Under lens for alleged FDI violations, BBC announced Wednesday it will restructure its India ops to comply with foreign investment rules. The new entity set up is called Collective Newsroom.
The British broadcaster said 4 staff members, including current India head Rupa Jha, would leave the company to form 'Collective Newsroom' and provide services as commissioned by BBC.
BBC's coverage ‘not balanced’, says UK special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, while Canadian columnist says CBC ‘is far less disciplined in avoiding use of word terrorism’.
From highlighting the confidence of ISRO scientists behind Chandrayaan-3 to talking about India's deep tradition of science, global media is abuzz with the success of the lunar mission.
From 2007-16, the family faced several charges — getting over $100 mn from Russian arms firms to Rolls-Royce making 'secret payments'. Bhanu Choudhrie was named in 2021 Pandora Papers case.
For Palestinians, commemoration and remembrance of the Nakba is not about marking a historical event. It’s about the need to continue telling their stories.
Sharp had been under pressure since February when a committee of lawmakers said he had made 'significant errors of judgement' in failing to declare his involvement in the loan.
The I-T Department had in February carried out a survey on BBC offices in India to probe alleged irregularities in ‘transfer pricing’ and ‘international taxation’.
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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