Honorary consuls were meant to foster ties. Now some of them are threatening the rule of law

Corrupt and dangerous appointees have turned a system meant to leverage the generosity of honorable citizens into a perilous form of rogue diplomacy.

Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica

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Will Fitzgibbon and Delphine Reuter, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

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Eva Herscowitz and Emily Anderson Stern, Medill Investigative Lab

· Nov 18, 2022 · 07:30 pm

Special Report: How NIA went soft on Pragya Thakur – and is now delaying the Malegaon trial

Six people were killed in the 2008 bomb blast in which Thakur, the newly elected BJP MP, is the prime accused.

Smitha Nair

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Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Jul 12, 2019 · 09:00 am

From 2014 to 2019: How the Adani Group funded its expansion

In three of its six listed companies, cash flows from financing activities like lending and borrowing are larger than those from investing or operations.

M Rajshekhar

· May 16, 2019 · 07:30 am

From 2014 to 2019: How the Adani Group’s footprint expanded across India

Not only is the conglomerate growing at a time when other infrastructure companies are shedding assets, it is growing despite relatively small profits.

M Rajshekhar

· May 15, 2019 · 07:30 am

Jharkhand villagers ask why should they lose land for Adani project supplying power to Bangladesh

How does the project qualify as ‘public purpose’ and does it violate legal safeguards for Santhal areas? Part 2 of a Scroll.in investigation on the Godda plant.

Aruna Chandrasekhar

· Jun 13, 2018 · 09:00 am

Rs 7,410-crore question: Jharkhand amended energy policy to buy power from Adani at higher price

A government audit said the ‘preferential treatment’ could result in ‘undue benefits’ to the company.

Aruna Chandrasekhar

· Jun 12, 2018 · 09:00 am

Interview: Why there aren’t any big Indian names in the Panama-Paradise Papers corruption leaks

Gerard Ryle, head of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, explains how 96 media outlets around the world worked together on the projects.

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

· Dec 31, 2017 · 12:30 pm

'I can't take it anymore': Sights and awful sounds from the labour room of an Indian public hospital

A reporter goes undercover to see how women are treated in a large government facility in Kolkata.

Sohini Chattopadhyay

· May 31, 2015 · 09:05 am

Will India's recent coal block auctions actually burden banks and skew the fuel market?

The Modi government has celebrated the auctions as being transparent and successful. But the second part of our special investigation throws up worrying questions over the viability of bids and the long-term impact on coal markets.

M Rajshekhar and Supriya Sharma

· May 09, 2015 · 09:18 am

Are the coal block auctions as successful as the Modi government claims?

Scroll's analysis of the recent auctions of coal blocks finds a worrying lack of transparency and a baffling divergence in the winning bids. Eight blocks have seen winning bids lower than the notified price of coal.

Supriya Sharma and M Rajshekhar

· May 08, 2015 · 09:15 am

Who is benefiting from the lucrative South India red sandalwood smuggling trade?

The state has cracked down on the footsoldiers of the business. But who are the kingpins?

Vivekananda Nemana

· Apr 30, 2015 · 09:10 am

Jindal controversy: Why we need transparency on who owns and controls our mines

Mineral resources belong to the country. Until they are allotted through auctions, the government needs to keep track of the ownership of the companies that mine them.

Supriya Sharma

· Sep 27, 2014 · 08:06 am