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Justice Kaushik Chanda has been made a permanent judge in the Calcutta High Court. This decision was taken after the Supreme Court collegium approved his elevation from additional judge to permanent judge in the Calcutta High Court.

This elevation comes more than a month after Justice Chanda recused himself from hearing the high profile Nandigram election petition.

Justice Kaushik Chanda was initially hearing Mamata Banerjee's petition against the West Bengal Assembly election result in Nandigram. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was beaten by BJP's Suvendu Adhikari by 1,965 votes in Nandigram constituency.

Industrialists and businessmen from the Patidar community will weigh Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in silver during his scheduled visit to Khodaldham near Gondal in Rajkot district on Thursday.

Mandaviya, who also hails from the same community, will become third person to be weighed in silver at Khodaldham.

“Around 20 leaders of Patidar community, including businessmen and industrialists have come together and decided to weigh Mandaviya in silver and then donate that silver to Shree Khodaldham Trust (SKT). They have decided to donate five kilogrammes of silver each,” Jitu Vasoya, honorary secretary of SKT, the religious trust of Leuva Patel sub-caste group of Patidar community, said.

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Wednesday announced the setting up of a separate IAS and civil services examination centre at Leh in the union territory of Ladakh.

Dr Jitendra Singh, who is the minister in charge of the department of personnel and training besides other portfolios, made the announcement after the Lt Governor of Ladakh RK Mathur called on him.

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will, from this year, have an Examination Centre at Leh, which will operate for the first time for the civil services (Preliminary) examination 2021, scheduled to be held on 10 October this year. This will address a long pending demand of the youth from the Ladakh region whose grievance was that they found it difficult to reach examination centres in other parts of the country because of the constraints of affordability of airfare and uncertain weather conditions.

Supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday staged a demonstration outside the head office of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in central Delhi, alleging corruption in the municipal corporations in Delhi (MCD) and sale of assets at undervalued rates.

“Aam Aadmi Party gheraoed BJP headquarters after MCD sold the Novelty Cinema land worth ₹200 crore for only ₹34 crore. The BJP knows it is going to be defeated in MCD elections, so it wants to fill its pocket by selling off public properties through MCD. People of Delhi want that an honest government, like the Kejriwal government, be brought into the MCD,” said the AAP’s national secretary Pankaj Gupta.