Tens of thousands of protesters poured into central New Delhi on Sunday in a largely peaceful protest that represented a show of unity among disparate opposition groups, in one of the biggest rallies against Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he took power in 2014.

Authorities in New Delhi announced plans to move protests away from Jantar Mantar, the capital’s main demonstration site, drawing anger from groups that have taken to the streets for three straight days over India’s contentious overhaul of voter rolls.

Authorities in New Delhi announced plans to move protests away from Jantar Mantar, the capital’s main demonstration site, drawing anger from groups that have taken to the streets for three straight days over India’s contentious overhaul of voter rolls.

India is bracing for a third straight day of tensions in its capital, with opposition parties on Monday planning a march to the Supreme Court and a youth-led movement pressing ahead with protests over a contentious revision of voter rolls.

India is bracing for a third straight day of tensions in its capital, with opposition parties on Monday planning a march to the Supreme Court and a youth-led movement pressing ahead with protests over a contentious revision of voter rolls.

Leaders of India’s youth-led protest movement - Cockroach Janta Party - vowed to press ahead with their demand for the resignation of the country’s top election official after being released from a temporary detention on Sunday.

Police in India’s capital cracked down on protests against a contentious review of voter rolls, detaining youth leaders and locking down central New Delhi with thousands of security personnel.

Indian authorities detained leaders of a youth-led protest movement and their allies on Saturday and imposed sweeping restrictions in central Delhi to stop crowds from gathering for a planned demonstration against a contentious revision of voter rolls.

HarperCollins India will publish the memoir of senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, the publisher said Friday, a week after Penguin Random House India dropped plans to release the book in the country.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the voters’ top choice to lead the country even as his popularity has slipped marginally, according to a survey by India Today magazine, possibly reflecting some erosion in support following the recent student protests.

Nepal faces a daunting reconstruction effort after violent flash floods swept away bridges, roads and communications links across the Himalayas, putting Prime Minister Balen Shah’s new government through its first crisis and testing its ability to respond.

Student protests continue to simmer across India, a month after nationwide demonstrations over an exam scandal forced the country’s education minister to resign, underscoring persistent anger over the integrity of the country’s testing and recruitment system.

The satirical group behind the student movement that forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s education minister to step down is calling supporters back onto the streets, saying the government has failed to honor commitments it made in July.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party accused the group that spearheaded massive student protests in New Delhi last month of hypocrisy for failing to play a more active role in the agitation now sweeping a state in India’s hinterland.

India’s student-led protests continue in the eastern state of Jharkhand over alleged exam irregularities, even as demonstrations in New Delhi have subsided following the education minister’s resignation.

The Cockroach Janta Party, which led India’s biggest student protests in years, wants to build a nationwide movement to hold the government accountable for its promises to young people, one of its senior members said.

India’s lower house of Parliament approved tougher penalties for leaks of competitive exam papers on Wednesday, responding to a wave of student protests that posed one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in recent years.

The student protests that rocked New Delhi and forced Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take a rare step back have also given an opening to an opposition that has largely been sidelined in recent years.

India has sought to restrict an encrypted peer-to-peer messaging app that gained prominence during Nepal’s 2025 Gen Z protests, according to the app’s co-founder, as New Delhi grapples with its own student protests.

The economy is failing to absorb a surging number of young unemployed graduates.