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‘Headache’ is a brand new Covid-19 symptom discovered with “chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell,” says the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These are in addition to fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. The last one spells the end of the road –at least to the elderly with co-morbidities. For them to be put on ventilator is death sentence.

For nearly a week, the home ministry’s team has been moving around the districts and cities of West Bengal collecting evidences of the failure of the Mamata Banerjee and her government in tackling the spread of the deadly coronavirus. However if the official sources are to be believed it has not succeeded in its mission to collect clinching evidences which could help their political master Amit Shah to nail down Mamata government.

May Day is a day of celebration. It is celebration of labour and labourers who are the creators of the wealth of the nations. It is a day to demonstrate the strength of the working people, alliance of workers and peasants, unity of the trade unions and labour movements and to express solidarity nationally and internationally.

There is an exodus of finance from the third world at present, far exceeding in scale what had occurred in 2008 after the financial crisis. Even more important than the actual outflow is the desire on the part of finance to pull out of the third world, including even the so-called “emerging markets”, and move to US dollars or dollar-denominated assets. This is resulting in a depreciation of a host of third world currencies vis-à-vis the dollar, of which the Indian rupee is an obvious example.

The Modi government is in the process of formulating a post Covid-19 strategy.“We have to give importance to the economy as well as continue the fight against covid-19," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week addressing his fourth videoconference with chief ministers. The economic shock is likely to be more severe for India because the economy was already on the slide before the pandemic outbreak.

A political crisis is unfolding in Brazil, with far-right President Jair Bolsonaro facing potential impeachment charges after a complaint raised against him by former justice minister Sergio Moro.

May 1, 2020 is being observed by the trade unions throughput the world in deadful global scenario when the workers in the capitalist and developing countries are losing jobs posing a big threat to their livelihood.

Despite claims of high level monitoring, there have been several complaints against alleged mismanagement of quarantine centres in Uttar Pradesh.

After nearly 1,400 students from Haryana and Assam left Kota for their home towns by buses on Friday and over 2,000 from in Rajasthan are scheduled to leave in the evening, the students from Bihar enrolled with the coaching institutes have turned desperate to come back to their homes.

When the entire country was under a total lockdown due to the corona virus endemic, something happened in the Gadchinchale village in the Palghar district of Maharashtra that soon became a casus belli for the Hindutvavadis. It blew into a first class political battle between the Congress and the BJP. On April 16, two Hindu sadhus along with their driver were lynched by a vigilante group. It was a sequel to the charged atmosphere created by the rumour that thieves were active in the area. The sadhus and their driver were mistaken as thieves and killed. When he police arrived at the scene, the irate mob turned on them and beat them up. Four policemen and a police officer were injured.