After the long wait, Shivakumar gets to govern
D.K. Shivakumar was sworn in as Karnataka chief minister at Lok Bhavan in Bengaluru on 3 June, taking the oath from Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot…
Category: India
The students won a minister. That is not the same as winning India.
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as Union Education Minister on 25 July after seven weeks of protest by a movement almost nobody in Delhi had heard…
Chained on a Punjab Dairy Farm, a Tamil Nadu Man Goes Home After 23 Years
Prakash left Coimbatore in 2003 after a family quarrel. Rescued in 2022 from a Punjab dairy farm where he was allegedly chained, he is…
India’s Education Minister Resigns as ‘Cockroach’ Movement Calls Off Protests
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday and the Cockroach Janta Party stood down, ending the most serious domestic challenge Modi has faced in twelve years.
India’s Student Protests: When a Demand for Fairness Became a Political Battlefield
A leaked national medical entrance paper forced some two million candidates to resit, turning student anger over exam integrity into a political fight.
Sonam Wangchuk Ends 26-Day Hunger Strike Over India’s Exam Paper Leaks
The 59-year-old activist ended his fast after talks with two federal ministers. Two days later the education minister resigned and the protest movement stood…