Ahead of Union Budget 2024, we discuss the upcoming interim Budget in India and the debate surrounding welfare schemes and freebies. Prime ...

This election season has seen an unusually high amount of seizures in Karnataka, due to a combination of election bribes becoming a normal ...

The RBI Bulletin 2022, which is at the heart of the controversy, defines freebies as public welfare measures provided free of charge. Provi...

Sitharaman said India was at a cusp of change and regulators had to be aligned with that change. "You need regulators also to be aligned wi...

Almost every state government, with a few honourable exceptions, spends on freebies, mostly current consumption and not on capital expendit...

The power of Election Commission to fight freebies has remained vague and limited. There have only been a few instances where the EC exerci...

A bench headed by outgoing Chief Justice of India NV Ramana held that the three-member bench would reconsider a 2013 SC ruling, delivered b...

She also called for a debate on freebies. "The debate is not about what constitutes a freebie, but if you have given a promise, provision f...

The remark was made by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana during the resumed hearing of a petition filed by BJP leader Ashw...

The plea filed by Upadhyay opposes the practice of political parties making promises during polls. It seeks the EC to invoke its powers to ...

With committees, commentators and economists of all shades slamming freebies, and political actors continuing to snipe at each other, it is...

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana orally remarked that "all political parties are one sided including BJP" on the subject...

The debate on freebie politics has to be a debate on how policies that foster the 'spirit of enterprise' are morally and ethically - not to...

"If you have reached all of them who are eligible for something then you have achieved saturation...there have been so many attempts to mak...

"Delhi Chief Minister has given perverse twist to the debate on freebies. Health and education have never been called freebies," PTI report...

The court recommended that an independent body be constituted, which may comprise different stakeholders such as the Reserve Bank of India,...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said irrational freebies offered to induce voters during elections would not be effectively debated in the P...