CJP secures wider safeguards for protest participants
Cockroach Janta Party leaders said government representatives had renewed assurances that protesters would be protected from prosecution, following late-night talks aimed at preventing a fresh round of demonstrations. The youth-led movement said officials shared copies...
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Fixing accountability for brutality on peacefully protesting students across the country has now clearly emerged as the next big issue, with the opposition disrupting the proceedings of the Parliament of India for the 7th day (July 28, 2026) of the Monsoon session demanding accountability from...
What The Jantar Mantar Protests Of New Generation Taught People Like Us
By Indira Jaising, Pratik Patnaik ‘kaise akash mein surakh nahin ho sakta, ek patthar to tabiyat se uchhalo yaaro’ – Dushyant Kumar They Lifted A Book and made a hole in the sky. Remember the young woman in Mumbai who stood with her arms flung wide and brought a...
India Must Strongly React To Fresh Imposition Of 10 Per Cent Tariff By U.S. On Exports
By R. Suryamurthy The United States has every sovereign right to shape its trade policy. It has every right to combat forced labour in global supply chains. Few countries, including India, would dispute the moral imperative of eliminating forced labour from international commerce. What deserves far greater scrutiny, however,...
NSS, Church Oppose Kerala Govt’s Move On Teachers’ Appointments
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no let-up in the V. D. Satheesan-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government’s penchant for taking controversial decisions. The latest controversy the Government has created is on the appointment, through employment exchange, to temporary teaching vacancies in aided schools. Not surprisingly, community organisations have...
Great Saxophone Player Dick Parry’s Demise Is A Big Loss To The Rock Music World
By Tirthankar Mitra Performances of Dick Parry, the brilliant saxophone player appears to have somewhat low key response for him. His sax lines were brilliantly crafted. Millions loved it. But they did not know his name. Yet it became one of the most recognizable sounds in rock music history....
Climate Change Is An Emergency – And The Implications Are Radical
By Ben Chacko LONDON: France holds emergency meetings on the evacuation of Bordeaux, a city of a million, as wildfires sweep ever closer. In Spain families are fleeing the capital, Madrid. The reality of the climate emergency has come to Europe. There were plenty of warning signs — more...
Opposition Should Not Gloat Over CJP Win Over Modi, It Is A Temporary Retreat For PM
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,...
