Justice RM Lodha sworn in as 41st Chief Justice of India

1.    Justice RM Lodha sworn in as 41st Chief Justice of India

i. Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha was sworn in as the 41st Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

ii. The 64-year-old Justice Lodha will succeed Justice P Sathasivam and will serve as the CJI for five months as he is due to retire on September 27.

iii. Justice Lodha practiced Law in the Rajasthan High Court and was appointed as the Permanent Judge of the Rajasthan High Court in 1994.

iv. He was also later appointed as the chairman of the State Judicial Academy and subsequently sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court in 2008. In 2008, he was promoted to the post of judge of Supreme Court.

v. Recent highlight cases, among the many of Lodha's career, involve heading panel which examined sexual harassment to examine AK Ganguly Sexual harassment allegations.

vi. He is also responsible for the dismissal General VK Singh’s plea to change his date of birth when the former dragged the government to court over his age.

2.    South Korean prime minister resigns over ferry sinking

i. South Korea's Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won tendered his resignation on Sunday over the sinking of a passenger ferry that left more than 300 people dead or missing.

ii. "I offer my apology for having been unable to prevent this accident from happening and unable to properly respond to it afterwards," he said.

3.    Goldman Prize for environmental activist Ramesh Agrawal

i. Six environmental advocates from India, Peru, Russia and three other countries have won this year’s Goldman Prize, which is awarded for grass-roots activism.

ii. The Goldman Environmental Foundation said India’s Ramesh Agrawal received the prize for helping villagers fight coal mining in Chhattisgarh.

iii. Peru’s Ruth Buendia was recognised for helping to prevent two dams in the Peruvian Amazon, while Russian zoologist Suren Gazaryan won for defending protected areas from Olympic development in Sochi.

iv. The foundation said American lawyer Helen Slottje was selected for helping to shut down fracking in New York State, South Africa’s Desmond D’Sa for closing a toxic dump site in Durban, and Indonesian biologist Rudi Putra for shutting illegal palm oil plantations in Sumatra.

v. The winners will each receive $175,000 prixe.