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- Arshad, Tusshar smoke in Goa college campus
- Conservation tourism? Goa shows way - with turtles!
- Conservation tourism? Goa shows way - with turtles!
- Goa: Remo to perform at T-10 music show
| Arshad, Tusshar smoke in Goa college campus Posted: 28 Apr 2010 07:09 AM PDT Tobacco watchdog National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) has filed a police complaint against Bollywood actors Arshad Warsi and Tusshar Kapoor for smoking in a college campus in Goa. In his complaint to the district Superintendent of Police Allen D’Sa and officials of the state tobacco control cell, NOTE general secretary Shekhar Salkar said the actors, who are shooting at the Chowgule College campus in Margao, about 35 km from here, were caught smoking in campus Tuesday. “Arshad Warsi was even signing autographs for children with a cigarette dangling from his fingers. Such behaviour and violation of the no smoking norm is unacceptable. The college authorities should also be fined for letting them smoke in campus,” Salkar said. The NOTE official has also submitted four photographs showing Warsi and Kapoor smoking in the college campus to the enforcement authority. “Chief Secretary Sanjiv Srivastava in the last state tobacco control cell meeting had specifically asked the police to implement the anti-smoking law ruthlessly within school and college campuses and about 100 yard around the educational institutions. They should implement the laws properly,” said Salkar, whose organisation has in the past dragged Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan to court. State Tobacco control cell official said the actors would be soon fined for their misdemeanour. Courtesy:TOI |
| Conservation tourism? Goa shows way - with turtles! Posted: 27 Apr 2010 09:53 PM PDT Goa’s unique practice of mixing turtle conservation with tourism has potential for successful replication across the Indian coast, says an expert. Kartik Shanker, president of the International Sea turtle Society (ISTS), praised the Goa model. “Goa has a unique model. It has managed to mix turtle conservation with tourism, which benefits the local community as well,” Shanker told IANS, adding that turtle conservation could not be viewed in isolation. “We must use turtle conservation as a flagship to protect coastal habitats like coral reefs and conserve the coastline,” he said. He said communities living along the coast, especially those of traditional fishermen, need to be involved and benefit from the process. Shanker is also the host of the International Symposium on Marine Turtles (ISMT) being held in Panaji. According to him, global warming could prove to be a grave threat for turtles, whose gender at the time of birth is defined by temperature. Elaborating the pattern of turtle presence across India’s winding coastline, Shanker said the eastern coast hogged the lion’s share of India’s turtle population. “The east coast, especially beaches in Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, are seen as nesting sites where turtles come by the thousands. In the West coast, you see turtles in Gujarat and Goa.” Shanker said the Indian coastline generally saw Olive Ridley and green turtles. Turtles off the Indian coast faced two major threats: mechanised trawler fishing and haphazard development along the coastline. “Trawling is a concern because a large number of turtles get caught in fishing nets,” Shanker said. He said rampant development of the coastal areas, especially construction of sea walls by private entrepreneurs and coastal residents to prevent erosion, had proved in recent times to be a death knell for turtles looking for nesting sites. “The sea walls along the beaches deflect wave energy from the walled stretch of the beach to other unwalled areas, causing erosion there, which discourages turtles from nesting nearby,” said Shanker, who is also a faculty member at the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IIS). According to him, global warming posed newer challenges for turtle conservation. “The gender of the turtle depends on the prevalent temperature at the time of hatching. If the temperature is below the pivotal point when the turtle hatches her egg, then the hatchling is a male. A female is born if the temperature is above the pivotal point.” Global warming could skew the sex ratio of the amphibians. “If temperatures further soar as a result of global warming, we could see largescale mortality,” he said. “We have embarked on research to study the conservation issue from the global warming perspective.” Courtes:TOI |
| Conservation tourism? Goa shows way - with turtles! Posted: 27 Apr 2010 09:56 AM PDT Goa’s unique practice of mixing turtle conservation with tourism has potential for successful replication across the Indian coast, says an expert. Kartik Shanker, president of the International Sea turtle Society (ISTS), praised the Goa model. ”Goa has a unique model. It has managed to mix turtle conservation with tourism, which benefits the local community as well,” Shanker told IANS, adding that turtle conservation could not be viewed in isolation. “We must use turtle conservation as a flagship to protect coastal habitats like coral reefs and conserve the coastline,” he said. He said communities living along the coast, especially those of traditional fishermen, need to be involved and benefit from the process. Shanker is also the host of the International Symposium on Marine Turtles (ISMT) being held in Panaji. According to him, global warming could prove to be a grave threat for turtles, whose gender at the time of birth is defined by temperature. Elaborating the pattern of turtle presence across India’s winding coastline, Shanker said the eastern coast hogged the lion’s share of India’s turtle population. ”The east coast, especially beaches in Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, are seen as nesting sites where turtles come by the thousands. In the West coast, you see turtles in Gujarat and Goa.” Shanker said the Indian coastline generally saw Olive Ridley and green turtles. Turtles off the Indian coast faced two major threats: mechanised trawler fishing and haphazard development along the coastline. ”Trawling is a concern because a large number of turtles get caught in fishing nets,” Shanker said. He said rampant development of the coastal areas, especially construction of sea walls by private entrepreneurs and coastal residents to prevent erosion, had proved in recent times to be a death knell for turtles looking for nesting sites. ”The sea walls along the beaches deflect wave energy from the walled stretch of the beach to other unwalled areas, causing erosion there, which discourages turtles from nesting nearby,” said Shanker, who is also a faculty member at the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IIS). According to him, global warming posed newer challenges for turtle conservation. ”The gender of the turtle depends on the prevalent temperature at the time of hatching. If the temperature is below the pivotal point when the turtle hatches her egg, then the hatchling is a male. A female is born if the temperature is above the pivotal point.” Global warming could skew the sex ratio of the amphibians. ”If temperatures further soar as a result of global warming, we could see largescale mortality,” he said. “We have embarked on research to study the conservation issue from the global warming perspective.” Courtesy: TOI |
| Goa: Remo to perform at T-10 music show Posted: 27 Apr 2010 09:42 AM PDT The state will see pop star Remo Fernandes perform at the T-10 music show at the Rajendra Prasad Stadium on April 30. Remo, saying that his music was quite different while addressing the media at the press conference to announce the show, was a little critical of the music scene in the country. Commenting that the whole country had become Bollywood centric, and that all shows today were based on Bollywood he said that it appeared that the country had gone bankrupt and that we could not give anything to "our children, except Bollywood." Stating that south Goa was very close to his heart he singer said that he had always wanted to do a show in the South. He also said that in South Goa people were united, and have stood up and managed to fight against bad development. He came down heavily on the present politicians saying that they should disappear from the scene if Goa was to be saved from further destruction. He also made a strong case for special status but warned that politicians would never allow special status. Pointing out that politicians are quick to uphold the rights of citizens to settle anywhere in India he argued that they were not bothered about other rights like the right to clean roads, non-corrupt government or clean hospital beds. Courtesy: NT |
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