View Articles

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.

Just when we the thought the Government had probably forgotten the poor caught in the storm created by the COVID-19 pandemic and would be left to reap the whirlwind, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Thursday announced a 1.7 lakh crore welfare package for poor daily wage workers and those in the unorganized sector who have no recourse to earn a living in light of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the nationwide lockdown.

The present spread of the novel Coronavirus across the globe has infected thousands and sent many of them to death. The figures of dead and infected are on the rise every day. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has termed the disaster as a “pandemic”. The virus has spread to about 196 countries and territories in six continents. The news of lockdown is coming from countries across the globe every day. The lockdown is causing huge loss to the world economy. The alarming situation calls for a hard thinking. Was the outbreak intentional or spontaneous?

The word “novel” in the Novel Coronavirus is a misnomer. As part of human nature, there is a propensity to compare the deadliest of diseases and while Covid-19 does not appear to have a high mortality rate, yet the rate of exposure seems to be unprecedented.

BHOPAL: After winning confidence vote and assuming the charge for the fourth time as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan took several steps to undo many decisions taken hours before resigning by Kamal Nath. Nath appointed several important Congress leaders to various posts. Most of the appointments were such which were quasi-judicial in nature.

On March 22, the poor and daily wage earners had enthusiastically responded to the appeal of Narendra Modi to observe Janata Curfew. His announcement nonetheless was perceived as a prelude to the long-drawn lockdown. Their apprehensions have come true.