Anger over abnormally high electricity bills has spread across Tripura, with consumers staging protests, gheraoing electricity offices and blocking the Assam-Agartala national highway at several places on August 7. Consumers alleged that repeated tariff hikes and the introduction of smart meters have placed an additional financial burden on ordinary households. Protests were reported from Manu Ghat, Gandatwisa, Kumarghat, Bishalgarh and other areas, with demonstrators demanding correction and withdrawal of inflated bills.

THE ecology of Assam is characterised by a large network of rivers and tributaries originating from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, and the neighbouring country of Bhutan, which join the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers to form a highly dynamic and complex river system. The Brahmaputra and its tributaries, together with the Barak river system, inundate large areas of the plains of Assam almost every year during the monsoon.

The book launch of Prof R Ramaswamy’s recent biography of D D Kosambi (DDK) was held on July 31, 2026, at Goa, DDK’s birthplace, in a well-attended function organised jointly by the Goa University and the India International Centre, Goa. This writer was a discussant along with Prof. Parag Parobo and scholar Kaustubh Naik. The book, titled ‘DDK – One Life, Many Worlds’ is a masterpiece of research into many of the many worlds of DDK.

BARELY two weeks after relentless GenZ student protests shook the union government and forced the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the working class across West Bengal delivered an unequivocal message on Monday, August 10 – democratic resistance in India has entered a decisive counter-offensive phase.

ON July 10, 2026, the Government of Maharashtra finally announced the withdrawal of two restrictive conditions that had been imposed on the 2026 Farm Loan Waiver Scheme declared a month earlier on June 2. This marked a major victory for the farmers' movement in the state. It was the third major farm loan waiver wrested by the farmers of Maharashtra during the last one decade, from 2017 to 2026.