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Moneylife Digital Team 03 April 2026
Raising serious concerns over what it termed a growing pattern of 'arbitrary' takedown orders issued by authorities across social media platforms, the Press Club of India (PCI) has alleged that such actions violate the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression. In a statement, the...

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Stephin Thomas (IndiaSpend) 02 April 2026
It has been four hours since the group of six volunteers began combing the area near Jampali village, about 20 km from Dharamjaigarh town in Raigarh district. It is 8 p.m. and the cars navigate bumpy roads in the dark, careful to avoid alarming the elusive herd of elephants spotted in the area...

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Grace Anu  and   Edgar Kaiser (The Leaflet) 02 April 2026
Custodial violence has been a never-ending saga in India. Recent figures from the NHRC reveal that only since the beginning of this year, as of March 15, there had been 170 recorded custodial deaths. During this time, Tamil Nadu has seen a series of 4 custodial tortures leading to death. Under...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 01 April 2026
The Supreme Court of India told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that it does not maintain judge-specific information about allegations of corruption or misconduct.    Advocate Rukhmini Bobde appeared for the public information officer of the Supreme Court and stated that even collating such...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 01 April 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed costs of ₹25,000 on the Union government while dismissing a plea challenging relief granted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to a CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) constable who had been removed from service for unauthorised absence of 11 days...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2026
States have utilised just over half of their combined capital expenditure (capex) budgets in the first 10 months of FY25–26, pointing to a slower pace of public investment at the sub-national level compared with the Union government.   An analysis of monthly accounts for 23 states released by...

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Vijaypat Singhania, who passed away on 28 March 2026, acknowledged, with rare candour, in his autobiography, ‘An Incomplete Life’, the series of impulsive decisions and errors of judgment that led to his legacy at Raymond Ltd being wiped clean.   This article draws on a few quotes from this...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2026
Vijaypat Kailashpat Singhania, former chairman of the Raymond group and recipient of the Padma Bhushan, passed away in Mumbai on Saturday, 28 March Singhania was publicly associat 2026. He was 87. In his later years, Mr Singhania was publicly associated with a prolonged legal dispute with his...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 March 2026
The Indian government has sharply reduced excise duties on petrol and diesel, bringing petrol duty down to ₹3 per litre and fully exempting diesel, in a move aimed at cushioning oil marketing companies (OMCs) from the impact of surging global crude oil prices triggered by the ongoing Middle...

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Bar  and   Bench 27 March 2026
The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained both the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Trust and former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh from publishing or republishing alleged defamatory material against each other in media (Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Trust and Ors. v. Param Bir...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 March 2026
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has entered a new phase of blockbuster valuations, with two major franchise sales, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), together commanding over US$3.4bn (billion) or around ₹31,000 crore, signalling surging global investor appetite for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 March 2026
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Tuesday raised serious concerns over the impact of the ongoing West Asia conflict on India’s energy security, trade routes and the safety of Indian nationals, stating that several Indian crew members remain stranded in the strategically critical Strait of...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 24 March 2026
Only persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist faiths can claim Scheduled Caste status and conversion to any other faith like Christianity will result in the converted person losing Scheduled Caste status, the Supreme Court held on Tuesday.   Thus, a Dalit person who converts to...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 23 March 2026
The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court initiated 23 public interest litigation (PILs) on its own in the first 11 weeks of 2026 based on news reports and letters from lawyers.    This already exceeds the 18 suo motu PILs initiated by it in the whole of 2025.   Justice Anil S Kilor has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2026
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Monday cautioned that the ongoing conflict in West Asia is likely to have prolonged global and domestic consequences, urging the country to remain united, vigilant and prepared to deal with emerging challenges. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the PM says the...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 23 March 2026
In an order which could have significant ramifications, the Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to conduct a comprehensive verification of all persons engaged in hawking activities across Mumbai including those alleged to be foreign nationals or...

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Karthik Madhavapeddi (IndiaSpend) 23 March 2026
Coffee farmer Vanthala Raju was 21 when he applied to get his rights over forest land recognised in 2014. It took two years for an official to acknowledge his application, four more for processing. Throughout this period, he faced harassment from authorities.   Changing climate has affected...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to halt the removal of over 45,000 mangrove trees for the proposed Versova-Bhayandar Coastal Road in Mumbai, refusing to interfere with a Bombay High Court order that granted permission for the project subject to conditions including mandatory annual status...

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Sometime back, the newspapers carried a photograph of a new highway road of four lanes, which then gets narrowed to two lanes, when it comes to a long bridge across the river. This causes endless chaos when the traffic from four lanes gets to the narrow start of the bridge. How could such a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a fundamental constitutional question, whether the directorate of enforcement (ED), as a department of the Union government rather than an independent legal entity, can file a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution against a state, after...

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