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Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO) came as protests raged over the police killing of George Floyd.

Electoral compulsions and the impulse to keep the rightist forces in good humour have witnessed fundamental transformation of the UK’s Labour Party. The party has decided to divorce the left ideas and policy notwithstanding the ground realities favouring Labour Party embracing the socialist ideas for espousing the cause of the poor people who have significant number in the country.

The Financial Times of London is one of the most “respectable” bourgeois newspapers in the world. Even this newspaper has now come to recognise something which the Left has been saying for quite some time. In an editorial on April 3, 2020, it wrote: “Radical reforms in reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades will need to be put on the table. Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public services as investment rather than as liabilities and look for ways to make the labour market less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the agenda… Policies until recently considered eccentric such as basic income and wealth taxes will have to be in the mix.”

In the years to come, which will be the defining image of the great Indian labour migration of 2020? Will it be the video of a toddler lifting the shroud over his dead mother’s body on a railway platform? Or of the child half-asleep on a suitcase on wheels as it was being pulled by his mother along a highway?

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected more than 200 countries in the world, with United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Brazil and India being particularly affected. But no country has had a humanitarian crisis as in India in the form of 80 million migrant workers stranded in different parts of the country, with no jobs, or food security for over two months. In India, we are battling two crises: Covid-19, and a humanitarian one. Activists have recorded more than 700 deaths of people that can be traced to lockdown, owing to hunger, starvation, exhaustion and suicide, amongst others, and the number is ever growing.

The corona virus pandemic is the first fearsome disease to leave immeasurable deep scar on humanity. Many pandemic have come left unrecoverable damage on human numbers but none was able to push humanity to its back foot. But the dread of corona virus forced humanity to go back to ancient times and style of existence. Fear of becoming prey of wild animals had forced humans to live alone in safety of their caves. Social distancing was imperative of times. They had no back up of medical sciences or advantages of more organized social life depending on cooperation of others.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Kerala witnessing the much-dreaded community spread? That is the question being hotly discussed in the political corridors.

A recent image makeover exercise for the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi by some media houses has inflicted more damage than actually refurbishing his charisma.

Nutrition is the most important issue to sustain life. It is all the more important for children who need special care and therefore special nutrients to grow. For a healthy nourishing diet it is important that it should contain Proteins, Fats and Carbohydrates as basic food stuff along with nutrients like Minerals and Vitamins. Normal functioning of the human body requires a balance between nutritional intake and metabolism. The imbalances manifest as nutritional deficiencies. The body requires many different vitamins and minerals that are crucial for both body development and preventing disease. These vitamins and minerals are often referred to as micronutrients and should be essential part of our diet.

First the slogan, then the idea. This has been Mod’s style in all his slogan coinages. Many of these could actually be described as random midnight thoughts. The latest one for the covid stimulus package is no different.