PANJIM: Goa today reported 61 new COVID-19 positive cases. While there were 87 recoveries and 3 deaths reported today. As per DHS bulletin, a 62 year old from Quepem, a 68 year from Caranzalem with DM+HTN and 60 year old from Bicholim with ILP+PTB succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the active cases now stand at 951 while the total deaths till today are 731. The samples tested in the last 24 hrs is 1205 and 96.67% is the recovery rate.
PANJIM: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today said that state government is in the process of identifying cold storage facilities before vaccine for the COVID-19 rolls out. “Govt is already in process of identifying cold storage facilities across the state before vaccine roles out,” said CM Sawant He said that heath workers and senior citizens will be the first to get the jab once the vaccine is rolled out. The Central Government is gearing up for the roll out of COVID19 vaccine across the country. As the vaccine administrators will play an important role in the vaccination process, training of…
Ponda – Close on the heels of several protests in the State the locals of Amona, Navelim, Marcel, Bethki, Khandola of Ponda Taluka have launched a protest against proposed expansion plant of mining company at Amona. The locals fear that the massive graphite and plant of mining company at Amona would lead to more spread of graphite making their life miserable. The locals around 24 villages would be affected due to pollution after the expansion of the plant. “The existing plant already has made our lives miserable and hence we do not want new or expansion of the plant. Few…
Anti Narcotic Cell (ANC) on Friday conducted a narcotic raid at Arambol Beach, Pernem Goa and arrested one Nigerian National in possession of drugs worth Rs 7.60 lakhs. As per ANC, the accused person namely Emeka Daniel Okoji (41) was caught with 31.01 grams of whitish colour powder substance suspected to be Cocaine and 4.444 grams of brownish colour liquid suspected to be LSD liquid, collectedly worth Rs. 7,60,000. ANC said that further investigation into matter in on
Aam Aadmi Party today asked the Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant to ensure that everything is in place before making lofty statements that raise people’s hopes only to have them dashed cruelly to the ground due to non implementation and cited the price hike for covid warriors as one such case. It may be recalled that on 6th April chief minister had very grandly announced a 20 per cent hike in the wages paid to Corona warriors. However though eight months have passed since the announcement Corona warriors have not got any increase till date, pointed out Rahul. He said…
Panaji: After the successful implementation of the OTS scheme for the power consumers, the Goa government has now introduced the “Dues recovery and Settlement Scheme 2020-21” under Public Works Department for payment of dues towards water charges from all Domestic & non Domestic water consumers having accumulated dues as on 31st October 2020. The notification issued by the department says that this is a one-time Settlement scheme for the Defaulted Consumer(s) who have not paid their dues to the Public Works Department for utilisation of their services of providing potable water and/or sewerage services either for domestic or Non Domestic…
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi today released the next instalment of financial benefit under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi through video conference. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said Rs 18000 crore have been deposited directly in the bank account of more than 9 crore farmer families in the country at the click of a button today. He added ever since this scheme started, more than 1 lakh 10 thousand crore rupees have reached the account of farmers. The Prime Minister expressed regret that more than 70 lakh farmers of West Bengal have not been able to get this…
