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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.

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 several days before the area is completely free. These people have come from all over the country and now returning home they will carry the virus to the rural areas as well which have been having low incidence of the disease till date.

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 voices calling for better women's representation. No less than the Supreme Court chief justice S.A Bobde just before his retirement last week lamented this lacune. In the history of the Supreme Court, before reaching that position, the women Judges had crossed the retirement age even if they become Supreme Court judges. Attorney General K. K. Venugopal had also observed that "improving the representation of women in the judiciary could go a long way towards a more balanced and empathetic approach in cases involving sexual violence."