MUMBAI: Close on the heels of stepping down as the executive chairman of the News International, James Murdoch has further severed all remaining ties with the controversy-ridden British newspaper business.

James has resigned from three more boards: Times Newspaper Holdings, which was set up to guarantee the independence of the Times of London and the Sunday Times when News Corp acquired the titles in 1981; Newscorp Investments; and News International Publishers Limited.

Post his stepping down as the executive chairman of NI, the junior Murdoch has relocated to News Corp?s headquarters in New York as the deputy chief operating officer to focus on the broadcast business.

News International, the publisher of now defunct News of the World, is under investigation from authorities over phone and computer hacking and bribery.

James? future at BSkyB, the UK sports broadcasting arm of Newscorp, hinges on the Parliament committee?s report on the scandal for which he has been questioned twice, once with his father Rupert Murdoch.

The British media regulator Ofcom will take the parliamentary report into consideration when evaluating whether James is ?fit and proper? to hold a broadcast licence on behalf of BSkyB.