The ₹15,000 Crore Ghost: How Ballari's Mining Scam Funded Three Election Cycles
A multi-year investigation traces how illicit mining revenue flowed through shell companies into campaign war chests across three state elections.
Priya Reddy
Monday, 27 July 2026Karnataka Dispatch · Est. 2026
Monday, 27 July 2026
Karnataka · Credibility · Accountability
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A multi-year investigation traces how illicit mining revenue flowed through shell companies into campaign war chests across three state elections.
Priya Reddy
Prashant Kumar
Disaster response without transparent audits and fixed timelines will repeat the same failures every monsoon.
Priya Reddy
Basin states must move from annual confrontations to a data-led allocation framework.
Kavya S.
District hospitals cannot compensate for hollowed-out PHCs and missing ASHA support.
NIFTY crosses 24,500 as foreign investors return to Indian equities amid global rate-cut hopes.
Anita Sharma
From 4 a.m. queues to unpaid drivers, a week on the road with families waiting for water.
Priya Reddy
SaaS and fintech founders are filing draft papers after a quiet year of private fundraising.
Anita Sharma
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State agriculture department reports a 40% jump in ragi and jowar acreage under the new support scheme.
Farmers in Kolar and Chikkaballapur can now claim 90% assistance for micro-irrigation systems.
Collectives in Shivamogga district ship certified organic pepper to European buyers.
Priya Reddy
Arjun Menon
Language inclusion is a rights issue for services that claim to be universal.
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