A volunteer stacks garbage bags at one place, during an ongoing protest organised by Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at the Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi. The agitation, which began on June 20, is demanding accountability over alleged irregularities in competitive examinations, reforms in the education system and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and compensation for families of students who allegedly committed suicide due to the paper leak. | Photo: PTI
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and KC Venugopal, TMC leaders Saugata Roy and Sagarika Ghose, JMM leader Mahua Maji and other leaders of the INDIA bloc during a meeting at the Parliament House complex, amid the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi. | Photo: Handout via PTI
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A man walks past debris after a house belonging to Adil Thokar, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist, was demolished, in Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir. The action came shortly after Head Constable Ashiq Hussain, who was on Amarnath Yatra security duty, was shot dead by a lone terrorist at Lal Chowk in Anantnag on Wednesday afternoon. | Photo: PTI
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Fans celebrate during the theatrical release of film 'Jana Nayagan' starring actor and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, in Chennai. | Photo: PTI/R Senthilkumar
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Indian boxer Parveen Hooda during a training session ahead of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026, at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. | Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary
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Special CP Crime Devesh Chandra Srivastava meets an injured policeman getting treatment at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital, in New Delhi. At least two assistant commissioners of police (ACPs) and four personnel were injured in a stone-pelting incident by protesters during an ongoing agitation by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) near Jantar Mantar on Wednesday evening, police sources said. | Photo: Handout via PTI
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Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during a meeting with his Papua New Guinean counterpart Justin Tkatchenko, on the sidelines of the 33rd ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Meeting, in Manila, Philippines. | Photo: @DrSJaishankar/X via PTI
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Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) supporters received free food being distributed during a protest at the Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi. The agitation, which began on June 20, is demanding accountability over alleged irregularities in competitive examinations, reforms in the education system and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and compensation for families of students who allegedly committed suicide due to the paper leak. | Photo: PTI
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Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during a meeting with his Bruneian counterpart Prince Abdul Mateen, on the sidelines of the 33rd ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Meeting, in Manila, Philippines. | Photo: @DrSJaishankar/X via PTI
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Special CP Crime Devesh Chandra Srivastava meets an injured policeman getting treatment at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital, in New Delhi. At least two assistant commissioners of police (ACPs) and four personnel were injured in a stone-pelting incident by protesters during an ongoing agitation by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) near Jantar Mantar on Wednesday evening, police sources said. | Photo: Handout via PTI
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and other leaders of the INDIA bloc during a meeting at the Parliament House complex, amid the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi. | Photo: Handout via PTI
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Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) MP Chandrashekhar Azad sits on a dharna under the statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar in solidarity with the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged irregularities in the NEET examination, at the Parliament House premises, in New Delhi. | Photo: @BhimArmyChief/X via PTI
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress MPs Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Akhilesh Yadav, TMC MP Mahua Moitra and other opposition leaders stage a protest as they hold placards and a black banner demanding resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Paradhan over the NEET paper leak issue, during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma