Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to raise a voice against alleged irregularities in the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision on Sunday. Police gave permission for a rally between 10am and 5pm, provided there were no acts of violence or inflammatory speeches. The demonstration includes the Indian National Congress, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, and other […]
A security lockdown aimed at protesters has affected daily commuters as the agitation on 10 October stretched into a fourth day of disruption in New Delhi. Police and paramilitary forces locked down much of the north city around 57 metro stations and 240 trains to New Delhi and Nizamuddin stations were cancelled. Mobile internet was […]
By Saturday mid-morning, the roads around Jantar Mantar, the capital’s traditional protest ground, were a maze of barricades, buses and uniforms. The rally was meant to be loud. The state’s answer was to leave nothing for it to stand on. The protest, called by India’s youth-led Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh […]
Delhi woke up on Saturday to a capital closed off to its own protesters, with railways cancelling all trains to and from New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station between 4 am and 2 pm, ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party’s planned protest. “It is a fact that all trains will remain cancelled from New […]
The Opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained after the protest over allegations of vote chori during the Special Intensive Revision exercise here on October 7 in central Delhi. The opposition demands Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation alleging vote chori this agitation against the SIR is part of the opposition’s […]
Delhi has seen this week how quickly a protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar can turn tense. On Saturday, October 10, two separate calls to march on Jantar Mantar will test how the capital handles dissent. First, the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke announced the Delhi march after thousands gathered at Mumbai’s […]
Women students marched at midnight on a Tuesday in the “Reclaim the Night” campaign organised by Students’ Federation of India (SFI), reacting to the alleged gangrape of a 16-year-old girl on a bus in Greater Noida. Delhi University’s women have long fought for safety without waiting for permission. Their latest protest began in the dark […]
For many young women in the National Capital, the daily journey to college is planned around long stretches, crowded bus stops and the availability of a phone within easy reach, yet caution persists even under a woman chief minister whose government has repeatedly described safety as a priority. “My administration has made women’s safety not […]
A two-decade milestone since its founding, leaders from eleven nations gathered in New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit. What began in 2006 as an informal club of four large emerging economies has become something far bigger and more complicated. In 2001, economist Jim O’Neill proposed a plan that names Brazil, Russia, India, and […]
Over the weekend, BRICS nations agreed to expand trade and payments settled in local currencies. Analysts are calling it another step toward de-dollarisation as the bloc tries to counter an assertive United States under President Donald Trump. BRICS countries agreed on Saturday to expand trade and payments in local currencies, making another step towards de-dollarisation […]
