Women performing additional household work during the lockdown comes as no surprise to all of us – but the idea itself isn’t challenged in the society either. Our social conditioning has accustomed us to the idea of women getting the worse end of the deal.
Lockdown has brought great disparity within various sections of the society across the country, so much so amongst the legal professionals who have been deprived of their day to day professional work. In the legal arena of our country, things are set to take a paradigm shift.
The High Court of Calcutta has directed the Centre and the State Government to file a report providing the details as to whose opinion was sought before relaxing the guidelines for COVID 19 lockdown.
Covid-19 has had an unparalleled impact on everyday life, globally. Governments have issued instructions to self-isolate, entire industries and countries are in lockdown and new information is disseminated on a daily basis
The President of Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association (SCAORA) on Tuesday has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde requesting resumption of working of the Courts in a physical setting from July 2020.
The President of the Gujarat High Court Advocates Association (GHCAA) Mr Yatin Oza in a letter addressed to the Chief Justice Vikram Nath has requested to resume physical functioning of the Court.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that as the country gradually emerged from more than two months of lockdown and economic activities begin, it is all more important to be vigilant and careful and keep up up the do’s and don’t’s adapted during the lockdown.
By the third week of May, more than 200 migrants were reported to have died due to road accidents while trudging home because of the nationwide lockdown. A colleague of mine suggested that we should do an analysis of the causes of these accidents.