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Moneylife Digital Team 22 December 2025
The national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) has upheld a Kerala state consumer commission order holding Axis Bank and Vodafone Mobile Services jointly and severally liable for losses suffered by a customer due to a SIM-swap-enabled online banking fraud, dismissing appeals filed...

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Almost five years ago, a single sentence tucked into finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech of February 2021 should have reshaped India’s capital market regulation: “I propose to consolidate the provisions of the SEBI Act, 1992, Depositories Act, 1996, Securities Contracts...

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Today, almost everyone is connected to the online world—by choice, by necessity, or simply because modern systems leave us with little alternative. Whether we are banking, shopping, working or socialising, our daily lives now run through cyberspace. That reality also means we are constantly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 December 2025
Dismissing a writ petition seeking recovery of ₹38.78 lakh allegedly lost to fraud, the Allahabad High Court (HC) has ruled that Reserve Bank of India's (RBI’s) zero-liability framework for unauthorised electronic banking transactions cannot be invoked to recast personal banking transactions as...

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Shirish Shanbhag 18 December 2025
Disputes between cooperative housing society (CHS/the Society) and their members often arise from overreach, a misunderstanding of bye-laws or arbitrary decisions taken in the name of ‘general body approval’. Whether it is unlawful demands linked to renting out a flat, confusion around corpus...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 December 2025
The Supreme Court (SC) stepped up its scrutiny of the growing menace of 'digital arrest' scams, with the Union government informing the Court that it will convene a stakeholder-level meeting to examine measures for compensating victims and tightening systemic safeguards.   A bench led by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 December 2025
In a significant ruling strengthening the rights of tenants and occupants, the Delhi High Court (HC) has held that access to electricity is a fundamental right flowing from Article 21 of the Constitution and cannot be denied to a person in lawful possession of a property merely because a...

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Praisy Thomas (Bar  and   Bench) 16 December 2025
The district consumer disputes redressal commission (DCDRC) at Alappuzha in Kerala has directed Apple India Pvt Ltd to replace the battery of an iPhone 13 free of cost or, if that fails, replace the handset itself, after finding deficiency in service by the company. (Vani S Prasad v Apple India...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 16 December 2025
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has clarified that WhatsApp is required to comply with Competition Commission of India (CCI)'s directions to give users greater control over whether their data is shared with other Meta companies (WhatsApp Vs Competition Commission of...

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For the third time since India opened its skies to private airlines, a carrier has discovered that the fastest way to bend the State is not through policy lobbying—but by holding passengers hostage. Planes are grounded; chaos is unleashed; and the government, fearful of systemic collapse, blinks...

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Bollywood star Dharmendra’s passing has brought many of his memorable stories, films and songs back into the spotlight on social media. Among them are several video clips created using artificial intelligence (AI). These AI-generated clips reminded me of a famous song filmed with Dharmendra in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 December 2025
IndiGo has offered travel vouchers worth ₹10,000 to customers who were 'severely impacted' during the three-day meltdown between 3rd December and 5 December 2025. These vouchers will be valid for any IndiGo flight over the next 12 months. The airline clarified that the new ₹10,000 vouchers will...

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Shirish Shanbhag 11 December 2025
As cooperative housing societies (CHSs) grow in size and complexity, the issues member residents encounter often extend beyond routine maintenance and internal disputes. Problems can arise when multiple Societies share common amenities, when property transactions fall through or when managing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 December 2025
With the launch of the digital consent acquisition (DCA) pilot project, select bank customers will shortly begin receiving SMS alerts from their telecom service-providers (TSPs) via the short code 127000. This will enable them to review, manage and revoke previously granted consents for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 December 2025
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi has called on citizens across the country to check for unclaimed financial assets and reclaim what is rightfully theirs under the nationwide ‘Your Money, Your Right’ initiative, launched in October 2025 to address the massive pool of unclaimed deposits lying...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 10 December 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the Union government for its failure to prevent the chaos caused by cancellation and delays in flights of Indigo airline.   A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela observed that the government...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 December 2025
The Mumbai bench of the income-tax appellate tribunal (ITAT) has set aside an addition of ₹59.87 lakh made by the income-tax (I-T) department on the basis of stamp duty valuation, holding that the valuation prevailing on the date of the property’s allotment must be adopted when part...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 December 2025
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Sunday informed that nearly ₹1.04 lakh crore remains unclaimed across banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses and dividend accounts, asserting that the government is working to return these funds to their rightful owners as part of a wider effort to...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 08 December 2025
The cost of groceries per person per day in Mizoram was Rs 77.5 in November 2025, about Rs 20 more than the all-India average (Rs 57), as per Food Price Watch, IndiaSpend’s realtime dashboard, which aggregates food prices from various groups across the country to estimate how much an individual...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 December 2025
IndiGo on Sunday insisted that its board of directors had intervened 'on the very first day' of its nationwide operational collapse, even as the airline continued to cancel hundreds of flights for the sixth straight day and regulators escalated action over what they termed 'large-scale...

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