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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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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 20 January 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed that it was serious about comments it made during hearings in the stray dogs case, including an earlier comment that dog feeders may be held liable for dog attacks.   This, after Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the Bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep...

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A decade and a half ago, a report of the comptroller and auditor general (CAG), claiming a huge ‘presumptive’ loss in the sale of telecom spectrum and coal blocks, ignited a nationwide movement against corruption and voted out the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Today, a series...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 January 2026
VIP (very important person) culture in India appears not only to have survived years of public criticism and judicial interventions but to have expanded further into daily civic life, with 77% of citizens saying it has either remained intact or increased over the past three years, according to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 January 2026
The 2026 BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections may have produced a clear political outcome, but a closer look at the numbers tells a more complicated story. Beneath the decisive mandate lies a visible strand of voter unease, reflected in the fact that over 100,000 Mumbaikars chose...

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As the financial capital of Mumbai prepares for its upcoming municipal elections, the political discourse in Maharashtra is increasingly defined by a dual narrative. On the one hand, the ruling coalition is promoting a set of modern infrastructure achievements designed to improve the quality of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2026
As Maharashtra inches towards long-delayed civic body elections, the Bombay High Court (HC) has emerged as an unlikely, but central, arena where political anxieties, administrative decisions and constitutional principles collide. With polling for 29 municipal corporations completed and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
The high-stakes BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on Thursday are overshadowed by controversy, after several voters reported that the ink applied to their fingers after voting could be easily wiped off, triggering sharp political reactions and prompting the authorities to order...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on a plea seeking permission for passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, a man who has been in a permanent vegetative state for more than 13 years following a severe traumatic brain injury.   A bench of justice JB Pardiwala and justice KV...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
Facing mounting global backlash, regulatory scrutiny and government pressure, Elon Musk-led social media platform X has disabled key image generation features of its AI chatbot Grok, following widespread misuse of the tool to create sexualised and non-consensual images of women and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
A fresh set of replies received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by transparency campaigner commodore (Cmde) Lokesh Batra (retd) has raised new questions over who ultimately bore the cost of printing high-value electoral bonds after the Supreme Court struck down the scheme in February...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2026
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday issued a stern warning to state governments over the rising number of stray dog attacks, signalling that it may direct them to pay 'heavy compensation' in cases involving dog bites, deaths or serious injuries, particularly to children and the elderly. The apex...

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Chandramouli Mohan 12 January 2026
India's Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers ordinary citizens to demand transparency from government bodies and public authorities. However, the central information commission (CIC)—the final watchdog for RTI appeals—now drowns under 32,232 pending cases as of January 2026. This includes...

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