Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa resigns

Ashok Lavasa, who was next in line to head the poll panel, on Tuesday resigned as Election Commissioner and would soon be joining the Asian Development Bank as vice president, sources said.......

Ashok Lavasa named as new ADB vice-president

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, who was next in line to head the poll panel, was on Wednesday named as the new vice-president of the Philippines-based Asian Development Bank -- a position he......

EC Lavasa's son under ED scanner for FEMA violations

The trouble for Ashok Lavasa's family began a few months back when his wife, Novel Singhal Lavasa, came under the scanner of the income tax department on charges of alleged tax evasion. IMAGE:......

Ex-bureaucrat Rajiv Kumar to replace Lavasa as EC

Retired bureaucrat Rajiv Kumar was appointed the election commissioner on Friday in place of Ashok Lavasa, who has resigned. President Ram Nath Kovind cleared Kumar's appointment with effect from......

House panel to discuss note ban impact with Urjit Patel

Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa and Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das have been summoned by the PAC.Amit Agnihotri/Business Standard reports. Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has......

Maharashtra to probe irregularities in Lavasa project

The Maharashtra government has found "some irregularities" in Lavasa, the country's first planned hill city project, and would take action if its probe proved any wrongdoing, a senior state......

'Budget has adequate pay panel provision'

Ashok Lavasa, left, the finance secretary, spoke to reporters after the briefing by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the government's approval of the pay commission recommendations on salary and......

New currency notes in ATMs from Friday: Finance secy

The new hard-to-fake Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 currency notes will be available at bank ATMs when they start operating again from Friday, Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa said on Wednesday. “There......