Jay Mazoomdaar is an investigative reporter focused on offshore finance, equitable growth, natural resources management and biodiversity conservation. Over two decades, his work has been recognised by the International Press Institute, the Ramnath Goenka Foundation, the Commonwealth Press Union, the Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust, the Asian College of Journalism etc....Read More
Jay Mazoomdaar is an investigative reporter focused on offshore finance, equitable growth, natural resources management and biodiversity conservation. Over two decades, his work has been recognised by the International Press Institute, the Ramnath Goenka Foundation, the Commonwealth Press Union, the Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust, the Asian College of Journalism etc.
Expertise and Experience
Mazoomdaar’s major investigations include the extirpation of tigers in Sariska, global offshore probes such as Panama Papers, Robert Vadra’s land deals in Rajasthan, India’s dubious forest cover data, Vyapam deaths in Madhya Pradesh, mega projects flouting clearance conditions, Nitin Gadkari’s link to e-rickshaws, India shifting stand on ivory ban to fly in African cheetahs, the loss of indigenous cow breeds, the hydel rush in Arunachal Pradesh, land mafias inside Corbett, the JDY financial inclusion scheme, an iron ore heist in Odisha, highways expansion through the Kanha-Pench landscape etc.
Apr 15, 2017 04:34 IST
The documentary explored what it called the “dark secrets” of Kaziranga and asked if the war on...
Sat, Apr 15, 2017
Apr 02, 2017 06:29 IST
What makes Kaziranga, and quite a few forests in the region, different is the abundance of...
Sun, Apr 02, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 04:56 IST
Speaking to The Indian Express, ecologist Deepak Apte denied he was under any pressure to...
Thu, Mar 23, 2017
Mar 19, 2017 05:34 IST
Neither Kahkashan Naseem, divisional forest officer, Terai West, nor D S Khati, chief wildlife...
Sun, Mar 19, 2017
Mar 02, 2017 00:10 IST
The BBC documentary on Kaziranga and the action against a Corbett official, who issued a...
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 03:29 IST
Minister okayed chief wildlife warden’s decision to rehabilitate two ‘man-eaters’ held in...
Mon, Feb 20, 2017
Feb 16, 2017 00:36 IST
In terms of deaths per lakh population, India is now choking at a rate faster than China’s. At...
Thu, Feb 16, 2017
Feb 15, 2017 05:05 IST
The BBC film, Killing For Conservation, explores what it calls the “dark secrets” of Kaziranga...
Wed, Feb 15, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 01:34 IST
By 2019, India will anyway have access to information on Swiss bank accounts held by all Indian...
Mon, Feb 13, 2017
Feb 09, 2017 04:18 IST
“Completely meeting requirements of revised environmental norms by December 2017 may not be...
Thu, Feb 09, 2017
Feb 03, 2017 16:41 IST
As oil sludge is being removed manually using large buckets since, the slick has travelled more...
Fri, Feb 03, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 05:15 IST
In its first two years, the Narendra Modi government cleared over 2,000 projects involving...
Fri, Jan 20, 2017
Jan 14, 2017 04:27 IST
The ambitious project requires diversion of 5,258 hectares of forest land, including 4,141 hectares...
Sat, Jan 14, 2017
Jan 14, 2017 03:14 IST
The committee emphasised that relevant ministries scrutinised every aspect of a project and...
Sat, Jan 14, 2017
Jan 06, 2017 04:05 IST
During December 9-11, NHPC’s Singh accompanied an expert sub-group of the Das committee to...
Fri, Jan 06, 2017
Jan 06, 2017 01:24 IST
Mega funds pumped into the captive breeding of the cuddly and the charismatic is better spent in...
Fri, Jan 06, 2017
Jan 04, 2017 00:24 IST
De-listing of 255 parties by the EC has thrown up data on distribution of India’s minor political...
Wed, Jan 04, 2017
Dec 19, 2016 01:20 IST
These checks will include, for the first time, monitoring of CCTV footage of each branch to...
Mon, Dec 19, 2016
Dec 11, 2016 03:35 IST
The demonetisation deadline ends on December 30, and a day later, the I-T officers are expected to...
Sun, Dec 11, 2016
Dec 09, 2016 00:02 IST
Trains have killed 15 elephants in the last 5 months. Realignment of tracks, and other...
Fri, Dec 09, 2016
Nov 29, 2016 05:15 IST
The number of new Jan Dhan accounts climbed to 9.52 lakh in the second week after demonetisation....
Tue, Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 2016 00:35 IST
The fortnight after the scrapping of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes saw a massive jump in deposits in...
Tue, Nov 29, 2016
Nov 28, 2016 00:04 IST
Given the space, the big cat will just slip away. But confronting, chasing or surrounding them is a...
Mon, Nov 28, 2016
Nov 27, 2016 01:49 IST
While the increase in balance in accounts in public sector banks was 56 per cent, it was 66 per...
Sun, Nov 27, 2016
Nov 26, 2016 01:57 IST
With too many intermediaries in play, commission rate touches 50 per...
Sat, Nov 26, 2016