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Moneylife Digital Team 14 November 2024
The central consumer protection authority (CCPA) has issued guidelines that all coaching institutes must disclose relevant information regarding their students and courses to prevent parents and candidates from being misled. Nidhi Khare, chief commissioner of CCPA and secretary in the...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 12 November 2024
The Bombay High Court on Monday held that marks obtained by candidates in recruitment process to public posts can be disclosed under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) and disclosure of the same will not amount to violation of candidates' privacy.   A Division Bench of Justices MS...

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I sometimes wonder where good manners end and where honesty begins. Where a person cannot honestly say yes to a request, even if it’s just that you want to say... And, what does he do when he has to say no, when it is not good form to say no?   When I asked aunt Reena, who was visiting us, if...

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I happened to meet Sam who had just joined the marketing division of a large Info-tech company where I was a consultant. He had an MBA from one of India's leading management institutes and had worked for two years with an international consulting company. The latter had the enviable reputation...

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Ayesha Arvind (Bar  and   Bench) 03 October 2024
The Karnataka High Court recently directed the State government to pay Rs10 lakh as compensation to Sanjana Raghunath, an international chess player, after she was denied an MBBS seat in a government medical college under the sports quota despite being eligible.   In a judgement passed on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 September 2024
Anna Sebastian Perayil, who cleared the chartered account (CA) exam in November and was working at the Pune office of Ernst & Young (EY), passed away at 26. In a letter to Rajiv Memani, chairman of EY India, her grieving mother, Anita Augustine, alleged relentless work pressure as the cause of...

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The news item on Vinesh Phogat, who lost the gold medal at the Paris Olympics but won millions of hearts around the world, made me think again of the concept of TRUST.   There is an old story about a monk in the Middle East who lived in a cave and became a recluse to the rest of the world....

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 September 2024
Taking cogniSance of the uproar on social media about the death of Anna Sebastian Perayil, a young chartered accountant (CA), due to work pressure in the Pune office of Ernst & Young (EY), Shobha Karandlaje, Union minister of state for labour and employment, assured a thorough investigation...

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Alleging that many fake disabled employees are working in the Trivandrum central railway station, who allegedly got jobs with the help of fake writers during their written examination, an RTI applicant’s request for the list of names of disabled personnel employed in the Southern Railways, was...

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 19 August 2024
In June, Bengaluru witnessed a protest by aggregator platform Urban Company's women workers in the beauty segment, categorised as ‘partners’ or ‘independent contractors’ by the gig economy.   The protest mostly stemmed from the company’s decision to bring in new terms of service without...

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Amidst the planning of Independence Day celebrations, followed by a long weekend, many among us missed a piece of important news about the rescue of Indians, who were literally kidnapped in the name of providing information technology (IT) jobs overseas from the clutches of international crime...

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Recently, there was a news article about an African runner at a world running championship who got confused just before the finishing line. Just then, the second runner who was a Spaniard gave a push to the African runner from behind, so the African became the No.1 in the race. The Spaniard...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 09 August 2024
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea to postpone the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test postgraduate examination (NEET PG 2024) scheduled to be conducted on August 11 (Vishal Soren @ Bishal Soren and ors vs National Board of Examination and ors).   A Bench of Chief Justice of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 August 2024
About 700 officers from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in grades A to C are set to stage a protest at the regulator's head office in Mumbai on Monday on many issues, including the newly launched digital management information system (MIS) for key result areas...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 August 2024
After finding Puja Khedkar guilty of acting in contravention of the provisions of the Civil Services Examination (CSE)-2022 Rules, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has cancelled her provisional candidature for the CSE-2022. She is also debarred permanently from all future examinations...

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On a recent visit to the US, I met a young doctor who told me she was a surgeon, and on enquiry, said that she was a surgeon specialised in surgery of the hand. ‘Do you have enough patients to fill your day?’ I asked her. She said there were four such surgeons in the hospital and they were all...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 23 July 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to order a reexamination for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test undergraduate exam for the year 2024 (NEET UG 2024).   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said that the evidence before it...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 22 July 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central government and the National Testing Agency (NTA) to furnish details about the use of question paper set stored at Canara Bank branches for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test undergraduate exam 2024 (NEET UG 2024).   While one set of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 July 2024
Taking cognisance of the uproar over deception and discrepancies in the selection and appointment, the Union public service commission (UPSC) initiated action against the controversial Indian Administrative Services (IAS) probationary officer Puja Khedkar. UPSC also initiated criminal...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 18 July 2024
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the National Testing Agency (NTA) to publish the marks obtained by all 23 lakh candidates who took the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test undergraduate exam (NEET UG) for the year 2024.    A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and...

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