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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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Varsha Torgalkar (IndiaSpend) 17 January 2025
It was the first day of Diwali, and Rupali Hukire (name changed), a 42-year-old beautician, hurriedly cleaned big buckets and steel pots. She draws water from her neighbour's borewell at a cost of Rs100 for 30 minutes of pumping. Though her home, in Khandavi village in the Barshi tehsil of...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 16 January 2025
The indefinite strike by 156 contractual and outsourced staff members of the Mumbai Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) entered its third day on Thursday, with employees citing extreme financial hardships due to delayed salaries.   The employees have alleged that have not...

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Sofi Ahsan (Bar  and   Bench) 15 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rebuked the Central government and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for making arguments contrary to the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to oppose bail petitions of accused.   The Court said that such a stance of the government showed its...

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Suhail Bhat (IndiaSpend) 14 January 2025
"It was a moment of panic for the tourists," says Fayaz Ahmad, the head clerk of Shalimar Garden, recalling the incident when a 300-year-old Chinar tree toppled over in September 2024. "Fortunately, there was no physical damage to anyone."   That is the period when the leaves of the...

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Bar  and   Bench 13 January 2025
Senior Advocate Iqbal Chagla passed away on Sunday.   A leading advocate at the Bombay High Court, Chagla was the son of legendary Indian jurist and former Bombay High Court Chief Justice MC Chagla.    Chagla also served as the president of the Bombay Bar Association thrice.   He started...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2025
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chairman SN Subrahmanyan ignited a heated debate after suggesting that employees should work 90 hours a week, including Sundays, to remain competitive. His remarks, shared in a video message to employees, have drawn widespread criticism on social media. Not long ago,...

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Against the backdrop of news of serious allegations against National Museum officials about the handling and movement of priceless antiquities against the directives of the Union ministry of culture; alleged smuggling of artifacts and its officers allegedly travelling on personal passports...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 January 2025
The Maharashtra Cabinet has decided to make toll collection through FASTag mandatory from 1 April 2025. The Cabinet also announced revisions in the rules of business to streamline administrative processes for toll collection through FASTag.   A proposal submitted by the public works...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 08 January 2025
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawale, accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case.   A Bench of Justice AS Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata granted bail citing prolonged incarceration, the non-framing of charges and the fact that over 300...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 January 2025
The Supreme Court collegium has recommended transfers of justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya as chief justice of the Delhi High Court (HC) and justice Alok Aradhe as chief justice of the Bombay High Court. At present, justice Upadhyaya is the chief justice of the Bombay HC, while justice Aradhe is...

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It is perhaps fitting that we are starting 2025, which marks the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, with serious introspection, triggered by the passing of former prime minister (PM) Manmohan Singh in India and President Jimmy Carter in the United States, at the age of 91 and 100,...

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