Security personnel in Delhi fired tear gas and lathi-charged protesters as thousands of demonstrators thronged the national capital to demand the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. At Jantar Mantar, protesters told Scroll that several of them were injured in police action as they attempted to march to Parliament.

They blame Pradhan for allegedly mismanaging competitive examinations.

Some of the protesters had travelled from faraway places, including Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, to join the protest.

“I’ve one demand: Dharmendra Pradhan must resign,” a protester who had travelled from Indore told Scroll. Another protester alleged that the police asked the demonstrators “to sit down and then started the lathi-charge”.

A 16-year-old student who was beaten with a lathi asked if it was his mistake to wish India well.

The Cockroach Janta Party political campaign, which led the protest, accused the police of resorting to a “brutal lathi-charge” and described its actions as a “black day” for democracy. Read on.

Activist Sonam Wangchuk said on Monday evening that he would continue his hunger strike, and criticised the “brutality with which peacefully protesting youth” were being dealt with in Delhi. The statement came hours after security personnel fired tear gas shells and lathicharged protesters seeking the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Wangchuk said his fast would continue until youth leaders are allowed to meet parliamentarians, or till he is permitted to meet them at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. The Cockroach Janta Party had planned a march to Parliament to press for Pradhan’s resignation on account of allegations of widespread mismanagement of competitive examinations.

However, security forces put in place a multi-tiered lockdown at Parliament to prevent the protesters from breaching the premises.

Members of the Cockroach Janta Party met with Union minister JP Nadda in Delhi amid the protests.Apart from Pradhan’s resignation, they demanded that Wangchuk should be released from the Safdarjung Hospital, and that compensation should be paid to the families of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test aspirants who died by suicide.

Saurav Das, a spokesperson for the political campaign, said that despite Nadda’s assurance that no further crackdown on protesters would take place at Jantar Mantar, there were “no reports yet of police stopping”. Read on.

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The National Testing Agency has claimed that images of answer sheets from the undergraduate National Eligibility cum Entrance Test that were widely shared on social media were “digitally fabricated”. The NEET-UG exam for seats in medical colleges was conducted for a second time on June 21 after the NTA cancelled the original exam held on May 3 following allegations of a question paper leak.

The re-examination results were declared on July 16. Subsequently, some candidates alleged that the optical mark recognition answer sheets uploaded against their roll numbers did not belong to them, had been interchanged or showed fewer attempted answers than they had marked.

The NTA said that it examined each representation individually and found that its official records remained consistent in every case reviewed so far. Read on.

Tripura Director General of Police Anurag Dhankar was found dead at the state police headquarters in Agartala. The 60-year-old Indian Police Services officer was taken to hospital, where doctors declared him dead at 12.48 pm.

Preliminary reports have suggested that Dhankar may have died by suicide, though the authorities have not officially confirmed the cause of death.

The police have registered a case of unnatural death and begun an investigation.

Dhankar had taken charge as Tripura’s police chief in May 2025 and had previously held several senior positions in the state police. He had also served on deputation with the Central Bureau of Investigation and Border Security Force. Read on.

The Calcutta High Court has refused to allow the Trinamool Congress to operate three bank accounts frozen by the Enforcement Directorate. Justice Krishna Rao, in an interim order, refused to lift the freeze on the TMC’s bank accounts.

The party had approached the High Court challenging the Enforcement Directorate’s action under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

The case pertains to alleged financial irregularities, unlawful collection of money and routing of suspected funds through certain bank accounts of the TMC. Read on.

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