FILE PHOTO: People smoke cigarettes along a road in Mumbai, India, October 26, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File photo
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has been investigating how Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, funds local non-profit groups for anti-tobacco lobbying, government documents show, making it the latest foreign non-government organisation to come under scrutiny.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has since 2014 tightened surveillance of non-profit groups, saying they were acting against India's national interests. Thousands of foreign-funded charities' licences have been cancelled for misreporting donations.
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