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Hi, I'm Mindy Burrows in London. It's Saturday, July 25th. Today, India's education minister resigns after mounting youth-led protests. Trump mixes jokes and jabs at a rescheduled press freedom dinner. Fresh questions for OpenAI over its rogue agent's hacking spree.
Why did India's education minister resign after youth-led protests?
And LeBron James heads to Philadelphia for a record 24th NBA season. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the frontlines in ten minutes, seven days a week. In India, protesters celebrate after the resignation of the country's education minister. Supporters of the youth-led cockroach junta party have been protesting all week, demanding that Dharmendra Pradhan quit to take responsibility for exam paper leaks. And South Asia chief correspondent Aftab Ahmed in New Delhi says it's caught the government off guard.
This government has seen in the past, they have been able to manage very long protests without relenting to the protesters' demands. So they were surprised by the scale of it. They were surprised by how openly people criticized the prime minister without thinking twice. They were surprised that even after the administration got aggressive, they did not relent. The crowd swell continued to increase. We haven't seen Prime Minister Narendra Modi bending like this so quickly ever in the past. I mean, this has never happened. Even if he had to make a change, he would cover it up with, say, doing a whole cabinet reshuffle or things like that. He would never go out and say that this is a demand and I'm ready to fulfill your demand.
So he was completely caught off guard. He was nervous. The entire government was nervous. The kind of things that we haven't seen in the past 12 years of Modi's rule.
Aftab says despite their success here, it doesn't necessarily mean the CJP will form a real political party.
It's hard to say where the Cockroach Janta Party would go, right? And it's hard to imagine a party, a serious party at a national level or a state level named as Cockroach Janta Party. But what we can say is that some of the members of the Cockroach Janta Party will surface at some political level because they are now seeing that they can make the change. It is given this generation sort of the confidence that they did not have. And it will not be surprising if some of these people turn out to be people that sort of break up the old politics and try to start ushering a new era of politics. But it is hard to say.
US President Donald Trump took the stage last night at the rescheduled White House Correspondents Association dinner, using a speech at the annual Press Freedom event to mix jokes with a criticism of journalists, political rivals and celebrities. Trump also joked about serving a fourth term before pulling out a red Trump 2028 hat.
I won three times. Now I'm going to do it again. Thank you. I'm going to do it. It should be easy. I'm getting very good at running for president.
The gathering was moved to a smaller venue and held under heightened security after a gunman disrupted the original event in April. Democrats in the state of Maine are meeting today to pick a new candidate for US Senate, and they seem to be rallying around state lawmaker Troy Jackson. His nomination will cap a whirlwind few weeks for Democrats in the Senate. Their original nominee, Graham Plattner, was forced out of the race after facing sexual assault allegations. And as politics editor Michael Learmonth explains, Jackson has been around state politics for longer than Plattner, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's widely known.
He is very much, I think, considered like-minded and perhaps the heir to Plattner's movement. You know, Bernie Sanders endorsed Jackson just like he did Plattner. He doesn't have the charisma as Plattner. Few people do. But he does have a lot of the same kind of characteristics that made Plattner popular in terms of he's a working class guy. You know, he came from not kind of an elite background and he feels like a Mainer, right? It does feel a little backroomy in the way it kind of all went down.
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