It also said that Rs 4 lakh compensation be paid to families of all the victims. Several Congress leaders, including former president Rahul...

Sixty 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...

The 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 ...

A 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...

The bench, which had last week expressed concern over fake COVID-19 death certificates being issued for ex-gratia compensation and observed...

A bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna also said that there should be some time limit for claims seeking compensation.

In an affidavit submitted in the Supreme Court last week, the Gujarat revenue department said it has passed sanction orders to pay compensa...

The Congress party said the aim of the "#SpeakUpforCovidNyay" campaign was to demand that the central government disclose the actual number...

In October, the Supreme Court had approved an amount of Rs 50,000 as ex gratia to the family members of those who died of Covid-19, as sugg...

In major cities including New Delhi, experts said a large number of deaths were unreported as hospitals ran out of beds and oxygen supplies.

The court had, while acting on a plea seeking compensation for Covid deaths, asked the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to com...

The NDMA said that ex-gratia assistance will also be given to the kin of those who died of the virus due to involvement in COVID-19 relief ...

"By the time you take further steps, the third wave will also be over. The order on death certificate, compensation, etc, was passed long b...

The apex court was hearing two separate pleas seeking directions to the Centre and states to provide Rs 4 lakh compensation to the families...

A vacation bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and M R Shah also asked the Centre to place before it the ICMR guidelines on issuance of death c...

SEC is working to accommodate teachers who passed away days later, an SEC official said. EC rules only consider a death that took place ‘on...

A two-judge bench comprising Justice Siddharth Verma and Justice Ajit Kumar n Tuesday made this observation while hearing a Public Interest...