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Guirim teenager charged for raping villager                             
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:25am.          
MAPUSA, NOV 23 (From Jerry Santamaria) Mapusa police have arrested a    
19-year-old-youth from Sorvem-Guirim for allegedly raping a 12-year-old 
girl from the same village. The accused Gaurish Sawal who was           
immediatley arrested by the Mapusa police has been remanded to seven    
days in police custody by JMFC, Mapusa.                                 
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Angle to remain saffron for polls                                       
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:25am.          
MARGAO, NOV 23 (HR) South Goa Member of Parliament, Ramakant Angle, has 
reiterated that he will contest the Lok Sabha polls only on the BJP     
ticket and maintained that he would work for the success of the party   
even in the event of he being denied a ticket. Replying to questions on 
rumours doing the rounds that he plans to contest on the Congress
ticket
since the BJP is not inclined to re-nominate him for next year*s Lok    
Sabha polls, Angle said *All these are mere rumours spread by the       
Opposition Congress*.                                                   
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Welfare schemes in abundance, but no takers!                            
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:25am.          
MARGAO, NOV 23 (From Guilherme Almeida) There may be an occasional      
outcry from the elected representatives over the poor condition or the  
total absence of roads in the State*s countryside, but here is a case   
where meetings held to plan efficient rural road network draws lukewarm 
response. In fact, the centrally-sponsored Prime Minister Gram Sadak    
Yojana (PMGSY) scheme has made little headway in South Goa district,    
with the funds lying unutilised for want of any takers.                 
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EDITORIAL: Tragic week                                                  
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:25am.          
FOR GOA, the past week spelt days packed with bad news. On the Thursday 
morning, Panjim was agog with speculation about the deaths of three     
young women in the Mandovi river. Initially, there were suggestions
that
the women came from beyond Goa*s borders. Later, the victims were       
identified as having come from the dusty mining-heartland of Pissurlem  
and Pale in north-eastern Goa. (Currently, the attitude in Goa almost   
leads into believing that if the victims are not from the state, then
we
should care less about them.)                                           
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Saraswat cuisine: Goan food comes in more flavours than you thought     
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:25am.          
PANJIM, Nov 23: Goan food comes in many more flavours than are widely   
known. Meat-based vindaloos and hi-fashion restaurants based on more    
Western-influenced cullinary works might be making it to the headlines  
worldwide. But there*s a whole new world waiting to be discovered.      
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OPINION: Grades versus marks: what's the difference?                    
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:17am.          
Regardless of whether we have marks or grades, students still have to   
sit for exams, the exam papers will still be corrected and marks given  
to them. Are we not just artificially converting marks into grades,
e.g.
above 90 is an A, below 40 is an F? Are we not being unfair to a
student
who earn more marks but there is no indication of it in grades?         
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COMMENT: Politics need not be dirty (by Floriano Lobo)                  
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:17am.          
Politics has become a game with such a bad name that everyone, and that 
includes the citizenry as well as the media, scorns the very mention of 
politics. If one happens to talk about *new political parties*, one can 
expect heavens to fall on one*s head.                                   
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PROFILE * Fr Almeida: an organic revolutionary                          
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:25am.          
PANJIM, NOV 23 (From Miguel Braganza) One of the frontline leaders of   
the 'organic brigade' in Goa today is Fr Inacio Almeida, SFX, of the    
Pilar Natural Farm, located just off the National Highway 17 below the  
chapel that currently celebrates the platinum jubilee of Goa*s          
saint-in-the-making Agnelo de Souza.                                    
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Goan porcelain, music ... and conservation                              
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:25am.          
PANJIM (From Mafalda Mascarenhas) Next weekend (Nov 29 and 30) will see 
the 3rd Goa Heritage Festival being held at Massano d'Amorim Building,  
National Theatre Square, in Panjim. Over two days it will showcase Goan 
architectural, natural and cultural heritage through lectures,          
exhibitions, dance performances and demonstrations by Goan crafts       
persons.                                                                
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Black outs (By Adelmo Fernandes) 
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:17am.          
Just recently the world's most powerful nation experienced what we in   
the developing nations experience ever so frequently. Many parts of     
America went through a blackout which lasted for several hours. A few   
days latter, it*s brother-in-arms, Britain too had to spend many hours  
without light. This news would have probably made Saddam Hussein        
(wherever he is) very happy. Indeed blackouts are a great leveler since 
like the poor nations, now the rich countries too experience them.      
During the period of the blackout the citizens of these two countries   
probably had to climb the steps in absence of the elevator, they must   
have been sweating in absence of the air-conditioner and probably were  
stranded at the stations due to non-functioning of the metres.          
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Rukminirama Steel Rollings awarded ISO 9001:2000                        
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:17am.          
MARGAO, NOV 23 (HR) Cuncolim-based Rukminirama Steel Rollings Ltd has   
been awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification for successfully           
implementing the quality management system. The certificate was         
presented to Rukminirama Director, B Raghavendra by the managing        
director of Mumbai-based International Certification Services (Asia),   
Sundar Kataria at a ceremony in the city.                               
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R e a d e r S p e a k                                                   
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:17am.          
This edition contains letters from Irineu Gonsalves (Nagoa-Verna) on    
early polls, Jerry Fernandes (Saligao) about the art and talent of Remo 
Fernandes, S Bhandari (Bangalore) on eunuchs in the trains, Philip      
Thomas (Ribandar) on the attitude of people towards politics and Jose C 
Joao from Merces, questioning whather our water is really safe. To send 
in your letters, just write to letters oheraldteam.com                  
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100 projects completed in South Goa under Angle's MPLAD fund            
Submitted by Herald Cybernew... on 24 November, 2003 - 1:17am.          
MARGAO, NOV 23 (From Guilherme Almeida) Health, education and sports    
facilities were all what South Goa MP, Ramakant Angle had promised to   
make available to his constituents under the MPLAD scheme soon after he 
got elected to Parliament in 1999.                                      
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