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AT News Assamese Serial on Syncretic Culture Banned for 60 Days After Rightist Groups Cry 'Love Jihad' 'Begum Jaan' is about a Hindu woman being rescued by a Muslim man. 21/09/2020 - 6:53pm

AT News ‘I Was Slapped, Bullied By Police For A Story On Cyberbullying’ 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 day by police of the cyber wing, slapped twice and intimidated over five hours. His account AUQIB … 21/09/2020 - 6:46pm

AT News Inside Facebook’s BJP bond: Key Tie-ups With Modi Govt, Its Special Interests After revelations that a senior executive prevented Facebook from taking down hate-speech linked to India’s ruling party, our investigation reveals further partisan action in favour of BJP-allied customers and widening commercial ties with the government. KUNAL PUROHIT Mumbai: Facebook is being … 27/08/2020 - 10:16am

AT News Starcrossed Stargazers: Pinjra Tod’s Devangana Kalita And Natasha Narwal Star-gazers. Agitators. Poetry lovers. Natasha Narwal & Devangana Kalita from students collective PinjraTod were arrested after the Delhi riots and now face charges under 33 sections of the law, including sedition, murder and terrorism. Given bail but jailed again, they have been in prison witho… 06/08/2020 - 8:51am

AT News Attempt to Cap Gas Well at Baghjan Fails, OIL Says Reasons Being Examined: OIL Well number 5 at Baghjan has been spewing gas uncontrollably for the last 66 days since May 27 and it caught fire on June 9, killing two of OIL's firefighters at the site. 02/08/2020 - 1:12pm

AT News Baghjan gas well blowout destroyed 60-70 hectares of land, ecology: Report | Deccan Herald The oil spill due to the blowout in OIL's gas well at Baghjan in Assam's Tinsukia district destroyed about 60-70 hectares of biodiversity-rich land, which is one of the important refuges for several endangered and range-restricted species.  This was stated in a report by Dehradun-based Wildlife I… 02/08/2020 - 1:08pm

AT News Why Hemant Soren Is Fighting Modi’s Coal Auctions In Supreme Court 41 coal auctions were cleared by New Delhi during the pandemic, most in forest & tribal areas. Chief Minister Hemant Soren of Jharkhand, a majority tribal state, talks to us about mining, migrant workers and hunger in his villages. CHITRANGADA CHOUDHURY New Delhi: Hemant Soren, the 44-year-old le… 29/07/2020 - 8:59pm

AT News Lockdown Spurs Manipur Govt's War On Free Speech A state government uses India’s 150-year-old sedition law and a law to address natural disasters to curb even the mildest of online criticism about its handling of the Covid-19 outbreak. How social-media posts are leading to time in jail, with 13 cases filed just in April MAKEPEACE SITLHOU Imphal… 29/07/2020 - 8:59pm

AT News Punjab Gurdwara Sermons Against Dalits Are Illegal Panchayat orders in Punjab, broadcast from loudspeakers of gurudwaras during the recent paddy-sowing season, warned upper-caste Jat Sikh landowners of fines, social boycotts if they paid more than a fixed rate to and gave food to mostly Dalit landless agricultural labour. ARJUN SHARMA/101 REPORTE… 26/07/2020 - 10:17am

AT News CAA: Home Ministry Misses Deadline to Finalise Rules, Implementation Likely to be Delayed News reports have it that the stipulated six-month period to finalise rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act is over. The amendment saw widespread protests across the country. 19/07/2020 - 12:01am

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