Protesters in India are celebrating the resignation of the country’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Tens of thousands of youth had demonstrated in Delhi, demanding Pradhan’s resignation following exam leaks and testing irregularities. Now that Pradhan has resigned, the protests organized by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) have been cancelled. The CJP is a national movement
An apparent effort by the Indian government to remove GitHub repositories for Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth-powered offline messaging app, has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open source software because of how it works. The issue with Bitchat came to light after Dorsey posted on X on Friday what he said was a
India’s paid music streaming subscriber base could grow to between 28 million and 30 million by 2028, up from an estimated 14 million in December 2025, according to the EY and Indian Music Industry (IMI) report “How You Listen, Stream and Pay for Music in India,” released in Mumbai on Friday. The report is based
“There is deep dissatisfaction and economic distress, which has translated into a lack of hope about the future,” Aiyar says. “This could reflect a growing exhaustion of a government that has been in power for a long time. Its failure to deliver on the promises on which it built its reputation may have reached a
On Monday, Chhavi (name changed), 20, stopped outside a Delhi metro station on his way to what would become one of the largest anti-government demonstrations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in the Indian capital in recent years. She balanced her phone against a railing, stepped back and filmed a quick “fit check” — a
“Article 370,” starring Yami Gautam, won the best feature film award at the 72nd Indian National Film Awards, announced Saturday in New Delhi by the country’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Gautam also bagged the best actress award for her role in the film, a political drama focusing on the abrogation of Article 370 in