INDIA RISES, REELS AND CELEBRATES AS A RESTLESS WORLD EDGES CLOSER TO WAR

India entered the first evening of August with dramatically contrasting images: a new international airport opening its doors in Andhra Pradesh, floodwaters continuing to ravage Assam, two Indian women standing victorious with Commonwealth Games gold medals, an old Himalayan trade route reopening after six years, and political tremors spreading through DelhiContinue Reading

JNN Late Night News: Victory, Fury, and a Nation That Refuses to Sleep

India woke up to one of the most dramatic political days in recent memory. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, celebrated by thousands of protesting students as a hard-earned victory, has quickly turned into the beginning of a much larger political battle rather than its conclusion. Politics, like unfinished homework, has an uncanny habit of multiplying overnight.Continue Reading

"Resign Dharmendra Pradhan or the Demand Will Reach You": CJP's Abhijeet Dipke Issues Direct Challenge

The battle over the NEET-UG paper leak and examination irregularities took an even sharper political turn on Thursday as Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder and funder Abhijeet Dipke delivered a fiery address at Jantar Mantar, directly urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accept the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. He warned that if the government continued to shield the minister, the growing anger of India’s youth would eventually be directed at the Prime Minister himself.Continue Reading

THE $40 BILLION CHALLENGE: Why Millions of Indian Farmers Fear They Could Be the Biggest Casualties of an India-US Trade Deal

As India edges closer to a landmark trade agreement with the United States, a storm is gathering far from the negotiating tables of diplomats and trade experts. Across villages, mandis, and dairy cooperatives, millions of Indian farmers are asking a simple but unsettling question:
Can the world’s largest democracy compete against the world’s most heavily subsidized agricultural superpower?Continue Reading