prestonjohn

Your subjective because of your experiences around child abuse.Im being objective because i can see it without personal pain becoming involved. The whole matter is now rapidly becoming something of a farce fed by Red Top animosity towards the BBC and fear of what The Levenson Equiry will recommend.Its names out of hat now. What next the Test Card stared at me and i felt abused ? Lets see how many stand in the dock because the CPS are going to have prosecute and as Freddy Starr said its just my word against hers in the end.Can you imagine what a defence QC will make of some of the witnesses ? Mince meat.

noni

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...hile-ring.html

noni

Russians felt so much "at home" at Morjim and had become so overbearing, dominating and unmindful of native cultural sentiments that they had put up Russian signs at various spots in the village. That made villagers who had lived at Morjim for generations feel like strangers. But last week, the Morjim Gram Sabha passed a resolution to remove Russian signboards, which was a demand put forth by many locals

http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/...es-vs-russians

Veritas1

From todays Mail - proposal to cut foreign aid to India by half:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-handouts.html

johnny five

http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-news/...ayboy-club-goa



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a_f_d

According to today's paper the control freaks at MHA have now moved on to try and stuff up pre-paid SIMs for Indians as well as foreigners, cellphone operators will now no longer be allowed to sell pre-authorised Sims (as I pointed out elsewhere these are the ones that work for 5 or 6 days until the operator decides he doesn't like your address &c.). From now on they will have to validate their customers including a visit to validate address BEFORE your SIM works!! Wonder how much of the tourists' 3-month limit will be left after that?
Trouble is that cellphones snuck up on GoI when they weren't really looking and now they find they can't control them (and didn't get a big enough cut out of all that money), which is blowing their pointy minds - they say they could be used by crooks and terrorists (like landline phones can't? - and half of GoI aren't crooks themselves?).

AndyD 8-)₹

noni

so now mobiles - no snailband.!

hemingway

A post on TA claims that termination of foreigner's prepaid mobile sims will coincide with the expiry date of visas which the mobile company has a copy of from when you 'apply' for your SIM.

H.

a_f_d

... or 3 months if that is less - irrespective of the length of the visa. What is not clear is whether 'foreigners' are people who offer passport id - i.e. are you OK with a driving licence?

AndyD 8-)₹

P.S this has all the symptoms of another inter-ministry turf war.

a_f_d

link to the Heraldo article on SIMs

k800mer

So because of a few criminals everyone else has to suffer! my indian mobile was still working in October when I used it to keep it live.

johnny five

A bunch of @rseholes, unmitigated, unjustified but.................


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a_f_d

It isn't the crims it's the numpties who think that because crims use cellphones, hire bikes, travel on trains; wear shoes, have their haircut, etc. these activities all need to be banned or monitored!

what sim btw - and what id did you use for it?

AndyD 8-)₹

noni

http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details...=11%2f5%2f2012

Bob Geldof in concert in Bambolim

iain492001

Like most things in Goa, you get to hear about them once they're over!!

There was talk of Carlos Santana (of Black Magic Woman fame) performing in Candolim in the New Year - wonder if that's all hearsay????