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Topic: Alt News

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’.

SC gives Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair bail in UP case, no relief in Delhi lawsuit

The bench restrained Zubair from posting on Twitter and also clarified that its interim bail order is for the FIR lodged in Sitapur and unrelated to the case registered in Delhi.

Summoned in 2020 case, arrested for 2018 tweet — Zubair’s lawyers say he was ‘tricked’

The Alt News co-founder’s lawyer also alleged that FIR over 2018 tweet was lodged on 20 June but he wasn't informed about it for a week, adding that he was ‘vindictively’ arrested.

AltNews cofounder Zubair arrested, Delhi Police say 2018 tweet ‘hurt religious sentiments’

Delhi Police say case registered after a complaint from a Twitter handle alleged that Zubair tweeted a questionable image ‘to deliberately insult the God of a particular religion’.

Alt News’ Zubair deactivates FB account after backlash for ‘making fun of other’s god, religion’

Alt News co-founder Pratik Sinha says Mohammed Zubair's posts were satire, and were being taken 'out of context' and 'misconstrued'.

Tarek Fatah, the unrelenting fake news peddler who targets Indian Muslims regularly

Tarak Fatah tweeted a video of Burqa-clad women dancing at a wedding, asking if it was from Shaheen Bagh. Fatah had tweeted the same video three years ago, twice.

On Camera

Why SIR is an exclusionary exercise for Persons with Disabilities

In the ongoing SIR 2.0 exercise, nearly half of the 90 lakh registered PwD voters in India were affected, showed an RTI application.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.