CITIZENS' ISSUES


Mohammed Afzal 18 May 2023
Recently, in a general body meeting between Maharashtra chief minister (CM) Eknath Shinde, BrihanMumbai Municipal Corp (BMC), civic officials and elected representatives, a new policy for the management of open spaces was discussed and the same is scheduled to be finalised by the end of this...

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Akshay Naik 15 May 2023
Concerned citizens and activists from Mumbai have written to chief minister (CM) Eknath Shinde, opposing a proposed draft of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) new policy on open spaces; they have urged the CM not to hand over civic plots to private parties.    Recently,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 April 2023
Technology experts say emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and increasing use of deep fakes will make dangerous scams even more terrifying. It has already happened in Arizona, where a kidnapper cloned a girl's voice and tried to demand a ransom from her mother. That too when the girl was...

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Gursimran Kaur Bakshi (The Leaflet) 14 April 2023
A stand-up comedian has challenged the new amendment, which directs social media intermediaries to essentially censor or otherwise modify their content at the direction of the government, before the Bombay High Court on the ground that it would defeat the purpose of political satire if it...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2023
By 2031, there will be 2.4mn (million) senior citizens living independently in Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR). According to a research report, these seniors believe they need to be prepared financially, physically and emotionally to take care of themselves.   In the report,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 April 2023
The Bombay High Court (HC), while hearing a case of non-repair and non-filling of potholes on roads, asked BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to respond to the suggestion of requiring public liability insurance (PLI) during the next hearing on 8 June 2023.    In an order on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 April 2023
While various entities conduct surveillance, it is unchecked surveillance by the state that is the most significant cause for concern, and nearly two out of three respondents believe that political parties surveil citizens for electoral gains, shows a survey report.   To understand...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 March 2023
The Union government on Tuesday extended the deadline for linking a permanent account number (PAN) with an Aadhaar number to 30 June 2023.    In a release, the ministry of finance says, "To provide some more time to the taxpayers, the date for linking PAN and Aadhaar has been extended...

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MD Tasnimul Hassan  and   Prachi Tripathi (The Leaflet) 08 March 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, the world is back to travelling, and there has been a surge in air travel across the world. Recently, several Indian airports witnessed massive overcrowding, which compelled the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation (MCA) to explore options to mitigate the...

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IANS 20 February 2023
People looking for passport-related services should not fall prey to the fake websites or mobile applications targeting people online, the government warned on Monday.   It has come to the notice of the authorities that many fraudulent websites and mobile applications are collecting...

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Over the years, the traditional matchmaking process in India has gone through tremendous change. Especially after the COVID pandemic, online matchmaking appears to be making big inroads in the matrimony business. At the same time, the number of cases of matrimonial fraud is also increasing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 February 2023
A new study suggests that many Americans are playing things a little too loose online when it comes to attitudes about breakups – especially younger Americans, says a report from ConsumerAffairs.com.   According to the report, a survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Norton,...

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IANS 09 February 2023
More than a third of urban Indians have claimed that their disposable income has decreased in the last 12 months, YouGovs latest report said.   In India, more consumers report a decrease than increase in their disposable income in the past 12 months.   There is a less...

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Akshay Naik 14 January 2023
Elizabeth Dias is a 54-year-old widow, a mother of two sons and earns a living by cleaning flats and office premises for a meagre Rs6,000 per month.   She's the prime earner in their family. Her husband Anthony, was a daily wage earner who climbed coconut trees for a living and had...

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IANS 10 January 2023
The government has increased ethanol blending in petrol from 1.53 per cent in 2013-14 to 10.17 per cent in 2022 and advanced its target to achieve 20 per cent ethanol blending in petrol from 2030 to 2025-26, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri said on Tuesday.   He said that India has...

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IANS 09 January 2023
Jamtara, the city in Jharkhand that is known as the phishing capital of India, has extended its boundaries.   The maximum cyber crime cases are now being reported from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, apart from Bharatpur in Rajasthan and Mewat in Haryana.   In the past few months,...

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Ashit Kumar Srivastava  and   Siddharth Chaturvedi (The Leaflet) 01 December 2022
What is the significance of the recently published Digital Personal Data Protection Bill?   When then Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud had remarked in his judgment in the Supreme Court’s landmark right to privacy case in 2017 that “it would be appropriate to leave the matter for expert...

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IANS 16 November 2022
The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday stayed the observation of the Bombay High Court's (HC's) Nagpur bench that those who feed stray dogs must adopt them or put them up in dog shelter homes and also bear expenses for their maintenance.   A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and JK...

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Tushar Kohli (The Leaflet) 02 November 2022
An accused cannot be forced to reveal the password of his electronic devices after they are seized by an investigative agency, held a Special CBI Court in Delhi. The judge, Naresh Kumar Laka, stated that compelling an accused to do so goes against the protection from self-incrimination under...

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IANS 12 October 2022
More than one-third of children between age 8 and 17 are using various social media platforms after signing up with fake dates of birth and these platforms are unable to stop this practice, the UK's media watchdog Ofcom said on Tuesday.   The children are increasingly living their...

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