An IIT-Kanpur graduate and former Kerala cadre bureaucrat, Gyanesh Kumar rose through key government positions before becoming Chief Election Commissioner amid political controversy and internal poll panel differences
The FIR states that one of the accused, identified as Asif, took out a firearm after another accused allegedly said, “Asif bhai gun nikal.” The girl identified Asif as the person wearing a purple shirt and told police that he showed her a black-coloured gun before putting it away
The protests were reported in Delhi, Bihar, Assam, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Congress leaders alleged that the Election Commission had compromised its independence and demanded that Kumar step down
Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) chief Upendra Kushwaha and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders have called for greater clarity from the poll body
The Bill was introduced by the West Bengal government in June 2026 to deal with anti-social activities, it defines what constitutes an anti-social activity and who can be treated as a “goonda”
Unlike most government appointees, the CEC enjoys security of tenure almost identical to that of a Supreme Court judge
The announcement came a day after CJP founder Dipke demanded Kumar’s resignation
Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban have drifted apart over the TTP, border disputes, military strikes, refugee returns and trade disruptions, with the core dispute centred on militants operating from Afghan territory and Islamabad’s response
Wangchuk demands release of the judicial inquiry report a year after four people were killed in police firing in Leh
International
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said attacks on commercial shipping and merchant vessels were “legally and morally indefensible” as India and Liberia launched a new group focused on the safety of seafarers and global shipping.
National
The Chief Election Commissioner and both Election Commissioners had unanimously approved the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) for Bihar, the Summary Revision for Assam and SIR orders for other states and Union Territories
International
A Delhi court has allowed US national Matthew Aaron VanDyke and six Ukrainian co-accused to travel abroad for a month, even as the NIA’s investigation into alleged drone-warfare training in Myanmar remains open.
International
The Centre has kept most of Manipur under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, while also extending the law in specified areas of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.
National
The court directed the Delhi Police to provide protection to the woman, who received threats after the circulation of the alleged morphed images.
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Speaking to PTI, Sitharaman said the money collected through the proposed MDR would not go to the government or be credited to the public exchequer
National
Deep depression over Odisha triggered evacuations, school closures and train disruptions as heavy rain battered Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal. IMD issued red and orange alerts, with more than 8,000 people moved from vulnerable areas in Odisha.
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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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