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As the peak of the second wave of the Covid pandemic begins to slowly recede, the havoc wreaked on lakhs of families has been occupying the attention of the whole country. There is widespread dismay and anger at the way the health emergency caught the Modi government unprepared. Its mishandling and unscientific attitude turned it into a catastrophe for the people.

As per the constitutional time table the next election to the Lok Sabha is to be held before June 2024, means at least three years away but dissolution can lead to earlier election. The Prime Minister has the option available without depending on approval by the parliament. A cabinet decision will be binding on the President and probably new incumbent in the office. The storm has been generated in public mind of total failure of the NaMo government on several counts on touchy issues of dealing with the corona virus pandemic, especially in two months of the second strain with the fatality figures touching half a million and more agonizing more than two million families, mostly of the voluble middle class due shortage of oxygen, hospital facilities and shortage of vaccines.

Donald Trump’s approach to Venezuela proved to be singularly unsuccessful. As president he ratcheted up sanctions against Venezuela’s elected government in an attempt to bring about “regime change.” Over Trump’s time in office, sanctions against Venezuela were widened and intensified into a blockade of its commercial and financial business dealings.

Christopher Thorpe, 65, first toured the entire length of the Western Ghats as a 20-year-old backpacker, travelling by bus and train right down to Rameswaram, completely enchanted by the beauty of landscape. However, it was only in 2008 that he started looking at the ancient land as a living laboratory to study its adaptation and evolution. He had come down with members of the British herpetologist society to visit Gerry Martin’s fabled farm on Kerala-Goa border when he was stuck by the awesomeness around him.

The devastating second wave of COVID-19 and warnings about a third wave on the horizon may made the Madhya Pradesh government keep oxygen, ventilators and beds ready, but is any attention being paid to the biggest gaping hole that the state’s health system may be left staring at – the lack of doctors and other health personnel?

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court’s verdict which quashed the 80:20 ratio in granting scholarship to minorities has put the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in a tight spot.

Unable to take Mamata Banerjee head on, Narendra Modi is resorting to tactics of attacking her from behind. This is certainly not the characteristic of a warrior, as fighter as Modi is being projected by his supporters and party colleagues.

Alapan Bandyopadhay is in the eye of the storm raging between the Centre and the State of West Bengal. The gentleman bureaucrat has been hogging national headlines after the Modi-led Union government ordered his transfer on the night of May 28 following the PMO charge that the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee kept Prime Minister Narendra Modi waiting, skipping the review meeting on Cyclone Yaas-induced damage in Bengal. Banerjee refuted the charges and alleged that the Centre and the BJP were resorting to vendetta against her government because of their humiliating defeat in the latest assembly elections.

The Allahabad High Court had said that the state of affairs regarding treatment and management of Covid cases in Uttar Pradesh could only be considered ‘Ram Bharose’. The government quickly moved the Supreme Court against the observation. The apex court obliged, asking high courts to desist from issuing impractical orders. Well, the court only made a technical difference, not to the essence of whatever was meant by the high court judges. The objection was only about the issue of orders. The Supreme Court said the observations only need to be taken as ‘advise’ and not as order.

New Delhi: Sanjeet saved the day for India winning a Gold as his experienced compatriots Amit Panghal and Shiva Thapa failed to retain and regain their titles at the 2021 ASBC Asian Championships in Dubai.