India's 'Cockroach' movement protesters have reclaimed their dismantled protest site, a day after police and a sea of youth protesters clashed in Delhi. Organizers however said they are canceling a march. Follow DW.
Supporters of India’s youth-led Cockroach movement are still camped at their protest site in New Delhi, a day after police used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of them marching toward Parliament
Rahul Gandhi, India's opposition leader, called for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign on Tuesday "for destroying the future" of the country's youth. The youth-led Cockroach movement continued their protests in New Delhi, refusing to leave their sit-in site a day after police used tear has and b…
Supporters of India’s youth-led Cockroach movement demanding educational reforms and government accountability say they will continue their protest in New Delhi. The movement, which began as a satirical protest, has evolved into a nationwide challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
The leaders of India's youth-led Cockroach movement are vowing to continue protesting a day after police cracked down on demonstrators. They have been demanding the country's education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, resign amid repeated leaks for entrance tests to medical schools.
Thousands of people again on the streets of Delhi calling for education reforms despite police violence on Monday Taru had come to the protest prepared this time. In one hand was an anti-government poster and in the other was a bicycle helmet.
Main opposition leader is bundled into a bus by police during Delhi CJP protests after accusing Narendra Modi of ‘destroying the future of India’s youth’ Indian police have detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi during spiralling youth-led protests in Delhi, after he called for prime minister Naren…
India's opposition MPs are resounding the protesters' demands for the resignation of the education minister. Pradhan has finally addressed the protests calling on him to step down. DW has the latest.
A joke has turned into a major protest movement in India, challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi Hindu nationalist’s government. Known as the “Cockroach” movement, it began in May after a Supreme Court justice compared unemployed youth to “cockroaches.” Embracing the…
Protests continue for a third day in the Indian capital, New Delhi, as pressure mounts on Narendra Modi to sack his education minister. The youth-led movement remains defiant even after Monday's heavy handed police crackdown.
With each passing day, India's youth-led cockroach movement seems to swell. As the sit-in by anti-corruption campaigners grows in New Delhi, opposition lawmakers relay their call for the education minister to resign over the leaking of exam tests.
As youth protests spread to several Indian cities, the Cockroach Janta Party has formally called for nationwide protests on July 24 to demand the education minister's resignation. DW has more.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has finally broken his silence on the student protest movement known as the “Cockroach Janta Party”. The protests have spread from the capital New Delhi to other large cities including Mumbai and Bengaluru.
Young Indians are keeping up the pressure - continuing their demands for the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan - to step down. This as their online satirical group the "Cockroach People's Party" grows in stature and support.
What began as satire on social media has turned into a massive Gen Z-led protest movement driven by anger over corruption and high youth unemployment. There are signs it is finding traction outside of Delhi.
The unprecedented expression of dissent against India's government, headed by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has shown no sign of abating, as protests by the youth-led “cockroach” protest movement entered its fourth day.
While capitalist democracies celebrate Indian leaders and draw up trade and military agreements, a deep unrest among young students across India is taking on ominous tones.
India’s government will likely quell the student-led Cockroach protests, but it will have a harder time suppressing the underlying frustration fueling them, prominent Indian commentators argued.
Leaders of India's youth-led "Cockroach" movement said they would meet the government on Friday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged legal reforms and swift punishment for those involved in exam paper leaks.
A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the country’s status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets. They are protesting under the banner of the Cockroach Janta (People’s) Party — a new party named to refl…
After weeks of ignored demonstrations, thousands of students, alongside parents, teachers, and supporters from across India marched on Parliament to press their demands. They were met with tear gas, police violence, and detentions.
NEW DELHI -- India's "Cockroach" movement called off its weeks of protests on Saturday, saying the government had accepted all of its demands after the country's education minister resigned over reported exam paper leaks and irregularities in the education system.
India’s “Cockroach” youth movement has now forced the resignation of the country’s education minister. What began as a single-issue protest mobilization has broadened into one of the biggest challenges Narendra Modi has faced in power.
