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India has just overtaken Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, with nominal gross domestic product (GDP) clocking in at US$4.19trn (trillion). Yet, behind this headline triumph lies a serious contradiction. Nearly 65% of India’s population still relies on agriculture and allied...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 13 June 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to journalist Kommineni Srinivasa Rao, who was arrested on June 9 over a panelist's allegedly derogatory remarks during a talk show on Sakshi TV.    The Bench of Justices PK Mishra and Manmohan noted that Rao himself had not made the statement and his...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2025
In a devastating aviation tragedy, Air India flight AI-171, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner en route to London Gatwick, crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Meghani Nagar shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad at 1:38pm. The flight was carrying 242 individuals, including 230 adult passengers,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2025
A tragic air disaster struck Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon, with reports suggesting that Gujarat’s former chief minister (CM) Vijay Rupani and prominent industrialist Pramukh Nanda’s family may have been aboard the ill-fated Air India flight AI171. The aircraft, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner,...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 11 June 2025
The Bombay High Court has ordered the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to pay 50 lakhs as compensation each to the families of eight young adults who were killed in a fire that broke out at a Mumbai eatery in 2015. The Court has held that the civic body’s gross negligence was the...

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G Janardhana Reddy  and   Telangana HC (Bar  and   Bench) 11 June 2025
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday suspended the sentence and conviction of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy in the Obulapuram illegal mining case.   A trial court on May 6 had awarded a sentence of seven years to Reddy, who is a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 June 2025
In a significant step towards judicial transparency and accessibility, Bombay High Court (HC) chief justice Alok Aradhe announced on Tuesday that live-streaming of court proceedings will soon commence from five designated benches. The decision follows a resolution passed by the full court, and...

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Giti Pratap (Bar  and   Bench) 10 June 2025
A consumer court in Mumbai recently remarked that if non-vegetarian food hurts one's religious sentiments, one always has the option to order food from restaurants that serve exclusively vegetarian food. (Gargi Prakash Joshi & Anr. v. Wow Momos Foods Private Limited)   A Bench of the Mumbai...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2025
In a tragic reminder of the daily dangers faced by Mumbai’s suburban rail commuters, five people were killed and eight others injured after falling off two overcrowded local trains during the morning rush hour between Diva and Kopar railway stations in Thane district on Monday.   The incident...

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 09 June 2025
Manoj Kumar Anant and his wife Shakuntala Bai were rescued from bonded labour at a brick kiln in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar in 2022. He had told IndiaSpend in September 2023 that he was waiting for rehabilitation assistance under the Union government’s Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 09 June 2025
The Bombay High Court recently observed that mobile phones are no longer a luxury but an inevitable necessity, while setting aside a gram panchayat's decision to revoke permission for installation of a telecom tower (Indus Tower Limited and anr v. Gram Panchayat, Tanang and Ors).   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2025
Goa health minister Vishwajit Rane issued a public apology on Monday following intense backlash from the medical community and political opposition over his decision to publicly berate and suspend a senior doctor at Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) during a surprise visit.   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2025
In a heartfelt return to his alma mater, Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director (CMD) of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), announced an unconditional donation of Rs151 crore to his alma mater, Mumbai-based Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT). The gesture, made during the launch of a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 June 2025
The Delhi High Court (HC) has issued a notice to the Union government and the Press Council of India (PCI) following a writ petition filed by the Mumbai Press Club (MPC), seeking urgent reconstitution of the PCI. The petition urges the court to direct the PCI chairperson to constitute the 15th...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 June 2025
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India, has taken suo motu cognisance of two separate incidents of alleged police brutality—one involving the custodial death of an auto-rickshaw driver in Hyderabad (Telangana) and another concerning the assault of two journalists in Bhind district...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 June 2025
The Union government announced that the long-awaited Population Census 2027 will be conducted in two phases, with an added emphasis on caste enumeration. This will be India’s first census in 16 years, following the postponement of the 2021 exercise due to the COVID-19 pandemic.    Census 2027...

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Bar  and   Bench 04 June 2025
Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai said on Tuesday that incidents of corruption and misconduct can erode public faith in the judiciary.   He said that such instances have surfaced in the Indian judiciary, and the path to rebuilding trust in the system lies in swift, decisive and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 June 2025
The flood situation in Assam remains dire, with over 633,000 people affected across 21 districts following the state's first major flood of the season. The death toll has climbed to 12, with six more deaths reported in the past 24 hours, according to the Assam state disaster management...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 June 2025
Chief of defence staff (CDS) general Anil Chauhan on Tuesday asserted that the outcome of 'Operation Sindoor' matters more than the losses incurred, highlighting India’s decisive military response to the brutal Pahalgam terror attack. “Losses are not important. What matters is the outcome of...

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Meera Emmanuel (Bar  and   Bench) 03 June 2025
The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld the regulations introduced in Tamil Nadu to limit the number of hours one can play online rummy, poker and other similar games which use real money for rewards (Play Games 24x7 Private Limited and ors v. State of Tamil Nadu and ors.). The regulations bar...

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