
HC gets seven new judges
The Hindu
The Union Ministry of Law and Justiceissued a notification on Thursday for the appointment of seven judges for the Andhra Pradesh High Court nearly two weeks after the Supreme Court collegium cleared
The Union Ministry of Law and Justiceissued a notification on Thursday for the appointment of seven judges for the Andhra Pradesh High Court nearly two weeks after the Supreme Court collegium cleared their names and the subsequent approval by President Ramnath Kovind.The new judges are Konakanti Sreenivasa Reddy, Gannamaneni Ramakrishna Prasad, Nimmagadda Venkateswarlu, Tarlada Rajasekhar Rao, Satti Subba Reddy, Cheemalapati Ravi and Vaddiboyina Sujatha.With this, the number of judges in the High Court will go up to 27 (including the Chief Justice).

Urging the OBC Advisory Council set up by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) to strategise to bring pressure on the current regime to complete the nation-wide socio, economic and educational caste census, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said that there should be fight for reservation of 75% for backward classes or proportionate representation based on the caste census. He also favoured reservation in private sector.

In order to advance science-based conservation of the Asian elephant (elephas maximus), the Karnataka Forest Department and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on Tuesday signed a MoU to implement a five-year collaborative project titled ‘Landscape-Level Management of the Asian Elephant in the Mysore Elephant Reserve’.