About
How we work
Every story on KaunZimmedar is a government document. We find it, read it, write it up in plain language and link the original — and on every story we tell you what was checked and what was not.
No document, no news
We do not publish anything that is not an official record: a court judgment, an audit report, a bill, a regulator's order, a parliamentary answer, an environmental clearance, a tender. Every story links the document it came from, and that document is always the authority — not our summary of it.
Most documents come straight from the bodies that issue them: the Supreme Court, the Comptroller and Auditor General, Parliament, SEBI, the Reserve Bank, the Ministry of External Affairs and others. Some courts and tribunals do not publish in a form anyone can find, so we also follow specialist legal outlets and civil-society groups that link to documents — and we take a document from them only when the document itself shows it was issued by a court, tribunal or government body. Their own campaign material is not published here.
What we choose to publish
Government sites publish far more than news: vacancy notices, tenders for office supplies, event photos, newsletters. We read many sites and keep every official document we find, but most of it never appears here. Before anything is written up, software rates the document itself, using signals it can name:
- who issued it (an investigation, an audit, a court or a regulator counts for more than an announcement);
- whether it records an action or a finding: an arrest, an attachment of property, a penalty, an accident, names removed from a voter list;
- how much public money is involved;
- whether it is on a subject many people are following right now (at present: the revision of electoral rolls, SIR);
- and how recent it is. A notice about the office itself (a vacancy, a tender, an event, a blank form) counts against it.
Only documents that clear that bar are written up and published. The rest are kept, so that if one turns out to matter we still have it. Every rating records the reasons behind it, so any decision can be checked.
Where our documents come from
30 official sources at present:
- Supreme Court — judgments and orders
- Comptroller & Auditor General — audit reports
- Parliament of India — bills and laws
- Parliament Q&A — questions to the government and its answers
- Parliamentary Committee — committee reports
- Securities & Exchange Board — enforcement orders
- Reserve Bank of India — enforcement actions and notices
- Environment Ministry · PARIVESH — environmental clearances
- Ministry of External Affairs — agreements and joint statements
- Press Information Bureau — official statements
- Central Information Commission — right-to-information rulings
- Courts & regulators — documents cited by specialist legal and policy outlets
- Courts & tribunals — court and tribunal orders published by Citizens for Justice and Peace
- Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau — final and preliminary reports on air accidents and serious incidents
- Commission of Railway Safety — railway accident inquiries: causes found and safety recommendations
- Enforcement Directorate — attachments, arrests and prosecution complaints under PMLA and FEMA
- National Human Rights Commission — cases the Commission takes up on its own — deaths, custodial abuse, neglect
- Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi — electoral roll revision (SIR) orders, statistics and replies
- Chief Electoral Officer, Meghalaya — electoral roll revision (SIR) press notes and notices
- Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar — electoral roll revision (SIR) orders and notices
- Chief Electoral Officer, Kerala — electoral roll revision (SIR) orders and notices
- Directorate of Revenue Intelligence — smuggling seizures, customs-fraud cases and the annual Smuggling in India report
- Competition Commission of India — anti-trust orders: cartels, abuse of dominance, penalties and probes ordered
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India — disciplinary orders against insolvency professionals and agencies
- Insurance Regulator (IRDAI) — insurance regulator orders, penalties and directions
- National Financial Reporting Authority — orders against auditors and audit-quality findings
- Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board — gas and petroleum regulator notices and orders
- Ministry of Coal — coal block auctions, allocations, linkage decisions and incentive schemes
- Central Electricity Authority — power-sector planning reports, investigations and guidelines
- NITI Aayog — government think-tank reports and indices
Some official sites, including the Election Commission's, do not accept connections from outside India, where our computer is. For those we use the same documents as published by state election offices, courts and Parliament.
Who writes the stories
An AI model reads each document and writes the summary and headline. It runs on our own computer; the documents are not sent to any outside service. No person reviews a story before it appears. We say that plainly because it matters for how much you should trust what you read here.
What we check — and what we can't
Before a story can appear on the front page or a section page, software checks it:
| Check | What it catches |
|---|---|
| Every figure in the headline is in the document | A wrong or invented number in the headline |
| Every figure in the summary is in the document | A wrong or invented number in the text |
| A total is not presented as a per-person amount | "₹40 lakh each" when the document says ₹40 lakh in all |
| The headline reports, not guesses | "likely to", "set to", "expected to" |
| The headline is ours, not the title copied | A formal title or someone else's headline passed off as news |
| One story per document | The same judgment appearing twice |
| The document can be read | A scanned page we could not check anything against |
These checks understand how Indian documents write numbers — "fifty thousand rupees", "₹1,24,208.74 कोटी", "lakh crore", a unit printed once at the top of a table.
What the checks cannot do. They compare numbers. They cannot tell whether a sentence says what the document says. A summary can get every figure right and still get the meaning wrong — and we know it happens, because we check samples by hand. So every story says whether its figures were confirmed, and the original document is always one click away.
A story that fails a check stays in our archive, where you can still find it, but it is not placed on the front page or a section page.
How the front page is chosen
By software, using rules we can explain: how recent the document is, what kind of document it is (an audit finding or a court ruling counts for more than a routine notice), how much public money is involved, and whether something has just changed — a bill that became law this week matters more than one that did so last year. Routine procurement notices are kept, but listed separately as tenders rather than presented as news.
Like a newspaper, the front page comes out once a day, at 5 am India time. That morning's choice weighs what arrived overnight against what is already there. A story that has been on the front page before counts for a little less each day, so a big story can lead for a second day but will not sit there all week. The Latest documents column is the exception: it lists the newest documents as they arrive, all day.
Dates
The date on a story is the date on the document. When a document gives only a year, we show only the year. When it gives no date, we say so rather than guess.
Languages
Every page can be read in 22 Indian languages. Translation is done by machine, on our own computer, and can be wrong; the English text and the original document are authoritative.
What we don't do
- No advertising, no paid placement, no sponsored stories.
- No tracking of who you are. We count visits using a scrambled code that cannot be turned back into your internet address; the address itself is never stored.
- We are not an official source and nothing here is legal or financial advice.
If something is wrong
Every story has a Report an error in this story link at the foot of the page. When a report checks out, the story is taken off our front pages until it is corrected — and it becomes one of the hand-checked cases we measure our software against.