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From $22 billion to zero: Success, not failure, brought Byju downByju's, once a $22 billion edtech giant, has collapsed. Founder Byju Raveendran faces jail for contempt. The company's downfall stems from ...
India’s invisible workforce gets a new safety net: Key labour reforms for migrant employees decodedIndia's inter-state migrant workers gain significant protections under new labour code rules notified on May 8, 2026. The Occupational Safe...
Let oil prices hurt: IMF cautions against govt shielding consumersThe IMF is urging governments to let fuel prices rise, warning that broad subsidies and price caps worsen global energy shocks. Allowing pr...
Indians among students pursuing COVID compensation claim from 36 UK universitiesAround 500 Indian students are part of a large group suing 36 UK universities. They claim they paid for in-person education but received on...
Negative RT-PCR test can’t be sole basis to deny COVID relief: HCThe Bombay High Court has ruled that a negative RTPCR report cannot be the sole reason to deny COVID-19 compensation. The court directed th...
Begone COVID! The virus is keeping several people jobless, finds studyThe pandemic has left rising rates of unemployment and sky-high medical expenses in its wake.
NDMA fixes time limit to file claims for compensation for Covid deathsSixty days will be the outer time limit to file claims for compensation if the death occurred due to the viral disease prior to March 20, 2...
40 lakh Indians died due to 'government negligence' during pandemic, says Rahul GandhiIndia on Saturday questioned the World Health Organisation's (WHO) methodology to estimate COVID-19 mortalities in the country, saying usin...
COVID-19 deaths: SC allows Centre to conduct inquiry into fake claimsThe top court also set a period of 60 days which would be given to all such persons who are eligible as on date to apply for the ex-gratia ...
COVID-19 deaths: SC says deadline of 4 weeks for seeking ex gratia payment not sufficientA bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna indicated that a period of 60 days would be given to all such persons who are eligible as o...
Supreme Court hints at inquiry into fake Covid-19 death claimsSolicitor General Tushar Mehta had flagged the issue before a bench led by Justice MR Shah at the last hearing. He had sought an outer limi...
COVID-19 deaths: SC expresses concern over fake claims for getting ex-gratia compensationThe bench, which had last week expressed concern over fake COVID-19 death certificates being issued for ex-gratia compensation and observed...
Government to Supreme Court: Make Covid compensation claim time-boundSC had earlier mandated that families of every person who died of Covid-19 be compensated ₹50,000 drawn from the National Disaster Manageme...
Ex-gratia: SC expresses concern over fake Covid death certificates being issued by doctorsA bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna also said that there should be some time limit for claims seeking compensation.
Pay COVID-19 death compensation to families in 10 days, Supreme Court tells statesA bench of Justices MR Shah and BV Nagarathna lashed out at all states for their failure to provided particulars of the affected, including...
Bengal govt disburses Rs 74 cr to settle around 15,000 Covid-19 death claimOver 4,500 claims were made from North 24 Parganas district, around 1,300 came from South 24 Parganas district and over 100 from Malda dist...
Supreme Court faults states for failing to pay Covid compensationThe bench was unhappy with most states for failing to cite the reason why the claim applications had been rejected. Reasons must be assigne...
UP: Rs 30 lakh relief each to kin of over 2,000 employees who died of Covid during poll dutyEarlier, the state government had claimed that only 74 government employees, including three teachers, had died during the poll duty.The Ut...
WHO agrees compensation fund for serious COVAX vaccine side effectsQuestions of how compensation claims would be handled in the event of any serious COVID-19 vaccine side effects, which are likely to be ver...
Shipping ministry announces Rs 50 lakh compensation for employees at Major PortsThe monetary compensation will be extended to direct employees as well as contractual labourers, the ministry of shipping said in a stateme...