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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement declaring “lock down” — or, in common man’s language, “curfew” — throughout the country to tackle the coronavirus menace, is a welcome step. But the uncalled for inconveniences caused to people has been overlooked by government. As a result, there has occurred complete breakdown of public services — the newspapers were not delivered in the morning for successive four days now; the maids, who do routine work, did not turn up; garbage piled in front of houses, in absence of sweeping staff. If this continues, diseases may break out, take the form of epidemic, and may cause more damage than coronavirus alone.

The last decade of the last century revolutionized the communication sector. The easily availability and affordable costs of mobile phones ushered in the new era of social development. Further innovations and introduction of free usage of communications through social media became a boon but soon it got converted into a mode of uses and abuses. In the difficult times in the wake of dread of the Corona virus afflictions it became a curse. The middle class, educated but no particular about consequence of their actions, used the medium for conveying unverified but alarming messages. Young appeared keen to grab credit to be first in forwarding messages without verifying the veracity.

The post-peace optimism halts before a politically nebulous terrains in the landlocked Afghanistan is multi-horned. And the manifestation is symbolic as well as sanguinary. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)-inspired terrorist strike at a Sikh gurdwara killing at least 25 people in presence of security forces, symbiotically with the US announcement of slashing $1 billion in aid to Afghanistan, is a symptomatic manifestation. Worrisomely, the attack was mostly carried out by a single gunman with multiple attackers involved in the assault that lasted hours befooling the Afghan security forces, who had to struggle hard to track down and neutralize the assailants in the complex and its adjacent residential area.

Everyone agrees that delays in judicial delivery give rise to a large number of our country’s problems. I decided to try and evaluate how many extra judges would be required to start reducing judicial backlogs.

Narendra Modi has been playing truant with the people of the country in fighting coronavirus. If Modi has been really worried of the welfare of his people it must not have taken two and half month for him to grasp the escalation of the monstrous virus and react to the threat. It was on 30 December, 2019 the first case of corona virus was reported in Kerala. The victim was a student who along with his three friends had returned from Wuhan, China.

These are the days of unprecedented suffering, unusual for any country. The outbreak and spread of COVID-19, caused by the Coronavirus, has literally locked down the nation. The pandemic that originated from China, passing through Europe has come to India. Though there were ample warnings from scientists and health experts, the government took it in a light vein. Now that the disaster has struck, entire country is in the grip of pandemic. But as a country and a people we have to face the reality and overcome it.

New Delhi: Almost all parts of the country are facing acute shortage of supplies of food and medicine for their livestock on the fifth day of complete lockdown necessitated for stopping spread of coronavirus. Framers and others dependent on animal husbandry are now unable to even feed their animals.

The announcement about income support scheme by the union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has come in timely. In the prolonged lock-down, it would be the casual low income workers who could be the worst hit. Therefore, it is this group of people who needed urgent succour.

WASHINGTON: A series of missteps at the nation’s top public health agency caused a critical shortage of reliable laboratory tests for the coronavirus, hobbling the federal response as the pandemic spread across the country like wildfire, an Associated Press review found.

The four rapists of Nirbhaya have been executed. Hanged till they were pronounced dead by a doctor. Don’t know why doctors who take the Hippocratic Oath to save and protect lives go watch somebody getting hanged to death on the orders of the state.