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Fixing accountability for brutality on peacefully protesting students across the country has now clearly emerged as the next big issue, with the opposition disrupting the proceedings of the Parliament of India for the 7th day (July 28, 2026) of the Monsoon session demanding accountability from the Union Minister of Home Amit Shah, and an observation of the Supreme Court of India, "There has to be completely independent probe. Whosoever committed excesses, took law in their hands should be taken to task. Probe is meaningless if no responsibility is fixed.”

They Lifted A Book and made a hole in the sky.

Remember the young woman in Mumbai who stood with her arms flung wide and brought a police van to a halt? Remember the young woman at Jantar Mantar, thin from many days without food, lifting the Constitution of India above her head, not in anger, but in the way one lifts a lamp.

The United States has every sovereign right to shape its trade policy. It has every right to combat forced labour in global supply chains. Few countries, including India, would dispute the moral imperative of eliminating forced labour from international commerce. What deserves far greater scrutiny, however, is how Washington has chosen to pursue that objective.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no let-up in the V. D. Satheesan-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government’s penchant for taking controversial decisions.

After getting the first demand fulfilled – that is sacking of the Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan – the Opposition today demanded for Union Home Minister’s accountability on brutality unleashed on students during Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP’s) March on Parliament on July 20. It caused repeated disruptions and adjournments of the proceedings of both the Houses of the Parliament of India today July 27, 2026.

Youth and student protestors led by the less than three month old Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) have won in their battle with the Narendra Modi led government over the resignation of the education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the other demands for examination reforms. With the government agreeing to most of the demands of the protestors, the CJP suspended the protests on Saturday and announced its decision to follow up the implementation of the assurances given by the centre after one month. Right now, Protesters are the winners, the all powerful PM is humbled.

With Yemeni Houthis declaring a maritime embargo and naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, India’s bid to mitigate energy and supply chain shocks, following structural disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, by rapidly diversifying trade corridors and maritime protocols faces a big challenge. At a stake is the country’s US$158-billion-plus bilateral trade passing through the region. The naval blockade severely threatens India's foreign trade by constricting energy supplies, inflating logistics costs, and choking key export routes. The crisis specifically inflames the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a vital choke point through which Saudi crude oil reaches south and east Asia. The region represents a vital trade corridor for India.

India's pharmaceutical industry wears two faces. One is celebrated across the world: the country manufactures nearly one in every five generic medicines consumed globally, supplies affordable drugs to more than 200 countries, dominates vaccine production, and has earned the enviable title of "the pharmacy of the world." The other face is visible only to Indian patients standing at pharmacy counters, where the price of a medicine often bears little resemblance to what it costs to manufacture, distribute or even justify through economics. Between these two realities lies one of the country's least examined but most consequential public policy failures—a pricing architecture that has gradually evolved not to maximize public health but to maximize commercial opportunity.

The youth and students protests led by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar finally achieved their big win on Saturday after the Narendra Modi Government accepted their demands including the resignation of the education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Within 24 hours, PM announced the setting up of a task force for bringing reforms in the examination system.

How can an agitation for a fair examination system ring such a bell across the country and humble a proud government? To understand I recall today what Dr Manmohan Singh observed in his typical monotonous way after presenting his first budget in 1991-92.