The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 187.67 crore.
As India witnesses a concerning surge in Covid cases, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said that the state government will implement the coronavirus guidelines after a video conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 27 April. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Bommai urged the people to take all the necessary precautions and not to drop their guards. He further
added that the Union government has instructed all States to maintain restraint and experts have also suggested taking precautionary measures using the experience of earlier waves. According to the reports, new guidelines are likely to be issued after Prime Minister’s meeting with all states to discuss the Covid situation across the nation. Moreover, scientists are also studying the new variants of the virus. Depending on their suggestions a new protocol would be prepared later, the chief minister said.
India’s Covid Tally:
India on Sunday reported 2,593 new coronavirus infections and 44 fresh fatalities. With these new numbers, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,57,545, while the active cases increased to 15,873, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,22,193.
Here are some of the key details:
- The active cases comprise 0.04 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded as 98.75 per cent
- An increase of 794 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
- The daily positivity rate was recorded as 0.59 per cent
- The weekly positivity rate as 0.54 per cent
- The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,25,19,479
- The case fatality rate was 1.21 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 187.67 crore. India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23 last year.
Arvind Kejriwal in Bengaluru: AAP will be a 0% government
Yamini C S
AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited Bengaluru on Thursday and attended a convention of farmers to make a pitch for AAP ahead of the assembly polls next year.
AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is in Bengaluru on Thursday to give a message of “new age politics” to the people of Karnataka ahead of the assembly polls next year. He also attended a convention of farmers, women, youth and people from various sections of the society, on the invitation of Karnataka Rajya Raita Sangha chief Kodihalli Chandrashekhar in the city.According to news agency ANI, at the convention, the Delhi Chief Minister said, “Four lakh students came from private schools to govt schools this year. The people of Delhi prefer government hospitals to
private hospitals. Medical treatment for two crore people is free in Delhi. Earlier, there were power cuts for eight hours, now people get electricity supply for 24 hours with zero bills.” “The Prime Minister made the CBI raid my residence, officials entered my bedroom but they couldn’t find anything, eventually, PM gave me the certificate of ‘imandaar’ (honest) CM. Ours is an honest government, we made it in Delhi, then in Punjab, and now we will form a government in Karnataka,” he said. Reports said Karnataka farmer’s leader Kodihalli Chandrashekar joined the Aam Aadmi Party in the presence of the Delhi CM at the Farmers’ convention which was held at the National College grounds from 11 a.m. onwards. Taking a jibe at the Union government’s controversial farmer laws, Kejriwal vouched to stand for farmers, saying that no one can question the power of a common man. “There was a severe shortfall in the dispensaries and hospitals of Delhi, now Delhi is home to some of the biggest hospitals in the country, where all medical care is free of cost.” he said.
Aim of bulldozer politics is to demonise Muslims: Brinda Karat
DH- Shemin Joy, APR 24 2022
Bulldozers appear to have replaced the concept of justice and have become its symbol. In the name of anti-encroachment drives, the country is witnessing the giant machines rolling into certain localities. Senior CPI(M) Polit Bureau memberBrinda Karat was in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri to stand in solidarity with locals when BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation brought bulldozers to raze what they called encroachments. Karat spoke to DH’s Shemin Joy on the BJP’s politics behind the bulldozer drive.
There is a sudden spurt in these bulldozer drives in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and now Delhi. Why are we seeing it now?
Bulldozer politics is not about the use of a machine, but representative of a political ideology and strategy of Hindutva. Currently it gets activated in regions where elections are forthcoming. Its purpose is to divide
people on religious lines, to demonize a community – in most cases the Muslim minority and to win power on the basis of a so-called Hindu identity. It happened in UP before the elections, Gujarat elections are later this year and MP scheduled next year and in Delhi the corporation elections are also within the year. But depending on its impact it could well become an intrinsic and frequently used strategy.
Why is this more than an anti-encroachment drive? Is it directed at one community? Aren’t these drives a regressive step to lawlessness?
Anti-encroachment drives in India are not new. What is new is that the current drives are outside the pale of the law. The legal framework in India is clear. Anyone accused of encroachment is given a notice and an opportunity to defend his or her case against the accusation of encroachment. But in this bulldozing drive the demolition of houses is a punishment for being a “ rioter.” The modus operandi of the Sangh Parivar is to create an event of communal tension and clashes, to use the government and police to declare names of rioters in a one-sided way and then to declare their properties are illegal and punish them by razing properties into rubble. While there have been cases of some properties of Hindus being demolished, the main target are the members of the minority community. Whether Hindu or Muslim, it is totally illegal.
We have heard about Sippenhaft, a pre-Christian legal principle where an entire family or clan of an offender is punished. Isn’t these drives sort of collective punishment?
But who is the guilty? Surely in any crime guilt has to be established through a legal process and the punishment is decided by law for those found guilty after due process. Here it is the extra legal force of the Sangh Parivar which is accuser, juror, judge, punishment giver all rolled into one.
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‘Communal narrative will not yield results if corruption issue is not addressed,’ says a BJP functionary.
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru |
When Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attended a political rally for farmers in Bengaluru on April 21, one of the issues he spoke about was corruption in Karnataka during the tenures of BJP and Congress-led governments. “The government before this (Congress) was a 20 per cent (commission) government, the current government (BJP) is a 40 per cent government. In Delhi, we have a zero per cent government,” Kejriwal told the audience. He leader added that a Gujarat-style makeover of the government — last September, 14 months ahead of the state elections, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and his entire Cabinet were replaced by a team led by first-time MLA Bhupender Patel — had not been completely ruled out in Karnataka. A major organisational overhaul is also rumoured to be on the cards. One of the major corruption allegations against the Basavaraj Bommai-led state government has come from the Karnataka Civil Contractors Association that has accused government officials of demanding a 40 per cent commission for clearing contracts for state-funded projects. While the association did not substantiate its allegation with evidence, civil contractor Santosh Patil, who was found dead in a lodge in Udupi on April 12, left a note making a similar allegation against government officials. Patil alleged that officials demand 40 per cent commissions and blamed senior BJP leader KS Eshwarappa for causing his death by asking for a commission to clear a Rs 4-crore bill. Facing heat over the allegation, Eshwarappa resigned as the minister for rural development and panchayati raj on April 15. On April 18, Dingaleshwara Swami of the 
Mutt, a religious centre of the dominant Lingayat community, alleged that the Mutt had been asked to pay a 30 per cent commission to officials to access government funds allotted for building a guest house. Dingaleshwara Swami, who is considered to be close to former Chief Minister and Lingayat strongman BS Yediyurappa, received pushback from a few Lingayat ministers in the Bommai government who accused him of levelling the allegations at the behest of the Congress. This past week, the government also faced allegations of irregularities in the recruitment of 545 police sub-inspectors through an examination conducted in October 2021. A former BJP functionary has been identified as one of the key persons involved in the alleged scam. According to data the state government recently provided to the Assembly, the state administration has not provided sanctions to prosecute government officials in 72 per cent of the 310 corruption cases registered and investigated by the state Anti-Corruption Bureau in the last five years.
BSY asks Bommai to consider other names for Shivamogga airport
Akram Mohammed, DHNS, Bengaluru, APR 24 2022
Following a controversy over naming the upcoming Shivamogga airport after him, former chief minister B S Yediyurappa has written to CM Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday, urging him to name the airport after other
prominent leaders of the region. n a letter to the CM, Yediyurappa said that he was thankful that the government considered his name for the airport. “However, I am of the view that naming the new airport after me is not appropriate,” he said. He requested the CM to review his decision and name the airport after someone who had made significant contributions to the development of the country and the state. Bommai had announced last week that the upcoming airport at Sogane near Shivamogga would be named after people pointing out that there were several prominent personalities from the district who deserves the honour.
Maharashtra Hanuman Chalisa Row: Navneet Rana, Husband Ravi Sent to 14-Day Judicial Custody | What We Know So Far
The city police have also registered an FIR against several Shiv Sena workers for protesting outside the residence of Ranas in Mumbai on Saturday.
A high-voltage drama ensued amid the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ face-off between independent MP Navneet Rana, her husband MLA Ravi Rana and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday. In the latest development, the couple were presented before the Holiday and Sunday court of Metropolitan Magistrate, Bandra, which sent them to a judicial custody for 14 days, reported news agency ANI.The police had on Saturday evening arrested the Ranas for allegedly “creating enmity between different groups”, after the couple cancelled their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief
Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s private residence ‘Matoshree’ here. According to an official from Khar police station, the couple was shifted to Santacruz police lock-up in the night. Earlier, Ranas were booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 153 (A) (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), and section 135 of the Mumbai Police Act (violation of prohibitory orders of police). The police later also added IPC section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) in the FIR registered against Ranas, the official said.
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FIR registered against Shiv Sena workers
Meanwhile, based on a written application submitted by Ranas, the Khar police also registered an FIR against Shiv Sena workers, under relevant Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections including rioting and unlawful assembly, for protesting outside the couple’s residence here, the official said.
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