Campaign Finance Report

Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered to pay $10.5 million (nearly Rs. 86 crore) in legal fees to Washington state atop a nearly $25 million (nearly Rs. 200 crore) fine for repeated and intentional violations of campaign finance disclosure laws. King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North issued the legal-fee order Friday, two days afte...

The BJP's Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance, urges a crowd at an election rally in Delhi to say "goli maaro" - or shoot down traitors - in a widely-shared video that is being examined by the Election Commission.

The BJP is sparing no effort to ensure that the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is voted back to power when Madhya Pradesh goes to the polls later this year. Even as senior leaders shrugged off reports of mounting anti-incumbency, the party leadership today released a star-studded list of 40 campaigners featuring everybody from Prime Minister Nare...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's sudden switch from the Mahagathbandhan, or Grand Alliance to the rival National Democratic Alliance has Lalu Yadav going around in circles. In the last 24 hours, Lalu's party Rashtriya Janata Dal has threatened to move the Supreme Court, launch a public campaign and called Nitish Kumar names. But the BJP leader w...

Union Minister Arjun Meghwal was forced to climb a tree for a clearer mobile phone signal as he experienced firsthand the ground realities of the Digital India dream at a village in Rajasthan. On Sunday, the Minister of State for Finance was visiting a village in his parliamentary constituency Bikaner as part of a media campaign when he lost the ne...

The Iron Lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila, has reiterated her allegation that the BJP had offered her a ticket and to finance her campaign with Central funds -- a hefty Rs 36 crore. Today, she named a local BJP leader who had made the offer. The allegations of the activist -- who is contesting against three-time Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh from ...

In the crucial last weeks of the US presidential campaign, Democrat Hillary Clinton has dramatically widened her advantage over Republican rival Donald Trump in ad spending, according to campaign finance reports released on Thursday.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is reportedly upset with his party for not condemning Subramanian Swamy's volley of attacks on his aides. Mr Jaitley returns to Delhi from an official trip to China at a time when Mr Swamy's tirade is being seen as a thinly-disguised campaign against the minister himself, rather than his advisers.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has a new target: Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, who is among those being discussed as the likely new chief of the Reserve Bank of India.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to visit Australia next month and invite pension funds to invest in India, which offers vast opportunities, particularly in the infrastructure sector.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump spent more on hats, bumper stickers, yard signs and t-shirts than he did on any other category in the third quarter, according to his latest campaign finance report filed on Thursday.

The efforts will also be made to introduce mobile banking on all kinds of phones, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters after meeting the heads of PSU banks here today.

A campaign finance scandal has ensnared a Hillary Clinton aide whose court papers show secured illegal funding for a 2008 campaign operation, media report said.

U.S. Representative Michael Grimm was caught on a television camera saying to a reporter, "I'll break you in half," after he was asked in an interview about a federal investigation into campaign finance violations.

The government is trying hard to counter the note sent by Pranab Mukherjee's ministry that questions P Chidambaram's actions when India's greatest scam was unleashed in 2008 by A Raja, who was then Telecom Minister. Sources confirm that Mr Chidambaram called the Prime Minister last night to explain the decisions he took when he was Finance Minist...

Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered to pay $10.5 million (nearly Rs. 86 crore) in legal fees to Washington state atop a nearly $25 million (nearly Rs. 200 crore) fine for repeated and intentional violations of campaign finance disclosure laws. King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North issued the legal-fee order Friday, two days afte...

The BJP's Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance, urges a crowd at an election rally in Delhi to say "goli maaro" - or shoot down traitors - in a widely-shared video that is being examined by the Election Commission.

The BJP is sparing no effort to ensure that the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is voted back to power when Madhya Pradesh goes to the polls later this year. Even as senior leaders shrugged off reports of mounting anti-incumbency, the party leadership today released a star-studded list of 40 campaigners featuring everybody from Prime Minister Nare...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's sudden switch from the Mahagathbandhan, or Grand Alliance to the rival National Democratic Alliance has Lalu Yadav going around in circles. In the last 24 hours, Lalu's party Rashtriya Janata Dal has threatened to move the Supreme Court, launch a public campaign and called Nitish Kumar names. But the BJP leader w...

Union Minister Arjun Meghwal was forced to climb a tree for a clearer mobile phone signal as he experienced firsthand the ground realities of the Digital India dream at a village in Rajasthan. On Sunday, the Minister of State for Finance was visiting a village in his parliamentary constituency Bikaner as part of a media campaign when he lost the ne...

The Iron Lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila, has reiterated her allegation that the BJP had offered her a ticket and to finance her campaign with Central funds -- a hefty Rs 36 crore. Today, she named a local BJP leader who had made the offer. The allegations of the activist -- who is contesting against three-time Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh from ...

In the crucial last weeks of the US presidential campaign, Democrat Hillary Clinton has dramatically widened her advantage over Republican rival Donald Trump in ad spending, according to campaign finance reports released on Thursday.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is reportedly upset with his party for not condemning Subramanian Swamy's volley of attacks on his aides. Mr Jaitley returns to Delhi from an official trip to China at a time when Mr Swamy's tirade is being seen as a thinly-disguised campaign against the minister himself, rather than his advisers.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has a new target: Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, who is among those being discussed as the likely new chief of the Reserve Bank of India.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to visit Australia next month and invite pension funds to invest in India, which offers vast opportunities, particularly in the infrastructure sector.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump spent more on hats, bumper stickers, yard signs and t-shirts than he did on any other category in the third quarter, according to his latest campaign finance report filed on Thursday.

The efforts will also be made to introduce mobile banking on all kinds of phones, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters after meeting the heads of PSU banks here today.

A campaign finance scandal has ensnared a Hillary Clinton aide whose court papers show secured illegal funding for a 2008 campaign operation, media report said.

U.S. Representative Michael Grimm was caught on a television camera saying to a reporter, "I'll break you in half," after he was asked in an interview about a federal investigation into campaign finance violations.

The government is trying hard to counter the note sent by Pranab Mukherjee's ministry that questions P Chidambaram's actions when India's greatest scam was unleashed in 2008 by A Raja, who was then Telecom Minister. Sources confirm that Mr Chidambaram called the Prime Minister last night to explain the decisions he took when he was Finance Minist...