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I knew Justice Suresh as a practicing lawyer well before he got appointed as a judge of the Bombay City Civil and Sessions Court (BCCSC). He performed well there at the BCCSC but he had a dream. He wanted to be a Judge of the High Court and hence he resigned as a judge of the BCCSC and rejoined the Bar. It was from there that he was elevated to the High Court, perhaps one of the few to adopt that course to the High Court successfully. We rejoiced when he was appointed. For we knew that he would do justice for the underprivileged in his judicial capacity.

China and the coronavirus is all about markets. If in Wuhan, it was a ‘wet market’ where the virus got a foothold before taking off to climes across the world, the coronavirus has returned to roost in another market, this time in capital Beijing – the Xinfadi wholesale vegetable market – prompting Chinese in prominent posts to say, “It’s time to remind the Chinese people that the virus has not gone away!”

There is an assumption among a large number of political commentators that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is still popular with Indians, particularly the rural population. Yet commentators avoid direct answer to the moot question relating to popularity of NaMo with the major and influential sections of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The contrast in the activities at the BJP headquarters between two elections in 2014 and 2019 was the clear evidence of fading out of the position of the Prime Minister in the BJP. All these and many other new developments are indicative of brewing of a new political stance within the party as well as in the country.

The campaign for the Bihar election, scheduled for the end of the year, has begun. In a display of what campaigning may look like in the coronavirus disease (Covid-19)-hit era, Union home minister and top Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah addressed workers in a digital rally. His message was simple: The BJP-Janta Dal (United) alliance has delivered on governance; it will win a two-thirds majority under chief minister Nitish Kumar, and the state government have worked to address the distress of the poor, particularly migrant workers.

It is high time Prime Minister Narendra Modi reigned in his impetuosity in taking decisions that affect the destiny of the nation. It is true that he stakes his prime ministership by such thoughtless action, but that is insignificant compared to the price that the nation is called upon to pay.

The crime branch of the Delhi police has fabricated a conspiracy theory which seeks to link anti-CAA protesters with the communal violence which took place in north-east Delhi in end February. The pattern of arrests, the cases and charge-sheets filed, reveal the real conspiracy which has been hatched under the aegis of Amit Shah’s home ministry.

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was enacted in the year 2016 and its provisions, in respect of the corporate insolvency, were enforced with effect from December 1, 2016. Prior to this revolutionary legislation, India had a very complex insolvency regime governed by multiple laws like Companies Act of 1956, Sick Industrial Companies Act of 1985, etc. none of which provided a complete solution in itself. The main objectives of this new Code are to consolidate the laws relating to insolvency to make insolvency a time-bound process and maximise asset value for the collective satisfaction of the creditors. It is also to encourage resolution over liquidation in order to prevent corporate deaths and promote entrepreneurship. Based upon practical experience, the Code has been amended so far five times, including the last one by way of the recent IBC (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 promulgated on June 5, 2020.

The BJP leadership, especially the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who claims to be the custodian and public face of nationalism has miserably let down the Indian nationalism and put the country in a bad light. In the annals of the century old India-Nepal relationship this was for the first time that Nepali forces opened fire on the border killing one Indian farmer.

BHOPAL: A day after an alleged audio clip of CM Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan went viral in which he purportedly says that the “BJP central leadership had decided that the Congress government in the state must fall” the Chief Minister tweeted on Thursday that it’s a noble act to destroy sinners. By revealing the secret that Congress government in Madhya Pradesh was overthrown at the instance of BJP’s central leadership Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan provided a very sensitive propaganda weapon to Congress. The Congress will effectively use it in the 24 by-elections of the Assembly.

The ‘New Delhi’ dateline is grim reading. Scores of Covid-19 deaths jostling with scarce numbers of hospital beds all over the country. Government hospitals are choc-a-bloc with Covid patients and private hospitals are pushing up the asking price for a bed. Then, there’s the “PPE con!” A PPE costs Rs 400 per piece for a hospital but the patient’s family is condemned to shell out thousands in hard cash. That, or there’s a world outside, death whistles! Yes, the avarice of the human being has never reaped more than in these days of the coronavirus.