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Express News Service Across Delhi-NCR and beyond, teens and their parents are following the trajectory of Covid cases as anxiously as the rest of us; their case having even more ramifications. As cases continue to peak, international borders remain closed to Indian kids hopeful of studying abroad, and already delayed by 2020. The Morning Standard spoke to Piyush Kumar, Regional Director (South Asia), IDP Education Limited, about kids who are caught in the middle, as well as those planning for the year ahead, on what options they have. IDP is an international education organisation headquartered in Delhi, offering student placement in Australia, New Zealand, the US, UK, Republic of Ireland and Canada. Excerpts: ....
Express News Service Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have given the mantra of looking for opportunity in the crisis but it’s Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who makes the most of it. The present Covid crisis has given him the opportunity to put the blame at the doors of the Centre for the large number of people dying in the city in absence of health care. Even the courts have been convinced, who in turn have issued reprimand to the Centre asking it to help Kejriwal government. Not going into the merits of the court orders, they did best what they could as governance collapsed, it’s the sheer failure of Modi’s image managers that allows Kejriwal to wriggle himself out from tight situations. So obsessed are Modi’s image managers with their factory of falsehood that most of the time they miss the woods for the trees. ....
Express News Service Pawan Kumar stands with a bunch of colleagues who work as sevadaar, also called dom, at a crematorium in the national capital. “Humare pas mask nahi hai. Gloves, sanitiser nahi hai. Joote nahi hain or hume koi darr bhi nahi hai (Neither we been provided with mask, gloves, shoes or sanitiser nor we have any fear). I don’t have any problem with the civic authority or government. The only thing that breaks our heart is that despite working day and night, directly dealing with the bodies of corona victims and Covid-positive relatives and risking our lives, we are not considered corona warriors or frontline workers.” ....
A leading Indian newspaper group suspended coverage of the Indian Premier League on Sunday, calling the glitzy cricket tournament commercialism gone crass and incongruous as a record-breaking pandemic surge grips the country. Express Publications said in a front-page editorial of its flagship English-language daily, the New Indian Express, that the paper was halting reporting on the Twenty20 event until a semblance of normalcy is restored . The Morning Standard and the Sunday Standard two other English-language newspapers in their stable shared the same editorial. The money-spinning event being held behind closed doors and running to May 30 is hosted by the world s richest and most powerful cricket board and enjoys huge popularity among the country s sports fans. ....