Daily Newsletter | Sunday, January 14, 2018
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| SC rift may spur government to contest judges-select-judges system |
| A day after the unprecedented press conference by four senior SC judges with not-so-subtle political undertone, political as well as legal circles were debating the possibility of the government using the tumult in the top court to seek clarity on whether the recommendations of a badly divided Collegium on appointment of judges of the Supreme Court and high courts is obligatory. |
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| Supreme Court crisis: Judges close ranks with CJI |
| A day after the four most senior judges of the Supreme Court held an unprecedented press conference to claim that all is not well in the apex court because of alleged arbitrary allocation of cases to “select benches”, an overwhelming majority of the other 21 SC judges appeared to close ranks with chief justice Dipak Misra. |
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| Hawaii officials send false inbound missile alert |
| A false alarm that warned of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic Saturday, with people abandoning cars in a highway and preparing to flee their homes until officials said the cellphone alert was a mistake. |
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| DU student in BMW mows down man in North Campus |
| The BMW was coming from Kamla Nagar market, when it hit Shiv Nath, who was crossing the road. Nath was flung several metres into the air. He was rushed to a hospital where he was declared brought dead, police said. Sahni fled the spot in his car. |
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| Finnish firm detects new Intel security flaw |
| A new security flaw has been found in Intel hardware which could enable hackers to access corporate laptops remotely, Finnish cybersecurity specialist F-Secure said on Friday. |
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| 2nd Test: SA reduced To 269/6 after a solid start |
| After a decent start, the Indian bowlers sprayed, attempting to judge the right length again on a very slow wicket. The bounce remained erratic and so did their length. All of that took time as the hosts began freeing their arms. |
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| Budget 2018: Allocation for highways set to treble in Modi’s term |
| The government is planning to increase the budgetary allocation for highways by over 15 per cent to Rs 71,000 crore, along with permission to NHAI to raise another Rs 61,000 crore, in 2018-19, resulting in the total spend on the sector going up by nearly three times since the Narendra Modi government assumed office in 2014. |
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| In Pics: SRK-Gauri host star-studded bash |
| The film industry’s biggest, brightest stars like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, Hrithik Roshan, Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, among others assembled at Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan’s residence to celebrate Kaajal Anand’s 50th birthday. |
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