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Safeguard students or troll them? Minister of State for Home, Rijiju, makes the difficult choice of doing the latter.

Pratik Sinha27th February 2017

The stated objective of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) or Home Ministry is to deal with internal security of the country. A major part of that involves dealing with…

Gurmehar Kaur’s message of peace had 347 words. Sehwag, Randeep Hooda and Right-Wingers read only 9 of those.

Pratik Sinha27th February 20175th May 2017

On April 28th, 2016, a video of Gurmehar Kaur, the daughter of a Kargil martyr, went viral. In this video, she appealed the Governments of India and Pakistan to find…

Gurmehar Kaur, the daughter of a martyr, is getting rape threats from ‘nationalists’ for speaking against ABVP

Pratik Sinha26th February 20174th July 2017

From the casual commentator to seasoned journalists to Bollywood celebs, everyone has faced the wrath of the trolls loyal to PM Modi and BJP when one has dared to question…

Video: A journalism student’s bold take on Demonetisation

Pratik Sinha26th February 201726th February 2017

Kartavya Khanna, a journalism student of Jagran College of Management and Mass Communication, spoke about the issue of demonetisation in a college program. In his speech, he highlighted how the…

A teacher in English department at Ramjas College narrates the story of ABVP’s terror

Shafey Danish26th February 201726th February 2017

Many ABVP members have been saying on TV that they did not instigate the violence, or that it was from both sides. Neither of these claims are true. I was…

Braving Sangh threats, Kerala CM launches a scorching attack on RSS in Mangalore communal harmony meet

Alt News Desk26th February 201712th July 2018

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vjayan unleashed a scorching attack on the Sangh Parivar in Mangaluru on Saturday at an event to promote communal harmony. The event was held amid threats…

Video of ABVP member Diksha Verma assaulting AISA President Sucheta De goes viral, she’d earlier alleged molestation

Pratik Sinha26th February 201726th February 2017

One of the defining pictures of the fracas at Ramjas College, Delhi, where ABVP members assaulted students of AISA, SFI and other student unions was that of an ABVP activist…

Media analysis: Indian newspapers’ coverage of a hate crime in India VS one in the US, Akhlaq vs Srinivas

Pratik Sinha25th February 201712th July 2018

The rise of right wing brings along with it hate crimes of various hues – from verbal attacks in public to brutal killings. Ever since BJP and Mr Modi were…

NIA probe contradicts PM Modi’s claim that train derailment near Kanpur had “ISI link”

Alt News Desk24th February 201712th July 2018

At least 39 passengers were killed and 67 others injured when the Hirakhand Express derailed near Kuneru railway station in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district in January. Referring to this derailment,…

We have killed many political opponents in the past, says BJP Kerala General Secretary K.Surendran