'Unacceptable': US radio broadcaster NPR rejects Twitter's 'state-affiliated media' label
Fp Staff • 2 years agoNPR receives US government funding through grants from federal agencies and departments, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The company said it accounts for less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget
No decision yet on countrywide roll-out of NRC, Union home ministry tells parliamentary panel
• 4 years agoThe update of the NRC was carried out in Assam to identify bona fide Indian citizens living in the state but the initiative had created a nationwide uproar
Trinamool Congress government will not allow NRC or NPR in West Bengal, says Mamata Banerjee
• 4 years agoThe state's residents are citizens of the country, the CM said at a public meeting in North 24 Parganas, further accusing the BJP of running divisive campaigns using CAA
Delhi riots: Congress leader Salman Khurshid, CPM's Brinda Karat named in chargesheet
• 4 years agoThe charge sheet quoted a protected witness who claimed that Udit Raj, Salman Khurshid and Brinda Karat made 'provocative speeches' at the Khureji Khas protest site
Census, NPR unlikely in 2020, not on govt's priority list amid COVID-19 pandemic, say officials
• 5 years agoThe house-listing phase of the Census and the exercise to update the National Population Register were scheduled to be carried out from 1 April to 30 September, but were postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak
Delhi riots: Police question DU professor Apoorvanand for five hours, seize his phone
• 5 years ago'It is disturbing to see a theory emerging which treats the supporters of the anti-CAA protesters as the source of violence,' the professor said in a statement
Police cordon and search ops targeting Muslim localities in Hyderabad see normalisation of military tactic in India's most liveable city
Ayesha Minhaz • 5 years agoSince 2015, officials from the Hyderabad police department have claimed that cordon and search operations helped keep tabs on suspicious persons, illegal activities, rowdy-sheeters, property offenders and those involved in other offences
Coronavirus Outbreak: NPR updation exercise deferred after 21-day lockdown announced by Narendra Modi
• 5 years agoDue to the prevailing situation, the NPR and Census exercises have been deferred till further orders, a senior home ministry official said
As India shuts down for 'Janta Curfew', petrol bomb hurled near Delhi's Shaheen Bagh; cops say no one injured, situation under control
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe development comes in the backdrop of the nationwide "Janta Curfew," which is being observed on Prime Minister Modi's appeal.
Amid coronovirus outbreak, CPM urges Narendra Modi to defer Census, abandon enumeration of NPR in address to nation
• 5 years agoCPM's Politburo has demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announce deferment of census operations and abandonment of the NPR in the wake coronavirus outbreak