Deployment of observers in RK Nagar a new national record: EC

The CPI(M) has advocated a ban on corporate funding for political parties and a ceiling on parties' expenditure in polls as part of electoral reforms to curb political corruption. "The Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) says he wants to end political corruption ...

The Election Commission on Friday said the introduction of electoral bonds by the government will compromise transparency in political funding and termed it as a "retrograde step".  The commission made these observations before the parliamentary standing committee on Law and Personnel in a written deposition. The committee had met to discuss issues including EVMs, paper trail machines and electoral reforms.  The poll panel also opposed state funding saying it will not be able to ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called upon states to "speed up capital expenditure and infrastructure creation" to spur economic growth. Addressing the third meeting of the Governing Council of Niti Aayog, Modi also said the think-tank's long, medium and short term action plans would benefit all the states. "Niti Aayog is working on a 15-year long term vision, seven-year medium term strategy, and three-year action agenda," he told the meeting, which was attended by chief ministers, ...

Among the many accusations that the Election Commission decided to probe is one against the ruling AIADMK faction on handing out a large number of hats, caps and scarfs in R K Nagar constituency where the bypoll was cancelled late on Sunday. The EC's ...

Keeping BJP’s poll promise, the newly elected Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday waived farm loans of up to Rs 1 lakh, benefitting 2.15 crore small and marginal farmers in the state. The much-anticipated debt waiver entails an ...

The Nawab of Bhopal Sir Hafiz Hamidullah Khan, saboteur in chief as Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes was constantly looking at ways and means to stay out of the dragnet of the Congress and the ambit of the new Dominion of India. As the end neared, he grew ...

'The army has stopped short of exerting the sort of influence it may have done historically.''It is comfortable with its relations with the civilian government as the superior partner.' Hasnain Malik, global head of equity research at Exotix Partners LLP and a keen observer of Pakistan, analyses Pakistani politics and its economy in an interview with Aditi Phadnis. How do you view the Pakistan supreme court's order that the prime minister (Nawaz Sharif) and his children should be investigated ...

Posted by Equitymaster Global financial markets ended the week on a positive note with a boost from European share markets. French indices remained upbeat over the week due to the Presidential elections and were among the top global gainers. The French ...

A K Bhattacharya digs into the yet-to-be-public report on ways to curb black money and finds out that Modi's next moves could include action on dabba trading, hawala, and education. Even as the government has launched a high-profile drive against black money, a 1,000-page study on unaccounted incomes in India has not been made public. Produced by the think-tank National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) at the instance of the UPA government of 2012, the report was submitted to the ...