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Advisory issued 

after poisonous 

jelly fish surface 

in Goa beaches 

The Goa Tourism on last Friday issued 

an advisory asking tourists and others 

to be cautious and not to swim or come 

in physical contact with the live or 

dead jelly fish washed across the beach 

stretches of Baga to Sinquerim in North 

coastal Goa. 

The advisory comes in the wake of 

reports that live Physalia utriculus, 

also called Blue Bottle or (Indo-Pacific) 

Portuguese Man-of-War fish are 

stranded on the said beach stretch. 

Continued on Pg. 8 ... 

Tourists harassed 

by traffic police: 

Goa Deputy Speaker 

Panaji, July 24 (IANS) Goa Assembly 

Deputy Speaker Michael Lobo on 

Monday accused the traffic police 

of “harassing” tourists in the state, 

especially in its coastal belt. 

Domestic tourists, especially 

honeymooning couples, are routinely 

harassed by the traffic police, Lobo told 

the assembly during a discussion on 

the Home Department’s functioning. 

“Indian as well as foreign tourists are 

hassled every second day. If a tourist 

comes here (and rides a scooter), in his 

three-day stay he is stopped six times 

by cops. I don’t want to say beyond 

that,” Lobo said. 

Lobo is a legislator from Calangute 

constituency, which is home to popular 

beaches. 

He said the constabulary should be 

discouraged from imposing fines for 

traffic violations on visitors. 

Over four million tourists, including 

half a million foreingers, visit Goa 

every year. 

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BIRTH CERTIFICATES 

NO LONGER A MUST 

FOR PASSPORT 

PM Modi led Central Government which has informed Parliament, birth 

certificates are no longer a must submit document to get passports. 

It is really good news for people who 

have no birth certificates but are 

seeking to get passports. 

In a major move by PM Narendra 

Modi led Central government, which 

has informed Parliament, birth 

certificates are no longer a must 

submit document to get passports. 

According to a report in The Times of 

India, Aadhaar or PAN card is among 

a host of documents which could be 

used to establish proof of birth to make 

a passport. The big move by Narendra 

Modi government has been made to 

continue the process of simplifying 

All Casinos on 

Mandovi to be 

shifted to land in 

3 yrs: Parrikar 

Porvorim: Chief minister Manohar 

Parrikar on Monday said that offshore 

casinos will be closed down in three 

years' time and moved to a land-based 

designated entertainment zone. He 

also said that no new licences would 

be issued to onshore casinos in the 

state, and that only five offshore casino 

would be allowed to operate in the 

Mandovi river. 

Parrikar said 

that in the 

intervening threeyear 

period, if a 

licence holder 

wants to make the 

shift to onshore 

casino in the 

entertainment 

zone he can do so, because at the end 

of the period the law will not permit 

offshore casinos. 

Reacting to the opposition's demand 

to phase out casinos from the state, 

Parrikar said, "We will think of 

phasing out casinos," adding that 

the government will constitute a 

committee to examine whether to have 

a set clause to phase out casinos. 

the process to secure passports for 

Indian citizens. As reported in TOI 

article, according to the Passport 

Rules, 1980, all applicants born on or 

after 26/01/1989, had to submit a birth 

certificate as a mandatory provision. 

Continued on Pg. 10 ... 

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Planning Goa trip? 

Soon, rail hostesses 

will welcome 

passengers on 

Tejas Express 

MUMBAI: Soon, passengers travelling 

to Goa by Tejas Express will be 

welcomed on board by hostesses, like 

on flights. After deploying hostesses on 

the New Delhi-Agra Gatiman Express, 

the railways is set to introduce the 

service on the premier Mumbai-Goa 

train. A senior railway official said, 

"Railway minister Suresh Prabhu has 

asked IRCTC to appoint hostesses on 

Tejas." 

The hostesses, proficient in Hindi 

and English, will be hired on contract. 

The railways said the presence of 

hostesses will help provide airline-like 

experience to travellers on Tejas, billed 

as the fastest train in India, as it can 

clock 200 kmph. 

Railways said CCTVwill act as 

deterrent to any misbehaviour with the 

hostesses.

02 |touristic 

Friday, July 28, 2017 | www.goantimes.titosgoa.com | 12 pages 

LUMIERE LONDON FESTIVAL: 

TO BANISH WINTER BLUES UK CAPITAL TO HOST 

More than 40 installations are to light 

up London in one of the biggest ever 

light shows, Mayor Sadiq Khan said on 

Thursday. 

Streets, buildings and public spaces 

will be illuminated during the Lumiere 

London festival which is expected 

to attract millions of visitors to the 

British capital next January. 

The event takes place between 

January 18 and 21 in what Khan says 

will be a chance for people across the 

world to see London in a new light. 

More than 40 British and international 

artists will transform London and offer 

new perspectives on the capital’s iconic 

architecture, streets and landmarks. 

Building on the phenomenal success 

of Lumiere London 2016, festival 

destinations will include King’s 

Cross, London’s West End, including 

Carnaby, Regent Street, Oxford Circus, 

Leicester Square, Mayfair, Piccadilly, 

St James’s, Fitzrovia and Westminster. 

Works will be exhibited on both sides 

of the River Thames, with Covent 

BIGGEST LIGHT SHOW EVER 

Garden, Victoria, South Bank and 

Waterloo added as new destinations 

for 2018. 

Mayor Khan said: “Lumiere London 

2018 will be bigger, brighter and bolder 

than ever before, with even more areas 

of the city involved and even more 

'Husband Storage' 

facility opens in 

Chinese shopping mall 

people expected to visit this incredible 

festival. 

“Lumiere London 2018 shows that 

London is open to people from across 

the world and open to creativity 

and ideas, and open for business. 

There’s no better way to banish the 

January blues — so get ready to take 

to the streets and marvel at a dazzling 

array of incredible artwork and 

installations.” 

Lumiere London in 2016 attracted 

more than 1.3 million visitors to 

London at a time when the city is 

usually quiet following the Christmas 

break. 

Souce: http://indianexpress.com 

This Indian Couple Pulled Off 

The Ultimate Road Trip From 

Mumbai To London, Covering 

19 Countries In 72 Days 

Shanghai: Shopping with girlfriends or 

wives may be one of the most tedious 

chores for men. Therefore, a shopping 

mall in China's Shanghai city has 

launched "husband storage" facility. 

The transparent self-service pods in 

Shanghai's Global Harbour shopping 

centre are equipped with a TV screen, 

a leather massage chair, and game 

consoles, Xinhua news agency reported 

on Sunday. 

"Men usually get bored when 

shopping with their female partners, so 

we have provided them a place to rest. 

They can play games and charge their 

mobile phones here," said Zhou Jun, 

who operates and maintains the pods. 

Users scan to QR code to reserve a 

pod, which costs 20 yuan (around $3) 

for half an hour or 30 yuan per hour, 

Zhou said. Since its launch one month 

ago, the "husband storage" facility has 

attracted dozens of persons every day. 

"It's a good idea. My husband was 

always unhappy when shopping with 

me," said a female shopper surnamed 

Wang. A male user surnamed Yang told 

Xinhua news agency that the facility 

has hundreds of classic video games, 

which reminded him of his childhood. 

However, not everyone is happy 

about the pods. Some wives have 

complained that it is no fun shopping 

alone. "Who will carry my bag, chat 

with me and offer advice if my husband 

is sitting in a pod enjoying himself," 

said a female shopper surnamed He. 

Zhou said in the future the pods 

will be quipped with a curtain, airconditioning 

and headsets to ensure a 

better user experience. 

A road trip from Mumbai to 

London will be a dream for many. 

While you keep making and 

breaking your travel plans, this 

couple from Mumbai let go of 

their inhibitions and set out for 

the challenging road trip. Meet 

Baldawa family from Mumbai. 

Back in 2011, while travelling from 

London to Mumbai, Badri Baldawa 

was so mesmerized by the mountains 

below that he was taken over by the 

idea of driving through those places. 

Fast forward to this year and he finally 

managed to do that. 

The 73-year-old steel exporter 

and chartered accountant, along 

with his wife and their 10-year-old 

granddaughter, set out on this unique 

road trip from his hometown of 

Mumbai till London. Embarking on 

their journey on 23rd March of this 

year in a BMW X5, the trio were on the 

road for 72 days, crossing 19 countries 

and covering 22,200 km, before 

reaching London. 

Mr. Baldawa documented the whole 

journey on Facebook, updating all of 

© Badri Baldawa/Facebook 

his friends and family about the new 

places they visited. 

Seems like the whole family is no 

stranger to long, spontaneous trips. 

According to The Hindu, Mr. Baldawa 

has previously hiked up to one of the 

base camps of Mount Everest, driven 

across Iceland in 2015 along with his 

10-year-old granddaughter Nishi, and 

undertook a 46-hour non-stop drive 

through Norway to reach North Cape, 

just in time to witness the longest 

night. 

The planning for this road trip 

began last year and it may have taken 

some time, it surely was worth it. They 

started out by driving till Imphal, 

and from there, south to Myanmar, 

Thailand, Laos, China and then 

Russia. 

Mr. Baldawa told The Hindu, “There 

was no other alternate route to drive 

to London from Mumbai: if I were to 

drive via Pakistan and Afghanistan, 

there was no guarantee that I would 

make it alive. 

Continued on Pg. 9 ...

03 Friday, 

|nation 

July 28, 2017 | www.goantimes.titosgoa.com | 12 pages 

Russia Keen To Sell 

MiG-35 To India, Talks 

On, Says Top Official 

NEW DELHI: Russia is keen on selling 

its new fighter jet MiG-35 to India with 

the MiG corporation's chief saying 

the country has evinced interest 

in the aircraft and talks were on to 

understand its requirements. 

Director General of Russian Aircraft 

Corporation MiG Ilya Tarasenko said 

the MiG-35 was "the best" and definitely 

better than Lockheed Martin's fifthgeneration 

combat aircraft F-35. He 

claimed that the MiG-35 would beat the 

American jet in air to air combat. 

Mr Tarasenko, while talking to 

reporters on the sidelines of the MAKS 

2017 air show here, said after having 

Mobile phones worth 

Rs 90,000 crore 'made 

in India' in 2016-17: 

Government 

NEW DELHI: Mobile phones worth 

Rs 90,000 crore were produced in the 

country last fiscal, while imports of 

handsets stood at $3.7 billion (about 

Rs 24,364 crore) during the period, 

Parliament was informed. 

India, which is one of the largest 

telecom markets globally, has seen 

production of mobile handsets grow at 

a steady pace over the past few years. 

"During 2014-15, mobile handsets 

worth Rs 18,900 crore were produced 

in India, which increased to Rs 54,000 

crore in 2015-16 and further to Rs 90,000 

crore in 2016-17," telecom minister 

Manoj Sinha said in a written reply to 

the Rajya Sabha. 

Domestic production of cellular 

mobile handsets witnessed a growth 

of 185% in value terms in 2015-16 

compared to 2014-15 and 67% in 2016-17 

as against 2015-16, he said. 

Sinha noted that during the said 

time-frame, import of mobile handsets 

declined from 210 million devices 

(worth $7,948 million) in 2014-15 to 146 

million units ($6,059 million) in 2015-16. 

Imports further fell to 76 million units 

($3,788 million) in 2016-17, he said. 

To promote indigenous manufacturing 

in India, the government has 

introduced differential excise duty on 

cellular mobile handsets in the Union 

budget of 2015-16, Sinha said. 

presented MiG- 35 in January, the MiG 

corporation began to actively promote 

the aircraft in India and in other parts 

of the world. 

"We are proposing supply of the 

aircraft for tenders in India and we 

(are) actively work with its Air Force 

in order to win the tender," he said. 

The MiG-35 is Russia's most advanced 

4++ generation multipurpose fighter 

jet developed on the basis of the serialproduced 

MiG-29K/KUB and MiG-29M/ 

M2 combat aircraft. Asked if India has 

expressed any interest in the MiG-35, 

Mr Tarasenko said, "Of course they 

have." 

Prime Minister 

to inaugurate 

5th Global 

Conference on 

Cyber Space; 

will focus on 

digital inclusion 

NEW DELHI: India will host the fifth 

Global Conference on Cyber Space 

(GCCS) in November 2017 and plans 

to invite stalwarts of the Indian IT 

industry for it. 

One of the largest cyber security 

conferences in the world, GCSS will be 

held in New Delhi. 

Union Minister for electronics 

and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad said 

that PM Modi will be inaugurating 

the conference whose theme will be 

based on Cyber4All: An Inclusive, 

Sustainable, Developmental, Safe and 

Secure Cyberspace. 

To be held in India for the first time, 

the two-day conference will see the 

participation of around 2000 delegates 

from senior Government officials, 

industry leaders, academia and civil 

society from over 100 countries. 

GCCS is expected to deliberate 

on issues relating to promotion of 

cooperation in cyberspace, norms for 

responsible behaviour in cyberspace 

and to enhance the cyber capacity 

building.

04 Friday, 

|tech 


MEET ROB 

SPENCE, THE 

FILM-MAKER 

WITH THE 

CAMERA EYE 

Rob Spence is a filmmaker who calls 

himself the “Eyeborg.” After losing 

sight in his right eye at age 9 by 

incorrectly shooting a shotgun, Spence 

decided 26 years later to have his 

sightless eye removed and replaced 

with a digital camera. 

After sharing his initial eye camera 

back in 2011, Spence has gotten major 

upgrades to the design. 

While the early model clearly looked 

like a mass of electronics in his eye 

socket, Spence’s 

new camera looks 

just like a regular 

eye prosthesis. But 

behind the facade is 

a working camera 

with a built-in 

micro radio-frequency transmitter. 

The camera isn’t wired to Spence’s 

nerves, so it doesn’t do the duties of a 

real eye, but it does record 3-minutes of 

video at a time (the time limit is due to 

overheating). Spence can monitor the 

eye’s “live view” through a handheld 

Reliance Jio 4G 

VoLTE JioPhone 

pre-bookings start 24 

August 

Reliance Industries Limited chairman 

Mukesh Ambani unveiled Reliance 

Jio‘s new JioPhone on 21 July. The 

JioPhone, is very unlike your iPhone 

when it comes to price, but it is 

feature-packed nonetheless and more 

importantly, comes with 4G VoLTE 

support. 

At the event, it was also announced 

that the Reliance Jio JioPhone, would 

start shipping from the first week of 

September this year and pre-orders 

for the same will commence from 24 

August. 

The bookings are on 

a first-come, first-serve 

basis and can be done 

either via the MyJio 

app, the Jio website, or 

across Reliance Digital 

stores, starting 24 

August. 

As for the price, the 

phone will be available 

free of cost. Jio will 

ask customers to pay 

a security deposit of Rs 1,500 for three 

years. The same deposit is refundable 

upon returning the JioPhone after 

three years of use. 

In terms of specifications, the device 

features a 2.4-inch QVGA display along 

with an SD card slot. It also includes 

FM Radio. The company will also be 

adding NFC support to the JioPhone. 

The phone also comes with a distress 

button which when pressed would send 

a message to near and dear ones in case 

the phone user is in distress. 

screen, and turning the camera on and 

off is done by tapping a magnet against 

it. 

Here’s a view of Spence’s wife and dog 

in his Toronto apartment. It’s from an 

episode from Showtime’s new series 

“Dark Net,” which featured Spence’s 

eye camera: 

Spence is now working with his 

development team on getting the 

camera to record his life for hours 

at a time. Once that happens — he 

estimates that it will this year — 

Spence plans to use the eye for more 

serious documentary film projects that 

are shot from his exact point of view. 

Source: petapixel.com 

Ataribox Design 

Revealed: Here 

Is Atari’s First 

Gaming Console 

In Two Decades 

Atari has revealed the design of its 

much anticipated ‘Ataribox’ almost 

a month after the it confirmed that 

it is working on the gaming console. 

‘Ataribox’ is the first gaming console 

that the company has worked on in over 

two decades. The company revealed the 

design in a newsletter after the amount 

of the feedback that it received when it 

first teased the product. 

Atari pointed out that the new 

console is inspired by the classic design 

elements that the company has used 

in past products. The renders of the 

device point towards a ‘smooth design’ 

where ribs seamlessly flow around the 

body along with a front panel that will 

be made from glass or wood. The front 

will also come with an Atari logo (apart 

from the indicator lights) that will make 

it glow. 

Mozilla ends support for 

Firefox on Windows XP 

and Windows Vista 

Mozilla is 

ending updates 

for Firefox on 

Windows Xp 

and Windows 

Vista. The 

last supported 

version of the popular browser on the 

older operating systems by Microsoft 

will be Firefox Version 52, according 

to a post in the Firefox support site. 

The supported operating systems by 

Microsoft are now limited to Windows 

7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. While 

new features will not be released for 

the older operating systems, Firefox 

will continue to deliver security 

patches till September 2017. 

Xiaomi announces list 

of devices that will get 

the Android Nougat 

based MIUI 9 

Here is a complete 

list of all the 

devices, that 

are eligible for 

receiving the MIUI 

9 China ROM: Mi 

6, Mi 5s Plus, Mi 

5s, Mi 5c, Mi 5, Mi 4S, Mi 4c, Mi 4, Mi 3, 

Mi 2/2S, Mi MIX, Mi Max 2, Mi Max, Mi 

Note 2, Mi Note/Pro, Mi Pad 2, Mi Pad 

1, Redmi Note 4X (MTK), Redmi Note 

4X (SD), Redmi Note 4, Redmi Note 3 

(MTK), Redmi Note 3 (SD), Redmi Note 

2, Redmi Note, Redmi Pro, Redmi 4X, 

Redmi 4A, Redmi 4, Redmi 4 Prime, 

Redmi 3S/Prime, Redmi 3, Redmi 2A, 

Redmi 2/Prime, Redmi 1S, Redmi 1. 

You can now explore 

NASA’s International Space 

Station using Google Maps 

After a first-of-its-kind initiative 

with the European Space Agency 

(ESA), Google on Friday rolled 

out the ‘Street View’ of the 

International Space Station (ISS) on 

Google Maps. 

Astronaut Thomas Pesquet from the 

ESA spent six months at the ISS and 

Cyberattacks 

may wreck 

havoc by 2020, 

warn experts 

NEW DELHI: In the next few 

years, India will face increasingly 

sophisticated "destructive" cyber 

threats as compared to the "disruptive" 

attacks in the Indian cyberspace that 

are currently adding up to 200 million 

malware-related and 1,90,000 "unique" 

intrusions in any given week. 

India's cyber security chief Gulshan 

Rai told Parliament's finance standing 

committee recently that cyber threats 

had evolved swiftly from viruses and 

"nuisance" attacks in the early 2000s to 

sophisticated malware and advanced 

denial of service, and could pose the 

risk of severely destructive attacks by 

2020. 

The government — the Centre 

and states — is the main target of 

cyber attacks, driven by motives 

ranging from theft, espionage and 

data extraction to counterfeiting. In 

2015 and 2016, the government sector 

accounted for 27% and 29% of all 

cyber attacks, the chief of the Indian 

computer emergency response team 

(ICERT) informed the committee. 

captured the ‘Street View’ imagery in 

zero gravity to help people discover 

and explore the experience of being in 

a spaceship. The still photos collected 

from the ISS were sent down to Earth 

where they were stitched together to 

create a panoramic 360-degree imagery 

of the ISS.

05 Friday, 

|night out 


Located at a stone throw 

away from Baga beach with 

a panoramic sea view located 

on Tito’s lane. An Alfresco 

restaurant that offers a multicuisine 

menu of local Goan, 

Continental and Italian food. 

This place has some of the best 

Vintage Wines and Spirits both 

Indian and International. It’s the 

perfect place to meet and connect 

with other such amazing foodies, 

laugh with friends over drinks 

or chill out while the live band 

performances keep you entertained. 

The staff here are very friendly and 

informative, and with quick service. 

This place is definitely eye catchy 

on the inside with soft lighting and 

a very vintage look. To one side is 

the bar where the music keeps on 

playing and the bartenders flip and 

mix the perfect drink for you while 

you catch up on your favourite 

Sports or Music channels on the 

huge television situated above the 

bar. On the other side you will find 

a calm place with lovely ambiance, 

soft music and very attractive 

lighting. 

The Restaurant is open from 12 pm 

to 3am. The ambiance is the key in 

any restaurant and Tito’s is one that 

has kept up its mark! 

FERRARI GTC4 LUSSO 

To launch in India on 2 August; 

Expected price between Rs 4.5 to 5.0 crores 

Amrita & Ritiket 

Mitesh & Sargam 

Joshua & Tanya 

Shajan & Ruchi 

Uber drivers get 

Facebook-like 

profiles: 

How to know the 

person before 

riding a cab 

Ferrari is all set to launch GTC4 

Lusso in India on 2nd August. 

Unveiled at Geneva Motor Show 

last year, the four-seater grand tourer 

is powered by a 6.3-litre V-12 engine 

that churns out 689 hp and 697 Nm of 

torque, and mated to 7-speed dualclutch 

transmission. 

The luxury grand tourer will replace 

the FF model and will feature a 

aggressive front fascia and shooting 

brake design. 

The car will get four-wheel-drive and 

four-wheel-steering that help the rear 

wheels to steer up to 2 degrees. The 

Ferrari GTC4 Lusso can sprint from 

0-100 km/h in just 3.4 seconds. 

Inside, the car gets a 10.25-inch 

touchscreen infotainment system 

and dual cockpit display with G-force 

meter. Rest of the interior of GTC4 

Lusso is same as the existing FF model. 

The supercar is expected to be priced 

between Rs 4.5 crore and Rs 5 crore in 

India and in this range it will compete 

with the likes of Bentley Continental 

GT and Lamborghini Aventador. 

Uber has launched a profile service 

for drivers in India. Under the new 

Uber Driver Profile feature, the taxi 

hailing service will now provide more 

information about the person who you 

will ride with. Uber India has said that 

this move is aimed at bridging the trust 

deficit between riders and drivers. 

The cab-hailing app has announced a 

new ‘Driver Profile’ feature to provide 

more details about the men behind 

the wheels. Also, it can enable riders 

to leave compliments. The profile will 

include, rider compliment badges and 

“thank you notes” which were made 

by riders in the past. This feature 

was introduced by Uber in June this 

year. Interestingly, there is a Driver 

Achievements section which can 

unlock different kinds of badges like 

the completion of 3,500 trips (5-star 

rating) or 2 years with Uber, and more. 

In the new feature, if you want to see 

a Driver Profile, all you need to do is 

tap on the driver’s name while booking 

the ride. You can also tap on driver’s 

name to bring up profiles. You can do 

this with drivers who you had travelled 

in the past.

06 Friday, 

|clubbing 


Danish, Mack & Bhumicka 

Pranali & Prachi 

Café Mambo’s Tagline 

“where the world comes 

together” is apt, as this is the 

place where locals, weekender 

visitors and international 

tourists all come together to 

enjoy a fun night out. It’s a 

chilled out zone to meet up 

with friends & catch up for 

a drink over some great house 

music. 

Café Mambo is within 

walking distance from 

Calangute. The café started as 

another run of the mill joint, 

gained immense popularity 

immediately. 

Alisha & Prachi 

Lilla 

Alisha, Vinod & Sairaj 

Sera, Tina, Minoksha & Santosh 

Anushka & Tani 

Manoj & Alisha 

Sagar, Pooja & Gourav 

Photo Credits: Pravin Gaonkar

07 Friday, 


Club Tito’s offers an unforgettable 

Nightlife Experience in Goa. It is 

difficult to imagine a more idyllic 

setting for a nightclub than Club 

Tito’s which is situated on Tito’s 

Lane, a hop skip and jump away from 

Baga Beach. 

While the sun is still out you 

can’t take your eyes away from the 

lovely beach, the calm village life 

and the breezy ocean air. When 

it’s dark the lane comes to life and 

takes on a different form with loud 

music, people dancing and clubs and 

restaurants bustling with visitors 

both of Indian and foreign origin. 

Vazeil & Priyanka 

Manoj, Aman & Charu 

Sasha & Darryl 

Tanya & Diana 

DJ Paroma 

Pooja & Lina 

Danishjyoti, Balpreet, Sahil & Karhana 

Artem & Tanya 

Llewellyn, Bharvi & Ajit 

Photo Credits: Pravin Gaonkar

08 Friday, 

|leisure 


OF A 

MONTH OF 

ABSTINENCE, 

DEVOTION 

AND PRAYER 

'Shravan' is commonly understood in 

Goa as the month where a large chunk 

of the Hindu population restricts its 

diet to vegetarian food, with abstinence 

from substances like alcohol. As Goa's 

most popular Hindu festival, Ganesh 

Chaturthi marks the end of the Hindu 

month of Shravan, and the vegetarian 

diet is seen as a build-up to the festival. 

But researchers of Goan culture say 

that the origins of the observance of 

Shravan in Goa come from the locals' 

desire to compliment nature's processes 

during this period. 

The fifth month of the Hindu lunar 

calendar, Shravan, is considered 

the holiest as the most number of 

festivals fall during this period - like 

Gokulasthami, Sootha Punav and Nag 

Panchami. Researchers though see 

Shravan as the month designated to 

indulge in nature's abundance during 

the Goan monsoon. 

The vegetarian fare consumed during 

Shravan appears to be designed to make 

the best use of the monsoon offerings 

like the seasonal alu leaves and root, 

taikilo, ankur, ambade, bamboo shoot, 

phaglam, tauxem, etc. 

It is not a surprise then that the 

reverence to nature is so obvious in 

practices like Shravan Aitaar, which 

sees married women carry out a 

symbolic worship of the sun god on each 

Sunday of this Hindu month, making 

use of seasonal flowers and leaves. 

"Besides consuming fish, our 

ancestors would hunt for wild animals 

for consumption back then. Keeping 

away from non-vegetarian food 

during Shravan provides rest for this 

wildlife as well as for the marine life 

to recuperate, meaning to breed and 

replenish. Similarly, for individuals, 

this restricted diet helps in an annual 

detoxification of their system," says 

Sanjeev Sardessai. 

Tito's Bar Academy: 

Glimpses of the Goa Flair Challenge 

held at Cafe Mambo on 25th July 

14 Participants, each had 7 minutes to perform 

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the world's 

largest online retailer Amazon, has 

surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill 

Gates as the world's richest man. 

According to a report by Bloomberg 

website, a sharp spike in Amazon's 

share prices ahead of the company's 

earnings report resulted in Bezos's net 

Advisory issued after 

poisonous jelly fish 

surface in Goa beaches 

... Continued from Pg. 1 

“They are very venomous and can 

cause extremely painful sting, which 

could result in allergic reaction to 

severe hyper allergic reactions,” the 

advisory issued by the Director of 

Tourism Menino D’Souza has said. 

Inspite of precaution, if anybody 

feels painful sting while at the said 

beach stretch, they are advised to take 

medical treatment at the nearest State 

Healthcare Centre, according to the 

advisory. 

Terra Conscious, an organisation 

monitoring marine wildlife in Goa had 

earlier on Tuesday alerted tourists and 

others about jelly’s presence on this 

coastal belt. 

Ms. Puja Mitra of Terra Conscious 

suggested that in case of a sting, the 

affected area must be washed with 

hot water. “Vinegar can also help, if 

rubbed directly on the stung area. Place 

ice packs to reduce the swelling and 

pain. Note any chest pains, difficulty in 

breathing and to report immediately to 

the nearest medical centre,” she further 

suggested. 

She said that the lifeguards guarding 

the coast have been made aware of this, 

and can provide help, but pleaded that 

people should not go close at all and a 

big “No,No” to touch them. 

The Winners 

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos overtakes 

Bill Gates as the world’s richest man 

worth rising to an astounding $90.9 

billion. In comparison, Bill Gates's net 

worth currently stands at $90.7 billion, 

just a little behind that of Jeff Bezos. 

The Bloomberg report further says 

that Amazon 

is likely 

to post a 

quarterly 

revenue of 

$37.2 billion, 

which is 

22% more 

from what 

the company 

earned last 

year. 

Recently, Bezos had become the secondrichest 

man in the world, overtaking 

Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffett. 

Soon, power your 

smartphone just 

by moving! 

Washington, Jul 22 (PTI) Scientists, 

including one of Indian origin, have 

developed an ultra-thin device that 

can power your smartphone, fitness 

tracker and other gadgets using human 

movements such as walking and 

waving. 

Based on battery technology and made 

from layers of black phosphorus that 

are only a few atoms thick, the energy 

harvesting system generates small 

amounts of electricity when it is bent 

or pressed even at the extremely low 

frequencies characteristic of human 

motion. 

"In the future, I expect that we will 

all become charging depots for our 

personal devices by pulling energy 

directly from our motions and the 

environment," said Cary Pint, assistant 

professor at Vanderbilt University in 

the US. 

Compared to the other approaches 

designed to harvest energy from human 

motion, the new method has two 

fundamental advantages, researchers 

said. 

The materials are atomically thin and 

small enough to be impregnated into 

textiles without affecting the fabrics 

look or feel and it can extract energy 

from movements that are slower than 

10 Hertz - 10 cycles per second - over 

the whole low-frequency window of 

movements corresponding to human 

motion, they said. 

Extracting usable energy from such 

low frequency motion has proven to be 

extremely challenging, said Vanderbilt 

doctoral student Nitin Muralidharan, 

who was involved in creating and 

testing the device. 

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09 Friday, 

SUDOKU 

|leisure 


CROSSWORD CRACKER 

Are your tomatoes safe? 

Thief makes away with 30 crates of 

tomatoes in Dahisar 

MUMBAI: A tomato thief has stolen 30 

crates containing 900 kg of tomatoes 

belonging to a vegetable vendor in 

Dahisar East. Shaymlal Shrivastav, 

the vendor, has registered an FIR at 

the local police station. Cops are now 

hunting for the accused, who escaped 

with the consignment worth Rs 60,000. 

According to police sources, 

Shrivastav had unloaded the crates 

outside a godown and went home. 

Shrivastav said, "Around 5 am [on 

Monday], I sent one of my employees to 

the godown and he called to inform me 

that there wasn't a single crate outside. 

I rushed to the spot and found that 

there wasn't a single crate outside." 

"Cops tried to the trace the incident 

through CCTV, but rain and at one 

place, a plastic tarpaulin got in front 

of the camera, because of which they 

could no see how the theft occurred," 

Shrivastav added. 

"A case has been registered and 

we are investigating it," said senior 

inspector Avinash Sawant from 

Dahisar police station, adding, "We are 

taking help of CCTVs." 

This Indian Couple 

Pulled Off The 

Ultimate Road Trip 

From Mumbai To 

London Covering 19 

Countries In 72 Days 


We could not go north via Tibet either, 

as China would not allow it.” 

On an average, they were covering 

400kms every day by driving for 

around 12 hours while taking breaks, 

but the longest distance they managed 

to cover in a single day was 930 km, 

from Warsaw to Brussels. “On that day 

we had breakfast in Warsaw (Poland), 

lunch in Cologne (Germany), and 

dinner in Brussels (Belgium),” said 

Ms. Baldawa. 

This seems like one hell of a journey, 

and it does have a lasting impact on the 

couple. “It is difficult for me to think of 

the highlight of the trip, apart from the 

constant feeling of wanting to revisit 

those places and spend more time in 

almost all of them,” says Mr. Baldawa. 

Did this inspire you to start planning 

your next trip? 

Jokes apart! 

Supernatural 

There was this case in the hospital’s 

Intensive care ward where patients 

always died in the same bed and on 

Sunday morning at 11 A.M., regardless 

of their medical condition. This 

puzzled the doctors and some even 

thought that it had something to do 

with the supernatural. No one could 

solve the mystery as to why the deaths 

took place at 11 AM. 

A worldwide expert team was 

constituted and they decided to go 

down to the ward to investigate the 

cause of the incidents. So on the 

next Sunday morning few minutes 

before 11 A.M., all doctors and nurses 

nervously waited outside the ward to 

see for themselves what the terrible 

phenomenon was all about. 

Some were holding prayer books and 

other holy objects to ward off evil. 

Just when the clock struck 11 Santa, 

the part-time Sunday sweeper, 

entered the ward and unplugged the 

life support system & plugged in the 

vacuum cleaner. 

Great Husband 

Jenny was married to a male 

chauvinist. They both worked full 

time, but he never did anything 

around the house and certainly not 

any housework. That, he declared, was 

woman’s work! 

But one evening Jenny arrived 

home from work to find the children 

bathed, a load of wash in the washing 

machine and another in the dryer, 

dinner on the stove and a beautifully 

set table, complete with flowers. She 

was astonished, and she immediately 

wanted to know what was going on. 

It turned out that Charley, her 

husband, had read a magazine article 

that suggested working wives would 

be more romantically inclined if they 

weren’t so tired from having to do all 

the housework, in addition to holding 

down a full-time job. 

The next day, she couldn’t wait to tell 

her girlfriends at the office. 

“How did it work out?” they asked. 

“Well, it was a great dinner, Jenny 

said. “Charley even cleaned up, helped 

the kids with their homework, folded 

the laundry and put everything away.” 

“I really enjoyed my evening,” she 

went on to say. 

“But what about afterward?” her 

friends wanted to know. 

“It didn’t work out,” Jenny said. 

“Charley was too tired.”

10 Friday, 


Goa’s sixth 

casino stuck 

in the sand 

Goa’s sixth offshore casino, MV Lucky 

7, has marooned itself on a sandbar 

whilst attempting to move from 

Mormugao harbor to Mandovi river in 

Panaji, local media reports. 

According to Coast Guard Manoj 

Badkar, the vessel got stuck in the 

Aguada sandbar off the Miramar coast 

on Sunday. 

One crew member was injured while 

three were suffering from seasickness. 

Aanand Madgaonkar, an expert 

salvager, said that the crew members 

took high risk to bring the vessel in 

when it is well known that the Aguada 

sandbar area is closed during the 

monsoon. 

Last month, the MV Lucky 7 was 

given approval to anchor in Panaji 

as a refuge vessel due to the monsoon 

season. 

Global Globe Hotels Pvt. Ltd, the 

owner of the vessel, had reportedly 

requested the high court for it to be 

allowed to dock over fears it would be 

heavily damaged in the sea during the 

monsoon. 

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INDIA SHINES BRIGHTER 

ON NASA MAP, CHINA FEELS 

SLIGHTED 

NEW DELHI: China's growing unease 

with India reached an absurd level 

when it tied itself in knots trying to 

prove that India looking brighter 

than China does not mean it is more 

electrified. 

An indicator of electrification, a 

map from NASA's Earth’s City Lights 

project shows India shining brighter 

than China at night. 

However, China’s state-sponsored 

People's Daily Online quibbles that 

it's China that should look brighter 

because it's more electrified than India. 

In a report titled, 'India looks 

brighter than China on a map, but 

really it’s not', People's Daily Online 

offers reasons given by the State Grid 

Corporation of China for what it has 

obviously taken as a big slight. 

Citing a Shanghai-based media 

outlet, The Paper, the report says, 

"India has more plains than China 

and is surrounded by seas on three 

sides, which makes the lights appear 

brighter. Forty-percent of Indian lands 

are plain and the mean attitude of 

the Deccan Plateau is less than 1,000 

meters, while China’s plains make up 

12 per cent. More than half of China 

is made up high-altitude plateaus 

and mountains, home to about 28 per 

cent of population, which makes the 

western and northern regions of China 

seem dim in comparison." 

Not satisfied with this explanation, 

the grid corporation tries harder but 

ends up sounding illogical: "In the map, 

India has more lights from villages, 

which take up more space, while China 

has more large cities that appear as 

big, round lights that are not as intense 

as the lights in India." What this 

actually means is India has electricity 

in a wider area and even China's big 

cities don't look as bright. 

Then it goes on to contradict itself by 

saying the map does not measure the 

intensity of the lights at all. 

China's state-sponsored paper doesn't 

stop at that. It goes on to offer old data 

on electrification in India. 

Citing The Economic Times, the 

report says, "More than 300 million 

Indians are living without electricity 

and more than 18,000 villages don’t 

have electricity." 

These are old figures. India set a 

target of electrifying 18,452 village 

in 2015. This year in March, the 

government announced it had 

electrified 13,000 villages out of 

18,452 unelectrified villages and the 

remaining would be electrified by May 

2018. 

Birth certificates 

no longer a must 

for passport 


Now all citizens who want passport 

can submit any one of these — 

transfer/school leaving/Matriculation 

Certificate issued by the school last 

attended/recognised educational board 

containing the DOB of the applicant; 

PAN Card; Aadhaar Card/E-Aadhaar; 

driving license, Voter ID cards, even 

LIC policy bonds as proof of date of 

birth (DOB). 

Also, informing Parliament about the 

big move, Modi government minister 

VK Singh said that government 

servants can give extracts of service 

record, pension records, etc, the TOI 

report added. 

Moreover, now applicants over 

60 years of age and below 8 years of 

age will get a 10 per cent discount 

on passport fees, TOI reported. 

Additionally, online passport 

applicants need to provide only the 

name of one parent or guardian, not 

both. This move will help a lot of single 

parent families. 

Earlier, Modi government had made 

the process for change in date of 

birth in passports easier by making 

the alterations in existing rules. The 

government had also allowed digitally 

signed marriage certificates as valid 

proofs of marriage. 

Kaspersky Lab 

launches Free Antivirus 

Software globally 

LAS VEGAS: Moscow-based Kaspersky 

Lab on Tuesday announced it was 

rolling out a free version of its 

antivirus software across the globe. 

This free version was not intended 

to replace the paid versions of its 

antivirus software, describing it as 

offering "the bare essentials," such as 

email and web antivirus protection 

and automatic updates. But the free 

software would benefit all of Kaspersky 

Lab's customers by improving machine 

learning across its products, he said. 

50 million litres of 

crude stolen from 

India's largest 

onshore oilfield 

NEW DELHI: Police in Rajasthan have 

cracked a criminal syndicate accused 

of smuggling more than 50 million 

litres of crude oil inside water tankers 

from India's largest onshore oilfield, an 

official said. 

The theft at the Cairn India oilfield 

went undetected for nearly six years 

until police in Rajasthan arrested 25 

people this week for involvement in the 

sophisticated smuggling network. 

Local media reported Rs. 49 crore 

worth of oil could have been stolen 

in total from the oilfield run by a 

subsidiary of British mining giant 

Vedanta Resources. 

The stolen oil was used in road 

construction and diesel production, 

police said.

11 Friday, 

|the buzz 


Read On To 

Know How 

Kriti Sanon 

Turned 

Bitti For 

Bareilly Ki 

Barfi! 

Kriti Sanon who would be 

portraying the role of UP girl 

‘Bitti’ in Bareilly Ki Barfi 

reveals how she got into the 

skin of the character. 

The actress who has portrayed varied 

roles in the three-year long career will 

be seen essaying the role of a UP girl in 

her upcoming film. 

Kriti Sanon comes from Delhi and 

is not acquainted with the lifestyle of 

Mahesh Babu’s most awaited film 

Spyder has been creating a lot of buzz 

for quite a long time regarding its 

release date. 

Uttar Pradesh girls. The body language 

or accent doesn’t come naturally to 

a person who hasn’t hailed from the 

place. So a lot of preparation is needed 

for the portrayal. In order to adapt 

the mannerisms of a UP girl, Kriti hit 

upon an idea even before her shoot 

commenced. 

The actress visited Lucknow a few 

As per latest 

updates, the 

filmmakers 

have confirmed 

that the film 

will be released 

as a Dussehra 

festival treat on 

September 27th 

this year. 

days before the shoot and spent some 

time with 10-15 college girls. 

Kriti Sanon observed the body 

language of the girls, the way they 

carried themselves, their accent, etc 

while she spent time with them. She 

even recorded her conversations with 

them and kept listening to it in order to 

pick up the nuances of how they spoke. 

Amitabh Bachchan Is Proud Of Wife Jaya 

Bachchan’s Achievement 

Jaya Bachchan has bagged the Best Parliamentarian award. 

JULY 20 : Megastar Amitabh Bachchan 

says it is a “proud” moment for his 

family as his wife politician-actress 

Jaya Bachchan bagged the Best 

Parliamentarian award. 

Amitabh on Wednesday night took to 

Twitter to share a photograph of Jaya 

at the Vigyan Bhawan. 

“Best Parliamentarian Award to 

Jaya. A proud moment for all of us in 

the family,” Amitabh captioned the 

image. 

The 74-year-old cine icon also shared 

that it was a moment for “great pride” 

for him. He added: “Jaya gets the Best 

Parliamentarian Award today. A 

Mahesh Babu’s 

Much-Awaited 

Film Spyder Gets A 

Release Date 

Spyder is a bilingual Indian spy 

thriller film written and directed by 

AR Murugadoss. 

moment of great pride for us all. our 

gratitude to them that wish!” 

The thespian also took to his blog, 

where he expressed that his wife 

proved her worth in the Indian 

Parliament. 

“Quietly and with great dignity, Jaya 

has won the Best Parliamentarian 

award today and it could not have been 

a prouder moment for us all in the 

family. Committed, participatory and 

with an enviable attendance record, 

she has proved her worth in the annals 

of the seat of democracy – the Indian 

Parliament!” he wrote. 

Kajol points 

out how 

she and 

Dhanush 

are similar 

in VIP 2 

Actress Kajol, who is making a much 

anticipated comeback after two 

decades to Tamil filmdom with “VIP 

2”, says she as well as Dhanush play 

very strong characters in the film. 

In the sequel to the 2014 Tamil 

blockbuster “VIP”, Kajol plays a suave 

and conniving businesswoman named 

Vasundhara. 

Talking about her character, she 

said in a video byte released by the 

makers on July 23: “Vasundhara is 

a strong-minded character and so 

is Raghuvaran (Dhanush). Both are 

very strong characters and have clear 

beliefs about what they stand for.” 

She went on to add: “The clash 

between us will be very interesting to 

watch.” 

Directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth, 

Sunil Grover 

charges double the 

amount he charged 

earlier, post his 

brawl with 

Kapil Sharma 

The mid-air brawl between comedians 

Kapil Sharma and Sunil Grover has 

affected their pay scales drastically. 

According to the report, Sunil, who 

used to charge Rs 7 - 8 lakh per episode 

earlier, now charges a whopping Rs 13 - 

14 lakhs. The amount is double of what 

he was being paid earlier. 

Meanwhile, Kapil Sharma's show has 

been drastically affected post Sunil's 

exit as the TRP's witnessed a dip 

and the show went down on number 

14 from being in top 10. Kapil was 

supposed to sign a deal with Sony TV 

of Rs. 107 crore for the renewal of his 

contract, but the channel seems to be 

in two minds, as it has not yet signed 

the deal, and there are reports that the 

channel might not sign any deal with 

the comedian anymore. 

the film has story and dialogues by 

Dhanush. 

On teaming up with Dhanush, the 

“Gupt” actress said: “Dhanush is a 

fine actor. He has written wonderful 

screenplay and dialogues for the film. 

It was a pleasure to work with him.” 

Calling Soundarya an efficient 

director, Kajol said: “She has done 

fantastic work with the film. She is 

well aware of what she wants.” 

Produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu, the 

film also stars Amala Paul, Vivekh and 

Samuthirakani, who were part of the 

first part as well. 

“VIP 2” is gearing up for release in 

August.

12 Friday, 

|tourist map 


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