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Saturday, September 13, 2025
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To comply with FDI rules, BBC staff to launch new company for Indian-language services

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.

Hamas ‘militants’ or ‘terrorists’? BBC & Canadian public broadcaster face ire over Israel coverage

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’.

‘India don dey Moon now’: How world media reported Chandrayaan-3, from Pidgin to Queen’s English

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.

Arms deals to vintage cars — colourful story of Choudhrie clan, ‘Rolls-Royce middlemen’ in CBI case

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.

UN recognition of Palestinian Nakba counters the myth that Israel was created on empty land

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.

Richard Sharp resigns as BBC chairman after ‘breaching’ rules over Boris Johnson loan

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.

Now, ED launches FEMA probe against BBC, questions staff 

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’. 

BBC radio was the news of choice in Kashmir until PV Narasimha Rao intervened

In ‘India’s Tipping Point: The View from 7 Race Course Road’, S. Narendra recalls his time as a senior aide to Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.

Imran Khan has turned to foreign media, shows gas shells fired at his house

He spoke to CNN, BBC Urdu, Sky News and Al Jazeera about his predicament.

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.

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Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.