NEW DELHI, Oct 11: The Central Government on Tuesday notified the elevation of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey as Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
The Supreme Court collegium had recommended his elevation in a meeting of the Collegium headed by Justice of India UU Lalit on September 28.
The decision was taken in the wake of transfer current Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal to the Rajasthan High Court.
Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey was born on December 8, 1960.
He enrolled as an advocate in the year 1984 and started practicing law in the district courts, including revenue courts/ tribunals and also in the High Court.
He was appointed a judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in March 2013.

NEW DELHI, Oct 11: Kashmiri separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah, the son-in-law of the late Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, died of cancer at the AIIMS here early Tuesday, days after he was taken to the hospital from the Tihar Jail on the orders of Delhi High Court. He was 66.
“We were informed about Abu’s passing away late last night,” his daughter Ruwa Shah told PTI. In a tweet, she said Shah breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. “As a prisoner.”
Shah, a resident of Soura locality of Srinagar, was arrested on July 25, 2017 with six others, facing trial in an alleged terror funding case probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
On October 5, the Delhi High court has ordered his shifting to the AIIMS Delhi for appropriate treatment after he was stated to have been diagnosed with cancer. Shah told the court he was receiving treatment for certain serious ailments at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML) but it was recently revealed he was suffering from the last stage renal cancer.
While claiming the RML does not have the adequate facility to treat renal cancer, he prayed he be allowed to be shifted to the AIIMS or Apollo Hospital for urgent treatment. Shah is survived by wife, son and two daughters. (Agencies)

Kyiv, Oct 10: Multiple explosions rocked Kyiv early on October 10, 2022 following months of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported explosions in the city’s Shevchenko district, a large area in the center of Kyiv that includes the historic old town as well as several government offices.
Lesia Vasylenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, posted a photo on Twitter showing that at least one explosion occurred near the main building of the Kyiv National University in central Kyiv.
The spokesperson for Emergency Service in Kyiv told the AP that there are killed and wounded people. Rescuers are now working in different locations, said Svitlana Vodolaga.
The number of casualties is not yet known.
The explosions were heard by AP journalists and appeared to be the result of missile strikes.
The last previous attack on Kyiv was in June. One of the missiles struck an apartment building, killing one and wounding six. But unlike previous attacks that mostly hit Kyiv’s outskirts, Monday’s strike targeted several locations in the very center of the city.

Also on Monday morning, Associated Press journalists reported hearing explosions in the center of Dnipro city. Associated Press journalists on the scene saw the bodies of multiple people killed at an industrial site on the city’s outskirts. Windows in the area had been blown out and glass littered the street.
Ukrainian media reported explosions in a number of other locations, including the western city of Lviv that has been a refuge for many people fleeing the fighting in the east, as well as Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr and Kropyvnytskyi.
Recent fighting has focused on the regions just north of Crimea, including Zaporizhzhia, where six missiles were launched overnight Saturday from Russian-occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region.
The strikes on Kyiv and other cities came a few hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to hold a meeting with his security council, a day after he called the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea a terrorist act carried out by Ukrainian special services. In a meeting Sunday with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Putin said “there’s no doubt it was a terrorist act directed at the destruction of critically important civilian infrastructure.” (Agencies)

NEW DELHI, Oct 10: The Supreme Court on Monday junked a plea seeking a direction to the Election Commission to ensure that all political parties publish details regarding criminal cases of candidates along with the reason for their selection on the home page of their official websites.
A Bench of Justices S.K. Kaul and Abhay S. Oka asked the petitioner to approach the Election Commission with his plea.
“This is not a walk-in place. We feel that this petition is misconceived. What is being sought is implementation of the previous judgement of this court. It is for the petitioner to approach the Election Commission. Plea is dismissed,” the Bench said.
Besides the website, the petition filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay also sought a direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure that every politician publishes the details in electronic, print, and social media, and to file a contempt case against the president of the party which violates such directions.
The plea claimed that the petition was filed after Samajwadi Party, which is a registered and recognised political party, fielded alleged gangster Nahid Hasan from Kairana Assembly in Uttar Pradesh but neither published his criminal records in electronic, print, or social media nor the reason for his selection.
The petitioner also seeks direction to the Election Commission of India to de-register the political party, which violates the directions of the Supreme Court, the petition, filed through advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, said. (AGENCIES)

NEW DELHI, Oct 10: Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited Medanta hospital in Gurugram where Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav died on Monday and paid his tributes to him.
Soon after the news came about the leader’s demise, Shah drove to the hospital to share the family’s grief.
The home minister met Mulayam’s family members, including son and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, at the hospital and expressed his condolences.
Earlier in a tweet in Hindi, Shah hailed the three time UP chief minister as a champion of democracy who raised his voice during the emergency.
Mulayam Singh died on Monday at Medanta in Gurugram after a prolonged illness. He was 82.
“Mulayam Singh Yadav remained active in politics for decades with his unique political skills. During the Emergency, he raised his voice for the restoration of democracy.
“He will always be remembered as a grassroots leader. His death marks the end of an era in Indian politics,” Shah tweeted in Hindi.
“May God give place to the departed soul at his feet. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti,” he said. (Agencies)

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have started his campaigning for the Gujarat assembly elections 2022, which are expected to take place in December this year. In the midst of his campaigning, Kejriwal has made a big claim about BJP.

Arvind Kejriwal has claimed that a lot of workers and leaders from the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in Gujarat have been meeting with him “secretly” and want their party to lose the upcoming elections. He claimed that they are supporting AAP in the polls.

Further, the AAP chief said that he is inviting all the BJP leaders in Gujarat to secretly work for his party and work towards defeating the ruling party in the state. Kejriwal made these claims while addressing a rally in the tribal-dominated Valsad district in Gujarat.

The Delhi CM said during the rally, “Many BJP leaders and workers meet me and secretly ask me to do something to defeat the ruling party. I would like to tell all the BJP workers and leaders who want to defeat their party to work secretly for AAP.”

“We have to break 27 years of their (BJP’s) arrogance. I know you have your businesses, if you join us they will damage your business. You stay there, but secretly work to defeat it. Congress workers need not fear, you can leave your party and join AAP. Forget your party,” Arvind Kejriwal further said