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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the worldSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailA former BBC radio presenter has died after being rescued from the River Derwent on Saturday morning.Michael Carey, 87, was recovered from the river at Darley Abbey Mills and ...

NEW DELHI: In remarks intended to embarrass the British public services broadcaster after it pressed ahead with the broadcast of a controversial two-part documentary on the Godhra riots that had irked India, Union I&B minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday took a dig at BBC and said that while it ...

India’s tax crackdown on the BBC, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has made news around the world. But foreign correspondents based in the country say this is not the first act of hostility by the Modi government. Privately, since 2019, they allege ...

The survey operation by the income tax department at the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) offices in Delhi and Mumbai has ended on Thursday, around three days after they started the drive in cases related to international taxation and alleged transfer of profits. The international broadcaster said in a Twitter ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 16: 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 copies of electronic and paper data of the news organisation.The operation that began at the ...

The Income Tax Department on Tuesday conducted a “survey operation” at the Delhi and Mumbai offices of the BBC, in what it said was part of a tax evasion investigation.The development came after the BBC, the United Kingdom’s state broadcaster, released a two-part documentary in January examining Prime Minister ...

New Delhi, Feb 15: The Income Tax department survey operation against the BBC India continued for the second day with the sleuths understood to be making copies of electronic and paper-based financial data of the organisation, officials said Wednesday.The tax department had launched the action on Tuesday at the ...

Washington:The United States on Tuesday said it is aware of the survey operation conducted by the Indian tax authorities at the BBC office in Delhi but is not in a position to offer its judgement. The Income Tax officials said the operation was part of a tax evasion investigation. ...

A BBC documentary on the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi’s, actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002 continues to cause controversy, with the British broadcaster’s offices raided by India’s tax officials on Tuesday. What is the documentary and why has it proved so contentious?What is the BBC documentary about?The ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 14: Teams of officials from the Income Tax Department are conducting ‘surveys’ at the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai. A spokesperson for the I-T Department said the surveys were being carried out at multiple locations.I-T officials told news agency the ‘surveys’ were part of a ...