Ø The Supreme Court pulled up the Centre on coal
block allocations and declared all 218 allocations made
from 1993 to 2011 illegal and arbitrary.
A Bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha and Justices Madan B. Lokur and Kurian
Joseph said the entire allocation of coal blocks as recommended by the
Screening Committee from July 14, 1993, in 36 meetings and the allocation made
through the government dispensation route suffered from the vice of
arbitrariness and legal flaws. In February 2012, the court ordered the
cancellation of spectrum allocations and directed fresh auction. Though the
present judgment would imply that the coal block allocations are to be
cancelled, the Bench said the consequences of declaring the allocations illegal
would be considered on September 1 taking into account the investments made by
companies for various projects and the procedure to be adopted for cancellation.
Ø The Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) has embarked upon producing five different types of
missiles, including a man-portable anti-tank missile and a short-range
surface-to-air missile (SR SAM), in the next three to five years, Scientific
Adviser to Defence Minister Avinash Chander said.
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| R N Ravi (IPS) |
Ø Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Appointments
Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of former
Intelligence Bureau Special Director R.N. Ravi as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
for a period of three years. Mr. Ravi, a 1976-batch Indian Police
Service officer from Kerala, has been appointed in the pay and rank of
Secretary to the Government of India. He retired as IB Special Director in 2012.
The 1980-batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre officer is presently posted as Additional
Director-General of the Sashatra Seema Bal.
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