India
Environment
Himalayan flood kills 1,003 as glacial lake risk widens
Below the glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya sit thousands of lakes held back by walls of ice and rock debris. When those walls give way, entire valleys can flood in minutes.
Geopolitics
Modi tells Putin dialogue is the only path to end Ukraine war
Narendra Modi met Vladimir Putin on 31 August on the margins of the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and told the Russian president that dialogue and diplomacy was the way forward in resolving conflicts.
Technology
ChatGPT shows ads to free users in India, starting with 50 brands
Ads are live inside ChatGPT. OpenAI switched them on for Free and Go tier users in India on 27 August 2026, opening with fifty brands through agency partners WPP and Omnicom. If your brand missed that first cohort, a self-serve ad manager opens next month and the floor is roughly $7.60 a day.
Geopolitics
India's Cockroach movement won. Now Modi is courting Gen Z
Ten days after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned, the Cockroach Janta Party says it will stay a pressure group rather than become a party, and Modi's BJP has started courting the young voters who forced the concession.
Sport
BJP MP and wrestling chief cleared, six athletes to appeal
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashwini Panwar acquitted Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, former president of the Wrestling Federation of India, and former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar on 3 August 2026, ruling that the prosecution had not proved the sexual harassment charges filed against