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Ashish Goel (The Leaflet) 08 November 2024
Justice DY Chandrachud’s conduct raises serious questions about the sufficiency of ethical standards for Supreme Court judges, and it is time an enforceable code of conduct is drawn and religiously implemented, writes Ashish Goel.   —   The 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice Dr D.Y....

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 06 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday criticized the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government for demolishing an individual's house without following legal procedures.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that the demolition was 'high...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 05 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that all private properties can't be considered "material resources of the community" under Article 39(b) of the Constitution to be taken over by State to subserve the "common good" (Property Owners Association and ors v State of Maharashtra and Ors).   A...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 05 November 2024
Justice BV Nagarathna of the Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed strong reservations over Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud criticising former Supreme Court judges, including Justice VR Krishna Iyer, for their views on whether private property can be taken over by the State to subserve...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 November 2024
Mumbai district legal services authority (MSLSA) has organised a special Lok Adalat on 30th November and 1 December 2024 at Bombay High Court (HC)'s principal bench at Mumbai and benches at Nagpur and Aurangabad.    In a release, MSLSA requested litigants and members of the Advocate Bar...

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Maitreyee Boruah (IndiaSpend) 04 November 2024
The tiny courtyard of tea-garden worker Bilchand Bawri's house in Assam's Koilamari tea estate turns into a makeshift school every day at 4 p.m. Around 15 children, aged between five and 13, sit on plastic sheets on the ground as Bawri's daughter, Rinku, teaches them.   Twenty-one-year-old...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 November 2024
Dr Bibek Debroy, a celebrated economist and chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, passed away today at the age of 69, following complications from an intestinal obstruction. An intellectual giant with a distinguished career, Dr Debroy’s contributions spanned economics,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 October 2024
Updated at 12.45pm on 30 October 2024 to include statement issued by Anant Narayan, WTM, SEBI... Pawan Khera, chairman of the media & publicity department in the All India Congress Committee (AICC), on Tuesday made fresh allegations against Madhabi Puri Buch, chairperson of the Securities and...

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Bar  and   Bench 30 October 2024
Police officers in Punjab provided a studio-like facility to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to facilitate his interview with a news channel, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has said (Court on its Own Motion v. State of Punjab and Others).   A Bench of Justices Anupinder Singh Grewal and Lapita...

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Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 28 October 2024
Former Karnataka High Court judge Justice KS Puttaswamy passed away on Monday at his residence in Bengaluru. He was 98. Justice Puttaswamy was also the original petitioner, challenging the government of India over making Aadhaar mandatory. He had filed a writ petition in 2012 in the Supreme...

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Satyendra Wankhade (Bar  and   Bench) 28 October 2024
Between 2019 and October 2024, Bar Council of India (BCI) has removed 107 fake advocates from the Roll of Advocates in the State of Delhi as part of its ongoing effort to maintain the integrity and professionalism of the legal community.   The action, aimed at eliminating fake advocates and...

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Shashwat Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 23 October 2024
Ahmedabad Police has nabbed a man who reportedly appointed himself as an arbitrator, conducted proceedings and passed arbitral awards in favour of one party in land disputes since 2019.   Morris Samuel Christian has been arrested for cheating and other offences under the Indian Penal Code...

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Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 21 October 2024
Public confidence in the judiciary has to be seen in the broader context of the democratic institutions of India and the rule of law in society the Supreme Court's Justice BR Gavai said on Saturday.   "Democracy is not just about the rule of the people by the majority. In the view of Dr BR...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 18 October 2024
In a significant move, the Supreme Court of India is planning to live-stream all of its hearings.   An app to facilitate live-streaming of all benches of the Supreme Court is in the testing phase, sources revealed.     While Constitution Bench matters have been streamed live since 2022,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 October 2024
Assembly elections in Maharashtra for 288 seats will be held in a single phase on 20th November 2024. Jharkhand will vote in two phases: on 13th November and 20 November 2024. Results of the assembly elections in both states will be declared on 23 November 2024, the Election Commission of India...

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GBSNP Varma (IndiaSpend) 15 October 2024
Plastic is everywhere. It is in you, in your gut, in your blood, in your heart and in the air you breathe--in all of you and the universe you inhabit.   We feed on our own rot, and we live on top of our own detritus. A recent study in the journal Nature shows that India generates the highest...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 October 2024
Ahead of the state assembly election, the Maharashtra government has announced a complete toll waiver for light motor vehicles (LMVs) at all five toll booths on Mumbai entry points. It will be implemented from midnight tonight. According to a release from the state government, a committee...

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Divyanshu Kumar (IndiaSpend) 14 October 2024
Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along....

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 October 2024
Gokarakonda Naga (GN) Saibaba, the wheelchair-bound former professor from Delhi University, passed away on Saturday evening at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Hyderabad. According to reports, Prof Saibaba died following post-operation complications after undergoing surgery for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 October 2024
Baba Siddique, a former minister and ex-member of the legislative assembly (MLA), died in hospital after being shot by three men in Mumbai's Bandra East area on Saturday night. Immediately after the firing, Mumbai police arrested two and are searching for the third person. Mr Siddique, a former...

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