With hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cancelled since January, dozens of water & sanitation projects remain half-finished. Reuters has identified 21 unfinished projects in 16 countries.
CBI carried out a raid at Pathak's residence days after it lodged a case against him & others under Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
Expanding the scope of violation of FCRA, 2010, Centre has said that validity period of receiving foreign funds will be 3 yrs from the date of approval of application for prior permission.
The Pakistan Election Commission has revealed that the PTI got more than $7million in illegal foreign funds, much of it from opaque trusts in offshore tax havens.
In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.
Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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