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Moneylife Digital Team 27 March 2026
The Indian government has sharply reduced excise duties on petrol and diesel, bringing petrol duty down to ₹3 per litre and fully exempting diesel, in a move aimed at cushioning oil marketing companies (OMCs) from the impact of surging global crude oil prices triggered by the ongoing Middle...

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Bar  and   Bench 27 March 2026
The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained both the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Trust and former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh from publishing or republishing alleged defamatory material against each other in media (Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Trust and Ors. v. Param Bir...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 March 2026
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has entered a new phase of blockbuster valuations, with two major franchise sales, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), together commanding over US$3.4bn (billion) or around ₹31,000 crore, signalling surging global investor appetite for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 March 2026
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Tuesday raised serious concerns over the impact of the ongoing West Asia conflict on India’s energy security, trade routes and the safety of Indian nationals, stating that several Indian crew members remain stranded in the strategically critical Strait of...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 24 March 2026
Only persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist faiths can claim Scheduled Caste status and conversion to any other faith like Christianity will result in the converted person losing Scheduled Caste status, the Supreme Court held on Tuesday.   Thus, a Dalit person who converts to...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 23 March 2026
The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court initiated 23 public interest litigation (PILs) on its own in the first 11 weeks of 2026 based on news reports and letters from lawyers.    This already exceeds the 18 suo motu PILs initiated by it in the whole of 2025.   Justice Anil S Kilor has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2026
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Monday cautioned that the ongoing conflict in West Asia is likely to have prolonged global and domestic consequences, urging the country to remain united, vigilant and prepared to deal with emerging challenges. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the PM says the...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 23 March 2026
In an order which could have significant ramifications, the Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to conduct a comprehensive verification of all persons engaged in hawking activities across Mumbai including those alleged to be foreign nationals or...

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Karthik Madhavapeddi (IndiaSpend) 23 March 2026
Coffee farmer Vanthala Raju was 21 when he applied to get his rights over forest land recognised in 2014. It took two years for an official to acknowledge his application, four more for processing. Throughout this period, he faced harassment from authorities.   Changing climate has affected...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to halt the removal of over 45,000 mangrove trees for the proposed Versova-Bhayandar Coastal Road in Mumbai, refusing to interfere with a Bombay High Court order that granted permission for the project subject to conditions including mandatory annual status...

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Sometime back, the newspapers carried a photograph of a new highway road of four lanes, which then gets narrowed to two lanes, when it comes to a long bridge across the river. This causes endless chaos when the traffic from four lanes gets to the narrow start of the bridge. How could such a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a fundamental constitutional question, whether the directorate of enforcement (ED), as a department of the Union government rather than an independent legal entity, can file a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution against a state, after...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 18 March 2026
A Delhi court recently returned the 2016 chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Antrix-Devas corruption case on finding that the court did not have the territorial jurisdiction to deal with the matter (CBI v. KRS Murthi & Ors).   Special Judge (CBI) Atul Krishna...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 March 2026
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court (HC) has refused to quash a corruption case against an advocate accused of persuading his client to pay a bribe to police officers, holding that the legal profession carries a high ethical responsibility and cannot be used to exploit clients.   In a

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 14 March 2026
The Central government has revoked the detention of Ladakh-based climate activist Sonam Wangchuk under the National Security Act (NSA).   In a statement issued on Saturday, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the decision was taken after considering the need to foster “an environment of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 March 2026
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports highlighting the increasing number of missing persons and the low rate of tracing them in several states, raising serious concerns about possible human rights violations.   In a statement, the...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 13 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the creamy layer status among Other Backward Classes (OBCs) cannot be determined solely on the basis of parental income.   A Bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan made the observation while dismissing a batch of appeals filed by the Union...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 March 2026
In a sharply worded letter to cabinet secretary TV Somanathan, former secretary to the government of India EAS Sarma has demanded a forensic audit and investigation by central bureau of investigation (CBI) and directorate of enforcement (ED) into the Polavaram multipurpose irrigation project in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 March 2026
Issuing a pointed warning about India's energy security, Congress leader and leader of opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Thursday told the Lok Sabha that India faces a deepening energy security crisis rooted in what he called flawed foreign policy decisions. He alleged that the government had...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 March 2026
National Conference president and Jammu and Kashmir's former chief minister (CM) Farooq Abdullah narrowly escaped assassination on Wednesday night when a gunman opened fire on him at point-blank range as he was leaving a marriage function at Royal Park in Greater Kailash on the outskirts of...

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