FEB 3

International Dempo SportsClub’s midfielder Clifford Mi-randa will tie the nuptial knotwith teacher Pearl Falcao on Feb-ruary 5 at Our Lady of RemediosChurch, Betalbatim at 4.30 p.m.The reception will be held atVerna.

Budding Peddem RCC swimmers who excelled at 11th Jagajampi Bajaj invitational age group swimming championship at Rotary CorporationSports Academy, Belgaum recently. Front row (l to r): Ojas Karapurkar, Rahul Patil, Tanisha Murgud, Mitika Karapurkar, Dharini Shetty andMehak Shaikh. Middle row: Rishikesh Rao, Suman Patil, Sagar Patil and Akshata Karapurkar. Back row: Ajay Naik, Eugenio Cardozo, SAGproject officer, Dayanand M Patil.

PVG Sports Club. Sanguem Cricketers champs alongwith Shyam Satardekar, MLA, Santosh Naik, SuprajTari, Tushar Karmalkar, Saiesh Malwankar

HERALD SPORTS DESK

PANJIM, FEB 3

PVG Sports Club scored a 40-run win over Warriors of Cur-chorem to emerge champs in10th Sanguem Cricketers T20leather ball cricket tournamentin association with Sports Au-thority of Goa at SAG ground,Curchorem.

PVG Club scored 176 for 4 in18 overs. In reply, Warriors man-aged to score 136 for 9 in 18overs.

PVG were richer by Rs 25,000.Warriors had to be content withRs 15,000 while semi- finalistsGoa Police and Borim SportingClub received Rs 5000 each.

MLA, Shyam Satardekar wasthe chief Guest and gave awaythe prizes. The president ofSanguem Cricketers, Supraj Tariwelcomed. Durgesh Naik pro-posed the vote of thanks.

Brief score: PVG Sports Club176 for 4 in 18 overs (VideshUsgaonkar 15, Aniket Desai not

out 48, Sachin Sardesai and AmitYadav 27 each. Pushpshil Desai1-22, Harish Kutty 3-35) beatWarriors Club, Curchorem, 136for 9 in 18 overs (Harish Kutty41, Amar Aikas 21 runs. DurgeshNaik 4-33, Naresh Parsekar 2-22, Videsh Usgaonkar 2-1).

Individual prizes: Best bats-man Harish Kutty (Warriors).Best bowler: Durgesh Naik(PVG). Man-of-the finals: VideshUsgaonkar (PVG). Man-of-the se-ries: Tushar Sawant (Warriors).

PVG down Warriors, winSanguem Cricketers T20AGENCIES

LONDON, FEB 3

Luis Suarez took just 16 minutesto make his impact on Anfieldas the 22.8 million pounds($36.96 million) striker came offthe bench to score Liverpool’ssecond goal in a 2-0 PremierLeague win over Stoke City onWednesday.

After Raul Meireles’s 47th-minute opener the Uruguaystriker, a deadline day capture

from Ajax Amsterdam, joinedthe fray in the 63rd minute andtucked in the second goal to se-cure seventh-placed Liverpool’sthird successive win and takethem within two points of Sun-derland.

It was a bad night for Man-chester City as they could draw2-2 only at Birmingham City. Tot-tenham Hotspur gained groundas Peter Crouch’s early goalearned them a 1-0 win at Black-

burn Rovers.Manchester United, who beat

Aston Villa 3-1 on Tuesday, leadthe way with 54 points, fiveahead of Arsenal. ManchesterCity have 46, Chelsea 44 andSpurs 41.

At the other end of the table,West Ham United, helped by agoal by loan signing RobbieKeane, won 3-1 at Blackpool toclimb off the bottom.

Daniel Sturridge, another

Liverpool beat Stoke; Man City held

deadline day loanfrom Chelsea toBolton Wanderers,scored the only goalin stoppage time toearn his new club ahome w in ove rWolverhamptonWanderers.

In the furore surrounding Fer-nando Torres’s 50 million de-parture and the 36 millionpounds arrival of his replace-ment Andy Carroll, Suarezsneaked somewhat under theradar despite, for a few minutesat least, being Liverpool’s recordsigning.

With Carroll still nursing athigh injury and Suarez not hav-ing played for two months,Dalglish went with his tried andtested troops who, after a bat-tling first half, forged ahead withMeireles’s shot.

Suarez was given a rapturouswelcome when he came on andthe fans were soon singing hisname even louder after he ranclear and slotted his first goal,helped by a miscued clearance

attempt by AndyWilkinson.

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“Eve r yone ’ spleased for Suarez,that’s fantastic forhim and great for thesupporters,” man-

ager Kenny Dalglish told SkySports.

“He’s not trained with theplayers yet so it’s something tolook forward to when he joinsthe lads. That’s three wins andthree clean sheets so it’s a goodnight’s work.”

Manchester City twice lostthe lead at St Andrews and, aftera poor second half, were hang-ing on against a Birminghamside who had one only one oftheir last eight league games.

Carlos Tevez put City aheadafter four minutes, Nikola Zigiclevelled after 23, Aleksandar Ko-larov restored City’s lead witha great free kick late in the firsthalf but a Craig Gardner penaltyin the 77th earned the hosts adeserved point.

Birmingham ........2 Man City ................2Fulham ................1 Newcastle ..............0Blackburn ............0 Tottenham ..............1Liverpool ..............2 Stoke ......................0Bolton ..................1 Wolves ....................0Blackpool ............1 West Ham ..............3

Palermo 2 Juventus 1Fiorentina 1 Genoa 0Roma 1 Brescia 1

Udinese 1 Bologna 1Parma 0 Lecce 1Chievo 2 Napoli 0

Sampdoria 0 Cagliari 1Cesena 1 Catania 1

AGENCIES

ROME, FEB 3

Juventus’ winless streak reached fourmatches with a 2-1 loss at Palermoon Wednesday that dropped thestruggling 27-time champion intoeighth place in Serie A.

Former Juventus striker Fab-rizio Miccoli put Palermo in frontseven minutes in with a shotunder the legs of Italy goalkeeperGianluigi Buffon, then Giulio Migli-accio doubled the lead in the 20thwith a header off a corner.

Juventus argued for a penaltyto no avail despite a clear hand-ball by Palermo defender CesareBovo in the 34th, and Juventusmidfielder Claudio Marchisiotook his anger out over themissed call to cut the lead in halftwo minutes later with a shotthat went by four defenders.

Juventus beat Palermo

Real Madrid

to face Barca

in Kings’ finalAlmeria 0 Barca 3

Real Madrid 2 Sevilla 0AGENCIES

MADRID, FEB 3

Emmanuel Adebayor came offthe bench to score on his homedebut for Real Madrid and putthe icing on a 3-0 aggregate winover holders Sevilla that set upa mouthwatering King's Cupfinal against Barcelona.

After Karim Benzema hadscored the only goal in Seville inlast week's first leg, Real's twoGerman internationals combinedto make the breakthrough againsta feisty Sevilla late in the secondhalf at a nervous Bernabeu.

Sami Khedira's superb passsent Mesut Ozil clear in the 82ndminute and he rounded goal-keeper Javi Varas and finishedcooly into the empty net.

A second-string Barca had ear-lier completed a crushing 8-0aggregate victory over Almeria,Adriano, Thiago Alcantara andIbrahim Afellay scoring in a 3-0win on the night.

Second-place Napoli lost 2-0 at Chievo Verona, whichscored goals through DavideMoscardel l i and GennaroSardo. AS Roma was held to a1-1 home draw by Brescia,which equalized in the 69ththrough Brazilian striker Ederafter Marco Borriello had putRoma ahead.

AC Milan, which drew 0-0 withLazio on Wednesday, holds a five-point lead over Napoli, with Lazioseven points back and Roma ninepoints behind in fourth.

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