Jharkhand

 Jharkhand News

11 August 2026

Press Trust of India on X: "VIDEO | Jharkhand Students' Protest: Student leader Ravindra Paswan says, "Let me tell you, we have been protesting throughout the day as part of the Vidhan Sabha Gherao March. We reached here and sat peacefully. There were hundreds of thousands of students here. Isn't it the https://t.co/HbhSzfToRZ" / X Isn't it the government's moral responsibility that when lakhs of students are out on the streets, it should respond to them and take their demands seriously? But what does the government do? As darkness falls, the entire area is turned into a police camp, and lathis are used against us. The police detain and separate us, while our friends are beaten with lathis... The people of Jharkhand will not tolerate this at all. Now, this movement will intensify. We are announcing today that this student movement has now become a people's movement..."    2:13AM 11 August 2026

10 August 2026

  ANI on X: "#WATCH | Delhi: On the FCRA Bill, Economist, Santosh Mehrotra says, "It is quite unfortunate that the FCRA has been used as an instrument to pressurize civil society organizations in this country which do excellent sterling work... No government in the past has used the FCRA in https://t.co/KrpuQ1kRUn" / X FCRA in such a manner against research institutions... Most of the civil society organizations that used to receive foreign funding to support these, progressive activities have ended up having to close down..."9:08AM 10 August 2026

Anand Ranganathan on X: "Dozens of journalists covered the student protest in BJP ruled Delhi with total freedom, while in Opposition ruled Jharkhand @AmanChopra_ is picked up by cops, questioned, and slapped with an FIR. No outrage. Because Democracy is alive and so is Press Freedom under the Congress. https://t.co/AQIF4ZfDvI" / X 9:58PM 10 August 2026