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.
The NGOs with FCRA registration certificates expiring between 29 Sept 2020 and 31 March 2022 and have applied for renewal are eligible, a home ministry notice stated.
The Modi govt's Christmas present to MoC by refusing to renew registration is in contrast with brazen amendment of FCRA in 2016 to save the BJP from penal action.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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