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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 31 December 2024
The Bombay High Court will implement new video conferencing rules for court hearings in Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli starting December 29.   A notification to that effect was published in the gazette on December 19.    The new rules...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 30 December 2024
Sixteen critical government datasets are delayed, and nine Union ministries have not released their annual reports--some of them for several years. The Census of India is now three years overdue.   The delay is spread across government datasets spanning multiple sectors including health,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 December 2024
Dr. Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India, a visionary economist, and the architect of modern India’s economic reforms, passed away last night at the age of 92. Born on September 26, 1932, in Gah, now in Pakistan, Dr. Singh rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 December 2024
The Finance Ministry's monthly economic review blames the combination of Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) tight monetary policy stance and macroprudential measures as responsible for the current demand slowdown. India’s GDP growth slowed to a near two-year low of 5.4% in the July-September...

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 24 December 2024
Bengaluru: India’s prison overcrowding is a persistent problem. While there have been multiple Supreme Court orders to ensure prisoners are released on bail without onerous conditions, and the government has recently launched a scheme to support bail for poor prisoners, there are still around

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 24 December 2024
Bengaluru: India’s prison overcrowding is a persistent problem. While there have been multiple Supreme Court orders to ensure prisoners are released on bail without onerous conditions, and the government has recently launched a scheme to support bail for poor prisoners, there are still around

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In the mid-1990s, when Indian corporates were struggling to handle an economic slowdown and high interest rates, I had developed a simple rule of thumb to filter high-quality companies: Does the company earn a significant part of its revenues from exports? The logic behind this was...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 December 2024
Shirish B Patel, a distinguished Indian civil engineer and urban planner, passed away in Mumbai on December 20, 2024, at the age of 92. His visionary work and unwavering commitment to sustainable urban development have left an indelible mark on Mumbai's landscape.   Born in 1932, Mr Patel's...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2024
The waylaying and robbing of a trader carrying Rs20 lakh by a four-member gang on Tuesday turned sensational on Wednesday as the culprits were identified as three serving income-tax (I-T) inspectors and a sub-inspector attached to Triplicane police station. All the arrested I-T inspectors...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 17 December 2024
A practicing advocate cannot work as a journalist on the side, since there are rules prohibiting such dual roles for lawyers, the Bar Council of India (BCI) informed the Supreme Court on Monday (Mohd Kamran vs State of Uttar Pradesh and anr).   The Court had earlier sought the BCI's input on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 December 2024
Zakir Hussain, one of the most transcendent and influential musicians of our time, has passed away at the age of 73 after a battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Ustad Zakir Hussain, known for his extraordinary mastery of the tabla, passed away in San Francisco, surrounded by...

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Bar  and   Bench 12 December 2024
In a significant order, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed trial courts across the country to not pass any effective orders or surveys against existing religious structures in suits filed disputing the religious character of such structures.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI)...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 11 December 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern over the rampant misuse of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which penalises cruelty by husbands and their relatives against married women (Dara Lakshmi Narayana and Others v. State of Telangana and Another).   A Bench of Justice BV...

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Shashwat Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 11 December 2024
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal has called for the impeachment of the Allahabad High Court judge Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav over his recent remarks against Muslim community. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has taken note of the controversial remarks made by Justice Yadav on 8th December at an event...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 December 2024
Hundreds of workers under the aegis of NREGA Sangharsh Morcha held a two-day dharna at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. They sent a letter to Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the Union minister for rural development (MoRD), to counter claims of the ministry about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 04 December 2024
The Supreme Court has imposed costs of Rs50,000 on the Central government for challenging the grant of Liberalized Family Pension to the widow of an Army soldier who had died in harness in 2013 due to cardiac arrest during an operational activity close to the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 December 2024
A person allegedly associated with the radical Sikh outfit Dal Khalsa opened fire at Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal at the entrance of the Golden Temple in Amritsar while the former deputy chief minister (CM) was on a 'punishment' guard duty. The assailant was...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 02 December 2024
Last week, the Bombay High Court imposed a Rs5 lakh cost on a litigant for filing a frivolous writ petition that wasted over two and a half hours of the court's time (GB Industries Reg. Partnership v Minakshi Balasao Magdum and Ors).   The Bench, comprising Justices GS Kulkarni and Advait M...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 November 2024
Almost 28% of the grains supplied by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state governments never reach the intended beneficiaries, which amounts to a financial loss of about Rs69,108 crore, equivalent to roughly 20mn (million) metric tonnes (MMT) of rice and wheat. North-eastern states...

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Continuing what we said in a previous article on the subject, once we know the market segment for the non-profit organisation (NPO), in terms of social class, income groups, geography, sex, age and education, we can more effectively direct our promotion, advertising and personal selling to this...

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