Home » freebies

You Searched For "freebies"

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh (PTI)

EC doesn-'t have jurisdiction to regulate issues like freebies: Cong

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday said the Election Commission does not have the jurisdiction to regulate issues such as...

28 Oct 2022 11:45 PM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)

Freebies to allure voters, welfarism policy intervention: BJP in...

The party has no objections to the poll panel-'s idea that political parties should also submit financial viability of...

27 Oct 2022 1:06 PM IST

TD chief Chandrababu Naidu and Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (PTI file image)

Polls in Andhra Pradesh to see fight over freebies

TD chief Chandrababu Naidu has announced that, if elected to power, he will provide more welfare aid to people than the...

5 Sept 2022 6:51 AM IST

Education can uplift an individual, a family, or an entire section of society, in one generation, across the social class barrier. It can transform the helpless poor into empowered productive citizens. On the other hand, free TVs or mobiles being distributed can hardly have any sustainable, long-term or mid-term benefit. It is whimsical, often a gimmick. Representational Image/PTI

DC Edit | Fight freebies, respect welfare

There is no such thing as a free lunch, of course, and therefore, no such thing as a freebie. It only means someone else...

28 Aug 2022 11:31 PM IST

The Supreme Court of India. (ANI File Photo)

Three-member bench to hear freebie case

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday directed listing before a three-judge bench pleas against the practice of...

26 Aug 2022 7:51 PM IST

Arvind Kejriwal (PTI file image)

Free education, healthcare are not freebies: Kejriwal

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday asserted that free education and healthcare are not freebies...

15 Aug 2022 1:33 PM IST

Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit at Elmau Castle, southern Germany, on June 27, 2022. (AFP)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | â€˜Freebieâ€™ politics: Can Opp. use PM...

It is ironical that barely months after leading the BJP to an astonishing successive victory in the Uttar Pradesh...

29 July 2022 12:55 AM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

SC asks Centre to mull over freebie regulation

-'It is a very serious issue. What is your suggestion on how you are going to control it?,-' court asked the government...

27 July 2022 2:15 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration of Bundelkhand Expressway, in Jalaun, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Freebie culture dangerous for country: Modi

Modi asserted that those with freebies culture will never build new expressways, new airports or defence corridors

17 July 2022 2:09 AM IST

Recently, the YSRC has won 86 percent MPTC, 98 percent ZPTC and 82.80 per cent seats in municipal and corporation elections. Representational Image (AP)

Sanjaya Baru | Rising freebies: The fiscal price of political failures

When political parties promise free television sets, kitchenware and suchlike, they are using the taxpayerâ€™s money to...

2 May 2022 12:41 AM IST