25 new rajya sabha members take oath
New Delhi: India’s unity in diversity was on Monday reflected in Rajya Sabha as 25 newly-elected members took oath in various languages spoken in the States they represent in the Upper House. Though a large chunk chose Hindi to swear in the name of God, a good number of new members opted their mother tongue, including Bengali, Gujarati and Tamil. As soon as the House assembled, Chairman Hamid Ansari called upon the members in alphabetical order of the states they represent.
sumitra announces 10-member panel
New Delhi: Amid no official word as to when a Deputy Speaker will be in place, lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday announced a ten-member Panel of Chairpersons. The members are Arjun Charan Sethi (BJD), M Thambidurai (AIADMK), K V Thomas (Cong), Anandrao Adsul (SS), Hukm Deo Narayan Yadav, Prahlad Joshi, Hukum Singh and Ramen Deka (all BJP), Ratna De (Nag) (Trinamool) and Konakalla Narayan Rao (TDP).
ranjit kumar is new solicitor general
New Delhi: Senior advocate Ranjit Kumar on Monday assumed charge as the Solicitor General (SG) of India. The Government has also appointed six additional Solicitor Generals
(ASGs)--senior advocates Maninder Singh, l Nageshwar Rao, Tushar Mehta, P S Patwalia, Neeraj K Kaul and P S Narasimha. The newly-appointed law officers would take steps to reduce the number of cases given the fact that government and its departments are major litigants, sources said.
effective system for green nod soon
New Delhi: Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar met a US delegation led by Kathleen Stephens, Ambassador Designate in India, on Monday stating that an effective system would be in place which would enable sound appraisal processes of environmental clearance proposals. He said that cleaner fuels would be promoted to bring down pollution levels in Indian cities. Clean water, clean air and solid waste management would be the priority areas of the Ministry and efforts would be made to increase the energy efficiency while concentrating on the reduction of green house gas emissions. He further assured that India would have a proactive role in the International events related to environment in the days to come.
CBI to move Sc on Selection procedure
New Delhi: CBI will soon submit a request to the Supreme Court to review the selection procedure for senior-level appointments in the probe agency in its response to a notice in a case relating to a woman IPS officer being picked as its Additional Director. “We will be submitting our reply soon in response to a petition filed before the Supreme Court challenging the appointment of one lady IPS officer as Additional Director,” CBI Director Ranjit Sinha said here.
‘UP heading towards law of the jungle’
New Delhi: Voicing concern over the Badaun rape case and other crimes in Uttar Pradesh, Press Council of India chairperson Markandey Katju on Monday said it is high time that the Akhilesh government corrects the trend or else the law of the jungle will prevail in the state. He said that in Sanskrit the word ‘matsya nyaya’ means the state of affairs when the big fish devours the smaller one. “Is Uttar Pradesh descending into a state of matsya nyayaIJ The facts certainly indicate in that direction,” Katju said in a write-up.
BrahMos missile test-fired
New Delhi: India on Monday successfully test- fired the 290 km-range BrahMos supersonic anti-ship cruise missile from the country’s largest indigenous warship INS Kolkata off the coast of Karwar in Karnataka. The Mazagon Dockyards limited-built INS Kolkata is yet to be formally inducted into the Navy and will have the capability to launch 16 BrahMos missiles in one go when it enters operational service.