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Moneylife Digital Team 14 August 2026
The Delhi High Court has expressed serious concern over large quantities of critical medical equipment lying unused across 26 government hospitals in the national capital, including 400 ventilators and 910 oxygen concentrators at Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital.   A division bench of Prathiba...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 13 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a Rajasthan High Court direction requiring a government school teacher who lost ₹20 lakh in a cyber fraud to bear the cost of the police investigation.   A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran was hearing a plea by the teacher challenging...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 August 2026
India's public healthcare system faces a serious capacity and affordability challenge, with government hospitals having only 0.79 beds per 1,000 population, while treatment in private hospitals can cost eight to 15 times more than in government facilities, a parliamentary standing committee on...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 07 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday observed that a careful balance would have to be struck between citizens' right to information and the fundamental right to privacy while examining changes made to the Right to Information (RTI) Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.   A Bench...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 07 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday observed that a careful balance would have to be struck between citizens' right to information and the fundamental right to privacy while examining changes made to the Right to Information (RTI) Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.   A Bench...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 August 2026
Parliament on Tuesday passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026, paving the way for stricter norms governing the delayed registration of births and deaths to curb misuse and encourage the timely reporting of such events.   The Bill was approved by the Rajya Sabha...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 July 2026
Expressing concern over the increasing number of road accidents involving stray cattle, the Supreme Court on Friday called upon the Union and state governments to strengthen enforcement of existing laws and evolve a comprehensive mechanism to prevent such incidents while providing compensation...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 31 July 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a 2007 order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) declaring the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) a public authority under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act). (National Stock Exchange vs. CIC).   A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 July 2026
The Union government has proposed tightening the process for delayed registration of births and deaths by requiring approval from a first-class judicial magistrate for registrations made more than two years after the event, according to the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 July 2026
In a major rollback of police action against students and youth protesting the alleged National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) undergraduate (UG) question paper leak, the governments of Assam and Bihar have announced the withdrawal of criminal cases registered during the demonstrations...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 27 July 2026
Right to hold peaceful protests is guaranteed under law and police excesses on such agitations cannot be justified, the Supreme Court orally remarked on Monday (Shailendra Mani Tripathi vs. Union of India and Ors).   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya...

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Last week, this column talked about falling bridges – especially in Bihar—and India’s crumbling infrastructure. Almost immediately after, the Times of India reported on an even more surreal example of wasteful planning — a ghost railway station. Even Harry Potter’s Hogwarts restricted its magic...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 July 2026
The Indian government on Thursday unveiled a series of measures as the standoff over recurring examination paper leaks deepened in the national capital, with prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi announcing the setting up of fast-track courts to ensure swift punishment for those involved in...

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Pratik Patnaik (The Leaflet) 23 July 2026
When the people gathered at Jantar Mantar this Monday, fasting and chanting and holding copies of the Indian Constitution above their heads to demand that a Union minister answer for a leaked examination that had upended a generation, the Government of India had a tidy explanation for why they...

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India has never invested more heavily in infrastructure than in the past decade. Highways, expressways, airports, tunnels, bridges and ports have been built at record speed. These have been showcased through drone footage, glossy videos and high-profile inaugurations as proof that the world’s...

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For nearly 25 years, Nina Foundation has worked with thousands of people living with spinal cord injuries (SCI), helping them rebuild their lives through rehabilitation, counselling and access to assistive devices. Run entirely by spinal cord injury survivors, the Foundation has supported more...

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Giti Pratap (Bar  and   Bench) 15 July 2026
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday remarked that furnishing Aadhaar details should not prima facie be mandatory for registering on the DigiYatra platform [CR Neelakandan v. Union of India & Ors.].   A Division Bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar VM made the observation...

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KBS Sidhu 14 July 2026
Regular readers of this series — Don’t Wait for the BLO to Knock Twice, SIR Process Creates a Stir, and most recently Who’s Afraid of the SIR?, in which ? urged every voter left off the BLO’s list to walk into a voter service centre and file Form 6 themselves — will recall that I have...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 July 2026
The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) has flagged serious financial irregularities in the implementation of the Maharashtra government's flagship Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, pointing to excess expenditure of ₹3,541.16 crore, poor budget estimation, weak financial controls and the...

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Sixteen years. That is how long the National Stock Exchange (NSE) has fought to avoid being held directly accountable under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Last week, the Delhi High Court finally dealt a decisive blow to that resistance, dismissing the Exchange's appeal and affirming that...

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