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Moneylife Digital Team 10 September 2026
The Congress has alleged a ₹10,000 crore tax evasion racket involving 3,260 registered unrecognised political parties (RUPPs) and demanded a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into what it called a major political donation scam.   Senior Congress leader and former member of Parliament...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 10 September 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday took strong exception to vigilantes browbeating and harassing a 14-year-old girl who had taken part in the Cockroach Janta Party protests in Delhi's Jantar Mantar.   A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 September 2026
The Greater Noida executive magistrate who issued a show-cause notice requiring a Gautam Buddha University student to furnish a personal bond of ₹5 lakh in connection with an alleged campaign to mobilise students for a protest has been suspended, says a report from LiveLaw.   Solicitor...

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Even as I write this, somewhere in an Indian courtroom, a lawyer is asking a judge to silence a man who doesn't exist. In the US, he is called John Doe; In India, Ashok Kumar— a placeholder for an anonymous person who has not yet been traced and so cannot be named. Unfortunately, John Doe orders...

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In late-2010, Andreas Georgiou, a former International Monetary Fund economist, was parachuted into Athens by the European Union (EU) and IMF at the height of the euro-zone crisis to head the Hellenic Statistical Authority (Elstat), Greece’s new statistical agency. His task seemed innocuous:...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 September 2026
As families struggle to transfer the assets of deceased relatives, 73% of those surveyed by LocalCircles said they had to pay bribes at property registration or land transfer offices to complete the process. Only 32% of families surveyed said they were able to easily transfer the deceased...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 27 August 2026
Governments can't choose politically convenient time for elections, the Bombay High Court at Goa recently said while issued a strict timeline to complete delayed municipal elections across 11 municipal councils in the State (Nimesia Faleiro v. State of Goa & Ors.)   A division bench of...

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Siddesh MS (Bar  and   Bench) 27 August 2026
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Bengaluru police for arresting a man two days before the date on which he was asked to appear before the cops in connection with a forgery case investigation.    The man was arrested on August 25. However, this was after the police issued a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 August 2026
A Delhi man has issued a legal notice to Meta Platforms and an Instagram creator over the alleged covert recording and publication of his interaction at a Khan Market café using camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, raising fresh questions over privacy, platform accountability and the...

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Dr Twinkle Sharma  and   Safi Ahsan Rizvi 24 August 2026
  In October 2017, in Mimi village in Nagaland’s Kiphire district, a few kilometres from the Myanmar border, researchers drew blood from 85 bat hunters. The Bomrr clan there has smoked bats out of the caves every October for seven generations, and the hunters are routinely scratched and...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 20 August 2026
The Bombay High Court on Thursday reprimanded the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for violating its earlier assurance to maintain status quo with respect to a football ground in Mumbai while a legal challenge to its conversion remains pending (Mumbai Football Association v. State of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 August 2026
The Supreme Court has reiterated that tribunals constituted under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 have the power to order the eviction of children or other occupants from a senior citizen's property when such a step is necessary to ensure the elderly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
Skymet Weather Services, India's largest private weather forecasting agency, has issued its starkest monsoon warning of the year, slashing its 2026 rainfall forecast and placing the probability of a nationwide drought at 70%, a 7-in-10 chance that this year will go down in the record books as a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
The PM CARES Fund's corpus climbed to a record ₹8,452.07 crore at the end of March 2025, even as its expenditure during the year fell to just ₹87.85 lakh, prompting questions over the utilisation of the fund, ₹324.66 crore in refunds received from implementing agencies and the absence of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2026
A crowdsourced platform that allows citizens to anonymously report alleged demands for bribes received more than 5mn (million) or over 5 lakh requests and about 200,000 new users within 48 hours, according to a member of the team behind Bribes.fyi.   The platform, created by 20-year-old...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 August 2026
The Delhi High Court has expressed serious concern over large quantities of critical medical equipment lying unused across 26 government hospitals in the national capital, including 400 ventilators and 910 oxygen concentrators at Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital.   A division bench of Prathiba...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 13 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a Rajasthan High Court direction requiring a government school teacher who lost ₹20 lakh in a cyber fraud to bear the cost of the police investigation.   A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran was hearing a plea by the teacher challenging...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 August 2026
India's public healthcare system faces a serious capacity and affordability challenge, with government hospitals having only 0.79 beds per 1,000 population, while treatment in private hospitals can cost eight to 15 times more than in government facilities, a parliamentary standing committee on...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 07 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday observed that a careful balance would have to be struck between citizens' right to information and the fundamental right to privacy while examining changes made to the Right to Information (RTI) Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.   A Bench...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 August 2026
Parliament on Tuesday passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026, paving the way for stricter norms governing the delayed registration of births and deaths to curb misuse and encourage the timely reporting of such events.   The Bill was approved by the Rajya Sabha...

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