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Moneylife Digital Team 10 February 2025
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and the National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) have welcomed the landmark judgement of the Madras High Court (HC) defending press freedom and journalists' right to privacy. The ruling, delivered on 6 February 2025, strongly condemned the police's seizure of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 February 2025
Amidst rumblings within the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seeking a change of leadership in strife-torn Manipur, N Biren Singh resigned as the chief minister (CM) on Sunday. He submittied his resignation letter to Manipur governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla at the Raj Bhavan in Imphal. The...

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After a long time, I came across the third edition of the book The 80/20 Principle written by Richard Koch. The strapline to the title is “The secret to achieving more with less”. I have always loved this book and I tried to tie up the ideas here with what I had learnt from Steven Covey, who...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 06 February 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday took critical note that Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi appears to have "devised his own procedure" in withholding assent to several Bills passed by Tamil Nadu's legislative assembly, thereby rendering Constitutional provisions moot.   A Bench of Justices JB...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 February 2025
A US military aircraft C-17 carrying the first batch of 104 illegal Indian immigrants, with the highest number of 33 each from Haryana and Gujarat, landed at Amritsar's Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport amid tight security. The US administration has launched a crackdown on illegal...

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Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 05 February 2025
The Bombay Lawyers Association (BLA) has moved the Bombay High Court over the inconsistent procedure for mentioning of cases before different benches.   Currently, after petitions are filed, lawyers make a mentioning before the roster bench to request an early listing date, if the matter is...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 February 2025
Trade unions across the country are set to stage a nationwide protest on 5th February against what they describe as an 'anti-worker, anti-farmer and anti-people' Budget for the financial year (FY)25-2026. The demonstration, organised by 10 central trade unions and independent sectoral...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 January 2025
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of reports stating that 474 homeless individuals have died in Delhi over a span of 56 days during the current winter season. The figures, cited by the NGO Centre for Holistic Development (CHD), suggest that these deaths...

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Sandhi Sarun (Bar  and   Bench) 30 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Central government for filing frivolous appeals against armed forces' personnel in disability pension cases.   The Bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan impressed upon the government to evolve a policy to curb such frivolous...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2025
As many as 30 are dead, with more than 60 injured after a stampede broke out at the Sangam on Wednesday amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh, as millions of pilgrims turned up for a holy bath on mauni amavasya, the most significant ritual during this period. Speaking with media, Vaibhav Krishna, deputy...

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Bar  and   Bench 29 January 2025
The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has censured News18 India channel and its anchor Rubika Liyaquat for attributing guilt to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor scam which is still under probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).   In an order passed...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 January 2025
The Maharashtra government has decided to set up a seven-member committee to explore banning petrol and diesel vehicles in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) due to worsening air quality and increasing pollution in MMR. Headed by SK Shrivastava, a retired officer from the Indian...

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Bar  and   Bench 28 January 2025
The Supreme Court has ordered the police to not use WhatsApp or other electronic modes as an alternative or substitute mode to serve notice to the accused under Section 41A of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) or Section 35 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).   Section 41A, CrPc...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 January 2025
The embassy of India in Laos has rescued 67 Indian youth from cyber-scam centres in Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GTSEZ). The embassy said in a statement that these youth were forced to work there under intimidation and abuse by criminal syndicates operating in GTSEZ.   Embassy...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 January 2025
In an initiative to establish precision and uniformity in Indian standard time (IST), the department of consumer affairs (DCA) has released draft rules to synchronise time across the country. These rules aim at 'One Nation, One Time' in the country and will make IST the mandatory time reference...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 24 January 2025
Use of loudspeakers is not an essential aspect of any religion and no fundamental right is violated if permission is denied for the same, the Bombay High Court held on Thursday (Jaago Nehru Nagar Residents Welfare Association v Commissioner of Police).   A Bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 January 2025
A lot of ink has been spilled on the controversial issue of the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund, including the debate on whether it is a public authority. However, the latest audit statements, uploaded after a delay of over two years by the...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 23 January 2025
A court in Mumbai convicted filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma and sentenced him to three months of simple imprisonment in a cheque bounce case.   The case, which dates back seven years, was filed by a company named Shree, represented by Maheshchandra Mishra, against Varma’s firm under Section 138 of...

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Anamika Singh  and   Piyush Mane (IndiaSpend) 21 January 2025
Suraj Damor (name changed), 26, first began migrating to Ahmedabad from Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh when he was 17 years old. Initially Damor, a Bhil Adivasi, would find daily wage construction work at labour nakas. In 2016, a relative told him about the opportunity of driving a...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 20 January 2025
The Bombay High Court on Monday suggested that a criminal case should be registered against five police officers after a magisterial inquiry found that they need not have killed Badlapur sexual assault accused Akshay Shinde in an encounter.    The five Thane police officers were present with...

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