Harbhajan Kaur Dheer becomes first
Asian elected mayor in UK
Indian-origin councilor Harbhajan Kaur
Dheer of Labour Party became the first Asian woman to be elected as mayor in
United Kingdom. She was elected as mayor of Ealing Council in London by
succeeding councilor Tej Ram Bagha. It should be noted that Ealing Council is
located in the heart of west London and serves the residents and businesses of
London’s third largest borough. Harbhajan Kaur Dheer was born in Punjab in 1953
and has moved to Britain in 1975. She had obtained a degree from Social
Sciences at Kingston University in 1995. Till 2003, she had worked as Mental
Health Professional and had passionately advocated rights of children and
elderly including those with mental health issues. Her husband Ranjit Dheer is
presently councilor of Ealing Council and is a former Mayor of Ealing from
2001-2002.
SC issues guidelines to regulating
Government Advertisements
Supreme Court (SC) issued a slew of
guidelines on regulation of public advertisements. This guidelines seeks to
prevent ruling politicians at all levels from misusing tax payers’ money to
enhance their image or of their parties as it is against democratic principles.
This judgment was given by SC Bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Pinaki
Chandra Ghose on a PIL filed by Common Cause, a registered society.
Guidelines set by Supreme Court
• Ban
on the use of photographs of ministers and party leaders in the government
advertisements released by
government institutions and autonomous bodies.
• Only
photographs of the President, Prime Minister (PM) and Chief Justice of India
(CJI)
can feature in the government
advertisements with their prior approval.
• Besides,
the photos of late national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
can be used in these advertisements.
• Henceforth,
official advertisements should not carry the name of any political party,
political symbol, logo or flag.
• In
order to regulate the issue of public advertisement and to keep check on framed
guidelines to prevent its violation, Union government must
constitute a three-member
committee.
Tejaswini Sagar
wins gold at Under-15 World School
Chess Championship
Tejaswini Sagar from India won under-15
category of World School Chess Championships in her maiden attempt. In the
ninth and final round played at Pattaya, Thailand she defeated Kavinya Miyuni
Rajapaksa of Sri Lank to win gold medal. In this championship, Tejaswini scored
seven points out of nine by winning six, drawing two and losing one game. Irina
Barbayeva of Russia won the silver medal in this category. While, top seed Nur
Abidah Shanti of Indonesia won the bronze medal. Apart from Tejaswini, Anand
Nadar bagged the silver medal in under-15 open category while Saloni Sapole
also won the silver in under-17 girls’ section for India in this World School
Chess Championship.
President Pranab Mukherjee confers
Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil
President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the
Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil for the years 2011-12 and 2012-13. It
was bestowed on scholars who have made outstanding contribution to the
development of Classical Tamil language and literature.
Tolkappiyar
Award for lifetime achievement in Classical Tamil was given to SV
Shanmugam for year 2011-12 and R Krishnamurthi for year 2012-13.
Kural
Pitam Award
was given to Eva Maria Wilden of Germany for 2011-12.
Young
Scholar Awards
was presented to E. Ezhilvasanthan, K. Jawahar and K. Iyyappan for 2011-12
while for the year 2012-13 was given to R. Venkatesan, A. Sathish, M.R. Devak,
U. Alibava and B. Jaiganesh.
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