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‘Bit of a moment for Rahul Gandhi’: new dawn for India’s opposition, but where to now?

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The Guardian - UK

Yamini Aiyar steps down as Centre for Policy Research head

Yamini Aiyar, director and CEO of Centre for Policy Research (CPR), has resigned; CPR board announces Srinivas Chokkakula, CPR senior fellow and Ministry of Jal Shakti Research Chair, will replace her

The Hindu

Inside Aiyar-RWA dispute: Diary on reporters, web series dismay, cheer on WhatsApp

Kapil Kakkar, president of the Jangpura Extension Welfare Association and a psychologist by profession, is a busy man these days. It’s not patients but reporters who are now queuing up outside his clinic. And Kakkar is jotting down the details about the journalists in a diary, categorising them as “pro-”…

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Home Ministry cancels FCRA registration of Centre for Policy Research

The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act registration of Centre for Policy Research has been cancelled by the Union Home Ministry

The Hindu

Over Rs 22 cr foreign funds under freeze after MHA action, confident of legal relief: CPR

More than Rs 22 crore in foreign funds has been “under freeze” at the Centre for Policy Research, according to the Delhi-based think tank’s latest annual report. The freeze emanates from the suspension of CPR’s Foreign Contribution Regulation Act licence by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in February this…

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Layoffs, pay cuts: Inside CPR’s ‘financial crisis’ after FCRA funds, tax exemption axed

The Centre for Policy Research has downsized its staff by 75 percent. Its faculty members — including fellows and senior fellows — have taken “massive pay cuts” ranging from 50 percent to full. The think tank had come under the income tax department’s tax scanner and faces a “serious financial…

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Who funds CPR, the ‘centrist’ think tank under Income Tax scanner?

The Centre for Policy Research, which has recently come under the tax scanner for alleged irregularities in funding, prides itself on staying true to its “non-partisan” and “independent” values. Since its inception in 1973, the think tank has undertaken studies on almost every topic under the sun, and its academic…

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