New Delhi, July 5 -- The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Union government, the Tamil Nadu Governor's office, and the University Grants Commission (UGC) in response to a plea by the TN government challenging a Madras high court order that stayed a set of laws transferring the power to appoint vice-chancellors of state universities from the Governor to the state government. A bench of justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan sought the responses while hearing an appeal filed by the MK Stalin-led government against the May 21 interim order passed by a vacation bench of the high court. The high court had in its order stayed the operation of recent state legislation amending various university laws to curtail the role of the Governor, who functions as chancellor, in the appointment process....