New Delhi: The Congress demanded a probe into the possible use of an Israeli firm’s services to interfere in Indian elections and spread disinformation. A recent report by a collaboration of international publications aided by Paris-based Forbidden Stories, published in The Guardian, said that elections
New Delhi: In the financial year 2021-22, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received nearly 80% (Rs 614 crore) of the total funds (Rs 780 crore) donated to the eight national parties in the country, the latest report published by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) revealed. The
Mumbai: Indian tax officials examined mobile phones and laptops used by some BBC editorial and administrative employees, two sources told Reuters, as an inspection at the British broadcaster’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai entered a third day on Thursday. Tax officials had remained at the
New Delhi: Global human rights body, Amnesty International has said the raids by India’s Income Tax department officials on the BBC’s office in New Delhi and Mumbai are an ‘affront to free speech’. Aakar Patel, Chair of Amnesty International India’s Board, in a statement said, the
Ahmedabad: The family of an 18-year-old Dalit student at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay who reportedly died by suicide earlier this week on Wednesday told NDTV that he had faced discrimination on account of his caste. The student, Darshan Solanki, reportedly jumped off the seventh floor
New Delhi: In two months, India is projected to become the world's most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country won't know how many people it has because it hasn't been able to count
New Delhi: Russian state news agencies reported that Russia had supplied India with $13 billion worth of arms in the past five years. India has also placed a requisition for another $10 billion worth of arms and military equipment with Russia, the reports added. India’s procurement
New Delhi: Indian tax authorities raided the BBC's New Delhi offices on Tuesday, a journalist at the broadcaster told AFP, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "There's income tax raid in office, they're confiscating all phones," the employee said. India
New Delhi: For the first time in history, Delhi is officially the “rape capital” of India. Even while the pace of increase in the number of reported rapes in the city has slowed down, the number of such cases proportionate to its women population was
New Delhi: Gujarat has reported the highest number of deaths under police custody among all states and Union Territories between 2017 and 2022, the Centre told the Parliament last week. Eighty persons have died under the custody of police in the state over the five years.