The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday said the problem with electoral bonds scheme is that it provides for "selective anonymity" and "selective confidentiality" as the details are available with the State Bank of India (SBI) and can also be accessed by the law enforcement agencies.
If the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has its way, individuals and corporations donating to educational institutions may soon be eligible for tax exemptions.
Dr Kumar Bahuleyan was born in a poor Dalit family in Chemmanakar. He moved to the US in his youth and earned millions as a neurosurgeon.
Manchester United's Spanish international Juan Mata has promised to give 1 per cent of his earnings to charity and wants all fellow professional footballers to do the same.
As the magnitude of tragedy caused in Uttarakhand continues to unfold, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday issued an appeal to the public for generous donations to support the victims who have suffered "extensive devastation".
Musk also heard the tale of 4-year-old Israeli-American Avigail Idan, who was taken to Gaza and freed on Sunday as a result of a hostage negotiation.
Money will support Boston University's recently established Honours College.
Non-Resident Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has donated £2 million to the Labour party.
A payroll donation programme could be the right answer for people who have everything but time.
'In this hour of grief, the least I can do is to take care of education of children of those who lost their life in this tragic accident. I offer such children free education at @sehwag.school's boarding facility,' Sehwag, who is the only Indian sportsperson so far to come forward to help.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong once offered to donate nearly $250,000 to anti-doping efforts, the head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) tells 60 Minutes Sports in an interview to be aired on Wednesday.
Former World No 1 in doubles and six-time Grand Slam champion Sania beat Indonesia's 16-year-old Priska Madelyn Nugroho for the award in Asia/Oceania regional category.
According to DMK, the voters are already consolidated on ideological lines, hence the impact of anti-incumbency, whether against the BJP Centre or the DMK state may not be too much, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Wealthy people are now donating less for charitable purposes, although they still feel an obligation towards such social work, a survey has revealed
The targeted budget for the project was reportedly projected at 750,000.
The top court law officer said the power of judicial review is not about scanning state policies for the purposes of suggesting better or different prescriptions.
It will also organist blood donation camps to raise 100 pints of blood for the victims, a party spokesman said.
Donations to NGOs and charitable institutes are likely to be exempted from fringe benefit tax, a leading member of chartered accountants body ICAI said on Saturday.\n
'We should not underestimate the power of Hindutva.'
A jawan gave an injured Naxal a new lease of life by donating blood even as they are engaged in a fierce fight in Chhattisgarh.
Balasore district hospital looked like a war zone with the injured lying on stretchers in the corridor and rooms bursting at its seams with extra beds propped up.
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Former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan on Monday donated Rs 1 crore to the newly-launched 'Aam Aadmi Party' and said people from all walks of society will sit in Parliament after the 2014 General elections.
The Food and Drug Administration says all those areas are currently in compliance with blood screening, but that expanded testing is now needed.
A month after the tragic gurdwara shooting shook Wisconsin's peaceful Sikh community, officials at the Sikh temple are trying to figure out ways to fairly distribute the nearly six lakh dollars received in donations among families of the victims without causing any friction.
Vedanta Resources, which was pulled up for its role in the mining scam in India, is under the scanner yet again. This time for making illegal contribution of Rs 28 crore made to political parties in the last 3 years. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Beckham, who played for Manchester United and Real Madrid as a midfielder, is working for Qatar, which has been criticised for its treatment of foreign workers, LGBTQ+ rights and restrictive social laws.
Barely a few kilometres from Nuh, which witnessed communal clashes on July-end, a group of people belonging to different communities is busy preparing for Durga Puja.
Aditya Birla Group on Friday said it donated funds to political outfits through a trust for around 15 years and that these were done within permissible limits of the country's laws.
The Budget proposal for creation of electoral trusts for political donations came in for severe criticism by Left parties, with the CPI(M) saying it would be the "fountainhead of all political corruption".
Infertility clinic advertisements offering generous payments for donations of eggs and sperm are attracting many men and women in their twenties, the Asian Age newspaper said.
Just like veteran Marxist leader and former West Bengal Chief Minister Joyti Basu, a senior Maoist leader, who is currently lodged in a Bihar jail has offered to donate his body for medical research.
The book claims that donations made by hotelier Sant Chatwa to the Clinton Foundation was instrumental in Hillary to vote in favour of the India-US civil nuclear deal in 2008.
BJP derided Gandhi saying he "always talks trash" and claimed that unemployment was at its lowest in the last six years.
The actor asked people to make a difference in the lives of abandoned animals.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's donation of US $ 1million to the famous Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer will be paid from Pakistan's public exchequer, his spokesman has said
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