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20 Hottest Countries in Asia
In this article, we list and discuss the 20 Hottest Countries in Asia. If you would like to skip our detailed discussion of the topic, you can go to the top 6 Hottest Countries in Asia instead. On Monday, July 3, 2023, the world experienced a day that was dubbed the “death sentence for people […]
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Vedanta, Airtel, Essel among top funders of Indian political parties in last 5 yrs, data shows
Some of India's biggest companies, including Vedanta Ltd, Bharti Airtel , RPSG Group and Essel Mining were among the country's top political funders over the last five years under a now-scrapped opaque political funding system, official data showed on Thursday. The information was made public by the Election Commission of India following an order on Monday from the country's top court. The political funding mechanism introduced in 2017 allowed companies and individuals to donate unlimited amounts anonymously to political parties.
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INSIGHT-Obscure trust links India's top businesses with Modi's election war chest
Behind the doors of a small, non-descript office in the heart of New Delhi lies the headquarters of an electoral trust run by just two men that is the largest-known donor to India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), according to a Reuters review of public records. The Prudent Electoral Trust has raised $272 million since its creation in 2013, funnelling roughly 75% of that to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party. The trust’s donations to the BJP total 10 times as much as the $20.6 million it issued to the opposition Congress party, the records show.
