If the identity of buyers of electoral bonds is not known, the government’s efforts to curtail black money in elections would be “futile”, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. The Narendra Modi g...
Electoral bonds account for nearly two-thirds of the funds received by the seven parties that have reported accepting money through this route in their annual audit report for the 2018-19 fiscal.These...
A senior BJP leader had written to then finance minister Arun Jaitley in August 2017, when the electoral bonds scheme was being discussed, suggesting that the instruments be issued without serial numb...
The chart on the right shreds a key argument of the Narendra Modi government for turning down two recommendations made by the RBI on the Electoral Bond Scheme, about which skeletons are tumbling out n...
The Reserve Bank of India had advised the Narendra Modi government against introducing electoral bonds in the 2017-18 budget as the mechanism went against the professed goal of transparency and the pr...
The Supreme Court Friday directed all political parties to furnish receipts of electoral bonds and details of the identity of donors in a sealed cover to the Election Commission.In an interim order, t...
The sale of electoral bonds worth Rs 370 crore in Calcutta in May was only the tip of an iceberg.The Calcutta Main Branch of the State Bank of India sold electoral bonds valued at Rs 1,389 crore betwe...
The Congress on Wednesday accused the government of ignoring Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Election Commission of India (ECI) objections on the electoral bonds scheme.Congress chief spokesperson Ran...
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response of the Centre and the Election Commission on a plea seeking stay on the electoral bond scheme meant for funding political parties.The top court, however, re...
The Congress on Monday alleged that electoral bonds became instruments of anonymous donations bordering on 'opaque money laundering' and asked the Modi government to answer how many thousand crores we...