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Date: 28th May, 2026
Meet India’s Latest ‘Anti-National’: A Class 12 Student Demanding His Real Answer Sheet
The Fact: Vedant Shrivastava, a Class 12 student from Delhi, recently tweeted that the Physics answer sheet uploaded under his roll number, via CBSE's controversial On-Screen Marking system, was not his. The handwriting, sentence structure, and spacing were entirely inconsistent with his other submitted papers. Having no formal redressal mechanism, his family created an X account to escalate the matter publicly. The post went viral and was immediately met with coordinated abuse. Several accounts labelled Vedant "anti-national" and “Pakistani”, citing the account's "South Asia" geolocation tag as purported ‘proof’ of its ‘foreign’ origin.
The Context: CBSE introduced On-Screen Marking for Class 12 evaluations in 2026, as a move to digitise the assessment process. The rollout has been troubled. Hundreds of students have reported blurred scans rendering handwriting illegible, marks deducted despite correct answers, portal crashes during revaluation, and, as in Vedant's case, answer sheets misallocated across roll numbers. But instead of receiving a proper redressal mechanism, these students are being branded ‘cockroaches’, anti-national’ or Pakistani. In Vedant’s case, even a primetime anchor, Ashok Shrivastav, on state-funded Doordarshan News, called the young student of Pakistani origin. Because of this, Vedant's brother was compelled to issue a clarification that his family is Indian. Shrivastav later deleted the post and tendered an apology.
The Peek Insight: Vedant's case was resolved because it went viral. But there are still thousands of students who are facing institutional failures without any viable recourse. What has been more alarming is how a journalist funded by taxpayers like Vedant’s family money, deployed nationalist calumny against a minor who was simply raising a legitimate grievance. CBSE later confirmed Vedant’s error, acknowledged the technical mix-up, and dispatched his correct answer sheet. His Physics score was subsequently revised upward from 65 to 74. The case shows how simple questions against institutional failure are reflexively reframed as anti-national sedition. If a student has to first prove his citizenship before his complaint merits examination, it questions the legitimacy of the redressal mechanism. The youth of this country are not adversaries of the state. They are its most consequential stakeholders and should be treated like one.
Supreme Court Says, ‘Yes, SIR’
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The Fact: The Supreme Court of India upheld the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar, calling the procedure constitutionally valid on Wednesday. A bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi stated that the process was carried out to protect the integrity of the elections by ensuring that the voters’ list remains accurate. The bench also said that the ECI has the power to carry out such a procedure to clear out alleged discrepancies in a roll. But at the same time, it clarified that the procedure cannot be treated as a verification for someone's citizenship status. As per the apex court, the ECI acted within its constitutional powers and acted as per Section 16 of the Representation of the People Act 1950. The opposition slammed the Supreme Court's decision. TMC MP Mahua Moitra said that the judgment puts a stamp of approval on the disenfranchisement of millions. Swaraj India president, Yogendra Yadav, meanwhile, claimed that the judgment was decided last year itself when the Apex court allowed the ECI to rush through the state elections while the SIR case was pending before it.
The Context: In both Bihar and West Bengal, the ECI announced SIR just months before the state elections. The process ultimately led to the deletion of around 47 lakhs voters from Bihar’s electoral rolls and 90 lakhs from West Bengal’s list. In the latter, over one-third were Muslim voters. Notably, in both state elections, the BJP emerged as the single largest party. The ECI has defended the exercise by citing Article 326 of the Constitution. It argued that only Indian citizens have the right to vote, and periodic revision of voter rolls is necessary to remove duplicate, deceased, shifted, or ineligible entries arising from migration, urbanisation and demographic changes. However, there have been allegations of lakhs of genuine votes being deleted under vague reasons like "logical discrepancies." Even one of Peek TV's Ground Report from West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district highlight the cases of genuine Indian voters, whose names were deleted despite them submitting all the required documents. For this very reason, the move has faced intense criticism from opposition parties. Former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee described it as a potential “backdoor NRC”. Critics also alleged that large-scale verification exercises had caused disenfranchisement of vulnerable populations like minorities and economically weaker citizens.
The Peek Insight: The judgment significantly backs the ECI's role in the SIR, which has faced severe criticism since last year. Many experts have criticised the Supreme Court’s observations, arguing that in a country like India, documentation itself is deeply unequal. The Bihar case showed how lakhs of voters lacked most of the 11-listed documents mandated by the Commission. The only document they possessed were their Aadhar Card, Voter ID Card, or the Ration Card, which were initially not accepted for verification. At the same time, the SC also did not explicitly call out the sheer time mismanagement by the Commission. In both states, voters got only a few months before the scheduled state elections to prove their voter validity. At the same time, the task to prove their eligibility fell on the voters, when it should have been on the Commission itself. The overall discrepancies by the Commission reveal concerns about whether genuine citizens will quietly disappear from the electoral system. Even though the Supreme Court emphasised that the ECI cannot conclusively decide a person's citizenship, the practical reality remains complicated.
Uganda-Returned Woman Becomes India’s First Suspected Ebola Case
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The Fact: A 28-year-old woman who returned from Uganda showed Ebola-like symptoms in Bengaluru. On May 23rd, she arrived at the Kempegowda International Airport, where she reportedly complained of fever and body aches. She was then isolated at the Epidemic Diseases Hospital in Indiranagar. Her samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology. Later, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao confirmed that the woman had tested negative for the virus. However, in Karnataka, the screening of passengers arriving from DR Congo, Uganda, and other countries has been intensified. Last week, too, the Union Health Ministry issued an advisory for all those travelling or transiting through the affected countries to take extra caution.
The Context: As of now, there are no reported cases of Ebola in the country. Still, the current outbreak has alarmed health institutions nationally and globally. India also cancelled its fourth India-Africa Forum summit that was scheduled to take place at the end of May due to the outbreak. According to the WHO, this Ebola outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo strain for which there are currently no approved vaccines or treatments. This strain is not airborne, it can only spread through direct contact with infected bodily fluids, and it carries an extremely high fatality rate. As per the WHO, its fatality rate can range from anywhere between 25% to 90%. Covid 19, meanwhile, had a fatality rate of less than 5%. The symptoms of this disease include fever, nausea, dizziness, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, and other viral-like symptoms. These can appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure, as per the WHO.
The Peek Insight: This is not the first time that an Ebola scare has alerted the nation. Back in 2014, an Indian national who was returning from Liberia tested positive for traces of the virus that was plaguing West Africa at the time. However, no active transmission occurred inside the country at the time. Still, even then and now, a single suspected Ebola case is enough to trigger nationwide surveillance and airport isolation protocols with active national monitoring. And this level of urgency has intensified since COVID fundamentally transformed outbreak response. The crevices shown in the system shown 6 years ago revealed India's vulnerabilities.
India Has Officially Failed The Test Of Testing: No Room For Candidates, Plenty For Errors
The Fact: After the recent NEET and CBSE controversies, it is now the State Services Commission’s GD Constable Examination 2026 that has come under scrutiny. Multiple SSC GD exam shifts have been cancelled at centres in Uttar Pradesh as well as Bihar due to overcrowding, technical glitches, and alleged irregularities. Authorities have reported that around 819 students were given admit cards for an exam centre that only had a space for 399 students. In Kanpur, the examination had to be cancelled due to overcrowding and poor management. In Bihar, too, the exams were cancelled after reports of technical glitches. In Prayagraj, a centre reportedly had only 650 computer sets, but over a 1000 students were admitted in the examination shifts. SSC Chairman S. Gopalakrishnan has stated that the online exam system has faced hacking attempts every day and stated that there were management problems in some exam centres as well.
The Context: The SSC GD examination is one of India’s biggest government recruitment exams and is held for nearly 46 lakh candidates seeking jobs in the central armed police forces. For many students, this leads to a life with financial security and a stable future. Although the Commission had stated that there was no paper leak, it went on to admit that suspicious technical activity forced some computer systems to be shut down during the examinations. Many aspirants protested in cities, demanding that the exam be conducted the same day after the cancellation. Many of those students had travelled long distances and were spending daily on their transport and accommodations.
The Peek Insight: The issues around India’s competitive exams and overall education system are growing daily. Exams have now become more digital, which has led to reports of cybersecurity breaches, poor web infrastructure, and improper management. The students spend years working hard for the examinations, and with the institutions now themselves admitting to problems like these, the students have started losing trust in the system that is supposed to decide their future. Young aspirants are now facing stress beyond marks and rankings. Uncertainty and repeated failures have become normal in almost all examination systems of the country. This raises important questions about the fairness and safety of these exams, which are being conducted, and are essential.
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ED Raids Turn Kerala Clash Into State Opposition vs National Opposition Battle
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The Fact: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted raids at 10 locations linked to former Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and his family. The raids were part of a money-laundering probe into the alleged CMRL-Exalogic payments case. The agency covered Vijayan’s rented residence in Thiruvananthapuram, his ancestral home in Kannur, the residence of his son-in-law and Kerala minister Muhammed Riyas in Kozhikode, and premises linked to senior executives of Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited. Later, the officials who searched these premises were attacked by several CPI(M) workers who were protesting against the raid. They threw eggs and bricks at the officials' vehicles. These workers were led by state party secretary M V Govindan. All this happened in the presence of CRPF personnel and Kerala police officials.
The Context: The alleged case is about allegations that Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL) paid nearly Rs 1.72 to Exalogic Solutions, which is an IT firm owned by Vijayan’s daughter Veena T. The money was paid for software and consultancy services, but they were allegedly never delivered. These allegations first came to public attention in 2023, after there were Income Tax raids on CMRL. After this, the Interim Board of Settlement termed these transactions suspicious and lacking legitimate business justification. After this, the ED launched its own money-laundering investigation. The present-day raids come a day after the Kerala High Court refused to quash the ED proceedings against CMRL. The CPI(M) has called the raids politically motivated. Party general secretary M. A. Baby described the raids as a “targeted attack” on Vijayan. He even questioned if the ruling Congress-led UDF in the state was indirectly aiding the BJP.
The Peek Insight: For months, Congress had accused the BJP of going soft on Vijayan despite serious allegations surrounding the Exalogic-CMRL case. In fact, Rahul Gandhi had publicly questioned why central agencies were aggressively targeting opposition leaders elsewhere while the former Kerala CM remained relatively untouched. And that's what makes this case politically explosive. During the election campaigns, the UDF and others accused the CPI(M) of taking a soft Hindutva approach and siding with the BJP in an attempt to consolidate Hindu votes. But now, the ED, which has constantly faced the allegations of being weaponised by the BJP, has targeted the leader of that very party. In this case, the ED prima facie appears to have legitimate grounds for searching the former CM. But its tainted reputation leaves less space for acceptance of that legitimacy. At the same time, the assault faced by the ED officials from the party workers shows a still united Left front in the state despite losing its electoral ground in the recently concluded state elections. This also shows how corruption allegations involving prominent political families carry a uniquely sensitive public resonance. For the BJP and the UDF, it offers an opportunity to challenge one of the country’s strongest Left opposition leaders. For the CPI(M), it remains to be seen how the party tackles the allegations of accumulation of such mass wealth, something that goes strongly against the ideology it follows.
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