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The Supreme Court has set aside appointment of the second married daughter of a clerk in the Maharashtra government on compassionate grounds as recommended by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal and confirmed by the Bombay High Court.

A Bench of Justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari set aside the tribunal order and the High Court ruling, holding that they had committed a serious error in directing the woman's appointment on compassionate ground as such an order after a number of years is unsustainable.

Allowing the appeal of the Maharashtra government, the Bench noted the High Court had wrongly implemented the government circular of 26.02.2013 that employment is to be provided to one of the legal heirs and representatives of the deceased government servant on compassionate ground.

The 4th All IITs International Relations Conclave at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) proposed more than quadrupling the number of international students on their campuses to 5 percent with targeted scholarships and creating International IIT Centres in neighbouring countries to bolster recruitment of international students at the country's premier educational institutions.

The proposed Centres in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, which send the largest number of students to India, would serve to leverage the IIT brand to expand their reach to attract the brightest students from the region to the IITs. Internationalisation is a major focus under the New Education Policy, for expanding the educational experience of Indian students, and for enhancing the international stature and global university rankings of Indian educational institutions.

Over a decade after it was launched, India's maiden mission to Mars — Mangalyaan — has completed its journey. The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has, reportedly, run out of propellant, making it difficult to be revived in the Red Planet's orbit.

This development is fuelling speculation that the mission is finally over. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which operates the spacecraft around Mars, is yet to say anything on the matter of whether the probe can be revived or not.

Sources told news agency PTI that there is no fuel left in Mangalyaan. "Right now, there is no fuel left. The satellite battery has drained," sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told PTI, adding that the link has been lost.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched projects worth Rs 7,200 crore in Ambaji on Friday. Earlier, PM Modi addressed a gathering at the inauguration of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase I in the presence of Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Hardeep Singh Puri.

The PM inaugurated Phase I of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project on Friday. He arrived at Kalupur railway station after his journey in the Vande Bharat Express from Gandhinagar. He arrived at Gandhinagar station on Friday morning to flag off the new Vande Bharat Express. Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat, Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel were also present. The PM waved a green flag while a crowd raised slogans of ‘vande mataram’ as he inaugurated the train.

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the transfer of the chief justices of two high courts and the appointment of three new chief justices.

A five-member collegium led by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit had taken a decision in this regard on September 28, but it was made public in a statement on Friday. The collegium also comprises Justices D Y Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Abdul Nazeer and K M Joseph.

The collegium recommended the transfer of Orissa High Court Chief Justice S Muralidhar as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. Justice Muralidhar, whose parent high court is Delhi, was appointed as Chief Justice of Orissa HC in January last year.