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Over 20 years ago, I had written an article in AmarUjala, the popular newspaper in North India and I remembered this when I was reading the headlines in the Times of India (ToI) on 22 March 2025.    What do these headlines say? The same things - a Supreme Court judge has been caught with...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 June 2025
In a significant step towards judicial transparency and accessibility, Bombay High Court (HC) chief justice Alok Aradhe announced on Tuesday that live-streaming of court proceedings will soon commence from five designated benches. The decision follows a resolution passed by the full court, and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2025
In a tragic reminder of the daily dangers faced by Mumbai’s suburban rail commuters, five people were killed and eight others injured after falling off two overcrowded local trains during the morning rush hour between Diva and Kopar railway stations in Thane district on Monday.   The incident...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 06 June 2025
Transfer of biometric database compromises the sovereignty of nations in South Asia. The spectre of an authoritarian, vindictive, surveillance state thus continues looming large over India.     - Dr Shashi Tharoor, chairperson, parliamentary standing committee on external affairs in Our...

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Meera Emmanuel (Bar  and   Bench) 03 June 2025
The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld the regulations introduced in Tamil Nadu to limit the number of hours one can play online rummy, poker and other similar games which use real money for rewards (Play Games 24x7 Private Limited and ors v. State of Tamil Nadu and ors.). The regulations bar...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 03 June 2025
In September 2024, a 38-year-old woman consulted Narendra Kotwal, director of endocrinology at Paras Health, Panchkula. She reported persistent fatigue, difficulty falling asleep, irregular menstrual cycles, mood disturbances such as irritability and low mood, and had gained 5 kg over six...

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Prachi Salve  and   Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 30 May 2025
Even as 33% more deaths were registered in 2021 (10.2 million), as compared to 7.6 million registered deaths in 2019, the percentage of medically certified deaths has only risen from 21% in 2019 to 23%, as per the latest data from the Registrar General of India. In absolute terms, medically...

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Tanvi Deshpande  and   Mithilesh Dhar Dubey (IndiaSpend) 28 May 2025
In a year when India braced for blistering heat waves, May 2025 unleashed unprecedented rainfall activity, catching the country off guard with almost double or 85.7% more rainfall than usual. In fact, central India has seen five times the usual rainfall this month (by May 27) and south India...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2025
The Maharashtra Cabinet has approved the state housing policy 2025, marking the state’s first comprehensive housing roadmap in nearly two decades. The policy, cleared on 20 May 2025, sets ambitious targets to address the state’s growing urban housing demands and lays emphasis on affordable,...

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Dimple Behal  and   Chirag Patel (IndiaSpend) 22 May 2025
Indian cities and towns produce about 72,368 million litres of sewage per day (MLD)--enough to fill 30,000 Olympic-size swimming pools--but has the operational capacity to treat only 37% of it, and actually treats only 28%. Even the sewage treatment plants India has are often unable to cope...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 May 2025
In a significant step towards streamlining responses to cyber financial crimes, the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) has rolled out a pilot of the e-Zero first information report (FIR) initiative in Delhi. The system enables the automatic conversion of cybercrime complaints—specifically...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 19 May 2025
The Supreme Court on 16 May 2025 restrained the Central government from issuing any notification, circular, orders etc. that could allow the retrospective grant of environmental clearance to development projects that could pollute the environment (Vanashakti vs. Union of India).   The Bench...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 May 2025
In a significant ruling aimed at curbing urban encroachment on ecologically sensitive land, the Supreme Court has directed the authorities in Maharashtra to take back 11.86 acres of forest land in Kondhwa, Pune, currently occupied by the Purohit Hills Cooperative Housing Society (CHS). In his...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 16 May 2025
The Supreme Court recently acquitted a man in a 26-year-old dowry and cruelty case, while raising concerns about the misuse of Section 498A (cruelty to married woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, in matrimonial disputes (Rajesh Chaddha vs. State of Uttar...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 15 May 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday emphasised that the right to use footpaths without obstruction is an essential part of the fundamental right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. (S Rajaseekaran v. Union of India & Ors).   A Bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan...

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In what can be termed as the height of bureaucratic apathy, veteran journalist and RTI activist Dr Shahid Raza Burney has slammed Maharashtra’s Maha IT department and the general administration department (GAD) for a massive failure in the processing of his 49 Right to Information (RTI)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 May 2025
India recorded a staggering 10.22mn (million) registered deaths in 2021, marking a 25.9% increase over the 8.12mn deaths reported in 2020, according to the latest report published by the office of the registrar general & census commissioner of India (ORGI). This rise of over 1.97mn additional...

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In an era of constant connectivity and rapid information exchange, the age-old tactic of war-mongering has found a new ally: digital misinformation. From the devastated cities of Ukraine to the embattled streets of Gaza, and the tense borders between India and Pakistan, conflict today is not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 May 2025
The Union government has notified a cashless treatment scheme for road accident victims nationwide. Under this scheme, road accident victims are entitled to cashless treatment for a maximum of Rs1.5 lakh per accident per person. Just last week, the Supreme Court pulled up the secretary of the...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 05 May 2025
On April 30, Mumbai was not having an unusually hot day at 33.9 degrees Celsius if we only go by the mercury. But with 69% humidity, the impact felt on the human body was as good as 46 degrees. And this wasn’t even the hottest day of the season. In comparison, the ‘felt temperature’ in...

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