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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

Raids on BBC: Good friends can also disagree, says UK high commissioner

New Delhi: ‘Good friends can also disagree’, British High Commissioner Alex Ellis on Wednesday said in response to questions on raids at BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai by the Income Tax…
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…
World

BBC Chairman resigns after Boris Johnson loan row

London: BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigned on Friday over a report into whether he failed to properly disclose his involvement in the facilitation of a loan to former British Prime Minister Boris…
India

BBC Modi docu: HC seeks DU response on student leader’s debarment

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Delhi University to file its response to a Congress students’ wing leader’s challenge to his debarment for alleged involvement in the screening…

Business

Twitter adds more ‘govt-funded’ labels to global media, faces outcry

New Delhi: Twitter has put more ‘government-funded media’ labels on the accounts of global news outlets like Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC Australia), Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), New Zealand’s public broadcaster RNZ,…
India

‘Orwellian state being created..’: Cong on ED case against BBC

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday slammed the Centre after the Enforcement Directorate registered a case against news broadcaster BBC India, alleging that the government is determined to impose a “dictatorial government”…
Technology

Owning Twitter has been quite painful: Musk

San Francisco: Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday told the BBC that running Twitter has been “quite painful” and a “rollercoaster” for him. In a Twitter Spaces interview with the BBC, the…
India

Amritpal Singh case: BBC Punjabi Twitter account withheld

New Delhi: Amid ongoing police crackdown against pro-Khalistani elements in Punjab, the official Twitter account of the BBC Punjabi was blocked by the authorities. The message of Twitter profile of BBC News…
World

3 kids among 6 killed in Tennessee school, female shooter shot dead

Washington: Three students and three adults were killed and several others injured in a gun attack at a school in US’ Tennessee state on Monday before the woman perpetrator was shot dead…
India

Assam Assembly adopts resolution condemning BBC docu on PM Modi

Dispur: Assam Legislative Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution condemning the “malicious documentary” recently aired by the BBC to “malign India’s growing international standing and foment domestic instability,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa…
World

Indian students urge UK PM Rishi Sunak to act over English test scandal

London: A group of international students, including many from India, have delivered a petition to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urging him to act against the “unjust” revocation of their visas following…
India

BBC docu screening attempt: DU bars 2 students for a year

New Delhi: Delhi University has barred two students, including a Congress students’ wing leader, for a year for allegedly participating in a screening of the BBC documentary on the Godhra riots on campus,…