The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) marched to the ministry of education on June 19, 2026, demanding the immediate resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The protest march announced at a press meet on June 10 was interrupted by the Delhi Police and paramilitary forces near Mata Sundari College. More than 500 students from various states, including Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, and from campuses across Delhi, gathered at HKS Surjeet Bhawan, prior to the march.

THE news of the loot of donations from Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir may have come as a shock to innocent devotees. But what has happened is only a continuation of what had been taking place in the name of the Ram Mandir from the very beginning — while all of it was kept out of the public eye amid the deafening frenzy of religious mobilisation. To borrow the famous words of Abraham Lincoln, this can be described as the story of a robbery committed by hooligans who had been appointed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “his own boys” in the temple trust.

THE revised Keralam budget presented by the UDF Chief Minister, VD Satheeshan, is politically retrograde, empty in economic arithmetic, and scandalous, with two tales of corruption. Let us begin with the two scandals that broke out while the budget was being presented and debated in the Assembly.

THE 4th conference of the Telangana Agricultural Workers Union (TAWU) was held with great enthusiasm in Mahabubnagar from January 20 to 22. Although Mahabubnagar is not among the stronger districts of the organisation, a massive rally and public meeting, attended by thousands of agricultural workers, rural poor and women, reflected the growing fighting spirit of the rural masses. 

THOUSANDS of tobacco farmers from across Prakasam district brought Ongole to a virtual standstill on Friday, June 19, as they staged one of the largest protests by tobacco growers in South India. Organised under the banner of various farmers’ unions with support from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, Left parties, CITU, and agricultural workers’ organisations, the rally saw hundreds of tractors and nearly 1,000 motorcycles choke the city’s major roads for several hours.