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State government inaction on pledge to reconsider Adani’s Godda coal-power plant

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Soon after it was elected to power in December 2019, a minister in the new government of the Indian state of Jharkhand said Adani’s massive coal-power project at Godda should be reconsidered. Construction was at an early stage and there had been a powerful grassroots campaign against the project. Media reported that the contentious project now stood on ‘less sure ground’. For over two and half years since those comments, however, Adani has forged ahead with construction.

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How top Meta executive Shivnath Thukral has links with a firm that works for Modi and BJP

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The firm, Opalina Technologies, was involved in the #MainBhiChowkidar campaign. Shivnath Thukral owned stake in this firm, and his father continues to do so. Shivnath Thukral, a public policy director, India, at WhatsApp Inc (owned by Facebook, now known as Meta) since March 2020, had once owned a stake in Opalina Technologies – a company that has provided software solutions for India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, the prime minister’s office, the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Why Did RSS-Linked GVF Intervene in SC to Stop West Bengal Probe Commission on Pegasus Snooping?

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Global Village Foundation, a Delhi-based “think-tank” with close links to RSS and BJP-led Haryana government, filed a petition that led Supreme Court to stay proceedings of a commission of inquiry instituted by the West Bengal government into allegations that Israeli Pegasus software was used to spy on several Indian politicians, activists, court workers, public servants, and journalists. Why? An exclusive investigation for NewsClick.

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Are Two BJP MPs Trying to ‘Scuttle’ a Sick Company’s Resolution Process?

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Two BJP MPs have levelled allegations of malpractices against the professional in-charge of the insolvency resolution process of Topworth Steels and Power, an ailing company promoted by Abhay Lodha and Surendra Lodha. Documents with NewsClick suggest that after the resolution professional discovered fraudulent transactions in the company, his dismissal was sought by the two MPs. An exclusive investigation.

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Have Justice Arun Mishra’s Judgements Helped Adani Group?

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With less than a month to go before his retirement from the Supreme Court, Justice Arun Mishra is expected to pronounce the judgement of a three-judge bench he heads in a case concerning a company in the Adani group. This will be the seventh case involving Adani group companies heard by benches led by Justice Mishra since 2019, with the previous six judgements having gone in favour of the group. If the decision on the seventh case also goes in the Adani group’s favour, it would leave public power distribution utilities and consumers in Rajasthan poorer by around Rs 5,000 crore.

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A pugnacious local opponent of Adani’s Godda power station

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In January 2020, Indian news media reported that a cloud of uncertainty hung over the future of Adani’s power project at Godda. Provincial elections had just been held and a new government had been elected in the state of Jharkhand. Spokespeople for the new government were quoted saying that they would take a fresh look at the approval for Adani’s power station because of the controversial confiscation of farmers’ lands.

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