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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

Covid-19: Bombay HC directs State to vaccinate accused persons above 45 years upon arrest

The court also took suggestions from the State to decongest prisons and control the spread of coronavirus in the suo motu PIL

SC stays Allahabad HC order calling for lockdown in 5 cities

The top court however, categorically directed the UP government to report to the HC on the steps taken by it to manage to the pandemic

Maharashtra: Think of lockdown after-effects, not just vaccination, says the Jan Arogya Abhiyan

The NGO recommends increased taxes on corporates and India’s richest one percent members for a COVID-response fund.

Provide 10,000 vials of Remdesivir to Nagpur: Bombay HC to Maha Gov’t

The court has observed that the Covid situation is grave, with no adequate beds, oxygen supply, drugs, medical staff available

PIL in Delhi HC for release of prisoners on Covid bail

The petitioner has submitted that the existing healthcare system would not be able to deal with the rising cases of Covid infected undertrial prisoners and convicts

No lockdown or curfew in Bengal, but serious steps to tackle Covid, says Mamata

Even as West Bengal enters the final phase of...

Article 21 casts duty on state to provide life saving means such as oxygen and drugs: MP High Court

The Court has issued specific directions to the government to cope with supply of oxygen, overcharging by private hospitals and illegal trade of Remdesivir drug

SKM announces Operation Shakti in response to govt’s Operation Clean

Farmer leaders called for strong resistance arrangements against Covid-19 during ‘resistance week’ from April 20 to 26

Delhi HC directs state gov’t to provide meals to daily wage workers

The court also directed the government to inform availability of beds, oxygen

Covid-19: Telangana HC gives state gov’t 48 hrs to submit plan to control movement in public places

The court has also asked what steps were being taken to monitor people entering the state via road and railways

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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

From Civil Registration to Identity Control: Parliament tightens India’s birth certificate regime without debate

A quiet amendment shifts delayed birth and death registrations from executive officers to judicial magistrates, further hardening India's identity regime while offering little evidence that the new barriers are necessary

‘Deportation Cannot Begin without Nationality Verification’: Union’s Rajubala affidavit clarifies legal limits on executive power

In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

Brij Bhushan Acquittal: The system vs the wrestlers

Three years after their protest shook Indian sport, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers prepare for another legal battle over a verdict they reject