Page 6 - Political Parties

Top headlines: Mainak quits as CARE Ratings chief, Nadella's India visit

From Satya Nadella's India visit later this month to analysts' take on consumption stocks, Business Standard brings you the top headlines of the day

SC asks parties to reveal pending criminal cases against poll candidates

The apex court said political parties will also have to upload reasons for selecting candidates with pending criminal cases on their website

Status of political parties' electoral bonds recieved in sealed cover: EC

The EC submitted the affidavit in the pleas filed by an NGO and others seeking a stay on the Centre's Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018

Rape as a tamasha

In India, rape as an issue remains hostage to social and political contestations that ricochet between high-profile righteous indignation and spurious Bollywood-style anguish

Who got the most of Rs 6k cr electoral bonds? Wait till Oct'20 to find out

So far in FY20, a total of Rs 3,355.93 crore worth of electoral bonds have been sold. This is higher than in the entire previous financial year, when Rs 2,550.78 crore's worth were sold

The rise of the extremes

Political parties across the world are diverging

Do regional parties overlook violence in exchange for political support?

The study looked at constituency-level assembly election data between 1988 and 2011 and events of political violence between 1989 and 2015

Defection: A Ricardian view

Views have tended to differ on this, which is why we get two broad types of parties: Left and Right

HC seeks Centre's reply on plea over parties with religious connotation

The EC opposed maintainability of the petition, saying the issues raised in it have been taken care of by the poll panel

SC plea seeks political party candidates be at least graduates, below 75

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi listed the petition filed by lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay for hearing before an appropriate bench

All women political outfit 'National Women's Party' launched in Delhi

The motive behind formation of National Women Party is to get 50 per cent reservation for women candidates in Lok Sabha Election

Link donations to political parties with Aadhaar: Congressman Manish Tewari

Transparency could be attained by bringing political parties within the ambit of RTI, he said

To curb misuse, political parties to redeem electoral bonds in 30 days max

Officials welcomed the measure saying that it has laid the foundation for more electoral reforms

Political parties welcome SC rider on poll campaigning

SC has termed any appeal for votes on the basis of caste, community, religion or language as illegal

Parties differ on machine that hides voting pattern: Election Commission

The move of the govt to set up a team of ministers comes against backdrop of the SC asking Centre to decide on the issue by month end

Parties raise the pitch ahead of civic polls

Political parties are taking an increasingly aggressive stance ahead of the upcoming civic elections in both Delhi and Maharashtra (due 2017).The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election is due in 2017. Maharashtra's ruling coalition partners Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party are preparing to go solo. Both are ruling India's richest civic body, which recently passed a budget of Rs 37,052 crore for 2016-17.''BJP has overtaken Shiv Sena in the Assembly election held in 2014 both in Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra after the alliance broke. The party has since taken a number of decisions for expediting growth in Greater Mumbai and it does not want to be cornered by the opposition on issues relating to corruption. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wants to cash in on the party's development agenda,'' a BJP legislator said.Shiv Sena is perfectly happy to go it alone as well.''Shiv Sena has not forgotten the way BJP ditched the alliance at the last minute for the Assembly poll.