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Moneylife Digital Team 11 October 2024
Ratan Naval Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, the holding company of Tata group and chairman of Tata Trusts, passed away in Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital late on Wednesday evening due to health-related issues. He was 86. Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran, in a statement says, “It is with...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 October 2024
Ratan Naval Tata, a shy man who was so bored in his initial years with the Tatas that he almost went back to the US, was ignored and sidelined by the chieftains of the different Tata companies and had little opportunity to implement his vision and strategy until he was in his 50s.    From...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 October 2024
Atal Setu, also known as the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), has become a key route for heavy vehicles. However, due to a heavy toll of Rs250 for a single journey and Rs375 for a return journey, the 21.8km longest sea bridge sees a substantially lower number of vehicles than what was...

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Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 11 October 2024
Mahesh Langa, a journalist with The Hindu, has approached the Gujarat High Court challenging a magistrate's decision to remand him to police custody for ten days, after his 8th October arrest in a case involving allegations of Goods and Services Tax (GST) fraud.   On Friday, the matter was...

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Shashwat Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 10 October 2024
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has urged Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud to act on the growing incidents of mistreatment of advocates by judges during court proceedings.   A letter signed by BCI Chairman and Senior Advocate Manan Kumar Mishra suggests that one of the ways to...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 09 October 2024
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday revived a public interest litigation (PIL) petition regarding pothole maintenance in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.   Nevertheless, it opted not to initiate contempt of court proceedings against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and other civic...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2024
Around 50 senior doctors of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata tendered their resignations in a mark of solidarity with medics who have been on fast-unto-death demanding justice for the deceased woman doctor.   Media reports quoting sources say the decision to resign en masse...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 October 2024
Claiming that payment of bills to the tune of around Rs40,000 crore is pending across various state government departments, contractors from all over the state have announced a day-long protest outside offices of collectors of all 36 districts of the state on Tuesday, says a report from Times...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 05 October 2024
The Bombay High Court on Friday took suo motu cognizance of the alarming accumulation of garbage along Mumbai's seashore, particularly the presence of microplastics in fish that humans consume.   A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice M M Sathaye highlighted the serious...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 October 2024
Dr Keki Hormusji Gharda, a legend in chemical engineering who revolutionised the industry with his groundbreaking innovations, forever changing the landscape of Indian chemicals manufacturing, passed away on 30 September 2024. Dr Gharda, a Padma Shri awardee, was the founder, chairman, and...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 04 October 2024
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered a probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into the allegation by N Chandrababu led Andhra Pradesh government that the previous regime of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu (YSR) Congress Party had used substandard ghee containing animal fat to prepare laddus at Sri...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 30 September 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday grilled Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister (CM) N Chandrababu Naidu for prematurely going public with the claim that previous regime of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu (YSR) Congress Party used substandard ghee containing animal fat to prepare laddus at Sri Venkateswara temple in...

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Ayesha Arvind (Bar  and   Bench) 30 September 2024
The Karnataka High Court on Monday stayed further investigation against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and several others accused of extortion and allied offences in connection with the electoral bonds scheme.   Justice M Nagaprasanna passed the order on a petition filed by...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 30 September 2024
A large share of the season’s rains falling in a span of days or weeks, regions of the country that normally do not see very heavy rainfall seeing large excess, states like Bihar and Punjab seeing deficient rainfall--these are some important features of this monsoon so far.   Like last year,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 September 2024
Over 200 workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) gathered in a powerful protest outside Raj Bhawan in Ranchi last week, condemning the relentless assaults on their rights and the systematic dismantling of the NREGA by the Union government. The protest,...

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From the market bottom of 15,183 in mid-June 2022, the benchmark market NIFTY has soared 69% to hit 25,791. In the last 18 months alone, NIFTY has surged 52%. All investor segments—individual investors, mutual funds and other domestic institutional investors (DIIs)—seem to have made good money...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2024
Sharing a Moneylife report on X, Jairam Ramesh, Congress party's general secretary in-charge of communication has urged Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to step in and examine State Bank of India (SBI)'s decision to convert its outstanding debt into equity in Supreme Infrastructure India Ltd...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 September 2024
The Editors Guild of India (EGI) welcomed the order from the Bombay High Court (HC), striking down as unconstitutional the Information Technology (IT) Amendment Rules of 2023 on the formation of fact-check units (FCU) by the Union government.   The petitions, including one filed by stand-up...

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Bar  and   Bench 20 September 2024
The Supreme Court of India's YouTube channel appears to have been hacked and is currently showing videos promoting XRP, a cryptocurrency developed by US-based company Ripple Labs. In a notice, the ape court said that its official YouTube channel has been temporarily ‘taken down’ and will be...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 September 2024
The Union Cabinet, chaired by prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi, has accepted the recommendations of the high-level committee (HLC) on simultaneous elections under the chairmanship of former president Ram Nath Kovind.   The implementation will take place in two phases, as recommended by the...

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