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Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Taxi Union Leader Bappa Korgaonkar today said that the taxi operators are ready to install digital meters but the agitation will continue till app based taxi service Goa Miles is not scrapped. “We are ready for installation of digital taxi meters but we shall only end our agitation once governments scraps Goa miles,” said Bappa Addressing media persons, taxi union leader Laxman (Bappa) Korgaonkar said that Mauvin Godinho only repeated what he had already told them before and brushed aside Godinho’s criticism about how GoaMiles was brought in by another department, given that ultimately, it was the…

Goemkarponn desk Margao- Model Margao panel, supported by Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat, says it will work with Unity, Availability, Accessibility, Honesty and Transparency in the full five year term. “We will not keep a single stone unturned to make Margao an Ultra-Modern City. Our vision is strongly supported by the long serving Margao MLA Digambar Kamat. With his guidance and advice we will fulfill all our commitments,” stated Eleven Candidates of Model Margao Panel in a joint press note issued here today. Model Margao appealed to the Citizens of Margao to extend their complete support to all of us…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) today filed a police complaint on against 10 defected members for forging party documents and producing the same in front the Goa Assembly Speaker during hearing on disqualification petition. Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Girish Chodankar said that the forgery came to light when the forged documents were produced before the Goas Assembly Speaker by some rebel MLAs while defending their decision of joining the Bharatiya Janata Party. According to Chodankar, the forged documents dated July 10, 2019 states that the party passed a resolution urging the then Leader of the…

Goemkarponn Desk New Delhi: Made-in-India COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, neutralises multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and effectively works against the double mutant strain as well, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said today. Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin has received Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for COVID-19 treatment in India and in several countries across the world with another 60 in the process. “ICMR study shows Covaxin neutralises against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and effectively neutralises the double mutant strain as well,” the ICMR tweeted. ICMR-National Institute of Virology has successfully isolated and cultured multiple variants of concern of SARS-CoV-2 virus: B.1.1.7 (the UK…

Goemkarponn desk VASCO: GPCC Vice President Sankalp Amonkar on Wednesday in a press conference said that The BJP has stoped to its lowest level in Mormugao and BJP led by Urban Development Minister Milind Naik and his candidates has now resorted to filing false complains against his candidates only to call them to the Dy Collector office and keep them busy for an entire day only to waste their time. Amonkar said that the officials of the flying squad comprising of electricity department staff are being pressurized to interfere during their rallies and meeting . Amonkar said that the police…

Goemkaponn Desk PANAJI: A complaint has been filed by MLA Rohan Khaunte, MLA Jayesh Salgaonkar, ZP Kavita Gupesh Naik, Sarpanch SDM and Sarpanch PDF on PWD Officers & Contractor M Venkata Rao (MVR) Infra Project Pvt Ltd for negligent work and causing damage to public property. In their complaint, they have said that since last 7 days citizen of Porvorim constituency and Saligao Constituency and surrounding areas have suffered shortage of water supply, which is solely due to lethargic and malafide acts and non-functioning of concerned officers of PWD and National highways and the contractors appointed for providing water supply…

Goemkaponn Desk PUNE: Covishield will be sold at Rs 400 a shot to state governments and Rs 600 to private hospitals, the Serum Institute of India (SII) said today ahead of the new round of vaccinations from May 1 that will include all above 18. The centre will continue to receive Covishield doses at Rs 150 each. Serum Institute said the vaccines were still more affordable than foreign vaccines, which cost from Rs 750 to Rs 1,500 a shot. As part of the government’s new policy, 50 per cent of vaccine doses will be reserved for the centre and the…