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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...

DECCAN INQUIRER   e news  bi-weekly EDITOR: NAGARAJA.M.R .... VOL.22 .. .ISSUE...54……05/07/2026  Check out this video, "chemical pollution accidents mysore" https://share.google/EIbS7brQXAq0zAYJQ Industrial accidents claim the lives of more than 6,000 workers in India every year, averaging nearly three deaths daily. With the recent labour codes mandating safety committees at workplaces employing over 500 workers, the question remains whether the country will be able to improve industrial safety and worker representation. Talking to The Tribune, Sudip Dutta, president, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, claimed only 10 per cent of actual industrial accident deaths were reported in the country, while the real figure exceeded worker deaths annually. “With the government now codifying labour rules, the real question is implementation and compliance. The need of the hour is not better rules but solid execution. The Centre has coined the term ‘inspector-cum-facilitators’ in th...

  DECCAN INQUIRER   e news  bi-weekly EDITOR: NAGARAJA.M.R .... VOL.22 .. .ISSUE...53……02/07/2026 Lessons learnt by government ? Visakhapatnam Accident: Time For Strict Action  — by E A S Sarma To Shri C K Mishra Secretary Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MEFCC) Govt of India Dear Shri Mishra, You are aware of the ghastly gas leak accident that took place at LG Polymers unit near Visakhapatnam in the early hours of 7-5-2020. Several persons in the vicinity of the accident site could not escape to safe places and got asphyxiated to death. Several others had to be hospitalised for serious health problems associated with their lungs, eyes, nose, skin etc. The impact of the toxic gases that got released from the accident site extended upto 5-10km from it. The disease burden caused by the accident will stay on for decades to come. In short, irrespective of the laws, the rules and the procedures in force, such an accident should shake the conscie...

  DECCAN INQUIRER   e news  bi-weekly EDITOR: NAGARAJA.M.R .... VOL.22 .. .ISSUE...52……28/06/2026 RTI  request to  DG Telecom To, Honourable Director  General DOT  HQ New Delhi Honourable Madam / Sir       By your acts of  omission and commission  together with  those in power  has caused  thousands of crores of rupees loss to the public exchequer. A criminal  falters  to  answer when interrogated  to hide his crimes, in the same way DOT officials  have failed to  ANSWER  our RTI qusetions  and provide information.     Please read the  below mentioned  RTI request  and ANSWER  in public interest. Your  response  decides whether  you are an upright public servant  or  a criminal  thief  hiding  crime. Thank you Nagaraja M R   RTI APPLICATION TO  CPIO  DEPARTMENT  OF TELECOMMUNICATI...