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Recent youth-led protests in New Delhi and other cities in India have fuelled allegations that they are connected to unrest in France and elsewhere in Europe, with an influential Hindu nationalist organisation warning of foreign forces seeking to destabilise societies. While analysts caution against concluding that foreign interference played a role in demonstrations in India, they say protesters in Europe and India share similar concerns, reflecting their mounting anger that education and hard...

The exercise comes at a time when retired employees are staging protests for timely payment of retirement benefits

Indian farmers who helped force Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a rare policy retreat four years ago are set to join nationwide protests against a contentious overhaul of voter rolls on Friday, widening a movement challenging the country’s Election Commission.

A 27-year-old Indian developer has created a satirical video game inspired by the Cockroach Party-led protests.

The BJP, citing a media report, alleged links between French and Delhi protests, and accused the Congress of a ‘regime change plot

The INDIA bloc leaders were to brainstorm on charting out the roadmap of protests, review the preparations for the November 1 rally and discuss ways to corner the government over the 'vote chori' issue

After spending seven days in jail, Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka have been released following an order by a Special Executive Magistrate court in Delhi. The two leaders were detained after the October 13 protest at Jantar Mantar and had been held in judicial custody while police sought preventive action against them. The court eventually ordered their release after they submitted undertakings promising not to organise protests at Jantar Mantar while the site remains denotified and not to disturb public peace.

Deputy Secretary Barkha Tamrakar told the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee that India opposes turning “unverified allegations” into a negative characterisation, amid concerns raised by UN experts over Delhi’s youth-led protests

The faction will have a nominee in the board, says Minister Samsudheen

The extension of the custody of the CJP activists comes amid a crackdown on near daily protests against the government.

The AISA student leader, now a prominent face of the youth protests, calls for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s impeachment and a halt to the SIR

Two jailed leaders of India’s Cockroach Janta Party are expected to be released Sunday, according to its legal head, as police barricades and a heavy security presence underscore continuing tensions in New Delhi over a contentious voter-roll revision.

Student activist Neha Bora, a prominent face of the protests, ‌who was detained on Friday as she tried to reach central Delhi with dozens of supporters, was released on Saturday.

The march, demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, will be inaugurated by Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan; leaders of the Communist Party of India and the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) will also participate in the protest

Responding to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's accusation that the opposition was seeking a regime change along the lines of Bangladesh and using the energy of youth to spread "anarchy", Kunal Ghosh said

Despite ⁠tens of thousands of security personnel deployed to stop them, youth protesters in India scaled barricades last ⁠week, chanted anti-government slogans and scuffled with police officers trying to drag them away. “Long live the revolution,” shouted one young man before police bundled him into a bus. Street protests in India this year are likely to be higher than at any time in the past decade, the independent Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project has said, as dissent mounts...

Reminding the Chief Minister that even schoolchildren were taking to the streets to voice their concerns in the State, Mr. Mahant wrote that such developments were a cause for concern not only for the government but for the entire State 

In India, the Cockroach movement felt the crushing boot of the state this week. Thousands of Gen Z protesters were rounded up and detained in sports stadiums and community halls turned into makeshift detention centres, while the movement’s founder, Abhijeet Dipke, was arrested on arrival. A mass demonstration over alleged voter fraud was effectively crushed before it could begin.And Abdijeet has been detained again todayNarendra Modi’s government says the measures were necessary to protect civilians in the capital. But he now faces accusations of choosing repression over democracy, with the UN Human Rights Office urging authorities to respect the right to peaceful assembly.    It’s been a week of blame games and accusations of betrayal in Ukraine with President Zelensky speaking of his personal hurt at President Trump’s decision to make a diesel deal with the Kremlin ahead of the US Mid term elections calling it “weak”, suggesting Trump had chosen, “the other side”. Trump meanwhile made clear he wants Zelensky replaced, and warned him against striking Russian refineries AND announced an energy ceasefire, declaring it to have been agreed by both sides but which went nowhere. President Zelensky continued to search for solidarity and a solution in Europe.   It’s been a week of blame games and accusations of betrayal in Ukraine with President Zelensky speaking of his personal hurt at President Trump’s decision to make a diesel deal with the Kremlin ahead of the US Mid term elections calling it “weak”, suggesting Trump had chosen, “the other side”. Trump meanwhile made clear he wants Zelensky replaced, and warned him against striking Russian refineries AND announced an energy ceasefire, declaring it to have been agreed by both sides but which went nowhere. President Zelensky continued to search for solidarity and a solution in Europe.    Gavin Lee is joined this week by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, John Sweeney, Victor Mallet and Suhasini Raj.

The JD(S) leader was reacting to Home Minister’s purported statement that the Congress and the CJP were alike and that no legal action would be taken against CJP activists, irrespective of the disturbances they caused.

The top court had directed that no coercive action be taken against a woman journalist, against whom a case has been filed by a Delhi Police officer alleging casteist remarks and public humiliation against him during a protest near the Jantar Mantar

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has extended support to the ongoing protests against the SIR and ECI, and equated the SIR to President Trump’s plans for American elections

?? On October 10, New Delhi faced a near-lockdown situation following a call for protests by Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party. Authorities imposed a 24-hour internet blackout, but protesters found ways around it.

The BJP MLC says that Congress leaders should resign from govts they are heading in a few States before protesting against the CEC

Extraordinary restrictions have been imposed in Delhi to prevent people from joining protests demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, CJP leader Abhijeet Dipke said

India’s Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge Thursday to the country’s contentious voter-roll revision, as opposition parties seek to halt the exercise and scrutinize the conduct of the top election official following days of protests and mass detentions.

Detainees demand independent inquiry into police action, preservation of CCTV footage and return of their phones and other belongings

It all started as a bit of online satire by a few young people fed up by corruption. Clearly though, the Cockroach movement's no longer a laughing matter for India’s government which has shut transport and blocked rallying points in the capital to quell the momentum of youth-led mobilization that's already down the education minister over rampant school exam cheating and is now spearheading the protests against the culling of names from voter rolls, with the electoral commission chief accused of bias. 

Protests in Delhi’s outskirts will be far from the earshot of ordinary citizens and the corridors of power, diminishing their impact, plea says; notes that no SOPs have been laid out for alternative venues