Here’s your quick five-minute roundup of today’s top stories — from politics and India to the world and beyond. Good evening, readers.
The Centre on Monday notified the appointment of three Chief Justices of high courts as judges of the Supreme Court of India. The list drops all sitting MPs, including union ministers Hardeep puri and BL Verma, who have not secured a renomination. Two women — former MP Priyanka Singh Rawat and Shruti Gangwar — have featured on the list. Dharampal Singh, an OBC leader who is the animal husbandry minister in chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet, is also on the list. Check full list here. Know more here. Read more here.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced eight nominees for the upcoming biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh that will be held on October 16. Pakistan officially withdrew from the World Championship of Legends (WCL) Season 3 on Monday, and the team would no longer participate in the tournament.
The three judges appointed to the Supreme Court are Justice Sunita Agarwal, Chief Justice of the Gujarat high court; Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Chief Justice of the Delhi high court; and Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh, Chief Justice of the Telangana high court, according to the notification issued by the Department of Justice. Earlier, the team’s match against Bangladesh was postponed due to “technical reasons”, but it was common knowledge that the management was waiting for the NoC to be issued by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The PCB issued the NoC but imposed certain conditions, which the organisers eventually declined, according to sources privy to the developments.
