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CORONA KYA KARONA! A six lettered word became a pandemic and graduated into everyday Global News. Starting early 2020, or towards the end of 2019, the Covid-19, as it was christened then, spread its treacherous wings far and wide into the world at large, from Osaka to Oklahoma from Melbourne to Moscow. Just about all countries of the world were affected by a virus, which alleged to have come out of Wahun City of Peoples Republic of China, from a laboratory. Corona virus causes illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, according to the World Health Organisation or WHO, as is normally known. This illness has been named COVID-19. Common signs of infection include fever, coughing and breathing difficulties. In severe cases, it can cause pneumonia, multiple organ failure leading to death. The incubation period of COVID-19 is thought to be between 1 & 14 days. Infected patient can also be asymptomatic, meaning they need not di...

Notice to Apostolica Signatura Rome, Italy 1. His Eminence Dominique, Francois Joseph Mambert Prefect Signatura Apostolica, Palazzo della Concelleria, Piazza della Concelleria 00186 Rome, ITALY Email: signatura@ signatura.va 2. His Eminence Apostolic Nunciature, 50-C Niti Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021 Email:- nuntius@apostolicnunciatureindia.com Sub:- Sister Lucy Case – Kerala, India Your Eminence, 1. A few days back Sister Lucy whose Appeal was pending with you, No. 1 received a very doubtful and mutilated communication that her Appeal has been dismissed. Pursuant to that, the Head of her Congregation sent her a letter ordering her to leave the convent. Sister Lucy is a citizen of India and is entitled to the protection under the Constitution of India and the fundamental rights guaranteed therein. Her Congregation rely on certain rules and regulations which are rankly illegal and unconstitutional, ostensibly based on Canon Law which cannot override the Constitution of India a...

HARYANA: Chief Minister ML Khattar of Haryana, the state he is looking after is rarely in the news for any significant happening. Recently he came into the news for some funny reasons. In fact there was no reason why at all he should have been in the news. Probably there was nothing that he could talk on, so he thought of making some unsolicited noise. CM Khattar was reported to have gone to town to remark that his Delhi counterpart, Arvind Kejriwal is playing politics over-anti-Covid vaccines saying the national capital is exhausting its supply too soon while his own state is stretching it over a longer period, informed a report datelined Chandigarh. There are two things in the above report. Firstly, CM Khattar should concentrate on his state and see that his administration quickly completes the vaccination of its people where needed, and not stretching the supply for a longer period with less vaccination. This can be a reflection on the heightened concern and competence of the state....

NEW DELHI: Acronym BCCI has a history. Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier, planned a bank to play it big in international finance and funding. He started a bank way back in 1972, almost 50 years ago, with its registered office in Luxembourg with head office in London. Luxembourg is a tax haven. He had named it then as Bank of Credit & Commerce International (BCCI). Due to unhealthy and questionable financial practices and illegal transactions including money laundering, Bank of England withdrew its license to operate as a banking institution. In July 1991, in less than 20 years, it was forced to pull down its shutters. After that the acronym BCCI acquired a bit of notoriety, like Bank of Crooks and Criminals International, for its dubious record. Agha Hasan Abedi, did play it big in the international finance by roping in money from all sources including money from drug cartel. He wanted to make money from all possible avenues. He had a good run for almost two decades until his...

TARUN TEJPAL & TEHELKA THE LOADED TRUTH For the nth time, Tarun Tejpal & Tehelka (TT &T) have proved themselves to be synonymous, both metaphorically and literally. Tehelka in Hindi/Urdu means turbulence. TT had started his mouth piece Tehelka and caused intentional tehelka to the political beite noire of some political vested interest. Thus, in the name of freedom of press he did everything unprincipled and mean, including employing female baits to corrupt his targets. The chicken, at last came home to roost, and he got entangled in the trap that he laid himself, although unwittingly. Yes, it started with muck and it looks headed for the muck. Bangaru Laxman was stupid and was simply bought. Money bags of Delhi, funded TT to trap George Fernandese, the NDA defence minister, on the wrong foot. He succeeded in making it to Fernandese’ party president. But somehow didn’t succeed in making it a fool proof case. Fernandese resigned to make way for investigation. Of course Ferna...