Coronavirus | PM Modi chairs high-level meeting, central teams to be sent to high-burden States
The Hindu
Campaign on COVID-appropriate behaviour planned from April 6-14
With daily coronavirus cases crossing 90,000 a day - very near the numbers seen last September - Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Sunday to review the COVID-19 pandemic situation and vaccination program. The meeting, attended by top officials at the Centre including the Home Secretary, Secretaries of Health, Principal Scientific Adviser, Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, veered around the view that the spike in cases was due to “severe decline in people complying with Covid-appropriate behaviour.” This meant, as several communiques from the Centre have reiterated over the past month, that people had largely abjured the use of masks, maintaining '2 Gaj ki Doori', (six feet distance), pandemic fatigue and that authorities weren't effectively implementing containment measures at the field level.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20240610183344.jpg)
Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten stated that “not so great decision making” contributed to his side’s defeat to India in the Group-A T20 World Cup clash here on Sunday. The batting unit came apart in the chase, after being well placed at 72 for two. With 48 runs needed from eight overs, Pakistan found a way to panic and lose. “Maybe not so great decision making,” Kirsten said at the post-match press conference, when asked to explain the loss.
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“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.