Hotels and resorts accommodate fewer visitors, reduce the number of tables in restaurants, and disinfect rooms for 24-48 hours before they are re-allotted—welcome to the new normal
Crippled by long periods of unrest, the hopes Kashmir’s tourism industry fostered for a full summer season were wrecked by the Coronavirus pandemic. Its deliverance now lies in the hands of the Centre and the local regime.
Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha is back with a Third Front to take on the JD(U)-BJP combine. He says his front will contest all 243 seats as “elections are a means to bring change in a democracy” and it is time to change Bihar.
A place in the US camp in the face of Chinese intransigence must be enticing. Yet India would do well to keep Russia, its ‘all weather’ ally, close by its side.
