pspan stylefont-family: Calibri,sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;Highlights of India Today Hindi 1st January 2025 issue:spanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Nirnayak Pal Jinhone Desh Ko Prerit Kiyaspanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Since 1975, when India Today English was founded, it has accompanied more than a couple of generations of Indians along a tumultuous and exciting journey for the greater part of our country’s history as an independent nation. Now, on the cusp of our 50th year in print, you’ll understand the impulse to look back with a range of emotions. The nostalgia goes without saying, but in compiling this special selection of 50 ‘turning points’ in the back pages of India and India today, we have focused on events and episodes that caught our collective imagination or national sentiment. They range from civic milestones like the Right to Information Act of 2005 to fanciful beauty pageant victories of 1994.spanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black; spanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Businessspanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Relianced IPO, 1977spanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Equity Ka Aaya Samratspanp p classMsoNormal stylemargin-bottom: 12.0pt; line-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;With his novel idea of raising funds from the public in the late ’70s, Dhirubhai Ambani awoke the sleeping giant that was India’s capital market, giving the ordinary investor a chance to own a small piece of big business and be part of an equity revolutionspanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Infrastructurespanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Metro Railspanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Shahri Safar Ki Badli Suratspanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;From Calcutta’s pioneering start to Delhi’s technological leap, India’s metro systems have changed the way its urban citizenry travelsspanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black; spanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Defence and Spacespanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;AGNI-I, 1989spanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Aasmaan Me Agnikawachspanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;In 1989, the launch of its first intermediate-range ballistic missile, Agni, elevated India into an elite club. Agni-I laid the foundation of the country’s emergence as a regional superpowerspanp p classMsoNormal stylemargin-bottom: 12.0pt; line-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black; spanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Sportsspanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Cricket World Cup, 1983spanp p classMsoNormal styleline-height: 16.55pt;span stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Jeet Ki Soch Jab Hui Saakarspanp p classMsoNormalspan stylefont-family: Aptos,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: black;Yes, even that was not there when Kapil Dev, himself only 24, led a bunch of devil-may-care no-hopers right up to the summit of world cricket. For India, it was the equivalent of the Moon Landing—except unplanned and unimagined. What changed after that Everything.spanp