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A shopkeeper’s alleged murder in West Bengal’s Titagarh on September 11 has triggered a controversy after Barrackpore BJP MLA Koustav Bagchi attempted to give it a communal spin by describing the victim as a ‘Sanatani’ murdered by ‘jihadis’. In a 33-secong-long video that has now gone viral for over a week, the MLA’s claim was […]
The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on Zee News for its coverage of a student-led protest at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in August last year. Over a year after a complaint was registered, an order was passed on September 11 by the Authority, chaired by […]
“First they destroyed our farmland. Then they demolished our homes. Now they are trying to take away our voting rights,” said 74-year-old Sheela Devi, as she stood in front of her jhuggi underneath a bridge near Delhi’s Raj Ghat. The ‘they’ she referred to comprises the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the state Election Commission. […]
A video is viral on social media platforms, which shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi appearing to present the Chinese President Xi Jinping with his own portrait. Users have shared this clip with the claim that it is from the Chinese President’s current visit to India for the ongoing BRICS summit in New Delhi on September […]
For over a month and a half, residents of Chitpur Jyotinagar Colony in Cossipore, North Kolkata, have been without regular water supply after five public taps serving the colony ran dry following pipeline work in the area. Home to around 5,000 people, the 200-metre-long stretch is largely inhabited by people belonging to the Muslim community, […]
Meta has removed several Instagram and Facebook accounts and content related to the Jantar Mantar protest that Alt News had flagged as AI-manipulated visuals. On September 2, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to Alt News that following a review, all the accounts and content were found to be violative of the platform’s policies and had been […]
Jadavpur University (JU) saw night-long rampage and vandalism on August 20, when a mob, armed with sticks and rods, allegedly stormed the campus. The violence followed a heated altercation late on August 19 between activists from the Akhil Bharaitya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) from the university’s engineering department and members of the Left-wing student outfit, Democratic […]
Speaking at the ‘Universal Oneness Celebration’ event at the Madison Square Garden in New York on August 29, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said that “diversity has to be celebrated, respected, and accepted”, and asserted that a Hindu who believed Muslims had no place in India ceased to be a Hindu. The event […]
“I cracked the skull of Nishu’s father. Do you know which section this crime attracts? Section 307. He needed 60 stitches. The man who was about to die was being taken away in an ambulance. His daughter was standing outside the police station and saying that if her father did not get justice, she would […]
On September 5, Saurav Das, the co-convener of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), shared a photo on X that attributed a quote to BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia, under the label of ‘NBT’, which presumably referred to the news outlet, NavBharat Times. It was claimed that Bhatia had said, “The youth named Swatantra Bhardwaj is a […]
“I could not breathe. We were brutally dragged up the stairs. I kept saying, ‘Please stop, let me breathe. Tell me where you are taking me.’ But they did not tell us anything.” This is how journalist Shaheen Khan described the ordeal she and her sister and colleague Nafisa Khan allegedly endured inside Saket police […]
On the intervening night of June 19 and 20, Jalil Akhtar, an elderly Muslim man, from West Bengal’s Bagroi village in Karandighi block of Uttar Dinajpur district, was woken up from sleep and picked up by Dalkhola police from his home, his family alleged. Other members of his household, sleeping in the same home, came […]
Following a restructuring of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) digital wing, the party has intensified its social media campaigning, increasingly employing violent memes and videos. On August 27, the Karnataka unit of the BJP shared a meme featuring a clip from the film ‘KGF: Chapter 2’, in which the protagonist unleashes a barrage of gunfire […]
The anger was impossible to miss. As television reporters walked into Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and adjoining protest sites to cover the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, many were greeted with chants of ‘Godi Media Haye Haye’. Several journalists carrying microphones or wearing lanyards bearing the logos of prominent television channels — including NDTV, News X, […]
Following the devasting flash floods in Nepal on August 26, which claimed over 1,200 lives and caused massive destruction, a video has gone viral on social media, purporting to show the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) phenomenon. It displays footage from a search helicopter, ostensibly showing the breach of a glacial lake in China. Users […]
