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14/04/2026

Our ‘Electoral Roll’ series exposed serious flaws in Election Commission of India’s special intensive revision (SIR) process in West Bengal. This was months before any legacy media covered it.
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27/03/2026

Minors Exploited, A Case Dropped: Two minor girls in Nepal were allegedly lured by a fertility clinic for their ova. However, Nepal’s first female Attorney General Sabita Bhandari, also a shareholder in the clinic in question, denied prosecution.

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20/03/2026

JNU VC Santishree Pandit is facing protests, casteism allegations and a campus referendum called by the student union. But the questions around her conduct go back years when she was a professor at University of Pune to a disciplinary case that found her guilty of “moral turpitude”.
’s investigation traces how those warnings were ignored or overlooked.

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17/03/2026

Months before assembly elections, the BJP-led Assam gov’t has awarded Adani power a 3,200 MW power contract. The issue? It could cost taxpayers thousands of crores of rupees for electricity the state may never use. Our conservative estimate puts the bill for unused power at over Rs 12,500 crore over five years. 

Who pays in the end? The citizens. 

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13/03/2026

Over 6.7 lakh jobseekers wait for stable government jobs in Himachal Pradesh at a time when the state faces an employment crisis.  The state government’s answer to this isn’t permanent jobs but rather the gig-style work. These jobs are temporary, low-paying, outsourced work, with no security or future. And they’re claiming it as employment. Read the entire report through the link in BIO. 

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06/03/2026

चुनाव आयोग का ये कहना है कि वो देश के 12 राज्यों में वोटर लिस्ट में सुधार करने के लिए वोटर लिस्ट का विशेष गहन पुनरीक्षण कर रहा है, लेकिन हमारे इलेक्टोरल रोल प्रोजेक्ट के अंतर्गत प्रकाशित की गईं पड़तालें साफ़ दिखाती हैं कि बिहार और बंगाल में वोटर लिस्ट के पुनरीक्षण के दौरान इन राज्यों में पूरा चुनावी तंत्र-ही सिर के बल खड़ा हो गया है।

हम ऐसी खोजी पत्रकारिता ज़ारी रख सकें इसलिए बायो में दिए लिंक्स पर जाकर हमारा आर्थिक सहयोग करने के साथ-साथ आप इस पूरे वीडियो को यूट्यूब पर देख सहते हैं।

02/03/2026

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02/03/2026

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02/03/2026

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27/02/2026

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27/02/2026

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