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New Delhi:The Centre on Friday announced that the temporary ban on flights to India from the United Kingdom will be lifted from January 8, and operations will be allowed in a restricted manner for the next two weeks. The government had suspended flights to the UK on December 23, and extended the ban for another week to stop the spread of a new highly contagious variant of Covid-19 that was rapidly infecting people in the UK. Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted that from Jan 8 to 23, 15 flights per week will be allowed between the countries. The…

MARGAO: Sugarcane Farmers Facilitation Committee Chairman Narendra Sawaikar today said that government has released Rs 600 per tonne as compensation to the sugarcane growers. CM has assured that the process for compensation will start by next week, he added. “Rs 64 lakh have been sanctioned towards harvesting to 800 farmers,” said Sawaikar. “Rs. 1.5823 crore for 800 farmers sanctioned and deposited in sugar factory account as promised to the farmers by Govt,” said Agriculture Minister Babu Kavlekar He said that balance amount will be disbursed tomorrow. The minister informed that the government is working to make the sugar factory functional…

With the objective of gearing up for the roll out of COVID19 vaccine across the country, the Central Government has asked all States and UTs to ensure effective preparedness for the vaccine roll out. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan today chaired a high-level meeting to review the preparedness at session sites for COVID-19 vaccination with Pr. Secretaries (Health), NHM MDs and other health administrators of all States/UTs through video conference. The dry run will be conducted by all the State and UT governments on 2nd January 2021 (Saturday). The activity is proposed to be conducted in all State Capitals in…

New Delhi: The Oxford COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India will be sent for approval to the regulator Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) by a government-appointed panel of experts. The Serum Institute of India (SII) is making the vaccine Covishield developed by Oxford University and pharma major AstraZeneca, while Bharat Biotech has partnered with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for its Covaxin. The meeting of the expert panel is going on. The two groups had made presentations before the panel on Wednesday. Pfizer had sought more time to present their data. The centre is…

Panaji, Goa: With the Nuvem constituency and villages in Nuvem, spearheaded by its MLA Wilfred Dsa joining the Kitchen Farming and Kitchen Gardening venture mooted by Project Goemcho Goenkar, a new green revolution is in sight very soon in Goa. “Our target is to take the Kitchen Farming and Kitchen Gardening concepts to at least 50 villages in January 2021 itself. It’s been 5 days since we embarked on this project. It was launched on Christmas Day and we are proud to say that the response is encouraging,” said a spokesperson for Project Goemcho Goenkar. In 5 days, households in…

Margao: The Konkan Railway Police arrested three person, all native of Ghaziabad, who had committed theft of mobiles worth rupees five lakhs. The police recovered 23 mobiles worth Rs 5lakhs. The Konkan Railway police said the accused were supposed to escape Goa by train. The 23 mobiles were stolen from a shop in Baga, Calangute during Christmas and New Year night. The arrested are Mukesh, son of Bhagwandas Singh, aged 25 years, Mazhar Mohammed Ahmed, 33 years and Nizam Babu Khan, 32 years.

Margao: The Goa BJP unit is ready for municipal polls if they are held on political, the party State president Sadanand Shet Tanawade said on Friday. “Goa BJP is all ready for elections on party line. It’s upto government and Election Commission to decid on whether to take municipality elections on party lines,” he said. Tanawade said the recent results of Zilla Panchayat shows eight per cent of rural population is with BJP. “We are ready for the 11 municipality and one Corporation election. BJP will win comfortably,” opined Tanawade. Speaking further on the agitations and protests, Tanawade said the…