The Eiffel Tower row involving a BAPS delegation has renewed scrutiny of the Hindu organisation's gender-separation practices and raised questions about religious accommodation in public workplaces
Beyond the circumstances of his death, Mehta's four-decade career as a 1975-batch IAS officer leaves behind a substantial administrative footprint
After 17 years in London, Tarique Rahman could visit India for BRICS, where Sheikh Hasina remains after her 2024 ouster from Bangladesh.
A new report says 332 advertisements featuring AI-generated child sexual abuse material ran on Meta platforms, including 84 in India, with most India-based ads appearing after a government order to remove such content
Iran claims it captured a US underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz, while the US says the older craft had already malfunctioned and carried no sensitive technology
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Peskov said Russia has reached a point where 90 per cent of all payments and transactions with BRICS countries are now conducted in national currencies rather than the US dollar
A Nats flight-data processing fault caused widespread UK flight cancellations and delays, with major airports hit and disruption expected to continue into Wednesday
Trump’s latest trade restrictions deepen tensions with Canada as Ottawa retaliates with tariffs, while Prime Minister Mark Carney pushes diversification and stronger European ties
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People in Rasuwa and Nuwakot had lost the earnings of a lifetime. Their homes had disappeared, their businesses washed away, their future painfully uncertain. Yet, their resilience was humbling
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National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) president Vinod Jakhar filed the petition through advocate Vimal Tyagi, arguing that Delhi University’s limited residential infrastructure forces thousands of students to depend on privately operated PGs, hostels and rented properties
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SIA could seek greater board voting power and loss-reduction targets as Tata approves a $1.1 billion share of Air India’s proposed funding.
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The selection trials for the 2026 Senior World Wrestling Championship in Kazakhstan are scheduled for September 14 at Delhi's Indira Gandhi Stadium
National
WhatsApp has ended support for Android 5.0 and 5.1, with users on affected phones advised to check for software updates or move to a newer supported device
National
The FDA has suspended the licences of Govinda's and two other ISKCON Juhu restaurants following an inspection that revealed serious food safety and hygiene violations.
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CJI Surya Kant slammed the Gautam Budh Nagar administration for issuing a preventive notice to student Akshat Tripathi, calling it a breach of Supreme Court orders.
International
New Treasury measures target 27 Iranian airlines, Boeing 777 transfers, foreign intermediaries and procurement routes used to access US-origin aircraft and technology.
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SubscribeClimate change is making the Himalayas even more vulnerable. Glaciers are melting twice as quickly as in 2000.Rising temperatures are accelerating glacier retreat and altering snow and ice conditions, increasing the potential for landslides, avalanches and glacial floods. But there is another reason for the degradation of the Himalayas. China. Our northern neighbour's insatiable hunger to build humongous infrastructure on ecologically fragile systems has caused harm to the subcontinent as well as the larger Southeast Asia region. The calamity in Nepal offers a stark warning of the risks of China's large, opaque projects, delayed information and environmental disruption. The country is putting millions of lives and billions of dollars of economic activity in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar at stake.
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SubscribeMore than five crore Indians use cannabis and opioids—roughly the population of Spain. Drugs are no longer confined to the margins of society. They are moving from affluent neighbourhoods to small towns and villages, feeding a rapidly expanding illicit market that is becoming more organised, more sophisticated and harder for law enforcement to contain. India’s geography makes the crisis even more dangerous. Wedged between the Golden Crescent in the west and the Golden Triangle in the east, the country sits between two of the world’s major narcotics hubs. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent Independence Day speech underlined the urgency of the challenge.The stakes could hardly be higher. Nearly one crore young Indians are estimated to be addicted to synthetic drugs, at a time when 27 per cent of the country’s population is aged 15-29. Every addiction carries a cost, not just to families, but to productivity, healthcare, the criminal-justice system and national security. India’s drug problem is a crisis capable of eating into the country’s demographic dividend and undermining its economic ambitions. In this issue of Outlook, we travelled to Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana to understand how deep the crisis runs, and to tell the stories of people whose lives have been shattered by drugs.
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SubscribeIs India an ancient civilisation or a modern nation-state? Does it share a collective history, or has a collective identity been imposed upon a country of many histories, faiths and cultures? Does India need a Uniform Civil Code, or is its pursuit an ideological project? These are not merely arguments about India’s past. They are choices about its future. India has been shaped by competing ideas—civilisation and constitutionalism, faith and secularism, individual liberty and collective identity, revolution and reform. At every turn, different choices have offered different destinations. In this Independence Day Special, Outlook brings together India’s leading thinkers, politicians, economists and bureaucrats to confront the fundamental questions before the republic: What is India? Who defines it? And what should it become? Many ideas made India. Many paths lie ahead. The choice belongs to its people.
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Ben Shelton ended Carlos Alcaraz’s title reign in the latest-finishing match in US Open history on Wednesday in New York. Shelton clinched a 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) quarterfinal victory at 3:33 a.m., snapping Alcaraz’s 18-match Grand Slam winning streak to set up an all-American semifinal clash with Frances Tiafoe
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Eleventh seed Frances Tiafoe mounted an incredible comeback to defeat compatriot Alex Michelsen 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6) on Tuesday at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Recovering from two sets down to seal a gruelling quarterfinal victory, Tiafoe advanced to his third US Open semifinal and secured a top-10 ranking return
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