# Supreme Court

• The Supreme Court collegium, led by CJI DY Chandrachud, on Thursday said public criticism of the government’s “policies, initiatives and directions” is no disqualification for a person’s appointment as a judge.
• Collegium also reiterated its recommendation for appointment of advocate Somasekhar Sundaresan as a Bombay high court judge.
• The collegium, also comprising Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph, rejected the centre’s objection to its February 16, 2022 recommendation.
• The centre had rejected the recommendation on the ground that he is a “highly opinionated person” and has been selectively critical of important policies, initiatives and directions of the government on social media.

# Railway

• Railways has seen a 28% jump in freight and passenger revenue.
• It has increased to ₹1.9 lakh crore during the financial year upto January 18, compared to a little under ₹1.3 lakh crore during the corresponding period last year.
• Higher demand for freight movement has prompted the railways to add around 2000 wagons every month.
• Passenger revenue, estimated at ₹52000 crore during the financial year upto January 18 is at record level.

# Supreme court

• In a setback to Google, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected its plea for interim stay on the competition commission of India’s (CCI) order slapping ₹1338 crore penalty on it for anti competitive trade practices through the Android mobile operating system.
• Although the tech giant had agreed to put in place some of its EU compliant trade practices in 45-90 days in India.
• Meanwhile, Supreme Court ordered google to deposit 10% of the penalty within a week.

# Vedanta

• Vedanta will transfer its international zinc assets to subsidiary Hindustan zinc for $2.98 billion.
• Vedanta has zinc assets in South Africa and Namibia.