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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Memory is a powerful thing. Inspiration is tenacious like weeds. To be Mohammad Zubair is to be on the side of truth and civility.
Editor's note: I feel both debilitatingly paralyzed as well as flushed with inspiration as I begin to type this month’s newsletter. I have only Mohammed Zubair on my mind. The 39-year-old Bengaluru resident and co-founder of India’s top fact-checking website Alt News has been relentless at using his digital forensics skills to debunk unscientific myths and disinformation about current news, religion and caste. He has half a million followers on Twitter. His tweets, targeting fake news and setting the record straight with facts, receive thousands of retweets. Zubair hasn’t tweeted for nearly three weeks now. He was summoned by the Delhi police in mid-June for a case in which he had been granted anticipatory bail. In Delhi, he was arrested on a flimsy case involving a tweet from four years ago, and is being shuttled continuously between police stations in small towns of Uttar Pradesh and courts where he is denied bail. He is now spending his third week in prison. Yet, it is impossible to think of the incarceration of Zubair as a standalone case. Reflecting on the extraordinary injustice and …
Memory is a powerful thing. Inspiration is tenacious like weeds. To be Mohammad Zubair is to be on the side of truth and civility.
Editor's note: I feel both debilitatingly paralyzed as well as flushed with inspiration as I begin to type this month’s newsletter. I have only Mohammed Zubair on my mind. The 39-year-old Bengaluru resident and co-founder of India’s top fact-checking website Alt News has been relentless at using his digital forensics skills to debunk unscientific myths and disinformation about current news, religion and caste. He has half a million followers on Twitter. His tweets, targeting fake news and setting the record straight with facts, receive thousands of retweets. Zubair hasn’t tweeted for nearly three weeks now. He was summoned by the Delhi police in mid-June for a case in which he had been granted anticipatory bail. In Delhi, he was arrested on a flimsy case involving a tweet from four years ago, and is being shuttled continuously between police stations in small towns of Uttar Pradesh and courts where he is denied bail. He is now spending his third week in prison. Yet, it is impossible to think of the incarceration of Zubair as a standalone case. Reflecting on the extraordinary injustice and …
The Kanjurmarg landfill, operated by Antony Waste Handling Cell Ltd., is safe from the axe for now. But its fate remains a major source of worry for the company's shareholders and the city's residents alike.
The apex court’s quashing of its over $4 bn relief request did little to dim the telco’s stellar all-round show in FY25 or the market’s love for the stock.
The Supreme Court set aside a Delhi High Court ruling that asked Wikipedia to remove an article about court proceedings in a case filed by ANI.
The Kanjurmarg landfill, operated by Antony Waste Handling Cell Ltd., is safe from the axe for now. But its fate remains a major source of worry for the company's shareholders and the city's residents alike.
The apex court’s quashing of its over $4 bn relief request did little to dim the telco’s stellar all-round show in FY25 or the market’s love for the stock.
The Supreme Court set aside a Delhi High Court ruling that asked Wikipedia to remove an article about court proceedings in a case filed by ANI.
