Sohini is a senior correspondent based in Delhi, primarily covering legal developments in the Delhi HC. She tweets at @thanda_ghosh

October 27, 2020 01:40 IST
Imtiyaj Kureshi, the advocate for Nisar’s son, Salim, had filed a habeas corpus petition in the HC in June this year, seeking the production of the body of Nisar who went missing in December 2019.
Tue, Oct 27, 2020
October 26, 2020 16:44 IST
The first day of live streaming saw 1,500 viewers flock to the YouTube channel. Accessible to all, this would be the first instance when court proceedings can be directly viewed by anyone.
Mon, Oct 26, 2020
October 24, 2020 02:18 IST
According to a source, the accused had prayed before the special designated judge to examine reporters so as to authenticate their sources for the reportage published in the period following the commission of offence and prior to the arrest of the accused.
Sat, Oct 24, 2020
October 23, 2020 14:31 IST
Disposing their charge pleases, the court asks agency to get state sanction to prosecute JG Parmar, Tarun Barot, GL Singhal and Anaju Chaudhary.
Fri, Oct 23, 2020
October 12, 2020 23:31 IST
Speaking to The Indian Express, Principal secretary, health, Jayanti Ravi, said that there was no requirement of testing more than what is necessary.
Mon, Oct 12, 2020
October 12, 2020 01:46 IST
The dashboard, developed by the Centre for Management of Health Services at the institute, was created nearly two months after the campus lost its librarian Prof Anil Kumar H to Covid-19, in mid-July.
Mon, Oct 12, 2020
October 10, 2020 01:49 IST
The court took note of the fact that Oza chose to go to press with the allegations instead of the chief justice and that his tendering an apology to the court showed he did not stand by the utterances.
Sat, Oct 10, 2020
October 09, 2020 13:53 IST
A veteran Senior Advocate, Oza has dabbled in politics, and has been president of the High Court’s Bar association for over two decades. The High Court has noted his ‘repeated acts and conduct of contempt’, and concluded that his apology is ‘not bona fide and lacks sincerity’.
Sat, Oct 10, 2020
September 30, 2020 02:50 IST
During the audit, it was also noticed that “there were no efforts on improvement of the economic condition of salt workers and they continue to live in a hand-to-mouth position.”
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
September 28, 2020 23:54 IST
According to police, Neha Vasava had fallen when a pile of garbage she was standing upon collapsed at the Pirana dumping site.
Mon, Sep 28, 2020
September 27, 2020 04:32 IST
The victim, Devji Maheshwari, was a senior activist of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF) and of the Indian Legal Professionals Association.
Sun, Sep 27, 2020
September 24, 2020 04:09 IST
The sample tested positive for CCHF at NIV Pune and close contacts were kept under observation, as per the NCDC report, with tick insecticide sprayed in a cattleshed, from where the patient was suspected to have contracted the disease.
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
September 20, 2020 02:01 IST
The doctors who died of Covid-19 in Gujarat were aged between 34 and 82 years, as per the IMA list of ‘Covid martyrs’ released on September 16.
Sun, Sep 20, 2020
September 16, 2020 11:20 IST
The latest reports made public by the National Health Mission (NHM) suggest that immunisation was hit hard between April and June to such an extent to set the state back by years, fear experts.
Wed, Sep 16, 2020
September 16, 2020 05:24 IST
As his condition continued to deteriorate, Dr Sanket Mehta was put on an ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) machine. With no improvement, a decision was taken to airlift him to MGM Hospital in Chennai, which specialises in heart and lung transplantation procedures.
Wed, Sep 16, 2020
September 12, 2020 04:07 IST
Alarm bells first rang when nodal officer at Vadodara’s Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society-run (GMERS) Dr Shital Mistry, wrote to the state health and drug control departments about the crisis it had been facing since September 2.
Sat, Sep 12, 2020
September 10, 2020 04:34 IST
Earlier, the department had submitted before the Gujarat High Court (HC) that increased testing would lead to fear psychosis among people, with more inadvertently testing positive.
Thu, Sep 10, 2020
September 08, 2020 00:25 IST
The four who tested positive again are two male resident doctors aged 33 years from the Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute (GCRI) and LG Hospital, a 26-year-old woman resident doctor from LG Hospital and a 60-year-old homemaker from Behrampura.
Tue, Sep 08, 2020
September 07, 2020 02:47 IST
Shreyas was the first children's home to be declared a micro-containment zone by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
Mon, Sep 07, 2020
September 04, 2020 04:56 IST
After its first case in March, Gujarat reported 10,000 cases by May 15, with 70 per cent of them in Ahmedabad. By June 30, the case burden began shifting towards Surat, with the reopening of industries. State tally stood at 32,000 then.
Fri, Sep 04, 2020
August 29, 2020 18:48 IST
Amreli that imposed a strict lockdown, sealing its borders that were manned by checkposts, had reported its first case only on May 13, nearly two months after Gujarat had reported its Covid-19 outbreak.
Sun, Aug 30, 2020
August 23, 2020 02:37 IST
The lack of scientific evidence on Arsenicum Album-30 working against Covid-19 has not deterred the Gujarat government from attributing AYUSH interventions as one of the strategies used in combating the virus.
Sun, Aug 23, 2020
August 21, 2020 03:57 IST
Once tested positive, the tool traces the movement of the patient’s past 20 days and based on duration spent calculated by mobile pings sent to the tower, an exposure score is calculated, which is further fine-tuned and mapped geographically to undertake surveillance activities.
Fri, Aug 21, 2020
August 08, 2020 23:22 IST
Two days after the fire incident, the case remained that of an accidental death by fire under CrPC 174 at the Navrangpura police station, as the police await various reports, including building plan and the estate and town development department's report, to file an FIR.
Sun, Aug 09, 2020
August 07, 2020 04:32 IST
Calling for justice, Shiraj Mansuri, younger brother of another victim, Arif Mansuri (42), a resident of Vejalpur, told The Indian Express, "We have lost our family member. The government should bring out the real reason behind this incident."
Fri, Aug 07, 2020




