In this issue

Highlights of the issue:-The Cover Story this week is an exclusive email interview of US President Barack Obama by India Today's Shekhar Gupta, where the US President shares his well-defined vision about India and larger geo-political issues making headlines around the world. Obama says Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election and his commitment to a new chapter in the relationship between the two countries gives us an opportunity to further energise our partnership. While he is all praise for Modi’s energy and commitment, Obama has said American companies are ready to help push growth in India. He reiterated Washington’s commitment to fighting terrorism around the world and that safe havens within Pakistan are not acceptable.

‘Betting on America’, the lead report of the Cover Story package, explains why Modi is going all out to deepen India’s bonds with the US. And how, for the first time, this sheds the ideological ambivalence previous governments displayed when it came to India-US relations. Former Indian foreign secretary Shyam Saran and US expert on South Asia Lisa Curtis round off the package with their insightful columns.

The Special Report this week deals with the recent developments in the Censor Board of Film Certification. The I&B ministry promises to streamline film certification but the new-look CBFC team shows it may still want to play Big Brother.

In the run-up to the Delhi Assembly polls, the article, 'A Bedi Blow Aimed at AAP', takes a look at the risk the BJP has taken with its outsider candidate for Delhi chief minister.

A story in the Nation section describes how the armed forces are exhausting their wartime reserves to raise new units because of the meagre modernisation budget allotted to them.

A Nation story on agriculture dwells on how urea shortage could land the Modi government in trouble with farmers.
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