India- Australia: Cricket and Cultural Diplomacy have a dynamic relationship in which culture serves as a diplomatic bridge. Cultural diplomacy between the two countries emphasizes how people to people, culture and soft power can help to build better bilateral relations. Cricket has become one of the most powerful unifying forces between India and Australia, and it has defined 70 years of sporting and cultural relations between the nations.
SMART-PDS is a centrally sponsored, technology-oriented reform initiative by the Department of Food & Public Distribution (DFPD), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, aimed at enhancing and consolidating the IT infrastructure of India’s Public Distribution System (PDS). With a total budget of ₹349.9 crore, the three-year (April 2023–March 2026) approved program builds on previous computerisation attempts (End-to-End TPDS and the Integrated Management of PDS/IM-PDS) and introduces a modern, standardized national platform that unifies state and central operations throughout the PDS lifecycle.
India–New Zealand Agri-Tech Innovation is emerging as more than a technical exchange; it is a contest over models of innovation and inclusion. At a time when agriculture faces the twin pressures of climate resilience and global market integration. The partnership can be transformational, but only if deliberate adaptation, rights-based data governance, and financing follow the technology. Without these, the result risks being one of two failures: techno-dumping (NZ solutions ill-fitted to India) or stalled scalability (India pilots remaining fragmented).
The SCO summit at Tianjin in China, followed by a spectacular military display in Beijing, signal a resolve to contest the vagaries of the Trump Administration and tweak the global and regional orders.
India and Iran have historically enjoyed cultural, economic, and historical connections. Their relations have also gained new strategic importance in the last few decades with the re-emergence of Chabahar Port as a hub for India's regional connectivity policy.
The bombing of Iran represents the return of old-style imperialism, making the point that might is right with the biggest bang possible without exploding an atomic bomb. Which cat got the tongue of India, leader of the Global South, when the US bombed Iran? Why did the tongue of India, leader of the BRICS, turn mute, when the world called on Israel, at the UN, to end its genocide in Gaza? Cat, Cat burning bright, in the forests of Mt Zion and Washington DC, why this appetite for India’s respect among nations?
National Food Security Mission (NFSM) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme launched in October 2007. The National Development Council (NDC) adopted a resolution in its 53rd meeting, held on 29 May 2007, to launch a Food Security Mission aimed at increasing the production of rice, wheat, and pulses and securing food security for the nation.