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From early this month, China suddenly escalated tension with India in Ladakh and Sikkim for reasons which are still unclear. Nepal has also chosen this time to claim some areas which are in India, apparently at the behest of Beijing. In fact, the chief of the Indian army, General M. M. Naravane went so far as to say that Nepal’s protest against India’s construction of a new link road to Lipu Lekh Pass had been made at “someone’s behest”, just stopping short of naming China.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be completing his first year in office in his second term on May 30. While critics are discussing Modi government’s hits and misses in the past one- year, what has the opposition done? What is its report card? Has it played its watchdog role? The answer is in the negative. The role of the opposition is very important in a democracy and an effective opposition is its base. To its credit some non- BJP parties had formed the government in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and till recently Madhya Pradesh in the past one -year.

New Delhi: The grand old man of Indian hockey Balbir Singh (Senior) was cremated here today with full state honours at an electric crematorium, with his maternal grandson Kabir performing the last rites in the presence of Sikh priests. He died at a Mohali Hospital, near Chandigarh on Monday morning. He was admitted to the hospital on May 8 due to pneumonia and was on ventilator support.

New Delhi: The grand old man of Indian hockey Balbir Singh (Senior) is no more.

Intolerance in the NaMo regime for differing views or critical stance towards the ruling establishment is unprecedented. In no previous regime was seen such limitless intolerance.

New Delhi: National U-17 Women’s Team Head Coach Thomas Dennerby has opined that his players are keen to get back to the pitch once normalcy returns after the end of the lockdown.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. Kerala has suffered a setback in the war against the dreaded corona virus. The dangerous development is clear from the massive spike in covid positive cases in the recent days. The disturbing surge can be attributed to a variety of factors.

As the greatest man made humanitarian crisis since independence plays out across India, prevailing inequalities get intensified due to government policies and approaches during the arbitrarily declared, unplanned lockdown. The curtain of invisibility that hitherto concealed the existence of 10 crore workers, termed migrant workers, has been torn asunder through myriad images of horrendous suffering. This huge section of India’s labour force or rather India’s life force are being stripped of their rights as equal citizens of India. They are, along with all sections of the working class and working people whose basic rights are under attack, are hostage in the war that the Modi government is waging to get out of the huge crisis that the capitalist economy faces.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in an unenviable position. He has to attempt a ‘quantum leap’ on the economic front while walking the Covid-19 tightrope. There is considerable risk involved. But it’s a risk he has to take simply because there are limitations to what India can afford by way of options at this point.

Like all national and global crises, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic implosion will profoundly change people, work, and society generally. The only question is, how much?