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The Covid-19 cases crossed over 2,34,000 on April 17, the very day Narendra Modi addressed an election rally in Asansol, West Bengal, where he congratulated the people for coming in large numbers and declared that he had not seen such crowds in a rally before.

There is speculation about what sort of Chief Justice of India Justice NV Ramana would make. “He is not the kind of judge who will clash with the executive. Nor is he likely to cause ripples through his legal pronouncements. His will be a quiet term,” said a lawyer who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In the midst of all the uncertainties and tailspins of last one year, there has been one exception — the rise and rise of the Bitcoin. Currently, it is well past $60,000 and, if God does not know, Elon Musk of Tesla seems to be aware when the computer creation should hit $100,000 mark.

A section of America is battling what it terms as “medical tyranny”, asking people to “fight now” or forever “lose your freedoms and die as a medical experiment prisoner.” The adherents of this worldview reject masks, vaccines and lockdowns. They go so far as to say that “medical criminals” are using people as “human guinea pigs for illegal gene-altering vaccine experiments.”

India has entered a new horror phase of Covid 19, which no other country has faced till now. According to reports, there are 3.16 lakh new cases, highest ever for any country. The number does not include those in Ladakh and Tripura, either the suffering or the dead.

India has sufficient stock of oxygen, says the Union Government. It means the catastrophic oxygen crisis in the country is created either artificially for profiteering, criminal neglect of responsibility, or obstructing its smooth movement by design or carelessness. This essential commodity for sustaining human life is not reaching to all the critical COVID-19 patients admitted in hospitals causing their death in large number. It is a culpable homicide. Therefore, responsibility must be fixed and guilty punished.

New Delhi: It was Indian women's day at the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships as seven of them along with one man compatriot sailed into the finals on the eighth day of the competition in Kielce, Poland on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Attacking midfielder Nilakanta Sharma feels that planned and systematic training and coaching camps have started giving resluts as was evident in the Indian hockey team's showing in the FIH League in Argentina.

Oh! The unkindest cut of all. When we have fallen to the worst of our suffering, our beloved prime minister Narendra Modi rubs salt on our miseries, tells we alone are responsible. However, being victims to his arrogating foolhardy policies, we know, we have been exposed to peril. He is now shifting is responsibility faster than even the second wave of COVID-19. The responsibility that could not be borne by the centre with far more power and resources, is being shifted to states and the common people even when one knows, bearing them is beyond their capacity.

For a change, Modi has conceded to the demand from various quarters, including Congress, to expand the vaccination programme to the massive 18-plus age group. But the plan could turn out to be another Utopian idea, just like Modi’s ill-fated demonetisation, half-baked implementation of the GST regime as well as the ill-timed national lockdown in the early part of Covid outbreak. Demonetisation ended up achieving exactly the opposite of what it was intended to do, the new GST system, rather than helping to raise tax revenue, saw the proceeds decline as small businesses were hit hard by procedural bottlenecks, while the premature national lockdown trapped all the negative factors permanently in the economy and the lives of the people.