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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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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 16 June 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the response of the Central and State governments as well as the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a petition seeking directions to ensure that Aadhaar is used solely as proof of identity and not as proof of citizenship, domicile, address or date of...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 15 June 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday said that “RTI activism” had become a “business” that was preventing public servants from performing their duties.   A Bench of Justices Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi made the remarks while refusing anticipatory bail to two men who claimed that they were exposing...

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KBS Sidhu 15 June 2026
Is the Big Brother Watching YOU? A photograph went viral recently on social media. Someone had placed their old and new Indian passports side by side and pointed, with evident fascination, to a small rectangular symbol embossed at the bottom of the newer booklet. The post asked, in the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 June 2026
India may be better prepared than in previous El Niño years to withstand the impact of a below-normal monsoon, aided by stronger reservoir levels, record foodgrain stocks and government contingency measures, but risks to agriculture, rural demand and food inflation remain, says a report by...

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Vijay Jadhav (IndiaSpend) 15 June 2026
Indian factories routinely flout occupational health and safety rules, even as inspections remain scant, and overworked, underpaid workers operate faulty machinery leading to accidents and injuries, many of which are not counted in official statistics, a new report shows.   For instance,...

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KBS Sidhu 11 June 2026
The Constitutional Silence   The Constitution of India makes no distinction between the freedom of speech of an ordinary citizen and that of a journalist. Article 19(1)(a) guarantees every citizen the right to freedom of speech and expression. The Preamble secures liberty of thought,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 June 2026
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating a hidden environmental burden that could rival the resource needs of entire nations, according to a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). The report, 'Environmental Cost of...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 05 June 2026
Election petitions have to be decided by courts on time and failure to do so will defeat electoral democracy and could result in autocracy, the Madras High Court recently held (Appavu Vs Inbadurai).   Justice G Jayachandran made the observations while flagging a 6-year-delay by the Supreme...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 03 June 2026
The Supreme Court recently cancelled the anticipatory bail granted to three Maharashtra railway policemen accused of extorting money from a train passenger after finding a gold bar in his baggage (The State of Maharashtra v. Rahul Datta Bhosale & Ors.).    A Bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and...

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Siddesh MS (Bar  and   Bench) 01 June 2026
People are committing crimes casually and in a routine manner because offenders are not dealt with firmly enough under the law, the Karnataka High Court recently observed while refusing to grant bail to a 23-year-old rape accused (Gopi Reddy Karthik Reddy Vs State of Karnataka).   Justice R...

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On 16 May 2026, 30-year-old Abhijeet Dipke, a public relations student in Boston, made history. His satirical online creation from a dorm room — the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), complete with a short manifesto — morphed into a 20mn (million) follower political firestorm that charged the nation...

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In the old days, when I was in junior college, my dad used to occasionally ask me: “Walter, what is the front-page news today?”, and I would tell him. He used to do this to check whether I was keeping up with the (times) Times! If he had to ask me the same question now, I would probably have to...

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