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Alt Newsby Ankita Mahalanobish1d ago
Ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party-led protest in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, and on the day of the protest on October 10, Hindu Rakhsha Dal (HRD) chief Pinky Chaudhary and its members posted a series...
Alt Newsby Shinjinee Majumder1d ago
In what can be described as arguably the most brutal assault on press freedom in India since the Emergency, several journalists were stopped from doing their work and detained in Delhi on October...
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali2d ago
The Rejinagar and Nandigram by-elections in West Bengal concluded on October 9, Friday, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) clinching victory in both seats.
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra2d ago
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) West Bengal has alleged that police detained several of its activists across the state on October 8 to prevent them from travelling to Delhi to participate in an...
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali3d ago
Lok Bhavan, the office and residence of West Bengal Governor R N Ravi, formerly known as Raj Bhavan, has declared a state-level essay writing competition for students from schools, colleges, and...
Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya4d ago
Even as the streets of Delhi and Mumbai saw massive protests demanding chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, two videos went viral on social media showing a group of young...
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra4d ago
Two Indian cartoonists, Satish Acharya and Manjul, recently revealed that their Instagram accounts and posts were withheld in India, following orders from the government.
Alt Newsby Ankita Mahalanobish5d ago
The Bangiya Christiya Pariseba (BCP), an umbrella forum representing Christians from different denominations in West Bengal, on October 5 formally submitted complaints to the National Human Rights...
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra5d ago
The Supreme Court on October 5 said it had not approved any modification to the contents of Form 6, directly contradicting the Election Commission’s (EC) recent claim that it alterations made in...
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali6d ago
As the Union government continues to host the ‘Seva Sankalp Abhiyan’ — a month-long celebration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday and 25 years in public service, from September 17 to...
Alt Newsby Shinjinee Majumder6d ago
As Nandigram and Rejinagar constituencies in West Bengal go to the polls on October 6, several local journalists in Murshidabad district, where Rejinagar is located, have alleged that access to...
Alt Newsby Pratik Sinha6d ago
Bitchat, the offline messaging app developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been removed from both Apple’s App Store and Google Play in India following blocking directions from the Union...
Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya6d ago
Amid increasing state-sanctioned censorship of digital content across platforms like Meta and X, activists, journalists, cartoonists, artists, opposition politicians and others critical of the...
Alt Newsby Shinjinee Majumder11d ago
A video shared by journalist Piyush Rai on September 29, Wednesday, showed several police officials watching and recording certain female performers dancing during the Baba Lat Bhairav baarat...
Alt Newsby Ankit Jain12d ago
On August 1, 2026, West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari claimed that of the 27 lakh people whose names were deleted from the voter list after adjudication due to ‘logical discrepancy’, only...
Alt Newsby Ankit Jain12d ago
Delhi’s new draft electoral roll has 97,53,577 names. In February 2025, 94,94,607 people voted in the Delhi assembly elections.
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali13d ago
A video has gone viral on social media platforms, showing two women slapping a man wearing a saffron scarf.
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra13d ago
On July 19, as Sahida Fakir stepped out of her Navi Mumbai home to buy dinner, she was allegedly picked up and detained by Mumbai police’s Chembur crime branch.
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra15d ago
The disclosure of BJP’s West Bengal election expenditure has sparked a storm on social media after revealing a Rs 2.5 lakh payment to Bengali actor and vlogger Sayak Chakraborty, who was involved...
Alt Newsby Ankita Mahalanobish16d ago
In the hinterlands of Bengal, mostly hidden from the attention of the mainstream media, Hindutva outfits are mounting a sustained assault against small Christian communities.
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