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Sunday, August 16, 2026
TopicDharmendra Pradhan

Topic: Dharmendra Pradhan

BJP’s Gen Z Instagram outreach has flopped. Friends are cringing

The tools of mockery BJP perfected have been picked up by teenagers who used them to demand a Union minister's resignation. Now, the government's response is to try and out-meme Gen Z.

Dharmendra Pradhan resigned. The problem hasn’t

Reform must begin where the failure begins—within the institutions responsible for conducting these examinations.

Governance endures only through consent of governed, says BJP’s Muralidhar Rao; Congress pounces

The former BJP general secretary made the remark two days after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as education minister amid widespread protests by students. 

Greta Thunberg joins SFI-UK to celebrate Pradhan’s resignation

The demonstration, held in Trafalgar Square in London, was to celebrate the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan following student-led protests demanding accountability over examination irregularities.

Gen Z grouse is not about a specific issue. It is about those in power not listening to them

The Modi cabinet could do with a huge amount of spring cleaning. It clearly needs fresh blood, young blood, and this must be visible.

Modi govt has finally learned that common sense works better than arrogance

Nobody in power was smart enough to see that if the student protests are about your arrogance, the worst way to respond is with even more arrogance.

A leaderless swarm brought down Pradhan—India’s youth and the new grammar of accountability

Major student movements in India have depended on the stewardship of veteran Opposition politicians. The 2026 protests against the NEET paper leaks were raw and fiercely independent.

Hope, exuberance & scepticism—Jantar Mantar is mélange of emotions after Dharmendra Pradhan’s exit

For some of the protesters ThePrint spoke to, the buck does not stop with the resignation of education minister. Accountability, they say, goes all the way up to prime minister.

UN calls for peaceful protests without arrests as NEET row forces Pradhan’s resignation

In its first comments, the international body weighed in on the NEET paper leak protests, calling for protests to be allowed without fear of harassment or arrest.

How India’s young turned the BJP’s greatest political weapon against it

In the past two days, Narendra Modi tried to change the algorithm in his favour. Produced reels hoping to find a connect with Gen Z, but the damage control backfired.

On Camera

Our scriptures say that only fools indulge in self-praise: Vajpayee

On 15 August 1998, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee delivered his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, touching upon defence, economic reforms, secularism, corruption, and employment.

All aboard the ‘Reform Express’: PM Modi’s 2047 ride runs on seven tracks

'Reform from conviction, not compulsion', says PM, linking India’s 2047 ambitions to reforms across manufacturing, technology, defence, infrastructure, green growth and soft power.

Navy officer, who entered burning LPG tanker repeatedly to recover missing crew, awarded Shaurya Chakra

Lieutenant Commander Shivam Kumar was serving onboard INS Trikand when it was directed to assist Cameroon-flagged LPG tanker, while transiting through Houthi attack zone on 18 October, 2025.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman