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Jyotiraditya Scindia’s transition to the BJP underlines one of its advantages over Congress. Apart from the BJP’s control over its own members, unlike that of the Congress, the BJP has the ability to exert its influence over politically susceptible individuals and parties even if they do not subscribe wholly to the saffron ideology.

The country’s economy faces the biggest ever threat as public income and consumption are severely under ‘forced’ compression with the coronavirus scare spreading across states. Thousands of Indian workers abroad, regarded as a great asset for the country remitting billions of dollars annually, the highest by overseas workers in any country, have suddenly turned a big liability. The government is under pressure to bring a large number of them back as the Covid-19 has become pandemic.

Nature has finally proved its superiority. A small germ from the fish market in Wuhan of China was the cause to terrorize entire humanity, its imagined gods, its perceived religions as the ways of life, its rapidly developing science and above all their political might. It all proved to no avail. The super powers had to, alike the least powerful nations had to, direct people to shun their daily routines, all activities outside safety of their homes and avoid contacts with other humans and nature given lives or at least maintain safe distance from others.

LUCKNOW: The Kanika Kapoor episode has exposed the poor preparations of central as well state government to deal with deadly corona virus Covid 19.

The Centre is not admitting that Covid-19 might be in the community spreading phase. Indications are it set out on that journey. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should seriously rethink his corona-strategy. The government will not lose face. Curiously, the Centre has not ordered a lockdown, but Modi on March 23 asked states to "Strictly enforce lockdown."

The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) has claimed more than 11,000 lives across the world. India hasn't been left untouched by this global disease originated in China's Wuhan city. The cases are rising everyday in the country. With no vaccines invented yet, the best measure to control this pandemic is by ensuring social distancing. However, the protestors of Shaheen Bagh of Delhi are still continuing their sit-in agitations ignoring the dangers of the Coronavirus. They say that CAA-NPR-NRC are more dangerous than this pandemic.

On 16th March, 2020, the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, nominated Rajan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha. Though seemingly an innocuous notification, the said notification failed to mention that Rajan Gogoi had retired as the Chief Justice of India merely four months back. Those four lines of the Gazette notification contained the obituary of India’s judicial independence and integrity. Some people may think that this is an exaggeration, but those who have been watching the judicial developments in the last 5-6 years would say that the journey from independent to ‘committed’ judiciary is now complete.

BHOPAL: Post-mortem operation to detect factors which led to the fall of the Kamal Nath government is on. Various factors are being listed, although many people feel that months back Jyotiraditya Scindia had made up his mind to ditch the Congress. Some positive steps could have prevented the tragedy which the party faced remaining 15 months in power. One of the factors being mentioned by neutral observers and a section of media is that Kamal Nath failed to establish rapport with the people in general and politicians of the ruling party, including Ministers and MLAs.

For crores of his fans, Narendra Modi’s March 19 suggestion to observe Janata Curfew on March 22 from 7 in the morning to 9 in the night is the only panacea to curb the menace of the Coronavirus. He also suggested to ring bells, beat metal plates for five minutes in the evening from 5 pm for applauding those like the doctors, nurses, sweepers and the persons who maintain the essential services in these difficult times.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has decided to crack down hard on violators of the guidelines and instructions issued by the State Health Department to combat Covid-19 virus.