A big fan of Aamir Khan, the eight-year-old was inspired after he made a donation to the chief minister's relief fund
Indian companies with a majority foreign shareholding will not get relief from the stringent norms that govern their contributions and donations within the country.
In a potentially controversial decree, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has said that donation of blood and body parts was against the tenets of Islam, but observed that giving blood to save the life of a near and dear one was acceptable.
'Everyone is so excited. There is a lot of excitement everywhere. This was a long time desire of many people.'
The National Election Watch has said that several companies make political donations, which makes it necessary to probe if the donations have led to any favours. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The compulsion behind India and Japan to deepen security cooperation is in response to China's growing political and economic clout and its assertive behaviour in disputed areas. This has been the key driver for bringing both India and Japan closer in the domain of security cooperation, explains Dr Rajaram Panda.
'The BJP was supporting him from behind in order to bring down the Congress government.'
The Aap Aadmi Party has received donations of over Rs 5 crore with maximum overseas contribution coming from the United States, the party website said.
The "opaque" electoral bonds scheme for funding political parties will "destroy democracy" as it promotes corruption and does not allow a level playing field between the ruling and opposition parties, the petitioners challenging the validity of the scheme told the Supreme Court, which on Tuesday observed election funding was a "complicated issue".
Death row convicts are asked about their last wish before hanging.
Assam-based athlete Das shared a glimpse of her flood-stricken neighbourhood, and appealed big corporates and followers to contribute to the CM's Relief Fund.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has received more donations compared to the Congress in Himachal Pradesh in the last seven years, a study has found.
Star Indian sprinter Hima Das has donated her one month's salary to the Assam government to help the state combat the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic. Das, an Asian Games gold-medallist besides being an under-20 World champion in 400m, is employed with PSU major Indian Oil as an HR officer in Guwahati.
Buffett typically makes his donations in July, reducing the number of shares by 5 percent from the prior year.
However, the offences do not appear to be hate crimes or motivated by hate, Durham Regional Police said in a press release on Thursday.
An Indian-origin entrepreneur and social activist has taken the lead by donating the biggest sum of money yet for the proposed statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Parliament Square in London.
State Bank of India on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking an extension of time till June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by political parties.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said political parties will be entitled to receive donations by cheque or digital mode from their donors.
CSK to donate proceeds from IPL opener to Pulwama martyrs' families
'Lalu is Lalu. His presence in the election campaign will make a difference for the Mahagathbandhan.'
As a huge crowd bid her the final farewell, veteran freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sehgal's body was on Tuesday taken to the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College medical college here where it would be donated for research.
The State Bank of India (SBI) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that a total of 22,217 electoral bonds were purchased by donors between April 1, 2019 and February 15 this year, out of which 22,030 were redeemed by political parties.
RJD president Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya has entered the fray to wrest back her father's erstwhile pocket borough.
Members of extremist groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Jaish-e-Mohammed openly collected donations for the jihad against the US in Afghanistan on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr in Pakistan's Peshawar city, a media report said on Tuesday.
Fifty other entities, including the Congress, have been served notices
The electoral bonds scheme for funding political parties should not become a tool for "legitimisation of quid pro quo" between power centres and people who are benefactors of that power, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it underscored the need for reducing the cash component in the electoral process.
This has affected all political activity of the party, Maken said at a press conference.
As campaigning picks up for the Lok Sabha elections, the newly elected President of industry body CII, Venu Srinivasan, has said he will promote a transparent way of donations to political parties by business houses.
Indian captain Virat Kohli and his South African counterpart Faf du Plessis made the donation of 100,000 Rand to the Gift of the Givers Foundation at the third T20 International cricket match at the Newlands Stadium on Sunday.
One does not need to be extraordinary to be a hero. Sometimes, cutting your hair can be enough.
The "unknown" sources are income declared in the annual audit report by these parties but without giving the source of income, according to the ADR.
"But the BJP wants it to be done after Lok Sabha elections. The tenure of this Lok Sabha will end on 16th June and SBI wants to share the data by 30th June," Kharge said.
Parliament on Wednesday rejected a Labour Party motion to extend free school meals until Easter 2021 from the cut-off before the half-term and winter holidays, prompting the England international to launch his campaign on social media.
The move could help answer any criticism that soccer could be taking away much-needed resources such as testing kits if it is allowed to re-start.
Ramesh alleged that through the "electoral bonds scam", the Bharatiya Janata Party has collected Rs 8,200 crore and used the route of "pre-paid, post-paid, post-raid bribes and shell companies".
The RTI also sought the details of the fees paid by the SBI to senior advocate Harish Salve to defend its case against the disclosure of the electoral bonds' records, citing that the records are held in a fiduciary capacity and the information is personal in nature.
Hospitals and blood banks can now only charge processing fees for blood as the apex drug regulator has decided to do away with all other fees to check the practice of overcharging.
There have been 600 confirmed cases across India and 10 reported deaths as the world's second most populous country's Coronavirus graph rose.
Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed led Jamat-ud-Dawah has set up various new fronts and established camps all over Pakistan to collect donations and sacrificial animals in the name of helping Kashmiris in India.
