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Delhi’s October Protests: Electoral Roll Dispute Deepens as Opposition Prepares November Rally

By NDP newsroom
A series of protests in the Indian capital this month has brought electoral integrity, police restrictions and the right to peaceful assembly into sharp focus, as opposition parties, student groups and civil society organisations challenge the Election Commission’s revision of voter lists. The latest demonstration took place on Friday, 23 October, when hundreds of protesters marched towards the Election Commission of India’s headquarters, demanding the withdrawal of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. More than 100 people were detained, according to The Times of India . The Indian Express reported that the number exceeded 150. The march was organised by the Delhi Coordination Committee of People Against SIR, a coalition involving students, farmers, trade unions and civil society groups. The demonstration followed several weeks of protests in central Delhi, including rallies on 2–5 October, a series ...
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Inside India's BRICS Win: Consensus, a China Thaw and a Push for a UN Seat

By NDP newsroom
For a bloc that had spent months fractured over two wars, the 18th BRICS Summit ended with something India's diplomats had been quietly working toward for weeks: a single, unanimous text that every one of the group's eleven members could sign. The New Delhi Declaration, adopted on September 12 at Bharat Mandapam, closed a two-day summit that Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired as this year's BRICS host. For New Delhi, the achievement was less about any one line in the 140-paragraph document and more about proving it could hold together a grouping that includes both Iran and the UAE, both Russia and a Gulf bloc uneasy about Moscow's ties to Tehran, without anyone walking away. Former foreign secretary Nirupama Menon Rao called it a genuine diplomatic achievement for India, though she also noted that the carefully hedged language showed the limits of what BRICS can do when its own members disagree. ## A bigger, harder group to manage BRICS was founded by Braz...
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Death toll from Nepal's Bhotekoshi flash flood climbs past 160 as rescue efforts continue

By NDP newsroom
Nepal is confronting one of its deadliest natural disasters in decades after a flash flood tore through the Bhotekoshi river valley on Wednesday, killing more than 160 people and leaving hundreds still unaccounted for, according to the latest police figures. The disaster began when an avalanche in Tibet blocked the Lhende tributary of the Bhotekoshi river, unleashing a wall of water that first struck the border settlement of Timure before surging downstream through Rasuwa, Nuwakot and several other districts. Officials say satellite imagery from Planet Labs points to the avalanche having occurred roughly 20 kilometres northeast of the Rasuwagadhi border crossing. Witnesses described a terrifying scene. Rasuwa's chief customs officer said he initially mistook the tremor for an earthquake before seeing floodwater surge through the Timure market, and told local reporters the wave appeared close to 100 metres high. More than 300 vehicles waiting at the customs checkpoint we...
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Students hold Delhi protest site as Centre airlifts paramilitary reinforcements

By NDP newsroom
Sixteen Metro stations shut, both Houses adjourned and the Supreme Court refuses an urgent hearing, as the Cockroach Janta Party's sit-in over the NEET-UG paper leak enters its fourth week Thousands of young people remained camped at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday for a third consecutive day since a police crackdown on their march to Parliament, as the Union government airlifted 20 additional companies of the Central Reserve Police Force into the capital and shut 16 Delhi Metro stations in the security cordon around the seat of government. The protest, called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a youth movement that began as online satire two months ago, is demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG medical entrance examination. It is the largest sustained street challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has faced in its third term. Prime Minister Modi has not publicly addressed the prote...
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Trump, Pezeshkian sign deal to halt West Asia war and reopen Hormuz; relief in sight for India

By NDP newsroom
The United States and Iran have signed an initial memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ending more than three months of war, reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping and launching a 60-day push for a permanent settlement, in a breakthrough that carries direct consequences for India's energy security. US President Donald Trump signed the document late on Wednesday, 17 June, at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, on the margins of this week's Group of Seven (G7) summit in France. Video released by French President Emmanuel Macron showed Trump signing the text. Asked by a reporter as he left Versailles, Trump confirmed it was signed and called the agreement hard-won. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed separately, according to Iranian state media. The Islamic Republic News Agency and the state broadcaster IRIB published an image early on Thursday showing Pezeshkian holding up a copy bearing his signature. The prime minister of Pakistan, which mediate...
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The Cockroach Janata Party: How a Judge's Courtroom Remark Became India's Fastest-Growing Political Movement

By NDP newsroom
On the morning of 15 May 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant was presiding over what should have been a routine Supreme Court hearing on the designation of senior advocates. Referring to people without formal employment or professional standing, he said: "There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don't get any employment or have any place in a profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists and they start attacking everyone." By nightfall, the words had become the most talked-about phrase in India's digital public square. By the following morning, they had spawned a political party. The Remark and the Response A day after the comment went viral, Justice Surya Kant issued a clarification, saying his criticism was directed at individuals who had entered the legal profession using fraudulent degrees, not the country's youth in general. He called India's young people the "pillars of a developed I...
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Senior AAP Lawmaker Raghav Chadha Breaks From Party, Leads Six Rajya Sabha MPs Into BJP as AAP Cries Foul

By NDP newsroom
In the most dramatic rupture in the Aam Aadmi Party's parliamentary history, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Friday announced his resignation from the party he says he devoted fifteen years of his life to, declaring himself and six fellow upper house lawmakers merged with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The move sent immediate shockwaves through India's political establishment, stripping AAP of a significant portion of its Rajya Sabha group in a single afternoon and handing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party a high-profile symbolic and numerical gain. The announcement came at a press conference in the Indian capital, where Chadha stood alongside fellow MPs Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal and read out what amounted to a formal political obituary for his relationship with AAP founder Arvind Kejriwal and the party's current leadership. "The AAP, which I nurtured with my blood and sweat, and gave 15 years of my youth to, has deviated from its principle...
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