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.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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