The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea filed by a lawyers' body seeking interest-free loans for them of up to Rs 20 lakh each. The loans were to be on account of financial problems being faced by them because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, on the auspicious occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the new office of ‘Dard Se Hamdard Tak’, Ek Nayaik Vidhi Sewa Pehal, an organisation whose aim is to provide free legal aid to needy prisoners across the country, was opened.
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.
The Supreme Court today directed all states and UTs to provide dry ration to all sex workers, as identified by the National AIDS Control Organisation and district legal authorities, without insisting on ration card or any other identity proof, in the wake of hardships faced by them due to the pandemic.
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.
Has the pandemic locked us into a high-tech dystopia? Two high profile social activists, Vandana Shiva in India, and Canadian author Naomi Klein, have both been warning of an age they call Digital Dictatorship, when the giants of the tech world will dominate the economy, and all our lives.
The Supreme Court has refused to entertain plea by Six private schools who had moved against the Calcutta HC order which had restrained them from taking any "coercive action" against students who have not yet remitted their fees amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Delhi High Court today said that “Necessity is the Mother of all inventions” while directing the Delhi Government to frame measures for online registration for the benefit of the old and vulnerable groups.