Pradhan Resigns; CJP Calls Off Protests

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns, posting a two-page letter addressed to 'my young friends' taking moral responsibility for the exam failures while defending the government's crisis response. Hours later, amid a fresh round of tear-gas dispersal near Jantar Mantar (in which a Special Commissioner and two officers are injured by stone-pelting), the CJP calls off its protests in a joint press conference with Ministers Nadda and Rana, securing commitments to withdraw police cases against non-violent protesters in NDA-ruled states, take no future punitive action, and pay maximum compensation to suicide victims' families under existing rules.