{"id":240029,"date":"2025-02-16T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/usaid-india-grant-cuts-doge-finds-21-mn-spent-on-voter-turnout-in-india-external-interference\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:05:48","slug":"usaid-india-grant-cuts-doge-finds-21-mn-spent-on-voter-turnout-in-india-external-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/usaid-india-grant-cuts-doge-finds-21-mn-spent-on-voter-turnout-in-india-external-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID India grant cuts | DOGE finds $21 mn spent on \u2018voter turnout\u2019 in India, external interference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-118300917,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/videoshow.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"USAID India grant cuts | DOGE finds  mn spent on \u2018voter turnout\u2019 in India, external interference?\" title=\"USAID India grant cuts | DOGE finds  mn spent on \u2018voter turnout\u2019 in India, external interference?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found $21 million in grants to India, for a program aimed at boosting voter turnout in India. Economist Sanjiv Sanyal and BJP Social media Cell head questioned the motives behind such foreign funding. DOGE cut $750 million in international aid, which also included $29 million for strengthening the political landscape in Bangladesh, and $ 20 million for \u2018fiscal federalism\u2019 in Nepal, apart from a biodiversity conservation grant of $19 million.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"read_more\"> Show more<\/span><span class=\"read_less hidden\"> Show less<\/span><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/usaid-india-grant-cuts-doge-finds-21-mn-spent-on-voter-turnout-in-india-external-interference\/videoshow\/118300917.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found $21 million in grants to India, for a program aimed at boosting voter turnout in India. Economist Sanjiv Sanyal and BJP Social media Cell head questioned the motives behind such foreign funding. DOGE cut $750 million in international aid, which also included $29 million for strengthening the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-118300917,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/videoshow.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[5271,1492,38217,764,1778,17638,2302,1034,273,11477,2910,20396,3737,16919,3390,180318,14457],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240031,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240029\/revisions\/240031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}