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Moneylife Digital Team 23 July 2025
India’s national highways have claimed more than 1.32 lakh lives in road accidents since 2023, according to a reply tabled in the Rajya Sabha by Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari. The government admitted that despite deploying artificial intelligence (AI)-based...

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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 finally deactivated 11.7mn (million) Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals. The announcement comes years after mounting criticism of...

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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 finally deactivated 11.7mn (million) Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals. The announcement comes years after mounting criticism of...

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Isn’t it natural that when you get your mark-sheet, you get to see your marks? Well, the internationally acclaimed Savitribai Phule University Pune (SBUP) provides only credits and grades and it is the marks ledger in which the marks are provided.   So what’s the controversy? In a bizarre...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 16 July 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday again criticised the special investigation team (SIT) set up to examine Facebook posts by Assistant Professor of Ashoka University Ali Khan Mahmudabad on Operation Sindoor (Mohammad Amir Ahmad @ Ali Khan Mahmudabad Versus State Of Haryana).   A Bench of Justices...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 July 2025
Holding that regulatory opacity cannot be shielded by procedural shortcuts, the Bombay High Court (HC) directed market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to re-examine its denial of key queries filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by activist Subhash Chandra...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 10 July 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to consider allowing Aadhaar, ration card and electoral photo identity card (EPIC card) as admissible documents to prove identity of voters in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being undertaken in...

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Presently, the central information commission (CIC) holds its hearings in a hybrid form, wherein RTI applicants and representatives of the public authorities (PA) attend either in person or virtually, but the access is restricted to journalists, civil society members and the general public...

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Presently, the central information commission (CIC) holds its hearings in a hybrid form, wherein RTI applicants and representatives of the public authorities (PA) attend either in person or virtually, but the access is restricted to journalists, civil society members and the general public...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 July 2025
A significant water leakage at the Acharya Atre Chowk metro station during a heavy downpour on 26 May 2025 led to major disruptions in Mumbai Metro services, prompting an internal investigation and the imposition of a Rs10 lakh penalty on DOGUS-SOMA JV, the contractor responsible for the...

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Bhavini Srivastava  and   Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 09 July 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition which sought directions to widen public access to the hearings of the Central Information Commission (CIC) under the Right to Information (RTI) Act (Saurav Das & Ors v CIC).   The Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar...

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Bhavini Srivastava  and   Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 09 July 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition which sought directions to widen public access to the hearings of the Central Information Commission (CIC) under the Right to Information (RTI) Act (Saurav Das & Ors v CIC).   The Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2025
Bank employees across the country will participate in the nationwide general strike on 9th July, called by major trade unions to oppose what they describe as anti-people economic policies and anti-worker labour reforms pushed by the Union government. The strike call has been given jointly by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2025
The national human rights commission (NHRC) has taken serious note of the shocking case of a fake cardiologist operating at Mission Hospital at Damoh in Madhya Pradesh (MP), where at least seven patients reportedly died following procedures carried out by the imposter. After completing its...

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After a prolonged legal battle lasting over a decade, the Bombay High Court (HC) has directed the Maharashtra government to immediately pay Rs19.44 lakh to Darshan Singh Parmar, a whistle-blower who exposed large-scale tax evasion by public sector oil companies. In a strongly worded judgement,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 July 2025
In a significant move to enhance transparency and accessibility in the judicial system, the Bombay High Court will begin live streaming its proceedings from 7 July 2025. As per a gazette notification issued by the Maharashtra government, where proceedings are not live-streamed, transcripts of...

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The central information commission (CIC), in a decision last week, has ordered that all recruited official posts in Kendriya Vidyalaya organisations must come under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and be made public by the Kendriya Vidyalaya authorities; with this case...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 02 July 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave the Central government three months' time to frame rules for providing information under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) in electronic form (Aditya Chauhan & Anr vs Union of India & Anr).    A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 02 July 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave the Central government three months' time to frame rules for providing information under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) in electronic form (Aditya Chauhan & Anr vs Union of India & Anr).    A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2025
The Bombay High Court (HC) has ordered Yes Bank to pay Rs50,000 in compensation to a private company after it wrongfully insisted on Aadhaar as a mandatory document for opening a bank account—despite the Supreme Court having struck down such a requirement.   The division bench comprising...

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