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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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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.

FIR against Alt News co-founder Mohd Zubair for ‘revealing’ boy’s identity in Muzaffarnagar incident

Senior Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Suman said a case has been registered under section 74 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

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.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?