22 JUNE 2014: SC gets 3 new judges including Rohinton Nariman

Ø  President Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the elevation of the Chief Justices of Calcutta and Orissa High Courts Arun Mishra and Adarsh Kumar Goel, respectively, and senior lawyers Rohinton Nariman as Supreme Court judges.

Ø  Russia has signalled that its proposed giant gas pipeline to China could be extended to India, setting the stage for a triangular energy partnership among three core members of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping.

Ø  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has urged the Centre to incorporate Kathmandu as a designated route for the return journey of the former Kashmiri militants and their families who wanted to live a peaceful life back home. The rehabilitation policy introduced with the approval of the Government of India in 2010 recognises only five routes — Indira Gandhi International Airport New Delhi (air), Wagah (bus), Attari (train), Chakan da Bagh Poonch and Uri (cross-LoC bus). However, none of the ex-militants and their family members — whose number has crossed 1,000 — have returned through these routes as the Pakistan government would not permit any of them to take these regular routes for it could establish that the Kashmiri militants were being trained in the neighbouring country.