Kumar, a retired 1984-batch IAS officer of the Jharkhand cadre, will have a five-year tenure and retire in 2025. He will preside over the next Lok Sabha polls in 2024 New Delhi: Former bureaucrat Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday assumed charge as the new election commissioner. During the span of more than 36 years of service, Kumar has worked in various …
Sukumar Sen, India’s first chief election commissioner and conducted the first general elections of Independent India in 1951-52. The first Sukumar Sen Memorial Lecture, instituted by the Election Commission of India in memory of the first chief election commissioner of the country was delivered on January 23 by former President Pranab Mukherjee. With the adoption of the principle of Universal …
Election commissioner Ashok Lavasa had kicked up a storm earlier after he alleged that he did not agree with the Election Commission of India’s decisions to clear Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah of charges of violating the so-called Model Code of Conduct. The P Chidambaram connection Ashok Lavasa is a 1980 Batch Haryana cadre …
Here is a look at the three-member team of the Election Commission of India which will be responsible for conducting the Lok Sabha Election 2019. Sunil Arora Sunil Arora, the Chief Election Commissioner, is a 1980 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer. The 2019 Lok Sabha election will be Arora’s first big challenge as the Chief Election Commissioner. While Arora has …
HCC approved a rights issue of up to Rs 500 crore to strengthen company’s financial profile and to refocus its efforts on its core construction and engineering business New Delhi: Hindustan Construction Company Ltd Thursday posted a loss of Rs 1,525.23 crore for the July-September quarter, hit by an exceptional loss of Rs 2,011.13 crore due to impairment charges related …