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- Justice NV Ramanna to take over as the next Chief Justice of India. The CJI is appointed by the president of India, in consultation with the outgoing CJI.
- The Delhi government has imposed a night curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. from April 6 to April 30, with an exception for emergency activities and services, according to an official order.
- The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has modified the guidelines pertaining to the transfer and posting of officials in the vigilance units of government organisations, restricting their tenure to three years at one place. The tenure may be extended to three more years, albeit at a different place of posting. The CVC was set up by the Government in February, 1964 on the recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption, headed by Shri K. Santhanam. In 2003, the Parliament enacted CVC Act conferring statutory status on the CVC. The CVC is not controlled by any Ministry/Department. It is an independent body which is only responsible to the Parliament.
- The Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed a woman to abort her more than 24 weeks pregnancy after taking note of a medical board’s report that the foetus suffers from substantial abnormalities. In India, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) (Amendment) Act, 2020 has extended the termination of pregnancy period from 20 weeks to 24 weeks, making it easier for women to safely and legally terminate an unwanted pregnancy. This bill has only recently been approved (26th March 2021).
- The incidents of forest fire have been rising in Uttarakhand as summers arrive. In the last 24 hours, according to official sources, 75 incidents of forest fire — 50 in forest reserves and 25 in civil or van panchayat areas — had been reported affecting 105.85 hectares of forest land.
- French anti-corruption authorities made no serious attempts to investigate the suspicions of corruption and favouritism surrounding the Rafale deal, according to the second of the three-part investigative series by French media which was released on Tuesday.
- The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to check the viability of vaccination for all citizens in the State and not just those above the age of 45 years. The court also asked the State to examine the viability of having night curfew to check late evening and social gatherings. [DEBATE: can the court intervene in the policy making and implementation unless there has been a clear violation of statute?]
- Maoists released a statement on Tuesday that the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) commando who went missing after the April 3 encounter at Tarrem in Chattisgarh’s Sukma was in their custody.
- India is a “red-hot” investment opportunity because of its “clean energy” shift, said U.S. special envoy, suggesting that having the U.S. as a partner in tackling climate change is a unique advantage.
- In significant appointments in the Ministry of Finance, the Modi administration has appointed Tarun Bajaj as the Secretary in the most important Department of Revenue, shifting him from the Department of Economic Affairs, where he was posted in April 2020.
- The Goa Assembly Speaker has agreed to advance the date of his decision on the disqualification petitions filed against 10 former Congress MLAs who ‘merged’ with the BJP in 2019 from April 29 to April 20. The Anti-Defection Law was passed in 1985 through the 52nd amendment to the Constitution. It added the Tenth Schedule to the Indian Constitution. The main intent of the law was to combat “the evil of political defections”. Clause 2(1)(a) of the Tenth Schedule states that a member may be disqualified “if he has voluntarily given up his membership” of a political party. Any question regarding disqualification arising out of defection is to be decided by the presiding officer of the House.
- China is holding naval drills involving an aircraft carrier battlegroup near Taiwan, which it said were aimed at safeguarding Chinese sovereignty, an apparent allusion to Beijing’s claim to the self-governed island. While china claims that the Taiwan region is a part of China as Taipei, the region considers itself to be independent.
- China’s Foreign Minister cautioned Japan against teaming up with the U.S. to counter Beijing, as Japan speaks up more on human rights in the Xinjiang region in China and Hong Kong ahead of a U.S.-Japan summit next week.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday urged NATO to speed up his country’s membership in the alliance, saying it was the only way to end fighting with pro-Russia separatists.
- Indian economy is expected to contract by 8% in 2020-21, and projected to grow at 12.5% in the current fiscal year 2021-22, said the International Monetary Fund’s ‘World Economic Outlook (WEO): Managing Divergent Recoveries’. It also forecast India’s economy to expand by a relatively more sedate 6.9% in the next financial year (2022-23).
