Electoral bond data: Future Gaming and Megha Engineering top donors to political partiesThe data release provides details of electoral bonds worth over Rs 12,000 crore. The information was provided by State Bank of India (SBI),...
22 Mar, 2024, 02.20 PM IST
SBI complies with SC order, gives EC alphanumerical data on electoral bondsState Bank of India submits compliance affidavit to Supreme Court, confirming submission of electoral bond details to Election Commission. ...
21 Mar, 2024, 04.09 PM IST
Future Gaming, biggest poll bond buyer, & others made government junk plan to amend lottery rulesProposed amendments to the Lotteries Regulation Act, 1998, by the Union home ministry were obstructed by resistance from influential player...
19 Mar, 2024, 08.49 AM IST
Mystery donations: TMC and JD(U) claim electoral bonds left anonymously at their officesBoth the Trinamool Congress and JD(U), in their disclosures regarding electoral bonds for the fiscal year 2018-19, claimed that unidentifie...
18 Mar, 2024, 09.27 AM IST
Electoral bonds: DMK's disclosure shows Future Gaming, Megha Engg as top donorsThe latest information is based on disclosures of donors' names by a few political parties to the poll panel. Most beneficiaries of the ele...
18 Mar, 2024, 09.09 AM IST
Electoral Bonds: Keventer group, third largest poll bond buyer, poured total Rs 617 croreEntities from Kolkata, led by Mahendra Kumar Jalan, significantly invested Rs 617 crore in electoral bonds. Keventer Agro, involved in vari...
16 Mar, 2024, 10.20 AM IST
It's biggest scam of independent India: Jairam Ramesh on electoral bonds schemeCongress general secretary Jairam Ramesh criticized the electoral bonds scheme, labeling it as the "biggest scam of independent India" and ...
15 Mar, 2024, 02.46 PM IST
Electoral bonds: SBI files compliance affidavit, says 22,217 bonds were purchased and 22,030 redeemedEarlier, in a landmark verdict, the SC had scrapped the poll bond scheme on the ground that it was unconstitutional. The SBI, the only auth...
13 Mar, 2024, 02.58 PM IST
Hide and seek in new India; nation seeks, Modi hides: Congress' dig over electoral bonds issueIn its verdict last month, the top court directed the bank to furnish the details to the Election Commission (EC) by March 6.
07 Mar, 2024, 01.56 PM IST
Electoral bonds worth Rs 10,246 crore sold in 21 tranchesIn an RTI reply, SBI said the majority of these bonds were of one crore while less than 10 per cent of subscriptions were of lower denomina...
17 Nov, 2022, 06.22 PM IST
Electoral bonds worth Rs 10,246 crore sold in 21 tranchesSBI has been authorised to issue and encash electoral bonds through 29 authorised branches. The authorised SBI branches include those in Lu...
17 Nov, 2022, 06.09 PM IST
Yield softens, rupee gains as exit polls boost inflow hopesThe premium fell 5-10 basis points across maturities Monday.
21 May, 2019, 08.22 AM IST
How exit polls impacted rupee and bondsBond yields dipped Monday pushing prices up and the rupee gained more than 1%. Votes will be counted Thursday.
20 May, 2019, 09.33 PM IST
Centre opposes Election Commission's stand in Supreme Court on electoral bonds; justifies issuing themCentre said that the political donations were earlier made in cash using "illicit means of funding" and unaccounted black money was pumped ...
03 Apr, 2019, 09.42 PM IST
FM Arun Jaitley details nuts & bolts of bonds for political fundingThe bearer instrument will not carry the name of the payee.
03 Jan, 2018, 08.56 AM IST
Rupee climbs to nearly 3-month high, opens 19 paise upThe rupee scaled a fresh 3-month high after exit polls predicted a victory for the ruling BJP in Gujarat.
15 Dec, 2017, 09.25 AM IST
- Re falls 38 paisa to 49.69 against $, bonds rally back
The rupee on Wednesday closed down 38 paisa at Rs 49.69 to the dollar, as the latter gained against other currencies, and uncertainty over ...
14 May, 2009, 02.02 AM IST