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Actor Mahesh Babu’s NGO Mahesh Babu Foundation gets FCRA nod
August 21, 2025 3:16 am
Mahesh Babu’s NGO, Mahesh Babu Foundation, provides financial assistance to families with newborn babies with heart ailments, helps poor children afford education, and adopts and develops villages into smart villages.
Govt amends FCRA norms, asks applicants to submit financial statements, audit reports of last 3 years
May 27, 2025 9:54 am
The applicants have to submit: financial statements and audit reports of the last three financial years, including the statement of assets and liabilities, receipts and payments account, and income and expenditure account.
FCRA compoundable offences up from 7 to 12: Parties to judges to media can now get funds from kin abroad without fear of prosecution
July 03, 2022 12:40 pm
5% penalty if government not informed in 90 days; no intimation needed for contributions up to Rs 10 lakh
India makes FCRA clearance mandatory for tie-ups with China's Confucius Institutes
April 29, 2022 11:07 am
The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) conveyed the decision of the Centre to the heads of colleges and universities on April 5 through a circular marked "confidential".
UK raises FCRA registration refusal to Oxfam with India
February 14, 2022 1:19 pm
A day after the MHA refused to renew the registration of Oxfam India, the organisation had said the action would hamper its humanitarian work in 16 states.
Home often invokes Section 13 of FCRA to stall NGOs’ foreign funds
December 28, 2021 11:41 am
The CHRI had its Foreign Contributions (FC) suspended around six months ago following which the well-known civil liberties group moved Delhi High Court.
Delhi High Court notice to Centre in CHRI plea over FCRA certificate suspension
July 20, 2021 2:16 am
The Centre had last month suspended the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) certificate of the civil society organisation.
Bloomberg Philanthropies under home ministry scanner
August 31, 2017 6:02 am
In response to an email query from The Indian Express, a spokesperson for Bloomberg Philanthropies said, “We have not been formally notified about an investigation on Bloomberg Philanthropies; therefore, we do not have a comment.”
MHA sends notice to 700 NGOs for not filing annual returns
February 05, 2015 5:22 am
The NGOs have been served a notice to explain “why their registration should not be cancelled for not filing their annual returns.”
Only 11 of 22 NGOs FCRA-registered, no one has filed statement for 2013-14
June 21, 2014 1:59 am
IB report: NGOs got nearly Rs 650 cr from overseas in five years from ‘08-’09 to ‘12-’13, show filings made to MHA
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