‘Bring your sisters & daughters, our boys are also ready’: BJP MLA’s remark on Muslims attending Garba sparks row
Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya·17d ago
Rameshwar Sharma, the BJP MLA from Bhopal’s Huzur constituency, on Monday, September 21, said that if Muslims wished to attend Garba events during the Navratri festival, they should bring their...
Discrepancy in Nandigram BJP candidate Hashirani Rath’s poll affidavit: Age 60, Class X in 1965
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra·17d ago
The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee moved the Calcutta high court on September 23 over apparent discrepancies in the candidature of BJP’s Nandigram candidate for the upcoming bypolls...
Independent journalists reporting on MP child deaths face surveillance, have Instagram accounts disabled
Alt Newsby Abhishek Kumar·18d ago
The Instagram accounts of three independent journalists — Bindu Gurjar, Lokbhadra Singh, and Monika Singh — were reportedly suspended earlier this month after they reported extensively on the...
Bengal bypolls: Suvendu Adhikari tells minorities to pass October 6 ‘test’ to ‘stay with government’
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali·21d ago
West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has framed the upcoming bypolls in Nandigram and Rejinagar as a ‘test’ for minorities. To note, Nandigram has a Muslim population of around 26%.
‘Go back to your country’: Manipuri musician’s killing reignites concerns over racism against Northeasterners & govt inaction
Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya·22d ago
What is the cost of a life? For the wife and 20-year-old son of Chongtham Vikram Singh, it is the lifelong grief and trauma of losing a family member.
Viral video of ‘puffed rice vendor’ being assaulted is a scripted skit
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra·23d ago
A nine-second long video clip is has gone viral on social media, showing a man assaulting a puffed rice vendor.
Viral video of Swatantra Bhardwaj threatening Bhim Army chief predates his September 17 release on interim bail
Alt Newsby Priyanka Jha·24d ago
Soon after the news of Hindutva fanatic Swatantra Bhardwaj getting interim bail for three weeks went out, a 1.16-minute video of him got viral, in which he is with another person who boasts about...
Mallikarjun Kharge ‘kept away’ from Rahul Gandhi-Anwar Ibrahim’s breakfast table? Morphed photo viral
Alt Newsby Alt News Staff·24d ago
A photo of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi meeting Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim over breakfast has gone viral, in which Congress president...
IPS officer Bushara Bano transferred after Right-wing outrage over use of Arabic words in video address to students
Alt Newsby Shinjinee Majumder·24d ago
Bushra Bano cleared the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission examination in 2017 with Rank 6, becoming a PCS Officer and later a sub-divisional magistrate.
‘Nothing communal’: On camera, victim’s son interrupts Bengal BJP MLA’s ‘jihadi’ claim over Titagarh murder
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra·26d ago
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...
Bela Estate: Farmland and homes gone, 728 Delhi pavement dwellers now fight to retain voting rights
Alt Newsby Aritry Das·27d ago
“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...
Modi gifted self portrait to Xi Jinping? No, old video falsely viral
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali·29d ago
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.
Forty-six days on, taps in Kolkata’s Jyotinagar Colony still run dry
Alt Newsby Ankita Mahalanobish·29d ago
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...
Alt News Impact: Meta removes doctored, AI generated visuals of women CJP protesters
Alt Newsby Pawan Kumar·11 Sept 2026
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.
Jadavpur University vandalism: ABVP leaders, BJP functionaries identified in CCTV footage
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra·10 Sept 2026
Jadavpur University (JU) saw night-long rampage and vandalism on August 20, when a mob, armed with sticks and rods, allegedly stormed the campus.
‘YouTuber’, ‘influencer’, ‘goon activist’: How mainstream media sanitised Swatantra Bhardwaj
Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya·8 Sept 2026
“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.
‘They dragged us… hit us with batons… I could not breathe’: Journalist Shaheen Khan recounts ‘assault’ at Saket PS
Alt Newsby Ankita Mahalanobish·7 Sept 2026
“I could not breathe. We were brutally dragged up the stairs. I kept saying, ‘Please stop, let me breathe.
Jalil Akhtar: Valid Indian documents, cleared SIR in 2002 & 2026, yet arrested as a ‘Bangladeshi’
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra·7 Sept 2026
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...
BJP’s violent meme war: The attacks on opponents and dissenters as ‘Dimagi Naxals’
Alt Newsby Abhishek Kumar·5 Sept 2026
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.
‘Godi Media Haye Haye’ to heckling on the ground: Why TV reporters became a target during CJP protests
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra·4 Sept 2026
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...
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