New Delhi: From the who’s who of the corporate world to low-profile businesses — the Election Commission on Thursday put out the entire list of entities that have purchased electoral bonds for making political donations. The names include steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel, Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta, ITC, Mahindra and Mahindra, a lesser-known…
New Delhi: A high-level Committee on Thursday recommended simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and state assemblies as the first step followed by synchronised local body polls within 100 days. In its report submitted to President Droupadi Murmu that ran into over 18,000 pages, the panel headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind said simultaneous polls will…
New Delhi: Former bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar have been named as the new election commissioners by a panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, committee member and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Thursday. Addressing reporters at his residence soon after the meeting ended, Chowdhury said six names came up before…
New Delhi: Cyber attacks and data breaches are the top business risks for organisations in India, according to the 2023 Global Risk Management Survey. Cyber attacks and data breaches were placed seventh in the 2021 business risks survey. Global professional services firm Aon collected inputs from around 3,000 risk managers, c-suite leaders, treasurers, talent professionals,…
Chennai: Defamation complaints have been filed before a sessions court, against AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami and BJP state president K Annamalai for their statements against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin relating to alleged distribution of drugs in TN. In his complaints filed separately on Thursday, City Public Prosecutor G Devarajan sought…
Thiruvanthapuram: Former Indian athlete Padmini Thomas and ex-District Congress Committee general secretary Thampanoor Satheesh on Thursday left the Congress and joined the BJP. The move comes a day after the BJP’s state chief, K Surendran, announced that more Congress members would be joining the saffron party. The development also comes a week after Padmaja Venugopal,…
Guwahati: Completion of projects after laying foundation is the hallmark of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development model, Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Thursday. Sitharaman, the Union Finance Minister, claimed that prior to 2014, when the Modi government came to power at the Centre, foundations were laid but projects were not completed on time….
Nashik: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the opposition INDIA alliance, if voted to power, will be the “voice of farmers” and frame policies to protect them, promising to exclude cultivators from GST and restructure crop insurance scheme. He was addressing a farmers’ rally at Chandwad in Maharashtra’s Nashik district along with NCP (SP)…
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a roadshow in Hyderabad on Friday and address BJP rallies in Telangana on March 16 and March 18 ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Modi’s roadshow would be held for an hour from Mirjaguda to Malkajgiri here Friday evening, Telangana BJP sources said on Thursday. On March 16,…
New Delhi: Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan said on Wednesday that his party has finalised a seat-sharing formula with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls and all his “concerns” were addressed. Following a meeting with BJP president J P Nadda, Paswan was lavish in his praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
