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Moneylife Digital Team 18 May 2025
In a significant ruling aimed at curbing urban encroachment on ecologically sensitive land, the Supreme Court has directed the authorities in Maharashtra to take back 11.86 acres of forest land in Kondhwa, Pune, currently occupied by the Purohit Hills Cooperative Housing Society (CHS). In his...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 16 May 2025
The Supreme Court recently acquitted a man in a 26-year-old dowry and cruelty case, while raising concerns about the misuse of Section 498A (cruelty to married woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, in matrimonial disputes (Rajesh Chaddha vs. State of Uttar...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 15 May 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday emphasised that the right to use footpaths without obstruction is an essential part of the fundamental right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. (S Rajaseekaran v. Union of India & Ors).   A Bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan...

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In what can be termed as the height of bureaucratic apathy, veteran journalist and RTI activist Dr Shahid Raza Burney has slammed Maharashtra’s Maha IT department and the general administration department (GAD) for a massive failure in the processing of his 49 Right to Information (RTI)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 May 2025
India recorded a staggering 10.22mn (million) registered deaths in 2021, marking a 25.9% increase over the 8.12mn deaths reported in 2020, according to the latest report published by the office of the registrar general & census commissioner of India (ORGI). This rise of over 1.97mn additional...

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In an era of constant connectivity and rapid information exchange, the age-old tactic of war-mongering has found a new ally: digital misinformation. From the devastated cities of Ukraine to the embattled streets of Gaza, and the tense borders between India and Pakistan, conflict today is not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 May 2025
The Union government has notified a cashless treatment scheme for road accident victims nationwide. Under this scheme, road accident victims are entitled to cashless treatment for a maximum of Rs1.5 lakh per accident per person. Just last week, the Supreme Court pulled up the secretary of the...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 05 May 2025
On April 30, Mumbai was not having an unusually hot day at 33.9 degrees Celsius if we only go by the mercury. But with 69% humidity, the impact felt on the human body was as good as 46 degrees. And this wasn’t even the hottest day of the season. In comparison, the ‘felt temperature’ in...

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The Supreme Court, in February 2024, struck down the scheme of electoral bonds introduced in January 2018, that helped to channel donations for funding the political parties, without any trail for the public to check.   In the course of striking down this arrangement, the Court mandated...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 May 2025
Delhi Police will now only accept voter ID cards or passports as proof of Indian citizenship from people suspected of being foreign nationals, allegedly living illegally in the Capital, says a report from Hindustan Times (HT). Aadhaar cards, permanent account number (PAN) cards, and ration...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 April 2025
The cabinet committees on economic affairs (CCEA) and political affairs (CCPA), chaired by prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi, has decided that caste enumeration will be included in the forthcoming census. The CCEA also approved a higher fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane for the...

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Just like the toll plaza that we pay irrespective of the bad condition of roads and other services on expressways, property tax has to be promptly paid by citizens irrespective of pathetic civic amenities, Pune being a sterling example.   Questioning the reason why she must pay property tax...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 29 April 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked there was nothing wrong in the country using a spyware for its security but allegations of it being used against private individuals will be looked at.    The Bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh was hearing petitions alleging use of Pegasus...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 29 April 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Secretary of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) for the inordinate delay in framing a statutory scheme for providing cashless treatment to motor accident victims during the golden hour - the first critical hour where medical help is...

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Anuj Behal (IndiaSpend) 29 April 2025
Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in Shraddhanand Colony, north-west Delhi.   She quickly ties her dupatta, lights the stove, and begins rolling...

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Jency Samuel (IndiaSpend) 28 April 2025
When Chennai resident Anand Raj and his two siblings decided to construct a three-storeyed home, with an apartment per floor for each sibling, some of their decisions centred around water.   For one, their plot is in the outskirts of the city, with no municipal water and sewage connection....

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 April 2025
Eight-year-old Shivam Jadhav’s life changed forever when a tractor accidentally reversed over him in a sugarcane field. His story is one of many devastating accounts featured in a landmark report by the Nina Foundation, which reveals that a staggering 85% of spinal cord injuries (SCI) in India...

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Ummar Jamal (Bar  and   Bench) 23 April 2025
The Supreme Court has ordered all High Courts to issue directions to tribunals handling motor accident cases and labour cases to initiate a massive drive to trace beneficiaries of compensation awards remaining unclaimed in such tribunals (In re: Compensation amounts deposited with Motor...

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Nearly 40 years ago, the Institute of Management Consultants of India (IMCI) decided that its members must do something significant, as a service to the country. Some of India’s best management consultants and consulting firms were members of the Institute. They have a large resource of...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 16 April 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu on the nameboard of a municipal council in Maharashtra (Mrs. Varshatai W/o Sh. Sanjay Bagade vs. State Of Maharashtra).    A Bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran said that Urdu and Marathi have the same status under the...

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