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Indian Youth Congress party workers hold placards of Indias Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan during a protest over the alleged NEET exam irregularities in Mumbai on June 2, 2026. - Indranil Mukherjee, AFP

Indian education minister resigns after mass protests over exam paper leaks

Jul 25, 2026 | India

Indian ?Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday he had resigned, handing a major victory to young protest ...

Abhijeet Dipke, head of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), holds the hand of Sonam Wangchuk, an Indian education reformer, who has been on hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India, on July 18, 2026. - Bhawika Chhabra, Reuters

Indian activist ends 26-day hunger strike, though student protests continue

Jul 24, 2026 | India

Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk ended a 26-day hunger strike on Friday over leaked medical school entrance exam papers th ...

Protesters at a demonstration demanding educational reforms as part of the Cockroach Janta Partys ongoing protest movement in Mumbai, India, on July 22, 2026. - Rafiq Maqbool, AP

Modi vows 'stringent punishment' for exam fraud fuelling India's youth-led 'Cock...

Jul 23, 2026 | India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed on Thursday stringent punishment for those involved in exam fraud that has f ...

Protesters at a demonstration demanding educational reforms as part of the Cockroach Janta Partys ongoing protest movement in Mumbai, India, on July 22, 2026. - Rafiq Maqbool, AP

Modi vows 'stringent punishment' for exam fraud fuelling India's youth-led 'Cock...

Jul 23, 2026 | India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed on Thursday stringent punishment for those involved in exam fraud that has f ...

Activists and supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party protest to demand the resignation of Indias Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. - Manan Vatsyayana, AFP

Indian police baton-charge 'Cockroach Party' protesters marching to parliament

Jul 20, 2026 | India

India's riot police baton-charged protesters in New Delhi as they tried to march to parliament on Monday ...

A Cockroach Janta Party supporter at a protest in Mumbai, July 19, 2026, to demand the resignation of Indias education minister. - Rafiq Maqbool, AP

India bans march on parliament by ‘Cockroach’ activists, risking a standoff

Jul 20, 2026 | India

Police in India have denied permission for a march on parliament by supporters of the youth-led Cockroach movement on ...

Screenshot of a video showing the Indian army erecting a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj near the Line of Control that separates India and Pakistan on March 5, 2026. - Instagram/ anilchoudhari2909

India's Hindu nationalists take 17th-century king as new anti-Muslim symbol

Jul 10, 2026 | India

A few hundred men paraded on motorcycles through the streets of Sangareddy, in the southern Indian state of Telangana, o ...

Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi talks to President Donald Trump before the plenary session at the G7 summit, June 16, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France. - Julia Demaree Nikhinson, AFP

SOS messages from Mideast seas plunge India-US ties into choppy waters

Jun 16, 2026 | India

The panic was audible in the sailor's SOS message shortly after a US missile hit a tanker off the coast of Oman. We ...

The icon for the instant messaging Telegram app is seen on a smartphone, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. - Matt Slocum, AP

India blocks Telegram over 'medical entrance exam fraud' concerns

Jun 16, 2026 | India

India has blocked the Telegram messaging app until June 22, saying the platform has been used to defraud candidates ta ...

An AI-generated illustration shows the parody Cockroach Janta Party’s logo. - AI-generated image/ Cockroach Janta Party

Iran war drives India’s cockroaches out, but can Modi crush them?

May 28, 2026 | India

Barely three weeks after he launched a parody political movement that took India by storm, Abhijeet Dipke is being hunte ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to Indian officials before boarding his plane to New Delhi at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, India, May 23, 2026. - Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Reuters

Rubio in India to bolser ties after Trump's China visit

May 23, 2026 | India

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday opened a visit to India that will include talks with Prime Minister Narend ...

A woman cries as Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola from a health centre in Rwampara, Congo, May 20, 2026. - Moses Sawasawa, AP

India-Africa summit postponed due to Ebola outbreak, first case confirmed in Sou...

May 22, 2026 | India

The 2026 India-Africa Forum Summit, scheduled for May 28 to 31, was postponed due to the evolving health situation in p ...

India, which is home to around 70 percent of the worlds tiger population, has long played a leading role in big cat conservation. By Punit PARANJPE (AFP)

India postpones big cat summit over Ebola outbreak

May 21, 2026 | India

India said Thursday it would reschedule next month's summit on the conservation of big cat species to ensure the partici ...

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