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#JudicialAppointment: SC Judge-Led Panels Stop Interviews For Tribunal Posts, Citing 'Previous 100 Picks Ignored'

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The statutory selection committees led by Supreme Court judges have collectively decided to stop conducting interviews to recommend names for appointment of members to important tribunals till the bureaucracy clears 100 names that are already recommended even as vacancies have rendered the tribunals dysfunctional.

Media has learnt the collective decision by SC judges to stop further selection process had led to a bench of CJI V Ramana and Justice Surya Kant on Friday expressing unhappiness over the slack approach in filling vacancies in key tribunals.

The SC is unhappy with the governnment's slack approach in filling vaccines in important tribunals relating to armed forces, central government employees and in important sectors like telecom, environment, income tax, central excise and sales tax, debt recovery, corporate insolvency and company law.

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#ThirdWaveScare: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray warns of lockdown in case of COVID-19 surge

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Anticipating the third COVID-19 wave, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday (August 8) said that the administration would impose lockdown if the number of new infections rises in the state. Addressing people through social media, the CM said that even though restrictions have been relaxed in some districts, there are others that are witnessing a rise in new cases.

"Other states are now seeing an increase in outbreaks. In case of an increase in the number of patients in the state, there will be a lockdown," Thackeray said.

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#Vaccine: J&J’s single dose jab gets emergency approval

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New Delhi: Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine has been given Emergency Use approval in India, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday. He said this will further boost the country's collective fight against the coronavirus infection.

"India expands its vaccine basket! Johnson and Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine is given approval for Emergency Use in India. Now India has five EUA vaccines. This will further boost our nation's collective fight against #COVID19," the minister tweeted. "The US-based pharmaceutical company had applied for Emergency Use Authorisation for its jab on Friday and was granted the approval the same day by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI)," a senior official said.

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#Olympics: The girl who missed by a whisker, Aditi finishes 4th in golf

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New Delhi:  India's Aditi Ashok missed a medal narrowly as she signed off 4th in the Olympic Games' golf competition after carding a three-under 68 in the weather-hit final round here on Saturday. The 23-year-old Bengalurean ended two strokes off the pace with a total of 15-under 269, which was just one stroke below the medal bracket.

It was a heartbreaking end to Aditi's campaign considering she started the day in sole second position. But it was nonetheless a massive improvement as she had finished tied 41st in the 2016 edition where golf made a comeback to the Olympics after over 100 years.

In the final round, she fired five birdies -- on the 5th, 6th, 8th, 13th and 14th holes -- against two bogeys on the 9th and 11th. The world number 200 Indian had her mother Maheshwari as her caddie. Overnight leader and world number one Nelly Korda clinched the gold medal with a 2-under 69 that left her 17-under overall and a shot ahead of Japan's Mone Inami (65) and New Zealand's Lydia Ko (65).

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#Covid: Fatality rate plummets to 1.34

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New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 38,628 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection tally to 3,18,95,385, while the death toll climbed to 4,27,371 with 617 fresh fatalities, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The active cases have declined to 4,12,153 and comprise 1.29 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.37 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.

A decrease of 2,006 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. Also, 17,50,081 tests were conducted on Friday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the country to 47,83,16,964, while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.21 per cent. It has been less than 3 per cent for the last 12 days.

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