A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said Bedi was a “conscientious citizen” with “ample experience” and stressed that the matter involved larger public interest
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The Kennedy Center has closed for a planned two-year renovation as Trump pushes changes at the Washington arts venue, while a federal court has intervened over potential demolition and renaming plans
Tata Trusts argued that the resolution was invalid because Noel N Tata, its chairman and one of its nominee directors on the Tata Sons board, voted against the proposal.
With nearly one in five people already aged 60 or above, Keralam is preparing a law to regulate elderly care and professionalise caregiving.
A new World Weather Attribution study linking climate change to Nepal’s deadly floods could strengthen its $20 million request from the UN Loss And Damage Fund
The dispute over Chandrasekaran's tenure has unfolded over more than a year. According to a Tata Sons statement, the board received a unanimous resolution from Tata Trusts dated July 28, 2025, supporting a second five-year term for him
As Uttar Pradesh heads towards Assembly elections, the BJP is stepping up its organisational preparations, with state in-charge Vinod Tawde expected to visit Gorakhpur on September 17 and 18
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The three neighbourhoods are among the biggest student accommodation hubs around Delhi University’s North Campus
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Police registered a case of murder, rape and causing disappearance of evidence based on the girl’s family statement and post-mortem findings. Investigators said one of the minors, a 17-year-old boy, was known to the victim and that she had gone to meet him on Friday
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The move extends similar advisories already issued to OTT platforms and private satellite television channels
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A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, granted the Delhi government's forest and wildlife department permission to proceed with the work after the project faced objections in the Delhi High Court
International
Kim Yo Jong has warned of a stronger North Korean response to US-led military exercises in the Asia-Pacific, as Pyongyang continues to oppose multinational drills and defend its nuclear programme
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India’s 30-member shooting contingent landed in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, for the 2026 Asian Games and faced severe accommodation, food and water delays, with athletes waiting until 2 am at a verification centre after arriving at 9 am
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The Election Commission has barred both rival Trinamool Congress factions from using the party's name and reserved 'Flowers & Grass' symbol in the October 6 West Bengal bypolls, pending a final decision on the party's internal dispute
Art & Entertainment
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A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, granted the Delhi government's forest and wildlife department permission to proceed with the work after the project faced objections in the Delhi High Court
International
Kim Yo Jong has warned of a stronger North Korean response to US-led military exercises in the Asia-Pacific, as Pyongyang continues to oppose multinational drills and defend its nuclear programme
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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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Long before Switzerland became synonymous with luxury watches, the Jura Mountains created the conditions for a remarkable ecosystem of watchmakers, craftsmen and specialist suppliers
