Rahul Gandhi and the INDIA bloc take the Election Commission to the Supreme Court

The daily briefing

Monday 19 October 2026

INTERNATIONAL

Rahul Gandhi and nine other opposition leaders have taken India's Election Commission to the Supreme Court over more than 130 million vanished voters.

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INTERNATIONAL

UN and rights groups condemn India’s mass detentions of peaceful protesters

Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the UN have converged on the same verdict about India's mass detentions, a record that 'mother of democracy' rhetoric does not easily survive.

INTERNATIONAL

Delhi’s Connaught Place fills with flags as a generation joins the Cockroach protests

Grandparents and students waved the same flag over the same grievance in central Delhi, a sign the Cockroach protests have outgrown their organisers.

INTERNATIONAL

Thousands rally in Bengaluru as Cockroach movement presses election chief to resign

A campaign that began mocking the Election Commission with an insect's name just drew a national film star and millions of online followers to Freedom Park.

INTERNATIONAL

Delhi cuts mobile internet and detains activists as protests spread

Mobile data cut, journalists in judicial custody, a historic protest ground de-notified: Delhi's response to the SIR protests looks less like crowd control and more like attrition.

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OPINION

Fazl’s quarrel with the establishment: principle, or political exclusion?

He spent a career negotiating at the table of power. Now, locked out of the room, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has begun to sound like the man he helped remove.