• Senior Advocate Indu Malhotra will be the first woman lawyer to be directly elevated from the Bar to the Supreme Court as a judge.

• Her name was cleared unanimously by the Supreme Court Collegium which met on 10th January.

• The five-member Collegium, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, also recommended elevation of Uttarakhand Chief Justice K M Joseph to the Supreme Court.

• The elevation of Malhotra and Joseph, as and when approved by the Centre, will take the strength of judges in the Supreme Court to 27 as against the sanctioned 31.

• Malhotra will be the seventh woman judge since Independence to make it to the Supreme Court. At present, Justice R Banumathi, appointed in August 2014, is the lone woman judge in the apex court and will retire in July 2020.

• MD and CEO, Allahabad Bank, has been elected the first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
• Usha was elected IBA Chairman for the year 2017-18 by its Managing Committee on 25th January.
• IBA Chairman’s position fell vacant following the superannuation of Jatinder Bir Singh, who was Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab & Sind Bank, on December 31, 2017.
• IBA is the banking sector’s industry body, whose objective, among others, is to promote and develop sound and progressive banking principles, practices and conventions and to contribute to the developments of creative banking in the country.

• Vijay Keshav Gokhale will be the new Foreign Secretary of India.
• He will replace the incumbent Dr S. Jaishankar, who is completing his tenure on the 28th of this month.
• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved Gokhale's appointment.
• A 1981-batch IFS officer, Mr Gokhale is currently holding the charge of Secretary Economic Relations in the External Affairs Ministry.

• India's High Commissioner to Kuala Lumpur T S Tirumurti was appointed the Secretary (Economic Relations) in the External Affairs Ministry on 5th January.

• According to the order issued by the personnel ministry, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved his appointment to the post, in place of Vijay Keshav Gokhale, who was recently named as the Foreign Secretary.

• Tirumurti is a 1985-batch officers of Indian Foreign Service.

• Power-lifting world champion Saksham Yadav died of his injuries after road accident near Delhi on 7th January.

• A Delhi court on 4th January declared liquor businessman Vijay Mallya a proclaimed offender for evading summons in a FERA violation case.
• Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Shehrawat passed the order after noting that Mallya failed to appear before it despite repeated summonses.
• The court said, Mallya failed to appear before it within 30 days, and no representation was made on his behalf, therefore his is declared to be a proclaimed offender.
• The court had in April last year issued an open-ended non-bailable warrant against the liquor baron.
• In November 2016, the court had observed that Mallya had no inclination to return and had scant regard for the law of the land.

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