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August 11, 2026: A decade plus of students challenging a regime that seeks to control thought & ideas
The pushback to the Modi 1.0 regime came within months of it being sworn into office, and it emerged from the student of the Central University, Hyderabad & JNU among others, that had been creations of independent India’s intellectual and organisational fashioning; while Gen Z’s 2026 protests are a breath of fresh air to the battle weary, India’s students in universities have never been silent
Surat ban beaten by locals, forcibly evicted from rented home on suspicion of Covid-19
Sanjay Sharma had lost his job at a catering firm in Surat and moved in with his friends as he couldn’t afford to pay rent at his prior residence
Police fail to file chargesheet, Amulya Leona gets bail
She was thrown in jail for shouting allegedly pro-Pakistan slogans at a rally, earlier this year
The Doctor is not needed. Please be seated
The political, economic, social decisions taken during the pandemic have also exposed other chronic illnesses – those of monumental inequity and inequality, those of crumbling human rights in the face of brutal oppression, those of apathy and arrogance, those of utter humiliation and helplessness! Should we wait for another pandemic to be competent Social and Political Doctors?
Shortages of doctors, blood as healthcare crisis grows in Gujarat
With nurses protesting and fatality rate going up, Covid's grip tightens around the state
Jharkhand’s surrendered Naxals get gov’t grants
While two former naxals got Rs. 4 lakh each, 11 others got Rs. 2 lakh each
Defy, resist, combat: Farmers’ unions call for massive mobilisation
All India Kisan Sabha, All India Agricultural Workers’ Union and Centre of Indian Trade Unions will lead a nationwide mass movement on August 9
Assam police sends anti-CAA protestors from KMSS to home quarantine
The police alleged that the violators had violated lockdown norms
46 farmers protesting land grab and damage to crops detained in Gujarat
The farmers were protesting the compensation offered to them for the Vadodara Mumbai Expressway
Home quarantine patients to be tracked using mobile data?
The government has also asked for the development of a GPS wrist watch for violators of home quarantine
Working without payment since lockdown, resident doctors threaten to resign en masse
Kasturba Hospital, started in 1905, is now one of the largest of its kind in the country, it is under the Bharatiya Janata Party-led North Delhi Municipal Corporation
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