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Moneylife Digital Team 21 January 2026
Canadian prime minister (PM) Mark Carney has delivered a stark assessment of the global order, declaring that the US-led rules-based system is undergoing a 'rupture' driven by intensifying great power rivalry and the weaponisation of economic integration. At the heart of Mr Carney’s message was...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 20 January 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed that it was serious about comments it made during hearings in the stray dogs case, including an earlier comment that dog feeders may be held liable for dog attacks.   This, after Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the Bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep...

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A decade and a half ago, a report of the comptroller and auditor general (CAG), claiming a huge ‘presumptive’ loss in the sale of telecom spectrum and coal blocks, ignited a nationwide movement against corruption and voted out the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Today, a series...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 January 2026
VIP (very important person) culture in India appears not only to have survived years of public criticism and judicial interventions but to have expanded further into daily civic life, with 77% of citizens saying it has either remained intact or increased over the past three years, according to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 January 2026
The 2026 BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections may have produced a clear political outcome, but a closer look at the numbers tells a more complicated story. Beneath the decisive mandate lies a visible strand of voter unease, reflected in the fact that over 100,000 Mumbaikars chose...

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As the financial capital of Mumbai prepares for its upcoming municipal elections, the political discourse in Maharashtra is increasingly defined by a dual narrative. On the one hand, the ruling coalition is promoting a set of modern infrastructure achievements designed to improve the quality of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2026
As Maharashtra inches towards long-delayed civic body elections, the Bombay High Court (HC) has emerged as an unlikely, but central, arena where political anxieties, administrative decisions and constitutional principles collide. With polling for 29 municipal corporations completed and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
The high-stakes BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on Thursday are overshadowed by controversy, after several voters reported that the ink applied to their fingers after voting could be easily wiped off, triggering sharp political reactions and prompting the authorities to order...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on a plea seeking permission for passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, a man who has been in a permanent vegetative state for more than 13 years following a severe traumatic brain injury.   A bench of justice JB Pardiwala and justice KV...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
Facing mounting global backlash, regulatory scrutiny and government pressure, Elon Musk-led social media platform X has disabled key image generation features of its AI chatbot Grok, following widespread misuse of the tool to create sexualised and non-consensual images of women and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
A fresh set of replies received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by transparency campaigner commodore (Cmde) Lokesh Batra (retd) has raised new questions over who ultimately bore the cost of printing high-value electoral bonds after the Supreme Court struck down the scheme in February...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
A fresh set of replies received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by transparency campaigner commodore (Cmde) Lokesh Batra (retd) has raised new questions over who ultimately bore the cost of printing high-value electoral bonds after the Supreme Court struck down the scheme in February...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2026
The Delhi High Court (HC) has observed that even if the PM CARES Fund is managed, supervised or controlled by the government, it does not automatically lose its right to privacy under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The court underlined that statutory privacy protections available to third...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2026
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday issued a stern warning to state governments over the rising number of stray dog attacks, signalling that it may direct them to pay 'heavy compensation' in cases involving dog bites, deaths or serious injuries, particularly to children and the elderly. The apex...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 January 2026
BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has refused sanction in an overwhelming majority of corruption complaints referred to it over the past several years, effectively preventing even preliminary anti-corruption inquiries against its officers, reveals a reply received under the Right to...

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Chandramouli Mohan 12 January 2026
India's Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers ordinary citizens to demand transparency from government bodies and public authorities. However, the central information commission (CIC)—the final watchdog for RTI appeals—now drowns under 32,232 pending cases as of January 2026. This includes...

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Chandramouli Mohan 12 January 2026
India's Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers ordinary citizens to demand transparency from government bodies and public authorities. However, the central information commission (CIC)—the final watchdog for RTI appeals—now drowns under 32,232 pending cases as of January 2026. This includes...

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Indore has been celebrated as India's cleanest city for eight consecutive years. In December 2025, this reputation was shattered when contaminated sewage killed at least 10 residents and 270 others fell ill, a result of sheer negligence.   Activists say that the Madhya Pradesh pollution...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 January 2026
“We need to become a generation that asks questions; only then can we change the country.” That was the message engineer and civic activist Chaitanya Patil left the audience with at the Press Club of Mumbai on Wednesday, where he was felicitated for his Rasta Satyagraha—a 29-day, 490-kilometre...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 08 January 2026
The Madras High Court recently held that a celebrity’s personality rights cannot be used to secure a blanket gag order at the interim stage, especially without prima facie material showing commercial exploitation. (T Rangaraj v. Joy Crizildaa.)   Justice N Senthilkumar dismissed applications...

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