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  NGOs should take part in Nepal's rehabilitation: Arun Jaitley

  India | May 03, 2015 19:18 IST

  New Delhi:  Non-government organisations (NGO) should participate in the rehabilitation of earthquake-hit Nepal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday."After relief, the rehabilitation process in Nepal should start and NGOs should participate in the process,"

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  Govt cancels licences of nearly 9,000 NGOs

  India | April 28, 2015 15:11 IST

  New Delhi: In yet another crackdown on NGOs receiving foreign funds, government has cancelled licences of nearly 9,000 such entities for violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). In an order, the Home Ministry said that

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  Govt puts Ford Foundation under MHA watch list

  India | April 24, 2015 13:04 IST

  New Delhi: In a fresh crackdown on foreign fundings to non-governmental organisation (NGO)s, the Union home ministry has put the Ford Foundation of the USA on its "watch list" and ordered that funds coming from

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  Foreign fundings to Greenpeace India blocked

  India | April 09, 2015 18:04 IST

  New Delhi: The government today blocked foreign fundings to Greenpeace India with immediate effect by suspending its licence for six months and served a notice to the NGO asking why its registration should not be

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  30 out of 69 banned NGOs from foreign funding, work for minorities

  India | March 05, 2015 20:16 IST

  New Delhi: The central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has banned 69 NGOs from receiving foreign funds under Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA), out of those 30 NGOs work for welfare of minorities.The

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  Govt. blacklists 69 NGOs from receiving foreign funds

  India | March 03, 2015 23:21 IST

  New Delhi: A total of 69 NGOs have been blacklisted by the government from receiving foreign funds, Minister of State (Home)  Kiren Rijiju told Lok Sabha on Tuesday. 69 NGOs including 14 from Andhra Pradesh, 12

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  NTPC's Badarpur unit among most polluting power plants: Study

  India | February 21, 2015 19:52 IST

  New Delhi: A study by a leading NGO working in the environment sector today claimed that NTPC's Badarpur thermal power plant in Delhi is one of the most polluting units in the country.  Centre for

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  Government to take-off Priya Pillai's name from œno-fly list

  India | February 12, 2015 9:45 IST

  New Delhi: Government has taken a stand to remove the name of Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai, who was offloaded from a flight to London at the IGI airport last month, from the “no-fly” list. However,

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  Helpline opens Sunday to beat board exam blues

  India | February 01, 2015 17:15 IST

  New Delhi: An NGO entered its 17th year of providing counselling to students ahead of the CBSE examinations beginning March 2 this year by starting its helpline on Sunday.The Pre-exam Helpline called Disha run by

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  ASI, NGO collaborate to save Agra blackbucks

  India | January 31, 2015 17:58 IST

  Agra: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) with support from Uttar Pradesh forest department and an NGO Wild Life SOS on Saturday launched a research project to study and translocate wild jackals from Akbar's Tomb

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  Union govt to crack whip against 188 NGOs for misuse of foreign funds

  India | January 24, 2015 12:54 IST

  New Delhi:  The Centre may take action against 188 non-governmental organizations for allegedly misusing funds which comes from various foreign countries.In a report published in an English daily, the central government may soon cancel the

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  Intelligence Bureau cites security reasons for off-loading NGO activist

  India | January 13, 2015 20:16 IST

  New Delhi: “National security considerations” were cited as the key reason by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for off-loading an activist of Greenpeace from a London-bound flight even as the agency alleged that her ticket had

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  Greenpeace activist offloaded from Delhi-London flight

  India | January 12, 2015 10:27 IST

  New Delhi: Environmental watchdog Greenpeace Sunday claimed that a woman official working with the NGO was stopped from boarding her flight to London at the airport here.The official was scheduled to address British parliamentarians Jan

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  NGO terms Coal ordinance as 'anti-people', asks MPs to oppose

  India | January 11, 2015 14:32 IST

  New Delhi: Seeking to enlist the support of Parliamentarians against the Coal ordinance, an NGO from Chhattisgarh has termed it as anti-people and claimed that it only serves the interests of the corporates. “The Supreme Court

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  At least 3 lose eyesight after cataract surgeries at NGO camp in Mathura

  India | January 05, 2015 11:38 IST

  Mathura: At least three persons lost their eyesight allegedly after they underwent cataract surgery at a camp organised here by an NGO in November of last year, police said."An FIR was this evening registered by

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  Civil society, NGOs to be asked to help guard rail crossings:Suresh Prabhu

  Politics | December 22, 2014 14:58 IST

  New Delhi:  Civil society, NGOs, socio-political organisations will be asked to provide volunteers to guard more than 11,000 unmanned railway crossings across the country to minimise death on tracks, Lok Sabha was told today.Railway Minister

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  NGO intervenes after Himachal school bars HIV+ woman from cooking

  India | December 19, 2014 13:53 IST

  Shimla: An HIV positive woman employed as a cook in a government school in Himachal's Kangra district was barred from cooking until an NGO persuaded the authorities to take her back."For three days I was

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  Taxi drivers to undergo gender sensitisation programme

  India | December 14, 2014 10:14 IST

  New Delhi: In the aftermath of the Uber rape case, all taxi drivers in the national capital will have to go through gender sensitisation programme to get fitness certificate for their vehicles.The state government is

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  60 patients lose vision after operation at eye camp in Punjab

  India | December 05, 2014 13:55 IST

  Amritsar: At least 60 persons have lost their eyesight after an operation at an eye camp organised by an NGO in Gurdaspur district, civil and medical authorities said on Thursday.While 16 persons belonged to villages

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  Gas tragedy: No accurate data on deaths 30 yrs on, alleges NGO

  India | December 03, 2014 13:09 IST

  Bhopal:  An NGO working for the Bhopal gas tragedy victims has alleged that there are no accurate figures available on the death toll of the world's worst industrial disaster even after 30 years and has