DECCAN INQUIRER e news bi-weekly EDITOR: NAGARAJA.M.R .... VOL.22 .. .ISSUE...56……12/07/2026 Adani Group’s heavy debt liabilities should not lead to the Finance Ministry forcing PSU banks to provide it relief at the cost of the public by E A S Sarma To Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister Dear Smt Sitharaman, I refer to my earlier letter of 23rd November 2024 addressed to you on the larger implications of the recent US District Court’s indictment of the Adani Group on their dubious role in firming up a regressive solar power agreement with the AP DISCOMs and the equally dubious role played by the concerned Central Ministries/SECI/SEBI/CBI etc., calling for an independent judicial enquiry. More skeletons seem to be tumbling out of the Centre’s cupboard, as indicated in my subsequent letter of 6th December, 2024 addressed to the Cabinet Secretary Evidently, as a sequel to the US indictment, the Adani Group may find it difficult to raise loans these days from ext...
DECCAN INQUIRER e news bi-weekly EDITOR: NAGARAJA.M.R .... VOL.22 .. .ISSUE...55……09/07/2026 Industrial deaths in India ? Accountability ? At 2:30 in the afternoon on April 14, 2026, an explosion at Vedanta’s Singhitarai power plant in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district killed 24 workers, with a dozen more injured. The workers were from West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh. Their obituaries map the Indian migrant labour economy: painters from Bihar, welders from Jharkhand, workers moving across states into subcontracted work with no union protection. An FIR has been registered against Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal under sections covering causing death by negligence. Three Dead Daily The Singhitarai blast is not an aberration. It is a data point, just one more entry in a pattern so consistent now that the blasts do not even reach the corridors where they must. Between 2017 and 2020, three workers died and eleven were inju...