Shreegireesh Jalihal
            
            @shreegireesh
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              Journalist | Previously Assistant Editor @reporters_co | Loves Jamun | Email: [email protected]
              
              Joined April 2016
            
            
          
            #Thread We @reporters_co investigated Modi Govt’s global PR machinery--its Ministry of Truth. What we uncovered: lobbying to downplay child hunger in global rankings, creating a poverty index to claim reduction in poverty, and even dodging responsibility for democracy! Read on.
          
          
                
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             HELP Bhanu Tatak, a young legal researcher and activist from Arunachal Pradesh faces multiple legal cases. She has been fighting for the ecological rights of her people against bumper-to-bumper dams. But legal costs can be debilitating. It can kill one's spirit as the legal 
          
                
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             The govt has asked all automakers to display GST related changes at their dealerships. All such posters must carry Modi's photo. Companies are now designing posters and sending to ministry for approval.  https://t.co/LteiKy5QQg 
          
          
            
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              Executives at automobile firms are now getting posters designed and sending them to the ministry for approval before sending them to print for display
            
                
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             The biggest scam is convincing an entire generation that the reason they can’t buy a house is they spend too much on coffee 
           So a Blue Tokai opened up in Dehradun and my parents went there and were scandalised at the bread prices - Rs 180 for multigrain, they buy theirs for about 60 from the local bakery. That made me think of how causally my generation spends money. It never even occurs to me how much 
          
                
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             1. Our colleague @ayushikar1998 speaks to @Memeghnad on the Bihar SIR Investigations. Explains how the Collective broke ECI's padlocks on the voter lists.  https://t.co/eDiyJBTnMZ 
          
          
                
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             My #Odia @YouTubeIndia channel 'Mu Ruben Kahuchhi' ( I am Ruben Speaking) has all of a sudden been ' permanently removed'. I got no prior alerts or strike notices. Have appealed for restoration. Let's hope for the best. @IndEditorsGuild #Odisha
          
          
                
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             Twice last week in #Parliament, the govt would not provide a list of documents to prove citizenship. Yet it is forcing arbitrary citizenship trials on millions through the #ElectionCommision & police, writes @samar11 Subscribe to read our edit notes:  https://t.co/2XjoqhVGwO 
          
          
                
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             1\ Today evening chief election commissioner @ECISVEEP addressed media on Bihar SIR. A thread putting his comments in the context of our reportage @reporters_co
          
          
                
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             1/A @reporters_co investigation. Preliminary analysis of the draft electoral of Bihar after SIR still shows double voters who are registered in Bihar and UP. In one assembly constituency we found more than 5000 such voters. Read @harshithamanwan @gayatrisupbro and my report. 
          
                
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             As Parliament’s monsoon session staggers from adjournment to adjournment, another drama is unfolding just metres away. The elections for the Constitution Club of India usually a dull, uncontested affair are now a BJP vs BJP battle. Furquan Ameen reports  https://t.co/ygRIbYhSV9 
          
          
            
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             Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 days* 
          
                
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             🚨“More like siege than pilgrimage.” 🚨 With roads blocked, 87+ decibel noise, and over 250 complaints — Delhi residents say the final leg of the Kanwar Yatra has brought sleepless nights, chaos, and fear. READ 👇🏻 More on the story 🔗  https://t.co/n2KQ8JMfwG 
          
          
                
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             Inequality in food consumption is stark - based on physical activity those poorer would need higher calories - we see the exact opposite. And in general, diet quality is poor & cereal-heavy especially those in lower strata. + some puzzles remain.  https://t.co/ztwXNDW7Po 
          
          
            
            thewire.in
              The average per capita calorie consumption per day in rural areas is 1,607 Kcal for the bottom 5% of the population compared to 3,116 Kcal for the top 5% – almost double. In urban areas, this...
            
                
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             The solution to failures of digital surveillance tools is not more surveillance or more technical sophistication. Unfortunately this seems to be the reform path. With severe consequences for those depending on these services.  https://t.co/XoOHYX1L4s 
          
           Pregnant women must now submit to facial scans, children to “liveliness detection”. Just to get take home ration. The union govt continues making access to rights more and more complex. It’s committed in making people cross all kinds of hurdles just to get food for survival. 
            
                
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             Based on internal records, @tapasya_umm reveals how a key Modi Govt green initiative is designed to benefit corporates and not the green cover it claims to protect! Read: 
           1. PM Modi took India's green credit plan global. But, behind the grand facade, attempts to violate rules, bypass expert body, to roll out a scheme to benefit corporates that cut down forests. It could've just as well been the Green Wash Programme.  https://t.co/yyEjxJVIF1 
            
          
                
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             1. PM Modi took India's green credit plan global. But, behind the grand facade, attempts to violate rules, bypass expert body, to roll out a scheme to benefit corporates that cut down forests. It could've just as well been the Green Wash Programme.  https://t.co/yyEjxJVIF1 
          
          
            
            reporters-collective.in
              Narendra Modi first proposed it in 2008. He sold it to world leaders as India’s green solution for the planet in 2023. However, the program to help corporates meet their environmental commitments is...
            
                
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             🚨Scoop: Modi govt rushed Green Credits to benefit companies that cut forests. Indian PSUs, funding green actions for credits, complained about short timeframe to plant trees & no clarity on carbon credits year after norms were out. I write @reporters_co
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            reporters-collective.in
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             🚨Exclusive: Modi govt tried to violate rules to rush in Green Credits to benefit corporates. Law ministry intervened to stop it. But it still bulldozed a hastily made scheme that trashes environment. I report @reporters_co
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            reporters-collective.in
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