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On April 27, 2020, a Supreme Court employee tested positive for COVID-19. The family of the employee is put into home quarantine. The contact-tracing already initiated to ascertain the people who had come in contact with this employee. The...
The Ministry of Finance through its Department of Economics has issued a notice. The notice issued in the Gazette of India on April 27, 2020. In effect, it provided for the establishment of the International Financial Services Centre Authority....
The Delhi High Court sought Netflix's response on a plea for stopping the airing of the web series 'Hasmukh'. The ground of such a plea is that it purports a bad image of lawyers, thereby blotting their reputation. An...
In a significant case, the apex court set aside the judgement of the Gujarat High Court. It was hearing the appeal in the case of State of Gujrat v. Mansukhbhai Kanjinhai Shah. The High Court had acquitted the trustees...
The Supreme Court held three lawyers, Vijay Kurle, Rashid Khan Pathan and Nilesh Ojha guilty of contempt against the judges of the Supreme Court. To list, Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose passed the order.
The Incident
On March 12, 2019, Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara sentenced to...
42 CRPF officers for 51st batch of the Directly Appointed Gazetted Officers turned up wearing the uniform with face masks and gloves for the force's first E-Passing Out Parade (POP). The trainee officers completed their 52 weeks-long training at...
Mr. Sharad Kumar Saraf, President of Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), has praised a series of measures taken by the Reserve Bank of India. These, include measures to maintain adequate liquidity in the system through TLTRO 2.0; lowering...
Delhi High Court recently examined the appellant jurisdiction of the commercial courts provided under Sec. 13 of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. It was discussed in the case D&H India Ltd. v. Superon Schweisstechnik India Ltd. Explicitly, Delhi High...
During the lockdown period, the Bar Council of Rajasthan announced that it will transfer Rs. 5000 to Advocates in need of Financial Assistance. That is, through the Bar Council of India Advocates Welfare Fund Committee for the State. The...
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Bureau of Immigration that arrival of corpses and remains of Indian nationals/OCI cardholders from foreign countries are allowed. However, this also depends on directions issued by various departments in relation to...
The Delhi High Court restrained YES Bank from declaring a loan account as a 'Non-Performing Asset' ("NPA") again. For the reason of non-payment of instalment due to unavoidable circumstances caused by COVID19 pandemic. The Petitioner constituted as a Special...
Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment. It related to kidnapping and murdering an eight-year-old for ransom in Nagpur in 2014. The Supreme Court bench comprised of Justices UU Lalit, Indu Malhotra &...
An NGO named Justice For All has filed a Public Interest Litigation in Delhi High Court. The NGO has filed the PIL in the interest of students belonging to the economically weaker sections of the society (EWS group); or...
A petition moved in Delhi High Court by Sakshi Arora and Aditya Yadav were the petitioners. It seeks directions to the Delhi Government to formulate a scheme to help the distressed students and paying their accommodation/PG rent. Petition referred...
The Ministry of AYUSH declared a scheme to support short-term research projects for evaluating the impact of AYUSH response and medicines in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19. Meanwhile, the Ministry of AYUSH recently recommended self-care guidelines for preventive...
“We are not just fighting an epidemic; we are fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous.”
-Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO).
It is a no-brainer that...
The National Green Tribunal ordered that a high-level task team should supervise the handling and disposal of COVID-19 waste. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directed the Chief Secretary of States and Union Territories; to closely...
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) published the FAQs surrounding the 'Innovative Challenge for Development of a Video Conferencing Solution'. The FAQs published in view of the extensive use of video conferencing amid COVID-19 lockdown. Video-conferencing is being...
The Press Council of India urges the Government to mitigate the hardship of the journalists who contracted the COVID-19 virus. They expressed concern over a large number of journalists who contracted COVID-19 while on-call duty. On April 16 and...
Pakistan hosted a SAARC virtual meeting on COVID-19 on April 23, 2020. Explicitly, the video conference mainly comprised of health ministers from the various SAARC countries. However, the Director-General of Health Services represented India at the conference. Additionally, experts...
A Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Supreme Court. It stated that the entire vegetarian class is facing COVID-19 because of the violent eating habits of non-vegetarians. Vishwas Jain Sanghatan represents the class of vegetarian people. He asserted...
The government has laid down guidelines about decontamination of hotels and lodges where the suspect or confirmed cases of COVID-19 have housed. According to an advisory by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The Ministry of Tourism...
The US state of Missouri filed a lawsuit on April 21, 2020, against the government of China over COVID-19. The lawsuit alleges that nation’s officials are to blame for the global status of the pandemic. The lawsuit, filed in...
A PIL favoured in the Supreme Court seeks intervention and directions to the central government to issue guidelines to prevent the attacks on certain communities by religious, racial and caste profiling.
Restrain Religious & Community Profiling
The abovementioned PIL is preferred...
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court led by Justice Arun Mishra has delivered its judgment in a case challenging 100% reservation for Scheduled Tribes in Andhra Pradesh. The Bench also comprised of Justices Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran,...
NHRC, (National Human Rights Commission) has taken cognizance of a complaint; with regard to infringement of human rights of the mentally ill people stranded on the streets. NHRC seeks an account from the Ministry of Home Affairs of the...
The Union Cabinet approved the promulgation of an ordinance on April 22, 2020. The President has given his assent for the promulgation of the ordinance. The Ordinance is to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. In effect, there would...
The Press Council of India sent a notice to the Government of Maharashtra concerning the prohibition of newspapers. Justice C.K. Prasad, Chairman of Press Council of India has expressed his concern on the Order no. DMU/2020/CR.92/DisM-1, dated 18th April...
India strongly condemned the attack by Pakistan maritime forces carried on two Indian boats off the coast of Gujarat. Explicitly, Pakistan Agency attacked Indian fishermen onboard two Indian fishing boats, 'Omkar' and 'Mahasagar'. According to reports, there were eight...
‘Pravasi Legal Cell’ through its secretary Bins Sebastian filed PIL in the Supreme Court. The PIL seeks directions to the Centre and the DGCA to ask airlines to refund the full amount of the tickets of flights cancelled due...