Landmark judgments, tussle with YS Jagan: Justice Ramana’s road to becoming CJI
President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday formally appointed Supreme Court judge, Justice NV Ramana, as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI).
By Nikita Venkatesh| Published: 6th April 2021 6:14 pm IST
New Delhi: Justice NV Ramana has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India on Tuesday by President Ram Nath Kovind.
He will assume charge as the 48th CJI on April 24, a day after the retirement of incumbent CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde. CJI Bobde, who succeeded Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the country’s topmost judge in November 2019, nominated Justice Ramana as his successor last month, through a letter to the Union law ministry.
Edu, H&UD, Health deptts among major defaulters
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, Apr 4: Expressing serious concern over non-submission of Utilization Certificates (UCs) within specified time-frame, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has asked the Jammu and Kashmir Government to consider ‘discontinuing’ grants to those departments and autonomous bodies which have high pendency of vital certificates as this grave violation of Financial Rules is fraught with the risk of misappropriation of funds and fraud.
The autonomous bodies/authorities not having sufficient resources of their own are assisted financially by the Government through release of Grant-in-Aid (GIA) to be spent on specific purposes.
Come up with new ideas to improve upon existing systems, SC judge tells students
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‘Benefit from technology in the age of information’
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‘Benefit from technology in the age of information’
Supreme Court judge, Justice N.V. Ramana, has called upon students and young legal professionals to come up with new ideas and innovate to improve upon the existing methods and systems. Students should benefit from technology in the age of information, he said.
Delivering the convocation address for the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Convocations of Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University (DSNLU) here on Sunday, Justice Ramana advised students to be optimistic in their approach and see an opportunity in every difficulty to achieve the goals of life. He also stressed on the responsibility of teachers and institutions in training students in nation building.
Judge sees negligence on the part of managing agency as reason for fire
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Senior Civil Judge and Member Secretary of Dakshina Kannada Legal Services Authority Shilpa A.G. said on Monday that
prima facie the fire that broke out in the dry waste recycling unit of Mangaluru City Corporation at Pachchanady on Sunday night appeared to be due to negligence on the part of the agency outsourced by the corporation to manage the unit.
Speaking after visiting the spot on an instruction by the State Legal Services Authority, she said that the agency had not taken enough precautionary measures to prevent fire accidents. If it had taken them, the accident would not have occurred, she added.
Dist authority recovers compensation from girl who alleged rape, turned hostile in court
Dist authority recovers compensation from girl who alleged rape, turned hostile in court
ByArchana MoreArchana More / Updated: Apr 2, 2021, 06:00 IST
The amount was given to her in 2018 under a
state scheme after she accused a man of rape in 2015; however, she did not support the prosecution in court and therefore, the government authority took back the Rs 30,000 in a first for the state
I n a first in the state, the government has recovered the compensation awarded to a then 20-year-old college student, who had initially alleged that she had been raped, but later turned hostile in the case.