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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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Dr Gopal Krishna 05 May 2026
जानामि धर्मं न च मे प्रवृत्तिः, (I know what is right conduct but I am not inclined towards it) जानाम्यधर्मं न च मे निवृत्तिः। (I know what is wrong conduct but I am not free from it)

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Dr Gopal Krishna 05 May 2026
जानामि धर्मं न च मे प्रवृत्तिः, (I know what is right conduct but I am not inclined towards it) जानाम्यधर्मं न च मे निवृत्तिः। (I know what is wrong conduct but I am not free from it)

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Tanvi Deshpande 04 May 2026
Summer is under way and heat waves are being reported in many parts of the country already. The 16th Finance Commission has recommended that heatwaves be notified as national disasters. The move could unlock central funding to states battling heatwaves and also make way for compensation for...

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Bar  and   Bench 29 April 2026
Updated at 2.05pm on 29 April 2026 to include the recall order from the HC.   The Bombay High Court has adjourned a 9-year-old defamation suit to be heard in the year 2046 after finding that the case was an “ego fight” between two senior citizens (Tarinibahen Desai and Anr v. Kilkilraj...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 16 April 2026
India’s top metros—Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, home to 75 million people—rank among the world’s 10 most populous cities. However, “population scale has not translated proportionately into urban productivity, liveability or global economic influence,” the Union government’s Economic Survey...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 14 April 2026
The Union government has framed the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 proposing a significant expansion of the Lok Sabha’s strength from the current 550 members to a maximum of 850, comprising 815 members from States and 35 from Union Territories.   The Bill forms part of a broader...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 14 April 2026
क्या ज़ुल्मतों के दौर में भी गीत गाये जाएंगे? हाँ, ज़ुल्मतों के दौर के ही गीत गाये जाएंगे   In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 14 April 2026
क्या ज़ुल्मतों के दौर में भी गीत गाये जाएंगे? हाँ, ज़ुल्मतों के दौर के ही गीत गाये जाएंगे   In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 13 April 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday remarked the Election Commission of India (ECI) created a "logical discrepancy" list of doubtful voters only during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.   Justice Joymalya Bagchi, sitting on a Bench headed by Chief Justice of...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 13 April 2026
Of course, the heat is increasing. My eyes burn,” said Sangeeta Sonawane in Mumbai’s Borivali on a hot April day. Sonawane sets up her stall on the street, near the local railway station, at 10 a.m. and spends 12 hours selling vegetables. In the peak afternoon, she uses a piece of thermocol or...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 April 2026
The Union government is considering bringing user-generated fact-checking tools such as X’s 'community notes' under regulatory oversight through proposed amendments to the Information Technology (IT) Rules, a move that could allow authorities to seek removal of content that challenges or adds...

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Bar  and   Bench 09 April 2026
The Bombay High Court at Goa has quashed the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) notification for the conduct of a byelection at Ponda to fill the legislative assembly seat left vacant following the demise of Congress MLA Ravi Naik on October 15, 2025 (Pritam Harmalkar v. Election Commission...

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