Karnataka election: each candidate can spend up to Rs 28L on p...

Freebies like cookers and sarees worth Rs 16.28 crore and over 88,000 litres of liquor have been seized by the Election Commission-appointed surveillance and expenditure monitoring teams in poll-bound Karnataka till now, according to official data.These teams have also seized 965 cheques, bearing a value of Rs 2.98 crore, as part of total Rs 23.14 crore worth seizures made in the state. According to the data, updated till yesterday, flying squads and surveillance teams seized freebies and ...

Of Rs 1,034.27 crore, the ruling party spent Rs 606.64 crore, while the Congress spent Rs 149.65 crore of its Rs 225.36 crore.  IMAGE: The BJP has the highest income among the seven national parties -- forming 66.34 per cent of the total income of the parties. Photograph: Jayanta Dey/Reuters Seven national parties declared a total income of Rs 1,559.17 crore in 2016-17, with Bharatiya Janata Party having the highest -- Rs 1,034.27 crore, says a report. “This forms 66.34 per ...

Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat, who was on a three-day visit to the state to review election preparedness, said on Friday that it has become a challenge for the election commission to track digital transfer of money, especially through apps.

About 11% of Tripuras electorate had cast their vote within the first two hours in the state Assembly elections which began at 7am on Sunday, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Tapas Roy said. Elections are being held in 59 out of the states 60 Assembly ...

Rs 2,000 and 500 notes constitute 97% of the Rs 4.13 crore cash that the Income Tax Department has seized in poll-bound Karnataka till now, authorities said today. The revelation comes in the backdrop of a cash crunch being witnessed across various regions in ...

Tripura would go to polls on Sunday with the Bharatiya Janata Party emerging as the main challenger to the ruling Left Front, which has been in power in the state for the last 25 years. Image: Polling personnel stand in queue to cast their votes for Assembly polls through postal ballots in Dharmanagar. Photograph: PTI Photo    Polling would be held in 59 of the total 60 seats. Voting in Charilam assembly constituency would be held on March 12 due to the death of the Communist Party ...

New Delhi: The last full Union Budget to be presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the forthcoming session of Parliament beginning on Monday will be unlike his previous four such exercises because of the complete overhaul of the indirect tax regime ...