Delhi Police withdraws sedition case against Shehla Rashid
Delhi’s Patiala House court on February 27 allowed the plea by Delhi police to close a 2019 sedition case against former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Shehla Rashid. The…
Delhi Riots 2020: High Court adjourns Sharjeel Imam bail plea to April 24
The Delhi High Court has adjourned to April 24, 2025, the bail petition of former JNU scholar Sharjeel Imam, arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act over the larger conspiracy…
“India must take up the issue once again”
A little over a month into his second tenure, US President Donald Trump is making news by the minute, so to speak. Within hours of taking over he signed over…
Gagged & Tagged
By Dilip Bobb As the Supreme Court taken a worrying U-turn on its stand on free speech? In 2022, it ordered that Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair be given bail…
Lalu Yadav and Family in Legal Trouble Again: Political Timing Under Scrutiny
By Sanjay Raman Sinha In a move that surprised few, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court recently took cognizance of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) final charge sheet in the case.…
Silencing the Press: Trump’s War on Media and the Billionaires Who Bowed
By Kenneth Tiven Revenge and the systematic destruction of perceived enemies sit at the top of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda—and at the top of that enemies list is the…
Tale of Two Crimes
By Sujit Bhar Two recent sets of gruesome murders have shaken Kolkata’s collective conscience. The first occurred on August 8 last year, when a 31-year-old post-graduate trainee doctor was brutally…
The Global Cost Of America’s Media Surrender
By Inderjit Badhwar In a world increasingly dominated by the fusion of wealth and power, the assault on the American press documented by veteran journalist Kenneth Tiven is both chilling…