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On 6th June, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) surprised the markets, slicing the repo rate by 50bps (basis points) to 5.5% and cutting the cash reserve ratio by 100bps, phased over four 25-point tranches from September to November. The move, expected to inject Rs2.5 lakh crore into the system,...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 20 June 2025
“Fundamental rights are human rights and are, therefore, natural rights which are not conferred by the Constitution of India to take away. Sarv Mittra Sikri, the 13th chief justice of India has been proven right in subsequent judgments of the Supreme Court. Most notably, decisions in IR Coelho...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 June 2025
Placing public grievance redressal on 'high' priority, the Union Cabinet secretary is reportedly asked all ministries and departments to overhaul their grievance redressal mechanism and bring in the new oversight by senior officers in the prime minister's office (PMO) so that public concerns...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 June 2025
As the spiralling conflict between Israel and Iran entered its sixth day, the Indian government moved swiftly to relocate Indian nationals from Tehran, warning of potential large-scale military strikes in the Iranian capital. The Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) confirmed that Indian...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 17 June 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with an interim order passed by the Bombay High Court directing the Thane Municipal Corporation to demolish 17 unauthorised buildings constructed on encroached land by builders with links to the underworld (Danish Zaheer Siddiqui vs. State of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2025
The Maharashtra Congress has held the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government responsible for the recent Indrayani bridge collapse in Pune district, terming it a 'man-made tragedy born of negligence' and demanding a high-level inquiry and a case of culpable homicide against...

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Avani Bansal (The Leaflet) 17 June 2025
Videos from the recent all-party delegation to different countries on the India-Pakistan conflict had one thing in common - Asian News Agency’s (ANI) logo. So a question naturally arises – can one news agency (ANI), which is a private company (unlike some others such as Press Trust of India...

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Over 20 years ago, I had written an article in AmarUjala, the popular newspaper in North India and I remembered this when I was reading the headlines in the Times of India (ToI) on 22 March 2025.    What do these headlines say? The same things—a Supreme Court judge has been caught with nearly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 June 2025
In a significant step towards judicial transparency and accessibility, Bombay High Court (HC) chief justice Alok Aradhe announced on Tuesday that live-streaming of court proceedings will soon commence from five designated benches. The decision follows a resolution passed by the full court, and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2025
In a tragic reminder of the daily dangers faced by Mumbai’s suburban rail commuters, five people were killed and eight others injured after falling off two overcrowded local trains during the morning rush hour between Diva and Kopar railway stations in Thane district on Monday.   The incident...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 06 June 2025
Transfer of biometric database compromises the sovereignty of nations in South Asia. The spectre of an authoritarian, vindictive, surveillance state thus continues looming large over India.     - Dr Shashi Tharoor, chairperson, parliamentary standing committee on external affairs in Our...

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Meera Emmanuel (Bar  and   Bench) 03 June 2025
The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld the regulations introduced in Tamil Nadu to limit the number of hours one can play online rummy, poker and other similar games which use real money for rewards (Play Games 24x7 Private Limited and ors v. State of Tamil Nadu and ors.). The regulations bar...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 03 June 2025
In September 2024, a 38-year-old woman consulted Narendra Kotwal, director of endocrinology at Paras Health, Panchkula. She reported persistent fatigue, difficulty falling asleep, irregular menstrual cycles, mood disturbances such as irritability and low mood, and had gained 5 kg over six...

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Prachi Salve  and   Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 30 May 2025
Even as 33% more deaths were registered in 2021 (10.2 million), as compared to 7.6 million registered deaths in 2019, the percentage of medically certified deaths has only risen from 21% in 2019 to 23%, as per the latest data from the Registrar General of India. In absolute terms, medically...

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Tanvi Deshpande  and   Mithilesh Dhar Dubey (IndiaSpend) 28 May 2025
In a year when India braced for blistering heat waves, May 2025 unleashed unprecedented rainfall activity, catching the country off guard with almost double or 85.7% more rainfall than usual. In fact, central India has seen five times the usual rainfall this month (by May 27) and south India...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2025
The Maharashtra Cabinet has approved the state housing policy 2025, marking the state’s first comprehensive housing roadmap in nearly two decades. The policy, cleared on 20 May 2025, sets ambitious targets to address the state’s growing urban housing demands and lays emphasis on affordable,...

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Dimple Behal  and   Chirag Patel (IndiaSpend) 22 May 2025
Indian cities and towns produce about 72,368 million litres of sewage per day (MLD)--enough to fill 30,000 Olympic-size swimming pools--but has the operational capacity to treat only 37% of it, and actually treats only 28%. Even the sewage treatment plants India has are often unable to cope...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 May 2025
In a significant step towards streamlining responses to cyber financial crimes, the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) has rolled out a pilot of the e-Zero first information report (FIR) initiative in Delhi. The system enables the automatic conversion of cybercrime complaints—specifically...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 19 May 2025
The Supreme Court on 16 May 2025 restrained the Central government from issuing any notification, circular, orders etc. that could allow the retrospective grant of environmental clearance to development projects that could pollute the environment (Vanashakti vs. Union of India).   The Bench...

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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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