BJP president J.P. Nadda has directed state units to help cadres, after being informed that workers in distress were unhappy with the lack of support from the party leadership.
Former Haryana chief minister O.P. Chautala's ancestral village had been sending four-five people from every family to the farmers agitation, said villagers. Till Covid deaths started mounting.
Saving lives and livelihoods should need no justification, but a faster end to the pandemic could also inject the equivalent of $9 trillion into the global economy by 2025.
The Sonipat district collector was hospitalised in April with Covid, his daughter was on ventilator. Still he kept in touch with his team to ensure that pandemic management in the district was on track.
The collective confusion over Covid-19 treatment has led to a compulsive, panic-driven behaviour among Indians. We must return to the idea of 'under doctor’s supervision'.
The surges come at a time when economies & households are weakened by the consequences of more than a year of virus restrictions, and few govts are eager to repeat 2020 lockdowns.
IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice said it sees speeding vaccination campaign, providing fiscal resources to the health sector and social support as immediate policy priorities for India.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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