Highlights of India Today Hindi 1st January 2025 issue:
Nirnayak Pal Jinhone Desh Ko Prerit Kiya
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.
Business
Relianced IPO, 1977
Equity Ka Aaya Samrat
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 revolution
Infrastructure
Metro Rail
Shahri Safar Ki Badli Surat
From Calcutta’s pioneering start to Delhi’s technological leap, India’s metro systems have changed the way its urban citizenry travels
Defence and Space
AGNI-I, 1989
Aasmaan Me Agnikawach
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 superpower
Sports
Cricket World Cup, 1983
Jeet Ki Soch Jab Hui Saakar
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.
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