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The Central Government in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court blamed the Delhi Government for not taking proper steps to contain the spread of COVID 19 in Delhi.

The Supreme Court has sought Central government’s response on the use of AYUSH medicines as an alternative treatment for COVID 19.

The division bench of Justices Pritinker Diwaker and PK Srivastava issued notices to the central government, the State of Uttar Pradesh, Superintendent of Jail (District Jail, Mathura), and Prabal Pratap Singh (Sub-Inspector, PS Maant, Mathura - the Informant/ Complainant).

The Delhi High Court today dismissed a plea challenging the Central Government’s order allowing the telecast of Sudarsha TV’s programme ‘Bindas Bol’, stating that the Supreme Court is already looking into the matter.

The Central government has issued an order to bring OTT platforms and content providers such as Netflix, PrimeVideo and Hotstar under purview of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Official directives on these had gone out earlier, now the Supreme Court has also banned the use of disinfecting tunnels.

The Madras High Court on Monday observed that the death sentence should be given to corrupt government officials.

The loan moratorium case will now be heard by the Supreme Court on Thursday. This was decided after the Central government informed the court that their lawyer, the Solicitor General, was busy with some other matter.

The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Government and the Central Government to file their responses on the supplementary affidavit seeking distribution of dry ration to Non-PDS people.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has issued a show cause notice to four Central Public Information Officers (CPIOs) for prima facie obstruction of information and providing an evasive reply on an RTI seeking information on the creation of the Aarogya Setu App.