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In a surprising justification from someone as senior as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, the denial of information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has been attributed to the model code of conduct currently in effect in Maharashtra due to the upcoming assembly elections...

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Every few days, social media highlights the relentless struggles of India's marginalised communities: caste discrimination, bonded labour, lack of healthcare, inadequate infrastructure, rampant corruption and exploitative interest rates. From bankers to the police, everyone agrees that the poor...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 06 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday criticized the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government for demolishing an individual's house without following legal procedures.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that the demolition was 'high...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 05 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that all private properties can't be considered "material resources of the community" under Article 39(b) of the Constitution to be taken over by State to subserve the "common good" (Property Owners Association and ors v State of Maharashtra and Ors).   A...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 November 2024
Mumbai district legal services authority (MSLSA) has organised a special Lok Adalat on 30th November and 1 December 2024 at Bombay High Court (HC)'s principal bench at Mumbai and benches at Nagpur and Aurangabad.    In a release, MSLSA requested litigants and members of the Advocate Bar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 October 2024
The Maharashtra government had recently introduced a draft of the much-anticipated 2024 Housing Policy, which is set to replace the state's 2007 policy. Since the last policy release, the housing and real estate sectors have seen major transformations due to regulatory developments such as the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 October 2024
Raising severe concerns like Aadhaar mismatch in names of workers that often leads to denial of benefits to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MGNREGA scheme, EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India (GoI), has asked Union finance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 October 2024
Raising serious questions on the dwindling state of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MGNREGA due to Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS) related issues, including delayed or non-payment of wages to workers on lack of infrastructure at local levels, Jairam Ramesh,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 October 2024
Countless people in Jharkhand are unable to withdraw money from their bank accounts because the accounts have been frozen until they complete know-your-customer (KYC) formalities, reveal recent surveys conducted in Latehar and Lohardaga district by the local National Rural Employment Guarantee...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 October 2024
Jharkhand-based Ashok Parhaiya was happy when his three children got scholarships. However, his happiness vanished when he found that the bank accounts of his children were frozen for want of know-your-customer (KYC), mainly Aadhaar e-KYC. He is running around and spending money to solve the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 October 2024
Indian Railways has decided to reduce the advance reservation period (ARP) for booking tickets to 60 days from 120, effective from 1 November 2024. This change will not affect foreign tourists or certain daytime trains like the Gomti Express and Taj Express which already have reduced ARP, the...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 16 October 2024
The Bombay High Court on Monday denied anticipatory bail to practicing Advocate Vinaykumar Ashok Khatu, who faces serious allegations of fabricating High Court orders and misleading his elderly client in a property dispute. (Vinaykumar Ashok Khatu v. State of Maharashtra.)   Justice RN...

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GBSNP Varma (IndiaSpend) 15 October 2024
Plastic is everywhere. It is in you, in your gut, in your blood, in your heart and in the air you breathe--in all of you and the universe you inhabit.   We feed on our own rot, and we live on top of our own detritus. A recent study in the journal Nature shows that India generates the highest...

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Divyanshu Kumar (IndiaSpend) 14 October 2024
Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along....

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Dr Gopal Krishna 09 October 2024
This is fifth part of a multi-part series “India’s First Mass Surveillance, Mass Spying and Unending Census Case”.   In a functional democracy, election is a dialogue with the people. The frequent dialogue and deeper dialogue is like sunlight for democracy which is good for the health of...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 09 October 2024
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday revived a public interest litigation (PIL) petition regarding pothole maintenance in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.   Nevertheless, it opted not to initiate contempt of court proceedings against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and other civic...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 October 2024
India faces an urgent need for legislation to manage the finances and care of incapacitated adults. With an ageing population, seniors who may be mentally or physically incapacitated lack the capacity to direct using their savings towards necessary care without legal guardianship. The current...

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It may be recalled that in order to combat air pollution in Delhi, one of the flagship initiatives tom-tommed by the Delhi government was to install anti-smog guns, anti-smog towers and other such machines. In fact, the lieutenant governor of Delhi, along with the municipal commissioner, had a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 September 2024
The Editors Guild of India (EGI) welcomed the order from the Bombay High Court (HC), striking down as unconstitutional the Information Technology (IT) Amendment Rules of 2023 on the formation of fact-check units (FCU) by the Union government.   The petitions, including one filed by stand-up...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 20 September 2024
The Bombay High Court on Friday struck down the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023, specifically Rule 3, which empowers the Central government to form Fact-Check Units (FCUs) for identifying false or fake news against the...

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