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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 17 December 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions for the recording of intersex births and deaths in the upcoming census (Gopi Shankar M v. Union of India and Ors).   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 December 2025
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended lives and healthcare systems across the country, the Supreme Court has delivered long-awaited relief to families of doctors who died while treating patients during the crisis, ruling that their kin cannot be denied insurance benefits merely because...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 15 December 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim bail to The Hindu journalist Mahesh Langa in a money laundering case.   As bail condition, the bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi restrained Langa from writing any article with...

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Nidhi Jamwal (IndiaSpend) 15 December 2025
Anita Tripura wakes up at 3.30 a.m., pulls out her teesing—a large bamboo basket with aluminium pots stacked up inside it—and marches downhill in darkness. The teesing is attached to a long cloth-band that hangs from her forehead. A flickering kerosene lamp that she holds lights up the path...

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Priya Verma (IndiaSpend) 12 December 2025
Several Indian states now provide fare-free bus travel for women, and this has a measurable impact on labour force participation, health-seeking behaviour and overall mobility, studies show.   But that is not enough. Buses and other modes of public transport are overcrowded, street sexual...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 December 2025
On the eve of Human Rights Day (10th December), more than 50 organisations and over 200 prominent individuals from across India have issued a sharply worded international warning against adopting Aadhaar-style biometric identity systems, urging governments worldwide not to be swayed by what...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 December 2025
On the eve of Human Rights Day (10th December), more than 50 organisations and over 200 prominent individuals from across India have issued a sharply worded international warning against adopting Aadhaar-style biometric identity systems, urging governments worldwide not to be swayed by what...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 December 2025
The Maharashtra government has formally accorded full legal recognition to digitally downloaded land records, allowing citizens to use online copies of 7/12 extracts, 8A records and mutation entries for all official, banking and judicial purposes. The decision, announced by the state’s revenue...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 November 2025
The Maharashtra revenue department has announced a major crackdown on fraudulent birth and death certificates, declaring that Aadhaar will no longer be accepted as a supporting document for issuing delayed birth certificates. All birth certificates issued solely on the basis of Aadhaar after...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 November 2025
The Maharashtra revenue department has announced a major crackdown on fraudulent birth and death certificates, declaring that Aadhaar will no longer be accepted as a supporting document for issuing delayed birth certificates. All birth certificates issued solely on the basis of Aadhaar after...

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In a move that resembles long-overdue damage control rather than a proactive reform, the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) has deactivated more than 20mn (million) (2 crore) Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals as part of a nationwide clean-up exercise aimed at...

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In a move that resembles long-overdue damage control rather than a proactive reform, the unique identification authority of India (UIDAI) has deactivated more than 20mn (million) (2 crore) Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals as part of a nationwide clean-up exercise aimed at...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 November 2025
In a move aimed at ending jurisdictional blame games that have repeatedly delayed relief to victims of potholes, the Bombay High Court (HC) has warned that any municipal corporations or authorities disputing who controls a road where a pothole or open manhole has caused death or injury will be...

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KBS Sidhu 24 November 2025
New Labour Laws Come into Operation On 21 November 2025, five years after the Industrial Relations Code and the Code on Social Security received presidential assent, India finally made its four Labour Codes effective. The wait was long, the path protracted, but the destination—a consolidated...

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Arna Chatterjee (Bar  and   Bench) 18 November 2025
There are both "Sita Maiyas" and "Surpanakhas" in society, former Chief Justice of India (CJI) UU Lalit recently said while speaking ahead of International Men's Day.   Justice Lalit said that discussing men’s issues should not be interpreted as compromising women's rights, but rather as an...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 November 2025
The Rajasthan High Court has penalised a son with an exemplary cost of Rs1 lakh for pursuing baseless litigation against his father over property rights—despite knowing the property was not part of a Hindu undivided family (HUF) or coparcenary but was personally owned by his father.   In a...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 17 November 2025
A group of minor schoolchildren have moved the Delhi High Court seeking directions to ensure that outdoor sports trials and tournaments for school students are not scheduled in the national capital during the peak winter pollution months of November to January (Nyasa Bedi Vs Government of...

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Adv (Dr) Prashant Mali 17 November 2025
India’s digital landscape finally has a uniform, victim-centric framework to deal with one of the most invasive online crimes of our era, the sharing of intimate images without consent. The Union ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has issued a sweeping standard operating...

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The recent Parth Pawar land grab deal created enough of a controversy to lift the veil on a larger problem. The deal involved transfer of 40 acres of government land in Pune, reserved for the scheduled caste community, to a firm linked to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s son for just Rs300...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 November 2025
A broad coalition of former administrators, jurists, urban planners, activists and citizen groups has written to the Maharashtra government seeking an immediate halt to what it calls the ‘indiscriminate monetisation’ of public land in Mumbai. The appeal is grounded in a detailed white paper (

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