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Kerala MP MB Rajesh to Arnab Goswami in an open letter – Most unethical journalist I have ever seen

Alt News Desk30th May 201712th July 2018

CPI (M) leader and Member of Parliament from Palakkad, Kerala, Mr MB Rajesh has written an open letter to Arnab Goswami which he has posted on his Facebook page. In…

Delhi’s Disha Student Organisation alleges defamation by Republic TV

Alt News Desk30th May 201712th July 2018

Editorial Introduction Disha Student Organisation from Delhi has alleged that Republic TV while covering the issue of pro-ISIS slogans in Delhi University has aired footage containing Disha’s posters, thus defaming…

“Unique initiative” of Southern Railway to transport livestock runs into Gau Rakshaks

Sam Jawed28th May 201728th May 2017

On May 24th Southern Railway announced a “unique initiative”. It had decided to expand parcel traffic by commencing transportation of Livestock in parcel vans. As tweeted by Chief Commercial Manager,…

PIB India’s “inadvertent” error acknowledges a long list of Modi government negatives

Sam Jawed27th May 2017

The headline stunned everyone who read it, “Modi stuns opposition! On third anniversary, NDA government cites its negatives in report card”. This was BIG. The Modi government is not particularly…

BJP Bengal’s Social Media Accounts use an accident victim’s photo to portray police atrocity

Alt News Desk26th May 2017

On 24th May, BJP had announced a plan to gherao Lalbazar in Kolkata on 25th May. “We would do a Lalbazar Gherao because we had demanded the arrest of Tipu…

Media coverage of Jharkhand lynching – Where’s the outrage? Where are the hashtags?

Sam Jawed22nd May 2017

Seven men were brutally killed in two separate incidents by a mob in a complete breakdown of law and order in Jharkhand on May 18th. Even as the horrific images…

Gujarat Govt burns off Rs 2.27 Crore to hand out appointment letters to police personnel

Alt News Desk21st May 2017

The elections are due in Gujarat, and the BJP government is trying to cash in on every possible opportunity to advertise their work. Even a procedure as routine as hiring…

Police complaint against Rajeev Chandrasekhar for fake tweet

Alt News Desk18th May 201712th July 2018

Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the owner of Republic TV and Asianet News, has landed in a soup after retweeting a tweet which passed off an attack by RSS workers…

Yet another news report based on “sources” denied by Indian Army

Sam Jawed16th May 201717th May 2017

“TV channels go ballistic without asking us anything”. This is what the Army had said barely two weeks ago when the several news channels had carried an unconfirmed story of…

A Brazilian bank robber’s beheading video viral as Indian Army Jawan being beheaded

Pratik Sinha14th May 20176th June 2017

A beheading video is currently viral on Indian social media accounts including Facebook and Whatsapp. It is being circulated with a message suggesting that it was the video of an…

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Women’s quota or delimitation? Media misrepresents facts, Modi misleads nation

Noida protests: Several unrelated videos shared as scenes of violence during workers’ agitation