A RECENT tripartite discussion on the implementation and future of the Jharkhand Gig Workers Act brought to the surface a fundamental question: who should regulate the rapidly expanding gig economy, and in whose interests should that regulation operate?

THE BJP-ABVP-led attack on Jadavpur University on August 19-20 has developed into a wider confrontation over democratic space in educational institutions across West Bengal. What began with a general body meeting of engineering students on the evening of August 19 turned into a night of violence inside the university, followed by a large mobilization the next day, damage to the university’s historic emblem, and continuing protests by students, teachers, and alumni.

ON 12 August 2026, India marks 90 years of the organised student movement. This is not merely the 90th anniversary of the formation of a student organisation; it is an occasion to recall the nine-decade-long journey of organised student consciousness and struggle in India. The foundation of the organised student movement was laid on 12 August 1936, when the first two-day All-India Conference of an organised student body began.

On August 24, a rally was organised in the Jogendranagar area adjoining Agartala city by electricity consumers who have been struggling under the burden of high electricity bills. Following this rally, the BJP organised another rally, during which its supporters carried out extensive vandalism at the local CPI(M) office, creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in the area. Local residents strongly condemned the vandalism at the CPI(M) office.

At the call of the 5,000-strong National Convention of Workers and Farmers organised jointly by the Central Trade Unions (CTU) and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on July 29, 2026, and the 1,200-strong SKM National Convention held a day earlier on July 28, both in Delhi, lakhs of workers and peasants across the country enthusiastically participated in the massive struggle on August 10, 2026, against the disastrous policies of the Modi-led RSS-BJP government. These actions commemorated the ‘Quit India’ movement.