The home ministry had granted a six-month extension to several NGOs listed above in September last year. The licences were cancelled on Mar...

Observer Research Foundation (ORF) has had its Foreign Contribution Regulation Act licence renewed by the Union home ministry for five year...

The multiple duration in degree courses in the NEP creates a hierarchy within the education system and also some parts it may be inaccessib...

With rapidly changing international polity, it is imperative that FCRA becomes more accommodative towards transnational philanthropic initi...

The ministry has received the clearance of the expenditure finance committee (EFC) and is likely to get the Cabinet nod within this month.

The CEIB examined "various typologies of misuse of NGOs" and suggested an independent ‘National Commission for Charities’ that can take act...

SC said that in such matters, it would not like to push the government for a legislation but it will be appropriate if the government takes...

On January 10, the apex court had asked the Centre to place before it the "guidelines/rules, which will be implemented for accredition of V...

The Home Ministry also discontinued submission of hard copies of such returns by the NGOs and from now on will accept filings online.

SC also directed the government to put in place a regulatory mechanism which would keep a continuous check on use of public funds by NGOs.

"It is mandatory now for all NGOs/voluntary organisations to sign up on NGO-DARPAN portal to obtain a system-generated unique ID before app...

The fund has been given to the Art of Living (AOL) Foundation as part of the Culture Ministry's financial assistance to organisations promo...

"A special desk has been deployed at the back end of the I-T systems and they have been put on 'Tatkal' or quick service mode," an I-T offi...

The ministry has also found that bureaucrats had changed rules to favour certain voluntary organisations that had been getting funds from t...

Overall tax treatment must support rather than hinder voluntary work. Policy must prepare for enhanced and more intelligently crafted givin...

Voluntary organisations (VOs) may be allowed to take donations in the form of shares and stock options. The government is also considering ...

Five community radio stations have been set up in three North-Eastern states of which two were set up in Meghalaya, a PIB release said on S...