Indian climate activist and engineer Sonam Wangchuk ended his hunger strike late on Thursday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged in a late-night social media message that the government would discuss stricter anti-paper-leak legislation in a Cabinet meeting and introduce a bill in Parliament the following week. Wangchuk, who had been fasting to demand the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over irregularities in the NEET (India's national medical entrance examination), broke his fast in the presence of two Union Ministers after the government provided written assurances that non-violent student protesters would have cases against them withdrawn and that compensation for families of students who died by suicide would be considered. The developments signal a partial easing of a standoff that had brought heavy security to central Delhi's Jantar Mantar protest site and prompted the shutdown of 17 metro stations, though opposition leaders and the Congress-led protest coalition said the government's concessions still fell short of full accountability.