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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The dire forecasts made by health experts on the covid situation seem to be coming true. There is no mistaking that Kerala is inexorably marching towards a dreadful denouement.

Leftwing leader of the Democratic Party Bernie Sanders acted as the unifier of anti-Trump forces in the country through his highly emotive address on the opening day of the Democratic Party’s convention, thereby facilitating the path of victory of Joe Biden at the coming Presidential elections in the United States on November 3.

The Lady with the Lamp, the founder of the nursing profession Florence Nightingale, had said that a hospital should do no harm to the sick. However, it is a commonplace thing in India for a patient to suffer in the hands of doctors, nurses, and hospital administration. This tragedy of a patient fails to attract the human attention of those who, fortunately, never happened to undergo such predicaments. Such tragedies are in such a large number that it loses the human face to become a matter of dry statistics. COVID-19 outbreak has underlined the need to change it urgently.

Senior advocate of the Supreme Court and activist Prashant Bhushan is getting wide support from the leading figures of the civil society including lawyers and academics for his stand on the Indian judiciary. Senior lawyers of the country have expressed the view that the judgment of the apex court holding Bhushan guilty in the contempt petition, is a sort of attack on free speech.

Deaths in the United States because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are not so high, asserted President Donald Trump. This, he said, the day his country crossed 160,000 deaths because of the virus. But, however preposterous, Trump was right. If you take, as he did, deaths in the US as a proportion of the total cases — case fatality rate — the US is doing better than most countries.

The latest report of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) that nearly five million salaried employees lost their jobs in July this year due to covid pandemic and the lockdown that followed, is sending an ominous signal about the trend in the country's economy. The lockdown was declared on March 25 this year and in the last five months, there has been easing of lockdown norms leading to the commencement of economic activities in the last two months, but this data for July signifies reversal from the June figure of job loss thereby indicating that the employing companies are in a precarious condition in respect of cash flow and demand.

The nature has not only pushed backwards the humanity by few centuries but also conveyed a lesson that all manmade progress would not be able to easily fight a micro germ invisible to human eye and also not easily detectable by its microscopes. The nature gifted corona virus. In two months it spread as a pandemic to capture entire Europe. The mighty super power United States of America was reduced to a pitiable condition. It was able to successfully meet all exigencies and emergencies caused by other super power in 45 years of the cold war era. It could not counter the impact of the micro sized germ. Even though the Americans are only six per cent of the world population, its share in the total world count of affected human beings with corona virus infection was more than 70 percent in both infected persons and also death toll. Americans consume high proportion of medicines compared to other people. It has the largest medicine and medical research paraphernalia. It could not find effective medicine to arrest death number.

New Delhi: Crickter Rohit Sharma wrestler Vinesh Phogat table tennis player Manika Batra and Paralympian M Thangavelu are the sportspersons recommended for the country's highest sports honour -Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.

New Delhi: Dream 11, the online fantasy sports company, has won the right to be the title sponsor of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Facebook will do well to consider a change of its theme from blue to saffron, which might help the leading social media company to protect its biggest market, a key consideration that influences the media giant’s policies with regard to independence and commitment to fairness.