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Viral tweet on Odisha train accident falsely labels temple as mosque
As anxious relatives scramble from one hospital to another to identify their loved ones who perished in the monstrous triple-train collision in Balasore district of Odisha leaving 275 dead and over 1000…
- India
Delhi HC asks police about action over offensive tweet against Md Zubair
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the city police about the action taken by it against a Twitter user for his alleged offensive tweet on fact-checking website Alt News…
- India
FIR filed after Alt News’ Zubair receives pork during Ramzan, death threats
Alt News’ Mohammed Zubair has recently received death threats, leading to a police complaint and an FIR registration. Bengaluru police have registered the FIR based on the complaint filed by Mohammed Zubair,…
- India
No Criminality Found In Zubair’s 2020 tweet: Delhi Police Tells HC
A respite for Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair as the Delhi police informed the Delhi High Court that no criminality was found regarding a tweet that Zubair posted in August 2020. The…
- India
Delhi police created false, concocted disclosure statement: Alt News’ Zubair
New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who is being probed for posting an allegedly objectionable tweet against a Hindu deity in 2018, denied before the Delhi High Court the claim of…
- India
Alt News founders Zubair, Pratik, author Harsh Mander favourites for Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Founders of the fact-checking website Alt News, Mohammed Zubair, and Pratik Sinha and Indian author Harsh Mander are one of the favourites to win this year’s esteemed Nobel Peace Prize award for…
- India
Zubair’s laptop, devices sent for data analysis: Cops to HC in objectionable tweet case
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has told the Delhi High Court that a laptop and other devices seized from Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair are deposited with the forensic science laboratory for…
- India
SC grants liberty to Alt News’ Mohd Zubair to move Delhi HC for quashing of Sitapur FIR
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted liberty to Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair to approach the Delhi High Court for quashing of the FIR lodged against him at Sitapur in…
- India
BJP’s Manjinder Singh Sirsa files police complaint against Mohammed Zubair
New Delhi: BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has filed a police complaint against fact checker and co-founder of Alt News website Mohammed Zubair, accusing him of “spreading hate” against cricketer Arshdeep Singh…
- India
Delhi-based businessman behind Zubair’s arrest: police
New Delhi: The Twitter user behind the arrest of fact checker and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair is a 36-year-old Delhi-based real estate businessman who originally belongs to Ajmer in Rajasthan, police…
- India
This govt wants to silence us: Journalist Zubair on his arrest
Mohammed Zubair, Alt News co-founder, and fact-checker is finally home in Bengaluru, after spending 23 days in jail. Speaking to The Hindu about his time in prison, Zubair dropped insights as to…
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Mohammad Zubair released from Tihar Jail
New Delhi: Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair leaves from Tihar Jail after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court, in New Delhi, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Zubair was arrested by the…
- 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
Debunking fake news is not crime: Amnesty India on Zubair case
New Delhi: Human rights group Amnesty India has demanded immediate and unconditional release of fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, saying debunking fake news is not a crime. Separate FIRs have…
- Hate Crime
UP court rejects bail plea of Mohd Zubair in fact-check case
Lakhimpur Kheri: A sessions court in Uttar Pradesh’s Mohammadi on Saturday rejected the bail plea of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in a fact-check case. The hearing on police custody remand will…
