Author: Abir Dasgupta

A whistleblower’s complaint over a Tata Group housing project in Haryana, pending since 2016, has been reopened after the President of India’s secretariat asked the state government to give it ‘appropriate attention’, reviving scrutiny of allegations that homebuyers were shown inflated floor area figures Abir Dasgupta and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta The Haryana government has reopened scrutiny of a decade-old complaint against a Tata Group-owned real estate company by its former employee-turned-whistleblower, Nitya Nand Sinha. The state’s Town and Country Planning Department had earlier closed the investigation. However, it revived the inquiry after the President of India’s secretariat forwarded Sinha’s representation.…

By Abir Dasgupta and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Three separate agencies of the United States government have decided to drop charges of bribery, corruption, fraud and violation of sanctions against entities in the Adani Group. In what many see as a quid pro quo — rightly or wrongly — Adani has promised to invest $10 billion (₹96,000 crore) in America and create 15,000 jobs, adding an unusual twist to India-US relations. America has settled. India has not even begun to ask questions — and that, more than anything else, is the real scandal. Rs 36,000 CR BAIL OUT On May 14, 2026,…