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The Electoral Bonds Saga

Mon, Apr 8, 2024
Electoral Bonds Saw Landscape Shift

Key individual parties have cornered a larger share, with some favouring...

Wed, Apr 3, 2024
Electoral Bonds: The Quid Pro Quo Factor

Which entrepreneur would willingly part with her or his hard-earned money for...

Sat, Mar 30, 2024
How Many Sensex Cos Bought Electoral Bonds?

Collectively, these companies spent Rs 628 crore (Rs 6.28 billion) on...

Thu, Mar 28, 2024
Electoral bonds: Who donated most to TMC, DMK, YSRC

Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited was the top donor to the...

Tue, Mar 26, 2024
'Electoral Bonds Not To Affect LS Polls'

'Election funding needs a little more transparency.'

Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Kolkata Firms Who Bought Electoral Bonds

Trinamool Congress is the second highest recipient of political donations...

Fri, Mar 22, 2024
Rs 4000 cr missing link in electoral bonds data

The ECI data covers 20,421 bonds worth Rs 12,769 crore. The ADR data,...

Thu, Mar 21, 2024
Electoral bonds: What SBI told EC, what it didn't

The State Bank of India told the Supreme Court on Thursday it has provided...

EC publishes alpha-numeric numbers of electoral bonds

The Election Commission on Thursday made public a fresh data set of electoral...

What Amit Shah said on Rahul's 'hafta vasooli' jibe

;The entire INDIA bloc, led by Rahul Gandhi, was against the bonds and they...

Mon, Mar 18, 2024
'PM Hafta Vasuli Yojana': Cong's dig on electoral bonds

"Remember, the IT Department and the ED implement the Pradhan Mantri Hafta...

Sun, Mar 17, 2024
Electoral bonds: Majority of parties got no funding

The National People's Party, which rules Meghalaya, is another national party...

Electoral bonds: Future Gaming top donor for DMK

Future Gaming of lottery king Santiago Martin was the biggest purchaser of...

Fri, Mar 15, 2024
SBI gets SC notice for not disclosing bond numbers

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud,...

Electoral bonds list topper had brush with law in 2011

Santiago Martin has funded Rs 1,368 crore to political parties between...

Companies that donated to BJP got big projects: Cong

The Congress on Friday alleged that the electoral bonds data has exposed...

Electoral bonds: Zojila tunnel firm 2nd-largest donor

Megha Engineering and Infrastructure, the little-known Hyderabad-based firm...

Electoral bonds: Kharge wants BJP bank accounts frozen

Kharge also raised the issue of several companies purchasing electoral bonds...

Electoral bonds: Who is lottery king Santiago Martin?

Future Gaming and Hotel Services whose director is the lottery magnate...

Electoral bonds: SIT probe sought into 'quid pro quo'

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Friday described the electoral bonds scheme as...

Congress flags mismatch in donor, recipient files

It also asked why the data shared pertained to a period from April 2019 even...

Thu, Mar 14, 2024
Who are the top electoral bond donors? Here's the list

These are the top buyers of the scrapped electoral bonds, the data for which...

Wed, Mar 13, 2024
Will disclose electoral bonds details in time: CEC

The assertion comes in the wake of the Supreme Court directing the SBI to...

22,217 electoral bonds purchased, 22,030 redeemed: SBI

The State Bank of India (SBI) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that a...

SCBA disowns chief's letter to Prez on electoral bonds

In his letter to President Droupadi Murmu, SCBA President Adish C Aggarwala...

What new scam will electoral bonds data reveal?: Cong

Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said...

Mon, Mar 11, 2024
SC gives SBI 24 hrs to release electoral bonds data

Chastising the State Bank of India, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered it to...

Electoral bonds: SBI faced searching queries from SC

The State Bank of India, which unsuccessfully sought extension of time till...

Want 'who gave who' info: Cong on electoral bond order

'This mega corruption scandal, as certified by the Supreme Court, will expose...

Sun, Mar 10, 2024
SC to also hear contempt plea against SBI on Monday

The apex court bench, also comprising justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, JB...

Fri, Mar 8, 2024
SC to hear SBI's plea on electoral bonds on Mar 11

The bench, headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, will also hear a separate...

Thu, Mar 7, 2024
Electoral bonds make 82% of parties' unknown income

About 82 per cent of the total income from unknown sources declared by...

Contempt plea against SBI over electoral bond names

In its verdict last month, the top court directed the SBI to furnish the...

Tue, Mar 5, 2024
Modi govt using SBI to...: Cong on electoral bonds

"But the BJP wants it to be done after Lok Sabha elections. The tenure of...

Tue, Feb 27, 2024
Electoral Bonds: Which City Topped?

Mumbai accounts for the largest share of electoral bonds sold since inception.

Mon, Feb 26, 2024
Electoral bonds were a scandal: Amartya Sen

Eminent economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday described the...

Will SBI Reveal Names Behind Electoral Bonds?

Government unlikely to bring in an ordinance to address the developments...

Thu, Feb 22, 2024
Electoral Bonds Exposes Our Weakness

When a strong executive decides it wants something, even something that is...

Fri, Feb 16, 2024
SC junks legal framework enabling electoral bonds

A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud held...

Voter's right trumps donor's privacy: Justice Khanna

A voter's right to know is 'far too important' in democracy than the privacy...

Thu, Feb 15, 2024
SC ends electoral bonds, orders disclosure of donors

In a landmark judgment that delivered a big blow to the government, the...

Jaitley had defended anonymity of electoral bonds

Years before the Supreme Court struck down as 'unconstitutional' an opaque...

EC had red flagged electoral bonds in 2019

The Election Commission (EC) had, in 2019, flagged its concerns in the...

Oppn hails electoral bonds ruling, takes swipe at BJP

Leaders of several opposition parties on Thursday hailed the Supreme Court...

Electoral bonds: Can India be democracy if..., asks SC

Democracy does not begin and end with elections and the integrity of election...

Freedom to vote can't be subject to undue influence: SC

It is crucial to electoral democracy that the exercise of freedom to vote is...

Info on parties funding essential for voters, rules SC

Holding that the electoral bonds scheme was not fool-proof, the Supreme Court...

Respect SC order, but...: BJP defends electoral bonds

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday defended the electoral bonds scheme,...

Electoral bonds worth Rs 16K cr sold so far. BJP got...

All political parties put together received more than Rs 12,000 crore till...

Timeline: How electoral bonds scheme unravelled in SC

Following is the chronology of events in the case related to validity of the...

Electoral Bonds: 'No Setback For BJP'

'It's not really going to bring about purity in the election process.'

Sun, Feb 11, 2024
BJP got Rs 1300 cr via electoral bonds, Cong got...

The Congress, on the other hand, earned Rs 171 crore from electoral bonds...