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Moneylife Digital Team 24 November 2025
Veteran Bollywood legend Dharmendra, one of Indian cinema’s most adored and enduring stars, passed away on Monday at the age of 89.    Dharmendra had been in fragile health for weeks. He was admitted to Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai on 10th November and was said to be critical and on life...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 November 2025
The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that the assignment of a decree for specific performance does not require registration under the Indian Registration Act, 1908, since such a decree does not create or transfer any right or interest in immovable property. Delivering judgment in Rajeswari & Ors vs...

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KBS Sidhu 21 November 2025
When the apex court reviews its own decision: The environmental clearance paradox   On 18 November 2025, the Supreme Court (SC) of India did something unusual: it recalled its own six-month-old judgment. By a 2:1 majority, a bench comprising chief justice BR Gavai and justice K Vinod Chandran...

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KBS Sidhu 21 November 2025
The grim arithmetic of Punjab’s paddy Punjab’s paddy fields look lush on the surface, but the numbers beneath tell a brutal story. In the 2025–26 Kharif season, paddy procurement has fallen to about 156 lakh tonnes, the lowest in nine years. This compares sharply with 175 lakh tonnes in...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 20 November 2025
In a judgment that could reignite the debate surrounding federalism and Governor's role in State affairs, the Supreme Court on Thursday held that the directions in its April 8 judgment that set timelines for Governors and the President to grant assent to bills passed by legislatures are...

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Bar  and   Bench 20 November 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) to prepare a Management Plan for Sustainable Mining (MPSM) for the Aravalli hills and ranges.   Aravalli range spans across Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat.    In May 2024, the top...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 19 November 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the provisions of the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 on appointment and tenure of tribunal members, for being violative of its earlier judgments on the issue.   The Bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice Vinod Chandran said that the provisions earlier struck down...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 November 2025
The Editors Guild of India (EGI) has voiced strong concern over the government’s newly-notified Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, warning that the lack of clarity in the regulatory framework could place journalists and news organisations at risk of onerous compliance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2025
Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), India’s newest greenfield airport, will begin commercial operations on 25 December 2025, marking a major expansion of aviation capacity in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The airport will launch with 23 scheduled daily departures during its...

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Arna Chatterjee (Bar  and   Bench) 18 November 2025
There are both "Sita Maiyas" and "Surpanakhas" in society, former Chief Justice of India (CJI) UU Lalit recently said while speaking ahead of International Men's Day.   Justice Lalit said that discussing men’s issues should not be interpreted as compromising women's rights, but rather as an...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 18 November 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived the legal mechanism that permitted retrospective grant of environmental clearances (EC) for projects that had commenced or expanded without prior approvals under the 2006 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) notification.   The Court allowed a review...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 November 2025
Eight prominent municipal corporations in Gujarat managing more than Rs2 lakh crore in public funds have not undergone audits for multiple years, reveals a report from The New Indian Express, based on information obtained using the Right to Information (RTI) Act.   The revelation highlights...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 17 November 2025
A group of minor schoolchildren have moved the Delhi High Court seeking directions to ensure that outdoor sports trials and tournaments for school students are not scheduled in the national capital during the peak winter pollution months of November to January (Nyasa Bedi Vs Government of...

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Prachi Salve  and   Geeta Kashyap (IndiaSpend) 17 November 2025
In March 2025, the Ministry of Railways had stated that most of its divisions maintain “over 90% punctuality”. Behind the headline figure lies the everyday reality of passengers, with the punctuality index actually declining. Reliance on diesel locomotives, signal failures and congestion lead...

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The recent Parth Pawar land grab deal created enough of a controversy to lift the veil on a larger problem. The deal involved transfer of 40 acres of government land in Pune, reserved for the scheduled caste community, to a firm linked to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s son for just Rs300...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 14 November 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday transferred commercial dispute pending before the Chennai bench of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) to Principal Bench in Delhi after a judicial member of the Chennai Bench alleged that he was approached by a retired High Court judge to favour one of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 November 2025
A broad coalition of former administrators, jurists, urban planners, activists and citizen groups has written to the Maharashtra government seeking an immediate halt to what it calls the ‘indiscriminate monetisation’ of public land in Mumbai. The appeal is grounded in a detailed white paper (

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 November 2025
In a landmark judgement strengthening environmental protection across the country, the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday prohibited all mining activities within one kilometre of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, declaring that such operations are hazardous to wildlife and ecological...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 13 November 2025
India’s coastal cities face an increasing risk of flooding, driven by a warming world and the now-frequent extreme weather events. While some cities are at a higher risk, this imperils the lives, livelihoods and critical infrastructure across the cities.   Globally, the mean sea level has...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 November 2025
In a significant development marking both continuity and renewal within the Tata Trusts, the board of trustees of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) on Tuesday inducted Neville Tata, son of Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata, and veteran Tata group leader Bhaskar Bhat, as trustees for the next three...

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