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THE SUPREME Court’s vacation calendar has often come under criticism from varied sections. So the message was not lost on anyone when Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud said Tuesday — a day after the court returned to full working strength after summer recess — that his brother judges seemed to have worked hard during the vacations. The CJI said this as Justice J B Pardiwala, sharing a bench with him, pronounced three judgments in a row, totalling 232 pages. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta agreed: “All those ignorant people who say courts are taking vacation must realise that this is what Your Lordships are doing during vacation.”
AHEAD OF the Budget Session in Parliament from July 22, Lutyens’ Delhi bungalows are being prepared for new residents as former MPs — including former ministers Smriti Irani, Mahendra Nath Pandey and Arjun Munda — who did not get elected to the Lok Sabha are in the process of vacating their official residences. Officials are also busy scouting bungalows for Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, including one on Tughlak Road. The Lok Sabha House Committee chaired by BJP MP Mahesh Sharma is yet to make any allotment to the MPs.
HE MAY no longer be a Rajya Sabha MP or a Union minister, but BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar continues to evangelise Indian tech on the international stage. Invited by the Tony Blair Institute of Global Change for a talk at the ‘Future of Britain Conference’ in London, the former Minister of State for IT spoke about how India has transformed digitally under Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last 10 years. He specifically focused on the governance issues in the age of AI and how technology transformed governance in the country. His lecture comes in the backdrop of the ongoing debate over digital transformation in Britain. Chandrasekhar’s message to the audience was that it should learn from India.
