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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has come under fire, for the third time now, by the Bombay High Court (HC), for failing to fulfil its constitutional duty under Article 21, which guarantees the fundamental right to life and personal liberty, as well as for its lack of response to multiple...

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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has come under fire, for the third time now, by the Bombay High Court (HC), for failing to fulfil its constitutional duty under Article 21, which guarantees the fundamental right to life and personal liberty, as well as for its lack of response to multiple...

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Giti Pratap (Bar  and   Bench) 19 February 2025
Amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that a concerning level of faecal coliform, an indicator of sewage contamination, was found in the river water in which Kumbh Mela pilgrims bathe.   The...

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Pooja Dash (IndiaSpend) 17 February 2025
In the Union Budget of 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government would provide internet connectivity to all secondary schools and public health centres in the country. But as of January 2025, through the government’s BharatNet programme, only 1.99 lakh villages out...

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India’s megacities—Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Pune—are all suffocating under the weight of their own success. Poor infrastructure, unplanned development, inadequate roads, crumbling public transport, massive traffic congestion, high pollution levels and rampant corruption...

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In November 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that for a fire insurance claim, if the insurer is not found to be responsible for starting the fire, then identifying the precise cause of the fire is not necessary. Since then, the insurance companies are under obligation to uphold the insurer’s terms...

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The Leaflet 12 February 2025
Last week, a two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Abhay S. Oka and N. Kotiswar Singh handed down an important decision regarding the furnishing of grounds of arrest to accused.    The Bench observed that informing the detained person of the grounds of arrest is not a...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 11 February 2025
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked Right to Information (RTI) activist Neeraj Sharma whether any public interest was involved in his request under the RTI Act for records of students who had cleared the Bachelor of Arts (BA) course from Delhi University (DU) in 1978, the year in which Prime...

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Meera Emmanuel (Bar  and   Bench) 10 February 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the assistance of Attorney General (AG) R Venkataramani on a plea seeking a permanent ban on those convicted of criminal offences from contesting elections to the parliament and State assemblies.    The Court was hearing an interim application (IA) filed by...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 07 February 2025
In the context of 'promoting ease of living of residents' of India, “India Digital Financial Inclusion: Journey Map Report” (March 2019) by Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) refers to the Aadhaar and...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 07 February 2025
In the context of 'promoting ease of living of residents' of India, “India Digital Financial Inclusion: Journey Map Report” (March 2019) by Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) refers to the Aadhaar and...

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After a long time, I came across the third edition of the book The 80/20 Principle written by Richard Koch. The strapline to the title is “The secret to achieving more with less”. I have always loved this book and I tried to tie up the ideas here with what I had learnt from Steven Covey, who...

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Recently, a central information commissioner slammed the two central public information officers (CPIOs) of a Defence Sainik School in Delhi with a show-cause notice on why they should not be penalised for lazing over providing information for three long years and ordered them to provide the...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 04 February 2025
The Aadhaar Act disallows an individual access to the biometric information that forms the core of her unique ID (Aadhaar). The lack of access is problematic for the following reasons: First, verification of whether the biometrics have been recorded correctly or not in the first place is not...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 04 February 2025
The Aadhaar Act disallows an individual access to the biometric information that forms the core of her unique ID (Aadhaar). The lack of access is problematic for the following reasons: First, verification of whether the biometrics have been recorded correctly or not in the first place is not...

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Bar  and   Bench 03 February 2025
The Karnataka government has ordered the establishment of medical boards in state hospitals to process requests for dignified deaths through execution of living wills of terminally ill patients, Indian Express reported.    This decision follows a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that recognized the...

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Avani Kapur  and   Sharad Pandey (IndiaSpend) 03 February 2025
The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday comes at a time when India faces the challenge of balancing economic growth with inclusive social development. While debates often centre on fiscal deficit targets, capital investments, and tax reforms, the social...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 February 2025
The focus on Bihar was so intense in Union finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget speech that social media, particularly X (formerly Twitter), erupted with memes. Some even went to the extent of calling it the 'Bihar Budget' rather than the Indian Budget. So, the question arises—did...

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Dr Brajesh Kumar Tiwari 31 January 2025
Finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman will present her eighth consecutive Union Budget on 1 February 2025. This will be the first full Budget of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-3 government for the financial year (FY)25-26.    Broadly, there are two categories of taxes: direct and...

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Shreehari Paliath (IndiaSpend) 29 January 2025
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government will present the second full budget of its third successive term in office, amidst concerns of a slowdown of the economy based on government estimates.   The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme...

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