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Moneylife Digital Team 17 October 2024
Indian Railways has decided to reduce the advance reservation period (ARP) for booking tickets to 60 days from 120, effective from 1 November 2024. This change will not affect foreign tourists or certain daytime trains like the Gomti Express and Taj Express which already have reduced ARP, the...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 16 October 2024
The Bombay High Court on Monday denied anticipatory bail to practicing Advocate Vinaykumar Ashok Khatu, who faces serious allegations of fabricating High Court orders and misleading his elderly client in a property dispute. (Vinaykumar Ashok Khatu v. State of Maharashtra.)   Justice RN...

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GBSNP Varma (IndiaSpend) 15 October 2024
Plastic is everywhere. It is in you, in your gut, in your blood, in your heart and in the air you breathe--in all of you and the universe you inhabit.   We feed on our own rot, and we live on top of our own detritus. A recent study in the journal Nature shows that India generates the highest...

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Divyanshu Kumar (IndiaSpend) 14 October 2024
Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along....

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Dr Gopal Krishna 09 October 2024
This is fifth part of a multi-part series “India’s First Mass Surveillance, Mass Spying and Unending Census Case”.   In a functional democracy, election is a dialogue with the people. The frequent dialogue and deeper dialogue is like sunlight for democracy which is good for the health of...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 09 October 2024
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday revived a public interest litigation (PIL) petition regarding pothole maintenance in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.   Nevertheless, it opted not to initiate contempt of court proceedings against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and other civic...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 October 2024
India faces an urgent need for legislation to manage the finances and care of incapacitated adults. With an ageing population, seniors who may be mentally or physically incapacitated lack the capacity to direct using their savings towards necessary care without legal guardianship. The current...

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It may be recalled that in order to combat air pollution in Delhi, one of the flagship initiatives tom-tommed by the Delhi government was to install anti-smog guns, anti-smog towers and other such machines. In fact, the lieutenant governor of Delhi, along with the municipal commissioner, had a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 September 2024
The Editors Guild of India (EGI) welcomed the order from the Bombay High Court (HC), striking down as unconstitutional the Information Technology (IT) Amendment Rules of 2023 on the formation of fact-check units (FCU) by the Union government.   The petitions, including one filed by stand-up...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 20 September 2024
The Bombay High Court on Friday struck down the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023, specifically Rule 3, which empowers the Central government to form Fact-Check Units (FCUs) for identifying false or fake news against the...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 20 September 2024
The Supreme Court Thursday reiterated that contributory negligence on the part of the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident, cannot be vicariously attributed to passengers to reduce the compensation awarded to them or their legal heirs (Sushma v. Nitin Ganapati Ranglore and Others).   A...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 11 September 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that Section 498A (cruelty to married women) of the Indian Penal Code, along with provisions of the Domestic Violence Act, are among the most abused laws.   The observation was made by a Bench led by Justice BR Gavai and comprising Justices Prashant...

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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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