The Union minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation D V Sadananda Gowda has assumed the additional charge of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.
The move was necessitated following the demise of Ananth Kumar who held that portfolio.
Justice Vineet Kothari was sworn in as a judge of the Madras High Court. With this, the number of judges in the Madras High Court has gone up to 61 as against the sanctioned strength of 75.
The scholar-epigraphist Padma Shri Iravatham Mahadevan passed away at the age of 88 on November 26 in Chennai.