THE fast of the activist educationist Sonam Wangchuk has completed more than two weeks. Without accountability and sensitivity of the government, his life faces a serious risk. There is growing support and solidarity from various student groups and the broad democratic and secular sections of the society. The fast has achieved the objective of bringing to focus, the dire state of Indian education. Resignation of the Education Minister is naturally the focal demand.

The scoreline read: Argentina 3 – Egypt 2. But who won? For seventy-eight glorious minutes, Egypt had done the unthinkable. They led by two goals to zero against the reigning world champions, and it seemed as if it was going to be curtains for the greatest footballer of our time, Lionel Messi.

But the score, even in those seventy-eight minutes, should have been 3–0. Egypt’s second goal was disallowed for an alleged foul at the other end of the ground, half a minute previously.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met from July 11-13, 2026 in New Delhi and released the following communique

THE British Raj functioned as an authoritarian regime, primarily oriented towards resource extraction and maintaining law and order. After independence, India inherited much of this colonial bureaucratic and policing apparatus, continuing to prioritise state security over civil liberties. Legal instruments originally crafted to suppress dissent such as sedition laws, preventive detention and sweeping emergency powers were seamlessly absorbed into the framework of the independent Indian state, persisting as regressive tools of governance.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on July 7, 2026

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly opposes the proposed amendment to the National Food Security Act (NFSA), which seeks to change the entitlement criteria under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) from a household-based system to a per capita system.