1. Nine new judges, including three women, whose appointments to the Supreme Court have been cleared by the Centre, are likely to be sworn-in on August 31 by Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana.
2. Mumbai police have filed an extortion case against Mumbai Deputy Commissioner of Police Akbar Pathan and two other cops, one of them arrested for the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran, on a complaint by a man who is an accused in a cheating case.
3. Andhra Pradesh state government has sanctioned Rs 10 lakh for each child who lost both the parents due to corona.
4. High positivity rate has made Dakshina Kannada district administration decide not to reopen Graduate and Post Graduate classes till September 15.
5. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on 26 Aug (Thursday) demanded the Centre to extend the GST compensation period to states beyond 2022, for three more years. After a meeting with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Bommai said he also discussed the GST (Goods and Services Tax) dues to the tune of Rs 11,000 crore to be paid to Karnataka in installments.
6. Flights connecting Jamnagar in Gujarat to Bengaluru and Hyderabad inaugurated on 26 Aug (Thursday), Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said. The flights on the Jamnagar-Bengaluru route and the Jamnagar-Hyderabad route will be operated under the UDAN scheme by Star Air.
7. The Civil Aviation Ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Adani Group for providing services, including customs, immigration and security, at the Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports.
8. The Gujarat government on 26 Aug (Thursday) said it would approach the Supreme Court challenging the stay granted by the High Court on certain Sections of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act 2021 that seeks to stop religious conversion through interfaith marriages using force or allurement or fraudulent means.
9. Minister of State for Home Pradipsinh Jadeja said, “We are committed to stop the love jihad in the State. This amended Act is not a political tool for us. It is meant to ensure that women are not cheated or lured into marriages by changing names or surnames or symbols of Hindu religion,”
10 In Himachal Pradesh: people holding banners and placards of “Save Kinnaur: No Means, No” the villagers made it amply clear that they would not allow the coming up of the proposed 804 MW Jangi Thopan hydel project.
Himachal in the past months has witnessed scary landslides in which many persons were killed
11. 1,808 farmers, who have been found ineligible under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM KISAN), have been asked to return the financial aid received by them. The aid amounts to Rs 1.88 crore in the district
12. India”s aviation regulator DGCA on 26 Aug (Thursday) lifted the ban on Boeing 737 Max planes” commercial flight operations after almost two-and-half years.
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