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₹100 crore or more via electoral bonds showed. The BJP received ₹584 crore from Megha Engineering & Infrastructure Ltd, while Future Gaming and Hotel Services Pvt Ltd donated ₹542 crore to AITC and ₹503 crore to DMK. While the BJP is in power at the Centre, AITC and DMK lead governments in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively.

Spicejet and Tech Mahindra were among those who donated to the Aam Aadmi Party through electoral bonds, according to Election Commission data made public on Thursday. The Election Commission made public a fresh data set of electoral bonds, including their alpha-numeric numbers that can help match their purchasers with the political parties that received the funds. Megha Engineering And Infrastructures Limited, Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, BG Shirke Construction Technology Pvt Ltd, Bajaj Auto Ltd, Tech Mahindra Ltd, Spicejet Limited, Derive Trading And Resorts Private Limit, Vardhman Textiles Ltd and V M Salgaocar Corporation Pvt Ltd were among the major companies that donated electoral bonds to the party.

FTX’s caretaker chief executive has branded Sam Bankman-Fried a deluded criminal who masterminded a “colossal fraud,” and accused the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange’s founder of lying about the losses incurred by former customers in an attempt to reduce his sentence.

What could be in the federal budget that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is delivering on April 16? It’s really anyone’s guess, but some insights can be gleaned from the government’s recent pre-budget report, as well as from various pre-budget industry newsletters, each offering up their own predictions and recommendations of what might be in store.

Tere Naam, saying that ‘Mere Naam’ movie should be made due to the PM’s frequent crying during speeches. Netizens were quick to react to the ‘abuse’ charges. Social media was flooded with mixed reactions as some showed support, while others retaliated over the statements.

electoral bonds as 'hafta vasooli' (extortion), Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated that Rahul Gandhi should explain the source of the ₹1,600 crore he referred to as ‘hafta vasooli’. As reported by ANI, in response to Rahul Gandhi, who had referred to the bonds as 'hafta vasooli', “Gandhi also received ₹1,600 crore.

Congress attacked the government on Wednesday regarding a report that highlights income and wealth disparities in India spanning a century. Party general secretary for communications, Jairam Ramesh, stated that the report titled «Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj,» authored by renowned economists such as Thomas Piketty raises significant concerns. Ramesh claimed that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, the wealth gap in India has surpassed that of the British colonial era, dubbing it "Narendra Modi's Billionaire Raj." «The bottom line is this: Narendra Modi's Billionaire Raj, nurtured by the Prime Minister to favour his friends and fund his party's campaigns, is now more unequal than even the British Raj,» he alleged.

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judicial intent of better informing voter choice through disclosures about electoral bonds (EBs) is obviously welcome. But here's the thing — could it lead to a perverse outcome of driving corporate donations to political parties further underground during the upcoming elections? Corporate donations through EBs were premised upon a layer of anonymity by maintaining uncorrelated lists of donors and recipients. If this correlation is established through additional information provided by issuer of the bonds, SBI, companies face the prospect of loss of reputation, or even litigation.

Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya, who is based in Singapore, is being considered for a Lok Sabha ticket from the Saran seat, earlier represented by her father, a senior party leader said on Tuesday. RJD MLC Sunil Kumar Singh, who is known to be treated by Prasad's wife Rabri Devi as her own brother, said the party leadership has been apprised of the overwhelming public sentiment in Saran. Singh, who had recently raised many eyebrows when he openly pitched for Acharya on social media, said, «It was not just my view. All our sitting and former legislators in Saran are of the view that Rohini, and none else, should be the RJD candidate.» He said Acharya enjoyed respect on account of her «sacrifice», a reference to her having donated a kidney to her ailing father.

Election Commission's released of data on the electoral bond scheme inroduced in 2018 turned quite a few heads, with multiple conglomerates donating incredible amounts of money to India's political parties. Right at the top of the list was Future Gaming Private Limited, a lottery company founded by one Santiago Martin, that donated ₹1,368 crore. Who is Martin, described as a smooth-talking 'lottery king'? Born in 1961, Martin spent some of his youth working in Myanmar as a daily wager, returning to India in the 1980s just as the craze for lottery tickets picked up. The future founder of Future Gaming settled in Coimbatore, working in a tea shop in Tatabad. Eventually, Martin would decide to set up shop selling lottery tickets.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on WhatsApp seeking support and suggestions for building a ‘Viksit Bharat’. Interestingly, several non-Indians from Pakistan, UAE, and even Britain also claimed to receive PM Modi's letter on WhatsApp. These individuals from varying nationalities were surprised to receive a message from ‘Viksit Bharat Sampark’ on their smartphones.

₹966 crore to various political parties between April 2019 and February 2024. This includes a contribution of ₹50 crore to the Janata Dal (Secular) and a donation of ₹105 crore for the DMK.

₹1 crore. The list included the purchase of 2,228 bonds worth ₹1 lakh each and 220 bonds priced at ₹10,000.

Electoral bonds data 2nd list: The fresh data published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday revealed some intricate details about the political funding through electoral bonds. In the second set of data, some parties have revealed the names of their donors and interestingly the name of the company behind the IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK) also features in the list. Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd is the biggest donor of Tamil Nadu-based AIADMK.

Federal prosecutors are asking a New York judge to sentence FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to between 40 and 50 years in prison for cryptocurrency crimes they described as a “historic fraud.”

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the Executive Chairperson of Biocon Ltd, has clarified that her Bengaluru-based biopharmaceuticals firm did not make any donations to political parties using electoral bonds. However, she acknowledged purchasing electoral bonds at a personal level to donate to several parties, including the former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular).

Narendra Modi-led government and referencing the second list of data on electoral bonds released by the Election Commission, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin criticized the electoral bonds as “white-collar corruption" of the ruling BJP. Also Read: Electoral Bonds data 2nd list LIVE “This is fear.

Electoral Bond Scheme developed when the late Arun Jaitley was India's finance minister, saying scrapping this plan will attract black money. Gadkari, in an interview with NDTV, said the main purpose of the electoral bond scheme was that political parties would get money through it which would help push the economy to number one, pointing toward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aim on the economic front. “What's wrong with this idea? Every party needs that money for contesting elections," he questioned while refusing to comment on the Supreme Court verdict on the electoral bond scheme.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has defended Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union government over the now-scrapped electoral bond scheme calling it an 'experiment.' Hosabale, 69, was re-elected as the Sarkaryavah, or General Secretary, of the RSS after the meeting of Sangh's highest decision-making body Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) in Nagpur on Sunday. “We have not thought much about this issue. In the meetings, too, we have not discussed it because electoral bonds are an experiment.