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Arna Chatterjee (Bar  and   Bench) 17 April 2026
The Calcutta High Court on Friday set aside the Election Commission of India (ECI) order to appoint assistant and associate professors of government colleges as presiding officers for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections. (Rupa Banerjee Nee Samjpati v. The Election Commission of India &...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 16 April 2026
The Bombay High Court on Thursday cautioned news channel Republic TV and its editor Arnab Goswami against adding embellishments to its coverage of court proceedings (Anil Ambani v. ARG Outlier & Ors).   Justice Arif Doctor remarked that while no one could be stopped from reporting on legal...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 16 April 2026
India’s top metros—Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, home to 75 million people—rank among the world’s 10 most populous cities. However, “population scale has not translated proportionately into urban productivity, liveability or global economic influence,” the Union government’s Economic Survey...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 15 April 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that one of the most difficult tasks for a court is to declare the beliefs of millions of people as wrong or erroneous, and that a religion cannot be stripped of its essential practices in the name of social reform.   A Constitution Bench of Chief Justice...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 15 April 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the recent order passed by the Telangana High Court granting transit anticipatory bail to Congress leader Pawan Khera in the defamation and forgery case registered against him by the Assam Police.   A Bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and AS Chandurkar was...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 14 April 2026
Senior journalist and Moneylife’s managing editor Sucheta Dalal has moved a Delhi court challenging the order banning any news content linking Manoj Kesari Chand Sandesara or his family members to the alleged Sterling Biotech bank fraud case.    District Judge Vinod Kumar Meena of the Tis...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 14 April 2026
The Union government has framed the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 proposing a significant expansion of the Lok Sabha’s strength from the current 550 members to a maximum of 850, comprising 815 members from States and 35 from Union Territories.   The Bill forms part of a broader...

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KBS Sidhu 13 April 2026
The legendary singer Asha Bhosle passed away in Mumbai at Breach Candy Hospital at the age of 92, her son Anand Bhosle confirmed. She had been admitted due to extreme exhaustion and a chest infection, and with her passing, an era of Indian music that spanned more than seven decades has come to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 April 2026
The Union government is considering bringing user-generated fact-checking tools such as X’s 'community notes' under regulatory oversight through proposed amendments to the Information Technology (IT) Rules, a move that could allow authorities to seek removal of content that challenges or adds...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 April 2026
Justice Yashwant Varma from the Allahabad High Court has resigned from his post, bringing an abrupt end to ongoing impeachment proceedings against him in the Parliament following allegations linked to the recovery of burnt cash from his official residence last year.   The resignation,...

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Arna Chatterjee (Bar  and   Bench) 10 April 2026
The Allahabad High Court recently cautioned that authorities passing orders in a dictatorial manner could undermine the autonomy of the press.   A Bench comprising of Justice Vivek Saran and Justice Ajit Kumar made the observation while hearing a petition filed by Amar Ujala Limited, the...

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Bar  and   Bench 09 April 2026
The Bombay High Court at Goa has quashed the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) notification for the conduct of a byelection at Ponda to fill the legislative assembly seat left vacant following the demise of Congress MLA Ravi Naik on October 15, 2025 (Pritam Harmalkar v. Election Commission...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 April 2026
Raising serious concerns over the allocation of sites for pumped storage hydro-electric projects (PSPs) in Andhra Pradesh, former Union secretary EAS Sarma alleged that successive state governments have allotted valuable natural resource assets to private players through 'highly...

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KBS Sidhu 07 April 2026
The Reactor that Breeds its own Fuel On 6 April 2026 evening, prime minister Narendra Modi announced that the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu had attained criticality. The announcement was understated in its brevity, measured in its language. But the moment it...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 07 April 2026
Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Tuesday told the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) that the Jaipur District Consumer Commission treated him unfairly and refused to provide certified copies of its orders in proceedings arising from a complaint over a misleading advertisement...

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Bar  and   Bench 07 April 2026
The First Additional Sessions Court in Madurai on Monday sentenced all 9 police personnel convicted in the Sathankulam custodial deaths case to death (CBI v. Sridhar & Ors).   The sentence was pronounced by Judge G Muthukumaran after the Court had convicted the accused for murder and...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 06 April 2026
The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered the restoration of a recently blocked satirical X (formerly Twitter) account that goes by the name Dr. Nimo Yadav.    Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, however, added that certain tweets flagged as objectionable by the Central government will remain...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 06 April 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday a ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into allegations of favouritism with respect to allotment of public works contracts in Arunachal Pradesh to firms linked to Chief Minister Pema Khandu's family members.   A Bench of Justices Vikram...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 April 2026
Warning that the proposed changes could significantly undermine free speech and expand executive control over digital content, the Editors Guild of India (EGI) has expressed strong concerns over the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Second...

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Dr Bhamy V Shenoy 03 April 2026
The oil shock triggered by the US-Israel war against Iran—impacting almost every country except Russia—is among the most severe in modern history. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, global oil markets have held up reasonably well so far.   Even after a month of conflict, oil prices have risen by...

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