Topic: soft power
Indian food fourth most popular in the world, a study of cuisine trade finds
With Italian, Japanese & Chinese food occupying top 3 spots, cuisine emerges as weakest link in Anglo-American cultural hegemony, says study by US economist.
Prasar Bharati wants to switch off AIR short-wave service, India’s voice around the world
Prasar Bharati's decision might hurt India's reach, but public broadcaster justifies move, saying 'short-wave transmissions hardly have any impact anymore on global opinion-making'.
Until 2016, India was on course to break into soft power group of 30 nations. Then it fell
It is systemic issues like corruption, poverty, inequality, gender inequality, and pollution that weigh on global perceptions of India.
Attempts at remaking India are eroding its soft power globally
India's soft power globally is being undermined by the fact by the impression that it is being governed by obscurantist and intolerant forces.
Want to preserve secularism in India? Well, preserve the Hindu ethos first
Secularism in the Indian context would mean maintaining equidistance from all religions. Unfortunately, that equidistance never happened.
Mukesh Ambani is now world’s fourth richest man, overtakes Europe’s wealthiest
Reliance's shares have more than doubled from a low in March as its digital unit got billions in investments from companies including Facebook Inc. and Google.
Defence
Artillery guns, assault rifles, AFVs — Here’s a list of 101 items MoD won’t import in future
Contracts worth almost Rs 4 lakh crore will be placed with the domestic industry within the next six to seven years.
Modi redefined secularism with Ram Mandir as Hindu voters were fed up of Sonia-Left version
Assumptions that Indian secularism died with Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan are bunk. It is enshrined in the Constitution, and is worth preserving.