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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.

U.S. stocks finished lower on Friday to suffer their second weekly loss in a row as investors weighed the outlook for interest rates amid renewed inflation fears.

MLB The Show 24, the latest installment of the popular baseball simulation game, is set to release on March 19. With exciting new features and game modes, fans are eagerly anticipating its arrival.

ET Awards for Corporate Excellence came an unusual address. “My keynote today is to unlock your conscience,” said Mrs Meera Jain, founder of Evoke. Mentioning startling numbers — “1,50,000 animals perish each minute” — she outlined the Sixth Extinction, a manifestation of the Anthropocene, the era of human impacts reshaping Earth. “Humanity has wiped out 60% of the world’s wildlife since 1970,” she stated, adding ironically, “That’s thanks to Alfred Nobel’s gunpowder. So much for the Nobel Prize” However, humans can stop this apocalypse. She mentioned praiseworthy initiatives from the world of enterprise seeking to help nonhuman species. She described a visit to Vantara, the animal rescue and rehabilitation centre established by Anant Ambani. Vantara provides world-class care to species rescued from poachers, wildlife traffickers and circuses globally. Its devotion to endang e r e d a n i m a l s shows humanity at its best, she remarked. She lauded Ratan Tata’s hospital for dogs and small animals i n Mu mb a i and urged directors of Tata companies to devote more CSR funds to animal welfare.

₹509 crore to Tamil Nadu’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) through electoral bonds between October 2020 and April 2023, Election Commission data released on Sunday showed. This makes up 37% of the ₹1,368-crore worth of bonds that his company has bought since April 2019.

DC vs RCB WPL Final 2024: The fans of Delhi Capitals went through another heartbreak as Meg Lanning-led team faced its second consecutive final defeat in the Women's Premier League. Last year, it was Mumbai Indians and this year Smriti Mandhana-led Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets to clinch the championship. The bowlers dominated in today's game as RCB's Shreyanka Patil delivered a breathtaking spell to decimate the strong DC batters.

Frontier markets are back. Several African countries have recently returned to global financial markets, placing foreign-currency bonds with international investors. The question is whether they are back for good, or whether someone or something—namely, the US Federal Reserve—will throw a wrench in the works.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, «the country would not have been divided if the Congress did not exist.» He said that this book is a best-seller, which shows that people are also realising this (What if there was no Congress). «If Congress wouldn't have been there, the country wouldn't have been divided… The corruption, and terrorism kind of thing that we witness wouldn't have been the case. The 'Viksit Bharat' that PM Modi is building today would have been done earlier,» he said on Sunday.

Dandadan Anime recently graced fans with an exhilarating update as the creators unveiled the inaugural trailer on their official website. Accompanying this thrilling announcement is the release of a captivating promotional poster, offering enthusiasts a tantalizing glimpse into the forthcoming anime. Here's a comprehensive rundown of all the latest revelations surrounding the show.

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.

Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said he was compelled to launch his Bharat Jodo yatras to highlight rising unemployment, inflation and hatred in society. Addressing the opposition INDIA bloc rally at Mumbai's Shivaji Park after the conclusion of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi won't be able to win the Lok Sabha elections without "EVMs, ED, CBI and Income Tax". «Modi is a 'mask' who works for a 'shakti' (power). He is a shallow man who doesn't have a 56-inch chest,» Gandhi said. The former Congress president alleged that PM Modi had a «monopoly over corruption».

Robert Kirkman's Image Comics series, «Invincible,» has been generating buzz since its announcement. Here's a comprehensive overview of what we know so far about this highly anticipated movie.

Baghel on Sunday said the FIR against him in the Mahadev online betting case by the state's EOW was politically motivated and was done to defame him since the BJP anticipates massive loss in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Baghel, a Congress MLA, has been fielded by the party from Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat. The state's Economic Offence Wing (EOW) registered a case against Baghel and 18 others in the alleged Mahadev online betting scam based on a probe report submitted by the Enforcement Directorate. «The FIR was registered by the EOW on March 4 then why it was not uploaded in its website and made public? The FIR was made public on Sunday after a newspaper carried a report on this,» Baghel said in the press conference.

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Narendra Modi will address his second campaign rally in Karnataka on Monday. The BJP leaders are trying their best to buy peace with the veteran leader from the region, KS Eshwarappa, as he has decided to stay off the Modi rally in a show of rebellion against parliamentary board member BS Yediyurappa. Eshwarappa, a senior Kuruba leader and a former state president, has not budged an inch from his decision to contest as an independent against BY Raghavendra (50), the son of BSY. BJP leader N Ravikumar, however, claimed they had invited Eshwarappa, and he would be there at the rally. The party said it would expect about 2.5 lakh people to attend the event, and JDS leaders would share the dais with the PM. The BJP is holding its campaign rally at the assembly constituency Eshwarappa previously represented.

₹6,986.5 crore donations made to the saffron party, through electoral bonds, ₹2,555 crore was made during the financial year 2019-20, the data shared by the election commission revealed. Sealed cover’ data of electoral bonds for the period March 2018-April 2019 made public by the election commission doesn’t include the names of the donors (barring few parties who disclosed the names voluntarily).

NEW DELHI : Large OTT platforms with deep pockets, secure in their scale and dominance, are able to confidently adopt advertising-led monetization models to offer content for free, squeezing their smaller rivals. In response, these smaller regional-language streaming services have picked hybrid models of monetization, where they offer certain content for free to be sampled while developing a bouquet of programmes, based on a deep understanding of the local markets, at different price points.

The most convincing factor for investors is returns. Things like the team or developers behind a project and its utility can be appealing but they are typically means to an end. And that end is getting the most money from their capital.

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second longest poll season ever, set to run for 44 days. The voter turnout amid the sweltering heat will be in focus, but data shows that Indians have increased their participation in elections over the years. Several states in the south and north-east crossed 70% voter turnout in 2019.

diesel prices are the costliest in the country in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala while it is cheapest in smaller states and UTs like Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Delhi and those in the North East, mainly due to differential in local sales tax or VAT rates, oil industry data showed. The three state-owned fuel retailers — Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) — last week cut petrol and diesel prices by Rs 2 a litre each, ending a nearly two-year hiatus in price revision. That reduction brought relief to fuel users but rates continue to be above Rs 100 a litre mark in some states due to higher Value Added Tax (VAT). Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSRCP-ruled Andhra Pradesh has the costliest petrol at Rs 109.87 a litre, followed by Left Democratic Front (LDF)-ruled Kerala, where a litre of petrol comes for Rs 107.54. Congress-run Telangana is close behind with petrol costing Rs 107.39 a litre.