Electoral bonds: Black money for political parties remains the elephant in the room

[ad_1] Following the battle in the Supreme Court to get the State Bank of India to reveal data about electoral bonds in a manner that allowed donors to be matched with the political parties that received them, it is clear...

Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn

[ad_1] In 2012, when the Supreme Court cancelled 122 telecom licences allotted by the Congress-led government, ordering that telecom spectrum be auctioned instead, media reports hailed the verdict as “a decisive blow against corruption”. The court order in what was...

Electoral bonds: ‘Pakistan firm’ on list turns out to be Delhi ‘fake company’

[ad_1] In the electoral bonds data released by the Election Commission, one name stood out – Hub Power Company. Shortly after the preliminary analysis of the data, news outlets and social media platforms buzzed with reports that Pakistan-based Hub Power...

Firms linked to Keventer group bought electoral bonds worth Rs 600 crore while it faced ED probe 

[ad_1] Between April 2019 and January 2024, four firms linked to the Kolkata-based Keventer group of companies donated over Rs 600 crore to political parties through electoral bonds. This means that the group bought the most bonds after the lottery...

Reliance-linked firms bought electoral bonds in crucial election years – after an amendment

[ad_1] Firm linked to Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries purchased electoral bonds in the middle of the 2019 Lok Sabha election as well as in a special window of sale opened ahead of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections in 2022.The...