Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Weather man

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means less than one-fourth of Delhi is likely to experience showers.

The distributi­on increases with terms such as ‘scattered’, ‘fairly widespread’ and ‘widespread’. ‘Widespread rain’ means 76%-100% areas of the area will be covered.

“Informatio­n has no value if we fail to reach the user. Also, the value is reduced if it is not conveyed in the true sense of the term. Therefore, in the IMD’s parlance we have very well defined terminolog­ies indicating the area over which the weather event would occur (spatial distributi­on), when it is likely to occur (temporal distributi­on) and the intensity with which it would hit,” said Laxman Singh Rathore, former director general of the Indian Meteorolog­ical Department.

A weather scientist divides the sky into eight equal segments. While a clear sky indicates that none of the eight segments would have cloud, a mainly clear sky means that 1-2 segments would remain cloudy and the rest would be clear.

So the next time the forecast says that it ‘could’ rain and you carry an umbrella in your bag before leaving home, then chances are very high that you might not have to take it out. Indian Union Muslim League were the others signatorie­s.

The charges against the CJI included “conspiracy to pay illegal gratificat­ion” in the Prasad Education Trust case and denial of permission to proceed against a retired high court judge in the same matter.

The Prasad Education Trust case surfaced in 2017 when the CBI arrested a retired Orissa high court judge and five others on charges of bribery.

A petition for an independen­t probe was admitted by an SC bench headed by justice J Chelameswa­r, which ordered a constituti­on bench to hear the petition. The order was set aside by a five-judge bench set up by the CJI.

The opposition parties also alleged that the CJI, as an advocate, acquired a piece of land by giving a “false affidavit”. The opposition also alleged that sensitive cases were assigned to handpicked judges.

Some of these allegation­s were also made by four top judges, including justice Chelameswa­r, at a news conference on January 12. About the controvers­y over the movers of the motion going public with details of the notice, Naidu said it violated parliament­ary customs and convention­s.

“I am also aware that there have been a spate of statements in the press that seem to vitiate the atmosphere. I thought I should, therefore, expedite my decision and end needless speculatio­n,” he said. inquiry.”

The former law minister said if 50 Rajya Sabha members move a motion to remove a judge, the House chairman had to see “if the motion is in order and in consistent with Article 124 of the Constituti­on….Proved misbehavio­ur comes after the inquiry and not before the inquiry….That is why it is illegal.”

The procedure required Naidu to consult the CJI but as he couldn’t have consulted him, Naidu should have taken it up with the collegiums, Sibal said.

“He did not consult any judge on the allegation­s regarding whatever is happening in the Supreme Court,” Sibal said.

“What was the tearing hurry? It takes time to understand and go through a matter… I don’t think momentous matter like this should not have been disposed of in such a matter,” he said.

The government functionar­y said Article 124 talked about “proved misbehavio­ur” or incapacity, not “misbehavio­ur simplicter”. The removal of officials such as the members and chairperso­ns of public service commission could be initiated on the grounds of misbehavio­ur alone, the Constituti­on mandated “proved misbehavio­r” for judges to protect them, he said.

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