🚨🚨🚨 Exclusive .Delhi’s air pollution data is flawed!. I visited 25 air pollution monitoring stations (CAAQM) & nearly all were covered with trees or buildings in violation of norms, skewing data. My key weapon? Measure tape. Here is how I uncovered it all for @newslaundry. 🧵

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RT @sajid_reja: बिहार में, एक ही घर में 1,000 से ज़्यादा मतदाता पंजीकृत हैं—ऐसा तो है ही नहीं। पूरे राज्य में, हमें ऐसे 2,243 समूह मिले जिन….

Scoop!.A day after the poster incident, Guillaume de Bassompierre, cycling home, was waylaid by Delhi cops. He alleged they wanted to check his bag and stole his bike key. What followed was a diplomatic storm. For @newslaundry .Details in article.

The most explosive story you will read on Bihar SIR. 2,243 clusters found in Bihar. In each cluster, there are 100 to 1,069 voters registered on the same address. Over 4.5 lakh such voters. At one such cluster in Bihariganj, 1069 voters shared the same house no.

RT @TweetSumedha: 🚨 In Bihar, over 1,000 voters are registered at a single house — that doesn’t even exist. Across the state, we found 2,24….

RT @MnshaP: A Belgian diplomat pasted ‘Netanyahu wanted’ posters in Delhi and had to leave India. At the heart of the row lies a bigger q….

RT @_sabahgurmat: This is the sort of fab scoop that the stuffy external affairs correspondents ought to have done. Great story. A Belgian….

RT @AbhinandanSekhr: Thread."14 मामले जांच अंतर्गत के आधार पर पूरी प्रक्रिया की विश्वसनीयता पर प्रश्नचिह्न लगाना न तो युक्ति-संगत है और न….

RT @AbhinandanSekhr: In case anyone was wondering, just how ridiculous things could get. well, a lot!!.

What does Independence Day mean for Manipur? Some plain speaking for Modi government. Courtesy: Paojel Chaoba of The Frontier Manipur .

Happy Independence Day!.

RT @Avinash_1_Kumar: While the state is trying to jettison disenfranchisement of people, it has already gone ahead and accomplished some ot….

RT @CommodoreBatra: It is a very serious issue - requires proactive and urgent actions and intervention. Thanks NL for this pains taking….

Modi govt evades Lok Sabha question on number of animals and their health in Vantara, and inspections by authorities.

RT @TweetSumedha: After Bihar’s SIR voter-roll cleanup, a whole family is listed with just — ‘.’ — as their names—and their parents are —‘.….

RT @8PMnoCM: कन्हैयालाल साहू के परिवार का आरोप, राजस्थान के कुछ ज़िलों में उदयपुर फाइल्स फ़िल्म को रिलीज़ होने नहीं दिया जा रहा है। ख़ास बा….

RT @TweetSumedha: 2.92 lakh Bihar voters in draft rolls have house nos ‘0’, ‘00’ or ‘000’. CEO office admits such “errors” occur. I examin….

There will be more exclusive stories on e-waste recycling, regulator flaws, corporate skullduggery and environmental costs. All of this is part of NL's India Ewaste Underworld project. We are short of funds required for the investigation. Do contribute.

These seven "missing" plants make for 7% of the formal sector's ewaste recycling capacity. In couple of instances, UP pollution control board has even reapproved non-existing facilities with a revised approval, enhancing their capacity!.

Visible to the government, invisible in reality. I found several e-waste recycling plants missing or non-existing. They have been approved & verified by @CPCB_OFFICIAL, state pollution boards. This is 2nd part of our investigation. For @newslaundry