13 September 2012 Current Affairs
Justice Altamas Kabir to be new CJI
Justice
Altamas Kabir, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, was
appointed as the next chief justice of India (CJI) on 13th September
2012.Justice Kabir, 64, who will succeed the current chief justice
Sarosh Homi Kapadia, will assume his new charge on September 29 as the
country’s 39th CJI.
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K N Tilak Kumar elected president of INS
K
N Tilak Kumar of Deccan Herald and Prajavani was on 13th September 2012
elected president of The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2012-13 at
its 73rd annual general meeting held at Bangalore. He succeeds Ashish
Bagga of India Today.
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Ex-CJI Ranganath Misra passes away
Former
Chief Justice of India Ranganath Mishra died at a private hospital in
Bhubaneshwar on 13th September 2012.Misra, served as the Chief Justice
from September 25, 1990, till November 24, 1991. He was also the first
chairman of the NHRC.
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Highest under-5 deaths in India
In
the Child Mortality Estimates Report 2012 published by United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF), India was placed at the top position in the
chart of 10 countries that topped on the chart. The other countries with
their names on the chart are Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo,
China, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
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