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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicBBC documentary

Topic: BBC documentary

NaMo-asana, recommended for Trump & vegan food trucks ‘behind enemy lines’

NaMo-asana, recommended for Trump & vegan food trucks 'behind enemy lines'

For 3 decades, children in West Bengal have been killed and maimed by political crude bombs

Children of the Bombs, the BBC documentary directed by Ronny Sen, reviewed newspaper reports to claim that 565 children have been killed, injured, or maimed between 1996 and 2024.

Harrods apologises for sex abuse allegations against former owner Mohamed Al Fayed

According to a BBC documentary, Harrods failed to intervene, and helped cover up abuse allegations during Al Fayed's ownership from 1985 to 2010.

Two human rights groups to screen BBC Modi documentary in Washington ahead of PM’s visit

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have scheduled the private screening for June 20, two days ahead of Modi's official state visit, hosted by President Joe Biden.

Delhi High Court summons BBC over documentary on Gujarat riots, PM Modi

A Gujarat-based NGO has filed a defamation suit, saying the 2-part documentary has vilified India, its judiciary and the PM.

Maharashtra assembly passes resolution condemning BBC documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots

The resolution, moved by BJP member Atul Bhatkhalkar, condemned the UK broadcaster for the documentary, saying it had tried to create a religious divide and malign India’s judiciary.

Students protest after DU bars 2 from exams for 1 yr over BBC Modi documentary screening

Groups including NSUI had tried to screen Gujarat riots documentary in January. University official says action 'well thought out', but MP & alum Shashi Tharoor says he's 'appalled'.

Indian journalists should be grateful BBC lost the ‘impartiality’ battle

BBC's impartiality trait that it showed during Modi documentary went in hiding when football presenter Gary Lineker tweeted against British govt's immigration policy.

UK foreign minister raises issue of BBC tax searches with S Jaishankar

Last month, the Income Tax department conducted searches at the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai.

‘We stand up for the BBC,’ says UK government in Parliament after I-T survey

David Rutley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the FCDO, pointed to a "deep relationship” with India which meant the UK was able to discuss a wide range of issues in a "constructive manner".

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

India’s services exports touching $400 bn—a quiet engine offsetting trade deficit

In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit. 

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.