Lavasa

Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigned on Saturday just days before the anticipated announcement of the schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Court spoke of "an Election Commissioner opting out of the commission", though it did not take names; and said "every government appoints a yes man"

Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar has been appointed Election Commissioner, the Law Ministry said in notification on Friday night. Mr Kumar will take charge the day Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa leaves his office on August 31. The outgoing Election Commissioner is joining Asian Development Bank as its vice president.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has resigned to join Asian Development Bank as vice president. The resignation came a month after the multilateral funding agency on July 15 named him its next vice president.

Mr Lavasa has been appointed as the vice-president for private sector operations and public-private partnerships

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has been appointed as a Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, the multilateral funding agency announced Wednesday

The Election Commission has taken note of changes made by South Korea in procedures while holding its parliamentary polls amid the coronavirus outbreak and said it will consider modifications as required and suited to the Indian context wherever elections need to be held in this kind of pandemic environment.

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and fellow commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra have decided to take a voluntary 30 per cent cut in their basic salaries for one year to fund fight against COVID-19.

Backing Deepika Padukone, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said the actress's silent protest against JNU violence and Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa doing his duty impartially despite harassment to his family showed that for some people, truth, freedom, and justice are not just lofty words, but ideals worth sacrificing for.

After months of alleged harassment by government agencies, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has said the path to honesty "often turns out to be tortuous".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sundaypaid a visit to former Union Minister Arun Shourie at a Pune hospital, where he was admitted after suffering a head injury early last week.

Former Union minister Arun Shourie sustained a brain injury after he fainted and fell near his home in Lavasa and was admitted to a private hospital here in Maharashtra, a doctor said today.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Upadhyay recently submitted a 21-page petition to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and his deputies Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra urging them to use their plenary powers under Article 324 to replace party symbols on voting machines and ballot papers with candidate details.

A day after the Income Tax Department issued a notice to Novel Singhal, wife of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, referring to her earnings while working as an independent director of some companies, the Congress slammed the BJP government saying it was punishing the "neutral referee".

A notice has been sent to Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's wife Novel S Lavasa for discrepancies in income tax filings, sources told NDTV. The Income Tax department has sought information "related to foreign exchange", the sources said.

Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigned on Saturday just days before the anticipated announcement of the schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Court spoke of "an Election Commissioner opting out of the commission", though it did not take names; and said "every government appoints a yes man"

Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar has been appointed Election Commissioner, the Law Ministry said in notification on Friday night. Mr Kumar will take charge the day Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa leaves his office on August 31. The outgoing Election Commissioner is joining Asian Development Bank as its vice president.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has resigned to join Asian Development Bank as vice president. The resignation came a month after the multilateral funding agency on July 15 named him its next vice president.

Mr Lavasa has been appointed as the vice-president for private sector operations and public-private partnerships

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has been appointed as a Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, the multilateral funding agency announced Wednesday

The Election Commission has taken note of changes made by South Korea in procedures while holding its parliamentary polls amid the coronavirus outbreak and said it will consider modifications as required and suited to the Indian context wherever elections need to be held in this kind of pandemic environment.

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and fellow commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra have decided to take a voluntary 30 per cent cut in their basic salaries for one year to fund fight against COVID-19.

Backing Deepika Padukone, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said the actress's silent protest against JNU violence and Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa doing his duty impartially despite harassment to his family showed that for some people, truth, freedom, and justice are not just lofty words, but ideals worth sacrificing for.

After months of alleged harassment by government agencies, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has said the path to honesty "often turns out to be tortuous".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sundaypaid a visit to former Union Minister Arun Shourie at a Pune hospital, where he was admitted after suffering a head injury early last week.

Former Union minister Arun Shourie sustained a brain injury after he fainted and fell near his home in Lavasa and was admitted to a private hospital here in Maharashtra, a doctor said today.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Upadhyay recently submitted a 21-page petition to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and his deputies Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra urging them to use their plenary powers under Article 324 to replace party symbols on voting machines and ballot papers with candidate details.

A day after the Income Tax Department issued a notice to Novel Singhal, wife of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, referring to her earnings while working as an independent director of some companies, the Congress slammed the BJP government saying it was punishing the "neutral referee".

A notice has been sent to Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's wife Novel S Lavasa for discrepancies in income tax filings, sources told NDTV. The Income Tax department has sought information "related to foreign exchange", the sources said.