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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
TopicFCRA licence

Topic: FCRA licence

Why the FCRA Bill is an asset grab in disguise

The FCRA Bill is meant to reduce foreign influence over Indian charities. But it may end up forcing them to keep taking foreign money, just to keep their own hospitals and schools.

India’s non-profits are in a regulatory hell—state surveillance to confiscation of assets

Concerns around law and order or anxieties over religious conversion must be weighed against the developmental reality that the State cannot, on its own, meet the scale of India’s needs.

‘Punishment,’ says Wangchuk as MHA scraps FCRA license of NGO linked to him day after Leh violence

MHA’s foreigners division said responses by SECMOL, of which Sonam Wangchuk is founding-director, to show cause notice issued on 10 September differed from details in annual reports.

CBI raids social activist Harsh Mander’s residence, office over alleged FCRA violations

Searches have been conducted since Friday after an FIR was filed Wednesday against Mander and Centre for Equity Studies (CES). Mander sits on the CES's governing board.

Govt scrapped CPR’s FCRA licence over ‘funding for protests’, paper on policy challenges

Govt says think tank ‘misutilised foreign funds to affect India’s economic interests’ in violation of FCRA rules. CPR calls decision ‘incomprehensible & disproportionate’.

Ram Mandir trust says ‘Rs 900 cr spent, Rs 3,000 cr left’, seeks licence to accept foreign funds

Trust general secretary says construction work will proceed in 3 phases & be completed by 2025-end, adds that trust has been in talks with UP govt to take over Ayodhya’s Ram Katha museum.

Govt amends FCRA Rules, asks NGOs to declare movable & immovable assets acquired from foreign funds

Ministry of home affairs sources say the amendment, issued Monday, is meant to make the system more ‘transparent’ and NGOs more ‘accountable’.

‘Illegally received & routed money’, ‘violated FCRA norms’–why MHA ordered CBI probe against OXFAM

It was at recent survey by IT dept where it was found that Oxfam India was ‘planning to circumvent provisions of the FCRA by routing funds to other FCRA-registered associations.’

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Why the FCRA Bill is an asset grab in disguise

The FCRA Bill is meant to reduce foreign influence over Indian charities. But it may end up forcing them to keep taking foreign money, just to keep their own hospitals and schools.

Birlas to Tatas, all await West Bengal’s new industrial policy, says state BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya

In interview with ThePrint, RS MP says new policy will incentivise industry. Bengal’s industrialisation hit pause after 2008 Singur land agitation drove away Tata Nano project.

As India-China face-off in Arunachal Pradesh, MEA says state of border will reflect state of ties

Face-off happened late July when patrol parties of 2 countries came face to face in remote Taksing village. The Chinese are said to have returned in early August.

Guru RSS is cautioning shishya Modi govt. Bhagwat’s endorsement of Gen Z has an Indira lesson

It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.