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Killing of one Abu Syed in Bangladesh shared 37000+ times on FB as a Hindu killed by Muslims in West Bengal

Pratik Sinha15th April 2017

On April 1st, unknown assailants killed Abu Syed & seriously injured Md Ali, two men who were wanted for the murder of Awami League leader Monir Hossain Sarkar. This incident…

Gunda-raj: Car labelled ‘Noida General Secretary, Hindu Yuva Vahini’ runs over a bike, drags it for several metres

Pratik Sinha15th April 2017

An undated video is currently viral on social media which shows a mangled bike lying in front of a car and a man with a saffron stole trying to fix…

BJP workers beat up a Dalit youth who tried to garland Ambedkar’s statue in Baroda

Pratik Sinha14th April 201714th April 2017

On the 126th anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar, in an event organised at the Ambedkar statue near Race Course Road in Baroda, Gujarat, BJP activists beat up a youth from…

Is “Modi’s India” shining brighter in 2016 than in 2012 as DNA claimed based on NASA pictures?

Pratik Sinha14th April 201714th April 2017

NASA has released new maps showing full hemisphere views of Earth at night. According to NASA website, these maps provide the clearest yet composite view of the patterns of human…

India Today’s Aaj Tak runs a fatwa as news that was declared fake by India Today’s DailyO 18 months ago

Alt News Desk13th April 2017

While we outrage about fake fatwas popularised by Sanghi websites, like the one against Rohit Sardana that never happened, how are our mainstream news websites any different? The most recent…

Indian employed in UAE fired for sexually abusive post against Rana Ayyub, Bravo! What about others?

Pratik Sinha10th April 201711th April 2017

Sexually offensive messages on social media in the hope to silence opposition is a commonly used modus-operandi by many right-wingers in India, especially against women. Yet, there have been very…

1 year after opting out, more than 1 lakh people across India have again started to avail LPG subsidy

Alt News Desk10th April 201712th July 2018

In March 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the privileged sections of the country to give up subsidy on cooking gas as part of the “Give it up” initiative. Many people responded positively…

Another ‘Harthal’ embarrassment for Kerala BJP, post-mortem report of BJP worker attributes death to high blood pressure

Alt News Desk10th April 201712th July 2018

A strike called over the “custodial death” of one of its workers in Kasargode district has landed the Kerala BJP in a soup. The post-mortem report, which came out on…

Yet another Right-Wing Fake News Site that makes money via Porn Ads, falsely targets CPI-ML leader Kavita Krishnan

Pratik Sinha8th April 201722nd June 2017

The first thing that you see when you open an article on a site called hamariaawaz.in is four little squares with animated GIFs of intense porn action right on top…

PM Modi, CM Raje get mocked for keeping mum about cow vigilante terrorism while tweeting about Stockholm attack

Pratik Sinha8th April 2017

PM Narendra Modi tweets about everything on this planet including wishing people on their birthdays, remember people on their death anniversaries, retweeting other people’s tweets during campaigns like #SelfieWithDaugther and…

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Explosives recovered from Faridabad after Delhi blast? Police deny media reports, say these were crackers

AI video of COAS Upendra Dwivedi saying Indian Army to reduce non-Hindu soldiers by 50% goes viral