While a few colleges across India deliberately and illegally misinterpret a Karnataka high court order in order to keep hijab-wearing Muslim girls out, six girls in the town of Udupi find their...

India’s National Investigative Agency describes her as the shadowy leader of the banned Maoist party, smuggling arms, planting booby traps and guiding strategy on armed operations. That contrasts...

Six men from Hindu groups accused of calling for murder, violence against Muslims got bail in less than two months. Fifteen protesters against citizenship law who are accused of inciting Delhi riots...

On 4 October, an article in Time, listing fact-checkers Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair as 'favourites' to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, delighted their legions of supporters while sending...

In the sprawling rural hinterland beyond the Taj Mahal, in a region dotted with hospitals, we found a deluge of unreported and unrecorded sickness and death, because the administration of chief...

On 18 September 2020, we carried a story about some Twitter users in Kashmir being intimidated by police, who said they were only questioned in a cyberbullying case. Our reporter was called the next...

Mohammad Zubair said that while he usually ignored or laughed off the abuse he received, the latest flurry calling for violence against him increased after Alt News, for whom he works, busted fake...

Article 14 addresses threats to and failures of justice and deficiencies in the legal system, tracks successes that can be built upon and discerns trends and patterns that require to be brought to...

Legally, a rash driver is more of a threat to public order than the UP doctor who has endured three jail spells totalling nearly a year—the latest under a law meant to control terrorists. We examine...

Independent journalist Alishan Jafri, who documents the rising hate and violence against Indian Muslims, on how the community lost ‘belongingness’, found new sources of news and new responses to...

Mohammad Zubair said that while he usually ignored or laughed off the abuse he received, the latest flurry calling for violence against him increased after Alt News, for whom he works, busted fake...

Adivasi rights defender, a former fellow of a prestigious prime ministerial programme, and son of a police official, Mahesh Raut is the youngest of the ‘Bhima-Koregaon 11’, accused of spreading...

As the Supreme Court demands an oxygen-supply plan from the Centre, caught off guard by an exploding pandemic, the Collector of a remote, tribal district tells us how he set up five oxygen plants...

A year after his arrest on terrorism charges for spearheading widespread protests against India’s new citizenship law, a veteran 44-year-old peasant-rights activist faces four criminal charges and...

Wrongfully arrested when he was 16, Mirza Nisar Hussain, 40, cannot find a job and is not sure how to begin life again after 23 years in prison and a year of freedom. He was acquitted of involvement...

Mohammad Zubair said that while he usually ignored or laughed off the abuse he received, the latest flurry calling for violence against him increased after Alt News, for whom he works, busted fake...

On 9 April, the Gujarat police arrested Hindutva star Kajal Shingala, or Kajal Hindustani, for inciting riots at an anti-Muslim rally. Her metamorphosis—like others—from obscure Islamophobe to public...

Unemployment is at its worst in nearly 3 decades, and 230 million Indians have been pushed into poverty by the Covid-19 pandemic. Does the aftermath of the second wave threaten Narendra Modi’s...

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As the Supreme Court demands an oxygen-supply plan from the Centre, caught off guard by an exploding pandemic, the Collector of a remote, tribal district tells us how he set up five oxygen plants...

Police of two states & four magistrates violated a series of guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court, when Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair was called for questioning in a case in which he was...

As Narendra Modi breaks his silence on spiralling Islamophobia, our investigation of 22 days of fake-news frenzy reveals how it was sparked by his government’s profiling of a Muslim sect in a...

More than six years after 17 Muslim men and two minors were accused of celebrating Pakistan’s victory in a cricket match in June 2017, a Madhya Pradesh court found the case was fabricated after the...

A day after a video of a Hindu teacher instructing students to hit their Muslim classmate went viral, we visited the village of the student and the teacher in the Uttar Pradesh district of Muzaffar...

As family and colleagues anxiously wait for the Supreme Court decision on the bail plea of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, after a detention that has lasted 704 days, his case, according to many...

Cows graze at the site for a goverment hospital—it went from a 100-bed plan in 2007 to a 460-bed promise in 2021—in the predominantly Muslim area of Okhla, whose residents now allege communal bias...

Judge takes note of time in jail, academic and writing record of 23-year-old Sharjeel Usmani, arrested along with 23 others after December 2019 police crackdown on protests in Aligarh Muslim Univer...

During TV show-host Arnab Goswami’s hearing, the Supreme Court said: “If this court does not interfere today, we are travelling on the path of destruction”. The judiciary is already on this path, as...

The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cancelled more than 100 Overseas Citizen of India cards over nine years, according to right-to-information responses we received from the home...

The Supreme Court has repeatedly called for expeditious bail hearings to safeguard the fundamental right to life and liberty, but three years and three months after he was arrested, political...

India could have bought Covid-19 vaccines within its Rs 35,000 crore budget, if the Centre had negotiated with manufacturers. Now, with base prices fixed, India may need Rs 60,000 crore, but this,...

Chief Justice N V Ramana retires on 26 August 2022, delivering during his tenure about 29 lectures on what needed to be done to preserve the rule of law and the Constitution. Yet, as our analysis...

Hindu extremists have organised 12 events over 24 months in four states calling for genocide of Muslims, attacks on Christians and insurrection against the government. As more events are planned, we...

As his phone calls to family from prison grow more delirious and disjointed, Varavara Rao’s family demands immediate medical attention for the 79-year-old, incarcerated for 22 months without trial

Mohammed Zubair—who brought global attention to the abuse of Islam’s Prophet by a now-suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson—faces five criminal cases, the latest for referring to three Hindu...