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BBC under fire over Attenborough episode, sports presenter Lineker’s Twitter row
London: The BBC on Saturday is dealing with a deepening row as it emerged that it decided not to broadcast an episode narrated by world-famous conservationist Sir David Attenborough for a new…
- India
Gujarat Assembly passes resolution against BBC for documentary on 2002 riots
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Assembly on Friday passed a resolution requesting the Centre to take strict action against BBC for tarnishing the image and popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with its documentary…
- India
UK Foreign Secretary raises IT searches at BBC offices with Jaishankar
New Delhi: UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Wednesday raised the issue of tax searches at BBC offices in India with his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar. The issue was raised during their…
- India
BBC does not have an ‘agenda’, says chief to staff in India after I-T survey
London: The BBC is not driven by an “agenda” but by purpose and will not be put off reporting impartially and without fear or favour, the UK-headquartered media organisation’s chief has said days…
- India
Screening of BBC documentary on Modi at Visva Bharati stalled
Kolkata: An attempt to screen the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots on the campus of Visva Bharati university in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on…
- India
BBC cannot hide ‘economic offences’ under garb of freedom of expression: BJP
New Delhi: The BJP said on Wednesday the BBC or any other organisation cannot hide their “economic offences” under the garb of freedom of expression. The British broadcaster is under the Income-Tax…
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UK strongly backs BBC after IT ‘surveys’ at Delhi, Mumbai offices
The UK government strongly defended the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Tuesday during a Parliament debate, a week after Income Tax officials spent nearly 59 hours ‘surveying’ BBC offices in Delhi and…
- India
If BJP keeps bullying media, investors won’t come to India: Akhilesh
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said foreign investors will not come to India as the BJP government’s ‘bulldozer policy’ and the recent I-T “raids” at the BBC offices have…
- India
BBC profits not commensurate with operations in India: Tax officials
New Delhi: The income and profits shown by various BBC group entities are “not commensurate” with the scale of their operations in India and tax has not been paid on certain remittances…
- India
Nitish criticises IT surveys on BBC, rejection of probe into Adani Group
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the Income Tax department’s surveys on BBC premises in Delhi and Mumbai were a “clear cut” indication of the Narendra Modi government’s intolerance…
- India
UK MP Blackman slams BBC documentary on PM Modi as ‘propaganda’
New Delhi: Terming the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a ‘propaganda video’ and a ‘disgraceful piece of shoddy journalism,’ British MP Bob Blackman has said that it should never…
- India
‘Will continue to report without fear or favour’: BBC on IT ‘survey’
After a three-day investigation that entailed searching through files and copying data from certain digital devices, the income tax inspectors departed the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai on Thursday night.…
- Delhi
Income Tax surveys at BBC offices end after over 58 hours
New Delhi: The Income Tax department’s marathon “surveys” at BBC’s offices ended on Thursday, after clocking over 58 hours in total, as officials prepared an inventory of financial data from select staffers…
- India
Income Tax survey at BBC offices clocks over 55 hours
New Delhi: The Income Tax department’s marathon survey at BBC’s offices continued for the third straight day on Thursday as officials prepared an inventory of financial data from select staffers and made…
- India
SC being used as ‘tool’ by anti-India forces: RSS-affiliated weekly on BBC docu row
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is allegedly being used as a “tool” by anti-India forces, RSS-linked weekly Panchjanya has said while criticising the apex court for issuing notice to the Centre over…
