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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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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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Bar  and   Bench 12 November 2025
The Allahabad High Court recently stressed that the authorities, particularly the police, must ensure that the verification required for the issuance of passports is completed within a month (Rahimuddin Vs. Union Of India And Another).   Taking note of the timeline - 30 working days for new...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 November 2025
A powerful explosion near Delhi's Red Fort Metro Station on Monday evening killed at least 10 people and left 24 others injured, sending shockwaves across the capital and prompting a nationwide security alert. The high-intensity blast, which tore through parked cars near gate no1 of the metro...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 10 November 2025
Indian roads are increasingly becoming more dangerous for its most vulnerable users, an IndiaSpend analysis of national data shows. In a decade to 2023, road accident deaths increased 24% to about 173,000, but pedestrian deaths nearly tripled, those of two-wheeler riders nearly doubled, and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2025
The Supreme Court (SC) has ended a tenancy dispute that spanned more than seven decades, ruling in favour of landlord Jyoti Sharma in her eviction suit against tenants Vishnu Goyal and others. In its judgement on 11 September 2025, the bench comprising justice JK Maheshwari and justice K Vinod...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 07 November 2025
The Supreme Court recently directed all Motor Accident Claims Tribunals and High Courts across the country not to reject compensation claims of road accident victims on the ground of delay in filing such petitions [ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd. vs. Ayiti Navaneetha & Ors.].    A...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 07 November 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the State governments and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to ensure removal of stray animals from the highways across India [In Re: “City Hounded By Strays, Kids Pay Price” Versus The State Of Andhra Pradesh].    A bench of Justices Vikram...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 03 November 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed shock after it was informed that almost Rs3,000 crore have been extorted from people in cyber frauds, particularly digital arrest scams.   A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi called for stringent action to deal with the situation.   "It’s...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 31 October 2025
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled that the right to correct errors in Aadhaar data is both a statutory and fundamental right, and that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) must ensure that citizens can exercise this right without hardship. (Pushpam v....

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 30 October 2025
Religious practices that cause pollution or environmental harm cannot claim protection under Article 25 of the Constitution, former Supreme Court Justice Abhay S Oka said while urging citizens, governments and courts to rethink the ecological cost of festivals and faith-based customs.   "So...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 October 2025
Coming down heavily on the Maharashtra government for its 'gross negligence' in carrying out compensatory afforestation in Mumbai, the Supreme Court on Monday warned that all prior permissions for felling trees for infrastructure projects such as the Mumbai Metro and the Goregaon-Mulund Link...

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