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Uday Kotak on why coronavirus lockdown is like Abhimanyu’s Chakravyuh Uday Kotak has likened India’s lockdown situation due to the coronavirus pandemic to Abhimanyu’s Chakravyuh – seeing as Abhimanyu from the Mahabharata despite being trained in warfare and breaking into the Chakravyuh, did not know how to escape. “It is easy to get into the lockdown, but getting out is a more complicated process,” the Kotak Mahindra CEO said. He added that India would have to exit the lockdown in a “gradual and calibrated manner,” Business Today reported. Source: Moneycontrol

Did not face govt interference in judicial appointments: Ex-CJI Gogoi Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) and present Rajya Sabha MP Ranjan Gogoi said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court Collegium didn’t confront any administration obstruction during his residency as the CJI when delegating judges to high courts and the Supreme Court. “Fourteen names were recommended for appointment (as judges) to the Supreme Court during my tenure. They were accepted and appointments made on time. There was never any difficulty. All recommendations with chief justices of high courts also were processed in time. (There was) no executive interference,” he said...

Goa ready to welcome tourists, but tourism activities to take more time: CM PANAJI : Goa, which is as of now an assigned green zone with no dynamic COVID-19 case, is prepared to invite tourists, however considering the circumstance in numerous pieces of the nation re-beginning the travel industry exercises will take some time, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday. In his live communication on Facebook composed by the express government’s Directorate of Information and Publicity, Sawant said that endeavors should be made by the inhabitants of the state to nip gossip mongering about fake COVID-19 cases in the...

Fauci warns: More death, economic damage if US reopens too fast Dr Anthony Fauci, the Donald Trump organization’s topinfectious disease expert, cautioned Tuesday that urban communities and states could “turn back the clock” and see more coronavirus passings and financial harm the same in the event that they lift Covid-19 stay-at-home requests excessively quick. His reaction remains in sharp differentiation to President Donald Trump’s desires to stop the descending spiraling economy. Cautioning a Senate board and the country, Fauci stated, “There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control.” More...

Another ‘much valued’ doctor of Indian origin dies of Covid-19 in UK Poornima Nair, who gained medical qualifications from the University of Delhi in 1987 and rehearsed as a general specialist subsequent to moving to the UK in 1997, has died in the wake of contracting coronavirus, her training in County Durham said on Wednesday. The Station View Medical Center in north-east England, where she was based, stated: “The practice is very sorry to announce to our patients the death of our much loved and valued colleague and friend Dr Poornima Nair”. “Dr Nair died after a drawn out Covid...

Maria Branyas: ‘Oldest woman in Spain’ beats coronavirus at 113 Maria Branyas was determined to have Covid-19 after the nation went into lockdown in March. Be that as it may, after weeks in disconnection, Ms Branyas recouped, having endured just mellow indications. It implies she has survived flu pandemic of 1918-19, the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War and the coronavirus. “Now that she is well, she is wonderful, she wants to speak, to explain, to make her reflections, it is her again,” her daughter tweeted. Source: BBC

Deepa Malik announces retirement, will head India’s Paralympic Committee Deepa Malik, India’s lone woman Paralympics silver medallist, reported on Monday that she will drape her boots from dynamic games so as to fill in as the leader of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) as per the National Sports Code. The 49-year-old took to Twitter and explained that she was declaring her retirement from the game for her connection with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS). Source: The Indian Express

MS Dhoni is human and will react, I have seen him getting angry in World Cups: Gautam Gambhir Mahendra Singh Dhoni has barely lost his temper during his decade and a half long famous career yet there has been a couple of special cases when ‘Captain Cool’ has allowed it to tear, review his previous Indian colleagues Gautam Gambhir and Irfan Pathan. As of late, India spinner Kuldeep Yadav had uncovered that he was mortally frightened when Dhoni, by his own affirmation, had lost his cool without precedent for a long time. Also, the left-arm chinaman bowler was in a...

I mentally prepare myself to bowl 10 overs in a Test match: Rohit Sharma After an awakening gathering to Cricket Connected, Star Sports presently presents a fresh out of the box new show ‘Cricket Connected: Chats that will help fans find their preferred whizzes during the week. In an augmentation to the Cricket Connected brand, the new arrangement, that will air on Star Sports 1 and Star Sports 1 Hindi from May 13, will see flagbearers of the game dig further into how they productively use their time during the lockdown and offer exhortation to cricketers on the best way to...

Extend lockdown, Capt Amarinder Singh urges Modi Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday pitched for the lockdown expansion, however with a painstakingly created methodology supported by financial and monetary strengthening of the states to spare lives and secure work. Preferring continuation of a severe lockdown taking into account the heightening Covid cases across the country, the Chief Minister said at the videoconference with PM Narendra Modi that states should have been given more noteworthy adaptability in smaller scale arranging as a feature of a deliberately arranged leave methodology, including both Covid control and a characterized way of financial recovery....