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CBSE OSM glitch: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan accepts responsibility, says corrective measure are being takenUnion Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has taken responsibility for issues with the CBSE's On-Screen Marking system. He assured strict...- Donald Trump is getting the Republican Party that he wants. But can he win in the midterms?President Trump's strong influence in Republican primaries presents a challenge for the party's upcoming midterm elections. Voters are repo...
- PM Modi completes 12 years in office; BJP, Union ministers hail his leadershipOn May 26, 2014, Modi took charge as India's Prime Minister with landslide victory. He got re-elected with a bigger mandate in 2019 and aga...
- Congress flags broken NRC portal, seeks probe into Assam website, helpline failuresCongress leader Debabrata Saikia has raised concerns about the National Register of Citizens NRC Assam website and its helpline. He reporte...
- No link between ED raids and political donations to ruling party: FMFinance Minister Sitharaman addressed allegations of ED raids' ties to electoral funding, advocating for a transparent political funding sy...
- Electoral Bonds scrapped, what's next? FM Nirmala Sitharaman comments over poll bond controversyFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman responded to the Electoral Bonds controversy, suggesting that assumptions are shaping the discourse. At...
- Election commission opposed electoral bondsECI had written a three-page letter to the law ministry on May 26, 2017, flagging concerns over amendments in the Finance Act, 2017, which ...
- Plea in SC seeks stay on implementation of Electoral Bond SchemePlea filed by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said that certain amendments made in Finance Act, 2017 and earlier Finance Act, 2016...
- Govt files fresh affidavit against EC arguments on Electoral BondsThe government has filed a fresh counter affidavit dismissing the EC’s arguments and defending the scheme.
- Election Commission flagged bond concerns a year ago, but government tells House it hasn’tThe finance ministry said that electoral bonds worth Rs 1,056.73 crore were purchased via six tranches since the scheme’s launch in January...
- Open to suggestions on cleansing political funding, says Arun JaitleyIn a Facebook post, Jaitley said the conventional practice of funding the political system was to take donations as well as undertake expen...
- View: With electoral bonds on table, take the full stepsThe electoral bonds can be purchased for specified denominations and the payee then can bestow it upon a registered political party as dona...
- Bonds fail to break corporate-political nexus: TS KrishnamurthyFM Jaitley had outlined contours of the new electoral bonds that donors can buy from SBI with political parties receiving them being able t...
- RBI, EC have no info on bonds for political parties funding"We have no information to furnish," the central bank said in its reply to the RTI query. The RBI was asked details of the draft electoral ...
- Is Rs-2,000 cap on cash donation to political parties realistic, asks Parliament panelAs per the existing provisions of the Income Tax Act, parties registered with the Election Commission are exempted from paying income tax.
- Cleansing political funding a challenge, govt working on it: Arun Jaitley"In the coming days, we will come out with mechanism for electoral bonds which will ensure only tax-paid money comes into the political sys...
- FM Arun Jaitley invites suggestions to make political funding cleanerThe Opposition accused the Government of running roughshod by opening doors for "political extortionism" and passing "draconian" provisions...
- Electoral bonds will ensure opacity instead of transparency: Prashant Bhushan"Instead of ensuring transparency these electoral bonds will ensure opacity," he told reporters at the launch of Citizens' Whistleblowers F...
- Companies setting up trusts for poll funding; can they ensure transparency?While electoral trusts may ensure some transparency, companies will still be asked to contribute over and above payments through such trust...
- Transparent electoral financing will solve 90% of graft: Salman Khurshid90% of the country's problems related to graft would be solved by addressing the issue of financing of elections, Union Minister Salman Khu...
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