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The pandemic has caused unprecedented crises and disruptions around the world. It has inflicted the greatest pain on those who were already the most vulnerable, spurring hardship and unease among low-income families and micro-businesses. In the process, it uncovered existing inequities and created new ones.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two day visit to Bangladesh certainly strengthened India’s bilateral ties with its neighbour but his programme in Bangladesh also took care of his party’s compulsions in the assembly polls in Bengal which began on March 27. His visit to the birthplace of the founder of matua community who have influence in poll bound districts of Bengal, had his party interests in mind.

A filmi song plays intermittently on the para (locality) loudspeaker, breaking the sleepiness of a Sunday afternoon. A catchy tune, it’s been playing for some days on the trot. A lady with a husky voice sings spiritedly, and the words ‘desh ka bachha bachha’ float in the air. Curious, I look up the refrain with the search words ‘Hindi song’. This peppy number; it then emerges, is a campaign song which declares ‘Bharat ka bachha bachha mere Ram pe kurban hai’ (every child of India dotes on my Ram).

Chennai: A record 48 team entries and a clutch of country’s top riders are in the fray for TVS Eurogrip MMSC Motorcycle Endurance Race to be run over two hours at the MMRT circuit here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Mixed pair Tejaswini Sawant and Sanjeev Rajput and 3 P team of Chain Singh, Swapnil Kusale and Niraj Kumar won two more gold for the country as Indian shooters maintained their domination in the ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Pistol/ Shotgun stage at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting range here on Friday.

After pandemic, there has been steady decline in the life of all the sections in the society especially for those living on the margins. Though there are those that are corporates who do not have to face the same deprivation, it is for them alone that the rest suffer intensely.

The new word that's getting usage despite not being in the dictionary is 'vaxtard' which is a name for followers of the vaccine cult, basically people who have set themselves up or have been set up for "mass suicide." According to propounders of this theory, before the next two to three years are history, the human race is due for a culling, Earth's human population will be cut to size, from 7 billion to just about 4 billion.

Bharat Bandh observed on March 26 clearly indicated widening spread of the farmers’ agitation in the areas and states which have hitherto been almost free from its influence. Their support base has also shown an increase, which not only included more organizations but also more people, individually and in group, especially those who have been restive for quite some over the autocratic ways of the Modi government. The kind of support it has received from the non-BJP, non-NDA political parties indicates the future of Indian polity which could not remain the same from now onwards.

The Modi government has made no secret of its intention to hand over India’s public sector to its favoured corporate houses and foreign multinationals. And this is backed not by any economic argument, but rather by its desire to raise resources for government expenditure, thereby betraying both its utter ignorance of economics and its bloody-minded determination to favour its crony corporate houses.

As the state assembly elections polling begins on March 27, Bengal is getting all the focus both nationally and internationally as the BJP leadership led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Home Minister Amit Shah, has taken this eight phase poll in the state bordering Bangladesh as the biggest challenge of their political career since the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. In no state elections, the PM and the HM have visited any state for campaigning so many times. The Home Minister is in fact campaigning in the districts and is using his clout to both directly and indirectly influencing the senior IAS and IPS officials. There are reports that district officials, especially the senior IPS officers are being transferred by the election commission at the instance of the local BJP leaders.