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By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Though many new cases of Covid-19 have been reported both in Bhopal and Indore, at the same time the number of patients leaving hospitals after recovery is also increasing in both the cities. Twelve patients were discharged in Indore yesterday, taking the total number of...
Political Consensus On Extending Corona Lockdown
By Rahil Nora Chopra On Wednesday, at a videoconferencing held with parties’ floor leaders in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it won’t be possible to lift the 21-day nationwide lockdown in one go as scheduled on April 14. He, however, noted that he would consult the Chief Ministers...
Indian Media’s Coronavirus Coverage Has Been Deplorable
By Arun Srivastava At a time when the international media has been unfailingly scrutinising the role of their respective governments in fighting the dreaded coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been contemplating to completely gag the “fourth pillar of democracy” and to accomplish this task, approached the Supreme Court,...
How To Control The Spread Of Coronavirus In India
By Nilanjan Banik and Samik Basu A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced lockdown in India, videos went viral showing millions of migrant workers were trying to leave their place of work in urban centers. For India’s 120 million migrant workers, earning a daily subsistence allowance of less...
Coronavirus Lockdown: Open The Virtual Doors Of The Court
By Indira Jaising Amidst the Coronavirus pandemic which has hit the entire globe, the Supreme Court of India is hearing petitions through videoconference in furtherance to its commitment to the justice delivery system. While the objective is laudable, there are several issues that need to be highlighted in order...
Bank Employees Have An Unequivocal Message For Government
By C H Venkatachalam We are seeing one by one the private banks are taking people’s money and mismanaging it.In the last 30 years, 30 private banks have collapsed. Hence the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) is demanding to nationalise all private banks so that people’s money is...
Let Sleeping Slumdogs Alone, No Oscar For Pandemic Porn
By Sushil Kutty The Dharavi father knows his children’s Lakshman Rekha. A rope strung across the entrance to his canvas and tin shanty in Asia’s largest slum. His children stand behind the rope. The father, on the outside, wears a facemask. The FM is an attraction in Dharavi. Especially...
Madhya Pradesh Government Takes Anti-Covid-19 Measures
By L.S. Herdenia Alarmed over the rise in the number of coronavirus affected cases in Madhya Pradesh, particularly in Bhopal and Indore, state government has taken several measures to control the situation. The measures include enforcement of ESMA, or the Essential Services Maintenance Act, sealing of Indore and Bhopal...
World Wonders How India Has Restricted Coronavirus Spread
By K Raveendran The success achieved by India in containing the deadly coronavirus attack, the global toll of which is fast approaching the next milestone of 100,000 deaths, has the world wondering as to how such an overpopulated country with all its failings and poor healthcare infrastructure has managed...
New Delhi’s Crucial Task: Taking Dhaka Into Confidence
By Sagarneel Sinha It’s an open secret that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is known for her pro-India image — both in her native place and in India. Nobody can deny the strong actions taken by Hasina since her coming to power in 2009, against the anti-India elements who...
Modi Succumbs To Trump’s Threat On Potential Covid-19 Drug
By Arun Srivastava The populist right building their electoral strength on boisterousness and arrogant self-confidence has been a known matter. It has been an open secret and there is no new element involved in it. The rightist rulers of the capitalist countries Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro and...
Uttar Pradesh May Extend Corona Lockdown
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government has hinted on extending the lockdown in view of the rise in coronavirus-positive cases in the state. The official spokesperson of the government commented that the state government would like to continue the lockdown even if there was a single case of...
Pandemic Recovery: Helping Workers Cope Is Essential
By Mark Gruenberg BRUSSELS, Belgium: A Europe-wide coalition of left and progressive members of the European Parliament has outlined a wide-ranging plan to help the continent’s workers cope with the coronavirus pandemic and particularly its economic impact. Among the measures unveiled are “maintaining work and income,” guaranteed housing for...
Industry Donates Billions To Fight Covid 19
By Nantoo Banerjee Notwithstanding poor demand and production cutback across industry, contributions worth millions of dollars from business establishments are pouring in to government and non government charities ever since the nation went on a three-week lockdown to maintain social distance to prevent coronavirus from spreading. The House of...
The Gloves Are Off Once Again Between BJP And Congress
By Amulya Ganguli It was too good to last. Few will be surprised that the truce between the BJP and the Congress lasted for only about a week. It was a temporary moratorium imposed by an unprecedented crisis, the like of which India hadn’t seen before. But the animus...
Having Faith In The Time Of Coronavirus Pandemic
By Kalyani Shankar What is the impact of coronavirus on religion? As the well-known German philosopher and economist Karl Marx said, religion is the “opium of the people.” For believers, world over it provides psychological and emotional as well as moral support. But the novel Coronavirus is a pandemic,...
Same Old Party Politics At The Time Of Pandemic
By Sushil Kutty Has politics, as we know it, come to a halt at a pit-stop? The feeling is not lost on people. Political parties and politicians appear to have courted ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’. It’s like they have been cured of the virus ‘politics’ and a lockdown is in...
With Several Bureaucrats Indisposed, Madhya Pradesh Lands In Corona Soup
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Despite all possible medical and clinical measures, coronavirus continues to expand its footprint in Madhya Pradesh. In the last 24 hours, as many as 22 new positive patients were identified in Bhopal. They include 16 officials of the health department. With this, the total number...
