An intervention application has been filed in the suo motu case on Covid-19, being heard in the Supreme Court, praying that PM Cares Fund be made a respondent in the case.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice on a plea seeking to declare fair price shop owners and their employees as front line essential workers and provide all the benefits that front line defence workers are entitled to, compensation in case of death and coverage of medical expenses.
The pandemic couldn’t have struck at a worst time for airlines as they cope with depleting loads and increasing fear. After the Indian Commercial Pilots Association move not to fly till pilots are vaccinated, airlines have got their act together.
Along with this, H.P Srivastava, Addl. C.S.C. has been ordered to be present on May 21 after receiving instructions from the state government on all points.
However, the court issued notice to the Centre and Bharat Biotech to file their reply on a PIL against Covaxin's clinical trials for age group 2 to 18.
The Delhi High Court will today conduct hearing into a slew of petitions, demanding inclusion of Oxygen Concentrator in the list of Essential Commodities, so that the same can come under the ambit of the Essential Commodities Act.
The Delhi High Court will today take up a petition, which seeks directions from the Court to decongest Delhi Prisons in the wake of the recent surge in Covid-19 cases in the national capital and also prays for mandatory RT-PCR testing for prisoners and inmates of the jails.
The Court said: "If this is the state of affairs of five districts, one can guess where we are leading people of this state to i.e. third wave of the pandemic."
Dr K.K. Aggarwal, a former President of the Indian Medical Association, died of Covid-19 on Monday night. He was 62. Aggarwal had been on ventilator support for the past few days at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), his family said.