THURSDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2026

Tackle migrant menace with an iron hand


The footpath outside Margao railway station has been almost entirely taken over by migrants and is very difficult to use by passersby. They cook, smoke, wash and defecate right on the pavement creating massively unhygienic conditions. 

Quite a few of them are professional beggars and indulge in petty crimes in the city. Most are very aggressive when confronted. 

Why are the law enforcement agencies not getting rid of this menace which is hiding in plain sight. 

The local MLAs are least bothered about the problem but simply make sanctimonious statements about keeping our city clean and crime free. Shame!


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Hic, hic hurray! Punjab may show the way

SRIDHAR D’IYER, Caranzalem
Published Dec 18, 2022, 11:52 PM IST
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Punjab has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court that it plans to provide a “cheap variant of country liquor” as a “healthy substitute having 40-degree strength” so that people will not drink illicit and spurious home-made liquor! We know of foreign liquor, Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) and country liquor and now there would be State brewed liquor! It is a paradox as to how there could be a “cheap variant” of country liquor be a “healthy” drink? Perhaps some…

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