Scrolling through Assam BJP’s X handle: An exhibition of hate, xenophobia & anti-Muslim propaganda
How far is taking something too far during election campaigning? With each social media post, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Assam unit hits a new low. Over the past several weeks, Assam...
Sudarshan News fabricates communal angle, blames ‘Jihadis’ for temple desecration in Maharashtra
Sudarshan News on September 22 ran a segment where the channel’s deputy editor, Pradosh Chavhanke, alleged that ‘Jihadis’ desecrated a Shiva temple dating back 1,200 years in Anwa, in Maharashtra’s...
On social media as well as messaging platform WhatsApp, many shared a video of a ‘self-sustaining’ magnetic power generator with claims that it can run for 700 years without any…
A video of Lok Sabha member Rajesh Ranjan, also known as Pappu Yadav, breaking into tears is being widely shared on social media. In the video, a crying Yadav, sitting…
On July 15, 2025, a special magistrate court for members of Parliament (MPs) and Legislative Assemblies (MLAs) in Lucknow granted bail to Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi in a…
On July 15, the Supreme Court granted Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya interim relief from arrest. The top court’s direction comes a day after it reproached the cartoonist over an “inflammatory”…
On July 10, 2025, 25-year-old Radhika Yadav was allegedly shot dead by her father, Deepak Yadav, in her own home in Gurugram. Yadav shot at her three times with his…
This story was originally published on Bellingcat and has been republished by Alt News as part of an editorial collaboration between the two organisations. They describe themselves as “cow protectors”…
A video of India’s Union minister of external affairs (EAM) S Jaishankar admitting that India lost three Rafale fighter jets during the India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025 is viral on…
Old pictures showing former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi meeting heads of other countries have resurfaced on social media with captions suggesting that the…
Incidents of violence by so-called cow protection groups affiliated to Hindutva outfits have been on the rise in several north Indian states. Now, one such incident has come to light…
A video showing a female police volunteer pulling away a woman kneeling underneath a large wooden chariot is viral on social media with communal claims that she was offering namaz…