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Akshay Deshmane

@deshmaneakshay

Independent Journalist | Interests: Investigations, Law, Environment, Policy, Politics, Poetry | Past: HuffPost, ET & Others | signal: tellmenolies.25 |

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as luck would have it, our current discussion features Nileena MS discussing her 2018 story on the coal scam (Al Jazeera PR claims a scoop today, it is just bad form not to credit work others have done, & remember it took reportorial guts to name adani then!)

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“This FIR, in our view, is nothing but a cover-up for institutional failures, and we strongly oppose it. We stand in solidarity with Ajit Anjum and with every journalist who has the courage to speak the truth,” DIGIPUB said. newsclick.in/digipub-pci-iw…

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Chilling story of a psychopathic Russian doctor who put Ukrainian prisoners of war through excruciating psychological abuse. This is an important account about the banality of evil of our times that must be read widely. occrp.org/en/investigati…

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France and Equatorial Guinea are locked in a court battle over a Paris mansion which French authorities seized from the African nation’s vice-president Teodorín Obiang, son of Africa’s longest-serving leader. occrp.org/en/news/equato…

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Over the last 5 yrs, the governance of ordinary earth has triggered multiple legal battles between environmentalists and infrastructure authorities, first in the NGT and then in the Supreme Court. Akshay Deshmane reports. Vidhi Centre For Legal Policy Debadityo Sinha india.mongabay.com/2025/07/the-lo…

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These are the latest developments in the cyber crime capital of the world. Similar actions are needed in and around Delhi to tackle this rampant menace which is only growing everyday. Criminality of the worst sort which allows anonymity to these cowards. occrp.org/en/news/cambod…

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"Eastern India once shared culture, migration, and mutual respect across Bengal, Assam, and Odisha. But today, under the BJP’s divisive nationalism, those fluid borders have hardened into lines of suspicion." newsclick.in/being-bengali-…

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"The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed news portal The Wire and its journalists for being in a hurry to publish a story on Jay Shah, son of Union home minister Amit Shah, saying it was "nothing short of yellow journalism"." dnaindia.com/india/report-t…

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"The Supreme Court...expressed concern over the “rise of yellow journalism" which it said was damaging institutions & maligning people. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra, M R Shah & B R Gavai passed the remarks while hearing an appeal filed by The Wire" timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/yellow-j…

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"What if phone hacking was worse—much worse—than previously thought?" Excellent piece of investigative journalism that exposed a fraud that lay hidden within British journalism for years. Indian journalists must try to investigate similar stories. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/ph…

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"Instead of being protected and lauded for exposing malfeasance, Indian whistleblowers face retaliation, legal harassment, and professional ruin." Story of a whistleblower who turned into a “mental wreck” due to false charges levelled against him. article-14.com/post/how-india…