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PANJIM: BJP President Sadanand Tanawade today said that cannabis plantation is not acceptable and BJP will oppose it strongly. “I spoke to CM Sawant and CM has told me that there is no decision to allow such plantations,” he added. Meanwhile, Micheal Lobo said that CM will scrap ganja cultivation proposal as we have opposed to it,” In 24 hours time it needs to be scrapped added Lobo after meeting CM Pramod Sawant. CM Pramod Sawant said that the state was looking at legalising cultivation of marijuana as an industry. No decision has been taken yet on the proposal by…

CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Dona Paula will be celebrating its 56th Foundation Day, on this occasion the institute will organise a public lecture on “The Evolving global ocean leads emission experiment” by Prof. Edward Allen Boyle, The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , Cambridge, on Friday, 1st January, 2021 at 1645 hrs (on virtual mode). Prof. Edward Allen Boyle is a marine geochemist involved in the study of the oceanic dispersal of anthropogenic emissions and the evolution of the Earth’s climate. He is interested in the areas of paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, and…

PANJIM: As the State government considering allowing cannabis cultivation in the State for medical purpose, the Cabinet Ministers and MLAs wants govt to have strict measures to prevent its “misuse”. “There should be a study on the cannabis issue and then the state govenremnt should consider whether it is good or bad,” said Tourism Minister Babu Azgoankar Mandrem MLA Dayanand Sopte said that Cannabis plantation if permitted only for medical purposes and that the state governemnt should have control so that it doesnt land in hands of other people. PWD Minister Deepak Pauskar said that governemnt will have to handle…

The Health Ministry has recommended to the Ministry of Civil Aviation the extension of the temporary suspension of flights originating from UK into India to be further extended till 7th January (Thursday), 2021. This has been recommended based on the inputs received from the Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) headed by the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) and the National Task Force jointly headed by DG, ICMR and Member (Health), NITI Aayog. It has also been suggested to Ministry of Civil Aviation that after 7th January 2021, strictly regulated resumption of limited number of flights originating from UK into India…

MAPUSA: Under-trail accused Vivek Gautam (28) from Chandranagar, Agra (UP) who was arrested in dacoity case in 2019, escaped from Colvale Central jail authorities yesterday night when he was taken for medical checkup at Asilo. As per information, After doing the checkup when he was leaving from district, broke the handcuffs and started ran away.. he was chased by police but he managed to flee with two of his accomplices who were outside the hospital one of whom fired one round in air. After which the police repeated the incident and upon searching, police found one full magazine containing 7.65…

The State government has made a submission before the Bombay High Court at Goa that the decision with regards to finalization of voters list for upcoming Municipality election is expected to be taken on January 4, 2021. The submission comes, almost a week after Government informed that the notification on ward reservation will be issued three weeks prior to poll notification. The election for 11 municipal councils is likely to take place in the end of February. The five -year term of the council ended in November and are currently administered by the Administrators.

PANJIM: Goa today reported 112 new COVID-19 positive cases today. While there were 116 recoveries and 1 death today. As per DHS bulletin, a 93 year old patient from Mapusa with IHD succumbed to the virus. Meanwhile, the active cases now stand at 950, the samples tested today in last 24 hrs is 1838. The total deaths are 735 while the recovery rate is 96.69%