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Some time ago, at a meeting organised by the Moneylife Foundation, one of the guest speakers was Dr Prakash Baba Amte with Dr Mrs Mandakini Amte. This was the second generation of Amtes, contributing their whole life‘s work to provide medical help to poor people in rural India in the backward...

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While sexual assaults in West Bengal and Maharashtra are making news, the disclosure of the Hema committee report, which was submitted to the Kerala state government way back in 2019 with investigations and recommendations for women working in the Kerala film industry facing sexual harassment...

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The quality of water in Venna Lake, the sole source of drinking water for Mahabaleshwar, which had faced severe contamination due to the rundown of equine waste, has significantly improved as the authorities are now collecting the waste from the plateau above the lake and sending it to...

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You could say that our country has (pretty much) everything that tourists want—marvellous scenery, imposing monuments, ancient ruins, hotels of every description, variety of food, good roads...   Yet, there is one thing that is often missing—good toilets.   If you have travelled around our...

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Every year, taxpayers in India are busy collating all information that is required to file their income-tax returns (ITRs) before 31st July. Radhika (name changed) also filed her ITR before the due date. However, she was shocked to receive an email informing her that her tax payment had been...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 09 August 2024
The Supreme Court on Friday slammed a Mumbai college for a ban imposed on students wearing burqa, hijab or niqab on campus and partly stayed the notice issued by the institution in this regard (Zainab Abdul Qayyum Choudhary and Others v. Chembur Tromboy Education Society, NG Acharya and DK...

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Against the backdrop of the scandalous Puja Khedkar case—wherein disability certificates were abused and misused for her entry into the Indian administrative services (IAS) and more such cases tumbled out—Maharashtra’s information commissioner has ordered their transparency by disclosure on the...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 07 August 2024
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday expressed concern over the misuse of Section 498A (cruelty to wife by husband and relatives) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).    The Division Bench comprising Justice AS Gadkari and Justice Neela Gokhale expressed sympathies for the victims for marital...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 05 August 2024
Unable to eat, and depending solely on oral rehydration solutions, Ahmed* (40) spent the last 15 days of his life hoping to get an endoscopic procedure at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, 350 km away from his hometown in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. He died on July...

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Owning a home in India is not merely a financial decision, it is an aspirational and emotional issue that represents a significant personal milestone and is a measure of success. Most Indians will invest in a home as soon as they can afford the down payment and equated monthly instalment (EMI)....

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 01 August 2024
In what could come as a significant development in the field of affirmative action, the Supreme Court on Thursday called for identification of creamy layer among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs) to take them out of the fold of affirmative action (reservation).   Currently...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 July 2024
While almost every passenger has to go through the rigours of advanced booking and sometimes cancellations, the Indian Railways (IR) does not have any data on money earned through ticket cancellations or converting general coaches into third AC coaches. Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Union minister for...

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Over the years, the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) and the Union government have been enforcing Aadhaar as a unique ID on every resident without even providing any solution to issues faced by common people. Without a proper and ‘leakproof’ solution, several residents are...

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Sukriti Vats (IndiaSpend) 15 July 2024
In January this year Darangi Bhera Sarubhai, a resident of Khedasan village in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, received a notice informing him that his Individual Forest Rights (IFR) claim had been rejected.   The 70-year-old was one of 30 individuals from Khedasan, a Schedule V village,...

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The British have left us some ‘gifts’, including one that determines who runs our country, and thereby rules our lives – our election system.   This system follows the 'first past the post' principle, i.e., the winner is the one with the highest number of votes. Just one vote more than the...

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There are right to information (RTI) applicants who invoke the sunshine law for the sake of getting information but there are those who use the information to fight for a social cause until it reaches the logical end.   In the past two weeks, the Bombay High Court (HC) ordered the divisional...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 09 July 2024
Bail conditions enabling investigating agencies to constantly track the whereabouts of an accused are arbitrary and unlawful, the Supreme Court held on Monday (Frank Vitus v. Narcotics Control Bureau and Ors).   A Bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan held so in a judgment where it...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2024
The Supreme Court has initiated a suo moto writ petition over large sums of money lying deposited in motor accident claims tribunals (MACT) and labour courts without being given to the beneficiaries, says a report.   According to a report from LiveLaw, a bench of justice Abhay Oka and justice...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 04 July 2024
The Allahabad High Court expressed its shock at the treatment meted out to an elderly couple by their son and daughter-in-law.   A Bench of Justices Saumitra Dayal Singh and Donadi Ramesh directed the formation of a committee after finding out that the senior citizens were severely...

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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 28 June 2024
Savita Devi associates rain with death.   Last September, within a span of 10 days, the 30-year-old farmer and her husband Raju (he uses one name) belonging to the Baiga community, a scheduled tribe, lost five of their seven children to malaria as the southwest monsoons pounded their village,...

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