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Moneylife Digital Team 04 December 2023
The Union ministry of roads transport & highways (MoRTH) is planning to introduce cashless medical treatment for all injured accident victims across the country within the next three to four months, says Anurag Jain, secretary of MoRTH. He was speaking at the global road safety initiative...

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Aarushi Anand (The Leaflet) 23 November 2023
In a recent post circulating widely on various social media platforms, popular Indian actress Rashmika Mandana is seen walking into an elevator sporting a black body-hugging swimsuit.   On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with the video. Actresses wearing swimsuits accentuating...

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IANS 07 November 2023
Amid the controversy surrounding a reported morphed video of actor Rashmika Mandanna that went viral on the social media, a new report has claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling an unprecedented boom this year in fake pornographic images and videos.   The easy-to-use AI...

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IANS 17 October 2023
A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by chief justice of India DY Chandrachud on Tuesday refused to grant any legal sanction to same-sex marriage.   The Constitution bench, also comprising justices SK Kaul, SR Bhat, Hima Kohli, and PS Narasimha, held that queer couples do not have...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2023
Uday Kotak, founder and director of Kotak Mahindra Bank, has clarified that he does not have an account on LinkedIn, and the account on that social media site, which uses his name, is fake.   Responding to a tweet by one Rajath Kumar (@Xrajath) on X (erstwhile Twitter), Mr Kotak...

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IANS 15 September 2023
The Central government on Friday again conducted a test of its "emergency alert system" by sending a sample message to several smartphone users.   A loud beep and a flash with the words "emergency alert: severe" were received by users across the country.   "This is a SAMPLE...

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IANS 12 September 2023
The Bombay High Court has upheld a senior citizens maintenance tribunal's (SCMT's) order revoking two gift deeds executed by a senior woman in her son’s name, for failing to care for her, and directed him and his wife to vacate the property.   Justice Sandeep V Marne also said that...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 August 2023
Due to the absence of adequate validation controls, the beneficiary database of Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) contains several errors like invalid names, unrealistic date of birth, duplicate PMJAY IDs and unrealistic size of family members in a household, says

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 August 2023
Irked over the dismal conditions of roads, which are full of potholes across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the Bombay High Court (HC) on Wednesday summoned municipal commissioners of six municipal corporations across the MMRDA. It includes municipal commissioners from BrihanMumbai Municipal...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 August 2023
The regional passport office in Mumbai issued a press note that makes DigiLocker mandatory if the applicant submits an Aadhaar as proof of residential address or date of birth.    "From 5 August 2023, in case applicants choose to submit Aadhaar as proof of present residential address...

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IANS 01 August 2023
The Kerala High Court has held that the multiplier method must be applied while calculating the compensation in motor accident claim cases in serious injuries as well and not just in cases of deaths.   The court emphasized that the purpose of adopting the multiplier method was to...

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The personal data and contact details of students, sought by the Union ministry of education, has not been welcomed by principals and parents.   According to an official, "To ensure there is no duplicity in students' records, the Union ministry of education has asked all private,...

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Every monsoon, in practically every town and city of Maharashtra and perhaps in other states of India as well, the roads develop potholes of all shapes and sizes, threatening the limbs and lives of the commuters. Since 30 years or more, this scenario has not changed. There is no iota of an...

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No, I have nothing against bikers or any two-wheeler rider, for that matter.   My beloved Yezdi was my daily commute in Mumbai for five years. Even after I got a bank car, I retained my bike for another ten years until we had to part because I shifted to Dubai.   I have ridden...

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Raushan Tara Jaswal (The Leaflet) 22 June 2023
The database breach of the government’s digital platforms highlights the vacuum in legislation to adequately deal with such breaches. In the absence of legislation providing redress, attributing liability and adequate punishment— the fundamental right to privacy in India remains a toothless...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 June 2023
Referring to last year's judgement of the Bombay High Court (HC), the Nagpur police have directed all police stations under its jurisdiction not to prohibit citizens from video recording inside the police stations.    In an order issued last week, Dr Ashwini Patil, deputy commissioner...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2023
What is common between RS Sharma, former chairman of TRAI, Meenakshi Lekhi, Union minister of state for external affairs and culture and KC Venugopal, the general secretary of the Congress party? Well, they are among crores of Indians who had registered on the CoWIN portal to receive...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2023
The court of the chief commissioner for persons with disabilities (Divyangjan) has asked Tata SIA Airlines Ltd, operating as Vistara, to comply with the civil aviation requirements (CAR) issued by the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA), with regards to accommodation of persons with...

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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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