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Dr Rajendra M Ganatra  and   Ashit Badani 18 August 2026
Residential real-estate projects are fundamentally different from manufacturing or infrastructure businesses which invest in productive assets that generate income over a long economic life. In a conventional business, returns are realised over two broad stages—the capital recovery phase, or...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
The directorate of enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached immovable properties worth ₹129.80 crore in a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged real estate fraud involving homebuyers and investors in Ahmedabad. ED's Ahmedabad zonal office issued the Provisional Attachment Order...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
Chief economic adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran has called for the reintroduction of a lower ethanol-blended petrol such as E10 alongside E20, particularly to protect India's large fleet of older two-wheelers, while cautioning the government against increasing ethanol blending beyond 20%...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued show-cause notices to Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff over their participation in an advertisement for Vimal Elaichi, alleging that the campaign may amount to surrogate or indirect promotion of a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 August 2026
The Maharashtra government has released a draft of the model bye-laws 2026 for cooperative housing societies, proposing an extensive overhaul of the framework governing the day-to-day functioning of housing societies across the state. The draft covers membership and succession, maintenance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 August 2026
Railway stations across the country continue to struggle with basic passenger amenities, with a comptroller and auditor general of India (CAG) audit finding deficiencies at 458 of 512 stations inspected across 16 railway zones.   The deficiencies were not confined to smaller or low-traffic...

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What is inside your food packet and, more importantly, what is not clearly indicated on its front, is now before the Supreme Court. A public interest petition (W.P.(C) No. 437/2024), filed by ‘3S and Our Health Society’ in 2024 had sought mandatory front-of-pack warning labels on packaged foods...

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When money is needed urgently, a loan that promises instant approval online can feel like a lifeline. A medical emergency, school fees, rent due, an unpaid credit card bill, or simply a bad month — any of these can push someone towards a digital lending app promising cash within minutes, barely...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 August 2026
The Indian government is examining the possibility of restoring the merchant discount rate (MDR) on certain high-value unified payments interface (UPI) transactions or introducing a tiered incentive structure to gradually reduce its financial support for the digital payments ecosystem, the...

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Shirish Shanbhag 13 August 2026
Disputes in a cooperative housing society (CHS/the Society), especially in urban areas, often begin with seemingly straightforward questions of ownership, responsibility, and everyday maintenance, but can become complicated when Society records, succession rights, and municipal responsibilities...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 August 2026
Expressing serious concern over the functioning of consumer commissions across the country, particularly the prolonged delay in disposing of complaints, the Supreme Court questioned whether consumers are receiving timely and effective redressal from the specialised forums created for that...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 13 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the reluctance of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to introduce front-of-pack warning labels on packaged food products containing high levels of sugar, salt and saturated fat.   A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and KV...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 August 2026
Holding the cardiologist guilty of medical negligence and the hospital vicariously liable for the deficiency in service in connection with the treatment of a 42-year-old cardiac patient who died days after undergoing pacemaker implantation, the national consumer disputes redressal commission...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 August 2026
The Union ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has directed motor vehicle aggregators to remove pre-ride tipping prompts and other interface features that encourage passengers to pay an additional amount before a journey is completed. The ministry said tipping must remain entirely...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 August 2026
The Delhi High Court has quashed two criminal complaints arising from the 2015 Maggi Noodles controversy, holding that subsequent scientific testing and a series of judicial decisions had substantially weakened the evidentiary foundation on which the prosecutions were based.   In an order...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 August 2026
The telecom regulatory authority of India (TRAI) has launched the phase-wise implementation of the 1601-series numbering system for service and transactional voice calls from entities in the utilities, courier and logistics sectors, expanding a trusted calling framework already used by the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 August 2026
The Parliament on Monday cleared the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, with Union minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman assuring the Rajya Sabha that the legislation does not impose any tax or transaction charge on consumers using the unified payments interface (UPI).   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 August 2026
Tamil Nadu had the highest outstanding gold loans among public sector banks (PSBs) at ₹4.12 lakh crore as of 31 March 2026, followed by Andhra Pradesh at ₹2.23 lakh crore, according to data submitted by the government in the Lok Sabha on Monday.   The data shows a heavy concentration of PSB...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 August 2026
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has barred banks from using technology to disable or restrict the functionality of borrowers' mobile phones, tablets and laptops as a tool to recover unpaid loans, bringing a significant regulatory check on technology-driven recovery practices. The exception is...

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Across Maharashtra, restaurant and club kitchens are being steam-cleaned and scrubbed, pest-control contractors summoned and food storage practices reviewed with great urgency. After elite clubs and storied shops were raided and shut, several other clubs quietly shut their kitchens for several...

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