Hemant Gairola has served as a co-founder of 101Reporters—a pan-India network of grassroots reporters—and has headed the city desk at Daily News & Analysis in Bangalore. Stories commissioned and edited by him have appeared in publications such as Nikkei Asia Review, Forbes, IndiaSpend, Asia Times, Mongabay India, Newslaundry and FirstPost. Hemant has a keen interest in investigative journalism and enjoys pursuing stories of public interest. He is a graduate of Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media and an InOldNews-InterNews Mobile Journalism Fellow (2021). He has also edited a book on financial frauds and ghost-written a course on media literacy for college students.
अवैध प्रोत्साहनों के लोभ में बैंक अधिकारी अपने कर्मचारियों को किसी भी तरह बीमा बेचने के लिए मजबूर करते हैं, जिसकी कीमत ग्राहकों को अवांछित पॉलिसियों के रूप में चुकानी पड़ती है
Driven by illegal incentives, bank executives compel their staff to sell insurance anyhow, with customers paying the price in the form of unwanted policies
रिपोर्टर्स कलेक्टिव-अल जज़ीरा की रिपोर्ट के बाद हुई जाँच के आधार पर भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक ने बैंक ऑफ़ बड़ौदा को बॉब वर्ल्ड ऐप पर नए ग्राहकों को जोड़ने से रोका
Police and Administration dismiss threats asking Muslims of Purola town to leave as media hype, but The Collective finds in plain sight leaders targeting Muslims, and maps rising hate crimes that are turning the state into a communal tinderbox
RBI asks Bank of Baroda to suspend registering new customers on its banking app after exposé, but cover-up afoot
Internal Emails Reveal Thousands Of Bank Accounts Linked To Unauthorised Mobile Numbers To Fraudulently Boost Registrations On Its App, Raising Security Concerns
Banks have been either enrolling customers en masse from the backend or by obtaining consent signatures through lies, deceit or coercion