New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said the State Bank of India (SBI) can't be selective and has to disclose all ‘conceivable’ electoral bond details in its possession, including unique bond numbers that would disclose the link between the buyer and the recipient political party....
New Delhi: Top purchaser of electoral bonds Future Gaming and Hotel Services donated Rs509 crore to Tamil Nadu's ruling party DMK through the now scrapped payment mode, the Election Commission data showed Sunday. The BJP received the maximum funds through these bonds at Rs6,986.5 crore...
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning March 21 in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said Sunday. The 55-year-old national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been asked to depose...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha polls will be held in seven phases beginning from April 19 and the counting of votes will take place June 4 for the world's biggest election exercise. The other phases will be April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May...
New Delhi: Over 97 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said Saturday and urged everyone to ‘get inked.’ Addressing a press conference to announce the Lok Sabha elections, Kumar said the poll authority...
New Delhi: The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls Saturday. In a post on X, the poll panel said a press conference to announce the schedule for Lok Sabha elections and some state assemblies will be held at 3 pm...
New Delhi: From steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal to billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal's Airtel, Anil Agarwal's Vedanta, ITC, Mahindra and Mahindra, and a lesser-known Future Gaming and Hotel Services were among the prominent buyers of the now-scrapped electoral bonds for making political donations. The Election Commission...
New Delhi: The Election Commission Thursday made the data on electoral bonds public. Following a Supreme Court directive, the State Bank of India had shared the data with the poll panel March 12. The top court had given the Election Commission time till 5 pm...
Bhubaneswar: With the possibility of a pre-poll alliance between the BJP and the BJD still lingering, Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal Thursday asserted that his party will form the next government in the state "on its own". Samal, who along with senior state BJP leaders...
Bhubaneswar: With the possibility of a pre-poll alliance between the BJP and the BJD still lingering, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has convened a meeting of his party's senior leaders Thursday afternoon, party sources said. The BJD, which had March 6, a day after Prime...
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