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The Indian manufacturing sector has started recovering after dealing with the pangs of pandemic and consequent lockdown in the country. Excepting few sectors, the recovery is well spread but the disquieting fact is that the industries are entering this process of with less people on the employment rolls. The companies are getting stimulus but the workers woes are not ending. They are the worst sufferers of the pandemic and the lockdown in 2020.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Buoyed by the spectacular victory it achieved in the local body elections, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government has plunged itself heart and soul into the crucial assembly election battle due in May.

After 40 days of peaceful non-violent satyagrah, a situation reminiscent of the famous 1942 “Do or Die” movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, is fast emerging on the political horizon with the farmers’ not willing to accept anything below scrapping of three black farm laws and providing legal status to the MSP acquiring a new dimension and dynamics.

Sasikala, a close aide, and companion of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa will be released soon. Post-Jayalalithaa's demise in 2016 there was massive political turmoil within the ruling AIADMK until she was sent to jail in February 2017 for four years. Her jail term ends next month. Will she become a factor in the Tamil Nadu politics ahead of the Assembly elections in April-May? Some believe that she can play a role and others that she might bide her time but she has an interest in politics.

January 5, 2021, is the Georgia senate runoffs and if the Republicans lose “we’ll change America” is what Democratic senate minority leader Chuck Schumer promised a couple of months ago, soon after Joe Biden was declared winner by television networks on November 4. Since then, the Republicans are petrified, their “American way of life”, which is essentially the “Christian way of life”, will go for a toss, forever transformed.

It has been eight years since that woeful night of December 16, 2012, that shook the nation and the world when a para-medic was gang-raped in a moving Delhi bus. She later died of grievous injuries though she was given the best medical care.

Bambolim, Goa: Hyderabad put up a dominating show as they trounced Chennaiyin 4-1 in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim on Monday.

Fatorda, Goa: In their last two matches, Bengaluru suffered back-to-back defeats and for the first time in the history of the Hero Indian Super League,they failed to score in consecutive games and now face another tough test as they take on Mumbai City at the Fatorda Stadium on Tuesday.

Since both the Indian vaccines – Covaxin and Covishield – have now been officially approved for emergency use, the focus is on its distribution and prioritization, which are still being worked out as a ‘work in progress’ due to many inherent difficulties in India’s vaccine drive against COVID-19, monitoring the recipients of the vaccines, and also the future uncertainties relating to the pandemic itself. The known and unknown administrative issues may also crop up during the implementation of the drive requiring great alertness and quick response.

Jawaharlal Nehru’s tryst was with ‘Destiny’. With the ‘Midnight Hour’ and with ‘Redemption.’ There’s nothing to show in verses and stanzas if he had ever had a tryst with writing poetry. Maybe he must have quoted poetry to someone at some time, but there’s nothing in the public domain to write home about. India’s first Prime Minister preferred prose to poetry and in the process went on a Discovery of India!