India is set to overhaul its data privacy regime with the coming into force of the new Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The new Act introduces a number of key concepts and modifications whi...
The delivery and administration of health care largely rests with individual states in India as health care is a state subject. In view of the fact that World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, declared the coronavirus ('COVID-19') outbreak to be a pandemic, the Government of India, on March 11, 2020, decided that all States/UTs should be advised by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ('MoHFW') to invoke provisions of Section 2 of Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 ('ED Act') so that all advisories being issued from time to time by the MoHFW are enforceable. In light of the same, INDUSLAW's Manishi Pathak, Avik Biswas, Poonam Das, Ankit Duttaand, Natasha Sahni discuss.
