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Indore has been celebrated as India's cleanest city for eight consecutive years. In December 2025, this reputation was shattered when contaminated sewage killed at least 10 residents and 270 others fell ill, a result of sheer negligence.   Activists say that the Madhya Pradesh pollution...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 January 2026
“We need to become a generation that asks questions; only then can we change the country.” That was the message engineer and civic activist Chaitanya Patil left the audience with at the Press Club of Mumbai on Wednesday, where he was felicitated for his Rasta Satyagraha—a 29-day, 490-kilometre...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 08 January 2026
The Madras High Court recently held that a celebrity’s personality rights cannot be used to secure a blanket gag order at the interim stage, especially without prima facie material showing commercial exploitation. (T Rangaraj v. Joy Crizildaa.)   Justice N Senthilkumar dismissed applications...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 January 2026
The Bombay High Court (HC) has begun examining whether voters can be denied the ‘none of the above’ (NOTA) option in local body elections where candidates are declared elected unopposed, a question that goes to the heart of voter dissent and electoral fairness.   A division bench on Tuesday...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 07 January 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday flagged the increasing number of dog bite incidents in the country and called out the municipal authorities and other local bodies for their failure to implement the Animal Birth Control (ABC) rules [In Re: “City Hounded By Strays, Kids Pay Price” Versus The State...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 29 December 2025
Mumbai: As 2025 draws to a close, India’s environmental story was defined by policies pulling in opposite directions and citizens taking to the streets—from protests against air pollution in the National Capital Region to the protest to save the trees in Nashik’s Tapovan. Meanwhile, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2025
In a significant shift to India’s inheritance and succession framework, Parliament has removed a long-standing legal hurdle that made probate mandatory for certain wills in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. The change comes through the Repealing and Amending Act, 2025, which received the president’s...

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KBS Sidhu 26 December 2025
Mandatory Probate Is Gone. Has Succession Really Become Simpler? In December 2025, Parliament removed Section 213 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925. In popular telling, this “makes probate optional” and clears away an old procedural burden. That is partly true. But it risks being...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2025
In a sweeping move aimed at long-term ecological conservation, the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF&CC) has directed all concerned States to impose a complete ban on the grant of any new mining leases across the entire Aravalli Range, stretching from the National...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 24 December 2025
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said that an urgent meeting of the Goods and Services Tax Council (GST Council) should be convened to consider the issue of classifying air-purifiers as 'medical device' and slashing the GST levied on them from 18 to 5 percent (Kapil Madan vs Union of India &...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 December 2025
This article is the fourth and final part in a multi-part series examining the condition of the Mumbai–Goa National Highway (NH-66), based on field documentation and Right to Information (RTI) data gathered by engineer and activist Chaitanya Patil, along with representations submitted to...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 23 December 2025
The Bombay High Court today expressed concerns over rising air pollution and unsafe conditions at construction sites in Mumbai, warning that the city could face an air quality crisis like Delhi if authorities fail to act decisively (High Court of Judicature at Bombay on its own motion).   A...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 December 2025
This article is the third in a multi-part series examining the condition of the Mumbai–Goa National Highway (NH-66), based on field documentation and Right to Information (RTI) data gathered by engineer and activist Chaitanya Patil, along with representations submitted to authorities.   After...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 December 2025
Expressing strong displeasure over the continuing failure of civic and regulatory authorities to effectively curb air pollution in Mumbai, the Bombay High Court has directed Bhushan Gagrani, the commissioner of BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and M Devender Singh, member secretary of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 December 2025
This article is the second in a multi-part series examining the condition of the Mumbai–Goa National Highway (NH-66), based on field documentation and Right to Information (RTI) data gathered by engineer and activist Chaitanya Patil, along with representations submitted to authorities.   This...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2025
This article is the first in a multi-part series examining the condition of the Mumbai–Goa National Highway, based on field documentation, official data and representations submitted to authorities.   For years, the Mumbai–Goa National Highway (NH-66) has been synonymous with delays,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 December 2025
Comptroller and auditor general of India (CAG) Sanjay Murthy has flagged serious structural weaknesses in the government’s direct benefit transfer (DBT) framework, warning that thousands of crores of rupees are flowing into beneficiary accounts without mandatory checks due to poor data...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 18 December 2025
Rice and wheat, protected by extensive irrigation and relatively resilient to climate variability, form the backbone of India’s food security, preventing millions of Indians from going to bed with an empty stomach. But this is not the same as nutrition security.   A balanced diet requires...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 17 December 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions for the recording of intersex births and deaths in the upcoming census (Gopi Shankar M v. Union of India and Ors).   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 December 2025
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended lives and healthcare systems across the country, the Supreme Court has delivered long-awaited relief to families of doctors who died while treating patients during the crisis, ruling that their kin cannot be denied insurance benefits merely because...

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