Hailing from Tripura, Dipa's stellar performance in the women’s vault individual final marked her as the first Indian ever to secure a gold medal in any Asian Championships.

An Indian national, along with 22 others, faced the judgment of a court in Uzbekistan, resulting in a 20-year prison sentence for their involvement in the deaths of 68 children who consumed contaminated cough syrup in December 2022. The tragic incident implicated the Uttar Pradesh-based pharmaceutical company, Marion Biotech, which manufactured the cough syrup.