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.
It is commonplace to look at heritage in terms of beautiful buildings, palaces, forts and monuments, artifacts or colourful dances and cultural celebrations.
For generations, countries of northern and western Europe were seen as places where summer meant pleasant sunshine rather than a struggle for survival.
When India’s Delimitation Commission next convenes, it will inherit a task that no commission has faced in fifty years: the freedom to actually change how many parliamentary seats each state sends to the Lok Sabha.
The rescue of a dozen workers from an industrial unit in western Uttar Pradesh is more than another criminal investigation.
The United States and Iran have entered a fragile tactical truce after signing the landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 17 June 2026, halting months of devastating direct warfare.
