Even as the Covid conflagration rages and the nation hurtles towards an economic crisis of unfathomable proportions, controversies surrounding the judiciary continue to compete for the headlines as they have been doing for the last several weeks.
India is currently in the midst of Unlock 5.0. While a short lockdown may curtail Covid cases, implementing it without adhering to correct and consistent use of masks would be counter-productive.
New Delhi (ILNS): The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition alleging that the COVID-19 pandemic was a human-created genocide and sought directions to hold the relevant officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) accountable for failing to prevent the pandemic.
The Delhi government has appealed to the divisional bench of the Delhi High Court against a single bench order that had stayed the government notification of reserving 80 percent of ICU beds in private hospitals for COVID patients.
In 2015, during a TED Talk, Bill Gates had made a prescient comment. He had said that in the near future, a multi-million death scenario would emerge from a pandemic, rather than war.
A PIL has been filed before the Allahabad High Court to make prisons less crowded by taking various effective measures considering the increasing cases of Corona and the health of the prisoners in the time of pandemic.
The Union government today admitted in Parliament that it was completely clueless on how many stranded labourers died trudging their way back through locked down states, or even how much ration (state-wise) had been provided to them during the period.
The Allahabad High Court has observed that in a democratic setup, where the right to govern depends on the will of the people, the person who has lost the majority cannot be permitted to hold office.
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