CITIZENS' ISSUES


Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 10 July 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to consider allowing Aadhaar, ration card and electoral photo identity card (EPIC card) as admissible documents to prove identity of voters in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being undertaken in...

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Presently, the central information commission (CIC) holds its hearings in a hybrid form, wherein RTI applicants and representatives of the public authorities (PA) attend either in person or virtually, but the access is restricted to journalists, civil society members and the general public...

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Bhavini Srivastava  and   Ratna Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 09 July 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition which sought directions to widen public access to the hearings of the Central Information Commission (CIC) under the Right to Information (RTI) Act (Saurav Das & Ors v CIC).   The Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2025
Bank employees across the country will participate in the nationwide general strike on 9th July, called by major trade unions to oppose what they describe as anti-people economic policies and anti-worker labour reforms pushed by the Union government. The strike call has been given jointly by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2025
The national human rights commission (NHRC) has taken serious note of the shocking case of a fake cardiologist operating at Mission Hospital at Damoh in Madhya Pradesh (MP), where at least seven patients reportedly died following procedures carried out by the imposter. After completing its...

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After a prolonged legal battle lasting over a decade, the Bombay High Court (HC) has directed the Maharashtra government to immediately pay Rs19.44 lakh to Darshan Singh Parmar, a whistle-blower who exposed large-scale tax evasion by public sector oil companies. In a strongly worded judgement,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 July 2025
In a significant move to enhance transparency and accessibility in the judicial system, the Bombay High Court will begin live streaming its proceedings from 7 July 2025. As per a gazette notification issued by the Maharashtra government, where proceedings are not live-streamed, transcripts of...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 02 July 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave the Central government three months' time to frame rules for providing information under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) in electronic form (Aditya Chauhan & Anr vs Union of India & Anr).    A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 June 2025
The US Embassy in India has issued a strict advisory to all visa applicants, mandating the disclosure of social media handles used in the last five years as part of their application process. Failure to provide this information, the embassy cautioned, could result in visa denial and permanent...

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Amidst rising concerns over data accuracy in innumerable Aadhaar cards, that has caught even school and college children in a Catch-22 crisis if their cards used for identification do not match during admission in their educational institutes, the Right to Information (RTI) route taken by a...

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On 6th June, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) surprised the markets, slicing the repo rate by 50bps (basis points) to 5.5% and cutting the cash reserve ratio by 100bps, phased over four 25-point tranches from September to November. The move, expected to inject Rs2.5 lakh crore into the system,...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 20 June 2025
“Fundamental rights are human rights and are, therefore, natural rights which are not conferred by the Constitution of India to take away. Sarv Mittra Sikri, the 13th chief justice of India has been proven right in subsequent judgments of the Supreme Court. Most notably, decisions in IR Coelho...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 June 2025
Placing public grievance redressal on 'high' priority, the Union Cabinet secretary is reportedly asked all ministries and departments to overhaul their grievance redressal mechanism and bring in the new oversight by senior officers in the prime minister's office (PMO) so that public concerns...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 June 2025
As the spiralling conflict between Israel and Iran entered its sixth day, the Indian government moved swiftly to relocate Indian nationals from Tehran, warning of potential large-scale military strikes in the Iranian capital. The Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) confirmed that Indian...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 17 June 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with an interim order passed by the Bombay High Court directing the Thane Municipal Corporation to demolish 17 unauthorised buildings constructed on encroached land by builders with links to the underworld (Danish Zaheer Siddiqui vs. State of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2025
The Maharashtra Congress has held the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government responsible for the recent Indrayani bridge collapse in Pune district, terming it a 'man-made tragedy born of negligence' and demanding a high-level inquiry and a case of culpable homicide against...

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Avani Bansal (The Leaflet) 17 June 2025
Videos from the recent all-party delegation to different countries on the India-Pakistan conflict had one thing in common - Asian News Agency’s (ANI) logo. So a question naturally arises – can one news agency (ANI), which is a private company (unlike some others such as Press Trust of India...

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Over 20 years ago, I had written an article in AmarUjala, the popular newspaper in North India and I remembered this when I was reading the headlines in the Times of India (ToI) on 22 March 2025.    What do these headlines say? The same things—a Supreme Court judge has been caught with nearly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 June 2025
In a significant step towards judicial transparency and accessibility, Bombay High Court (HC) chief justice Alok Aradhe announced on Tuesday that live-streaming of court proceedings will soon commence from five designated benches. The decision follows a resolution passed by the full court, and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2025
In a tragic reminder of the daily dangers faced by Mumbai’s suburban rail commuters, five people were killed and eight others injured after falling off two overcrowded local trains during the morning rush hour between Diva and Kopar railway stations in Thane district on Monday.   The incident...

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