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National:
Three SC judges sworn inChief Justices of the Madras, Orissa and
Karnataka High Courts, M.Y. Eqbal, V. Gopala Gowda andVikramajit
Sen, were sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice
of India Altamas Kabir.Justice Eqbal (61), who hails from
Jharkhand, will have a brief tenure of little over three years;
JusticeGowda (61), who hails from Karnataka, a little over four
years and Justice Sen (62), who hails from Delhi,
just three years. With the swearing-in of the three judges, the
strength of the Supreme Court has gone up to27, and there are four
vacancies.
Justice Kumar is NGT chiefJustice Swatanter Kumar has taken over
as chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), to decide
oncases relating to environmental protection, and conservation of
forests and natural resources. He is the firstSupreme Court judge
to preside over the Tribunal which was, till now, functioning
without a full-timechairperson. Justice P. Jyothimani, a retired
Judge of the Madras High Court, who has been appointed a
judicial member of the NGT.
Akademi honours IlayarajaLegendary South Indian composer
Ilayaraja is among nine artistes from the field of music who will
receivethe Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2012, while Grammy
Award-winning percussionist T. H. Vinayakramand veteran playwright
Ratan Thiyam are among three personalities chosen for the
prestigious Sangeet
Natak Akademi fellowship. The Akademi has selected 36 persons
from the fields of music, dance, theatreand puppetry for the
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2012. Ilayaraja has been awarded for
creative andexperimental music. The other eight eminent artistes
from the field of music are: Rajashekhar Mansur andAjay Pohankar
for Hindustani vocal music, Sabir Khan (tabla) and Bahauddin Dagar
(rudra veena) forHindustani instrumental music. O. S. Thyagarajan
for Carnatic vocal music, Mysore M. Nagaraja (violin) andK. V.
Prasad (mridangam) for Carnatic instrumental music and Bhai Balbir
Singh Ragi (gurbani) for othermajor traditions of music have been
selected for the award.
Free bus service for cancer patients in HaryanaThe Haryana
Government has decided to provide free travel facility to cancer
patients in State roadwaysbuses. It has come to notice that a
cancer patient usually has to visit hospitals on an average 15
times in ayear for treatment and they have to spend hefty amount as
travelling expense. Keeping this in view, the StateGovernment has
decided to provide free travelling facility to such patients in
State-owned buses. Suchpatients could avail this facility on the
basis of an identity card issued by the Civil Surgeon of the
district. This
card would be valid for maximum 15 visits (to and fro) or for
one year. After the expiry of validity, the patientwould have to
submit the identity card in the office of Civil Surgeon and
thereafter, a new one would beissued.
Police launch biometric systemHaryana Police have launched a
Biometric-based device in Karnal which will enable it to detect
criminals bytheir fingerprints, already stored in a database.
Karnal became the first district of Haryana where f inger
printcapturing system has been implemented as a pilot project.
Amjad Ali Khan awarded honorary doctorateAn honorary doctorate
was conferred upon 'sarod' maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan at the
convocationceremony of Jadavpur University in Kolkata. The D. Litt
(Honoris Causa) was conferred upon him at the 57
th
convocation ceremony of the University. West Bengal Governor M.
K. Narayanan, conferred the degree uponhim. The University also
honoured the former chief of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, E.
Sreedharan byconferring him with a D. Litt (Honoris Causa).
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International:
Mayan temple suffers damageTourists flocking to Guatemala for
end of the world parties have damaged an ancient stone temple at
Tikal,the largest archaeological site and urban centre of the Mayan
civilization. Temple II, which is about 38 metreshigh and faces the
central Tikal plaza, is one of the sites best known structures.
Temple II is a [UNESCO]
World Heritage Site. The ancient Mayans reached their peak of
power in Central America between the years250 and 900 AD.
Baby picture of the Universe unveiledAstronomers have released a
new baby picture of the Universe. The all-sky image draws on nine
yearsworth of data from a now-retired spacecraft dubbed the
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).WMAP launched in 2001
and from its perch a million km away from Earth (in the direction
opposite the Sun)it scanned the heavens, mapping out the afterglow
of the hot, young universe with unprecedented accuracy.The image
maps the temperature of the radiation left over from the Big Bang,
at a time when the Universewas only 375,000 years old. It shows a
temperature range of plus-or-minus 200 microKelvin,
withfluctuations in the so-called cosmic microwave background
radiation appearing here as colour differences. Itshows a
temperature range of plus-or-minus 200 microKelvin, with
fluctuations in the so-called cosmicmicrowave background radiation
appearing here as colour differences. These patterns allow
astronomers topredict what could have possibly happened earlier,
and what has happened in the billions of year since the
Universes infancy.
Turkey lifts veto on NATO ties with IsraelNATO member Turkey has
agreed to lift its veto on non-military cooperation between the
alliance and Israelwhich it imposed over a deadly raid on a Turkish
aid ship to Gaza in 2010. Ankara took the retaliatorymeasure after
the Israeli army stormed the ship carrying humanitarian aid to the
blockaded Gaza Strip whileit was in international waters in the
Mediterranean Sea, leaving nine Turks dead. In return, several
NATOallies of Israel agreed to drop a veto against cooperating with
Turkey-friendly countries, notably in the Arabworld. Turkey will
agree to Israeli involvement in certain NATO activities but will
maintain its ban on jointmilitary manoeuvres, and Ankara reserves
the right to bar activities with Israel on its own soil. The
agreementcomes after NATO agreed to deploy Patriot anti-aircraft
missiles along the Turkish border with Syria.
Palestinian State to observe its first ChristmasThousands of
Palestinians and tourists flocked into the West Bank city of
Bethlehem to mark Christmas in
the little town where many believe Jesus Christ was born. U.N.
granted them the status of non-memberobserver state, and earlier
2012 Palestinians won their first Unesco World Heritage Site
designation forChurch of the Nativity. The designation also
included part of a pilgrimage route in Bethlehem, along whichthe
traditional Christmas procession headed by the Latin Patriarch
Fouad Twal marched.
Business and Economy:
Russian sovereign wealth fund, SBI to form $2 b
consortiumRussian sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment
Fund (RDIF) has signed a pact with State Bank ofIndia (SBI) for
setting up a $2 billion investment consortium for promoting
investments between the twocountries. The entities would team up to
facilitate access to long-term capital in Russia and India and
activelypromote mutual investments. RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev and
SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri signed thememorandum of understanding
(MoU) for establishing the consortium in the presence of Prime
MinisterManmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
SEBI bans Dilip Pendse from capital marketThe Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has restrained Dilip S. Pendse,
former ManagingDirector of Tata Finance Ltd (FTL), from accessing
the capital market and prohibited him from buying, sellingor
otherwise dealing in the securities market, directly or indirectly,
for a period of two years with immediateeffect. The complaint was
filed by TFL, which alleged certain illegal carry forward
transactions in these scripsat the behest of Dilip S. Pendse.
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