No returns filed by over 16,000 NGOs getting foreign aid: Govt

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 19:28

A total of 16,756 NGOs which got foreign funds failed to file their annual returns for 2011-12 under FCRA rules, the government on Wednesday told Parliament.

‘No country wants foreign aid in perpetuity’

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 16:32

Mark Lowcock spoke on the UK`s development aid plans.

UK set to axe 280 mn pound aid to ‘rich’ India

Last Updated: Friday, November 9, 2012, 12:18

A British lawmaker is set to announce that the UK is planning to stop sending billions of pounds in foreign aid to well-off nations, like India.

MHA declines permission to IPRS to receive foreign aid

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 15:52

Besides this, the government has frozen accounts of 32 NGOs and banned 72 other voluntary organisations from receiving foreign contributions for alleged irregularities.

India says it`s always appreciative of foreign aid

Last Updated: Monday, February 6, 2012, 19:18

Playing down media reports in the UK seeking stoppage of aid to India on the basis of a reported Rajya Sabha proceedings last year, India on Monday said it has always been appreciative of foreign assistance.

`Many African dictators own properties in Paris`

Last Updated: Friday, July 29, 2011, 13:02

Scores of the most luxurious houses and apartments in Paris are now owned by the African leaders.

US House panel approves $47.2 bn in foreign aid

Last Updated: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 09:31

The Republican-crafted bill would provide USD 47.2 billion for the next budget.

Freeze all foreign aid to Pakistan: Congressman

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 15:22

A key Republican Congressman has demanded that the United States freeze all its foreign aid to Pakistan, unless Islamabad comes out clean on the presence of Osama bin Laden at an Abbottabad safe house for more than five years.

Congressman urges ceasing all foreign aid to Pakistan

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 12:23

A first time Congressman from Florida has urged to end all US aid to Pakistan arguing that it is impossible to believe that al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was hiding so close to Islamabad without any support infrastructure.