Odisha: Dongria Kondh Tribals Take on Corporate Goliaths to Save Forests
The Forest Conservation Amendment Act 2023 and the Forest Conservation Rules 2022 have opened the floodgates for massive deforestation.
Bharatmala Project: Adani-Led Consortium, BJP Donors, Firm with BJP Links Get Tenders in Breach of Norms
A consortium led by Adani Transport was awarded the Suryapet and Khammam project though it didn’t have the requisite construction work experience.
India’s ‘Alternative to Hong Kong’ Proceeds in Lush Nicobar Island, as Govt Ignores Pleas of Local Tribals
Over the past 17 years, a Nicobarese tribe inhabiting an island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for about 50,000 years has pleaded with the union government to return them to the ancestral land they lived in before the 2004 tsunami. But the government is planning to build massive tourism facilities on the island, so it has ignored their pleas.
The Adani Story Simplified: Stock Manipulation, Mystery Investors and SEBI Role
A series of reports obtained by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and shared with the Guardian and the Financial Times, has established some of the allegations against the conglomerate by Hindenburg Research. Will the market regulator take note?
Wooing Corporate Interests? Nagaland Move to ‘Massively Rely’ on Non-Native Palm Oil
A report on a virtual meeting organised by the civil rights organisation Kezekevi Thehou Ba says that the “bid to push oil palm cultivation in the North-East” has rung “alarm bells” in the ecologically fragile and biodiversity rich region.
A Deep Dive into Adani Group’s Acquisitions
In the weeks and months after the Hindenburg report, the Adani Group has repeatedly alluded to the robust health of its underlying assets. How it came to acquire some of them is worth a deeper look.
Highways or Rural Roads, It’s a Story of High Cost-Low Delivery
Two recent reports reveal a picture of missed targets, huge cost escalation, misconceived plans and a sense of disarray that is quite contrary to the impression that the government is efficiently going about creating essential infrastructure for the country.
Intellectuals and People’s Organizations Condemn State Repression on Adivasis in Odisha – 2 Press Releases
“GASS Odisha Strongly Condemns Ongoing State Repression in Mining Areas of Odisha”; Also: “Lathis, Axes Odisha Adivasis Traditionally Carry Cited for ‘Applying’ Anti-Terror Law UAPA”.
The NRI and Corporate Houses Behind the Farm Laws
A BJP-friendly NRI businessman’s proposal to Niti Aayog paved the way for the creation of a task force that authored a report pushing for corporatisation of agriculture as a way to double farmers’ income. Subsequently, the Adani Group lobbied to remove curbs on hoarding. Farm laws did just that.
Parakala Prabhakar: ‘Cylinders to the Poor, Airports to a Friend’
The political economist does not mince words or try to deflect blame away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He calls him staggeringly incompetent. But at the same time, he also says that democracy is a shared responsibility of all citizens, and so also says: “It is us, as a people, who must ultimately take the blame.”