8-feb-2013 … With the carnival celebrations being kicked off in to the capital city from Saturday questions are being raised on weather the officials of the corporation city of Panjim as well as carnival organizers or enthusiasts would take care of the various plants that are grown inside the road medians from kala academy to the patto brige which are likely to get stampede during the ongoing carnival festival

It may be noted that the city of Panjimget flooded with carnival enthusiasts during the carnival float paradewhere inMore than 100 floats are slated to participate at the opening day parade of the Carnival 2013 and during this carnival float parade celebrations people are seen to be putting their feet’s over the plants grown along the divider or even the labourers fitting up bamboos destroying this plants …

On the other hand ccp has been doing its best to see that the dividers where in plants are grown are given the cities natural beauty but when such festivals of carnival, shigmo or international film festival of India are held in the state these tiny plants planted along the in the middle of the road dividers do get themselves underneath the feat of locals or are trapped under bamboo sticks for closing the one side of the area ….

Speaking to goanreporter ccp commissioner Sanjit Rodrigues said that it was difficult to keep a control on the people who were coming to watch the carnival float parade and there was loss of plantation due to the stampede during such festival every year …

Horticulturist Daniel dsouza said that the city gardens were facing a set back due to festivals like carnival being held once in a year he had proposed of shifting carnival float parade route to be shifted towards shigmo route as the shigmo route was much more spaced out and no gardens were coming along the route

Meanwhile Commenting over the samba square where in a four day festivities of carnival would kick off Sanjit said that theSamba Square would feature dance, music and entertainment for five days along with Special games and kids’ zones, lounges and entertainment being set up at the garden.

7-feb-2013 … Stating that a diluted lokayukta is no lokayukta the state Congress legislature party on Thursday decided to request the goa state governor Bharat wir wanchoo not to give his assent over the present lokauykta

The decision was taken at the congress legislature party meet which was held at the residence of the opposition leader pratapsingh rane at altinho and was attendned by st cruz mla babush monsoratte, curtorim mla reginaldo lourenco, dabolim mla mauvin Godinho, valopi mla vishwajjet rane along with opposition leader pratapsingh rane while st cruz mla jeniffer monsoratte, quepem mla babu kavlekar, Margao mla Digambar kamat and cumbarjua mla pandurang madkaikar remained absent from the meet …

Addressing press media curtorim mla and spokesperson of the state congress party reginaldo lourenco said that the members of the congress legislature party strongly condemned the amendments passed to the lokayukta in the last assembly session by the present bjp led government

Reginaldo said the party would not mind if there was a special one day assembly session to discuss over the lokayukta issue

 Reginaldo also stated that the congress party mla’s had opposed to the request of the state bjp led government of assisting them in foreign jaunts

6-feb-2013 … The state cabinet on Wednesday approved various post in the field of cardiology and cardio-thorensic unit of the goa medical college hospital for a contract period of one year ….

 Addressing press media at the cabinet briefing chief minister Manohar Parrikar said that the cabinet had approved two cardiologist, two cardio theoretic surgeon, two cardio anesthologist, clinical cardiac perfutionist

 Parrikar said that a 100 tones garbage treatment plant would be set up at baiguinim site which would not have smell within the radius of 2mts while a short tender would be floated by mid of this month for garbage collection along the highway roads …

 Commenting over the issue of lokayukta Parrikar stated that he was ready to reduced 16a deemed rejection clause and was open for amount clarification but opined that punishment had to be there for vexatious complaints

5-feb-2013 … Being committed to the development of the local community in the village of corlim and surrounding areas sygenta, santa monica, corlim on Monday awarded scholarships of the year 2012 to various students of corlim and to the students of surrounding areas of corlim, old goa, carambolim and cumbarjua …

On the occasion dean of the faculty of natural sciences, goa university dr Erwin desa was the chief guest for the function along with sygenta site manager martin gosh, head of corporative social responsibilities at santa monica p s jagdessha and maria menezes …

Various students from primary school, secondary schools and higher secondary who had done exceptionally well in studies, sports, arts, music were awarded Scholarships from the hands of respected dignitaries present on the occasion

Speaking on the occasion chief guest of the function dr Erwin desa said appreciated the idea of sygenta for giving scholarships to local schools

Site manager of sygenta martin gosh also spoke on the occasion sygenta would like to engage much more with the community though scholarships is one of the idea in it

4-feb-2013 … In a special gram sabha meet members of the village Panchayat of corlim on Sunday passed a resolution demanding for Special Status to Goa a resolution which has been asked by the gram sabha members to be forwarded to the Chief Minister of Goa on behalf of the villager’s of Corlim

The other resolution passed at the gram sabha meet were that all multi-storied mega project developments be immediately stopped and no permission be granted for any future mega projects, all village roads be limited to less than 5m width, buffer zone of radius 1.5 km from the Panchayat Building of Corlim be established in which no new multi-storied buildings can be constructed, all new applications for water and electricity be carefully studied by Corlim Panchayat including ground water and the same be advised to the respective Departments

it was also noticed that a panch member victor Pereira was seen sitting in the middle of the gram sabha members trying to discuss about the issue of the local village Panchayat with the members of the gram sabha

also it was brought to the notice of the Panchayat body member’s by the villagers of Corlim that the approved plans of the massive mega-project which had show the existing road width of the village road as 6 mts on tcp plan was totally wrong as the present road width varies from 3m to lessthan 6mts at different locations along the road bordering the construction project due to which the villagers requested that building license be revoked but however the  Panchayat assured the villagers that  they will call for inspection of the road site near the construction of the concerned project by The Town & Country Planning Department and the PWD and the panchayat informed that the concerned members would be invited during the  Site Inspection ..

Meanwhile panch member victor Pereira also brought to the notice of gram sabham members of  his idea of having a garbage treatment plant for the village of corlim …

3-feb-2012 … Peter England, india’s premium men’s wear brand on Saturday announced its first exclusive store in Panjim ..

The company opened its first exclusive outlet in Goa at panaji city today. State Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurated the outlet, which is located in the heart of the city

Spread over 1350 square feet the store would offer a complete array of fine crafted formal shirts trousers sharp suits and blazers and accessories for young men who are at the beginning of their career …

Peter England is known to have an iconic past and the location chosen for the store launch is equally iconic the very famous vaglo building which is owned by vasant and sachin vaglo …

Meanwhile peter brand intends to expand its pan-India presence by increasing its current number of 500 outlets to 600 by March 2014 Kedar Apshankar, Chief Operating Officer Peter England, told reporters during the inauguration of the outlet in the city

2-feb-2013 … Members of the India against corruption on Saturday raised their protest against the goa lokayukta first amendments act 2013 which was introduced and passed in the last state assembly session without consulting the civil society at large ….

Addressing a press conference held in the capital city on Saturday coordinator of India against corruption valmiki naik said that India against corruption goa branch regrets to note that the amending act was not only ignoring the provisions of the uttarkhand lokayukta bill but also has potential of contradicting it

Dr. Oscar Rebello who was also a part of the press briefing said that there was a sense of a complete hurt and betrayal by the present government with the way the lokayukta was amended

1-feb-2013 … After the former home minister ravi naik ruled out possibility of joining Nationalist Congress Party to grab the north goa Lok Sabha ticket, the state ncp party seems is believed to have put on their mind of convincing former revenue minister jose Philip D’souza for the north goa parliamentary seat …

Though the parliamentary elections are slated to take place in 2014 there had been talks that the state nationalist congress party was in process of asking the former home minister ravi naik to fight the north goa parliamentary seat on the ncp ticket which was denied by the formed home minister after which the party is believed to have taught of looking out for a candidate from his own party …

Sources said the state ncp party were in talks of convincing the former revenue minister to fight the north goa parliamentary seat on the ncp ticket where in coalition partners the congress party would support the ncp party candidate

Speaking to goanreporter over the issue former revenue minister jose Philip dsouza said if his high command ask him to contest the north goa seat then he would be ready to do so

Press Release For the day as on 30. 01. 2013 Pertaining to the cases Registered at below mentioned Police Stations / Units are as under.

NORTH GOA DISTRICT

PANAJI PS: Victim lady complained that on 30.01.13 at 11.20 hrs. at Patto Panaji, accused  Custodio s/o Circumsiao  Mendes r/o Merceswadi abused her, thereby outraged her modesty, so also  accused  threatened  with dire consequence  to her  and her  boss  Mr.  Aubrey D’Souza. Accused arrested and released on bail. Cr.No.45/13 u/s 354, 506 IPC stands registered.

PONDA PS:  Shri Rupesh s/o Laxmikant Prabhu r/o Borim-Ponda complained that on 28.01.13 at 13.30 hrs. at Borim, accused Vasusha  w/o Ravindranath  Nipanikar  r/o  Shirshire rode his Pleasure scooter  No. GA-05-H-0380 in a rash and negligent  manner,  dashed  to his  son namely  Sushant  Prabhu and  caused  injury  to his right  leg. Accused being arrested. Cr.No.34/13 u/s 279, 338 IPC and134 (a) (b) of M. V. Act registered.

ANJUNA PS:Complaint on behalf of the State that on 30.01.13 at 22.50 hrs. at UV Bar and restaurant  Praisewada,  Anjuna accused  Manjunath  s/o  Ramappa Naik, age 20 yrs.  N/O Gadag at present r/o St.  Anthonywada, Anjuna was found playing loud amplified music without having permission from competent authority beyond 22.00 hrs. Thereby causing annoyance and nuisance to the public. Accused arrested. Cr.No.12/13 u/s 7 and 10 of M.P. of Music and noise Act 1951 stands registered. PSI M Kerkar is I. O.

MAPUSA PS: Mrs.  Margarat Fernandes r/o Sodiem, Siolim complained that on 30.01.13 at around 06.50 hrs.  at Tropa  Church  Sodiem  Accused 1)  Domnic D’Souza,  President  of  World  revival  Ministry, 2)  James  and 3)  Inacio  ( full  names  not known)  with their  common intention  stopped  her  scooter  while she  was going  to church  for  Mass at Tropa  church,  further  abused  her  saying  bad words and came  to assault  and  pushed  her  and  threatened  her with  dire  consequence. Accused being arrested. Cr.No.37/13 u/s 341, 504, 509, 506, 352 r/w 34 IPC registered. PSI P. Phadte is I. O.

2) On 30.01.13, dead body of unknown male person was found lying near SBI Bank Mapusa. Body preserved in GMC Morgue Bambolim for PME and identification. U.D.No.12/13 u/s 174 Cr. P. C. stands registered. PSI Prajyot Fadte is I. O.

3) On 30.01.13, dead body of unknown person was found lying in canal at Sirsaim. Body preserved in GMC Morgue Bambolim for PME and Identification. U.D.No.13/13 u/s 174 Cr. P. C. stands registered. PSI Prajyot Fadte is I. O.

PORVORIM PS: Joseph s/o Luis Salvador Pereira, age 30 yrs.  r/o Josil Cottage   Hanumantwada, Ecoxim, Bardez  complained that between 13.01.13  at 18.00 hrs.  to 30.01.13 at 08.45 hrs.  at Holy  Cross Chappel  Hanumatwada, Ecoxim, unknown accused person committed  theft of two  antique  idols  of St.  Peter and St. Francis Xavier of height around one foot black and golden color W/rs.1,00,000/- approx.,  by breaking  lock of  side  door of Holy  family  chapel. Cr.No.21/13 u/s 454, 457, 380 IPC stands registered. PSI V. Durbhatkar is I. O.

SOUTH GOA DISTRICT

CURCHOREM PS:Suryakant J.  Shirodkar, Branch manager of Goa Sahakar Bhandar Curchorem r/o Shiroda complained that between 29.01.13 at 19.30 hrs.  to 30.01.13  at 02.30 hrs.  Curchorem  unknown  culprit/s  effected entry into Sahakar  Bhandar  Curchorem  by  bending  the shutter  and committed  theft of  safe  containing  cash,  2 gold coins  of 3 grams, 3 coins silver, all W/rs.1,53,00/- approx.  Cr.No.08/13 u/s 457, 380 IPC stands registered.  ASI Peter Fernandes is I. O.

QUEPEM PS:On 30.01.13, one Hiru s/o Kidu Kolanbe r/o Sirvoi Quepem was brought dead at PHC Kakoda as a case of suicidel at his residence. Body preserved in Hospicio Hospital Morgue. U.D.No.3/13 u/s 174 Cr. P. C.  Stands registered. PSI S. Desai is I. O.

31-jan-2013 … Fish market in the capital city of Panjim remained open on Thursday morning after the fish vendors from the Panjim fish market had remained close for the past two days extending their support to the ongoing strike by the fishing trawler owners over the hike in the diesel prices done by the central government in the state remained closed today

It may be noted that fish markets in the cities like Panaji, Margao, Vasco,  Mapusa  and others had gone on strike from Tuesday due to which there was no trade in the markets as with fish vendors not turning up to sell fish in the market in support of the All Goa Fishermen’s Federation who had began agitation since Saturday demanding that the hike in the diesel prices by the central government be rolled back.

But due to two days closure of fish market, less crowd was noticed at the city fish market on Thursday

Meanwhile chief minister Manohar Parrikar also gave his views over the central governments decision of raising a hike in diesel prices