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.

Bloomberg reporters answer your questions about India's student protests over widespread exam paper leaks and systemic failures in the education system, on Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 10 a.m. IST and 12:30 p.m. HKT.

Police in New Delhi used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of young people attempting to march to India’s parliament on Monday, drawing attention to a growing education crisis that’s fueled anger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

A sweeping US dragnet of Indian crime syndicates has brought renewed attention to one of the country’s most notorious crime bosses and his alleged role in carrying out political killings overseas, including of a well-known Sikh activist in Canada.

Standing in front of fresh lilies and silver statues of peafowls, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi shared the new dynamic they’ve settled on: “little sister” and “big brother.”

Lawrence Bishnoi has been in high-security custody for more than a decade. During that time, he has been linked to multiple high-profile killings, both in India and as far afield as Canada. What explains his seemingly undimmed power?

The border that separates India from Pakistan is lined with 50,000 towering poles that hold 150,000 floodlights, which at night create a glare that is visible from outer space. Passing through the towns on the Indian side of the border, it can be difficult to tell, even in daylight, where one ends and the other begins. Curving along the rolling fields of wheat are nameless dirt roads where men sit on rope benches, whiling away their afternoons, staring as you pass by.

Dutarawali, right by the highway, is slightly different: here, the houses are big, with spacious courtyards. One of the houses – three storeys, painted white with red accents – has a 7ft boundary wall topped with barbed wire and four CCTV cameras overlooking the unpaved street. The symbol of Om is curled on its brown iron door, which has no nameplate. It is the house of Lawrence Bishnoi, who is today, at the age of 33, India’s most notorious gangster.

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