NEW DELHI: India has canceled a license allowing Greenpeace’s Indian arm to collect money from overseas, the organization and Indian media said Thursday, the latest in an ongoing battle between the environmental group and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

India’s government claims the NGO violated rules governing foreign funding and withheld information on transactions, and also accuses it of damaging the country’s economic interests by campaigning against mining and nuclear projects.

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