Opposition leaders have intensified criticism of the Election Commission, citing reported internal objections over SIR and demanding action against CEC Gyanesh Kumar
Fresh questions surround Gyanesh Kumar after two Election Commissioners flagged decisions on SIR, voter deletions and electoral data, with the ECI maintaining that decisions were unanimous
One Tukaram Mundhe can’t fix the broken system. For now, it is good enough that he is trying
The ERONET software is designed to match current voters with corresponding entries in older “base” electoral rolls
Since taking charge as the commissioner of the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May, Tukaram Mundhe has overseen 12,000 inspections and suspended more than 600 licences. In an interview with Mrinalini Dhyani, he talks about the scale of violations in the state, the gaps in manpower and laboratory capacity, the need for systemic enforcement and the allegations of corruption within the enforcement machinery.
The Jamui harassment case has pulled India back into a familiar debate — moral policing, women's safety, and who gets to control public space
The park reportedly does not have CCTV cameras at its entry and exit gates, while parts of the boundary wall have collapsed. Several gates are also reportedly not manned by security guards.
Bittu launched a three-day 'Clean With Bittu' drive on September 20, which coincided with World Cleanup Day. During the first phase of the campaign, Bittu and a group of volunteers spent around four-and-a-half hours cleaning a stretch of the Yamuna riverbank
Two Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, raised at least 14 formal objections to decisions within the Election Commission over electoral-roll management, voter registration and the handling of its database during Gyanesh Kumar’s tenure
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Rahul Gandhi's ‘vote chori’ attack comes after reports of 14 objections by two Election Commissioners over SIR decisions.
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The CJP has cancelled its programmes scheduled for Thursday and said its leadership would address a press conference in Delhi on the "Hijacking of India's Democracy" at noon
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Jay Singh Rathore reportedly broke down while responding to questions on X Spaces and admitted that he had made a mistake
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The all-women march saw students raising slogans and carrying posters highlighting the need for better security infrastructure around the college and its adjoining areas, as yet another alleged rape incident brought the longstanding demand for women's safety into focus
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New Delhi said the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has no locus standi on matters it considers internal to India, after its Contact Group reiterated support for Kashmiri self-determination.
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The US has created a special pathway for qualifying Afrikaners from South Africa, citing what the Trump administration describes as racial discrimination and humanitarian concerns.
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A Bengaluru entrepreneur’s hiring post restricting male candidates from four states has triggered debate over regional bias and workplace discrimination
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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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