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GET RID OF GARBAGE
THE WHEEL has come full circle. Sanjit Rodrigues, who as commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) had initiated the chaka chak campaign during the tenure of Manohar Parrikar as the chief minister, is back as the boss man at the CCP. I remember being present at an interaction with leading citizens on eliciting if not enthusing citizens, or rather residents, of Panaji to cooperate in solving the problem of garbage disposal, which had assumed threatening proportions then as now. Sanjit very eloquently stressed that without the cooperation of the residents, the problem of garbage could not be solved. It is very simple. Garbage did not come out of thin air. It is the citizen or the resident and the families living in Panaji who generate garbage. So much so, they have an obligation to not only support but actively participate in solving the literally mounting problem of garbage disposal. It was in the interest of residents to actively participate in garbage disposal because if garbage accumulates, it is them and their children and their grandchildren who will be vulnerable to the entire range of diseases, ranging from malaria to filaria to dengue to gastroenteritis.
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IT’S TOUGH to be a baby today! From the time a baby is born it’s the target of an immunisation schedule…for tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertusis, tetanus, polio, measles, hepatitis and now increasingly from the mosquito-bite scourge of malaria, filaria, Japanese encephalitis, dengue, chikungunya and whatever else in store in the near future as mosquitoes continue to proliferate to spread disease, suffering and mercifully a quick death in Goa and in state after state.
WITH THE modernisation of the Goa Medical College building and the Health Minister’s promise to provide state-of-the-art medical facilities in Goa, lower and middle-class Goans were relieved that they need not rush to KLES, Bombay Hospital, KEM hospital, Breach Candy hospital, Lilavati hospital, etc to procure quality medical services for dialysis, endoscopies, major and minor operations and even cancer treatment.
A mobile phone that is Bluetooth enabled is able to pair with many devices. To ensure the broadest support of feature functionality together with legacy device support, the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) forum has recently published a recommendations paper, entitled “Bluetooth Local Connectivity”.
Where are you on the election map?
After the delimitation process was completed, you may find that your region falls under a different constituency. Take a close look at the maps to determine where you figure on the Election Map.
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Communalism Combat
KASHMIRIS WANT ARMY SENT BACK TO BARRACKSON MAY 29, 2009 in Shopian Kashmir, two girls, Nilofer and Asiya, were raped and murdered although the administration tried to pass it off death due to drowning. The valley erupted with protests with their favourite slogan of several years, “Hamen kya chahiye? Azadi!” (What do we want? Freedom!). Every time there is injustice in the valley, the people repeat this old demand.
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MMC CAUSE OF SONSODDO DEBACLE
AFTER THE garbage crisis hit Panaji, now the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) is looking for a way out of the Sonsoddo garbage dump. The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 issued orders that the Margao Municipal Council should locate a landfill site to get rid of the garbage piling up at Sonsoddo, by the end of January 2010, failing which the MMC will be held in contempt of court.
Lifestyle
KOILOREO - GOA’S PERFECT PANCAKE
FOR SOME time now I’ve been intrigued by the sound of koiloreo, you really have to roll your tongue to get it right in Konkani. What is it? Goa’s quintessential pancake with the mostest! No, not made of refined flour, eggs and sugar Western-style, but made of local curmot red kernel rice, soaked overnight or four hours and ground to a fine batter with freshly grated coconut…
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WHERE DOES THE BJP GO FROM HERE?TO BE meaningful, productive and curative, collective introspection in the party must begin with each one individually. The party must, therefore, conduct a rigorous and objective analysis of all the factors that led to its defeat, and this should be done with the participation of the largest possible number of party workers and supporters at various levels.
