Alt News

05 Oct 2022

Nobel Peace Prize

AltNews founders among favorites for Nobel Peace Prize: TIME report

Alt News co-founders and Indian fact-checkers Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair are among the favorites to win the Nobel Peace Prize 2022, a TIME report said on Wednesday.

18 Jul 2022

Delhi Police

SC agrees to hear Mohammed Zubair's plea on quashing FIRs

Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of Alt News, asked the Supreme Court on Monday for an immediate hearing on his petition to nullify FIRs filed against him in Uttar Pradesh districts for purportedly inciting religious sentiments.

14 Jul 2022

Delhi Police

Mohammed Zubair moves SC, seeks quashing of six UP FIRs

Journalist and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair has moved to the Supreme Court with a plea to quash all six UP Police FIRs against him.

12 Jul 2022

Mohammed Zubair

Delhi court postpones Mohammed Zubair's bail plea hearing to Thursday

A Delhi court on Tuesday postponed the hearing on a bail plea filed by Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair to Thursday.

11 Jul 2022

Uttar Pradesh

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair sent to 14-day judicial custody

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri on Monday sent Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair to 14-day judicial custody in connection with a case lodged against him for allegedly promoting enmity.

09 Jul 2022

Delhi Police

New warrant against Alt-news co-founder Mohammed Zubair after SC bail

The Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri police obtained a warrant against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in a one-year-old case filed last year on charges of inciting animosity between two groups, hours after the Supreme Court granted five-day interim bail to Zubair in the Sitapur case.

08 Jul 2022

Haryana

Haryana BJP's IT cell head sacked amid calls for arrest

The Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit removed its information technology head, Arun Yadav, amid calls for his arrest reportedly over a 2017 tweet on Prophet Muhammad and Islam.

07 Jul 2022

Delhi Police

In SC petition, fact-checker Mohammed Zubair cites death threats

Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of the fact-checking website Alt News, has petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) seeking bail and the dismissal of an FIR.

02 Jul 2022

Delhi Police

Delhi court reserves order on Mohammed Zubair's bail plea

Delhi's Patiala House Court has reserved the order on the bail application of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who is facing a trial in connection with a contentious tweet he posted in 2018.

Mohammed Zubair's arrest: Journalists shouldn't be jailed, says UN

In response to the arrest of journalist and co-founder of the fact-checking platform Alt News, Mohammed Zubair, the United Nations (UN) on Tuesday said, "Journalists should not be jailed for what they write, tweet and say."

29 Jun 2022

Delhi Police

Cops allege Rs. 50L transactions in Zubair's account; lawyer refutes

A day after the Delhi Police cyber division arrested Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of Alt News, over a 2018 tweet that referenced to a 1983 film, police alleged that Zubair's bank account had witnessed a transaction of Rs. 50 lakh in recent days.

28 Jun 2022

India

Who is Mohammed Zubair, journalist arrested for hurting religious sentiments?

The Delhi Police Monday arrested Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair after registering an FIR based on a complaint filed by a social media account.

28 Jun 2022

Delhi Police

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair remanded to 4-day police custody

A Delhi court remanded Mohammed Zubair, a journalist and one of the founders of the fact-checking platform Alt News, in four-day police custody on Tuesday.

27 Jun 2022

X

Delhi Police arrests Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair: Here's why

Mohammed Zubair, a journalist and one of the founders of the fact-checking platform Alt News, was arrested by the Delhi Police on Monday, according to reports.

05 Jul 2018

Mumbai

Maharashtra Police takes preventive-measures in the wake of Rainpada lynching

Following the lynching of five men in Maharashtra's Dhule district, Maharashtra Police are taking several preventive steps, including publication of WhatsApp numbers of police control rooms.

11 Jun 2018

Digvijaya Singh

Digvijaya Singh tweets fake picture about Bhopal flyover, apologizes

On Monday, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh apologized for tweeting a picture of a damaged bridge of Bhopal and questioning the Bharatiya Janata Party, when in reality the structure belonged to Pakistan

06 May 2018

Shashi Tharoor

The moment when even Shashi Tharoor didn't check facts

Shashi Tharoor, like many others, felt proud on learning former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan was appointed as governor of Bank of England.

27 Apr 2018

Narendra Modi

TOI's viral "Modi, Xi will mate 6-times" headline is fake

The Times of India was made fun of for a headline in its 27 April print edition that read: "Modi, Xi will mate 6 times in 24 hours."