Law To Regulate Ngos

The CBI has filed a charge sheet against Home Ministry officials and others arrested over alleged bribery involved in facilitating clearances of global donations to NGOs in violation of India's foreign exchange law, officials said Monday.

The centre has defended its move to amend a law on foreign funding for non-profits over concerns that most of the money comes for development work is often diverted to train Maoists.

The Centre's efforts to regulate the movement of foreign funds for non-profits is "discouraging NGO activities", the Supreme Court said today while hearing petitions challenging an amendment to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.

The Supreme Court today permitted an NGO to make Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh as parties to a pending petition challenging the controversial state laws regulating conversions due to inter-faith marriages.

Continuing its crackdown on foreign-funded NGOs, the Home Ministry has sent notices to over 1,200 non-profits across the country for violating the stringent law that regulates non-profits that receive money from abroad.

The Centre today told the Supreme Court that it was in the process of taking a final policy decision, including the framing of a law to regulate the activities of NGOs across the country.

Invoking a rare provision of law, the government on Monday issued a gazette notification to ban an NGO, run by controversial preacher Zakir Naik, from receiving foreign funds directly and asked RBI to seek prior permission from it before releasing any money to it.

Foreign non-government organisations (NGOs) in China are bracing for a crackdown as the government prepares to pass a new law to regulate their activities, which critics fear could curb activism and drive out several groups.

The CBI has filed a charge sheet against Home Ministry officials and others arrested over alleged bribery involved in facilitating clearances of global donations to NGOs in violation of India's foreign exchange law, officials said Monday.

The centre has defended its move to amend a law on foreign funding for non-profits over concerns that most of the money comes for development work is often diverted to train Maoists.

The Centre's efforts to regulate the movement of foreign funds for non-profits is "discouraging NGO activities", the Supreme Court said today while hearing petitions challenging an amendment to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.

The Supreme Court today permitted an NGO to make Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh as parties to a pending petition challenging the controversial state laws regulating conversions due to inter-faith marriages.

Continuing its crackdown on foreign-funded NGOs, the Home Ministry has sent notices to over 1,200 non-profits across the country for violating the stringent law that regulates non-profits that receive money from abroad.

The Centre today told the Supreme Court that it was in the process of taking a final policy decision, including the framing of a law to regulate the activities of NGOs across the country.

Invoking a rare provision of law, the government on Monday issued a gazette notification to ban an NGO, run by controversial preacher Zakir Naik, from receiving foreign funds directly and asked RBI to seek prior permission from it before releasing any money to it.

Foreign non-government organisations (NGOs) in China are bracing for a crackdown as the government prepares to pass a new law to regulate their activities, which critics fear could curb activism and drive out several groups.