Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Inquiry ordered in missing drugs from ANC

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:40 AM PDT

A day after Crime Branch disclosed that portion of drug contents stored in the anti-narcotics godown has been missing, Home Minister Ravi Naik ordered a detailed inquiry.

CB sleuths in their submission to the Bombay High Court at Goa said, that, 24 kilos of the total 280 kilos of Charas was missing from the police godown. While, those available in the warehouse were ‘eaten’ by white ants.


“I will ask for a detailed report…personnel in-charge of the godown till date and whether each entry was registered will be looked into. I will also demand probe on how the sealed and unsealed drug parcels were attacked by white ants,” he told newsmen on the sidelines of National Fire Service event in St Inez.

Replying on action against a suspended cop’s escape, Naik said, the constable should surrender himself to avoid further complications. “The more he distances himself from police action, the more he will be in trouble. I heard he applied for anticipatory bail in Mapusa Court…He should surrender himself,” he stated.

Sanjay Parab, constable attached to Panjim police station was suspended for his alleged links with drugs dealers, has been evading arrest. CB has till date failed to track his whereabouts.

While, other five former anti-narcotic officials - inspector Ashish Shirodkar, head constable Shaikh Hussain and constables Ramchandra (Builder) Kankonkar, Sandeep (Camin) Parab and Saish Pokle were suspended and booked for corruption and conspiracy.

The minister claimed he will not interfere in the police investigation until he is submitted with the reports to act upon.

Courtesy:DigitalGoa

Goa gears up to hire consultant, begins land acquisition

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 02:07 AM PDT

Civil aviation ministry is seeking cabinet nod to allow an existing airport to co-exist with the new facility.

Goa's government is preparing to hire a consultant to advise it on a proposed new airport for the state even as the civil aviation ministry drafts a note for the Union cabinet to allow the Dabolim airport to coexist with the new facility. A senior Goa government official said it would speed up the project, for which nearly 30,000 sq. m of land is already in the process of being acquired. The government plans to acquire 50,000 sq. m more by June.

"By first week of May, we will float a tender to appoint a consultant for conducting a detailed project report," said the official, who asked not to be named. "After this, we will get a sense of the feel of the market, who all are interested?"




Some $10 billion (around Rs44,500 crore today) has been spent in the last five years on airport modernization in India, according to the Centre For Asia Pacific Aviation (Capa), and a further $20 billion of investment is expected in the following 10 years. "The Greenfield airport projects most likely to progress to the tender stage in the near future are Navi Mumbai and Mopa in Goa, with Request for Proposal documents expected to be issued in the first half of 2010," Capa said in its outlook report for the current year.

The Dabolim airport is in southern Goa, close to the state capital Panaji and run by the Indian Navy. The proposed new airport, sanctioned by the Union cabinet in March 2000, is to come up in the extreme north of the state.

The civil aviation ministry's suggestion to keep the Dabolim airport running, if approved by the cabinet, will reverse a decision mandating that an old airport be closed once a new one becomes operational—a practice followed in Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Because of local opposition to the closure of the old airport, said a civil aviation ministry official who did not want to be named, the ministry is now seeking a review of the decision by the Union cabinet so that the two airports can coexist. 

The move may, however, require an understanding between rival airport operators to ensure that new projects are viable. The civil aviation ministry has also approved an airport project in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra, which is further north of Goa.

Keeping the Dabolim airport open after the new facility is constructed in Goa would mean that three airports would be operating in a 130km stretch and competing for passenger and freight traffic

The Goa government hopes to reach an agreement on traffic distribution between the Dabolim airport and the new facility, said the state government official cited earlier. The Sindhudurg project is a different matter because it is located in another state, the official added.


Courtesy: livemint

Goa: Reliving the Maratha period

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:32 AM PDT

The Dinanath Mangueshkar Kala Mandir at the Kala Academy will witness performance of the 2,100th show of the popular Marathi historical drama, 'Raigadala Jevha Jaag Yete' (When Raigad Awakes) on April 19; an impressive achievement for a drama written in the early 1960s and on the verge of completing its golden jubilee.

shivaji

The noted actor/ producer/ director, Avinash Deshmukh who revived the drama in the mid-1980s has been playing the central character of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj since then, though the rest of the cast including eminent actor, Mohan Joshi has undergone change.

Addressing a press conference in the city along with his daughter, Rujuta Deshmukh who enacts the role of Yesubai (wife of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj), Mr Deshmukh said that after he revived the drama some two-and-a-half decades ago, it went on to complete 1,200 shows. "Then the play started faltering, and we had to approach the playwright, Prof Vasant Kanetkar to rearrange the script and convert the three acts of the play into two acts, and restrict the same to 130 minutes duration," he added.

"The play is an intelligent piece of work; it is less of a historical drama and more of a social comment on the relationship between one of the most famous father and son pairs," Mr Deshmukh observed, noting that 'Raigadala Jevha Jaag Yete' is a humane tale, with no place for weapons like swords or spears. He also informed that presently the role of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj is enacted by his own son, Chaitanya Deshmukh, while his daughter, Rujuta is playing the character of Yesubai.

The play has music by Anand Modak, while Ravindra Sathe has sung a song for the stage production. Stating that he presently holds the rights for two of Prof Kanetkar's plays - 'Raigadala Jevha Jaag Yete' and 'Ethe Oshalala Mrityu', Mr Deshmukh said that he has already lodged a complaint with the Goa police, to stop future shows of these two plays by any other person or company in Goa.

Rujuta, who shot to fame due to actor Sachin's reality dance show – 'Ekapeksha Ek', followed by the popular Marathi soap opera, 'Kalat Naklat', was in the past linked to 'Raigadala Jevha Jaag Yete', when she enacted the role of Rajaram as a child actress.

Interacting with the media, Rujuta said that after the end of the tele-serial, 'Kalat Naklat', she decided to act in the play as she had no interesting offers, either in television serials or films. "However, I am also involved in a dance reality show – 'Maharashtrache Nach Baliye' with Madhura Velankar, Bhargavi Chirmule, Sharvari Jeminis and others, and also participate in dance performances," she added. The petite actress, who is also a singer, further observed that the advantage of drama over tele-serials is that the former receives instant reaction from the audiences, while a performer has to wait for two to three weeks to get reactions for his or her performance in the latter, when the episodes of the serial get telecast.

-Navhind Times, Goa Daily
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