Indian income tax authorities wrapped up their three-day-long “survey” at BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai last night.

Indian tax officials examined mobile phones and laptops used by some BBC editorial and administrative employees, two sources told Reuters, as an inspection at the British broadcaster’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai entered a third day yesterday.

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The "survey" would continue for some more time, adding that the "exact time frame to complete the operation rests entirely on the teams on the ground".

India is looking into the BBC’s tax structure, the British news organisation said in an internal memo yesterday, as officials searched its premises in New Delhi and Mumbai for a second day, weeks after India banned a BBC documentary as propaganda.

"India is the mother of democracy but why is India's Prime Minister father of hypocrisy. What will you get after sending IT-D to BBC office? Will his image get better? In the world's Press Freedom Index, India's situation is dire compared to our neighboring countries," Khera tell reporters

They are understood to be making copies of electronic and paper-based financial data of the broadcaster.

India's once in a decade census, due in 2021 and delayed due to the pandemic, has now got bogged down by technical and logistical hurdles and there are no signs the mammoth exercise is likely to begin soon

Indian National Congress yesterday asked the country’s government if Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “put pressure on his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to accept terms that were extremely favourable to Adani Power and unfavourable to Bangladesh” in the agreement for power purchase from a plant in Godda, Jharkhand.

Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices yesterday, weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has “nothing to hide or be afraid of” on the controversy over Adani group, the home minister said yesterday, responding to opposition allegations of favouring the conglomerate attacked by a US short seller.

The Indian income tax officials' raid at BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai for alleged tax evasion today sparked a war of words between ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which accused the media of "spewing anti-India venom" and the opposition which attacked the government alleging "intimidation" of the media

The BBC said it was "fully cooperating" with Indian tax authorities raiding its New Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The BBC should not "spew venom" while operating in India, a ruling-party spokesman said Tuesday, after tax raids on the British broadcaster's local offices.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has said it would not be appropriate for him to comment on the opposition's allegations against the BJP-led government over the Adani-Hindenburg issue, and that there is "nothing for the BJP to hide or be afraid of".."The Supreme Court has taken cognizance of

Officials of India's income tax department is carrying out a "survey" at the premises of BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai as part of an investigation into alleged tax evasion

Adani Group sought to reassure investors yesterday, saying it had strong cashflows and its business plans were fully funded, as an Indian regulator confirmed it was investigating a critical report by a short-seller that has battered the group’s stocks.

India's market regulator is set to brief the federal government on its investigation into Adani group's shelved share sale, two sources said, thrusting the watchdog into the limelight in a week when its laws also face scrutiny by the nation's top court

India's embattled Adani group has hired a top US legal firm to fight back against allegations levelled by US short-seller Hindenburg Research, according to the Financial Times of London and the Indian media.

India’s market regulator is investigating Adani Group’s links to some of the investors in the conglomerate’s aborted $2.5 billion share sale, two sources said, amid growing concern in New Delhi about a US short-seller’s allegations against one of the country’s top industrial groups.