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Chennai: The South India Rally, a round of the 2021 Indian National Rally Championship, scheduled for April 23-25, has been postponed in the wake of fresh government restrictions due to rising number of Covid-19 virus cases, organisers Madras Motor Sports Club announced here today.

New Delhi: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Monday postponed the Yonex-Sunrise India Open slated for next month in New Delhi saying due to surge in the Covid cases hosting the event 'for now, is a very risky affair.'

Sense and sensibility should guide everyone while taking decisions that have far-reaching consequences. Even judicial decisions are not exempt from this rule. However, it is difficult to say that some of the recent decisions pertaining to disputes about temples and mosques were taken in the right spirit.

India’s second wave is spreading faster and registering an even steeper rise than the first wave of Covid-19. The new daily case count is nearly 2,00,000 per day and already twice the first wave peak. It is still rising, doubling every 12-14 days. India is now the country with the highest number of daily cases, more than twice that of the United States and Brazil.

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been cleared clear to run against Jair Bolsonaro, the present Brazilian president in next year’s presidential election as the Supreme Court upheld a verdict annulling his corruption convictions.

It is merely a coincidence or the curse of the destiny, it is yet not clear, but one thing is explicit that the rightist political parties and their leaders, like Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Boris Johnson, have been primarily responsible for the spread of the variant Corona epidemic and death of thousands of innocent people.

Mamata Banerjee’s election strategist, Prashant Kishor, has listed the BJP’s three plus points. The first is Narendra Modi’s image – he is a god to some people, Kishor said, - the second is Hindu-Muslim polarization and the third is the prevailing anti-incumbency sentiment against the ruling Trinamool Congress.

After the new wave of coronaviruses in comes the oil shock to India’s fragile economy. Going by government estimates, India’s GDP had shrunk by eight percent in 2020-21 as against a four percent growth in the previous fiscal. While the current year’s economic growth picture remains unclear at this point of time, rising global crude oil prices and falling Indian rupee (INR) are posing a concern. Crude oil prices are rising in anticipation of an economic recovery in big markets such as the US, China, India, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. China is the world’s largest oil importer, followed by the US and India.

New Delhi: Alfiya Pathan led the charge as four Indian women pugilists stormed into the semifinals, thus assuring the country as many medals, at the the AIBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships in Kielce, Poland.

Jurmala (Latvia): Anastasija Sevastova showed her superior skills against Ankita Raina to enable Latvia secure an unassailable 3-0 lead over India after the first reverse singles match of the Billie Jean King Cup play-off tie in Jurmala on Saturday.