India ended a 44-year wait for an Asian Games women’s hockey gold on Friday at the Gifu Prefectural Green Stadium, beating defending champions China 1-0 in the 2026 final. Lalremsiami Hmarzote scored the only goal, while Savita Punia’s penalty stroke save helped India seal direct qualification for LA 2028.
CJP Protest LIVE Updates: All Metro stations where services had been stopped in the morning due to impending protests are now back in service
Over 700 detained as Delhi Police, RAF and CRPF personnel block protesters demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation
CJP will launch its Jail Bharo Andolan at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park today against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, despite police denial of permission, with founder Abhijeet Dipke
Delhi Traffic Police's survey identified locations where two three-lane streams converge into a single three-lane corridor. This forces traffic arriving across six lanes to fit into half that number, creating bottlenecks as vehicles compete for space
India is considering an aviation security advisory for airlines after Flydubai captain Smit Machchhar was injured during an alleged cockpit attack that triggered emergency signals and a rapid descent
Syrian officials and Hezbollah representatives held secret talks in Türkiye in September to ease tensions, but Türkiye and Syria have denied that the meeting took place; the reported contact comes as Damascus seeks tighter control over armed activity and weapons movements on Syrian territory.
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 Dharamkot deputy superintendent of police (DSP) had previously received oral complaints accusing her of demanding and accepting bribes while performing official duties and misbehaving with members of the public
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Gujarat becomes the second state in independent India after Uttarakhand to enact a comprehensive UCC. Members of Scheduled Tribes are exempt from its provisions.
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BSF personnel opened fire after the two suspected intruders allegedly continued moving forward despite being warned to stop
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UAE calls the Flydubai cockpit attack on Flight FZ1073 a terrorist act and praises Indian captain Smit Machchhar after the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight landed safely in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
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In a communication issued on Thursday, the court said senior judges had considered the proposal and decided against discussing the matter on the administrative side
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PM Modi has also spoken to Pilot Smit Machchhar over a video call, praising his courage, presence of mind and composure
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CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke has called for Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation as supporters gather at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park, while residents and businesses raise concerns over repeated public demonstrations
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The Union government is likely to launch a ₹600 crore NCR industry pollution subsidy scheme, Swacch Pawan Neel Gagan, offering 30-40% support for air pollution control devices ahead of winter.
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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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Sujeet Kalkal's journey from a small akhada in Imlota to Asian Games gold at 65kg has been shaped by his father's Olympic dream, years of technical training, and a gradual rise through the ranks. His comeback from 2-9 down in the final capped a breakthrough year, with family, churma, and Haryanvi music offering a glimpse of the wrestler behind the medal
Asian Games 2026 Day 15 features men's hockey and cricket finals, alongside medal events in golf, wrestling, and archery, with several athletes chasing podium finishes
India vs China Asian Games Men's Hockey Final live streaming: Check match date, start time, streaming details and where to watch match between India and Malaysia in India
Asian Games 2026 Day 14 Wrap (October 2): India surged back into the top five of the Asian Games 2026 medal tally on October 2 after a historic Day 14 in which women’s hockey, boxing, wrestling and archery delivered golds. Lalremsiami’s goal sealed a 1-0 win over China, while Lovlina Borgohain, Parveen Hooda, Ankush Panghal and Sujeet Kalkal also struck gold.
India ended a 44-year wait for an Asian Games women’s hockey gold on Friday at the Gifu Prefectural Green Stadium, beating defending champions China 1-0 in the 2026 final. Lalremsiami Hmarzote scored the only goal, while Savita Punia’s penalty stroke save helped India seal direct qualification for LA 2028.
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As Drishyam: The Conclusion hits cinemas on Gandhi Jayanti, a look at the garage of the man who has spent three films convincing audiences he's just an ordinary cable operator
By Aaron Jacob
Among Mahatma Gandhi's handful of possessions was a silver Zenith pocket watch, a gift from Jawaharlal Nehru that accompanied him daily, was stolen, and remarkably, returned
By Sonali Mukherjee
Sharvari has been named H&M Beauty’s first-ever India ambassador. The partnership arrives with a festive beauty assortment featuring the actor’s picks across makeup and fragrance, including blush, highlighter, kajal, liquid eyeshadow, lip gloss and perfume
By Sonali Mukherjee
On Gandhi Jayanti, explore how khadi evolved from Mahatma Gandhi’s symbol of self-reliance and the Swadeshi movement into a sophisticated textile embraced by designers including Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Ritu Kumar, Rohit Bal, Rajesh Pratap Singh and Abraham & Thakore
