tapasya tofuss (@tapasya

tapasya tofuss

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tapasya tofuss

@tapasya_umm

Journalist. Wannabe poet. ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism, 2024. Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity, 2025. Ex @reporters_co

New Delhi, India

Joined June 2011

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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Dec 16, 2025
🚨SCOOP: For Adani projects, Gujarat govt asked Centre to delete forests earmarked for conservation under PM's pet project. Env ministry hesitated, but with twist, the job was done. I report for @reporters_co reporters-collective.in/trc/for-adani-…
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
May 23, 2024
🧵1. Ramdev and associates have a different life when they are off-screen. Once the yoga poses are done, and the cameras are gone, a twisty business empire gets to work. Hollow charity orgs & firms are created to "serve" the nation. What do they actually do? A detailed thread👇
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Nov 26, 2023
🧵 Baba Ramdev used to once talk of ending black money. But his Patanjali group has a web of shell firms that trade in Aravalli forests for huge profits. @shreegireesh & I at @reporters_co studied hundreds of corporate & land records to expose their modus operandi. Read on 👇🏽
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Jul 18, 2023
🧵1. Before the deluge of rains hit North India, Uttarakhand CM was lobbying the Centre. To prepare for monsoon? No. Our investigation reveals: For hasty approvals to continue mining 4 rivers, even during rains. In 5 days, he got it. My colleague @aggam_walia & I tell more 👇
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Mar 7, 2024
We @reporters_co are making public all documents related to electoral bonds, including those now removed by the State Bank of India from its website. And those that it never disclosed in the first place. You can find them here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
Kapil
@kapsology
Mar 7, 2024
All the PDFs related to #ElectoralBonds are removed from the SBI website. @TheOfficialSBI should come up with an explanation.
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Jul 2, 2024
🚨Uttarakhand govt violated a Supreme Court order, went against Centre's warning to mine rivers for money that should've gone towards conserving forests. It instead gave away its power to check illegal mining to private firms. I write for @reporters_co
Uttarakhand gov’t snatches forest conservation funds, outsources policing and royalty collection...
From reporters-collective.in
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Feb 18, 2024
🧵1. The Supreme Court sat on the #ElectoralBonds Scam too long. The Union gov't has built a more comprehensive (and simple) surveillance system over all manner of political funding. All kinds of donations to every political party. @nit_set & I reveal. Stay with us and read 👇🏽
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Jun 14, 2023
🧵 #Thread: #Uttarakhand has become a communal tinder box. @HemantGairola25 & I uncovered how it's a concerted campaign of hate, running on impunity and state support. It's fueled by leaders from the BJP and its affiliates. While the police acts blind. We collected proof. 👇
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Feb 21, 2024
IMPACT: Apex court has overturned Centre’s business-friendly changes to forest law, and ordered it to go back to court’s previous definition of forest. A @reporters_co investigation had exposed how gov’t diluted protection to forestlands for businesses.
The Reporters' Collective | Forests for Profit
From reporters-collective.in
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Sep 20, 2022
1. #Thread: A Fact Check Recently Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh engaged in a heated debate. Ramesh said Modi government diluted tribal rights. Minister Yadav said no rules or law had been diluted. Who was telling the truth?
tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Jan 19, 2023
#Thread: The Union gov't wants to become the judge in cases it's an accused. It has proposed new rules to take down news from online platforms once PIB (govt's publicity arm) calls the news 'fake'. Let me show you how malafide and bad 'PIB Fact Check' business of the gov't is:
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Nov 23, 2023
Part 2🚨 #Patanjali shell firm made 365% profit selling Aravalli forestland. Thanks to Haryana govt denying the forests legal cover. #Ramdev's firm did no biz, only traded in lands & pumped profits back in Patanjali. I report, with @shreegireesh
As Haryana kept Aravallis unprotected, Patanjali quietly traded forestland
From reporters-collective.in
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Jul 2, 2023
THREAD 🧵1. India is launching a controversial new carbon market. To trade in greenhouse gases. Why should citizens care about some companies making legit (or illegitimate) money from selling tonnes of a gas in a market? I and my @reporters_co colleague @nit_set explain 👇🏿
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Jul 7, 2024
🧵1. Uttarakhand's forests burned. Several died. Meanwhile, the state govt violated a Supreme Court order and snatched away forest conservation funds earned from river mining. It also outsourced its duty to check illegal river mining to private players. 👇
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