The central government approved the appointment of 5 Supreme Court judges
- The total number of Judges allowed in the Supreme Court including the Chief Justice is 34. But, currently the Supreme Court is functioning with 27 judges. A large number of cases could not be heard due to shortage of judges.
- In this case, the collegium headed by Chief Justice Chandra Soot was recommended on December 13 to appoint 5 judges as Supreme Court judges. Thereafter, on January 31, the collegium recommended the appointment of Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Arvind Kumar as Supreme Court judges.
- But for the past 2 months, the central government has been dragging its feet without appointing the nominees to the Supreme Court. During the hearing a few days ago, Supreme Court Justices SK Kaul and AS Oka asked Attorney General R. Venkatramani about the status of the collegium recommendations.
- Subsequently, the central government approved the appointment of Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Pankaj Mittal, Patna High Court Chief Justice Ranjay Karol, Manipur High Court Chief Justice PV Sanjay Kumar, Patna High Court Justice Asanuddin Amanullah and Allahabad High Court Justice Manoj Mishra. President Drabupati Murmu approved it yesterday. After that, all 5 people will take office as judges.
- Saturn has by far the most moons in the solar system. There are 83 lands there. Astronomers have discovered 12 new planets on Jupiter. Thus it has been confirmed that there are currently 92 lands in Jupiter which has 80 lands.
- This made Jupiter the first planet in the solar system with the most land. Shani, which was in the first position till now, has now been pushed to the 2 meter position. Astronomer Scott Shepherd of the International Astronomical Union's Carnegie Center confirmed this.
- Chief Minister Stalin released a special flower named 'Ilakkiya Malar 2023' prepared on behalf of the Tamilarasu Magazine of the Department of News and Public Relations at the Chief Secretariat.
- The first copy of the flower was received by Chief Secretary V. Irayanbum and the second and third copies were received by Sahitya Akademi award winning writer S. Ramakrishnan and famous painter Trotsky Maruthu.
- The G20 Conference on Carbon Utilization and Storage has been organized internationally by the National Thermal Power Corporation. India will assume the presidency of the G20 on December 1, 2022. India holds this leadership for one year. In this regard, the working committee meeting on electricity distribution will be held from 5th to 7th February 2023.
- As part of this, India's largest integrated power corporation, NTPC, on behalf of the central government's power department, is conducting the seminar. An International Conference on Carbon Utilization and Storage will be held on 5th at Dej Westend, Bengaluru.
- It is attended by representatives of trade unions, policy makers, scientists and academic institutions from various countries. The seminar highlighted the importance of carbon utilization and storage in achieving the goal of clean energy sharing.
