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The Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had burst in a hearty laughter on hearing then prevalent and in circulation anecdote relating to differing provincial mentalities.

Migrant workers continue to leave Delhi in large numbers. Thousands of them gathered at Anand Vihar ISBT to catch buses in the evening of April 19, 2020 within hours after the announcement of six days lockdown by the Chief Minister of Delhi. Police said in the morning of April 20, that over 5000 people were gathered at Anand Vihar ISBT and railway station and the number were rising. CM’s appeal with ‘folded hands’ not to leave Delhi seemed to have ceased its value for these migrants, who know that CM in Delhi has already been devalued recently by Modi government through an amendment of NCT Act.

The Prime Minister has woken very late in appealing to the pilgrims at Kumbh to go back and that Kumbh should be symbolic now. The damage has already been done. Even if those at Kumbh at present start to vacate the place, it may take several days before the area is completely free. These people have come from all over the country and now returning home they will carry the virus to the rural areas as well which have been having low incidence of the disease till date.

Is it not strange that justice is usually portrayed as a woman, but women do not have much role in it? Women have become President, Prime Minister, chief ministers, Governor, and occupied other high positions but not as the chief justice of India. There have been voices calling for better women's representation. No less than the Supreme Court chief justice S.A Bobde just before his retirement last week lamented this lacune. In the history of the Supreme Court, before reaching that position, the women Judges had crossed the retirement age even if they become Supreme Court judges. Attorney General K. K. Venugopal had also observed that "improving the representation of women in the judiciary could go a long way towards a more balanced and empathetic approach in cases involving sexual violence."

Chennai: The South India Rally, a round of the 2021 Indian National Rally Championship, scheduled for April 23-25, has been postponed in the wake of fresh government restrictions due to rising number of Covid-19 virus cases, organisers Madras Motor Sports Club announced here today.

New Delhi: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Monday postponed the Yonex-Sunrise India Open slated for next month in New Delhi saying due to surge in the Covid cases hosting the event 'for now, is a very risky affair.'

Sense and sensibility should guide everyone while taking decisions that have far-reaching consequences. Even judicial decisions are not exempt from this rule. However, it is difficult to say that some of the recent decisions pertaining to disputes about temples and mosques were taken in the right spirit.

India’s second wave is spreading faster and registering an even steeper rise than the first wave of Covid-19. The new daily case count is nearly 2,00,000 per day and already twice the first wave peak. It is still rising, doubling every 12-14 days. India is now the country with the highest number of daily cases, more than twice that of the United States and Brazil.

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been cleared clear to run against Jair Bolsonaro, the present Brazilian president in next year’s presidential election as the Supreme Court upheld a verdict annulling his corruption convictions.

It is merely a coincidence or the curse of the destiny, it is yet not clear, but one thing is explicit that the rightist political parties and their leaders, like Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Boris Johnson, have been primarily responsible for the spread of the variant Corona epidemic and death of thousands of innocent people.