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Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya13h ago
Even as the streets of Delhi and Mumbai saw massive protests demanding chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, two videos went viral on social media showing a group of young...
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra1d ago
Two Indian cartoonists, Satish Acharya and Manjul, recently revealed that their Instagram accounts and posts were withheld in India, following orders from the government.
Alt Newsby Ankita Mahalanobish1d ago
The Bangiya Christiya Pariseba (BCP), an umbrella forum representing Christians from different denominations in West Bengal, on October 5 formally submitted complaints to the National Human Rights...
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra1d ago
The Supreme Court on October 5 said it had not approved any modification to the contents of Form 6, directly contradicting the Election Commission’s (EC) recent claim that it alterations made in...
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali2d ago
As the Union government continues to host the ‘Seva Sankalp Abhiyan’ — a month-long celebration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday and 25 years in public service, from September 17 to...
Alt Newsby Shinjinee Majumder2d ago
As Nandigram and Rejinagar constituencies in West Bengal go to the polls on October 6, several local journalists in Murshidabad district, where Rejinagar is located, have alleged that access to...
Alt Newsby Pratik Sinha3d ago
Bitchat, the offline messaging app developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been removed from both Apple’s App Store and Google Play in India following blocking directions from the Union...
Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya3d ago
Amid increasing state-sanctioned censorship of digital content across platforms like Meta and X, activists, journalists, cartoonists, artists, opposition politicians and others critical of the...
Alt Newsby Shinjinee Majumder7d ago
A video shared by journalist Piyush Rai on September 29, Wednesday, showed several police officials watching and recording certain female performers dancing during the Baba Lat Bhairav baarat...
Alt Newsby Ankit Jain8d ago
On August 1, 2026, West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari claimed that of the 27 lakh people whose names were deleted from the voter list after adjudication due to ‘logical discrepancy’, only...
Alt Newsby Ankit Jain9d ago
Delhi’s new draft electoral roll has 97,53,577 names. In February 2025, 94,94,607 people voted in the Delhi assembly elections.
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali10d ago
A video has gone viral on social media platforms, showing two women slapping a man wearing a saffron scarf.
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra10d ago
On July 19, as Sahida Fakir stepped out of her Navi Mumbai home to buy dinner, she was allegedly picked up and detained by Mumbai police’s Chembur crime branch.
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra11d ago
The disclosure of BJP’s West Bengal election expenditure has sparked a storm on social media after revealing a Rs 2.5 lakh payment to Bengali actor and vlogger Sayak Chakraborty, who was involved...
Alt Newsby Ankita Mahalanobish12d ago
In the hinterlands of Bengal, mostly hidden from the attention of the mainstream media, Hindutva outfits are mounting a sustained assault against small Christian communities.
Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya14d ago
Rameshwar Sharma, the BJP MLA from Bhopal’s Huzur constituency, on Monday, September 21, said that if Muslims wished to attend Garba events during the Navratri festival, they should bring their...
Alt Newsby Anindya Hazra14d ago
The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee moved the Calcutta high court on September 23 over apparent discrepancies in the candidature of BJP’s Nandigram candidate for the upcoming bypolls...
Alt Newsby Abhishek Kumar14d ago
The Instagram accounts of three independent journalists — Bindu Gurjar, Lokbhadra Singh, and Monika Singh — were reportedly suspended earlier this month after they reported extensively on the...
Alt Newsby Prantik Ali17d ago
West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has framed the upcoming bypolls in Nandigram and Rejinagar as a ‘test’ for minorities. To note, Nandigram has a Muslim population of around 26%.
Alt Newsby Amarabati Bhattacharyya19d ago
What is the cost of a life? For the wife and 20-year-old son of Chongtham Vikram Singh, it is the lifelong grief and trauma of losing a family member.
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