The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Maharashtra government, Sharad Pawar and others in a petition challenging the Bombay High Court’s refusal to interfere in a PIL challenging special permission granted for the purchase of land for the Lavasa Hill Station Project in 2002. The respondents in the petition include the State of Maharashtra, Lavasa Corporation, NCP Chief …
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 …
