The Supreme Court has invalidated the Indian Army’s policy of reserving six JAG posts for men and three for women, calling it arbitrary and violative of equality, and ordered a single merit list for all candidates.
During his career, Manmohan worked for various English newspapers including The Statesman, The Tribune, Hindustan Times and Times of India
On October 19 the counting of votes will start and the result will be declared as soon as the counting gets over.
In this presidential election, NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is pitted against joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha.
In the summer of 2012, when Mukherjee became the 13th President of India after having spent several decades in politics, there was great speculation about how he would approach his new, bipartisan role after having been associated with a political party for so many years of his life.
