INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday securely informed his British counterpart James Cleverly that all entities
running in India needs to comply fully with pertinent laws and regulations.Jaishankars action came after Cleverly raised the problem of BBC
tax searches with him throughout a bilateral conference
Skillfully is in India to attend a vital meeting of the G20 foreign ministers on March 1 and 2
Last month, the income-tax department had actually performed marathon survey operations at the workplaces of the BBC in the nationwide
capital and Mumbai.The I-T department said that proof gathered throughout the study at the workplaces of the BBC has shown that tax has
actually not been paid on particular remittances which have actually not been divulged as earnings in India by the foreign entities of the
group.The survey had actually triggered a bitter war of words between the ruling BJP and the opposition parties
The survey revealed that in spite of considerable usage of material in different Indian languages (apart from English), the income/profits
revealed by different group entities is not commensurate with the scale of operations in India.Jaishankar fulfills UK FS James Cleverly,
both talk about Young Professional SchemeThe IT survey of the BBC offices had actually come weeks after an enormous controversy over a
documentary by the British state-funded broadcaster on the 2002 Gujarat riots
The ministry of external affairs had called the documentary as a propaganda piece developed to push a specific discredited narrative
The Centre had asked YouTube and Twitter to obstruct videos of the BBC documentary.WatchInvasion of Ukraine is unacceptable, regard Indias
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