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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 24 January 2025
Use of loudspeakers is not an essential aspect of any religion and no fundamental right is violated if permission is denied for the same, the Bombay High Court held on Thursday (Jaago Nehru Nagar Residents Welfare Association v Commissioner of Police).   A Bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 January 2025
A lot of ink has been spilled on the controversial issue of the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund, including the debate on whether it is a public authority. However, the latest audit statements, uploaded after a delay of over two years by the...

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The continuous denial of information on the licence renewal details of a private hospital in Delhi and the exorbitant expenditure documents of its patient, prompted the central information commissioner Vinod Kumar Tiwari to remark in his recent order, that the gradual privatisation of public...

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Varsha Torgalkar (IndiaSpend) 17 January 2025
It was the first day of Diwali, and Rupali Hukire (name changed), a 42-year-old beautician, hurriedly cleaned big buckets and steel pots. She draws water from her neighbour's borewell at a cost of Rs100 for 30 minutes of pumping. Though her home, in Khandavi village in the Barshi tehsil of...

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Although a citizen has alternatives to directly access records through channels like the courts or the charity commissioner’s office, the state information commissioner of Nagpur division in Maharashtra stated that “Transparency of funds received from various authorities and government...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2025
Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) has reported 834 accidents involving its buses over the past five years, resulting in the tragic loss of 88 lives. The administration disclosed this information in response to a query filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2025
Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) has reported 834 accidents involving its buses over the past five years, resulting in the tragic loss of 88 lives. The administration disclosed this information in response to a query filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by...

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Suchak Patel (IndiaSpend) 13 January 2025
India is currently benefiting from a large working-age population. However, by 2050, the elderly will make up more than 20% of the total population. The UN Population Fund's India Ageing Report from 2023 predicts that by 2046, there will be more elderly people than children aged 0 to 15. This...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2025
After refusing to share dates when Madhabi Puri Buch, the chairperson of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and her family declared their financial assets, the Union ministry of finance (FinMin) now claims that its regulatory establishment (RE) section has no information to provide...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 09 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Central government to formulate a scheme for cashless medical treatment for motor accident victims in the "golden hour" period mandated under law (S Rajasekaran v. Union of India).   The golden hour is the the first 60 minutes after a traumatic...

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Against the backdrop of news of serious allegations against National Museum officials about the handling and movement of priceless antiquities against the directives of the Union ministry of culture; alleged smuggling of artifacts and its officers allegedly travelling on personal passports...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 08 January 2025
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that the Central Information Commission (CIC) cannot ask the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to requisition information on subscribers from Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) under the Right To Information Act (RTI). (TRAI v. Akshay Kumar...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 07 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Central government's Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to give a timeline within which pending vacancies in the Central Information Commission (CIC) and various State Information Commissions (SIC) would be filled (Anjali Bhardwaj & Ors. v....

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Adv (Dr) Prashant Mali 06 January 2025
The recently proposed Rule 10 of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, while aiming to safeguard children's privacy, raises significant concerns about the potential unintended consequences for marginalised communities. This rule mandates that verifiable parental consent be...

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Shashwat Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 06 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that landowners are entitled to the current market value of acquired land when compensation payable by the government for acquisition of land is delayed (Bernanard Farncis Joseph Vaz and Others v. Government of Karnataka and Others).   The Court passed the...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 06 January 2025
The Supreme Court recently set aside a ruling of the Madhya Pradesh High Court for taking a strict view of a beneficial legislation like the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 (Urmila Dixit vs Sunil Sharan Dixit & Ors).   Section 23 of the Act states that if a...

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It is perhaps fitting that we are starting 2025, which marks the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, with serious introspection, triggered by the passing of former prime minister (PM) Manmohan Singh in India and President Jimmy Carter in the United States, at the age of 91 and 100,...

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Young Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Bhagyashree Navtake, who undertook a complex series of fraud investigations between 2020-2022, involving the Jalgaon-based Bhaichand Hirachand Raisoni Multi State Cooperative Credit Society Ltd (BHRC), following multiple complaints from its depositors,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 January 2025
Market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has once again refused to share information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act on the dates of declaration of financial assets and equities held by SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her family members. After contradicting...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 31 December 2024
This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of encephalitis-causing virus called the Chandipura virus (CHPV) caused an outbreak in Gujarat, Maharashtra,...

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