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How Modis Digital India Rewired The Way India Lives, Works & Connects

Just recently, the Modi Government marked the completion of Digital India’s 10-year journey… a decade that has brought about significant transformation across industries, lives, and the way India operates at its core.  One of the most defining forces behind this change has been the Digital India initiative. Launched in 2015, this visionary movement set out to digitally empower every citizen, and today, its impact is visible in every corner of the country. To celebrate this remarkable journey, the Government has rolled out a series of digital assets… powerful videos and content that draw a compelling before-and-after picture of India, comparing the pre-2014 landscape with the digitally empowered India of today. . These videos showcase how technology is simplifying everyday life. Showcasing the Digital Leap The first video puts the spotlight on Digi Yatra… a solution to a hassle we all face: juggling boarding passes, ID proofs, and long airport queues. Whether it’s the fear of misplacing your documents or the constant need to pull them out at every checkpoint, air travel can get tedious. Digi Yatra solves this by using facial recognition technology to make the entire journey contactless and paperless. Your face becomes your identity… making airport travel smoother, faster, and smarter. We all have that one dusty drawer at home… stuffed with mark sheets, PAN cards, ration cards, voter IDs, and who knows what else. And just when we need that one document the most, it magically disappears. We’ve all stood in long queues, photocopying the same papers, carrying 3 passport-size photos, and getting them self-attested just to submit one form. Enter DigiLocker. In the past 10 years, over 52 crore users have uploaded more than 943 crore documents onto this secure digital platform… making paperwork finally go paperless. With just a few taps on your phone, you can now access your documents anywhere, anytime… no more lost certificates, no more scanning, no more stress. There was a time when going to buy veggies meant bargaining over ₹2 and digging into wallets full of coins. “Bhaiya, ₹10 ka dhaniya free dena” was a daily ritual. And if you forgot your wallet? Game over. Now? Even your local sabziwala says, “Paytm karo, Google Pay karo, PhonePe karo.” Thanks to UPI, India doesn’t carry cash… we carry confidence. In just 10 years, India has gone from pocket change to ₹25 lakh crore worth of UPI transactions in a single month (May 2025). And here’s the real mic drop… half of the world’s real-time digital transactions now happen in India. We’re not just leading, we’re setting the gold standard for the world. Who would’ve thought your phone would one day replace your wallet? Digital India did.4 There was a time when if the government sent ₹100 to the poor, only ₹15 actually reached them… the rest? Lost in a black hole of middlemen, paperwork, and “chai-paani” cuts. But with Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), that changed. Today, the money doesn’t pass through ten hands… it goes straight to the people who need it, directly into their bank accounts. Over the last 10 years, ₹44.5 lakh crore has been transferred to the poor and needy through DBT. By removing leakages and middlemen, the country has saved ₹3.5 lakh crore… that’s like deleting “corruption charges” from our system cache. For people in remote areas, seeing a specialist was nearly impossible — unless they travelled miles and spent a day’s wage. Digital India changed that. Today, with one of the world’s largest telemedicine platforms, over 37 crore patients have received virtual consultations… right from their phones. What’s even more heartening? 56% of them are women, and 13% are senior citizens. Because healthcare shouldn’t come with a location barrier. And when the world was brought to its knees by a pandemic, India didn’t just fight back… it built CoWIN. With over 111 crore users and 220 crore+ vaccine doses administered, CoWIN became a digital shield that helped protect a nation of 1.4 billion. In just a decade, Digital India has gone from being a bold vision to a lived reality… transforming how we travel, transact, access healthcare, store documents, and receive government support. It’s not just about apps and platforms… it’s about empowerment, accessibility, and inclusion at scale. This 10-year milestone isn’t just a celebration of technology; it’s a celebration of how technology can uplift lives, bridge gaps, and drive real change. As we step into the next decade, one thing is certain… the foundation has been laid, the momentum is strong, and the future is undoubtedly digital. Here’s to an India that doesn’t just go digital but leads digital.

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How Al Hilals CWC Win Over Man City Shifts Perceptions Of Saudi Football

Riyadh club’s shock defeat of Man City at FIFA Club World Cup was the culmination of a long climb by the Saudi team for respect. Riyadh-based club Al Hilal and the Saudi Pro League (SPL) have made a habit of making international headlines in recent years, but almost exclusively it’s been for off-field matters involving money and player transfers. Whether it was Brazilian superstar Neymar’s 90-million-euro ($98m) blockbuster signing in 2023 and subsequent departure 17 months later after playing just seven games, or their unsuccessful attempts to lure other big names like Mohamed Salah and Victor Osimhen, the club and league are never far from the headlines at this time of year as the summer transfer window kicks into gear. And now, once again, the whole world is talking about Al Hilal – but for an entirely different reason. For once, they’re talking about the football because Al Hilal has only gone and defeated Manchester City – a star-studded side that has won four of the past five English Premier League titles and a UEFA Champions League title two year ago – in the Round of 16 at the newly expanded FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) in the United States. As far as world football’s elite clubs go, Pep Guardiola’s side sit right near the very top. But on this night in Orlando, now etched in Saudi football folklore, they were no match for Al Hilal; the thrilling, see-sawing encounter ending 4-3 after a simply remarkable 120 minutes of football that heralded the arrival of Middle East club football onto a global stage. Al Hilal’s historic victory makes them the first Asian club to beat a European club in a FIFA tournament. Al Hilal’s coach, Simone Inzaghi, who only joined the club a few weeks after guiding Inter Milan to the UEFA Champions League final in May, likened the challenge to climbing the world’s tallest mountain. “The key to this result was the players, and the heart they put on the pitch tonight,” the 49-year-old Italian said. “We had to do something extraordinary because we all know Manchester City, that team. We had to climb Mount Everest without oxygen and we made it.” Towards the end of the game, the Everest metaphor was apt because Al Hilal’s stars were completely exhausted; the hot and humid weather conditions, along with the enormity of the occasion, conspiring to sap almost every last ounce out of their being. But they simply refused to give in or give up. Despite conceding three goals to City, goalkeeper Yassine Bounou was a brick wall between the sticks, making numerous heroic saves to keep Al Hilal in the contest during the first half. Striker Marcos Leonardo could barely walk by the end of the game, but his iconic celebration of what proved to be the match-winning goal will be remembered by Al Hilal fans for a long time to come. Key midfielders Ruben Neves and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic may as well have worn gladiator armour, such was their fight and determination, while unheralded Saudi players such as Nasser al-Dawsari and Moteb al-Harbi made a name for themselves on the sport’s biggest stage. “All the players were exceptional in everything, in the possession phase, the non-possession phase,” Inzaghi continued. “It is barely three weeks that we are together and you can see the level of application, they really put the effort in. As a coach clearly that is very satisfying. “The lads delivered that performance, they have reached the quarterfinals.” Pre-match, few pundits gave Al Hilal more than a puncher’s chance of victory against the defending CWC champion Manchester City, who had a perfect 3-from-3 winning record in the group stage. City, a super team known around the world, had multiple opportunities to win the match but failed to capitalise at key points late in the contest. Their stunning defeat to Al Hilal will likely be the subject of post-tournament revisionism that attempts to downplay the importance of the CWC to mega clubs at the end of a gruelling, 10-month 2024-25 campaign. But what of Al Hilal? They, too, were at the end of a long, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign, finishing second in the SPL behind Al Ittihad and falling at the semifinal stage of the AFC Champions League Elite. Like their City counterparts, when you include international football, many of Al Hilal’s stars had played more than 50 games this season and faced three taxing CWC fixtures in the intense heat of an US summer. But they also came into this game devoid of three of their regular starting XI, including two of their most important attacking threats in Aleksandar Mitrovic and Salem Al-Dawsari. Together, they combined for 55 goals and 25 assists in all competitions this past season, leaving an unbelievable void in attack; while Hassan al-Tambakti, a central defender who is the preferred partner of Kalidou Koulibaly in the heart of defence, was also sidelined after injuring his knee in training on the eve of the game. It meant Neves, their best midfielder, was deployed in the heart of defence, forcing other reshuffles across the pitch. Against a stacked Manchester City side that had replenished its stocks significantly ahead of this tournament, this was a game that Al Hilal would ordinarily have had no right winning. But this is also why football is the beautiful game; the impossible made possible. The scenes of celebration in the dressing rooms, and across the cafes and streets of Riyadh in the early hours of Tuesday morning, were reminiscent of another of Saudi football’s recent milestone moments – their 2-1 win over Argentina at the World Cup in Qatar. The shockwaves of this result will reverberate around the football world in the same way. After two years of distraction about money and potential star acquisitions at Al Hilal, this match was the coming-out party for club football in Saudi Arabia. Follow Al Jazeera English:...