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HindustanTimes, she said, “We still have to do a lot of consultation with stakeholders and see what is it that we have to do to make or bring in a framework which will be acceptable to all, primarily retain the level of transparency and completely remove the possibility of black money entering into this." She did, however, added that the Union government has not yet decided whether to seek a review of the ruling made by the Supreme Court (SC). She added, “What the current scheme which has been just thrown out by the Supreme Court brought in was transparency.

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Top Events on April 18: India is all set to witness various political, legal, sports and technological events on April 18. These events include Amit Shah and JP Nadda's Lok Sabha poll campaigns, Rahul Gandhi's public meeting, electoral bond scheme hearing in Supreme Court, IPL 2024, and more. Take a look at detailed events below, - Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold roadshows in several parts of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar today, before filing his nomination papers at the Gandhinagar electorate for the Lok Sabha elections beginning on April 19.

electoral bonds scheme introduced by the central government on January 2, 2018 as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties to bring transparency in political funding. Last year, a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud had reserved its verdict in the matter on November 2. The hearing commenced on October 31, 2023 by bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai, J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.

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The federal budget released on Tuesday did not contain a general tax rate increase for the wealthy, but the government did announce that the capital gains inclusion rate will be going up and it amended the draft alternative minimum tax rules in response to concerns of the charitable sector.

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Dimple Yadav filed her nomination papers from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat here on Tuesday. The sitting Mainpuri MP was accompanied by SP chief and her husband Akhilesh Yadav, and senior party leaders Shivpal Singh Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav. Talking to media persons later, the SP chief exuded confidence that Dimple Yadav would win from this seat by record votes. «Mainpuri has always made SP win by record votes and this time too it is going to make Dimple Yadav and the SP win by record votes,» he said.

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I have written in this space before about how technology artefacts can be used as instruments of power. Privacy is dead, and people the world over have become pawns in Big Tech’s relentless move to commoditize and sell human beings and their data. At the same time, image recognition algorithms baked into artificial intelligence (AI) systems have proven problematic.

₹200 crore to become a monk. The Himmatnagar-based Bhavesh was in the construction business before renouncing the material world. Bhavesh and his wife are reportedly inspired by their 19-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son who adopted monkhood in 2022.

Narendra Modi has accused the opposition parties of «spreading lies» over the electoral bonds scheme, which has been struck down by the Supreme Court, and said «everyone will regret it when there is an honest reflection». In an interview with ANI, PM Modi said the electoral bonds scheme was aimed at curbing black money in elections and said the opposition wants to run away after making allegations. He said of the 16 companies who gave donations after action by probe agencies, only 37 per cent of the amount went to the BJP and 63 per cent to opposition parties opposed to the BJP.

CBI) has registered a case against Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd and eight officials of ministry of steel over alleged corruption of Rs 315 crores in the execution of the NISP project, reported PTI quoting officials. The officers booked are from the NMDC Iron and Steel Plant. Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL), which was the second-biggest buyer of electoral bonds worth Rs 966 crore, in an alleged bribery case.

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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi took a break from his hectic campaigning in Tamil Nadu for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and visited a sweet shop in Singanallur. The owner, Babu, expressed his surprise at the sudden and unannounced visit of the Congress leader. «We were pleasantly surprised when Rahul Gandhi came by. He was probably visiting Coimbatore for a meeting. Since he likes (Gulab) Jamun, he bought a kilo of the sweet. He sampled the other sweets on display as well. I was happy that he came by. Our staff, too, were happy to see him. He was here for 25-30 minutes. We had no clue he would stop by and were all taken by surprise. We asked him not to pay but he insisted. He paid the whole amount,» the shop owner told ANI. Earlier, Rahul Gandhi had criticized the BJP, labeling the Centre's electoral bond scheme as the «single biggest act of corruption done by anybody in the world». He made these remarks at a public meeting in Coimbatore, where he accused the BJP of operating a «washing machine» to cleanse the political system.

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BJP lashed out at RJD leader Misa Bharti on Thursday for threatening to put its leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in jail if the INDIA bloc is voted to power at the Centre and said people will give the opposition parties a fitting reply in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls for such remarks. Talking to reporters in Patna on Thursday, Bharti raised the issue of electoral bonds and said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Bihar as well as the prime minister will be put behind bars for raising donations through the scheme by misusing central agencies. Reacting sharply to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RLD) leader's remarks, BJP chief J P Nadda said those facing a probe for alleged corruption and out on bail are «abusing» Modi, who has an unblemished political career. «They are hurling various kinds of abuses on Modi. In the last 23 years, Modiji served as the Gujarat chief minister for more than 12 years and as the prime minister for 10 years. Modiji has worked as the country's chief administrator and there is no blemish on him. Misa Bharti is saying she will send such a person to jail,» Nadda told a poll rally in the Anadaman and Nicobar Islands.

Congress on Wednesday alleged that the BJP has neglected the people of Maharashtra as it was distracted by its own «horse-trading and deal-making» agendas, and asked how much donation did it take to engineer the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh attacked the BJP ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Maharashtra's Ramtek and posed questions on key issues affecting the state. «Today, the PM heads to Ramtek in Maharashtra, a state that was rocked by hundreds of farmer suicides last year, and where corruption charges continue to pile up. Distracted by its own horse-trading and deal-making agendas, the BJP has neglected to serve the people,» Ramesh said in a post on X. Posing questions to the prime minister, the Congress leader said that on an average day in Maharashtra, seven farmers take their own lives, and this heartbreaking statistic comes from the state's Minister for Relief and Rehabilitation, who reported that 2,366 farmers died by suicide between January and October last year.

Narendra Modi on Tuesday attacked the Congress and said that the party «insulted» Lord Ram by rejecting the invitation of the 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony in Ayodhya, adding that it can «never emerge from the depths of appeasement» which is also visible in their manifesto which bears the imprint of the Muslim League. During a rally in UP's Pilibhit, Modi said the INDIA bloc does not even hesitate to insult the country's great personalities and senior leaders of both the Samajwadi Party and the Congress have never tried to visit the Statue of Unity and honour Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who worked tirelessly for the unity of the country. He said this was expected of the alliance which is «conspiring to divide India». Addressing thousands of Bengali Hindu migrants in Pilibhit who have fled East Pakistan and settled here over the decades, Modi said under the pressure of appeasement, the two opposition parties also opposed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). He urged the migrant families to apply for Indian citizenship under the law, guaranteeing them of an honourable life as Indian citizens.

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