As India logged a world record of over four lakh coronavirus infections on Saturday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the entire world is shaken by what is happening here and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "dropping the ball and throwing it to states" after prematurely taking credit for having "won against COVID-19" when the second wave was already underway. "Rely on yourself is the motto. No one will come to help you. Definitely, not the prime minister," Gandhi said, while alleging that the COVID-19 situation has gone completely out of control for the Modi government, and wondered whether it was their way of making the states and the citizens truly 'Aatmanirbhar'.
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'Anyone familiar with Modi's track record will know he never forgets a slight, a betrayal,' notes Virendra Kapoor.
The situation Cesc Fabregas finds himself in at Arsenal is akin to a 'kidnapping' and the English club should allow him to return to Barcelona, the mayor of his home town was quoted as saying on Friday.
Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London concluded that she remains unconvinced that he would not interfere with witnesses or fail to surrender before the court for his trial in May 2020.
'The Modi government's grandstanding has hardened the reflexes in Beijing, Islamabad and Kathmandu and complicated India's relations with these three countries, which were even otherwise highly problematic.' 'Whatever prospects existed for a fair and balanced resolution of the territorial disputes may also have receded,' observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'The prime minister's announcement of a nation-wide shutdown was eloquent, but should have been more clearly phrased to avoid police overreach.' 'Migrant labour should have been allowed adequate notice and transport options to get home,' notes Rahul Jacob.
The government is drawing up a relief package for industry with steps such as relaxation of asset-classification norms by banks, thus allowing companies to delay the repayment of loans, and tax holidays for the worst-hit sectors like aviation and hospitality. But it might not be enough to stop more bankruptcies from getting filed.
'The BJP is in power at the Centre and in many states. It can easily go for the construction of Ram temple, otherwise it would be considered a liar and get thrown out of power,' the Sena said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana.
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Ninety-nine companies, which also include some unlisted ones, have more than Rs 100 crore each of minimum alternate tax credit on their books, cumulatively adding up to Rs 75,000 crore. By utilising MAT credit, many companies will be able to bring down their effective tax cost.
United States Vice President Joseph Biden has described WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a 'high-tech terrorist' who has put lives of people in jeopardy, and has said Washington is exploring what charges could be slapped against him.
If the BJP has to pose any sort of challenge to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance in the next Lok Sabha elections, it needs to go back to what it has always stood for in the mind of the voter, says Shonalee Biswas
The five-judge Constitution bench said that it is the devotion which makes a woman to visit a temple.
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The Union budget marks a watershed in the life of the Indian information technology services industry, akin to a family's coming of age rites of passage!
Dr Kalam continues to live in the imagination of the people of this nation and remains a role model for the youth and missile and space scientists who are diligently following his vision to achieve new laurels for India, notes S M Khan, who served as President Kalam's press secretary.
As the United States prepares to sell F-16s to Pakistan, the country's former top diplomat has warned the Congress that such fighter jets would end up being used against India and not against terrorists.
With the awards season in full swing, here are a couple of tips to Bollywood's hottest women on what not to wear.
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This September, Sachin Bansal picked 94 per cent stake in microfinance company Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services. His immediate plan is to scale up the company's operations as quickly as possible without making much investment in physical infrastructure and by leveraging technology.
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'The government is adopting double standards by allowing foreign envoys to visit Jammu and Kashmir, but not Indian politicians'
On the wrong side of 30s, Dhoni said he needed to focus on his fitness to bat up the order in the IPL to give himself more time to win matches.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
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'The logical step is to challenge the very legitimacy of the Chinese claim over Tibet,' recommends Inspector General Gurdip Singh Uban (retd).
Australia were 202 for 6 in their second innings, an overall lead of 185, at stumps on Day 4 in the second Test at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Tuesday.
"The political stars never quite aligned but a solution similar to the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement, with a soft border allowing locals to travel freely from one part of Kashmir to the other, will have to be the outcome of any peaceful solution," he noted.
After batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and industrialist Mukesh Ambani, Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan is the latest to face the Shiv Sena's ire for saying that Mumbai belongs to all. "Saying that migrants will continue to come to Mumbai is akin to the betrayal of Maharashtra," Sena chief Bal Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana on Saturday. The governor had said earlier that, "Anybody can live in Mumbai. Only Mumbai can compete with itself."
'We need to have the courage to take a rational look at known facts and act accordingly,' advises Mohan Guruswamy.
Here are glimpses of the forthcoming Kannada movie which will see the late actor sharing screen space with Shivanna.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Tuesday slammed the Centre's failure to contain Maoist violence, saying "It seems the UPA is in power but not in control."The Bharatiya Janata Party leader's comments came in the wake of another Maoist attack in Dantewada on Monday that claimed 50 lives. Using a remote-controlled device, the Left-wing extremists had blown up a bus full of civilians and special police officers in the Naxal-hit district in Chattisgarh.
Terror suspect Tahawwur Rana's lawyer said on Wednesday that he had never suggested that "Rana is Gandhi", a day after US prosecutors here claimed that the Pakistani-Canadian's beliefs were "akin" to those of non-violence advocated by Mahatma Gandhi.
Indian sanitation expert and founder of Sulabh sanitation movement in India, Bindeshwar Pathak has been awarded the prestigious 2009 Stockholm Water prize. The award akin to a Nobel Prize on environmental issues was presented to him on Thursday night by Prince Carl Philip of Sweden.
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Rahul Dravid says he was happy that his wards got a match against Pakistan -- India beat Pakistan in the semi-final by 203 runs -- terming it an experience that will hold them in good stead.
The deadline for officers to decide on their career path in the biggest organisational rejig in the central bank's 85-year history ends on January 31. The immediate fallout could be its disruptive impact on the supervisory process for 2020 -- and beyond -- given the manpower shortfall, even as more entities are set to come under closer central bank scrutiny.
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