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Highlights of India Today 14th November 2022 issue:- A new wave of charismatic Christian preachers draws large flocks of followers, making the Sikh and Hindu mainstream apprehensive.

EARNING OUR WINGS

Ever since it emerged that India had signed a deal in September 2021 with Airbus Defence and Space, SA, Spain, to procure and manufacture 56 C-295 medium-weight transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force, speculation was rife about the location of its plant in India. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone of the manufacturing unit in Vadodara, in poll-bound Gujarat, on October 30, that matter has been put to rest.

5 mins

A BOTCHED OPERATION?

A political storm hit Telangana just over a week before the crucial Munugode byelection on November 3. Its epicentre: a farmhouse in Moinabad, about 30 kilometres from state capital Hyderabad. During a raid at the farmhouse on October 26, the Cyberabad police arrested three men-alleged to be \"agents\" of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-for trying to \"poach\" four MLAs of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). All four had switched over to the TRS from the Congress after the 2018 assembly election.

3 mins

Silent Treatment

The precipitous has become the protracted in Jharkhand. And with it, the fate of the state's chief minister, Hemant Soren, continues to hang in the balance.

3 mins

A SAFFRON FACELIFT

A new state unit chief. A new A leader of opposition. A new incharge of the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has seen radical changes in its organisational structure in Chhattisgarh since August, with three new men commandeering its efforts to bring the party back into power as the state prepares for the assembly election scheduled in a little over a year.

3 mins

THE UPSET APPLECART

A curious irony is growing in the apple orchards of rural Kashmir these day. In the daytime, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone outside their orchards. They are all hard at work, picking a bumper crop.

4 mins

MAPPING CHINA'S MIGHT

The two books under review offer important new perspectives on China's rise since 1989. In the two decades under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, China achieved spectacular economic growth, while keeping a relatively modest international profile in accordance with Deng Xiaoping's injunction to \"hide our capacities and bide our time\". That period came to an end when Xi Jinping decided that the time was ripe for China to follow a \"proactive\" foreign policy, conducting itself as an assertive, and even aggressive, superpower.

2 mins

GOVERNORS VS CHIEF MINISTERS

TUSSLES WITH THE GOVERNMENTS OF KERALA AND OTHER STATES REIGNITE OLD DEBATES OVER THE GOVERNOR'S ROLE IN INDIA’S FEDERAL STRUCTURE

10 mins

UPHILL BATTLE

AS THE POLL CAMPAIGN ENTERS THE FINAL STRETCH, WILL HIMACHAL BUCK THE TREND AND GIVE THE BJP A SECOND TERM, OR WILL THE CONGRESS FIND REDEMPTION?

5 mins

NAIL THE VILLAINS

FIXING CULPABILITY IN THE MORBI TRAGEDY IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS. QUICK ACTION NEEDS TO BE TAKEN TO PUNISH THE GUILTY.

4 mins

The Pastors Of Punjab

Pentecostal preachers find a fertile ground among Punjab's most oppressed castes to spread their faith and expand their flock

10+ mins

CANINE CONUNDRUM

The rising incidence of street dog attacks across India reignite the touchy issue of human-canine coexistence

10+ mins

I'M NOT IN ANY RACE

With a new film about to release on Netflix, actor Rajkummar Rao says he competes only with himself

3 mins

GOING UP NORTH

Director Mathukutty Xavier is making his Hindi-language debut with Mili, a re-rendering of his Malayalam hit, Helen

2 mins

Heaven on Earth

In this long poem, we see Banaras was many things for Mirza Ghalib-sanctum, paradise, trap

2 mins

KEEPERS OF THE LOST CITY

Nazia Akhtar’s book acquaints us with women Urdu writers who brought alive 20th-century Hyderabad

2 mins

GETTING BETTER

Out with their third album, dream-pop duo Parekh Singh are after improvement, not adulation

2 mins

Partners in High Places

Jaimin Rajani’s talent lifts his debut album, but so do his collaborators

2 mins

BRINGING THEN TO THE NOW

Photos of rural Bengal and ruins are a well-worn theme, but Sarker Protick’s work again makes it new

2 mins

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