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NewsClick Scandal

NewsClick is a news organisation that has been peddling anti-India propaganda. In 2021, the Enforcement Directorate initiated an investigation into their illicit foreign funding. In 2023, there were revelations about NewsClick getting funding from China to peddle pro-China, anti-India propaganda. Several journalists connected to NewsClick were also raided by the Delhi Police in October 2023.

This section has details of the NewsClick scandal since the investigation started in 2021.

News Reports

Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing approaches court to cancel protection from arrest to NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha, Delhi HC issues notice to editor-in-chief

ANI - 22 August, 2023

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to news portal NewsClick Editor in Chief Prabir Purkayastha on a plea filed by Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EoW), seeking direction to vacate its interim order

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50 left-liberals, ‘journalists’, actors, former judges and Urban Naxals come out in support of NewsClick over Chinese funding scandal

OpIndia Staff - 15 August, 2023

The Wire's Sidhharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, John Dayal, actor couple Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah and others came in support of NewsClick.

Tech

X (formerly Twitter) handle of the China-funded portal Newsclick suspended

OpIndia Staff - 12 August, 2023

A millionaire named Neville Roy Singham is funding several news publications across the world (including India) to peddle Chinese propaganda. Newsclick is reportedly one of them.

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‘Initiate an enquiry to ascertain the full extent of anti-India conspiracy’: 255 eminent citizens write to President, CJI over NewsClick Chinese funding scandal

OpIndia Staff - 11 August, 2023

Among 255 eminent citizens who have written to President, CJI over NewsClick Chinese funding, there are judges, bureaucrats, and veterans.

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NewsClick Chinese funding scandal: Who is Vijay Prashad, the linchpin of Neville Roy Singham’s network and his relationship with CPI(M) top brass

Pragya Bakshi Sharma - 11 August, 2023

Vijay Prashad, a nephew of CPI(M)'s Brinda Karat and linked to Prabir Pukayastha's NewsClick, has been the linchpin of Neville Roy Singham's network.

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As the NewsClick scandal becomes bigger, read what UK Parliamentary Report reveals and how The Hindu’s China connections need to be urgently probed too

Nupur J Sharma - 10 August, 2023

While NewsClick is in the spotlight for the funding it got from China, it is important that The Hindu is probed for the same crime

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Press Club of India comes in support of NewsClick after its link with Chinese propaganda machinery was revealed, calls it ‘targeted campaign’

Rukma Rathore - 9 August, 2023

Press Club of India has issued a statement in support of NewsClick which has been receiving funds from China to run propaganda

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New email exchanges reveal the connection between Newsclick, Neville Roy Singham, and the Chinese propaganda film ‘The Secret of China’

Paurush Gupta - 9 August, 2023

In a series of purported email exchanges, the pro-Chinese handlers are seen deliberating at great length on how to propagate 'The Secret of China' to peddle a pro-Chinese narrative to audiences outside China.

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ED to question CPI(M) leaders over NewsClick-Chinese funding case, email exchanges revealed Neville Singham had links with CPI(M)’s Prakash Karat

OpIndia Staff - 9 August, 2023

According to reports, the probe agency plans to question several Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders, including a senior leader, about emails exchanged with Shanghai-based American tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham.

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