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Analysts must see how much it can create value for shareholders after it meets its mission of delivering to its policyholders. From over Rs 6 trillion on the final IPO price of Rs 949 per share, the market capitalisation of Life Insurance Corporation of India plunged to Rs 4.5 trillion by the time it broke the ground down to an all-time high at the market closing on 10th June. Since the day it was listed, the stock has seen a one-way fall. Market pundits began to recommend the equity a week ago when it fell to Rs 830, maybe with the hope that its equity had sealed the bottom. But buyers were not easily tamable. After a nine-day unremitting fall, its price fell further to Rs 708 when the market closed on 10th June for the week. Perhaps, no analyst might have foreseen such a fall, thanks...

If what the serosurvey points out is true and the test-positivity factor is a warning, Kerala is crumbling gradually. It is not because of the failures of the State government and local governing authorities alone but by the combined contribution of natives’ neglect of all precautions. Until the natives voluntarily do not try a temporary embargo on their reckless run for ruinous cannabis and alcoholic drinks, the infectious virus will continue to stay with them to ensure total devastation. The time is still not too late to be careful. I am afraid Kerala is in a mess reeling with more than half the number of new Covid-19 cases reported in the entire country. I remember the excellent preparation of Kerala for an all-out fight against the pandemic in summer last year, joined by the police...

It seems people have chosen to die of fear. The crazy preventive restrictions may kill the rest before the pandemic may do it. Only the government is in a safe zone with rising tax collections and trade surplus. Lenders are making huge profits. The equities are roaring. Everything is up, while commoners are down to poverty. Policymakers have set the stage for a third wave! Somewhere there is a grievous missing link. Like every other animal, human beings also have innate immunity. We are also supposed to live in interaction with organisms around us, as other animals too do. That is in the inviolable order of nature. Our inadequate knowledge or over-hygiene practices makes us worry about even something trivial.  A life synchronised with nature saves us and helps us live a happier...

The government has to design a comprehensive social protection plan for covering those who lost all their financial resources after the death of the only bread earner. The Central government wanted employers to protect the interest of workers, specifically nursing mothers during the ongoing pandemic time under Section 5(5) of the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017. It has sent an advisory to all the States and Union Territories to encourage work-from-home. It can be construed as the government’s preparation for facing the much feared third wave of the pandemic. The work protection measures also include encouraging employers to retain nursing mothers’ employment. Nevertheless, the concern of many workers who have already lost their jobs can hardly be addressed unless closed compani...