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Exclusive: Modi gov't produced removed health warnings on artificially-fortified rice that it provides to 80 crore Indians under welfare schemes. Based on spurious expert advice.
@reporters_co
colleague
@shreegireesh
reports
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Racist treatment at
@IKEAIndia
store in Hyderabad. Only my wife, from Manipur got frisked for goods she bought. No one else before us. And then all supervisory staff came to defend the racism. Great show from an 'international store'. Cheers to another usual day.
#racism
.
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Only in India. Health minister celebrates delivery of SMS, not actual vaccines. Because he has no clue when citizens will get them.
Pleased to note our world-class Co-WIN platform ensured smooth rollout of beneficiary registration for Phase 3 of world’s
#LargestVaccineDrive
In just first 3 hours:
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As any IPS/IAS officer will tell you off record: Any riot can be quelled within a couple of hours if there is political will to do so. All riots are fueled by political actors imagining benefits out of it. The street thugs are mere punny men. There is no exception to these rules.
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Ramdev's Other Face : The Shady Property Dealer. How BJP govt in Haryana helped him buy up vast lands in eco-sensitive Aravalli hills through shell companies.
@Kum_Sambhav
& I reported. 3 part series:
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A whopping Rs 3,622 crore worth of secretive Electoral Bonds issued in just two months of March and April, reveals RTI by Vihar Durbe. Thank the Modi government for opening a legalised black hole of electoral funding and calling it 'transparency'.
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🚨 Here is proof that the State Bank of India served the Modi gov't with data and information on
#ElectoralBond
with lightening speed. Even breaching it's supposed independence. Now it has lame excuses for the SC.
@tapasya_umm
& I dug out internal records
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India's national broascaster turns into a troll.
Opposition is bringing a No confidence motion against government which PM Modi had predicted 5 years ago!
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Revealed: In 2015, PM
@NarendraModi
said
#Coal
auctions have got ₹ 2,00,000 crore beacuse of his corruption free policies. Reality: Three and a half years later it turns out coal auctions have got a mere ₹ 5,684 crore. Less than 3‰ of what he claimed.
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The SBI had deleted this FAQ on
#ElectoralBonds
(
@indian_nagrik
alerts us). But we
@reporters_co
got you covered. You can access it here 👇
And read here why they deleted it 👇
.
@TheOfficialSBI
has now deleted the FAQ on
#ElectoralBonds
that was available at this url
It only proves that SBI has a lot to hide
In the document SBI describes KYC details captured and its internal account where money is parked on purchase of bond.
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Modi govt wont tell
1. Who gave it electoral bonds worth ,000 of crores
2. Which foreign Cos fund it
3. Which ministers face corruption accusations
4. Black money it got back
5. Details of coal mines given via secret contracts to Adani group
But wants me to prove my citizenship
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What not to become as a journalist. sample.
I’ve lost my Guiding Light my mentor.
@arunjaitley
, Arun Sir for me, who will I call every morning now? Your wit, your humour, your anecdotes, your knowledge of history & your intellect was unparalleled. The brightest star in the sky will remind me you are watching & guiding us.
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India's newswire service PTI running a billionaire's readied promo video as news. Naman to you too.
VIDEO | Nita Ambani, founder and chairperson of
#RelianceFoundation
, speaks on the pre-wedding function of her son Anant Ambani with Radhika Merchant at Jamnagar,
#Gujarat
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#ElectoralBonds
Investigations Part 3: In the desire for more political funds, Prime Minister Modi’s Office ordered illegal sale of Bonds. Finance Ministry did it once as an exception. Then as a habit.
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🚨 Alert 🚨 Ministry of Defence chooses RSS affiliates, BJP leaders, and other Hindutva groups, such as Sadhvi Rithambara, to run 60% of new Sainik Schools. These are to train children for India’s armed forces.
@SavyasachiAstha
reports for
@reporters_co
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The person who checked my wife's shopping bags, even sniggered that we had bought everything, didn't even care to reply why we were singled put. And the supervisors said, yeah call police if you want, we will deal. And it didnt end there. Daily racism that our people face.
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This is when image management companies and anger management counsellors, both smell a potential client.
Since you care so much
@kunalkamra88
, come and help us out! I’ll even pay more than you earned for this paid tweet or from your failed comedy career.
Or else sit quiet and let us focus on fixing the issues for the real customers. We’re expanding service network fast and backlogs
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A Thread on
#ElectoralBonds
Investigations. Please stay with me.
There is something useful towards the end of this tweet-trail.
1. Happenings in Maharashtra show why
#ElectoralBonds
, a to flush secretly funnel unaccounted money into politics, is dangerous for our democracy.
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#ElectoralBonds
Scandal.
#Paisapolitics
Investigations Part 9: State Bank of India lies to protect the scheme from public scrutiny. It won't tell citizens under RTI what it reveals to the Modi govt privately. Venkatesh Nayak & Comm Lokesh Batra's papers
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Seems
@GretaThunberg
has triggered the sleeping environmentalists in many of our cracking growth thinkers. Never heard them whip the Indian govt for diluting environmental laws, regulations and standards every other day. A farcical sham.
The irony! Climate champion standing in support of farming practices that have led to poisoned land, vanishing water-table and the “cancer trains”. India can definitely do better. India is trying to do better by bringing in long awaited farm reforms. Pls don’t muddy the waters.
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This corner of Delhi is very environmentally sustainable: everything gets repackaged and recycled and put back in the market. No product ever expires. No product recall.
Exclusive: Tonight 7.58 pm on
@IndiaToday
: a Mea Culpa from
@PrashantKishor
: ‘I will never get into the numbers game again.. I have no hesitation in eating humble pie and admitting I got numbers wrong.. ‘ full interview with
@rahulkanwal
and me as we decode the election results
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Prime Minister Modi refuses to share details of corruption allegations against his ministers under RTI. His office says its too cumbersome to pull together so much information
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Journalism for no one: Put the spotlight on the powerful. They should feel the searing heat of your probe. Dont be lazy to merely narrate the stories of victims. Certainly dont put yourself in the spotlight. Allow a mild diffused light on you at best, for reasons of business.
In these apocalyptic times, we learn how to survive, innovate & adapt so we can still report in the toughest situations. From a cremation ground in Surat, an overturned plastic bucket & a cardboard box is my ‘studio’
#OnTheRoad
tracking
#SecondWave
for
@themojostory
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#Thread
: Does the State Bank of India, with a staff strength of more than 2 lakh employees, need 4 months to put out details on
#ElectoralBonds
?
My
@reporters_co
colleague
@tapasya_umm
& I dive into internal govt and bank records to find evidence and answers. Stay with us 👇
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Exclusive: In the name of doubling farmers' incomes, Niti Aayog discreetly set up a task force for corporates to promote their businesses. An NRI businessman, with links to BJP, dictated terms. Part 1 of series by
@reporters_co
colleague
@shreegireesh
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.
@pbhushan1
's statement before the SC in the contempt case. Refusing to apologise for doing the right thing. Bravo. He stood up when many who were meant to uphold Constitutional values shrunk away from their responsibilities.
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Ex environment minister of Rajasthan found the most appropriate celebrity to release her book on tigers and wildlife
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A reminder:
The value of
#ElectoralBonds
sold so far: Rs 7380,63,80,000.
The indefatigable transparency activist, Commodore Lokesh Batra continues to track the channel secretively funneling unaccounted money into political parties. A channel that BJP legalised.
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#ElectoralBonds
Investigations Part 1: RBI warned bonds would flush black money into politics, destabilise currency. Modi govt dismissed the RBI's warning in haste and created the bonds that help secretly funnel money to parties (Rs 6,000 cr+ already)
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Scoop: Patanjali group has acquired and privatised huge parts of village commons in Aravalli hills of Haryana. The group's illegal & dubious real-estate deals that Baba Ramdev wont tell you about.
@Kum_Sambhav
and I investigated over months. Part 1 of 3:
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Am no great fan of Kejriwal. Yet, i am shocked how the BJP has tried to perforate the lungs of the AAP govt in Delhi. And as shocked at how many of us in media hedge while writing on it. This is bad for democracy at large. It isnt about AAP or Delhi.
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Facts: Propaganda work written by Sunny Kohli, who is an employee journalist of the Ministry of Defence. Released already in September. PMO got advance manuscript. Propaganda for the govt by
@ANI
: Written by 14yr old, released by minister today.
Delhi: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh today released a book on Article 370 written by Ayanna Kohli, a 14-year school girl, says, "In last two months, I've travelled across the country, I can say the decision to abrogate Article 370 has been celebrated by each Indian. "
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Thread on
#ElectoralBonds
1. We, The Reporters' Collective
@reporters_co
aren't done yet. We got more to tell. Beyond the Supreme Court order. Soon...
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The one person I know in public life who has, without exception, practised and preached love, dignity and mutual respect for all. Worked endlessly to provide succour to victims of communal riots. Harsh Mander. The govt wants us to believe he instigated violence.
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A PLAY
Act 1: I was caught plagiarizing 2 economists
Act 2: I made newspaper say its 1 tiny error
Act 3: Then, I accused those who found me out to be politically motivated.
Act 4: Now, I say, "Not me. My staff plagiarised by mistake. I merely took credit for the work."
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Story: Breaching Constitutional propriety, PM Modi tried choking funds meant for states.
Another revelation by Modi's top official: Centre's accounts could be hit with 'Hindenburg' like scrutiny.
@shreegireesh
& I report for
@reporters_co
at
@AJEnglish
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Each pellet fired in Kashmir takes us away from the nation we claim we want to be.
A Shia Muslim with pellet injuries on his face after police resorted to shelling and pellets in Srinagar, Central
#Kashmir
, during a Muharram procession today.
Photograph by
@umeerasif
for
@tkwmag
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Fixed: An economist advisor of the govt, Shamika Ravi plagiarised another economist Karthik Muralidharan while writing an opinion piece for an Indian English daily. Called out, its now been fixed with a little tweak without an apology to the reader. End of episode.
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BJP spokespersons say show us proof of quid pro quo in
#ElectoralBonds
donations. We
@reporters_co
did. Caught a company that donated rigging coal auctions. But Modi ji stands at a podium under the company's banner today. 👇
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[Scoop] New revelations on
#ElectoralBonds
Scandal: Modi govt was warned it was breaching the Constitution and illegally helping even shell companies provide unlimited and unaccounted money to political parties. Yet, it went ahead.
@OfficialSauravD
papers
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SBI has removed yet more documents on
#ElectoralBonds
from it's website . My
@reporters_co
colleague
@tapasya_umm
has put them all public again. And she has shared other internal docs that gov't and SBI that we used for the investigation.
We
@reporters_co
are making public all documents related to electoral bonds, including those now removed by the State Bank of India from its website. And those that it never disclosed in the first place.
You can find them here:
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We can organise political rallies of lakhs of people but can't convene a Parliament session. The govt still has no idea of how the Pandemic can be contained?
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#ElectoralBonds
Investigations 2: Modi govt lobbied secretly and mislead the Election Commissioners, hoping they would drop opposition to the bonds. When it failed, it lied to the Parliament. Caught doing so once, it lied again, and again.
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In conflict and misery of their own people some will make profit. A well established fraudster account spreading hate after fooling people & orgs around world as a 'climate activist'.
Social Media for trolling, for finding peace or for racketeering. Take your pick.
#manipur
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#ElectoralBonds
Investigations Part 5: Yesterday minister Piyush Goyal said bonds have a strict 15 day tenure, therefore are clean and safe. But,
#CommodorePapers
show Modi govt broke law to let 'a political party' encash expired bonds.
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#ElectoralBondsTracker
Stories over the night:
1. A little-known company with Reliance links donated ten times its profits to pol parties: Rs.360 cr against when profit was Rs 21.72 cr. Total donation by Qwik Supply Chain via
#ElectoralBonds
: Rs 410 cr.
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The
#Patanjali
empire of shell companies, owning lands in Aravalli hills. Exposé by
@shreegireesh
and
@tapasya_umm
👇🏾
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You are a blot on journalism. Period.
They justify terror, they fight for the rights of anti-India brigade & they insult India’s army. As India comes to terms with biggest terror attack of 2019
@RShivshankar
asks on India Upfront at 8: Has the time come to strip security cover of terror ‘apologists’?
#EndCoverForLobby
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Exclusive: Protesting Farmer groups suspected it. Here is evidence that Adani group complained against farm law that curbs hoarding. Modi govt complied and diluted it. Part 2 of Investigation by
@reporters_co
colleague
@shreegireesh
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If you think beating up our children will keep you in power. you are wrong.
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1. We
@reporters_co
caught the SBI lying on
#ElectoralBonds
. Showed evidence that bank does a full audit-trail. The story:
Today the bank admits to holding all the details that make the full audit trail parameters👇.
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Day 3 of
#ElectoralBondsTracker
. In case you missed the stories late last evening.
Before you read, join us in thanking those who must remain anonymous: The data-crunchers, whistleblowers; politics, banking and industry insiders who have been helping us.
Now, get up to date 👇
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[Scoop] More on
#ElectoralBonds
Scandal: Modi govt knew it was breaching the Constitution and illegally helping even shell companies provide unlimited and accounted money to political parties. Yet, it did so to bypass Rajya Sabha, where it lacked numbers
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The
#Patanjali
Papers Exposé II: Whopping 365% profits from selling Aravalli lands. Haryana state and Union gov't help by keeping forests open to real estate. No real business but a web of shell companies channeling money around 👇🏾
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.
@AdaniOnline
rightly tells
@dhruv_rathee
it doesnt own any mines in Chhattisgarh. But hey, it forgot to tell how its bagged many mining contracts from PSUs in BJP states. And Modi allocated coal blocks to these PSUs such as Parsa in Hasdeo Arand forests
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Confirming Mr Rahul Bajaj's apprehensions through a tweet.
Home Minister
@AmitShah
answers on how issues raised by Shri. Rahul Bajaj were addressed. Questions/criticisms are heard and answered/addressed. Always a better way to seek an answer than spreading one’s own impressions which, on gaining traction, can hurt national interest.
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Dear Mr Malviya. We asked you repeatedly for a response to the Investigation. You did not reply. We at the
@reporters_co
would still be happy to get answers to our detailed written and specific questions. And we will soon put the questions out for people to read. Cheers.
It can't be a coincidence that just before every Parliament session, a concocted hit-job appears in a foreign media outlet, and no less than a Gandhi rushes to legitimise it. This time Sonia Gandhi did the honours. Their priorities explain Congress’s rout.
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FM Nirmala Sitharaman attacked the Congress in Parliament, claiming she had proof of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's husband's corruption. Later, when public glare was off, her ministry admitted the minister had lied.
From
@reporters_co
#ParliamentDefied
series
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A
#BookReview
I was invited to write a book review of Bill Gates' book, 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster'.
When I did, the publisher asked the review to be toned down. I withdrew the piece.
So here it is. Warts, errors, ideas and the review, all intact.
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#ElectoralBonds
Investigations Part 4: Modi govt's lie on anonymity of bonds gets nailed conclusively: Bonds are traced from donor to political party, via secret numbering. Enforcement agencies can access this trail. And, Jaitley tried an illegal act too
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One bond purchaser the SBI should have not messed the data of.
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Atrocious : Modi govt invoked draconian UAPA to shut down . Guess what the people at the website asked: For the govt to review its draft Environment clearance rules which severely dilute green protection. They asked thay people & experts be consulted!
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High court penalizes Modi govt Rs 25,000 for victimising whistle-blower officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi. Finds the principle bench of Central Administrative Tribunal too had acted out of order. This saga won't end...
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Just asking: Did any media house edit demand Home Minister Amit Shah's resignation for failure to perform his duty? Or does the code of silence continue? "Thou shall not name top four/two/three in any govt. Particularly not in this one. Blame it on a mid rung official, at best."
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If you missed this from
@anubhutivishnoi
: The higher education secretary who made the rules for
#InstituteofEminence
retired and joined Reliance to make the pitch for the yet-to-be born
#JioInstitute
. All kosher as per rules. And he helped make the rules.
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🚨 Meet the Uttarakhand leaders targeting Muslims, while police turn a blind eye.
@tapasya_umm
&
@HemantGairola25
report from the latest flashpoint of hate: Purola. They track the actors spreading disharmony. Piece together the playbook of hate.
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sit down. you bring shame to the profession. better still. go, get a spine. or some character.
An insidious attempt is being made by a lobby to cast the Delhi riots as a 'pogrom launched by Hindutva mobs' to further scare Muslims. This was a riot in which both sides attacked each other. Stop stoking hate!
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The FIR against
@sharmasupriya
and
@scroll_in
on the basis of a complaint of ALLEGED erroneous reporting smells of nothing but pure intimidation by the UP government to stifle journalism.
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Hey editor friends who feel scared of ever taking the man's name alongside anything -ve. Here
@PIB_India
made it easy for you. The govt now calls itself 'Modi govt'. You can too.. for things good and bad.
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Minister Piyush Goyal just held a press con. on
#ElectoralBonds
investigations. He defended the bonds.
We shall publish the 5th part of the
#PaisaPolitics
series tomorrow.
Led by
@HuffPostIndia
in English
@newslaundry
in Hindi and
@azhimukham
in Malayalam
to begin with
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[Scoop] Part 10
#PaisaPolitics
Investigations: Corporates secretly buy
#ElectoralBonds
, political parties get thousands of crores of unaccounted money. But, Modi govt makes citizens pay all the costs of running the secret money funneling route.
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A blatant and ugly lie. A communal dog-whistle and crudity. Prime Minister of India. Makes one sad to put these in one sentence. But...
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Many of us journalists in India could do with a little bit of what Mandeep Punia has in him for journalism. Love, spine and determination. With panache.
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You don't have to apologise for taking 'harsh steps' but for being complacent at first, illogical next and unplanned through out. for turning a very tough situation into much worse because of your tendency to turn everything an antic and an event.
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Revealed: Modi gov't overruled the environment ministry and mining experts to handover a coal block in one of India's densest forests to Adani group. After power producers' assoc, of which Adani is member, lobbied for it. By
@reporters_co
mem
@shreegireesh
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Tomorrow, a small gift to all journalists and citizens who want to find what other murky happenings surround the making and running of the scandalous
#ElectoralBonds
Scheme by the Narendra Modi government.
#PaisaPolitics
.
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In 2020, amid raging unemployment, exam cancellations and leaks, Modi announced a common eligibility test for gov't jobs. Called it a boon for crores. 4 yrs later not one test has happened.
@reporters_co
TRC Investigative Journalism Fellow
@suchak
reports
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Handlers of
#Manipur
Chief Minister N Biren Singh's twitter
@NBirenSingh
having a public meltdown. And that is the best justification possible for it right now.
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We didnt intrude into their territory. They didnt intrude into ours. Yet there was hand to hand combat in which 20 Indian soldiers lost their lives. Prime Ministerial spin at its peak.
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Court trashes Ramdev's "Swadeshi" excuse to not share with tribals and farmers even a penny out of billions he makes from selling nation's and their natural resources.
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#Thread
: A little long. Please stay with me till the end.
We
@reporters_co
handed over the
#GujaratDeathRegisters
to a team of researchers & doctors at Harvard Univ, Berkeley et al. Our way of producing investigative journalism collaboratively with experts across domains.
1/n
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Statement by Ashoka Faculty in support of P B Mehta, asking the University to ask him to join back.
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She hit a rod on her own head to crack it open. What a sham.
On January 5, several people including JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh attacked students at Periyar hostel: Delhi Police on
#JNUViolence
.
More on
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Ex-CJI And BJP's nominated member to Rajya Sabha does not remember
#ElectoralBonds
case which he blocked for two years. But then he also claims Social media influences the judiciary. If it had, Gogoi may have heard of the
#PaisaPolitics
Investigations by The Reporters' Collective
On the Electoral Bond issue | I don't remember the Electoral bond issue, frankly: Ranjan Gogoi, Ex- CJI & Rajya Sabha MP tells Navika Kumar on
#FranklySpeakingWithGogoi
.
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We lost our jobs soon after this series. Purportedly for not being productive enough.
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Update on
#ElectoralBonds
Investigations.
We said it is a 5-part series. But, we have dug out yet more dirty secrets over the last week.
So, there is a Part 6 that shall be published tomorrow by
@Huffpo
@nlhindi
@newslaundry
@azhimukham
Later by
@savukkuo
@DharitriLive1
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A thread on Modi govt's
#COVID
Lockdown package:
1. Its good the govt has finally woken up to financially ameliorate the impacts of an unprecedented and unplanned locked down. But, as always, the govt seems to have made more out of the package than exists. Read on:
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Thread on Crony Capitalism and BJP:
Baba
#Ramdev
comes out supporting BJP in
#HaryanaAssemblyPolls
. Reminder: M L Khattar's BJP state govt has helped Ramdev and his Patanjali group make a killing - illegally turning his dubious purchase of
#Aravalli
hills into real-estate gold.
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Media houses are letting frontline field reporters and photographers take on the burden of saving reputations of newsrooms. Will the anchors and the editors show half as much spine as these young journalists and newsphotographers have displayed and call spade a spade?
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This is what a govt does to people helping the most vulnerable and poor. Imagine what it does to the poor and vulnerable when they raise their voice to claim their rights.
NIA court denies interim bail to Sudha Bhardwaj accused in Bhima-Koregaon case
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