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Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Trust chief Champat Rai resigns on moral grounds amid donation rowAmidst allegations of donation embezzlement at the Ayodhya Ram temple, Champat Rai has resigned as General Secretary of the Shri Ram Janmab...- Mystery person donates ₹30 crore worth gold in Japan's Osaka and the reason will surprise youA mystery donor gifted Osaka city 21 kilograms of gold bullion. The donation is worth $3.6 million. The only condition was to fix the city'...
- SC seeks govt replieson tax waiver for cash donations to partiesThe Supreme Court is examining a plea to end tax exemptions for political parties receiving anonymous cash donations under ₹2,000. The cour...
- Supreme Court issues notice on plea concerning cash donations received by political partiesThe Supreme Court is examining a plea against anonymous cash donations to political parties. The current law allows parties to receive unde...
- Electoral Bonds: Why are they banned & how will it affect BJP?Poll bonds: India’s Supreme Court has banned the use of anonymous electoral bonds by political parties for fundraising. This decision affec...
- Govt okay with 2K cap for anonymous donationsThe Election Commission had written to the Law ministry last month reminding of its several pending reform proposals -- that political part...
- CEC Rajiv Kumar writes to law ministry to cap cash donation to political partiesIn his letter written to Union law Minister Kiren Rijiju, CEC has proposed to cap cash donation at 20 per cent or at Rs 20 crore whichever ...
- Puri's Jagannath temple receives record Rs 28 lakh in cash as secret donationsTotal Rs 28,10,691 in cash, 550 mg gold and 61.70 g of silver were found in the 'Hundi', set up inside the temple as per the Hundi Act, 197...
- BJP got Rs 210 crore in poll bonds, all others Rs 11 crore in 2017-18: ECThe Supreme Court is hearing a petition against the electoral bonds filed by ADR.
- Slash cap on anonymous donations to parties: EC asks Law MinistryThe poll panel had written to the government in the middle of 2017 to amend Section 29C of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 to pu...
- Non-amended RPA prevents funding transparencyThe promise of clean party funding won't be realised as govt failed to amend a law EC had asked for.
- Election Commission to suggest cap on parties’ poll expenditureAccording to the study, 83% of total income of Congress, 65% of BJP, 94% of SP, 100% of BSP and 86% of SAD came from anonymous donations.
- 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...
- EC looks at cashless funding to check black money in electionsZaidi's pitch came as experts suggested that efforts should be made to make donations to political parties totally cashless to usher in mor...
- Political parties told to file tax return by December or lose exemptionIt is also changing the law to keep the identity of the donor confidential who buys the just-introduced electoral bonds from banks to make ...
- Budget 2017 proposes electoral bonds, cash limit to make political funding transparentAs of now, political parties are supposed to maintain a record containing details of donor for every donation above Rs 20,000 in cheque.
- BJP gets lion's share of donations above Rs 20,000However, the relatively smaller amounts received above Rs 20,000 disclosed by political parties indicate that most funding is through unkno...
- Election Commission seeks ban on anonymous contributions to parties above Rs 2000The Commission has also proposed that exemption of Income Tax should only be extended to political parties that contest elections and win s...
- Donations to temples, FDs in co-op banks under government scannerTo counter such frauds, government will check the unnatural rise in the cash reserves in these banks. They will be under scanner.
- How donors, temple trusts, charities manage to keep taxmen awayIt's a neat system: the charity pays no tax, the fake donor pays less tax and the real donors aren't exactly bothered about what happens wi...
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