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Goa Tourism to step up security with helpline number

10 Feb: IANS. Goa plans to have a helpline number and a 500-member strong tourist security task force... the total tourists arrivals in the state stood at 2,503,703 in 2009, while its projection for 2010 is pegged at 1,013,195. In a bid to restore its tourist-friendly image, the state government seems to be taking several steps to improve the infrastructure and security in Goa...

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And what is the white jeep doing - extorting money from the girls on the beach and upsetting the tourists with their antics by their actions.

Rather than intimidate the girls, why don't they round up the children and take them back to school, and get rid of all the dogs on the beach.

Real Security protection is what Goa needs.

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According to Heraldo the power cuts that didn't happen last Sunday will be this Sunday (13th). As there are supposed to be cuts in the Vasco area as well it seems that most of Goa will be without power!

AndyD 8-)#

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And how many of the drop in tourist numbers can be attributed to those of us who would have come out then gone home for Christmas and come back but did not because of the visa situation!
They do not need more corrupt police, they harm rather than help the image of Goa.

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Many of our friends on the beach, had returned for a Christmas, but are not returning, and many have not renewed their lease on long term rentals as if the three month rule comes in, they are not returning to Goa.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/7479837.cms

Pitiful, bl**dy pitiful.

So now the hardworking organisers have got three short weeks to find a replacement sponsor..............

and all so the corrupt criminals can divert more funds into their own pockets!

Or did you believe the USA promotional trip story-line?

Thieving scum.

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According to today's paper a court has ruled that a woman wearing revealing clothes is grounds for divorce** - funny, when I was a lad it often led to marriage!

** the explanation they gave must have lost a lot in the translation (from english to english).

AndyD 8-)#

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I See Andy there is life in the old dog yet!!!!

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The Government has been defending its decision to give £1 billion in aid to India, despite the rapidly increasing wealth of the emerging economic giant.
A review of UK aid will maintain aid donations to India of £280 million a year until 2015, while withdrawing assistance from countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Serbia and Moldova, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell revealed.
The decision is likely to infuriate some Conservative MPs, who believe it is time to halt aid to India, which has economic growth of 8.5% a year, gives aid of its own to Africa, spends £20 billion a year on defence and has a £1.25 billion space programme.
But Mr Mitchell will use a speech at Chatham House on Tuesday to insist that, while Britain's aid programme to India will not go on forever, it is not yet time to withdraw from the country.
Describing India as "a development paradox", which is home to more than 300 million of the world's poorest people as well as some of its wealthiest, he will say UK aid will in future be targeted at its three least developed states - Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.
Challenged on BBC Radio 4's Today programme over why Britain should support a country which spends such large sums on defence, at a time when its own defence budget is shrinking, Mr Mitchell said: "India is in a part of the world which is quite challenged in defence terms. Their defence budget is going down.
"India has the biggest pro-poor social protection and anti-poverty programme anywhere in the world. Our contribution to that is modest, but it is significant, particularly in the three states I have mentioned.
"They do have a space programme, but on the other hand there are more poor people in India than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa and the average income of an Indian citizen is only one-third of that of a Chinese person."
Asked about Mr Mitchell's comments, Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokesman said: "We have always been very clear that we are committed to increasing our aid budget to 0.7% of GDP and we are going to stick to that commitment.
"Some of the poorest people in the world still live in India and that's why we are maintaining a development programme there for a transitional period."

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Why Britain should give aid to India
18 Feb: The Guardian (UK). UK politicians are struggling to justify the aid budget to India in the face of a media backlash, but it's the right thing to do …

osecutor in Scarlett Keeling death case quits
18 Feb: BBC. The prosecutor in the case of two men accused of raping and killing British teenager Scarlett Keeling has resigned… A new prosecutor has been assigned, but he has asked for time to consider whether or not to take the case. The trial has been running for 11 months. Ms MacKeown, who is still waiting to bury her daughter, told BBC News she had no specific plans to mark the third anniversary of her daughter's death on Friday


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http://oheraldo.in/news/Main%20Page%...hen/45810.html

And at the centre of deceit and deliberate confusion on the Mopa issue?

Anupam Kishore

Obviously decided he is not going to be the new owner of hundreds of confiscated properties from foreigners, so seeking his fortune elsewhere.....


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Muslim teacher who amassed £1.7m property portfolio using fraudulent mortgage claims while receiving benefits is jailed

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1EP6vaipU

This is why people are getting exasperated.:thumbdown:

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Not a bad return for 5 years in jail. I could not see where it says that the money/property obtained through the fraud has been confiscated. I did not earn that much in 5 years when I was working full time

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FROM "THE HINDU"

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Feb 21, 2011
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India “wants” thousands of extra EU visas under trade deal

Hasan Suroor

LONDON: India is reported to be demanding thousands of extra visas for its workers under a multi-billion pound trade deal it is negotiating with the European Union (EU).

According to media reports, India wants up to 50,000 extra visas a year spread across EU's 27 member-States under the proposed India-EU free trade agreement with Britain said to be under pressure to cough up 20,000 of these.

The Sunday Telegraph claimed that India was “lobbying” for between 15,000 and 20,000 extra British, 7000 German and 3,000 French visas for its citizens.

“In return for the visas, the trade deal put forward by the Indian government is expected to be worth at least £4 billion a year to the EU. Britain is expected to win about half that trade, providing a significant boost to exports,” the newspaper said.

A first?

If the deal went through, it would be the first time that any country would have access to a fixed number of British visas every year.

Anti-immigration groups said the move made “nonsense” of the government's efforts to reduce economic migration through measures such as the proposed annual cap on immigration from non-EU countries set to kick in from April. They said the cap was “diluted” after the government agreed not to apply it to intra-company transfers, which would allow big businesses from India and other non-EU countries to bring in high-income staff on temporary posting.

“Britain's 2.5 million unemployed have a right to know what is going on and to be told why the Prime Minister's pledges both to help create jobs and to cut back net immigration are being seriously undermined in this way,” said Andrew Green, chairman of the right-wing think-thank MigrationWatch UK.

‘Significant benefits'

The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills said the proposed deal would deliver “significant” economic benefits to Britain.

A spokesman said “strict criteria” were being negotiated to ensure that only highly-skilled workers were allowed to come in.

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Video: A loaded barge sinks off Sinquerim

21 Feb: Goa 365. A loaded barge sank off Sinquerim beach near Aguada Fort while unloading iron ore onto a transhipper on Sunday evening. According to reports, out of the 7 crew members, one sailor died while the 6 were rescued by the Siolim Coastal Police.

India's dodgy 'paid news' phenomenon

21 Feb: The Guardian. The Indian government has condemned the phenomenon of "paid news", in which newspapers and broadcasters accept money to run favourable articles about politicians, companies and celebrities... Last week, a Sunday Times reporter posing as the PR agent of a company was quoted fees for covering an event in the Times of India ...


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5 year xs here we come