The migrant crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic is the worst humanitarian tragedy seen in India since Partition. Nothing illustrates that more than the heartbreaking video of a toddler trying to wake up his dead mother on Bihar’s Muzaffarpur railway platform
The second in a series of legal awareness programmes organised by APN News, India Legal and ICADR looks at the sorry state of migrants and how this can be prevented in future
The declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic, followed by a nationwide lockdown to contain the virus, led to both public and private donations pouring in to help states and people, especially migrant workers
The Bar Council of India (BCI) slammed Justice Madan B Lokur, a former judge of the Supreme Court, for allegedly undermining the authority of the judiciary
Justice Madan Lokur’s recent article criticising the “present-day functioning” of the Supreme Court for not behaving like a super-executive and not playing interrogator-in-chief to the Government of India
In these difficult times, the internet has played a major role in information diffusion, keeping the world together and determining our responses to the pandemic. In keeping with the requirements of physical distancing, teaching/learning activities in India are at a crossroads amidst the ongoing health.
A Delhi based NGO, which probed the Delhi riots of February this year, has come to the conclusion that the 'tukde tukde gang' were hand-in-glove with various radical groups such as Pinjra Tod, Jamia Coordination Committee, Alumni Association of Jamia Milia Islamia, Popular Front of India (PFI), Bhim Army
In recent times the vegan way of life has soared in popularity both amongst the common public and elite group whether sportsman or celebrities all thriving on it.
The right to life as enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean the “right to live a life with dignity”, which, in turn, ensures that the State does not shy away from its moral obligation of ensuring this.
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.