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- India
UP: Two journalists accosted while reporting on GST hike
Two journalists working with Uttar Pradesh-based ChalChitra Abhiyaan were allegedly threatened and accosted while reporting on the people’s reactions to the recent hike in Goods and Service Tax (GST) on Wednesday. Shakib…
- India
3 weeks after arrest, Mohammed Zubair released from Tihar jail
New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was released from Tihar on Wednesday night, hours after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in all FIRs lodged in Uttar Pradesh against…
- India
Over 8.5 mn tweets targeted Rana Ayyub in 27 months
Hyderabad: Bullying Muslim journalists on social media has become a norm these days. An impression is being peddled that comments on social media have no significance while the fact is that these comments…
- Middle East
UAE sentences Jamal Khashoggi’s former lawyer to 3 years in prison
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates has sentenced the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi – the dissident Saudi journalist who was killed at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018 – to three years…
- India
2 journos shot at in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra
Sonbhadra: Two journalists from leading Hindi newspapers were shot at while they were having tea at a restaurant under Raipur police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, police said. The incident took…
- India
Mathura: ‘Journalist’, 3 others, booked for forcing 80-year-old to sell her property
Mathura: Four people, including a journalist’, have been booked for allegedly forcing an 80-year-old woman to sell her property at throwaway prices and trying to extort Rs 50,000 from her, police here…
- India
Delhi: Protestors harass journalist; force her to chant Jai Shree Ram
New Delhi: A journalist working for YouTube channel Janhit Awaz, was hounded by protestors on July 9 in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar as she covered the agitation against the Udaipur murder. The mob…
- India
Only domestic payments enabled for Alt News: Razorpay
New Delhi: Razorpay, the payment gateway used by Alt News to receive donations, on Friday said only domestic payments were enabled for the fact-checking website and foreign transactions were not allowed without…
- Telangana
Telangana: Social Security scheme extended for auto drivers, journalists
Hyderabad: The social security scheme for Transport & Non-Transport Auto Drivers, Home Guards, and Working Journalists of Telangana has been extended for one more year by the Labor, Employment, Training, and Factories…
- India
SC to hear journalist Rohit Ranjan’s plea seeking ‘urgent hearing’
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear journalist Rohit Ranjan’s plea on Thursday in connection with a ‘misleading show’ for which he later apologized. Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra mentioned…
- Middle East
Palestine rejects results of US probe on Al Jazeera journo’s killing
Ramallah: Palestine has rejected the results of a ballistic probe by a US team into the bullet that killed veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May in the West Bank. On…
- World
Test of bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist ‘inconclusive’: Israel
Jerusalem: Israel has said that tests of the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh could not determine whether soldiers shot her because of the “physical condition” of the bullet.…
- Middle East
Is the Saudi prince Immune from Lawsuits? US district court asks govt
The fiancee of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in Saudi in 2018, Hatice Cengiz, has filed a civil complaint against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the United States. The…
- India
Bangladesh: Journalists, activists protest against Zubair’s arrest
As Alt News co-founder and fact-checker battles in court for posting a 2018-old tweet, journalists and human rights activists in neighbouring Bangladesh protested against his arrest, demanding for his immediate release. We,…
- India
Delhi: Journalist Mohammad Zubair remanded to 4-day police custody
Mohammad Zubair, journalist and co-founder of Alt News who was arrested by the Delhi Police on the night of June 27 for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus, has been remanded…
