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Brazil’s coronavirus death toll has hit a record high, with 4,000 deaths each day. This is a desperate crisis for Brazil but it has implications for the rest of the Americas — and for the world. Covid-19 infections have taken off over recent weeks with the prevalence of the P1 variant which is reported to be more than twice as transmissible as the pre-existing strains. This variant affects young people more immediately than others and this in a country with a burgeoning young population.

More than 300 writers, poets, intellectuals, human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, teachers, students and other people from different walks of life are up on their feet in defence of 84-year old Sindh writer and human rights campaigner Amir Jalil for the hate speech against the letter from Sunni Tehrik and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the new Barelvi power show.

Within forty hours of charging her with committing misdemeanour, the Election Commission on April 7 threatened Mamata Banerjee of taking action for violating Representation of the People’s Act by appealing Muslims to vote en bloc for Trinamool Congress.

Global community is rightly outraged at the killings of over 500 peacefully protesting people by the Military Junta in Myanmar. Not long ago the Rohingyas were forced to flee by the violent mobs. People are again running away from their homeland and are trying to take shelter in India and Bangladesh. That this is happening in a country inhabited by the Buddhists is totally beyond comprehension, because Buddhists confess, preach and are supposed to practice non-violence.

Three years ago, this column had talked about the possibility of non-human judges, powered by artificial intelligence and latest advances in machine learning. The immediate provocation was two Supreme Court benches considering the same case and applying the same law and legal principles and yet coming out with different verdicts.

Demanding repeal of three farm laws, guarantee for the purchase of the crops, and also minimum support price, the farmers are sitting on dharna on the borders of Delhi for last almost 140 days, and have initiated the ‘Mitti Satyagraha’ commemorating the famous Dandi March that had culminated on April 6, 1930. Farmers and agri workers from all over the country with soil from their villages were received at the Singhu border by women with pitchers filled with soil. Soil was brought from at least 1500 villages from Gujarat alone as also from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Bihar and many other states.

Buenos Aires: Olympic Champion Argentina quelled India's chances of a second consecutive victory as they made a strong comeback to hold the visitors 4-4 in a tense practice match here at Cenard, Buenos Aires on Wednesday.

Buenos Aires: India thwarted reigning Olympic Champion Argentina's comeback bid to register a 4-3 victory in a high-scoring first practice match which went down to the wire here in Cenard, Buenos Aires.

The alarming spike in Covid-19 cases has spooked the Modi Government. It has asked its employees aged 45+ to get themselves vaccinated to "effectively contain the spread of Covid-19.” A year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked people to bang thalis to ward off the coronavirus, has he admitted defeat? The coronavirus hasn't gone anywhere. If anything the critter is back for venomous revenge.

With only three days left for the Presidential elections run off in the Latin American nation Ecuador on April 11, all indications suggest that the leftist candidate leading economist Andres Arauz is set to win the poll defeating his contender the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso. The latest opinion poll gives Arauz 37.87 votes as against Lasso’s 30.19 per cent.