Following the father's complaint, police registered an abetment-to-suicide case and invoked the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, commonly called the SC/ST Act, against a professor and others
Wakode, a second-year B.Tech student in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, was found dead in his hostel room last week, hours after he was allegedly found using ChatGPT during an examination
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Two minor students were allegedly harassed by a group of men in Jamui while returning from a coaching class. After a video surfaced online, police filed an FIR against seven people and have so far detained three of the accused
What began as a northern Yemeni rebellion evolved into a direct challenge to Saudi Arabia, drawing in Iran, Ali Abdullah Saleh and eventually the United States. The 2022 truce reduced the fighting but did not resolve the conflict, while the Red Sea crisis gave the Houthis a new source of regional leverage. The latest escalation has brought those layers back together.
An X user shared the Scindia's interaction with sports anchor during a cricket match and questioned the continued use of the royal title, referring to the abolition of such titles in 1971.
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UN Special Rapporteur Ben Saul says the US strikes in international waters may amount to unlawful killings, while Washington maintains the operations target drug-trafficking groups it has designated as terrorists.
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IIT Bombay has suspended Dean of Administrative Affairs Professor Suryanarayana Doolla amid the student suicide probe, while director Shirish B Kedare said further action will follow the inquiry.
Delhi CEO says SIR notices issued to LK Advani, S Jaishankar, Jagdeep Dhankhar, Rekha Gupta and others do not mean deletion from electoral rolls. Final list due on November 4.
UN Special Rapporteur Ben Saul says the US strikes in international waters may amount to unlawful killings, while Washington maintains the operations target drug-trafficking groups it has designated as terrorists.
The findings are part of a status report submitted to the Supreme Court on September 16 and represent an increase from the 70 alleged instances recorded in the interim report of the first SIT headed by Vijay Vishwas Pant
IIT Bombay has suspended Dean of Administrative Affairs Professor Suryanarayana Doolla amid the student suicide probe, while director Shirish B Kedare said further action will follow the inquiry.
Climate 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.
More 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.
Is 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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