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K S Chithra Is Melody Queen Of South India Recording More Than 25,000 Songs
By Harihar Swarup Krishnan Nair Shankatkumari Chithra, known more as K S Chithra, decorated with Padma Bhushan, is called melody queen and nightingale of South India. One wonders how she manages but, surprisingly, she has recorded 25,000 songs in various languages. Even though basically she is a Carnatic language...
Yogi Government Is Trying To Hide Its Failures In Fighting Corona
By Arun Srivastava Supreme Court staying the Allahabad High Court advice to the Uttar Pradesh Government to impose strict restrictions till April 26 in five cities amid the surge in COVID-19 cases would certainly demotivate and disappoint the High Courts across the country. The Telangana High Court too on...
Time Is Ripe To Have More Women Judges In Supreme Court Of India
By Kalyani Shankar Is it not strange that justice is usually portrayed as a woman, but women do not have much role in it? Women have become President, Prime Minister, chief ministers, Governor, and occupied other high positions but not as the chief justice of India. There have been...
Narendra Modi Lacks Vision In Dealing With The Threat Of Second Covid Surge
By Dr Arun Mitra The Prime Minister has woken very late in appealing to the pilgrims at Kumbh to go back and that Kumbh should be symbolic now. The damage has already been done. Even if those at Kumbh at present start to vacate the place, it may take...
Migrant Workers Are Again Leaving Delhi As Lockdown Begins
By Gyan Pathak Migrant workers continue to leave Delhi in large numbers. Thousands of them gathered at Anand Vihar ISBT to catch buses in the evening of April 19, 2020 within hours after the announcement of six days lockdown by the Chief Minister of Delhi. Police said in the...
Second Wave Of Corona Virus: Kerala Caught Off Guard Too
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Like the rest of the country, Kerala, too, is paying a heavy price for indifference to and defiance of the covid-19 protocol. The disastrous results are there for all to see. In a determined effort to get a grip over the grave situation arising out...
Panchayat Elections In Uttar Pradesh Acting As Super Spreader
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan has blamed the collapse of state administration for chaotic condition in Uttar Pradesh during pandemic. Atul Anjaan said that when ICMR and IMA had warned about severity of second wave there was no preparation on the part of Yogi...
Castro Era Ends In Communist Cuba After More Than Six Decades
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Former Cuban President Raúl Castro retired from his last major public office standing down as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba at its Eighth Congress. held on April 16 to19..With this, the island nation of Latin America, the first communist nation in...
High Oil Price May Hit Indian Economy Hard
By Nantoo Banerjee After the new wave of coronaviruses in comes the oil shock to India’s fragile economy. Going by government estimates, India’s GDP had shrunk by eight percent in 2020-21 as against a four percent growth in the previous fiscal. While the current year’s economic growth picture remains...
Secular Parties Must Offer A Viable Programme To Challenge Narendra Modi
By Amulya Ganguli Mamata Banerjee’s election strategist, Prashant Kishor, has listed the BJP’s three plus points. The first is Narendra Modi’s image – he is a god to some people, Kishor said, – the second is Hindu-Muslim polarization and the third is the prevailing anti-incumbency sentiment against the ruling...
All Rightwing Leaders Of Big Countries Have Failed In Corona Management
By Arun Srivastava It is merely a coincidence or the curse of the destiny, it is yet not clear, but one thing is explicit that the rightist political parties and their leaders, like Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Boris Johnson, have been primarily responsible for the spread of the...
Lula Cleared To Run Against Bolsonaro After Supreme Court Ruling
By Satyaki Chakraborty Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been cleared clear to run against Jair Bolsonaro, the present Brazilian president in next year’s presidential election as the Supreme Court upheld a verdict annulling his corruption convictions. The majority decision came on Thursday after Supreme Court...
Varanasi And Mathura, Are New Ayodhya In The Making
By A J Philip Sense and sensibility should guide everyone while taking decisions that have far-reaching consequences. Even judicial decisions are not exempt from this rule. However, it is difficult to say that some of the recent decisions pertaining to disputes about temples and mosques were taken in the...
Scientists Warn: India’s Second Wave Is Much Worse Than The First
By Prabir Purkayastha India’s second wave is spreading faster and registering an even steeper rise than the first wave of Covid-19. The new daily case count is nearly 2,00,000 per day and already twice the first wave peak. It is still rising, doubling every 12-14 days. India is now...
Closest Collaboration Between Govt, Prvate Sector And IMA Is Need Of The Hour
By Harihar Swarup India has been vaccinating its citizens with domestically manufactured COVID vaccines since January 2021. The government has adopted a phased approach in vaccinating its population — first the at-high-risk populations, then the 60-plus and from April onwards, everyone over the age of 45 years is eligible....
Narendra Modi’s Model Covid Management Is Now Coming Out In True Colour
By Sushil Kutty In Lucknow, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath could, if he wants, smell the stench of death. For the last several days, the city’s crematoriums have been inundated with Covid corpses. So much so, with people taking a morbid interest in the goings on at the city’s largest...
Salaried Class Losing Jobs Faster Than Expected This Year
By Gyan Pathak It is now in the open. The biggest loss of employment in 2020-21 was suffered by the salaried employees as against the popular belief that they were safest in terms of employment and source of earning during the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent restrictions. The situation is...
Supreme Court Under The Spell Of A Black Planet
By K Raveendran The seat of the Chief Justice of India seems to be under the spell of a black planet, with the result that every incumbent comes under a cloud even before he occupies the august position. No one has any clue about such a planet, but its...
