Soft power in today's day and age of complex geopolitics has departed from the conventional nomenclature given to it.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Digital India Mission on 1 July 2015, many saw it as an ambitious technology programme aimed at expanding internet access and digitising government services.
For decades, India’s social contract rested on an assumption that required little intervention from the state: families would care for their elderly.
Every democracy owes two debts to its soldiers. The first is to equip them well enough to fight.
The Delhi High Court ordered the removal of five allegedly defamatory posts targeting Raghav Chadha while refusing broader personality rights protection, holding that most of the disputed content amounted to political criticism rather than a violation of personality rights.
Pune Rural Police on Wednesday recreated the crime scene with accused Chetan Chaudhary at Lohagad Fort and conducted forensic gait analysis as part of the ongoing Ketan Agarwal murder investigation.
The CBI has secured two days' custody of suspended Haryana IAS officer Pradeep Kumar Dagar in the alleged IDFC First Bank-linked fund diversion case as investigators widen their probe into the suspected Rs 504-crore banking fraud involving multiple Haryana government departments.
At least eight people were killed and 21 injured after a sleeper bus travelling from Rishikesh to Indore collided with a trailer and caught fire on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan's Dausa district.
A delegation of the newly formed TMC group headed by Bengal Leader of Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee will meet the full bench of the poll body.
BJP leader Abhijit Das lodged a fresh complaint alleging large-scale irregularities and violations in the conduct of these medical camps.
"This surveillance system will help eliminate such practices that deprive defenceless and vulnerable animals of proper care,” Manoj Kumar Oraon said.
Biswajit Bera, geoscientist at Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University said that the district possesses enormous strategic mineral potential.
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Pravesh Wahi is the Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and is recognised as an experienced public representative and administrator in Delhi's local governance system.
There are few rivers in the world that define a city as completely as the Danube defines Budapest.
In an age of shrinking attention spans and algorithm- driven playlists, four Indian musicians chose endurance over instant applause, immersion over interruption.
Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan said on Wednesday that the Adani Group must obtain state government's permission to transfer shares of the Vizhinjam seaport.
The neighbouring nations have exchanged the lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen in each other's custody through diplomatic channels at New Delhi and Islamabad.
The initiative combines motivational sessions, personality development workshops, meditation and environmental awareness activities.
Unlike earlier India-Japan summits that revolved around infrastructure projects, high-speed rail or broad strategic declarations, this meeting comes amid a series of cascading global crises that have blurred the line between economics and national security.
Nayara Energy has cut petrol prices by Rs 5 per litre and diesel prices by Rs 3 across its nationwide fuel station network after easing global crude oil prices. The reduction took effect from July 1.
The Centre has lowered aviation turbine fuel prices for domestic airlines by Rs 5 per litre and revised export duties on petrol, diesel and ATF from July 1, while leaving domestic fuel taxes unchanged.
Commercial LPG cylinder prices have been reduced by Rs 183.50 from today. A 19 kg commercial cylinder will now cost Rs 2,930 in Delhi, while the price of a 5 kg FTL cylinder has been cut by Rs 13.
India's fiscal deficit stood at Rs 1.62 trillion during the first two months of the financial year (April-May FY27), accounting for 9.6 per cent of the full-year Budget Estimate (BE) of Rs 16.96 trillion, according to data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) on Tuesday.
The voiceover was called the cringiest in living memory. The women were called props. And the director being a woman made the whole thing harder to defend, not easier.
The settlement came in May. No money changed hands. Now Blake Lively is back in court asking Justin Baldoni to pay her $8 million for the cost of fighting him.
Senior artists told him he belonged on the wedding circuit. He did not argue. He stopped doing weddings and started booking his own concerts instead.
Ten years have passed since the split. Brad Pitt has been with someone since 2022. Angelina Jolie just confirmed she has not been with anyone since the divorce.
Banned from the Indian Premier League until the 2028 season, Harry Brook has insisted he has no regrets about skipping the cash-rich franchise league, saying his only priority is representing England as he also emerged as the leading contender to succeed Ben Stokes as the country's next Test captain.
Reliance Foundation-supported athletes dominated the 65th Inter-State Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, winning 33 medals, including 14 gold, 13 silver and six bronze, over the five-day competition. As many as 15 athletes also achieved the qualification standard for the Asian Games.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has made a slight tweak to the India Open's schedule, shifting the Super 750 event to February in 2027 before restoring it to its usual late-January window in 2028 as part of the World Tour calendar announced on Tuesday.
India have made just one change to their squad for the women’s cricket competition at the 2026 Asian Games, replacing out-of-form wicketkeeper-batter Yastika Bhatia with 17-year-old G Kamalini after their group-stage exit from the ICC Women's T20 World Cup.
The National Testing Agency has started evaluating NEET-UG 2026 re-examination answer sheets and is scrutinising over 10,000 objections to the provisional answer key before announcing the results.
In an era when mobile phones have replaced books as the preferred companions of many, one man from rural Karnataka has spent more than half a century proving that the printed word still matters.
Artificial Intelligence in the classroom In a country with a varied demography like India , new measures and components constantly reshape the education landscape. Most recently the affordable and accessible artificial intelligence-driven tools have made their foray into the academic classroom.
CBSE has dismissed Class 12 student Vedant Shrivastava's claims about discrepancies in his re-evaluation results, saying his Physics score increased by nine marks and nearly all revaluation applications have been processed.
A major change in the rural employment system has come into effect across Uttar Pradesh and the rest of the country with the Government of India officially replacing the MGNREGA with the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB-G RAM G) Act.
The Allahabad High Court has reprimanded the District Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar for disobeying court orders, directing him to appear in person.
Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan said on Wednesday that the Adani Group must obtain state government's permission to transfer shares of the Vizhinjam seaport.
Banned from the Indian Premier League until the 2028 season, Harry Brook has insisted he has no regrets about skipping the cash-rich franchise league, saying his only priority is representing England as he also emerged as the leading contender to succeed Ben Stokes as the country's next Test captain.
The projects include seven major healthcare initiatives worth Rs 114 crore, while 325 Amrit Sarovars, constructed at a cost of Rs 223 crore, were also dedicated to the people of Haryana.
The recovered pistols include one 9MM Glock, one .30 bore Tisas Turkiye, one .30 bore Special Modified Pistol, four .30 bore pistols.
While Pakistan intensified its diplomatic offensive against India, a group of prominent Indians and Pakistanis appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to take “meaningful and sustained steps towards restoring peace, normalcy, dialogue and cooperation in South Asia.”
Eight passengers were killed and more than 25 others injured when a sleeper coach traveling from Rishikesh-Haridwar to Indore caught fire after colliding with a trailer on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway near Dausa in the early hours of Wednesday.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said her government is accelerating development works across all the assembly constituencies, emphasizing on providing improved amenities across the rural belt and those areas that had previously faced negligence, to ensure overall development of the national capital.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has extended the deadline until July 15 for the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged donation theft case in the Ayodhya pilgrimage area.
