Journalists say they were also asked about covering 2020-21 farmers' protests & raids were carried out at their homes for 3 hours, as police probe alleged receipt of funds by NewsClick from China.
Delhi Police’s Special Cell Tuesday conducted raids at 30 premises connected with the online portal as well as its journalists’ houses, triggering outrage among scribes.
NewsClick has already been under the scanner of the Economic Offences Wing and the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly receiving funds from China, routed through the United States.
Earlier, the ED also moved the Delhi HC against Newsclick and its editor-in-chief through a fresh application stating that it was a case of grave criminal conspiracy for paid news.
ED’s case against NewsClick centres on ‘fraudulent’ foreign funds and ties to China-based mogul Neville Roy Singham. NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha calls allegations 'fictitious'.
This follows a New York Times report alleging that NewsClick received funding from a China-linked American millionaire Neville Roy Singham. The news portal's X account has been suspended.
Read the full statement issued by the Editors Guild of India against the income tax department's 'surveys' conducted Friday at NewsClick, Newslaundry offices in New Delhi.
The IT department said officials are conducting 'survey operations' at business premises of the two portals to verify certain tax payment details and remittances made by them.
Newsclick Studio is accused of receiving Foreign Direct Investment of Rs 9.59 crore from Worldwide Media Holdings LLC USA during the financial year 2018-19.
Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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