*This many numbers i.e. 24000 of lawyers under the Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, out of which 5000 newcomers, have succumbed for Covid-19 Pandemic in the northeastern states of India alone.* *By Shahnaz Islam* [The author is Gauhati High Court advocate, freelance writer and a poet.] Lawyer’s dilemma in India didn’t ease even in the...

The United Nations chief criticised the total lack of international coordination in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and warned that the go-it-alone policy of many countries will not defeat the coronavirus. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with The Associated Press that what needs to be done is to make countries understand that by acting in isolation they are creating...