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Clear filtersTo combat the rising wave of digital arrest scams, the Supreme Court directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to prepare, within four weeks, a standard operating procedure (SOP) for handling mule bank accounts used to la...
The Supreme Court of India has published 'Judgments and Gender: Sensitivity and Compassion in Writing Judgments', which supersedes its 2023 Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes. The document advises replacing the wor...
The Supreme Court held that the criminal offence of domestic cruelty extends to live-in relationships between consenting adults that qualify as "relationships in the nature of marriage". The question before it was whethe...
The Supreme Court lengthened the compulsory third-party motor insurance cover on new vehicles by one year, to four years for cars and six years for two-wheelers. It noted that a "shocking" number of vehicles still run un...
More than 3,000 Group A cadre officers of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) have petitioned the Supreme Court against the CAPF (General Administration) Act, 2026, calling it violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21 and o...
The Lok Sabha approved the Bankers' Books Evidence Bill, 2026 by voice vote on 5 August 2026. The legislation will replace the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1891, a law framed during the colonial era. The present Act perm...
The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Bill, 2026 was introduced in the Lok Sabha to replace the ISI Act, 1959 and restructure its governance. ISI was founded by P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata in 1931 and declared an Instit...
About 12,000 cases have been registered under the e-Zero FIR system launched in May 2025 by the Ministry of Home Affairs through the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C). Delhi recorded the most (6,115), followed...
A joint communication from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and MoEFCC asked States to align Community Forest Resource Management Plans (CFRMPs) with Forest Department Working Plans, raising concern that it could dilute Gr...
The Union Government has appointed senior IAS officer Anurag Jain as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI Aayog. The appointment was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), as stated in an offici...
The Union Home Minister will introduce the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Rajya Sabha. It amends the 1971 Act to bring the National Song, Vande Mataram, under its protection on par...
Chhattisgarh has passed the Ease of Doing Business Act 2026, which brings in a Risk-Based Approval System. With this, the State becomes the first in India to adopt a trust-based, comprehensive risk-based permission frame...
