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এসআরএফটিআই-তে ধর্মঘটকারী পড়ুয়াদের সঙ্গে সাক্ষাতে নারাজ উপাচার্য, আক্রান্ত ছাত্রদেরই শো-কজ, অচলাবস্থা কাটাতে চেয়ারপার্সন-এর হস্তক্ষেপ দাবি

৯ অক্টোবর, শুক্রবার, কলকাতার এসআরএফটিআই-এ এক সাংবাদিক সম্মেলন করেন ছাত্র ইউনিয়নের সদস্যরা। তারা জানান হিন্দুত্ববাদী দুষ্কৃতিদের প্রতিষ্ঠান ও পড়ুয়াদের উপর হামলার দায় উপাচার্যকে নিতে হবে এবং অবিলম্বে পড়ুয়াদের নিরাপত্তা সুনিশ্চিত করতে হবে।   সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন   “আমরা ক্লান্ত, মানসিক চাপের মধ্যেও আছি আর চাপটা আসলে কর্তৃপক্ষের উপরে নয়, আমাদের উপরেই আছে আমাদের কোর্সটা ভালোভাবে […]


Purulia’s Bero-Chandi Pahar Faces Renewed Threat from Granite Mining

 Community-led ecological restoration and a centuries-old cultural landscape face destruction as quarrying resumes; villagers allege criminalisation of resistance   Purulia, West Bengal: The Bero-Chandi hillocks in Purulia’s Raghunathpur subdivision are facing renewed threats from granite and stone mining, with local communities and environmental activists warning that continued quarrying could destroy a landscape shaped by decades […]


Jantar Mantar SIR Protests Day 2: Three Women Register Molestation Complaints Against Delhi Police Officers Including ACP, Journalists Protest Outside Police Station

An independent journalist’s protest erupted outside the Parliament Street police station on 3 October 2026 after police refused to register an FIR in the case of an on duty female journalist’s complaint of molestation and assault against ACP Vivek Bhagat, only to find that several other FIRs had also not been registered. Repeated incidents of […]


‘They Knew He Wanted to Kill Me’: 17y/o Survivor of Near Fatal Acid Attack in Bhiwani Exposes Rural Haryana’s Cultures of Silence and Inaction

[21 September 2026, New Delhi: More than a year after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took Suo motu cognizance of a heinous case of a father’s attempt to murder and assault with acid his own teenage daughter in a small village in Haryana’s Bhiwani district, local police have still not fulfilled their directive of […]



The ‘Seditious’ Life of the Public University

Today, as we battle to save our public universities, we must remember that what is at stake is more than just democratic practices, administrative autonomy or academic freedom.   Jhelum Roy   “I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist […]


The Victory of Equal Earth Over an Unequal One

The blatant distortions of the Mercator projection and its Eurocentric approach gave rise to several alternatives, particularly among broad-left or progressive cartographers. Fianlly, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an African proposal for a new world map, which shows countries’ true size relative to one another.   By Prabir Purkayastha Source: Globetrotter   Last week, […]


How to Kill an Estuary

A photo-essay on the Mamallan reservoir in Chennai to be built on ecologically sensitive areas, threatens to destroy livelihoods of fishermen. The essay documents the diversity of marginalised fisherfolk who fish here.   Sushmita Venugopalan    On 19th January 2026, the foundation stone for the construction of the Mamallan reservoir was laid by M K […]


গৌরি লঙ্কেশ-এর পথে হেঁটে সাংবাদিকতার সাহসের নাম শাহিন, নাফিসা 

শাহিন, নাফিসার শরীরের প্রতিটি কালসিটে মনে করিয়ে দিক গৌরি লঙ্কেশ-এর লাল রক্তর কথা। আসলে তো ভয় নয়, সাহসই সংক্রামক।       সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী    “ম্যায় এক ভারতীয় মুসলিম মহিলা পত্রকার হু।” “আমি একজন ভারতীয় মুসলমান মহিলা সাংবাদিক।” “I am an Indian Muslim woman Journalist.”   মাথার চুল থেকে পায়ের নখ পর্যন্ত ব্যাখ্যাতীত ট্রমা-য় আক্রান্ত, প্রবল শারীরিক […]


When the Mountain Broke: Inside Nepal’s Deadliest Himalayan Flood

The disaster exposed the extreme fragility of high-altitude Himalayan ecosystems under a shifting climate.   By Madhab Pant   At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water, mud, ice, and massive boulders roared down the Lhende Khola into the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river systems. The surge struck without local rainfall or […]


Police Stop Peaceful Protest Against Data Centres in Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam police suppress public scrutiny of the city’s rapidly expanding data-centre projects as land displacement and environmental costs come under scrutiny.   Groundxero | 11 August 2026   A peaceful campaign against the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centres in and around Visakhapatnam was disrupted by the police on Sunday (August), with the authorities first […]


‘Not Fair NEET, But Ban NEET’: Hunger Strike Against NEET Enters Seventh Day in Chennai

The indefinite hunger strike against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in Chennai entered its seventh day on Saturday, August 8. The agitation, led by the Anti-NEET Federation and the Joint Movement Against NEET, is demanding not merely reforms to the examination but its complete abolition, along with greater state control over education.   Chennai, August […]


#STOPKILLINGUS Protest at Jantar Mantar: Safai Karmacharis Accuses Centre of Concealing Sewer Deaths, Demands Parliamentary Inquiry

“As Prime Minister, ackowledge this failure, make a national apology and take immediate action”, Safai Karmachari Andolan said in a memorandum to the Prime Minister.   New Delhi, August 4: Hundreds of sanitation workers from more than 10 states, families of those killed while cleaning sewers and septic tanks, Members of Parliament, students, writers, and […]


PM SHRI: A New Scheme, an Old Argument

PM SHRI is the newest chapter in a much older argument about who gets to decide what do India’s children learns, an argument that, fifty years after the 42nd Amendment, still doesn’t have a settled answer.   by C. Mujeebu Rahman   For all the debate around PM SHRI in Keralam since the last Assembly […]


Beyond the Hunger Strike: Why India’s Student Movement Must Confront the Structure, Not Just the Symbol

Unless the movement’s objectives expand beyond the resignation of an individual minister toward structural reforms, such as increased public investment in education, ending the coaching-dependent education model, and ensuring meaningful employment opportunities, changing the ruling party or replacing the Education Minister alone will bring no fundamental change to the lives of India’s students.   By […]