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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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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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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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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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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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Moneylife Digital Team 09 December 2024
Hundreds of workers under the aegis of NREGA Sangharsh Morcha held a two-day dharna at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. They sent a letter to Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the Union minister for rural development (MoRD), to counter claims of the ministry about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 02 December 2024
In late September 2024, the high court of Chhattisgarh registered a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) over two non-functional oxygen plants at the Bilaspur district hospital, alleging that the plants had been operated by untrained operators and that their failure necessitated that the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 November 2024
Almost 28% of the grains supplied by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state governments never reach the intended beneficiaries, which amounts to a financial loss of about Rs69,108 crore, equivalent to roughly 20mn (million) metric tonnes (MMT) of rice and wheat. North-eastern states...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 28 November 2024
The Supreme Court recently took strong exception to the gender discrimination faced be elected women representatives in India, particularly at Panchayat (village council) levels (Sonam Lakra v State of Chhattisgarh and ors).   The Court was dealing with a case where it found that the ouster...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 November 2024
The Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) has approved the income tax (I-T) department's permanent account number (PAN) 2.0 project. This project aims to streamline and modernise issuing and managing PAN and tax deduction and collection account number (TAN), making it more user-friendly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2024
The Bombay High Court recently ordered 1 lakh in compensation to a woman from Mumbai for the unlawful arrest of her husband, while also highlighting serious concerns about police misconduct (Ratna Chandrakant Vannam And Anr v. Tukaram K. Jadhav).   The Bench comprising Justices Bharati Dangre...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that physical classes for all school students up to grade 12 in Delhi should be suspended for the time being in light of the acute air pollution that has gripped the national capital, says a report from Bar & Bench.  A bench of justice Abhay S Oka and...

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Safeena Wani (IndiaSpend) 18 November 2024
Forty-year-old Angmo Norbu found that even her second visit in a month to Sonam Nurboo Memorial Hospital in Leh, around 100 km from her residence in the Durbok area of Changthang region in eastern Ladakh, was a waste of time.   For the second time, doctors had refused to remove her sister’s...

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In a surprising justification from someone as senior as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, the denial of information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has been attributed to the model code of conduct currently in effect in Maharashtra due to the upcoming Assembly elections...

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Every few days, social media highlights the relentless struggles of India's marginalised communities: caste discrimination, bonded labour, lack of healthcare, inadequate infrastructure, rampant corruption and exploitative interest rates. From bankers to the police, everyone agrees that the poor...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 06 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday criticized the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government for demolishing an individual's house without following legal procedures.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that the demolition was 'high...

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