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India strengthens ties with Vietnam
11 judges of six high courts transferred
Judges’ shortage worsens in Punjab & Haryana HC
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IIMs made more accountable
Be more considerate, child panel to Kalmadi
‘Peepli Live’ gets notice for abusive language
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India strengthens ties with Vietnam
New Delhi, October 13 Defence Minister AK Antony, who is in Vietnam these days, announced a slew of measures to expand cooperation as part of the nation’s “look east policy” aimed at engaging key countries situated east of India. The measures were elaborated by Antony at the bilateral meetings with the top Vietnamese leadership, including Defence Minister Gen Phung Quang Thanh and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Under the arrangement, New Delhi will provide support to Vietnam to enhance and upgrade the capabilities of its services in general and Navy in particular. Apart from capacity building for repair and maintenance of its equipment, most of which are of Russian origin, the armies of the two countries will also cooperate in areas like IT and English training of Vietnamese Army personnel. In return, Hanoi has offered maintenance and repair facilities at Vietnamese ports and called for more ships of the Indian Navy to visit them. The navies of the two nations often exercise together. To take their ties to the next level, both the armies will also have joint training in mountain and jungle warfare in India next year. The two sides will also work towards developing cooperation among defence institutes.
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11 judges of six high courts transferred
New Delhi, October 13 Justices VM Sahai and Poonam Srivastava of the Allahabad High Court have been transferred to the Gujarat and Jharkhand High Courts, respectively. Justices T Meena Kumari and DSR Verma of the Andhra Pradesh High Court have been transferred to the Patna and Allahabad High Courts, respectively. Justice Meena Kumari is the senior-most judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court after Chief Justice Nisar Ahmad Kakru. Three judges from the Punjab and Haryana High Court -- Justices Ashutosh Mahunta, Vinod Kumar Sharma and HS Bhalla -- have been transferred to the Allahabad, Madras and Orissa High Courts, respectively. Justices SN Agarwal and Aruna Suresh from the Delhi High Court have been sent to the Madhya Pradesh and the Orissa High Courts. Justice M Jeyapaul of the Madras High Court and Justice BP Ray of the Orissa High Court have been sent to the Punjab and Haryana and the Karnataka High Courts. The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended the transfer of Justice RS Mohite of the Bombay High Court to the Patna High Court but he resigned last month.
— PTI
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Judges’ shortage worsens in Punjab & Haryana HC
Chandigarh, October 13 With their shifting out of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the number of judges will plunge down to 43, against the sanctioned strength of 68. The number is expected to go down further with another judge retiring at the end of this month after attaining the age of superannuation. Chief Justice Justice Mukul Mudgal, too, retires in January 2011 on attaining the age of superannuation, if he does not make it to the Supreme Court. In both the cases, the number of judges will go further down to 41 by the beginning of next year, unless some judges from outside are transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The development is significant as the process of elevating the advocates to the High Court Bench is still a distant reality. It is expected to take time, as the High Court collegium is yet to meet over the issue of elevating Bar members. The result of shortage of judges is manifesting itself in the form of pendency of cases. Even though more cases are being disposed of than filed, approximately 2 lakh cases are still pending.
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IIMs made more accountable
New Delhi, October 13 At a day-long meeting with the chairpersons and directors of institutes here, the HRD Ministry pitched for the faculty members giving individual work plans at the start of every year. They have to put on record not just what they plan to do but also how. The development is significant at a time when the IIMs have been clamouring for greater autonomy. The government, however, made it clear that with freedom comes responsibility. So while it made the IIMs accountable, it also gave them far-reaching powers to boost academic, especially financial, autonomy. The institutes’ boards will now have the power to create posts within the approved norms, approve their own budget, set up centres in India and abroad (IIM-Bangalore already proposes to have a centre abroad), acquire and dispose property not funded by the government and manage self-generated funds. It was decided today that the IIMs would set up endowment offices to raise funds on their own, and the government has given them the power to raise the salaries of directors and faculty from the self-made money. Till now, the IIMs have depended heavily on executive MBA (management development) courses that bring in a lot of money but also demand a lot of investment in terms of time from the faculty.
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Be more considerate, child panel to Kalmadi
New Delhi, October 13 Kalmadi disregarded an earlier communication in this respect from the constitutional body, which wrote to him on October 7, asking for 5,000 passes a day for the events being hosted in the 13 stadia. Silence from Kalmadi’s side led the commission, whose mandate is to ensure the protection of rights of the poorest children, to issue a protest letter to the OC chief yesterday. The letter chides the latter for his indifference towards the have nots at a time when the stadia are virtually running empty and the Prime Minister’s Office has urged the OC to throw the event open to all schoolchildren. “You should have been more considerate for the cause of the deprived and poor children. Beyond this, we also regret that neither the communication from this commission was responded to nor any action was taken,” the commission yesterday said in another letter to Kalmadi asking him to rectify his fault immediately as three days were left before the mega sporting event winds up. The commission is pained that the OC favoured three NGOs at the expense of others.
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‘Peepli Live’ gets notice for abusive language
Lucknow, October 13 Petitioner Ashok Pande has pleaded that Peepli Live should not be screened at the Oscars as “it is bound to undermine the honour of the nation”. The petitioner even seeks withdrawal of the Central Board of Film Certification
(CBFC) granted to the film and removal of CBFC chairperson Sharmila Tagore and its members for reportedly failing to do their duty by clearing the film, which was against “public interest.
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