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On the Times of India website :

NEW DELHI: Observing that many foreigners visiting India on tourist visa are involved in journalistic activities, the Union home ministry on Wednesday asked all state governments and concerned authorities in the country to ensure strict compliance of the visa norms so that such visitors are not allowed to indulge in any other works.

It also asked the ministry of external affairs to send message to all Indian missions or posts abroad about sensitizing the foreigners about the visa provisions and their obligation to obey the norms strictly while travelling to India.

"Ministry of home affairs has noticed that foreigners coming on tourist visa are involved in coverage of events/journalistic activities. In this context, it is stated that tourist visa is not the appropriate visa for such activities by the foreigners," said the ministry in a statement.

Clarifying the issue further, it said the tourist visa was issued to foreigners who do not have residence or occupation in India and whose sole objective of visiting India is recreation, sightseeing, casual visit to meet friends and relatives.

"No other activity is permissible on tourist visa," it said.

Officials in the home ministry said that the foreigners who want to come to India for journalistic purpose can always get different visa.

"They should not come to India on tourist visa and indulge in journalistic activities," said an official.

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Indian politician beaten by villagers after 'entering a woman's home and raping her at 2am'

Assam congressman Bikram Singh Brahma beaten by villagers after 'rape'

He was visiting village of Santipur when he entered woman's house at 2am
Fact he was arrested suggests attitudes to rape in India may be changing
Trial starts of men accused of gang raping 23-year old student on Delhi bus
Youngest defendant said to have ripped victim's intestines with his hands


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2GwxEo9GQ

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Why not try Murudeshwar next year as a 'getaway' place for New year, for quiet and less crowds. Nearer than Pondicherry!
You can get there easily on NH17 or Konkan rail and change at Mangalore.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mur...iw=819&bih=403

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Looks an amazing place Bipat.!

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Some friends of mine went - I asked them what was there - they said "a big statue............................................ ..................."

AndyD 8-)₹

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What statue is that, Andy?


:rofl:.

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PJ was wanting to escape the pollution and traffic of the New Year at Goa. This place has a beautiful beach, South Indian food and is easily reached from Goa. It is not necessary to visit the largest Shiva statue and temple but it might be considered worth a look at the carvings. !!!! :)

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I watched it being built Bipat its just a BJP theme park based up on characters from The Gita.The boating pool tickled me though complete with pedalo passengers in safron !The main statue though is concrete on wire mesh painted to look like Aluminum.Hampi is going the same way too. No i am looking for some where thats quiet, safe roads great views. Not Blackpool with Dahl or come to that regarding Goa, Blackpool with tandoori chicken and crap on the beach. The stretch between Karwar and Managalore is beautiful enough complete with backwaters and very good beaches too.....same with Maharastra beyond Redi. Pristine beaches all the way to Kohlapur and beyond.Cannot understand why they come to Goa for beaches because what they have is miles better than what we have left here after all the sand extraction etc....

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Your opinion PJ.
For us it is a useful, pleasant stop-over when family visitors make the journey to futher on Shirali village, particularly since the hotel was built. (We go if space in a car).
I would personally agree with yourself that the statue is 'over the top' (literally!), but renovations to the very old temple were much needed. Mr Shetty has also built a good hospital there.
Sometimes what is appreciated and useful to the local people does not appeal to all tourists who visit.

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... but the place was being promoted as a tourist destination, not a successful local redevelopment!?

AndyD

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Both, it is a successful local redevelopment which is increasingly promoted as a tourist destination. Why not both? and everyone doesn't have to like it!!!!

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http://india.nydailynews.com/busines...ls-drop-in-goa

White skinned tourist arrivals drop.

Bye bye rogue cabbies in Goa
6 Jan: New York Daily News. If you are a regular Goa visitor, here's your chance to save money from over-charging cabbies in India's most popular beach tourism state. Tourists travelling along Goa's most popular beach stretch from Candolim to Baga will now be able to avail of a cheap bus service, thanks to the Kadamba Transport Corp (KTC), a state-run bus service… Goa's cabbies are notorious for overcharging, often to the tune of several hundred rupees for a couple of kilometres

silly article as these buses have always been running, only problem is getting on and off before the drivers shoot off again.

www.goanvoice.org.uk

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'She's as guilty as her rapists': Fury as Indian guru blames tragic student Jyoti, 23, for the vicious gang attack which killed her.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2HJ9FxluK

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India shining.






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No avatar or signature in deference to this tragic loss, and in disgust at the shithole that is India............. end of.

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WHAT A TOTAL PRICK !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbdown::thumbdown:

It is these very types of backward thinking men, especially those like this moron who influence others, who enforce and encourage second rate treatment of women in this world. The sooner idiots like this either die or get an education the better !

Dread - x