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Spain’s November 11 general strike, called in response to a housing crisis, stagnant wages and rising living costs, is part of a much wider European story. Student-led protests in countries across the continent have spread from schools and universities into broad alliances with trade unions and housing campaigners. France has seen large-scale unrest, initially linked to conditions in schools.

Two Norwegian press associations on Friday asked the Indian embassy in Oslo if its decision to revoke the visa of journalist Helle Lyng Svendsen moments before she was scheduled to depart for Hyderabad was linked to her criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Svendsen had said on Thursday that she was not given an official reason for the cancellation of her visa. In an interview to Scroll, she said she was told that the decision had come “on orders from above”.

Excerpted with permission from ‘Whose Hands are Making the Move’ by Disha Duggal in Monsters of My Mind, edited by Ikroop Sandhu and Lokesh Khodke, Storiculture.

The authorities in Assam’s Lakhimpur on Friday demolished the homes of 132 Bengali Muslim families who had been living on a plot of government land in Boginadi since being displaced in 1983 amid statewide riots. The families alleged that the authorities had targeted “Muslim homes” as their Hindu neighbours were not evicted. The riots in the state had erupted at the peak of the Assam Movement, which was launched in 1979 to identify and deport undocumented immigrants.

Unconditional Cash Transfer has become one of the most potent instruments of social protection in developing countries. India is no exception: several government schemes such as Annapurna Bhandar (previously Lakshmir Bhandar in West Bengal), Ladli Behna Yojana in Madhya Pradesh and Subhadra Yojana in Orissa are being run to help the cause of empowering women in the country. Direct cash transfer plays an instrumental role in decreasing poverty and inequality.

At least 23 persons were killed after a minibus collided with a container truck in Assam’s Golaghat district on Friday, PTI reported. Twenty others were injured. The collision occurred near Kaziranga National Park. The minibus was allegedly speeding in violation of the restrictions imposed near the national park, PTI quoted an official as saying. The exact number of passengers travelling in the minibus was not immediately known, India Today quoted officials as saying.

On October 13, Parvinder Singh Jhota, an anti-drug activist from Mansa was shot dead while broadcasting live on Facebook his confrontation with a chemist. Jhota’s activism often involved sting operations on chemists who were allegedly selling prescription-only drugs to addicts as over-the-counter medicines. His family refused to cremate his body, accusing the state government of failing to support his activism and curb the sale of drugs in Mansa, one of Punjab’s poorest districts.

Could your home be at risk from rising seas? Scroll is investigating coastal flooding in Mumbai and Kolkata, mapping vulnerable areas and examining whether developers and the authorities are accounting for the risks. Support this investigation and help us make this reporting possible. Fund the project here. Congress leader Shashi Tharoor claimed that 115 of 315 speakers scheduled to attend the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad were refused entry into India or had their visas cancelled.

OTHERS ARE Movie trailers ‘Zollywood’ director Trushant Ingle’s new film also stars Kishor Kadam, Mayur More and Rohit Kokate. The Marathi film will be out in cinemas on November 20. Rinku Rajguru in Jijai (2026) | Zee Studios/Coconut

Morning struck me like a slap of sunlight. I shuffled onto the balcony, the sun already high and blazing in the sky. My body burned partly from oversleeping, partly from the four showers I’d taken in the span of four hours during the night. The stink just wouldn’t go away. I sniffed at my body. It didn’t reek – no, the pure unfiltered stench of sweat was wafting from my armpits, where it had concentrated overnight, thickening and intensifying.