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Russians should sunbathe, have fun, go back, says Goa BJP
Goa News

Panaji, March 8 : Goa Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Laxmikant Parsenkar Monday said Russian tourists should �stay for two months, sunbathe, have fun, spend money and go back�.The senior BJP legislator also warned that Russian tourists should not indulge in businesses when they come to Goa on a tourist visa.�The 'susegado' (relaxed) attitude which Goans have is working against us. Goans themselves let out tourism business
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Scarlett case: Charges framed against two locals
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A Goa court on Monday framed charges against two locals for grave sexual assault and destroying evidence in the sensational Scarlett Eden Keeling death case reported in the state in 2008.The Goa Children�s Court also pressed charges, including culpable homicide, outraging modesty, destroying evidence and grave sexual assault under the Goa Children�s Act, against the duo � Samson D�Souza and Placido Carvalho.Goa Children�s Court president B P Deshpande
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Selja tells locals to keep up Goa�s friendly image
Admitting that some incidents against foreigners has marred Goa�s image to certain extent, the Union Minister for Tourism Kumari Selja today called on locals to be more vigilant and more tourist-friendly.�Goa I know is the most tourist-friendly state in India but unfortunately some incidents have marred its image internationally,� Selja said while addressing the gathering after laying the foundation stone for the mega circuit project for tourism, financed by the Central government.
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4th March:The Portuguese seize Goa
Today in History:Vasco da Gama returned to Lisbon in 1499 after his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to the south-western coast of India. He had hoped to find Christians there in the domains of the legendary Prester John, but saw no sign of them. He did, however, see opportunities to break the Muslim hold on the spice trade. King Manuel of Portugal sent a second fleet to develop trading relationships with Indian rulers and in 1503 Afonso de Albuquerque built the first Portuguese fort in India, at Cochin, where the local rajah was friendly. [ More ]

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Partying in Goa? Government will decide
Goa News

Famous for its raves and other all-nighters, Goa now needs to check if it can party with the Home Ministry.It was upto the local administration, usually District Collectors, to sanction permission for large parties. Now, the state's Home Minister will decide who can party, where, and for how long.The goal is to check the drugs sold and used openly at these parties.The same Home Minister whose made this his priority had, just two months ago, told NDTV that drugs were not a problem for Goa. "No, it's only because of the media. Otherwise there are no drugs. Just go out and see, there are no drugs. This is created by the media and the papers. Goa is so peaceful," said Ravi Naik
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Pamella Bordes traced to Goa
Goa News

London, March 2: Pamela Singh, who was known as �Pamella Bordes� when she figured in quite a classy sex scandal in Britain 21 years ago � especially when compared with the tawdry affairs involving today�s footballers � has been tracked down to her new life Goa.�Miss Bordes has a new name,� says the Daily Mail.It is wrong in that respect � Pamela Singh is her own name under which she won the Miss India contest in 1982.Pamela became �Pamella� when the beauty queen travelled west, first to America and then to Britain, where she arrived having married a Frenchman with the surname �Bordes�.In 1988 and 1989, when she worked as a �researcher� at the House of Commons, she got the newspapers hot and bothered after she was photographed one evening in the company of Colin Moynihan (now Lord Moynihan), the Tory sports minister. She was what westerners consider �exotic�.
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Naked Russians corrupt minds: Goa Congress MP
Goa News

PANAJI: Russian tourists in Morjim, a beach village in north Goa, move around naked on the beach or are scantily clad, Congress MP Shantaram Naik said Sunday after touring the area popular with Russians.Naik, who went to the village Saturday with state law commission chairman Ramakant Khalap and Congress leaders, said that such bohemianism "besides corrupting minds of locals left a horrifying impression on children".
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Goa police chief mum over charges of police-criminal nexus
Panaji: Goa Police Chief Bhimsen Bassi on Saturday expressed ignorance on the probable police-criminal nexus which let drug kingpin David Griham remain free for almost a decade.Bassi during a press conference this evening refused to answer any questions on reports about three policemen shielding Griham, a drug dealer arrested in Goa this week."I am not aware. I don't know whether it's a fact or
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