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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: Alt News

Fact-finding isn’t easy in new India, more so for independent groups. What’s the way out?

Retired justices RS Chauhan, Madan B Lokur, AltNews co-founder Pratik Sinha, and PUCL president Kavita Srivastava discuss Gandhi and the challenging role played by fact-finding missions.

Mohd Zubair-Nupur Sharma incident shows why it is important to be ‘demotional’ fact-checker

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Why SC clubbed FIRs against Zubair of Alt News and what the Constitution says about this

While Article 21 guarantees right to life, Article 20(2) says no one 'should be put twice to peril for the same offence'. It's been argued multiple FIRs for 1 offence violates both rights.

AltNews co-founder Zubair gets bail, SC directs Tihar to ensure he is out by 6pm today

SC allows Zubair’s plea to club all FIRs against him and transfer the investigation in these cases to Delhi Police Special Cell, which too has lodged a case against him.

‘Hindus tolerant, dissent a must for democracy’ — why Delhi court granted bail to Zubair

Court grants bail to AltNews co-founder Mohammad Zubair in case filed by Delhi Police over tweet that 'hurt religious sentiments'. Political parties are open to criticism, says judge.

Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair given bail in Delhi, but will remain in jail in UP case

The Sessions Patiala Court gave Zubair bail on a surety of Rs 50,000; also asked him not to leave the country.

Shekhar Gupta’s article on Zubair paints blasphemy as an ‘Abrahamic’ problem, but misses this

Even if Shekhar Gupta has a specific definition of 'blasphemy', what's the justification for treating it as a special kind of offence and claiming moral superiority for Hindus?

How poor infrastructure made Bengalauru rank as least livable city in India in global index

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Only domestic payments enabled for Alt News says Razorpay, but cops claim foreign funds received

While Delhi Police claimed the media company received over Rs 2 lakh from foreign countries, Harshil Mathur cited Razorpay policy of not allowing international transactions without FCRA approvals.

UP Police to probe if Zubair part of ‘syndicate pushing tweets to destabilise society’, SC told

SC hearing Zubair’s appeal challenging Allahabad HC order that refused to quash an FIR registered against him for labelling three Hindu religious leaders ‘hate mongers’.

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When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.