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Moneylife Digital Team 23 February 2026
A court in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, on 20 February 2026, sentenced Rambhawan and his wife Durgawati to death for committing a series of heinous crimes involving the sexual exploitation of 33 minor children. The convictions were recorded under multiple provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 20 February 2026
The Delhi High Court on Thursday started hearing arguments on a batch of petitions challenging several provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).    A total of four petitions have come to the High Court. Senior Advocate Arvind Datar appeared for one of the petitioners -...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 20 February 2026
In an extraordinary development, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered deployment of judicial officers, including the retired judges, for smooth conduct of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.   The Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 February 2026
As many as 102 leading architects, planners and designers under the banner of the Mumbai Architects Collective have written to the municipal commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and the Maharashtra chief minister (CM), urging them to halt any underground...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 19 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the practice of States announcing freebies and subsidies before elections, noting that the ultimate burden to bear expenses for the same falls on taxpayers (Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation v. Union of India & Anr.)   A Bench of Chief Justice...

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Nilesh Singit 17 February 2026
India’s present moment in artificial intelligence is often described in terms of innovation, opportunity, and national technological leadership. The India AI Impact Summit brings global attention to how artificial intelligence is shaping governance, development, and social...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 16 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the Central government over the transcripts of videos cited against Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk in his detention order under the National Security Act (NSA).   A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and PB Varale was hearing the plea moved Wangchuk's wife...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday undertook a wide-ranging review of vacancies, appointments and mounting pendency in the central and state information commissions, reiterating that the right to information (RTI) is a fundamental right and that transparency in the appointment of information...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday undertook a wide-ranging review of vacancies, appointments and mounting pendency in the central and state information commissions, reiterating that the right to information (RTI) is a fundamental right and that transparency in the appointment of information...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 09 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the State of West Bengal to ensure that over 8,000 of its officers provided to the Election Commission of India (ECI) for duty relating to special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls report to the district electoral officers by Tuesday...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 05 February 2026
The Supreme Court recently upheld a Telangana High Court judgment that laid down detailed operational guidelines restraining police authorities from mechanically registering criminal cases over social media posts, particularly those involving political criticism (State of Telangana vs. Nalla...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 February 2026
Nearly 33 hours after a gas tanker overturned in the Khandala ghat section and brought traffic on  the Mumbai–Pune Expressway to a grinding halt, it finally began to move in the early hours of Thursday. But what unfolded at daybreak was a telling snapshot of official inertia: drivers found...

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Avani Kapur, Sharad Pandey (IndiaSpend) 04 February 2026
India’s social sector budget as a share of the gross domestic product is now second lowest in over a decade, and lower even than 2014-15, when the Narendra Modi government presented its first-ever budget.   While Budget 2026-27—presented on February 1—shows small increases for welfare...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 03 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday strongly criticised WhatsApp and Meta (which owns WhatsApp) for the messaging platform's 'take it or leave it' privacy policy, adding that the policy appears to enable data theft (WhatsApp, Meta Vs Competition Commission of India).   A Bench comprising Chief...

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Bar  and   Bench 03 February 2026
The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to deposit ₹3.60 crore with the court within two weeks for delays in complying with compensation recommendations made by the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) (Satyam Atul Surana v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.).   A...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 February 2026
Mumbai has enforced a comprehensive set of traffic regulations from 1st February as the Mumbai traffic police stepped up efforts to tackle worsening congestion, rising accident risks and growing pressure on the city’s limited road space. The new rules bring tighter restrictions on the movement...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 02 February 2026
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced a Rs 1.06 lakh crore health budget for 2026-27, a 9% increase from the current financial year. Yet persistent gaps in utilisation, staffing and quality suggest higher allocations alone cannot fix India's public health crisis.   Despite a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2026
India’s economic aspirations are being compromised by a systemic failure in urban management, according to the Economic Survey 2025-26 which identifies a critical ‘governance deficit’ as the primary barrier to sustainable city growth.   The document asserts that while urbanisation is an...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 28 January 2026
If Aadhaar-based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism are not wrong, nothing is wrong.  The question—‘Are we all going to continue to give our consent to voluntary servitude to the beneficial owners of the automatic identification and biometric profiling machines, or will we confront...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 28 January 2026
If Aadhaar-based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism are not wrong, nothing is wrong.  The question—‘Are we all going to continue to give our consent to voluntary servitude to the beneficial owners of the automatic identification and biometric profiling machines, or will we confront...

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