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Who killed Amnesty International India?
Activists say the BJP is using laws framed during the Congress era to crack down on civil society
3 min read2 Oct 2020Who killed Amnesty International India?
Activists say the BJP is using laws framed during the Congress era to crack down on civil society
3 min read2 Oct 2020’Unfortunate, exaggerated’: Govt on Amnesty International’s ’witch-hunt’ claims
Amnesty International had received permission under the FCRA only once and that too twenty years ago, govt statesSince then Amnesty, despite its repeated applications, has been denied FCRA approval by successive governments since as per law it is not eligible to get such an approval
2 min read29 Sep 2020Government offers amnesty to defaulting LLPs
‘LLP settlement Scheme, 2020’ will remain open from 16 March till 13 June, 2020The entities that sign up for the scheme can gain immunity from prosecution
1 min read4 Mar 2020Opinion | Set aflame at the stake
Amnesty India recorded 218 hate crime cases in 2018; most of the victims were Dalits, others considered ’lower caste’, women and transgenders
1 min read25 Nov 2019No proposal to launch gold amnesty scheme: Govt sources
There is no such gold amnesty scheme under consideration of Income Tax Department as being reported in media, the sources saidAs the budget process is on, typically these type of speculative reports do appear ahead of budget process, govt sources said
1 min read31 Oct 2019ED issues show cause notice to Amnesty Intl for FEMA violation of over ₹51 cr
The notice was issued last month by the Adjudicating Authority of the FEMAThe central agency had last year conducted searches at the offices of the organisation in Bengaluru
1 min read5 Sep 2019Amnesty loses five bosses after report on ’toxic’ workplace
London-based Amnesty’s Secretary-General ordered an independent review after two employees killed themselves last yearFive of the seven members of the senior leadership team at Amnesty’s international secretariat are leaving the organisation after a review
1 min read28 May 2019ED conducts searches at Amnesty International’s Bengaluru office
Enforcement Department searches at Amnesty International’s office were suspected to be related to irregularities in foreign funding
1 min read26 Oct 2018Effective remedy: A grand project or the grandest folly?
The sixth United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights underscored the need of the central theme this year, ’Realizing Access to Effective Remedy’, to be repeatedly hammered home
3 min read30 Nov 2017Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared