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India won its first athletics gold at the 2026 Asian Games in Japan on Tuesday as Kiran Pahal, Poovamma Machettira, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj clinched the women’s 4x400m relay in 3:29.69 minutes. Bahrain took silver and China bronze, while India also added relay and field-event bronzes.
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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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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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India’s September 30 programme at the Asian Games 2026 begins with golf at the Kasugai Country Club East Course and moves into archery semifinals, where the women’s compound team, mixed pair and men’s compound team face South Korea. The day spans 12 sports and offers early medal chances.
India won gold in the women’s 4x400m relay at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Tuesday, with Kiran, M. R. Poovamma, Prachi and Vithya Ramaraj clocking 3:29.69. Bahrain took silver and China bronze, as India claimed its seventh Asiad relay gold and extended its medal streak since 1982.
Neeru Dhanda opened India’s Day 11 gold rush with a historic women’s individual trap victory, becoming the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games gold in the event. India also won the women’s 4x400m relay gold, added medals in athletics and boxing, and reached the volleyball quarter-finals.
India won its first athletics gold at the 2026 Asian Games in Japan on Tuesday as Kiran Pahal, Poovamma Machettira, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj clinched the women’s 4x400m relay in 3:29.69 minutes. Bahrain took silver and China bronze, while India also added relay and field-event bronzes.
The Indian trio amassed 328 points to finish second behind China, who secured gold with 346 points. Kuwait took the bronze.
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