Foreign funding News

The Centre For Policy Research (CPR) was under scrutiny after Income Tax surveys on it and Oxfam India in September last year. Its Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence of has been suspended over violation of laws.

The Bharatiya Janata Party made serious allegations against Kejriwal's party AAP, saying that the social media accounts of the party are being operated from abroad. Social media accounts running from outside the country are a big threat to the country.

The new law permits relatives to send up to Rs 10 lakh without telling the government. If the sum is exceeded, individuals will have three months instead of 30 days to notify the government. The government has replaced the words "fifteen days" with "forty-five days"

There were 22,762 FCRA-registered NGOs till Friday Today, it came down to 16,829 as 5,933 NGOs ceased to operate

From today onwards farmers have announced to go on hunger strike. Meanwhile questions are also being raised about foreign funding in the movement.

MHA is mulling a massive crackdown on Khalistan network over foreign funding, terror links Central government agencies like NIA, ED, CBI, FIU and Income Tax Department will be involved in the crackdown on the Khalistani outfits. The central agencies will probe foreign funding received by these outfits from the UK, Canada, USA, Australia, France and Germany

Apex academic institutions like JNU, Delhi University, IIT Delhi, ICAR besides Supreme Court Bar Association will not be able to recieve foreign funds from now onwards with the Central government toughening its stand against hunderds of organisations for non-compliance of rules.   

Justice AK Chawla gave six weeks time to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to file compliance report on its 2014 judgement.

Licences of around 20,000 of 33,000 NGOs have been cancelled by the government.