Fireworks at America’s 250th birthday bash, claimed to be the ‘best firework show ever!’ by President Donald Trump, is the new low in sending poisonous gases into the atmosphere. Over 40 minutes, 851,000 individual shells were fired.
Prime Minister Modi flagged off India’s first indigenous hydrogen powered train on the Jind–Sonipat section, marking a historic leap in clean mobility and Atmanirbhar Bharat vision.
What began as an irreverent internet joke has acquired the unmistakable weight of a political movement.
The return of arranged marriages among sections of India’s younger generation is less a rejection of modernity than an indictment of the digital age’s promise that technology could simplify the search for lifelong companionship.
India is undergoing a quiet yet consequential transformation ~ one unfolding not in legislatures or courtrooms, but in bedrooms, on smartphones, and across digital platforms where intimacy has become increasingly accessible, negotiable, and transient.
The Aravallis were old before the Himalayas were born, raised in the Proterozoic more than a billion years ago, and for most of that unimaginable span they have done the quiet, unglamorous work of a frontier: turning back the Thar, recharging the aquifers beneath Rajasthan, holding the air over Delhi a fraction cleaner than it would otherwise be.
As the states of Assam, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh prepare for enactment of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) following Uttarakhand which became the first in the country to do so, the discourse around UCC pertaining to individual rights is under much discussion.
The weakest link in Indian agriculture has never been the farmer. It has been the country's enduring dependence on a monsoon that is becoming increasingly unpredictable.
The latest ruling of the US Supreme Court is about far more than immigration.
While attention remains fixed on conflicts in West Asia and their aftermath, one development with potentially far-reaching consequences for the future of international politics has attracted surprisingly little attention: China’s 17 June 2026 White Paper on global governance.
