E20 Janta Party demands petrol choice and Gadkari exit
A new online pressure group has launched a campaign demanding unblended petrol at ordinary fuel stations and the resignation of Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, widening the public backlash against the nationwide E20...
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Nilekani to lead overhaul of examination system
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a high-powered task force led by technology...
in Happening Now Jul 27 ·Justice Bhuyan warns dissent space is shrinking
Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has warned that the space available for peaceful...
in Happening Now Jul 27 ·CJP alleges police pressure on volunteer’s family
The Cockroach Janata Party has accused Uttar Pradesh Police of targeting the family...
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By Nitya Chakraborty Youth and student protestors led by the less than three month old Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) have won in their battle with the Narendra Modi led government over the resignation of the education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the other demands for examination reforms. With the government...
Deepening Iran-Yemen Crisis May Badly Hit India’s Foreign Trade
By Nantoo Banerjee With Yemeni Houthis declaring a maritime embargo and naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, India’s bid to mitigate energy and supply chain shocks, following structural disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, by rapidly diversifying trade corridors and maritime protocols faces a big challenge. At a stake is...
Demand For Home Minister’s Accountability Disrupts Parliament
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After getting the first demand fulfilled – that is sacking of the Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan – the Opposition today demanded for Union Home Minister’s accountability on brutality unleashed on students during Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP’s) March on Parliament on July 20. It...
India Is The Pharmacy Of The World, Why Are People Paying So Much For Medicines?
By R. Suryamurthy India’s pharmaceutical industry wears two faces. One is celebrated across the world: the country manufactures nearly one in every five generic medicines consumed globally, supplies affordable drugs to more than 200 countries, dominates vaccine production, and has earned the enviable title of “the pharmacy of the...
Trump’s Continuing Changes In Tariff Rates Creating Confusion In Global Trade
By Asad Mirza In recent times America’s trade policy has become a rolling emergency. Though struck down by the Supreme Court, Trump’s tariffs have returned through new legal loopholes, hitting 60 nations under a “forced labour” pretext. The revenue keeps flowing, the chaos keeps compounding – and the world,...
CJP Protest Movement Is Over – It Is The Task Of Centre Now To Implement Its Assurances
By Kalyani Shankar The youth and students protests led by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar finally achieved their big win on Saturday after the Narendra Modi Government accepted their demands including the resignation of the education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Within 24 hours, PM announced the setting up...
Why Did An Agitation For Question Paper Leak Spread Like Wild Fire?
By Anjan Roy How can an agitation for a fair examination system ring such a bell across the country and humble a proud government? To understand I recall today what Dr Manmohan Singh observed in his typical monotonous way after presenting his first budget in 1991-92. After the budget...
Pradhan Has Become The Face Of A System Without Credibility
By K Raveendran Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has finally resigned, owning responsibility for the NEET fiasco. There could not have been another honourable exit for the minister and the Modi government from the current situation. There is no persuasive basis for portraying the demand for Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as...
Dharmendra Pradhan Resigns But The CJP’s Protests On Broader Issues Continuing
By T N Ashok India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan tendered his resignation to the Prime Minister on Saturday afternoon after 36 days of nationwide student-led protests triggered by irregularities and paper leaks in the NEET-UG examination. The students leaders said they would decide on the future of their agitation...
PM’s Assurance On Fast-Track Courts Is No Solution To The Ills Of The System
By R. Suryamurthy Every major scandal in India now follows an almost ritualistic sequence. A tragedy unfolds. Public outrage erupts. Television studios demand accountability. Governments promise “strict action.” Investigative agencies conduct high-profile arrests. And then comes the political guarantee that has become New Delhi’s preferred antidote to public anger:...
Workers And Farmers Of India To Intensify Their Protest Against Centre’s Policies
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Nation Convention of Workers and Farmers scheduled to be held on July 29 at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi, is set to decide to intensify their protests against PM Narendra Modi led Union Government’s policies, which the workers and farmers allege to be anti-worker,...
Nepal Chief Justice’s Current Visit To India Assumes Big Significance
By Sushovan Patnaik On May 20, 2026, in the Singha Durbar complex in Kathmandu, Dr. Manoj Sharma, Nepal’s current Chief Justice, currently on a visit to India through an invitation from Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’) Surya Kant, was seated before a fifteen member Parliamentary Hearing Committee. The Committee,...
Israel Can No Longer Take The U.S. Administration For Granted
By Ramzy Baroud LONDON: Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries. The first incident occurred on July 8 when US Congressman Ro Khanna (Democrat-California) and his delegation were detained by armed,...
Narendra Modi Has A Golden Opportunity To Lead Global South At BRICS Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty India is hosting the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 12 and 13 this year which carries unusual significance in the present changing landscape of the geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific as also in other parts of the world. Most importantly, Chinese President Xi Jinping...
Opposition Members In Parliament Firm On Sacking Of Education Minister
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Parliament of India has been at a halt for last five days without transacting its business ever since July 20, when the Monsoon Session had begun. Thus, the first week of the Monsoon Session of the Parliament has been washed out due to opposition protest...
Protest Movement Of CJP Has Spread In All Parts Of The World
By T N Ashok What began as an online satire has transformed into the most significant student-led movement India has witnessed in more than a decade. The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), born out of memes, mockery and frustration over repeated examination paper leaks, has evolved into a nationwide campaign...
CPI Calls For Massive Rally Against Narendra Modi Govt On September 1
By Krishna Jha Communist Party of India has issued countywide call to stage a massive demonstration at Ramleela grounds on September first this year against the indifferent attitude of the ruling NDA government towards people’s growing miseries. While hunger graph shows the contradiction that India is one of the...
Bengal’s Film Icon Uttam Kumar Is Remembered Even 46 Years After His Death
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: July is the cruellest month for film lovers in Bengal. Many away from the state mourn this day as their favourite matinee idol Uttam Kumar journeyed to the land of sleep on July 24, 1980. He had become a screen icon portraying some of the...
