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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.

Mamata Banerjee’s election strategist, Prashant Kishor, has listed the BJP’s three plus points. The first is Narendra Modi’s image – he is a god to some people, Kishor said, - the second is Hindu-Muslim polarization and the third is the prevailing anti-incumbency sentiment against the ruling Trinamool Congress.

After the new wave of coronaviruses in comes the oil shock to India’s fragile economy. Going by government estimates, India’s GDP had shrunk by eight percent in 2020-21 as against a four percent growth in the previous fiscal. While the current year’s economic growth picture remains unclear at this point of time, rising global crude oil prices and falling Indian rupee (INR) are posing a concern. Crude oil prices are rising in anticipation of an economic recovery in big markets such as the US, China, India, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. China is the world’s largest oil importer, followed by the US and India.