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KBS Sidhu 02 April 2026
Happy New Financial Year — and Welcome to the New Income Tax Act   1 April 2026 is not merely the start of a new financial year. It is the date on which India’s tax administration crossed a generational threshold. The Income Tax Act, 2025, has come into force today, replacing the...

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Grace Anu  and   Edgar Kaiser (The Leaflet) 02 April 2026
Custodial violence has been a never-ending saga in India. Recent figures from the NHRC reveal that only since the beginning of this year, as of March 15, there had been 170 recorded custodial deaths. During this time, Tamil Nadu has seen a series of 4 custodial tortures leading to death. Under...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 March 2026
The BrihanMumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) has cancelled a key tender to lease the Cumballa Hill officers’ quarters, A and B wings, citing administrative reasons, in a development that comes amid growing scrutiny over land monetisation in south Mumbai. In October 2025, activists and...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 24 March 2026
Only persons belonging to Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist faiths can claim Scheduled Caste status and conversion to any other faith like Christianity will result in the converted person losing Scheduled Caste status, the Supreme Court held on Tuesday.   Thus, a Dalit person who converts to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 March 2026
Prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Monday cautioned that the ongoing conflict in West Asia is likely to have prolonged global and domestic consequences, urging the country to remain united, vigilant and prepared to deal with emerging challenges. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the PM says the...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 23 March 2026
  Had Adam Gondvi (1947-2011) been alive, he would say, “In your executive, legislative, judicial and editorial files, Aadhaar number online database may appear rosy, but this data is fake, this is filish.”     In his book Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1909),...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 23 March 2026
In an order which could have significant ramifications, the Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to conduct a comprehensive verification of all persons engaged in hawking activities across Mumbai including those alleged to be foreign nationals or...

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KBS Sidhu 20 March 2026
With its proposed 2026 amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), the Indian government is no longer content with merely tracking foreign contributions. By seeking control over assets created from such funds when licences lapse, it signals a deeper shift in the balance...

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Sometime back, the newspapers carried a photograph of a new highway road of four lanes, which then gets narrowed to two lanes, when it comes to a long bridge across the river. This causes endless chaos when the traffic from four lanes gets to the narrow start of the bridge. How could such a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 March 2026
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court (HC) has refused to quash a corruption case against an advocate accused of persuading his client to pay a bribe to police officers, holding that the legal profession carries a high ethical responsibility and cannot be used to exploit clients.   In a

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 March 2026
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports highlighting the increasing number of missing persons and the low rate of tracing them in several states, raising serious concerns about possible human rights violations.   In a statement, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 March 2026
Following complaints from transport associations of harassment, bribery demands and unlawful vehicle detention by traffic personnel, Maharashtra's additional director general of police (traffic) has issued a state-wide circular directing officers to end coercive e-challan recovery practices,...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 10 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Central government to frame a policy to compensate those who suffer from serious adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccine.   A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta added that the compensation must be provided on a no-fault basis.    "Union of...

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Ayman Khan (IndiaSpend) 06 March 2026
India’s increasing demographic of the elderly needs long-term care, daily support and palliative services. While national policies emphasise care at home, government data show that access to such services remains limited.   With older adults projected to account for nearly 20% of India’s...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 March 2026
A proposal to delete the reservation for electricity transmission and distribution facilities, along with BEST bus infrastructure, at a site in Mumbai’s Malabar Hill division has drawn objections during a public hearing held by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). During the hearing,...

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On 28th February, TV Mohandas Pai, the well-known angel investor, tagged finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman in a post on X, drawing attention to what seems to be a case of enforcement overreach: the arrest of Rishi Gupta, managing director and chief executive officer (MD& CEO) of Fino...

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At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 last week, Galgotias University provided a shameful sideshow that gravely undermined India’s attempt to project itself as a serious player in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) with credible educational standards.   A communications teacher from this...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 February 2026
As many as 119 architects, urban designers and planners have escalated their opposition to the proposed redevelopment of the Mahalaxmi Racecourse in Mumbai, sending a second, more detailed representation to the state government and the civic body after the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 February 2026
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC’s) Budget for FY26-27 continues its strong emphasis on capital expenditure and large infrastructure projects, following a similar pattern in FY25-26. With the total outlay rising to ₹80,952.56 crore in FY26-27 from ₹74,427.41 crore in FY25-26,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 February 2026
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed a budget of ₹80,952.56 crore for 2026-27, marking an increase of 8.77% over the 2025-26 Budget estimate (BE) of ₹74,427.41 crore. While the overall increase is moderate, the revenue projections underlying the Budget show a sharper rise,...

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