April 19, 2021
Small businesses in India have taken the lead to fight the deadly second wave of Covid-19, even as the country’s political leadership continued to brazenly flout all protocols.
On April 15, a traders’ association in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow announced a voluntarily shut down in some of the city’s main markets to break the Covid-19 chain. While some markets remained shut until April 18, in other areas the lockdown has been extended until April 21.
On April 18, traders in Delhi’s Chandani Chowk market also decided to keep their shops shut until April 25.
The trend of self-imposed lockdown is catching up in the hinterland, too. For example, in some of Gujarat’s villages, traders have announced partial lockdowns following the state government’s failure to handle the covid crisis.
George Bush Pleads With Congress To Be More Respectful Of Immigrants Please put aside all the harsh rhetoric about immigration. Please put aside tryin’ to score political points, urged the former president.
Former president George W. Bush had a message for Congress Sunday: Be more “respectful” of immigrants.
“I do want to say to Congress: ‘Please put aside all the harsh rhetoric about immigration. Please put aside tryin’ to score political points on either side,” Bush told Norah O’Donnell on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
“I hope I can help set a tone that is more respectful about the immigrant, which may lead to reform of the system,” added Bush, who said one of his biggest disappointments in office was not overhauling the immigration system as he had hoped.
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Union health minister Harsh Vardhan(L) and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh(R).
NEW DELHI: A day after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Covid situation in the country, Union minister Harsh Vardhan in turn shot a letter back to the ex-PM, requesting him to ask Congress men to also follow his advise.
The health minister said Manmohan s advice to not get tempted to go by absolute numbers, but to go by percentage of population covered is not incorrect but he asked Manmohan to ask his partymen to remember when discussing the total cases, active cases or mortality
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‘Why is he addressing poll rallies in West Bengal in the middle of pandemic?’
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Drawing fire: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a rally at Asansol in Paschim Bardhaman district.
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‘Why is he addressing poll rallies in West Bengal in the middle of pandemic?’
Congress leaders, including former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, on Monday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attending election rallies in West Bengal in the middle of a public health crisis.
While Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari, in a video message, demanded a two-day special Parliament session before things went out of hand, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan asked the Centre to use its Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) to crack down on hoarders of life saving medicines, instead of political rivals.