The Election Commission has rejected suggestions of an internal breakdown and said its decisions, including those related to the SIR, had the approval of all three commissioners.
From Neerja Bhanot's sacrifice during the 1986 Pan Am hijacking to Captain Smit Machchhar's actions during the 2026 Flydubai cockpit attack, the story traces how crew courage and successive hijacking-related security measures have shaped modern aviation
Foreign selling, elevated US bond yields, high crude prices and a weak rupee have battered large-caps, even as domestic liquidity keeps mid- and small-caps relatively resilient
Machchhar, a former SpiceJet commander, was injured after an altercation in the cockpit forced Flydubai flight FZ1073 to divert to Saudi Arabia.
Flydubai flight FZ1073 made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after a cockpit confrontation injured both pilots and triggered a rapid descent.
From a colonial institution to a well respected organistaion which finds its place in the aspirations of the Indian middle class, the UPSC has gone through a long and illustrious history of service
India and Pakistan reached the Men’s Asian Games final after contrasting semi-final wins on Saturday in Nisshin, Japan. India beat Sri Lanka by 124 runs after Ishan Kishan’s unbeaten 80 and a sharp bowling display, while Pakistan overcame Bangladesh in a reduced 13-over contest. The final is on October 3.
RSS also linked demographic change with questions of cultural identity. Sunil Ambekar said every nation has an identity and argued that maintaining a balance among people who regard the country’s culture as their own was necessary to preserve that identity
Freestyle vs Greco-Roman wrestling explained, from leg attacks and holds to key differences, scoring, weight categories and tactics at Asian Games 2026
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The petition concerned four accounts with public sector banks whose debit operations had been frozen by the West Bengal Police. The Banerjee-led faction challenged the action, alleging procedural lapses in the FIRs underlying the freeze
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Despite his injuries, Captain Smit Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to rush in and overpower the attacker
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A new poll shows Donald Trump’s economic approval has fallen to a record low, with more voters blaming his policies for persistent high prices and rising living costs
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ICC has introduced new playing conditions across Tests, ODIs and T20Is, covering time-wasting penalties, pink-ball Tests, wide-ball rules, overthrows, intervals and women's cricket balls
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Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel announced the award on Thursday, praising the pilot’s role in protecting those on board
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A Delhi Special NIA Court has directed charges to be framed against Yasin Malik and six others under the PMLA over allegations of receiving foreign funding through hawala channels to support separatist and subversive activities in Jammu and Kashmir
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu indicated that the co-pilot may have used an axe to attack the Indian pilot during the flydubai incident
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SubscribeYour food may not be safe. The system knows it. Yet the food chain keeps moving. From five-star kitchens to roadside dhabas, food passes through a chain where contamination, adulteration and poor hygiene can enter at every stage, with consequences ranging from diarrhoea and jaundice to typhoid and hepatitis. Into this maze has stepped Tukaram Mundhe. Since taking charge as Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration commissioner in May, Mundhe has overseen more than 12,000 inspections and raids, cancelled or suspended around 600 licences and sealed more than 300 eateries. But raids cannot fix a broken system. India has the laws, standards and regulators. Yet violations persist, enforcement remains uneven and corruption finds its way through the gaps. Mundhe can keep cracking the whip. But can one man change the system? In this issue, Outlook examines India’s food-safety maze, where it fails and why one Tukaram is not enough.
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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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