ECONOMY & NATION


Moneylife Digital Team 01 January 2026
The New Year has opened with a sharp increase in cooking fuel costs for India’s hospitality and services sector, as prices of commercial liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders have been increased by ₹111 from 1 January 2026. However, the price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF), also known as jet...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 January 2026
Vodafone Idea Ltd (VodaIdea) has denied reports claiming that the Union Cabinet approved a freeze on its ₹87,695 crore adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues, saying it has received no communication from the government. The telecom operator also disclosed a goods and services tax (CGST) penalty...

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Bar  and   Bench 31 December 2025
A court in Hyderabad on Tuesday vacated an ad-interim injunction that had restrained Netflix from streaming an episode about Byrraju Ramalinga Raju, the founder of Satyam Computer Services [Byrraju Ramalinga Raju Vs Netflix].   Following the order, Netflix released the episode as part of its...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 31 December 2025
The Bombay High Court on December 30 convened a late evening special sitting at the Chief Justice’s residence to urgently deal with the issue of court staff being requisitioned for BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election duties [In re: Order dated December 29, passed by the Municipal...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 December 2025
Central bureau of investigation (CBI) has arrested Prabha Bhandari, an officer from the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) cadre who was working as deputy commissioner of customs & indirect taxes along with Anil Tiwari and Ajay Kumar Sharma, both superintendents from the Central goods and services...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 December 2025
Central bureau of investigation (CBI) has arrested Prabha Bhandari, an officer from the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) cadre who was working as deputy commissioner of customs & indirect taxes along with Anil Tiwari and Ajay Kumar Sharma, both superintendents from the Central goods and services...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 December 2025
The directorate of enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached a high-value immovable property worth around ₹150 crore in London, located close to Buckingham Palace, in connection with its investigation into the alleged ₹1,400 crore bank fraud involving S Kumars Nationwide Ltd (SKNL). The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 December 2025
The directorate of enforcement (ED) has laid bare what it describes as a deeply entrenched and meticulously organised corruption racket within Chhattisgarh’s excise administration, alleging that a criminal syndicate siphoned off proceeds of crime worth about ₹2,883 crore between 2019 and 2023...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (India Spend) 30 December 2025
“I know ASHAs who have walked through snake-infested fields in the rains to visit women who gave birth in hospitals just to make sure that the newborn has a birth certificate,” said Suvarna Kamble, an accredited social health activist (ASHA) in Palghar in Maharashtra.   ASHAs are India’s...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 December 2025
Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) recently-released report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2024–25 offers a candid assessment of long-standing weaknesses in the banking system, acknowledging that persistent know-your-customer (KYC) lapses, rising cyber fraud and mounting customer...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 December 2025
In a clear signal that prolonged and meandering hearings will no longer be tolerated, the Supreme Court of India (SC) has introduced a formal standard operating procedure (SOP) mandating strict timelines for oral arguments in all post-notice and regular hearing matters. The directions, issued...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 December 2025
In what could become one of the largest corporate disputes in India’s energy sector, the government of India has reportedly sought more than US$30bn (billion) in compensation from Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and its partner BP plc (British Petroleum) over alleged under-production from the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 December 2025
The Enforcement Directorate's Gurugram office executed extensive search operations across Delhi, Gurugram and Rohtak on 26-27 December, 2025, revealing a sophisticated money laundering network that has ensnared Apollo Green Energy Limited, a renewable energy company that was reportedly...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 29 December 2025
The Delhi High Court has granted an interim injunction in a commercial suit filed by SNV Aviation Private Limited, the operator of Akasa Air, to restrain multiple entities from allegedly impersonating the airline and using its trademarks to run recruitment-related scams [SNV Aviation Vs Alaska...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 29 December 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday said that certain clarifications were necessary regarding the definitions it recently approved for the Aravalli Hills, while staying a ruling passed last month on the issue.   The Court also stated that a committee of experts will be constituted to study the...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 29 December 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the operation of the Delhi High Court order which had granted bail and suspended the life sentence awarded to former Uttar Pradesh MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case.   A vacation bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 December 2025
Six months after the devastating explosion at Sigachi Industries Pashamylaram unit in Telangana’s Sangareddy district, the Telangana police have arrested the company's managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO), Amit Raj Sinha. The blast, which occurred on 30 June 2025, claimed...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 December 2025
The income tax department’s benami prohibition unit (BPU), Hyderabad, has issued 17 provisional attachment orders covering a 282-acre land parcel located in Koheda and Omer Khan Daira villages of Abdullapurmet mandal, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The total value of the attached properties has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 December 2025
Delhi's air pollution crisis has claimed an extraordinary professional casualty, marking what appears to be the first publicly documented case of a senior executive at a listed Indian company resigning primarily due to environmental conditions. Rajkumar Bafna, president of finance at...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 December 2025
Hikal Limited (Hikal), a pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals company, has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India about irregularities discovered during an internal fact-finding review concerning revenue recognition and supporting documentation....

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