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a deep-dive journalism collaborative. investigative reportage in many languages and mediums. without fear. email: edit@reporters-collective.in
May 13 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🚨Calling all independent investigative journalists! The Reporters' Collective is launching a pitch call for investigative stories that uncover truth and hold power to account. Read the thread for more details. #InvestigativeJournalism. Image 1/ We’re looking for fearless independent reporters to dig deep into under-reported issues, systemic corruption, or untold stories of social churn. #JournalismMatters #India #Media
Apr 4 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
1. Did you Know: The Modi government assured the Parliament seven times that it would report back on the investigations into alleged scams by the Adani group and other corporations. And each time it hid the details.

Read on, to know more. Image 2. How did we find this out? By meticulously tracking hundreds of assurances that the government has made to the Parliament over 10 years. Image
Mar 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Series: Ministry of Truth
Investigation Into Modi govt's systemic govt-wide operation to scrub its image.

Reporter: @shreegireesh

Watch Video-story and/or read the entire 3-part series in the thread below. Image Pause a minute: Before you watch and read, consider donating to the Collective. Our journalists consistently produce investigative journalism that holds the powerful accountable. They do so without fear or favour. reporters-collective.in/support-us
Mar 31, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. Keeping with our tradition of putting things on public record, @reporters_co is releasing the corporate records of electoral bond donors we scrutinised in the past few days. They reveal the reality of those behind the once legal #ElectoralBonds scheme.
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TRC Electoral Bonds Dossier 2. For our stories based on gov't documents and internal communications, we have made it a point to share the information with citizens. In 2019, we released all the documents on electoral bonds accessed with the help of Commodore Lokesh Batra.
Oct 30, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Exposing the Govt’s #ElectoralBonds Frauds

With Supreme Court hearing scheduled for tomorrow, we're re-upping of our exposé on the government's #ElectoralBonds fraud. Stay with us as we tell you how the Modi gov't rammed through every single constitutional barricade. In 2017, Modi gov't launched #electoralbonds. It allowed corporate companies and billionaires to donate unlimited sums to parties anonymously. @reporters_co investigation found 11 things about electoral bonds, which reshaped political financing. reporters-collective.in/projects/paisa…
Aug 3, 2022 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
1. #Thread: After first outrightly lying to citizens, the Union government takes back orders that made Aadhaar compulsory for infants and children to get their rations and entitlements.

Let us tell you how it all transpired. Please stay with us till the end of this thread. 2. We will also show how rigorous and evidence-based investigative journalism can hold the government accountable to citizens.
Jan 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
TWEET THREAD
1. Out Now 🚨 #CovidDeaths Investigation II: Over 3.5 lakh excess deaths projected in just 3 states which claim only 28,609 people died of Covid-19. Thousands won't get compensation. @tapasya_umm @harshithamanwan @journomayank investigate
science.thewire.in/health/covid-r… 2. Under our @WallOfGrief project, partnering with @101reporters, more than 500 RTI applications were filed to bring out death records from across the country. Over months, the three @reporters_co members analysed RTI responses, analysed data and reviewed compensation mechanisms.
Mar 24, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
SC is hearing today a petition for stay on sale of electoral bonds ahead of the state polls.
In Nov 2019 member @nit_set exposed, through a series of stories, several irregularities in how the govt devised the controversial political-funding scheme.

A thread on what we know 👇 Documents revealed that the Reserve Bank of India had warned that electoral bonds could funnel black money into politics and destabilise the currency. But the then finance minister Arun Jaitley dismissed it. Read the full investigation in four languages👇
reporters-collective.in/projects/paisa…
May 12, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
#Thread
On April 23-24 we revealed some hard facts about how Modi govt floundered with its response to #Covid_19 over three months.

We have more to tell.

But, first, would you walk with us a little? Stay with us till the end of this thread. Please. (1/n) We reported how the Modi govt ignored warnings from its top scientists against imposing a China-like coercive lockdown in the country. The govt scientists said it could have adverse long-term social, economic and psychological impacts. (2/n) article-14.com/post/no-action…