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BKC. In a post on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) on March 17, Kotak responded to user Nilesh Shah's (@NileshShah68) post converting the USD real estate sale to Indian Rupees. "New York commercial office building going at ₹~ 16000 per Sq Ft." wrote Shah.

₹12,155 crore between 12 April 2019 and 15 February 2024, really do. What are their business interests? The first company on this list is Future Gaming and Hotels Services Pvt. Ltd.

Top Events of the Day: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a busy day with a public rally in Karnataka's Shivamogga and a roadshow in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court will hear the plea of six disqualified Congress MLAs from Himachal Pradesh, while the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) hears challenges against the Zee-Sony merger in Maharashtra.

Indian stock market today: A total of 11 stocks have been banned for trade on Monday, March 18, 2024, under the futures and options (F&O) segment by the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The securities have been put on ban under the F&O segment as it crossed 95 per cent of the market-wide position limit (MWPL), according to the NSE. However, the stocks will be available for trading in the cash market.

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Future Gaming and Hotel Services donated Rs 509 crore to the DMK through electoral bonds since 2019-20, with Megha Engineering & Infrastructures contributing another Rs 40 crore to Tamil Nadu's ruling party, showed data released by the Election Commission of India on Sunday. The latest information is based on disclosures of donors' names by a few political parties to the poll panel. Most beneficiaries of the electoral bonds scheme, including the BJP, All India Trinamool Congress, Congress, BRS and BJD, did not disclose the names of donors. While Future Gaming was the top buyer of electoral bonds, Megha Engineering was the second biggest, data from the commission revealed earlier.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Mariya Gabriel for thanking the Indian Navy for rescuing seven Bulgarian nationals in a successful anti-piracy operation in the Arabian Sea, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that it is exactly what friends are for. In a post on X, Jaishankar wrote, «That's what friends are for,» alongside Gabriel's post. Notably, Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Mariya Gabriel on Sunday expressed gratitude to the Indian Navy for successfully carrying out a rescue operation to take back control of a hijacked merchant vessel and its 17 crew members including seven Bulgarian nationals in the Arabian Sea.

Carrying out any survey is a challenge not just because its sampling process must be right, but there is often an ‘information and understanding’ asymmetry between surveyors and respondents. Asking a man on the street what he thinks of the economy, for example, is an exercise fraught with trouble since only a tiny proportion of people would have studied economics and perceptions can vary widely. If one were asked the quantity of a certain product (say, spinach) consumed in the last 7 or 30 days, can one really remember how much? This is a problem with such consumer surveys.

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the Gujarat government is taking strict action against the perpetrators of violence. Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal informed that one of the two foreign students injured in the violence has been discharged from hospital. "An incidence of violence took place at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad yesterday.

Indian Navy warship INS Kolkata is set to bring 35 apprehended pirates to India. «The Indian Navy warship INS Kolkata has taken 35 sea pirates into custody and is being brought to India along with the 17 crew members rescued after the major operation,» officials said on Sunday. During the operation, the Indian Navy forced the pirates to surrender and rescued 17 crew members from the distressed merchant vessel MV Ruen on Saturday. The merchant vessel is also being brought to India.

Election Commission that someone delivered to its office an envelope with electoral bonds worth Rs 10 crore way back in 2019, which it encashed within days but has got no information on the donors. As the Election Commission on Sunday made public hundreds of sealed-cover disclosures submitted to it by various political parties, filings made by Bihar's ruling party showed that it got electoral bonds totalling more than Rs 24 crore. The party also disclosed the names of Bharti Airtel and Shree Cement as its donors for bonds with Rs 1 crore and Rs 2 crore, respectively. In another filing, the JD(U) disclosed donations totalling Rs 24.4 crore through these bonds, many of which were issued from SBI branches in Hyderabad and Kolkata, and a few were issued in Patna.

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Electoral bonds data 2nd list: In a fresh set of details around the political donations through electoral bonds, the Election Commission of India on Sunday uploaded the sealed covers received by the Supreme Court's registry carrying party-wise details of electoral bond donations at least till 12 April 2019. The second set of data sheds more light on donations through ‘now-scrapped’ electoral bonds.

Elvish Yadav was present at the party and is accused of supplying snake venom to the party. After police raids, social media was abuzz with videos of Elvish Yadav with snakes and users demanding the arrest of the YouTuber. NGO People for Animals (PFA) founded by BJP MP Maneka Gandhi conducted a string operation after which five people were arrested for snake smuggling.

Electoral bonds fresh data: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday published fresh data on the use of electoral bonds to fund political parties in India. The information is making some new revelations like out of the total ₹6,986.5 crore donations made to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) through electoral bonds, ₹2,555 crore was made during the financial year 2019-20, the EC data has revealed.

Electoral bonds data: Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday uploaded fresh data related to funding of political parties in India through electoral bonds. The fresh data pertains to the information provided by political parties to the Supreme Court of India in a sealed cover after interim order in April 12, 2019 and is believed to be for the period before the date of the interim order.

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Supreme Court seeking disclosure of the details of electoral bonds sold from March 1, 2018, to April 11, 2019, saying voters are entitled to know funding to political parties for the entire period since the start of the scheme. In a landmark verdict last month, the top court scrapped the Centre's electoral bonds scheme that allowed anonymous political funding calling it «unconstitutional» and ordered the State Bank of India (SBI), the authorised financial institution under the scheme, to submit the details of the bonds purchased from April 12, 2019 to February 15, 2024 to the Election Commission of India (ECI). A new application, filed by Citizen's Rights Trust, has submitted that 9,159 bonds worth Rs 4,002 crore have been sold between March 2018 to April 2019 which should also be disclosed. The petition seeks a direction to the SBI to share the details of electoral bonds sold and redeemed from March 1, 2018, to April 11, 2019, including the alphanumeric number, date of purchase, denomination, names of donors and parties to the ECI.

PTI. The election commission yesterday announced that the Lok Sabha elections 2024 polls will take place in seven phases beginning from April 19 and concluding on June 1. Votes will be counted on June 4.