Supreme Court gets four new judges
New Delhi: Justices Abhay Manohar Sapre, R Banumathi, Prafulla Chandra Pant and Uday Umesh lalit on Wednesday assumed charge as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court's strength to 30, including Chief Justice RM lodha. Justices Pant, 62, Sapre, 59, and Bhanumati, 58, were the Chief Justices of the Meghalaya High Court, Gauhati High Court and Jharkhand High Court.
3 NE states may get greenfield airports
New Delhi: Government is considering setting up of three greenfield airports in the Northeast — in Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. Minister of State for Development of Northeastern Region VK Singh told lok Sabha three greenfield airports are considered or taken up in NE Region — Pakyong (Sikkim), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) and Chiethu (Nagaland).
maintenance cost of MP flat ‘Rs2.95l
New Delhi: The average annual cost of maintenance of each flat in North and South Avenues meant for Members of Parliament is Rs2.95 lakhs, lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. The expenditure incurred per year on the maintenance of the MPs' flats in South and North Avenues per year since 2011-12 has been Rs17.50 cr, Rs18.28 cr and Rs20.45 cr respectively, Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu said in a written reply.
sc dismisses gujarat officer’s plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court bench of Justices Ranjana Desai and NV Ramana on Wednesday dismissed the plea by suspended Gujarat IAS officer Pradeep Sharma to transfer criminal cases pending against him outside Gujarat. Sharma had alleged bias against the State Government by accusing the then Narendra Modi government to have victimised him for fighting corruption and being the brother of top level IPS officer in Gujarat, associated with probing politically sensitive cases involving Modi's close aide and former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah.
two warships to be commissioned soon
New Delhi: Two indigenously designed and manufactured warships will be commissioned into the Navy in the next couple of days. While destroyer INS Kolkata will be commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai this Saturday, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley will commission anti-submarine corvette INS Kamorta in Visakhapatnam on August 23, chief of warship production Vice Admiral A V Subedar said here.
‘Govt reviewing NOC policy on def land’
New Delhi: The Government is trying to evolve a "balanced" approach towards security needs and demands for exempting residential colonies near defence land from obtaining no-objection certificates (NOC) from Defence Ministry for carrying out development work, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley informed the lok Sabha on Wednesday.
panel submits report on lokpal rules
New Delhi: The committee headed by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on Wednesday submitted a report on amendments in lokpal search panel rules to the Centre. The rules notified by the previous UPA Government had come under attack after the lokpal search Committee Chairman Justice KT Thomas, a former SC judge, resigned over the Committee not enjoying liberty to recommend names independent of the list forwarded by Centre.