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New Delhi: In an online programme on zoom platform, New Delhi YMCA paid tributes to Delhi Police for its work during the Covid-19 epidemic in the Capital. Five singers belted popular Bollywood hits to entertain the audience.

I usually do not find myself to be in agreement with Prashant Bhushan’s views. I always disliked the idea of public interest lawyering. As a conservative, I have always found the idea of an activist court quite worrisome.

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across sectors have seen a slump, and startups too are facing a decline in revenues.

While liberals in India and all around the world are celebrating the nomination of a “person of colour”, Kamala Harris, as the Democratic party’s vice-presidential candidate for the US polls, the BJP has been conspicuously silent.

The Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tweeted on Tuesday: “I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate.” It was indeed a historic moment for both Kamala Harris and the US.

The Covid-19 recession is having a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable people in Britain, a report claims.

“All indications” suggest that the extreme temperature reading of 54.4 degrees Celsius recorded in California’s Death Valley on Sunday, is legitimate, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.

India’s ban on Chinese apps for allegedly protecting India’s data sovereignty, becomes suspicious when we see no such problem with the US companies doing exactly that: taking Indian citizens data out of the country.

Over the years, the Congress has seen scores of rebellions and defections by party men more senior and prized than Sachin Pilot. But never in recent memory has a disaffected leader has been assiduously wooed as a former Rajasthan deputy chief minister after his revolt against Ashok Gehlot.

An expansionist China is looming larger and larger before India, posing a threat to her land, sea and air. There is no denying the fact that all the three services of the armed forces – army, navy and air force – have been starved of adequate funds for long. This has become obvious in the wake of the confrontation in eastern Ladakh that has brought India and China on the verge of a war.