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unusual facts about Parra, Goa


Claude Alvares

He lives at Parra, Goa with his wife Padma Shree and environmental lawyer Norma Alvares and three children, Rahul, Samir and Milind.


2007–08 I-League

The I-League season 2007–08 kicked off on 24 November 2007 at the Fatorda Stadium, Margao, Goa.

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

India will have to choose six host cities from a shortlist of eight, they are New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi and Guwahati.

Agaçaim

Agaçaim, sometimes spelt Agassaim, is a village on the northern banks of the Zuari River in Ilhas, Goa, surrounded by Panjim to the north, Margão to the south, Vasco da Gama to the west and Ponda to the east, thus making it a main connection between North Goa and South Goa via the Zuari Bridge.

Allcargo Logistics Limited

Allcargo operates customized warehousing and supply through its own warehouses at Goa, Pithampur (near Indore in the state of Madhya Pradesh), Hosur (in the state of Tamil Nadu) and Bhiwandi (near Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra state).

Anupam Saraph

He was appointed advisor to Manohar Parrikar during Parrikar's term as Chief Minister of Goa where he contributed to creating a digital society and introducing governance reforms

Bessie Cursons

Cursons and her family were on holiday in Goa in India when the Britain's Got Talent auditions were being held, in May 2007, but, along with her father, she made the trip back to the UK to take part in them.

Bridget Sequeira

They arrived at the house in Cotula where her aunt, Etelvina de Melo, operated St. Mary's Girls School, which had been founded in 1900 by Joshino Sequeira as the first English school for girls in Goa.

Calcutta Light Horse

The Ehrenfels was known to be transmitting information on Allied ship movements to U-boats from Mormugao harbour in Portugal's neutral territory of Goa.

Danilo Parra

Parra participated in different events since then, most importantly at the musical show of the 2004 Miss Ecuador.

Diego Valdés

Diego Fernando Valdés Parra (born August 13, 1981) is a Colombian footballer who has played for Deportivo Cali as a defender and central midfielder since 2002.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Elysia bangtawaensis

Elysia bangtawaensis was first found in mangrove swamps in southern Thailand, but has since also been identified in eastern Australia and Goa.

Frederick Noronha

Frederick Noronha (born on 23 December 1963 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an independent journalist based in Saligão in the Bardez taluka of Goa.

Goa'uld technology in Stargate

However, there are innovators amongst the Goa'uld; Anubis and Ba'al in particular have been depicted with a great deal of technological ingenuity.

Goans in sports

Goa is a tiny region along the west coast of India, and is known for its many sportsmen.

History of Goan Catholics

History of Goan Catholics recounts the history of the Goan Catholic community of the Indian state of Goa from their conversion to Christianity to date.

Indigo 91.9 FM

Indigo 91.9 FM is Bangalore and Goa’s only international music station, and is part of Indigo Music brand by Jupiter Capital, which is a Venture Development, Management and Investment Company owned by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, based in Bangalore, India.

Isaq Schrijver

This was a Portuguese vessel with 150 crew, commanded by Don Emmanual Da Silva, en route from Goa to Portugal and bearing diplomatic gifts from Narai, King of Siam to Pedro, King of Portugal, Louis XIV of France and Charles II of England.

Jacome Gonsalves

He left Goa on 9 May 1705 and reached Sri Lanka on 30 August 1705, arriving at Talaimannar.

Katrina Legarda

Under the auspices of the UNICEF, PLAN International, the British Embassy (Manila) and UNIFEM, she trains judges, prosecutors, social workers and police personnel around the country (as well as in Vientiane, Lao PDR, Goa, India and Lahore, Pakistan) on the investigation of crimes involving women and children.

Kevin Durand

He also recurred on the television show Stargate SG-1 as "Lord Zipacna" (based on the Mayan mythological figure Zipacna) and on Lost during its fourth and sixth seasons, in which he played as the antagonist Martin Keamy for 12 episodes.

Khed, Ratnagiri

Khed lies off National Highway NH-17, popularly known as Mumbai-Goa Highway, that connects Khed with cities like Mangalore, Panaji, Madgaon, Karwar and Udupi.

Konkani in the Roman script

Konkani is a language that is spoken by 3.6 million speakers mostly on the western coast of the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.

Krista Purana

Whether this M.C. Saldanha is the same as the well-known professor Mariano Saldanha of Ucassaim, Goa, is yet to be established.

Little Flower Public School

Field visits are organised for all classes, including to Kanyakumari, Kerala, Madurai, Vishakapatnam, Mekedatu, Western Ghats, Goa, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Hampi and Hyderabad.

Mapusa Friday Market

Friday sees many vendors from Bardez and Tiswadi descend on the stalls selling a staggering variety of local produce brought in by farmers and small entrepreneurs from all over Goa to sell directly to the consumer.

Marco Parra

Marco Antonio Parra Téllez (born January 22, 1985 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for CF La Piedad of the Liga de Ascenso.

Matheus de Castro

Bishop de Castro was held in great esteem at the courts of the Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan and other rulers of India, including those of the Kingdom of Bijapur who belonged to the Adil Shahi dynasty, which ruled Goa prior to the Portuguese.

Noukadubi

The premiered as the opening film of the Indian Panorama section during the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa on November 24, 2010, in the year that marked Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary.

Pre-Portuguese Christianity in Goa

He also reports the existence of Christian and Hindu 'Thomses' in Kalyanpuram near Mangalore, probably people who fled or migrated from Goa.

Raia

Raia, Goa, a small village in Goa, India, about 6 km from Margao on the way to Loutolim

Sanjivan Lal

He was a jury member of non-feature section of Indian Panorama for IFFI, 2005 at Goa.

São Matias, Goa

São Mathias also known as Malar is a village on Divar island, Tiswadi, in the Indian state of Goa.

Shiroda

Shiroda, Goa, village in Ponda taluk, North Goa district, Goa, India

Shiroda, Goa

Shoroda houses one engineering colleges of Goa, Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology and two colleges of Alternative medicine the Ayurveda College & Research Centre and Shri Kamaxshi Devi Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital.

South Zone cricket team

It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

St. Mary's Convent High School, Goa

Mary's Convent High School is a school for girls in the North Goa town of Mapusa, India.

St. Paul's Church, Malacca

The chapel was deeded to the Society of Jesus in 1548 by the Bishop of Goa, João Afonso de Albuquerque, with the title deeds received by St. Francis Xavier.

St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa

Since 1986, St Xavier's College has been attached to Goa University, which was set up in the State of Goa.

Tenshō embassy

They were accompanied by two servants, their tutor and interpreter Diego de Mesquita, and their mentor Valignano, who only accompanied them as far as Goa in Portuguese India, where he was to take up new responsibilities.

Teresa de la Parra

De la Parra's novel Iphigenia: Diary of a young lady who wrote because she was bored, published in 1924, marked a change in Venezuelan literature.

Winner of the annual award given by Casa Editora Franco-Ibero-Americana in Paris in 1924, Teresa de la Parra finally had her work published and received a prize of 10,000 French francs.

Visa policy of India

Currently visas on arrival may be obtained at international airports of Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram and the list will be expanded with more airports like Goa, Gaya, Chandigarh and Amritsar.

Wroughton's free-tailed bat

In Karnataka, it is found in the Barapede Caves, located between Krishnapur and Talewadi, in Belgaum district, adjacent to the Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary near the state of Goa.

Yahel Chirinian

Monsoon Heritage creations are present in Paris, Rome, Milan, Monte Carlo, Saint Bart, Porto Cervo, Capri, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Oman, Qatar, Dabi, New Delhi, Bombay and Goa.

Zatra

Zatra is the Konkani language term for the pilgrimage festivals celebrated at Hindu temples in Goa; the Hindi and Marathi language equivalents are Yatra and Jatra.


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