THURSDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2026

Time to stop double tracking menace!


After prior incidents of using State machinery and the police force to suppress agitations in villages like that of Melauli, the Goa government is now using the same along with severe intimidation and threats to villagers, whose only sincere objective is protect their beautiful villages from the onslaught of the coal lobby. 

The destructive coal lobby clearly appears to have the Goa government under their authority and is pushing for the double tracks. 

Today, the majority of the world's polluted cities are in India and it is clear that the myopic policies of a corrupt central government backed by the excessive greed of specific corporations, is responsible for the same. 

Now these latter eco-terrorists are attempting to convert traditionally non polluted and beautiful States like Goa to the list of polluted places in India. Will Goans allow them to succeed or fight back to stop them? 


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Omicron: Don’t let your guard down

MELVILLE X D’SOUZA, Mumbai
Published Nov 30, 2021, 11:50 PM IST
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Judging from various reports, the fear of the pandemic continuing to rule our lives seems imminent. The fear of getting infected by the new variant called Omicron, looms large. However, there seems to be no clarity or uniformity in the views expressed by various medical experts with regard to the new variants which have been surfacing in recent times. Earlier there was the fear about the Delta which seems to have faded away. Just when we have begun to open up,…

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