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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.

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 singer, her compositions include Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Bangla, Oriya, Urdu and Sanskrit. She sang in foreign languages including English, Latin, Arabic, French, Malay and Sinhalese.

While American investors were upbeat in India, despite Covid 19 ravaged the economy, Japanese investors slipped into coma. Both are among five top foreign investors in India. US investment in India surged by 297.2 per cent in 2020 over the preceding year and Japanese investment fell by 59.4 per cent during the same period. In 2019, investment from both USA and Japan were neck to neck, with marginal increase of USA investment over the Japanese investment.

Finally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to the airwaves and addressed the pathetic and sad state of Covid-India. Some say he was goaded by Wayanad Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who nudged him with the statement “I’m no longer going to address election rallies”, and ex-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who wrote to the Prime Minister and asked Modi to look at the whole Covid thing with a fresh pair of eyes instead of electoral-dust-blanked blinkers.

New Delhi: Asian Youth Champion Babyrojisana Chanu overwhelmed European Youth Champion Alexas Kubicka as seven more Indian pugilists stormed into the semi-finals of the AIBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships in Kielce, Poland on Tuesday.

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 the region bade adieu to a great revolutionary legacy of two brothers Fidel and Raul Castro who pioneered the revolution and consolidated the tiny nation defying American blockade.

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 Adityanath government to deal with the situation.

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.

The Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had burst in a hearty laughter on hearing then prevalent and in circulation anecdote relating to differing provincial mentalities.

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 morning of April 20, that over 5000 people were gathered at Anand Vihar ISBT and railway station and the number were rising. CM’s appeal with ‘folded hands’ not to leave Delhi seemed to have ceased its value for these migrants, who know that CM in Delhi has already been devalued recently by Modi government through an amendment of NCT Act.