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KBS Sidhu 14 July 2026
Regular readers of this series — Don’t Wait for the BLO to Knock Twice, SIR Process Creates a Stir, and most recently Who’s Afraid of the SIR?, in which ? urged every voter left off the BLO’s list to walk into a voter service centre and file Form 6 themselves — will recall that I have...

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India has never invested more heavily in infrastructure than in the past decade. Highways, expressways, airports, tunnels, bridges and ports have been built at record speed. These have been showcased through drone footage, glossy videos and high-profile inaugurations as proof that the world’s...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 July 2026
The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) has flagged serious financial irregularities in the implementation of the Maharashtra government's flagship Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, pointing to excess expenditure of ₹3,541.16 crore, poor budget estimation, weak financial controls and the...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 07 July 2026
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday ordered that the X account belonging to Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) be unblocked after the Central government conceded that it has no objection to the same.   Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma passed the direction to unblock the account after Solicitor General...

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KBS Sidhu 07 July 2026
You are an Indian citizen. You are above 18 years of age. You have been living at your current address — in Punjab, in Chandigarh, or anywhere else in India where the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is currently underway — long enough to call it home. You are, in law, ordinarily resident...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 July 2026
India has been ranked 125th globally in the Global Passport Index 2026, placing it in the lower half of the world's passport rankings as international mobility continues to be shaped by geopolitical influence, bilateral agreements and investment attractiveness rather than travel access...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 06 July 2026
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has informed the Supreme Court that it is preparing India’s first city-wide master pedestrian network plan for Mumbai to create a continuous, connected and universally accessible pedestrian network across the city.   In an affidavit filed before...

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KBS Sidhu 06 July 2026
I. A Different Kind of Storm The Modi government has weathered worse headlines before. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the country watched people gasping for oxygen and dying even as cylinders were being exported abroad, and putrefying dead bodies floating down the Ganga even as officialdom...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 July 2026
The India meteorological department (IMD) on Monday upgraded its weather warning for Mumbai, Thane and Raigad districts to a red alert, forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall accompanied by winds of 70kmph-80kmph (kilometres per hour), as relentless monsoon showers disrupted normal life...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 July 2026
The Maharashtra government has suspended the implementation of the newly-notified Maharashtra Right to Information (RTI) Rules, 2026, following widespread criticism from transparency activists and a threat by veteran anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare to launch a hunger strike against the...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 01 July 2026
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ruled that the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India is a public authority under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act).    Being classified as a public authority makes the institution subject to the RTI Act.    A Division Bench of Justices C Hari Shankar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2026
The Maharashtra unit of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has expressed concern over the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, warning that the exercise could disproportionately affect marginalised and document-poor citizens. It has also called on...

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Arna Chatterjee ( Bar  and   Bench ) 30 June 2026
The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently held that the sole school in a village should not be shut down over inadequate infrastructure and safety concerns [Manggi Bai Kole & Ors. & The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.].   Instead, the local elected representatives and villagers should work...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 29 June 2026
Mumbai: Earlier this year, Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill—a place that takes in most of the city’s waste—was found to be one of the largest emitters of the greenhouse gas (GHG) methane in the world, and one of only two landfills from India to make it to the top 25 list. As global warming...

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There has been so much talk about this for many decades. My grouse is that we will continue talking about this for many more years - and yet, perhaps, do nothing about it. What prompted me to write this piece was the well-written article in The Times of India recently by Harsh Goenka, a...

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KBS Sidhu 25 June 2026
I. The Statement That Should Surprise No Lawyer — But Has Startled Everyone Else   On 24 June 2026 — by coincidence, the fifty-ninth anniversary of the Passports Act coming into force — the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated plainly that an Indian passport is a travel document, not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 June 2026
The southwest monsoon made a dramatic entry into Mumbai, dumping more than 200mm of rain across several parts of the city and suburbs, inundating low-lying areas, disrupting suburban train services and causing widespread inconvenience to commuters on Wednesday morning.   After days of...

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Arna Chatterjee (Bar  and   Bench) 21 June 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday held that the right to walk on safe, demarcated footpaths is a fundamental right, and will take priority over the movement of vehicles (Maniyar Iliyaz @ Shaik Riyaz & Anr. v P Ayyappan & Ors.).   A Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice AS Chandurkar noted this...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2026
Maharashtra's newly-notified Right to Information (RTI) Rules, 2026 have sparked strong opposition from transparency activists, who say the changes will make access to information more expensive and difficult for ordinary citizens. The new rules raise RTI application fees from ₹10 to ₹30,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2026
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has moved a proposal before its standing committee seeking approval to appoint a project management consultant (PMC) for the construction of the Dahisar-Bhayander link road (DBLR), the final northern extension of the Mumbai coastal road project. The...

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