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Moneylife Digital Team 08 June 2026
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a hidden environmental burden that could rival the resource needs of entire nations, according to a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). The report, 'Environmental Cost of...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 05 June 2026
Election petitions have to be decided by courts on time and failure to do so will defeat electoral democracy and could result in autocracy, the Madras High Court recently held (Appavu Vs Inbadurai).   Justice G Jayachandran made the observations while flagging a 6-year-delay by the Supreme...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 03 June 2026
The Supreme Court recently cancelled the anticipatory bail granted to three Maharashtra railway policemen accused of extorting money from a train passenger after finding a gold bar in his baggage (The State of Maharashtra v. Rahul Datta Bhosale & Ors.).    A Bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and...

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Siddesh MS (Bar  and   Bench) 01 June 2026
People are committing crimes casually and in a routine manner because offenders are not dealt with firmly enough under the law, the Karnataka High Court recently observed while refusing to grant bail to a 23-year-old rape accused (Gopi Reddy Karthik Reddy Vs State of Karnataka).   Justice R...

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On 16 May 2026, 30-year-old Abhijeet Dipke, a public relations student in Boston, made history. His satirical online creation from a dorm room — the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), complete with a short manifesto — morphed into a 20mn (million) follower political firestorm that charged the nation...

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In the old days, when I was in junior college, my dad used to occasionally ask me: “Walter, what is the front-page news today?”, and I would tell him. He used to do this to check whether I was keeping up with the (times) Times! If he had to ask me the same question now, I would probably have to...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 28 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the right to trauma care is an integral part of the right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution (Savelife Foundation vs. Union of India).   A bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Atul S Chandurkar made the observation while issuing a...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 27 May 2026
There is no fundamental right to engage in betting and gambling, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday while upholding the laws enacted by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka criminalising online games played for money or stakes, including games such as rummy, poker and fantasy sports (State of Tamil Nadu...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 27 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and other States and held that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is well within its powers to conduct the exercise.   The Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Union government on a batch of petitions challenging provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, particularly amendments affecting the Right to Information (RTI)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Union government on a batch of petitions challenging provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, particularly amendments affecting the Right to Information (RTI)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 May 2026
A Delhi court on 26 May 2026 recorded a statement on behalf of Manoj Kesarichand Sandesara that no further takedown action would be pursued against content published by Moneylife until the next date of hearing in an appeal filed by Moneywise Media LLP. The undertaking was given in an appeal...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 19 May 2026
Shoba Kshirsagar, 55, a waste-picker in Pune, became the sole breadwinner overnight after her 35-year-old son, who worked alongside her, was injured in a road accident in November last year. A dumper truck hit him while he was returning from work, leaving him with a crushed ankle.   First, a...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 19 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that no criminal proceedings be ordinarily initiated against any authority or official entrusted with implementation of its directions to curb stray dog attacks in the country (In Re: "City Hounded by Strays, Kids Pay Price" v. The State of Andhra...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 May 2026
The Government of India has dismissed as 'completely false, misleading and without any basis' reports and social media claims suggesting that it plans to introduce a monetisation scheme for gold held by temple trusts and religious institutions across the country.   In a clarification Union...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 May 2026
Overturning its own 2018 order that had sought to bring the cricket governing body within the ambit of the transparency law, the central information commission (CIC) ruled that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is not a 'public authority' under the Right to Information (RTI) Act,...

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There was a report in the Times of India, a few weeks ago, headlined: ‘X company asks 400 seniors to return to ‘work from office’ four days a week’. A few weeks earlier, there was another report saying that workers in a well-known company were extremely unhappy that they had been asked to come...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 May 2026
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has raised concerns over what it described as a growing pattern of 'shadow censorship' following reported restrictions on social media content linked to the Tamil Nadu election results and the swearing-in of C Joseph Vijay as chief minister.   In a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 May 2026
Chief justice of India Surya Kant on Monday announced the launch of a major digital initiative to integrate judicial data across courts nationwide and improve public access to court-related services through technology-driven systems.   Making the announcement at the outset of the day’s...

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Ritika Jain (IndiaSpend) 08 May 2026
The Supreme Court, on April 30, disagreed with an appeal by a medical board, and permitted a 15-year-old girl in her third trimester to terminate her pregnancy. This was the second such case this year alone where the Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has argued for the...

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