Public Interest

Delhi HC reserves order on PIL seeking ban on deities' images on walls

The Delhi High Court reserved its order in a plea against the practice of sticking gods' images and posters on walls in order to prevent public urination, spitting, and throwing garbage

Sebi receives over 30,000 whistleblower complaints: Chief vigilance officer

If we continue to misuse this policy with frivolous and mischievous complaints, then we are blunting it," she said

Delhi HC seeks RBI response on implementation of Uniform Banking Code

Court also asks Centre to file a reply in the case in six weeks; next hearing on March 20

Private channels to have 30-min slot for 'public interest' programmes

Part of new uplinking-downlinking rules prescribed by I&B ministry

SC begins live streaming of constitutional bench cases on Sept 27

Check https://webcast.gov.in/scindia/ to view the proceedings

14 of 25 HCs registered a decline in pending PILs in 2021, shows data

Overall, they cleared 83.7 per cent of instituted cases until August 2021- the highest in four years

DOLO-650 makers distributed freebies worth Rs 1,000 cr to doctors: FMRAI

The petitioner, while seeking statutory backing to the Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP), said that corruption in pharma marketing practices is yet unregulated in India

RBI cancels Rupee Co-operative's licence; lender to cease business Sep 22

More than 99% of depositors of Pune-based lender to receive the full amount, says regulator

PIL business stealing attention from other important matters: SC

This PIL business is stealing attention from other important matters, the Supreme Court observed when a matter related to the expansion of Karwar port in Karnataka was mentioned for urgent listing

Bombay HC refuses to hear PIL seeking uniform rate of Covid-19 vaccines

Bench says Supreme Court is already hearing the matter.

Letter to BS: Spike in PILs a wake-up call for legislature, executive

While the states expect they be respected as fe­deral units, the Centre behaves as if it is a unitary government

PIL cannot be used as a weapon to challenge our decision: RBI in Delhi HC

The RBI made the submission in response to a PIL alleging that online payments platform Paytm was providing lending facilities in violation of the law regulating such activity

Policies & the public interest

The public interest calls for real reforms for equitable growth

Netizen Report: Working in the public's interest can get you arrested

Across the world, journalists, human rights activists, advocators of govt transparency are at a risk

Netizen Report: Working in the public's interest can get you arrested

Across the world, journalists, human rights activists, advocators of govt transparency are at a risk

Universal Basic Income: A disturbing admission

In its simplest form, UBI is a negative income tax

Rathin Roy: RBI as uncertain as the rest of us

The monetary policy committee of the Reserve Bank of India has left the repo rate unchanged at 6.25%

Rathin Roy: Reforming the UN development system

The increasing importance of EMEs has the potential to simultaneously bring new ideas and broader ownership to the UNDS

Rathin Roy: Visioning India 2032

PM has tasked NITI Aayog to deliver a 15 year vision for India. Underpinning this commendable initiative is the widely shared assumption that India will grow at least at 8& on average every year

Rathin Roy: Need for simple macro-framework

An explicit, simple and public analytical macro-framework imposes accountability on macroeconomic policymakers