Indian wushu player Roshibina Devi Naorem signed off with a Silver medal in the Women’s 60kg Sanda event at the Asian Games after losing 0-2 to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu in the final at Nagoya in Japan. It is third Asian Games medal for Roshibina, who won a Silver at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games and bronze at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games.

Indian rowers Satnam Singh and Salman Khan won Bronze medal in the Men’s Double Sculls event this morning. The Indian pair stayed in second place until the 1,500m mark before slipping to third in the final 500m. China’s Yi Xudi and Yide Nie won the gold medal, while Uzbekistan’s Pavel Sorin and Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov claimed silver. Satnam had won a bronze at the Hangzhou Asian Games in the men’s quadruple sculls event.

India’s Roshibina Devi concluded her Asian Games 2026 campaign with a silver medal after losing to China’s Xiaoyu Zhang in the Wushu women’s 60kg final on Thursday.

This was Roshibina’s third Asian Games medal. She had earlier won a bronze in 2018 and a silver in 2023. Overall, this is India’s 11th medal in Wushu at the Asian Games — one gold, two silver and eight bronze.

India have won 14 medals so far; one gold, six silver and seven bronze.

She earlier defeated Macao’s Chu Man Sin 5-0 in the quarterfinals to assure herself of a medal. She then prevailed 2-0 against Indonesia’s Thania Kusumaningtyas to progress to the final, but eventually succumbed 0-2 to China’s Zhang in the gold-medal bout.

The Ministry of Railways is set to begin the construction of Second Saraighat Rail-Cum-Road Bridge Project in Assam, along with doubling of the railway track between Agthori and Kamakhya stations. The projects are aimed at further strengthening rail and road connectivity across the Brahmaputra. It will also increase transportation capacity for Guwahati and enhance connectivity of the Northeastern region. The project falls under the administrative jurisdiction of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) zone.

According to Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of Northeast Frontier Railway, the project is an important addition to Assam’s transportation infrastructure and will strengthen the movement of both passengers and goods across the region.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday referred petitions challenging the law that replaced the CJI with a Union Cabinet Minister in the three-member selection panel for the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners to a five-judge Constitution Bench even as it delivered a split verdict on the issue.

A bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma – which had on July 30 reserved its order on the issue – requested Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant to constitute a five-judge Constitution Bench for an authoritative pronouncement on the contentious issues raised by the petitioners.

“Inclusion of a Cabinet Minister (in the selection panel) fails to provide an independent counterweight that a neutral selector would. It becomes largely ornamental,” Justice Datta noted. If free and fair elections were to be ensured, it’s axiomatic that the Election Commission must not only be an independent body but also be seen to act independently, Justice Datta said.

Anthropic on Wednesday said its Claude model helped discover a novel enzyme system with properties reminiscent of mechanisms in gene-editing technology CRISPR, marking the first result from the AI startup’s biology research ⁠efforts.

The finding comes days after Reuters reported Anthropic had quietly established a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, as the ⁠company expands its ambitions in life sciences and drug-related research ‌beyond purely computer-based work.

Anthropic said Claude analyzed large DNA databases and found an unusual system built around a reverse transcriptase (RT), an enzyme that ⁠copies ⁠RNA into DNA.

The National Stock Exchange (NSE), country’s largest stock exchange, marked a landmark moment on Thursday as its shares were listed on rival BSE, following years of regulatory and legal hurdles.

NSE Managing Director and CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan described the listing as a significant milestone for the institution and India’s capital markets.

“There is nothing else that represents the aspirations of India’s future than NSE. What is good for India is good for NSE,” Chauhan said at the listing ceremony.

He said organisations such as NSE are created only once in a generation and highlighted the exchange’s role in transforming the country’s capital markets.

India’s Anant Jeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal won the bronze medal in the mixed team skeet event at the Asian Games in Nagoya on Thursday.

The Indian pair finished third with a score of 44 in the final.

They maintained a steady progression through the six series, moving from 7 after the opening series to 14, 21, 29, 36 and finally 44.

Anant Jeet and Parinaaz had earlier entered the final after finishing fourth in the qualification round with an aggregate score of 138, securing the last available spot.

The bronze swelled India’s shooting tally to eight — four silver and four bronze — at the ongoing Asian Games.

Cultural connoisseur ‘Soorya’ Krishnamoorthy, who dedicated much of his life to promote arts in its various forms, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday (September 23, 2026). He was 78. He has been under treatment at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.

An engineer by profession, Mr. Krishnamoorthy began his career as a scientist in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the early 1970s. Right from his early days in the organisation, he had been dedicating much of his free time for cultural activities, especially in film societies. The activities culminated in the staging of his first show Thamaso Ma Jyothirgamaya at the University Senate Hall on September 3, 1977.

A few weeks later, he started the Soorya Stage and Film Society, which has since then been bringing the best of musicians, dancers and films to Thiruvananthapuram, every year without fail as part of the Soorya Music, Dance and Film Festival.

The Supreme Court Collegium has approved the appointment of 12 additional judges as permanent judges in the high courts of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Uttarakhand and Gauhati.

The collegium, comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Vikram Nath and B V Nagarathna, took the decision at a meeting held on Wednesday.

Five additional judges have been approved for permanent appointment to the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

“The Supreme Court collegium, in its meeting held on September 23, has approved the proposals for appointment of the following Additional Judges as Permanent Judges of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh: (i) Shri Justice Maheswara Rao Kuncheam @ Kuncham, (ii) Shri Justice Thoota Chandra Dhana Sekar @ T.C.D. Sekhar, (iii) Shri Justice Challa Gunaranjan, (iv) Shri Justice Avadhanam Hari Haranadha Sarma, and (v) Dr. Justice Yadavalli Lakshmana Rao,” a statement said.

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