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Moneylife Digital Team 09 December 2024
Hundreds of workers under the aegis of NREGA Sangharsh Morcha held a two-day dharna at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. They sent a letter to Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the Union minister for rural development (MoRD), to counter claims of the ministry about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 02 December 2024
In late September 2024, the high court of Chhattisgarh registered a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) over two non-functional oxygen plants at the Bilaspur district hospital, alleging that the plants had been operated by untrained operators and that their failure necessitated that the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 November 2024
Almost 28% of the grains supplied by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state governments never reach the intended beneficiaries, which amounts to a financial loss of about Rs69,108 crore, equivalent to roughly 20mn (million) metric tonnes (MMT) of rice and wheat. North-eastern states...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 28 November 2024
The Supreme Court recently took strong exception to the gender discrimination faced be elected women representatives in India, particularly at Panchayat (village council) levels (Sonam Lakra v State of Chhattisgarh and ors).   The Court was dealing with a case where it found that the ouster...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 November 2024
The Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) has approved the income tax (I-T) department's permanent account number (PAN) 2.0 project. This project aims to streamline and modernise issuing and managing PAN and tax deduction and collection account number (TAN), making it more user-friendly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2024
The Bombay High Court recently ordered 1 lakh in compensation to a woman from Mumbai for the unlawful arrest of her husband, while also highlighting serious concerns about police misconduct (Ratna Chandrakant Vannam And Anr v. Tukaram K. Jadhav).   The Bench comprising Justices Bharati Dangre...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that physical classes for all school students up to grade 12 in Delhi should be suspended for the time being in light of the acute air pollution that has gripped the national capital, says a report from Bar & Bench.  A bench of justice Abhay S Oka and...

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Safeena Wani (IndiaSpend) 18 November 2024
Forty-year-old Angmo Norbu found that even her second visit in a month to Sonam Nurboo Memorial Hospital in Leh, around 100 km from her residence in the Durbok area of Changthang region in eastern Ladakh, was a waste of time.   For the second time, doctors had refused to remove her sister’s...

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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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