Home Ministry extends FCRA validity for pending NGO renewals until March 2025The union home ministry has extended the FCRA registration validity for NGOs with pending renewal applications until March 31, 2025. This m...
27 Dec, 2024, 07.38 PM IST
Inform about changes in key members: Ministry of Home Affairs to NGOsThe Ministry of Home Affairs has instructed NGOs with FCRA registration to submit details of any changes in their key personnel within 45 d...
04 Nov, 2024, 12.07 AM IST
Interest, income from grants must be credited back to FCRA account: MHAThe Ministry of Home Affairs has instructed NGOs that interest income from foreign contributions must be credited to FCRA utilisation accou...
25 Aug, 2024, 11.37 PM IST
MHA cancels FCRA licences of four NGOsThe NGOs include Delhi Association Of The Deaf, SSN Trust, Sarthi-Nehru Kala Kunj and Cinedarbaar welfare society. Officials said the licen...
08 May, 2023, 12.35 AM IST
RBI makes changes in NEFT, RTGS for daily reporting of foreign remittancesIn a circular, the RBI said in terms of extant requirements of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the donor details such as name, address,...
17 Feb, 2023, 12.36 AM IST
NGOs can now challenge govt order to cancel FCRA licenceUnder section 32 of FCRA, 2010, the Centre had earlier renewed FCRA licences of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi and Mis...
13 Aug, 2022, 11.44 AM IST
Centre makes FCRA stricter, amends seven points in 2011 rulesThe new rules, now renamed as Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2022, came into effect on Friday (July 1) with the Ministr...
02 Jul, 2022, 01.06 PM IST
MHA cancels CHRI, AAWW licences for FCRA rules violationThe government has cancelled FCRA licences of the two NGOs after they "failed to adhere to rules mandated to be followed under FCRA on many...
26 Apr, 2022, 09.02 AM IST
MHA extends validity of FCRA registration of NGOs by three months till March 31The NGOs with FCRA registration certificates expiring between September 29, 2020 and March 31, 2022 and that have applied for renewal on th...
31 Dec, 2021, 02.14 PM IST
Asked our centres not to operate foreign currency accounts till renewal of FCRA registration: Missionaries of Charity"We would like to clarify that the FCRA registration of the Missionaries of Charity has been neither suspended nor cancelled. There is no f...
27 Dec, 2021, 10.00 PM IST
Home Ministry refused FCRA renewal application of Missionaries of CharityThe MHA statement came hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed the Centre had frozen all bank accounts of the organi...
27 Dec, 2021, 07.15 PM IST
After years of denial, Taiwan NGO gets nod to accept foreign fundsUnder the FCRA rules, the trust seeking prior permission is required to provide a specific commitment letter from the donor indicating the ...
09 Aug, 2020, 11.30 PM IST
Each NGO member will have to declare no association with religious conversionUnder the 2011 rules, only key functionary and top office bearers were required to give affidavit for seeking prior permission from MHA to ...
17 Sep, 2019, 08.24 AM IST
Government versus NGOs: FCRA to protect transparency and prevent misuse of foreign fundsThe first-ever renewal of clearances for foreign funding to NGOs have been delayed and new and stringent rules are being framed to govern t...
09 Sep, 2015, 02.55 PM IST
Home Ministry defends cancellation of Greenpeace’s FCRA registrationMHA defended in the Delhi HC its decision to cancel FCRA registration of Greenpeace India, on the grounds that the NGO continued to violate...
05 Sep, 2015, 11.59 AM IST
Home Ministry defends Greenpeace FCRA registration cancellation in Delhi HCThe MHA charged Greenpeace with violating Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) by merging its foreign donations with domestic contrib...
04 Sep, 2015, 07.07 PM IST
Centre defends cancellation of FCRA registration of GreenpeaceMHA charged Greenpeace with violating Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) by merging its foreign donations with domestic contributio...
26 May, 2015, 06.22 PM IST