Earlier this month, home ministry had recommended a CBI probe into alleged violations by the non-profit, which had then issued a statement that it fully complies with Indian laws.
'No question of having undertaken any activity that is beyond our objects of association and compliance mandated by law', says Centre for Policy Research in statement issued Wednesday.
The organisations, in separate statements, also said that they fully cooperated with tax officials. The surveys were allegedly conducted in connection with 'FCRA violations'.
Police claim Pravda Media Foundation — under which Alt-News functions — received funds from various countries, including Pakistan, Syria, Bahrain, UAE, and Qatar.
CBI probing how licences were granted & renewed for bribes, based on complaint filed by MHA. 36 persons, including 7 officials, are named in FIR, and 14 have been arrested.
The crackdown by the central agency is going on at 40 locations including in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Mysore and some places in Rajasthan.
SC upholds constitutional validity of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2020, says it serves to safeguard India’s ‘sovereignty and integrity’.
The court was hearing a plea filed by the US-based NGO seeking quashing of the Centre’s alleged decision by which 5,789 entities lost their FCRA registration.
The organisations are among a cumulative 12,580 whose FCRA licence — which allows them to get foreign funding — has ceased to exist over the past few years.
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.
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