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For electoral bonds, SBI billed govt Rs 10.68 crore as ‘commission’
April 05, 2024 7:09 am
The transaction and bank charges were levied for each of the 30 phases of the sale and redemption of electoral bonds from 2018 to 2024. The SBI billed the Finance Ministry a total of Rs10.68 crore as “commission” owed, from the start of the scheme.
Among top donors to BJP, TMC and Congress, 8 unlisted firms spent many times their profit
April 03, 2024 11:06 pm
Topping the list is Future Gaming and Hotel Services Pvt Ltd which donated a total of Rs 1,368 crore in bonds while making a cumulative profit of only Rs 368 crore in four years.
SBI refuses to disclose SOP for sale, redemption of electoral bonds in RTI reply
April 02, 2024 4:37 pm
She said the SOPs would reveal the official instructions governing the particulars of information that were to be stored as well as the form and manner in which information was to be maintained by the bank on the sale and redemption of the electoral bonds.
ED must probe ‘South Group’ link to BJP: AAP; electoral bond biggest scam, says Congress
March 31, 2024 8:09 am
AICC General Secretary, Communications Department, Jairam Ramesh said the “opaque Electoral Bond was the biggest scam” and intended to “swell the coffers of the BJP through threats and coercion of industrial houses to force them to shell out crores” through electoral bonds.
Three days before Supreme Court scrapped scheme, Govt cleared printing of Rs 10,000-cr electoral bonds
April 01, 2024 7:39 am
13 days after apex court order, SBI was told to ‘immediately put a hold’
AAP writes to Nadda, questions BJP’s silence on links with ‘electoral bonds donor’ Reddy
March 26, 2024 8:38 am
In his letter, Gupta asked Nadda to reveal the relationship between Reddy and the political party and tell the public why the party took Rs 60 crore from him.
Electoral bond data: With poll bonds worth Rs 185 crore, Megha Engg also top donor for BRS
March 26, 2024 8:32 am
The Telangana-based infrastructure giant, which in 2016 won contracts worth over Rs 1 lakh crore for constructing several phases of the massive Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, donated Rs 195 crore to the party led by former CM K Chandrashekar Rao.
Of 26 companies which faced agencies’ heat, two-thirds bought electoral bonds after a knock on door
March 26, 2024 6:29 pm
Total bonds bought by these 26 companies from April 2019 till February 2024 is Rs 5,179 crore; BJP enchased 37%, TMC 18%, Congress 12%.
Why India Inc believes that secrecy is the best policy
March 24, 2024 9:58 am
The Constitution Bench refused to entertain this saying investors were notified that they may be required to share details post the date of the interim order, April 12, 2019, and the court was not asking for information prior to it.
Electoral bond data | Don’t know who bought bonds, kept drop box at party office for such donations: TMC
March 26, 2024 8:44 am
According to the data, the TMC, led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, received Rs 1,610 crore through electoral bonds from 211 donors between April 12, 2019 and January 24, 2024.
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