Congress leader Debabrata Saikia has raised concerns about the National Register of Citizens NRC Assam website and its helpline. He reporte...

Finance Minister Sitharaman addressed allegations of ED raids' ties to electoral funding, advocating for a transparent political funding sy...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman responded to the Electoral Bonds controversy, suggesting that assumptions are shaping the discourse. At...

ECI 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 filed by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said that certain amendments made in Finance Act, 2017 and earlier Finance Act, 2016...

The government has filed a fresh counter affidavit dismissing the EC’s arguments and defending the scheme.

The finance ministry said that electoral bonds worth Rs 1,056.73 crore were purchased via six tranches since the scheme’s launch in January...

In a Facebook post, Jaitley said the conventional practice of funding the political system was to take donations as well as undertake expen...

The electoral bonds can be purchased for specified denominations and the payee then can bestow it upon a registered political party as dona...

FM Jaitley had outlined contours of the new electoral bonds that donors can buy from SBI with political parties receiving them being able t...

"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 ...

As per the existing provisions of the Income Tax Act, parties registered with the Election Commission are exempted from paying income tax.

"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...

The Opposition accused the Government of running roughshod by opening doors for "political extortionism" and passing "draconian" provisions...

"Instead of ensuring transparency these electoral bonds will ensure opacity," he told reporters at the launch of Citizens' Whistleblowers F...

While electoral trusts may ensure some transparency, companies will still be asked to contribute over and above payments through such trust...

90% of the country's problems related to graft would be solved by addressing the issue of financing of elections, Union Minister Salman Khu...