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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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Moneylife Digital Team 08 January 2026
The Bombay High Court (HC) has begun examining whether voters can be denied the ‘none of the above’ (NOTA) option in local body elections where candidates are declared elected unopposed, a question that goes to the heart of voter dissent and electoral fairness.   A division bench on Tuesday...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 07 January 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday flagged the increasing number of dog bite incidents in the country and called out the municipal authorities and other local bodies for their failure to implement the Animal Birth Control (ABC) rules [In Re: “City Hounded By Strays, Kids Pay Price” Versus The State...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 29 December 2025
Mumbai: As 2025 draws to a close, India’s environmental story was defined by policies pulling in opposite directions and citizens taking to the streets—from protests against air pollution in the National Capital Region to the protest to save the trees in Nashik’s Tapovan. Meanwhile, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2025
In a significant shift to India’s inheritance and succession framework, Parliament has removed a long-standing legal hurdle that made probate mandatory for certain wills in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. The change comes through the Repealing and Amending Act, 2025, which received the president’s...

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KBS Sidhu 26 December 2025
Mandatory Probate Is Gone. Has Succession Really Become Simpler? In December 2025, Parliament removed Section 213 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925. In popular telling, this “makes probate optional” and clears away an old procedural burden. That is partly true. But it risks being...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2025
A fresh first appeal filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has once again brought scrutiny on the management of government bungalows located in the Lutyens bungalow zone (LBZ) of New Delhi, raising questions over illegal retention of official residences, allotments to private trusts,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2025
In a sweeping move aimed at long-term ecological conservation, the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF&CC) has directed all concerned States to impose a complete ban on the grant of any new mining leases across the entire Aravalli Range, stretching from the National...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 24 December 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said that an urgent meeting of the Goods and Services Tax Council (GST Council) should be convened to consider the issue of classifying air-purifiers as 'medical device' and slashing the GST levied on them from 18 to 5 percent (Kapil Madan vs Union of India &...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 December 2025
This article is the fourth and final part in a multi-part series examining the condition of the Mumbai–Goa National Highway (NH-66), based on field documentation and Right to Information (RTI) data gathered by engineer and activist Chaitanya Patil, along with representations submitted to...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 23 December 2025
The Bombay High Court today expressed concerns over rising air pollution and unsafe conditions at construction sites in Mumbai, warning that the city could face an air quality crisis like Delhi if authorities fail to act decisively (High Court of Judicature at Bombay on its own motion).   A...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 December 2025
This article is the third in a multi-part series examining the condition of the Mumbai–Goa National Highway (NH-66), based on field documentation and Right to Information (RTI) data gathered by engineer and activist Chaitanya Patil, along with representations submitted to authorities.   After...

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