Success of India’s ‘cockroach’ protests energises critics of Narendra Modi’s government
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"Success of India’s ‘cockroach’ protests energises critics of Narendra Modi’s government" is generating significant coverage in the World category, with 9 articles from 8 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include NDTV, Bloomberg.com, Al Jazeera and Time Magazine. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (9)
- Opinion | Indian Political Parties Are Now Stuck In An Awkward Gen Z 'Situationship' NDTV · 4d ago
- Cockroaches Put India Inc. on Notice Bloomberg.com · 4d ago
- India’s youth have broken Modi’s spell Al Jazeera · 4d ago
- How India’s Young Faced Down Modi Time Magazine · 4d ago
- Gen Z’s New Grammar of Protest: Democracy Gets a Gen Z Update Muslim Mirror · 4d ago
- Turning of the Tide TheWire.in · 4d ago
- How has the Indian government responded to ‘Cockroach’ protests? Al Jazeera · 4d ago
- Opinion The Washington Post · 5d ago
- A weeks-old Gen-Z protest group managed to get India’s Modi to blink. What’s next? CNN · 5d ago
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