The Reporters' Collective

07/08/2026

Our investigation has unearthed a recruitment scam at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and at the heart of this is its own credential-verification body, the Internal Quality Assurance Cell. Professors we spoke to alleged shortlists were manipulated. We found the IQAC and Executive Council were functioning under direct oversight of the vice chancellor.

This investigation identified irregularities in promotions of the JNU faculty as well, a process that requires IQAC’s assessment.

02/08/2026

খিলঞ্জীয়া ভূমি অধিকাৰ কৰ্মী প্ৰণৱ ডোলে জামিন পোৱাৰ এদিন পিছতে অসম চৰকাৰে কঠোৰ ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় নিৰাপত্তা আইন (এন এছ এ)ৰ অধীনত তেওঁক আটক কৰে। ৰিপ’ৰ্টাৰ্ছ কালেকটিভে এন এছ এৰ এই নিৰ্দেশ পুনৰীক্ষণ কৰে।

ৰিপৰ্টৰ দ্বাৰা Anupam Chakravartty আৰু Angana Chakrabarti

https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/after-pranab-doley-gets-bail-govt-detains-him-under-nsa-asm

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31/07/2026

A day after indigenous land-rights activist Pranab Doley got bail, the Assam government detained him under draconian National Security Act (NSA). Under the law, the government can detain him without formal charges for up to 1 year. Doley was protesting along with villagers against a dubious 5-star project proposal backed by state chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The Reporters’ Collective has accessed the NSA order.

31/07/2026

Every time you filled up at a petrol pump this year, you paid extra, and the government never told you why. The Modi government’s ethanol blending programme cost consumers an estimated ₹88,234 crore extra over three fiscal years. This is the hit to your pockets that ministers Nitin Gadkari and Hardeep Singh Puri dismissed as “insignificant” and “bullsh*t”. We ran the numbers, using the government’s own data.
Read the full story. Link in bio.

29/07/2026

Ministers dismissed E20 mileage complaints and motorists’ rising fuel bills as “bullsh*t” and “insignificant.” We checked using the govt’s own data & found Indians paid Rs 88,234 crore extra in 3 years to cover the same distances on ethanol-blended petrol. E20 gives lower mileage than pure petrol & NITI Aayog’s 2021 report had flagged a 6-7% mileage loss. The gov’t pushed ahead anyway, passing on the hidden cost of this great ethanol experiment on consumers.

Full story - link in bio.

28/07/2026

The Reporters’ Collective is holding a three-day investigative journalism training in Delhi from August 31 to September 2, 2026. The workshop is open to early-career journalists from north and central India with 3-5 years of experience who want to learn the art of investigative reporting.

Only 15 seats are available. Applications close on August 10.
Link in bio. Apply today.

25/07/2026

Right now at Jantar Mantar, student protestors are being watched by facial recognition cameras. The same technology that’s banned in Europe is purchased by Indian Authorities. Part of the money behind India’s rollout came from the Nirbhaya Fund.
Full story - link in bio.

24/07/2026

The Election Commission has changed its SOP for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) yet again. This time it decided to drop gender data from the first lot of suspect voters it found in the third and final phase of SIR taking place in 19 states and union territories. This change is worrying especially given the fact that in past phases of SIR women have been disproportionately targeted and removed by The Commission.

Sabar Institute cracked the data partially in five assembly constituencies in Jharkhand. Read our story to find out more.

22/07/2026

Cannabis products are sold as ayurvedic medicines with no one checking how potent they are. That’s the loophole at the heart of India’s cannabis industry. Label it ayurvedic, and a narcotic escapes the scrutiny other narcotic drugs must follow.
The Ayush ministry has complete oversight but its biggest intervention has been to tell ayurvedic doctors not to call themselves “cannabis specialists”. We traced the regulatory gaps the cannabis industry exploits. Read the full investigation. Link in bio.

15/07/2026

Thousands of cameras across Indian railway stations and temples are matching faces against databases nobody will name. The software comes from Herta, a Spanish company. The same technology is largely banned across Europe under the EU’s AI Act. Authorities do not disclose which databases these systems check against, where that data lives, or who can access it.

Read the full story from the link in the bio.