Here is more from AFP:
A leading Indian think tank confirmed Wednesday it had been banned from taking foreign funding, the latest organisation among foreign charities, rights watchdogs and others similarly targeted after criticising the government.
The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) is one of the country's most highly regarded public policy forums.
Its staffers are prominent talking heads and columnists who have been rare dissenting voices in the media on sensitive political issues, including national security policy and governance in the restive territory of Kashmir.
The home ministry had already provisionally suspended the CPR's licence to receive foreign donations after raids in 2022 by the tax department, severely curtailing its operations.
AFP notes that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the US State Department were among CPR's prominent foreign donors.
