Editors Guild of India Friday says the raids, at a time the Pegasus row is happening, raises concerns about press freedoms. Read the full statement here.
Raids were conducted against Dainik Bhaskar & Bharat Samachar for alleged tax evasion Wednesday. Both organisations have carried reports critical of government's Covid management.
According to govt sources, the group has allegedly floated several paper companies to evade tax by claiming bogus expenses and purchases using shell entities.
Top editors of Dainik Bhaskar detail the rigorous planning that went behind the newspaper’s massive Covid coverage and how it exposed the woefully undercounted death data in different states.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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