Supporters lighting candles to pay homage to students who Committed Suicide during the third day of Protest against Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan by Cockroach Janta Party, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on June 22, 2026 | Photo Credit: SHUBHOMOY SIKDAR The sustained protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) demanding accountability over paper leaks in … Read more
Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke speaks while holding a photo of 23-year-old NEET aspirant Ria, who allegedly died by suicide in Dehradun, during a hunger strike demanding action over alleged irregularities in examinations and seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on July 05, 2026. … Read more
Students at Alpha to Omega Learning Centre, a school for children with learning disabilities in Chennai | Photo Credit: PICHUMANI K The Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) 2025-26 report has raised concerns about Children With Special Needs (CWSN) enrolled in schools, whose numbers have remained stagnant over the past eight years despite initiatives … Read more
In India’s electoral landscape, byelections are routinely held when either Assembly or Lok Sabha seats become vacant and a general election in the State, in case of an Assembly seat, or Lok Sabha, in case of a Lok Sabha seat, is due only after six months of the seats falling vacant. While some of these … Read more
Even as issues around education have momentarily taken centre-stage amid the protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and activist Sonam Wangchuk in Delhi, the reports based on the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) for two years released together after inordinate delay by the Union Ministry of Education (MoE) earlier this month … Read more
(1) Spain chokes Messi and Argentina to lift second title Spain won their second World Cup on July 19 (Sunday) with Ferran Torres scoring the only goal of the match in the 106th-minute of the final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Argentina struggled to escape Spain’s suffocating press and looked instead for moments in … Read more
Spain players and coaches celebrate after the World Cup final soccer match between Spain and Argentina on July 19, 2026 | Photo Credit: YUKI IWAMURA Spain’s win over Argentina in the 2026 FIFA World Cup final might have read a modest 1-0, but the scoreline hid what was in plain sight throughout. Spain smothered the … Read more
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Workers Federation, affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress, stages a protest in Thrissur against the VB-G RAM G Bill. | Photo Credit: K.K. NAJEEB K.K. NAJEEB Government expenditure on welfare schemes, or social spending, remains intensely debated. While some critics call it a fiscal ‘burden’, others call it … Read more
People walk past banners inviting students to study in Canada and other places abroad at a market in Amritsar, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024 | Photo Credit: PRABHJOT GILL Indian students seem to be taking the biggest hit by the decision of Canada — their most preferred destination thus … Read more
Lamine Yamal of Spain runs with the ball during the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-final match between France and Spain at Dallas Stadium on July 14, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. | Photo Credit: DAVID RAMOS The stage is all set for the final battle of the longest-ever FIFA World Cup, spanning 39 days, at the … Read more