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Moneylife Digital Team 17 August 2026
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday unveiled its new national team under party president Nitin Nabin, combining continuity in its core organisational structure with several high-profile changes, including the return of former Union minister Smriti Irani as a national general secretary...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 17 August 2026
Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the Supreme Court on Monday that he was in the process of filing a petition against the Bar Council of India (BCI) running a law college.   While he did not give any specific details, Bhushan might have been referring to the India International University of...

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Bar  and   Bench 17 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Allahabad High Court to defer proceedings before it in a petition filed by a BJP worker alleging that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi possesses assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...

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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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Satyendra Wankhade (Bar  and   Bench) 16 August 2026
Bar Council of India (BCI) chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra has issued an apology to law students in a letter issued on Independence Day.   The apology follows criticism from students at National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law at Hyderabad and National Law...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 August 2026
The Bar Council of India (BCI) on 13 August 2026 reversed its sweeping order to prevent the enrolment of all 2026 graduates of the Hyderabad-based NALSAR University of Law and asking the university to conduct an inquiry after the move triggered criticism from members of the legal fraternity and...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 12 August 2026
A three-member judges inquiry committee has found all three charges against Allahabad High Court Justice Yashwant Varma proved, including possession of substantial unexplained cash at his official residence, interference with material evidence and furnishing evasive and misleading...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 August 2026
A publicity stunt by used-car platform Cars24, involving a branded boat on a waterlogged road in Gurugram, has sparked controversy after the company initially claimed that the police had imposed a ₹50,000 fine and seized the boat. The Gurugram traffic police, however, denied taking any such...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 10 August 2026
The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2026, which proposes to establish a National Tribunals Commission to oversee appointments, performance and complaints concerning members of 16 tribunals.   The Bill was introduced and passed without debate amid sloganeering by...

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I wrote this comment 14 years ago. It would seem nothing has changed. The suggestions are still relevant. Hence, a repeat.   I came across a write-up on breakthrough thinking, a concept developed by Michael Shays in the US, where he runs seminars and workshops to help people develop this way...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 August 2026
The Bombay High Court on Thursday set aside the acquittal of Tehelka’s former editor-in-chief, Tarun Tejpal, in the 2013 sexual assault case involving a junior colleague, convicted him of rape and other offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and sentenced him to 10 years' rigorous...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 05 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that authorities should seek to understand the concerns of protesting youngsters instead of allowing situations to escalate into violence.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana was hearing a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday said it would frame a comprehensive protocol governing the use of pellet guns by law enforcement agencies during crowd control operations, while also clarifying that Delhi and other state governments are free to withdraw first information reports (FIRs) against...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 August 2026
Naresh Balyan, a former member of the legislative assembly (MLA) from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), will remain in judicial custody after the Delhi High Court on Monday refused to grant him bail in a case registered under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), despite a trial...

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Safi Ahsan Rizvi 03 August 2026
The massive devastation seen in Kedarnath (July 2013) was the impact of a cascading hydro-met disaster, amplified by the failure of the Chorabari glacial lake. The next massive such glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) was of Sikkim's South Lhonak glacial lake (3 October 2023), which devastated...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 03 August 2026
Supreme Court’s former judge Justice Abhay S Oka warned that India risks losing democracy if the State continues to criminalise dissent.   The retired judge urged constitutional courts to quash such prosecutions and stop regulating or stifling free speech.   Pertinently, he said that...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 August 2026
Shares of GSM Foils Ltd hit the 20% lower circuit on the NSE SME platform on Friday after the company informed the National Stock Exchange (NSE) that its managing director (MD), Mohansingh Parmar, had sustained injuries in a firing incident and that one of its whole-time directors had been...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 July 2026
Expressing concern over the increasing number of road accidents involving stray cattle, the Supreme Court on Friday called upon the Union and state governments to strengthen enforcement of existing laws and evolve a comprehensive mechanism to prevent such incidents while providing compensation...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 July 2026
The Supreme Court has directed that no work order be issued for the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority's (MHADA) proposed cluster redevelopment project at Bandra Reclamation until 13th August, while agreeing to examine a batch of petitions challenging the redevelopment scheme...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 July 2026
At least nine people were killed after a portion of a four-storey residential building collapsed in Maharashtra's Bhiwandi late on Thursday night, while several others are feared trapped under the rubble as a massive rescue operation continues.   The incident occurred around 11.30pm when the...

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