The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will hear on December 6 the plea of a Congress leader challenging a recent notification by which the sale of electoral bonds has been extended by 15 more days in the year of general elections to legislative assemblies of states and Union territories (UTs) with a legislature.
'The BJP gets most of its contributions in cash.' 'Now they may show that donations are made in small amounts, less that Rs 20,000, but everyone knows this is just absurd.'
The Bombay high court on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation seeking a disproportionate assets case against former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and his family, observing that it sought a "roving enquiry".
Electoral bonds have been pitched as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties as part of efforts to bring transparency in political funding.
The remarks came amid reports of mounting tension between the finance ministry and the RBI over the autonomy of monetary policy makers.
I-T heat on thousands of firms for unusual cash deposits.
Capital markets regulator, I-T department suspect tax evasion and market manipulation
Pro-Pakistan leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's death has brought to an end a chapter of anti-India and separatist politics in Kashmir.
'Ultimately if your aim is that you need to be able to deal with a security situation, you need to deal with a black money situation, you need to deal with a counterfeiting situation then, to that extent, I think everyone will need to able to tolerate a little bit of inconvenience.'
Out of these, no balance has been found in case of 289 accounts
Snapdeal said it will give its users the option to defer the delivery by a few days till new currency notes become easily available.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley witll spearhead the campaign with BJP President Amit Shah as its chief strategist.
Maharashtra police have made extensive security arrangements to ensure that voting for the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly polls goes peacefully with the deployment of over 2 lakh state police personnel, along with the reserved police forces.
The Congress unit described Ramesh's suicide an outcome of "targeted harassment" of their rank and cadre to keep them away from the party.
2,138 firms deposited unaccounted Rs 5,000 cr in zero-balance accounts during the note ban
What is the wider political strategy behind Mr Modi's concerted attack on black money, asks Subir Roy.
I-T officials say many lawyers, CAs, consultants, designers have not filed their TDS
How will the government's decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes help curb the creation and flow of black money into the Indian economy?
The nearly two month-long grueling campaigning in peak summer for the May 16 Tamil Nadu assembly election that is witnessing a multi-cornered contest comes to an end on Saturday.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the magnitude of the alleged black money transfer through state-owned BoB will only be known after completion of the multi-disciplinary probe.
"For the next 25 years we need to focus on the five resolves - developed India, removing every trace of bondage from our mind, taking pride in our glorious heritage, unity, and fulfilling our duties," he said.
The Thackerays sought dismissal of the PIL on the ground that it was filed on assumptions and without any factual foundation.
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This amount is just about 10% of the previous IDS
'If they really wanted to give him competition, the AIADMK should have contested the seat, not its ally the PMK.'
The money is seized when the person concerned fails to furnish any evidence of it being part of the disclosed money.
While six of the 14 suspects were picked up on Friday from Karnataka, four are from Hyderabad and two each from Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh.
Chatterjee, who was the state education minister when the scam took place, was arrested after around 26 hours of grilling in connection with the probe.
The Modi government's decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes will drive up interest in the bullion market
The government said that the massive amount of political donations were earlier made in cash by individuals or corporates using 'illicit means of funding'.
Shivakumar will be produced before a court in New Delhi on Wednesday by the ED for seeking his custody.
Jaitley said future transactions would be substantially digital as India moves towards a less-cash society
Congress leaders have hit out at the BJP governments at the Centre and in Karnataka, questioning its timing.
Cap on bank withdrawals to be reviewed after Dec 30, says finance secy.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to go into a plea seeking probe by an special investigation team into alleged recovery of documents by the IT department in connection with raids on two business houses in New Delhi.
All the 14 were being produced in local courts for a transit remand to Delhi where they would be questioned extensively by the NIA.
Kumar's son Prashant Bishnoi is a national-level shooter.
Police seized 100 fake notes of old Rs 500 denomination from Burhanuddin, who first claimed to be a Mumbai resident.
The studies found that sectors with the highest unaccounted income included real estate, mining, pharmaceuticals, pan masala, gutkka and tobacco, bullion and commodity markets, film industry, educational institutes and professionals.
The Election Commission has a fight on its hand as candidates use ingenious methods to smuggle in money to Voters.
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