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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, is set to undertake a study to assess the environmental impact of the proposed doubling of the railway line from Tinaighat in Karnataka to Kulem in Goa. The move comes nearly four months after the Supreme Court on May 9 cancelled the clearance given by the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) for doubling the railway track. The WII issued an advertisement on September 1 inviting applicants for different positions, including project scientist, lab assistant, project associate, etc. to conduct a cumulative environment impact assessment. The project is titled ‘Cumulative Environment…

Goemakrponn desk VASCO: A 44-year-old man, Basappa Negimani morning jumped to death from the terrace of the Furtado building at Down Mangor. While the person tried to commit suicide, locals say his life could have been saved had the ambulance arrived on time. Angry locals demanded Health Minister Vishwajit Rane to intervene in the serious matter. “The Health Department must keep ambulances on standby at areas in and around Vasco for an emergency,” they said. Councillor Girish Borker said, “even after the jump, the person was alive and could have been saved only if the ambulance had arrived on time.”…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Margao MLA Digambar Kamat, who switched sides to the BJP and 7 others, said that he sought divine intervention before deciding to join the Saffron party. “I went before God and explained the entire situation, and he advised me to take appropriate decision, and based on that, I have taken the decision,” said Kamat. He further agreed that he had sworn in front of God earlier not to leave Congress. “I am a man who believes in God; I met God again and told him that the circumstances are such; what should I do; God told me…

Goemkarponn desk NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, the AAP mocked the Congress party after 2/3rd of its MLAs in Goa, including ex-CM Digambar Kamat and LoP Michael Lobo, jumped ship to BJP. Taking to Twitter, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha contended that whenever people vote for a Congress candidate, it is a mandate for a potential BJP MLA. In the run-up to the Goa Assembly election this year, AAP regularly urged the electorate to not waste their vote on Congress owing to its history of defections. At present, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party has two MLAs in the 40-member Goa Assembly. Meanwhile,…

Goemkarponn desk NEW DELHI: As eight Congress MLAs on Wednesday crossed over to the BJP, the Congress said it was “operation dirt” of the BJP, which got rattled by the success of the Congress’sCongress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. Quoting from Nida Fazil’sFazil’s poem, Congress leader Pawan Khera said there will be heat in the journey; those who can should continue. “Those who are unable to join the difficult journey of Bharat Jodo Yatra are taking resort to the dividers, fearing the threats of the BJP. But understand that the nation is watching,” Pawan Khera wrote. The development comes amid the Congress’s…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: Brushing aside the suggestions that teh Dabolim airport will be shut after Mopa starts operations, the Airport Authority of India has said that Dabolim will continue to boost Goa Tourism. Airport Director SVT Dhanamjaya Rao stated that Dabolim now has requests for charter flight slots from eight destinations. “We have received a request for slots for the arrival of charter flights from eight destinations of Tel Aviv, Kuala Lumpur, Bahrain, Russia, Almati, Gatwick, Manchester and Muscat,” he said. He said the approval for requests is in the pipeline. “Scat Air, Rossiya, Aeroflot, Gulf Air, and Arkia airlines…

Goemkarponn desk CANACONA: Coming hard on Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, NGO Goenkar (who has taken the government in NGT over the felling of thousands of Trees at Karmalghat) questioned the minister’s logic for Citing the ‘Expensive’ reasoning to deny a tunnel at Karmalghat section of NH-66 road widening. “The costs of Tunnel though time-consuming will be certainly much less than the cost will be paid by causing destruction of Environment and Wildlife. Unfortunately, Union Minister is on record to say that funds for developmental works are never a problem, and it is not understood why…