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Ambassador car rally kicks off in Goa

Panjim (Goa), Oct 20 : About 30 iconic model of India - Ambassador cars participated in the 14-day car rally kicked off from Colva beach in Goa on Sunday.

Karma Enduro Challenge 2008 has been organized to raise funds for an Indian charity and a UK based charity organisation.

2000 kilometers long dawn-to-dusk car rally starting from Goa would end in Cochin backwaters on October 28.

"Above anything its like seeing India in a different way. It''s not a guide or talk, its not like follow the umbrella stuff. It''s basically we take them to places where leave alone tourist, not even domestic tourist would have ever gone, and in their own pace, in their own style," said Prem Chandran country coordinator of Karma Enduro rally.

Indo-US naval war games to begin from October 20

India US Naval ExercicseMarmagao Port (Goa), Oct 18 : The Indian and the US navies are all set to engage each other in war games in the Arabian Sea.

The exercises, which will be undertaken under the recurrent Malabar series of exercises that commenced in 1992, would take place from October 20 in Goa.

Diverse activities ranging from gun-firing and fighter combat operations from aircraft carriers, to combating the scourge of terror, through Maritime Interdiction Operations exercises would be included during the exercises.

Goa police defer rape investigation against minister''s son

Panaji, Oct 18 : Goa police has deferred investigation into the alleged rape case of a minor German by Rohit, son of the State’s Education Minister in the absence of a statement by the girl to the

Indian minister's son charged with raping German girl

Goa police New Delhi  - The son of an Indian politician was Tuesday charged with raping a 14-year-old German girl in the country's south-western state of Goa, news reports said.

Rohit Monserrate, 21, son of Goa education minister Atanasio Monserrate, was also booked by the state police under various provisions of the Indian penal code relating to obscenity, the CNN-IBN news channel reported.

A police team had reached the minister's bungalow to arrest the accused, the report said, adding the case had caused a furore in the state.

Goa minister''s son booked in rape case

GoaPanaji (Goa), Oct. 14 : A case has been registered against Rohit Monseratte, the eldest son of Atanasio Monseratte, Goa''s Education Minister, following a German woman''scomplaint that the former has been sexually and mentally harassing her minor daughter.

Police sources said 21-year-old Rohit has been charged with offences including rape, abetement to crime and outraging the modesty of a minor girl.

A German woman had lodged her complaint on October 2.

Scarlett Keeling murder accused released on bail

Scarlett KeelingPanaji, Sept. 24 : A suspect in the rape and murder of a British teenager Scarlett Keeling was released on bail after investigators failed to submit charges against him, a lawyer for the Keeling family has said.

Samson D''Souza is facing a number of accusations, including raping the 15-year-old and assisting in her murder.

According to The Telegraph, D’Souza was freed after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did not submit a list of charges against him.

The paper quoted Vikram Varma as saying that the CBI has applied to cancel the bail and that the application should be heard in court on Friday.

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