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    Politics

    Abhishek Kumar, Emily Fishbein & Jauman Naw

    Rare earths and rebel armies: How a conspiracy story with no evidence jumped from fringe sites to newsrooms

    22nd May 2026
    This is the second part of a three-part investigation. In Part One, we traced how a fabricated “exclusive investigation” alleging a secret India-Kachin Independence Army rare earths conspiracy first appeared...
    Rare earths and rebel armies: How a conspiracy story with no evidence jumped from fringe sites to newsrooms
    Anindya Hazra & Ankita Mahalanobish

    Bulldozer action in Kolkata: Demolition stayed by court, panic and uncertainty linger

    22nd May 2026
    The Calcutta high court on May 15 stayed the demolition drive underway in Kolkata’s Topsia neighbourhood, ordering the authorities to maintain status quo at the site. The order effectively stopped...
    Bulldozer action in Kolkata: Demolition stayed by court, panic and uncertainty linger

    Clash in Murshidabad? Old video from Varanasi given communal spin, falsely linked to Bengal polls

    Prantik Ali10th April 2026

    A video, around 21 seconds in length, is viral on social media, purporting to show a group of Hindu men thrash a Muslim man named Nazrul Islam in West Bengal’s…

    Shashi Tharoor slammed Modi govt & praised Pak diplomacy? The video is AI-generated

    Shinjinee Majumder10th April 2026

    Following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a suspension in attacks on Iran for two weeks, several pro-Pakistan accounts shared a video of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor saying that Pakistan…

    From self-identification to state control: Trans voices raise alarm over new law

    Oishani Bhattacharya8th April 20269th April 2026

    The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, was passed in the Lok Sabha on March 24 and in the Rajya Sabha on March 25. Five days later, on…

    Four more Bengal constituencies, same pattern: Muslims disproportionately marked ‘Under Adjudication’ in SIR

    Ankit Jain7th April 2026

    Days after Alt News broke through the Election Commission of India’s barriers to access Special Intensive Revision data — revealing that in Bhabanipur and Ballygunge a Muslim voter was 3.1…

    Errors, erasure, angst: Inside Basirhat’s Boro Gobra where hundreds find themselves struck off electoral rolls

    Anindya Hazra6th April 20266th April 2026

    Boro Gobra does not look like a place where something as abstract as an electoral roll could rupture everyday life. It sits quietly in the Basirhat landscape: Ponds holding still…

    Student complains of being forced to attend Modi event in 29° heat; Instagram vlog gets withheld in India

    Ankita Mahalanobish5th April 2026

    A short Instagram video by a college student from Greater Noida — sardonic, unremarkable in production and filmed in a crowd — was withheld in India on March 30, 2026….

    Image showing PM Modi in elaborate photo-op in a tea estate is AI generated

    Prantik Ali5th April 20265th April 2026

    A photo is viral on social media, purporting to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacting with women workers at a tea garden amid elaborate filming arrangements, flanked on all sides…

    X calls Centre’s order to block 12 accounts ‘disproportionate’, questions applicability of 69A

    Ankita Mahalanobish4th April 20265th April 2026

    X Corp told the Delhi high court on March 31 that it formally urged the Centre to reconsider its March 18 directives ordering the blocking of 12 accounts on the…

    Bengal SIR: The wall ECI built around electoral data and how we broke through it

    Ankit Jain3rd April 2026

    The Election Commission of India conducted a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal in 2025–26, an exercise it described as unprecedented. But when the final rolls…

    Modi-lookalike’s video falsely shared as PM called out in Rourkela over LPG crisis

    Prantik Ali2nd April 202614th May 2026

    A video, roughly 9 seconds in length, is viral on social media. It purports to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a convoy, in what appears to be a roadshow….

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