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‘India: the Modi Question’, examining 2002 sectarian riots, comes at sensitive time for prime minister• BBC offices in India raidedA BBC documentary on the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi’s, actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002 continues…
Indian tax officers searched the BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, the broadcaster said, weeks after the government blocked a documentary critical of Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. While the search was underway, people…
Searches come weeks after release of documentary critical of PM that was later blocked by governmentBBC offices in India have been raided by tax department officials, just weeks after the release of a documentary critical of the prime minister, Narendr…
The Indian prime minister’s attempts to suppress a critical BBC documentary show how sensitive he is to his international reputationThe clue to the Indian government’s thin-skinned response to the BBC’s two-part documentary, India: The Modi Question, i…
Exclusive: Rami Ranger criticised over comments about Pakistani journalists A Conservative peer has apologised and withdrawn comments that were criticised for being “racially charged”, as a second referral about his conduct was made to the House of Lor…
Exclusive: Rami Ranger faces criticism over ‘deplorable’ comments about Pakistani journalists at the corporationA Conservative peer has been accused of using “deplorable” and “racially charged language” in a scathing attack on the BBC’s recent document…
Government accused of ‘censorship’ over ban on film about PM’s role in violence during 2002 Gujarat riots The Indian government has invoked emergency laws to block a BBC documentary examining the role of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, during riots …
Ben Wallace and Suella Braverman ‘turned their back’ on former BBC journalists who are in danger, high court toldMinisters have unlawfully “turned their back” on former BBC journalists whose lives are at risk from the Taliban by refusing to relocate th…
Journalist Ed Lawrence was beaten after being arrested at a protest against China’s strict Covid restrictions, broadcaster saysChinese police assaulted and detained a BBC journalist covering a protest in Shanghai on Sunday, releasing him after several …
Liza Begum said confusion with Apsana Begum who was acquitted of fraud charges ‘reflects notion all people of colour look the same’The BBC has agreed to pay £30,000 in damages to a British Bangladeshi Labour councillor after it mixed her up with Apsana…
Journalist and several other reporters freed after being held while on assignment with UNHCRThe Taliban have released a British journalist and several other reporters they had been holding for several days, in an incident that deepened concerns about p…
Mudassar Kadir said ‘zero progress’ made since he and his family arrived at Dubai refugee centreAn Afghan former BBC journalist who managed to flee the Taliban has been stranded in a refugee camp for months because of delays to a resettlement scheme pr…
Documentary-maker who captured East Timor atrocities on film and left behind his earlier career as a Blue Peter presenterThe documentary-maker Max Stahl, who has died of throat cancer aged 66, exposed the atrocities of the Indonesian government in East…
Fourteen Afghans including presenters, reporters and producers are now in hiding from the Taliban A group of senior Afghan journalists who spent time working for the BBC have accused the corporation and the UK government of ignoring their pleas for hel…