Time journal: Alt News & Mander’s outfit amongst favourites for Nobel Peace Prize    

Express News Service

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Two days earlier than the Nobel Peace Prize winners are declared, Time journal on Wednesday described as a “favourite” for the worldwide award India’s fact-checking web site Alt News, Pratik Sinha, considered one of whose co-founders was arrested in June for a tweet that they had posted in 2018.

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), which releases an annual shortlist for the Peace Prize based mostly on its analysis of peaceable relations between states, teams and other people, has picked Indian social activist Harsh Mander and his organisation Karwan-e-Mohabbat. Time named Mander and Karwan-e-Mohabbat as “other contenders” for the Peace Prize.

Pointing out that “making a significant contribution to fighting religious extremism and promoting interreligious dialogue is…a compelling rationale for being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize,” PRIO mentioned that Mander “is a worthy recipient of such a prize” together with Karwan-e-Mohabbat which was launched in 2017.

Sinha and Zubair additionally discovered point out in PRIO director Henrik Urdal’s shortlist the place they’re described as “worthy candidates for a prize focused on combating religious extremism and intolerance in India”.Time mentioned in its report that Alt News co-founders Pratik Sinha and Mohammad Zubair “have relentlessly been battling misinformation in India, where Hindu nationalist BJP party has been accused of frequently stoking discrimination against Muslims. Sinha and Zubair have methodically debunked rumours and fake news circulating on social media and called out hate speech”.

Speaking to this newspaper, Sinha expressed shock over the information. “We have to wait for Friday when the winners will be declared,” Sinha mentioned, including that they have been by no means approached by anybody. “The PRIO may have picked us because of our work (on fact checking fake news) on digital media. They probably have representatives in almost all countries,” Sinha added.

PRIO conducts analysis on the situations for peaceable relations between states, teams and other people. Each yr, the director of the institute presents his shortlist for the Nobel Peace Prize. The PRIO web site mentions that the “Neither the director, nor the institute he leads, have any form of association with the Nobel Institute or the Norwegian Nobel Committee.” Zubair (40) was arrested on June 27 by the particular cell, Delhi Police for a 2018 tweet. As per their FIR, the tweet was “highly provocative and more than sufficient to incite feelings of hatred.” 

The Supreme Court on July 20 granted him interim bail in all of the six instances registered towards him by the Uttar Pradesh Police accusing him of wounding non secular sentiments by means of his tweets.

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Two days earlier than the Nobel Peace Prize winners are declared, Time journal on Wednesday described as a “favourite” for the worldwide award India’s fact-checking web site Alt News, Pratik Sinha, considered one of whose co-founders was arrested in June for a tweet that they had posted in 2018.

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), which releases an annual shortlist for the Peace Prize based mostly on its analysis of peaceable relations between states, teams and other people, has picked Indian social activist Harsh Mander and his organisation Karwan-e-Mohabbat. Time named Mander and Karwan-e-Mohabbat as “other contenders” for the Peace Prize.

Pointing out that “making a significant contribution to fighting religious extremism and promoting interreligious dialogue is…a compelling rationale for being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize,” PRIO mentioned that Mander “is a worthy recipient of such a prize” together with Karwan-e-Mohabbat which was launched in 2017.

Sinha and Zubair additionally discovered point out in PRIO director Henrik Urdal’s shortlist the place they’re described as “worthy candidates for a prize focused on combating religious extremism and intolerance in India”.Time mentioned in its report that Alt News co-founders Pratik Sinha and Mohammad Zubair “have relentlessly been battling misinformation in India, where Hindu nationalist BJP party has been accused of frequently stoking discrimination against Muslims. Sinha and Zubair have methodically debunked rumours and fake news circulating on social media and called out hate speech”.

Speaking to this newspaper, Sinha expressed shock over the information. “We have to wait for Friday when the winners will be declared,” Sinha mentioned, including that they have been by no means approached by anybody. “The PRIO may have picked us because of our work (on fact checking fake news) on digital media. They probably have representatives in almost all countries,” Sinha added.

PRIO conducts analysis on the situations for peaceable relations between states, teams and other people. Each yr, the director of the institute presents his shortlist for the Nobel Peace Prize. The PRIO web site mentions that the “Neither the director, nor the institute he leads, have any form of association with the Nobel Institute or the Norwegian Nobel Committee.” Zubair (40) was arrested on June 27 by the particular cell, Delhi Police for a 2018 tweet. As per their FIR, the tweet was “highly provocative and more than sufficient to incite feelings of hatred.” 

The Supreme Court on July 20 granted him interim bail in all of the six instances registered towards him by the Uttar Pradesh Police accusing him of wounding non secular sentiments by means of his tweets.