ECONOMY & NATION


Arna Chatterjee (Bar  and   Bench) 10 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Delhi High Court ruling that allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to seize assets linked to illegal online cricket betting by treating them as “proceeds of crime” under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) (Tushar Bansal & Ors. v. Adjudicating...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday delivered one of its strongest indictments yet of banks’ role in the fast-growing menace of 'digital arrest' scams, warning that negligence and, in some cases, alleged collusion by bank officials have enabled fraudsters to siphon off crores from unsuspecting...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2026
Public sector banks (PSBs) have earned more than ₹11,500 crore over the past five years from penalties and service charges linked to minimum balance shortfalls, ₹5,715.42 crore from SMS alerts (total ₹17,251.41 crore) and suffered a loss of ₹2,617.07 crore from ATM usage, even as the government...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2026
In a significant shift in how India prices deposit insurance, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), have decided to move away from a flat premium system and introduce a risk-based premium framework for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 February 2026
With less than two months to go before India’s biggest direct tax overhaul in six decades takes effect, the income-tax (I-T) department has invited public and stakeholder feedback on the draft Income-tax Rules and Forms, 2026, signalling the final phase of preparations for the new Income-tax...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 February 2026
The national company law appellate tribunal (NCLAT) in New Delhi has affirmed a lower court's decision declining to initiate insolvency proceedings against Cue Learn Private Limited in a payment row linked to an endorsement arrangement with actor Akshay Kumar Bhatia.   A division bench headed...

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Budget 2026 sends out a strong signal that India finally recognises how we are losing the global tourism race, despite extraordinary cultural diversity, wealth of historical monuments and scenic beauty. Not only are we not attracting foreign tourists, Indians themselves are flocking to...

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Budget 2026 sends out a strong signal that India finally recognises how we are losing the global tourism race, despite extraordinary cultural diversity, wealth of historical monuments and scenic beauty. Not only are we not attracting foreign tourists, Indians themselves are flocking to...

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It occurred to me a few days ago that the most enduring lessons in leadership rarely arrive in boardrooms. They tend to appear in hotel lobbies, airport queues and the quiet in-between moments when leaders aren’t performing for anyone — or at least believe they aren’t. One such moment came back...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2026
In the Union Budget of 2026-27, special assistance to states for capital investment has been boosted by 28.5% to ₹1.85 lakh crore. Nearly 50% of capital expenditure (capex) will be directed towards roads and railways, with initiatives aimed at lowering logistics costs under the Viksit Bharat...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 06 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a significant question impacting press freedom, particularly in the online space - can a person, who was accused of a criminal offence, seek deletion of old news reports about the case from the internet after being discharged in the case?   A...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 06 February 2026
Stand up comic Kunal Kamra and Senior Advocate Haresh Jagtiani have approached the Bombay High Court challenging the validity of Central government’s Sahyog portal - an online platform used to issue content takedown orders to online intermediaries like X, Meta, YouTube etc.   They have also...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a total penalty of ₹4.05 lakh on three cooperative banks for non-compliance with its regulatory directions. The highest penalty of ₹2 lakh has been imposed on Odisha-based Jeypore Cooperative Urban Bank Ltd and Tripura-based Agartala Cooperative Urban...

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Bar  and   Bench 06 February 2026
A court in Mumbai recently closed the proceedings against Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) in the Yes Bank–DHFL money laundering case. (Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd v. Enforcement Directorate)   Additional Sessions Judge RB Rote ruled that the company was entitled to...

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Bar  and   Bench 06 February 2026
The Supreme Court recently set aside a Gujarat High Court order directing recovery of 108 hectares of gauchar (grazing) land allotted to Adani Ports in Mundra. (Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone v. State of Gujarat.)   A Bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Atul Chandurkar held that the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2026
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred promoters and key managerial personnel of Setco Automotive Ltd (SAL) markets for up to two years citing large-scale diversion and mis-utilisation of company funds, financial misrepresentation and serious corporate...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2026
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday unveiled a broad set of regulatory and developmental measures aimed at easing compliance for low-risk financial entities, improving credit flow and updating key financial inclusion and market frameworks to reflect a rapidly evolving financial system.   In...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 February 2026
In a sharp rebuke to the misuse of insolvency law, the New Delhi bench of the national company law tribunal (NCLT) has recalled the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) initiated against Alchemist Ltd after finding that the proceedings are tainted by fraud, collusion and malicious...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 February 2026
In a sharp rebuke to the misuse of insolvency law, the New Delhi bench of the national company law tribunal (NCLT) has recalled the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) initiated against Alchemist Ltd after finding that the proceedings are tainted by fraud, collusion and malicious...

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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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