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LS polls: Congress under pressure to field a Muslim candidate from Mumbai
Mumbai: Amid finger-pointing and an eyeball-to-eyeball row unfolding, pressure is now building on the top Congress leadership to field a Muslim candidate from Mumbai for the upcoming May 20 Lok Sabha elections,…
- India
‘Proud moment,’ says cousin of new BBC chairman
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: “We are proud of him and this is a well-deserved achievement,” said Sujata Kango, cousin of Dr Samir Shah, the India-born British TV executive who has been named as the UK…
- Middle East
BBC under fire for mistranslating Arabic interview of released Palestinian prisoner
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has come under fire for mistranslating an Arabic interview with one of the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel on Friday, November 24, as part of the humanitarian ceasefire agreement. During…
- News
Syria quashes accreditation of BBC scribes for ‘spreading fake news’
Damascus: The Syrian government has quashed the accreditation of two Syrian journalists working for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over allegedly spreading “misleading information and politicising coverage of the war-torn country”. The…
- Middle East
BBC apologizes after anchor says ‘Israeli forces are happy to kill children’
The BBC issued an apology on Wednesday after one of its anchors made a provocative statement that “Israeli forces are happy to kill children.” The Israeli attack on Jenin and its refugee camp on…
- World
New images show Chinese spy balloons over Asia: BBC
London: The British media on Monday reported new evidence of China’s spy balloon programme, including flights over Japan and Taiwan, months after US-China relations were derailed when one such airship was shot…
- World
‘Telling truth in India can be a crime’: Aus lawmakers on BBC Modi docu
The BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, was screened at the parliament house in Australia on Wednesday, the same day on which Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with his Australian…
- India
BBC summoned in defamation case over Modi documentary
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday issued summons to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on a defamation suit filed by an NGO claiming that its documentary cast a slur on…
- Delhi
Documentary row: Delhi court summons BBC, others on defamation complaint
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday issued summonses to the BBC, Wikimedia and Internet Archive on a criminal complaint filed by a BJP leader seeking to restrain them from publishing a…