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In this issue

Highlights of India Today 12th February 2024: In this issue, we take a close look at the shaky status of the grand opposition alliance of 27 parties, with a focus on Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's return to the BJP, the TMC's Mamata Banerjee deciding to go solo in West Bengal and how this will reflect on the Lok Sabha election later this year. Plus, Upfront, Leisure, and a look at India's armed forces' continuing search for a robust and dependable assault rifle

RETURN OF MILITANCY

In the Manipur of today, ethnically riven as it is between two warring communities—the Meiteis and the Kukis—facts have become stranger than fiction.

4 mins

JUSTICE VERSUS JUSTICE

The Calcutta High Court was the site of recent judicial turbulence, forcing top judges of the Supreme Court to step in and restore some order.

4 mins

A STORM CALLED JARANGE-PATIL

The political arena in Maharashtra is witnessing a seismic shift, triggered by a catalyst called Manoj JarangePatil. The relatively obscure activist shot into the limelight in September 2023, during a lathicharge incident in Jalna district, where he was staging a fast unto death while advocating quotas for his community-the Marathas.

4 mins

Arrested, But Not Cornered

Hemant Soren had seen the writing on the wall. Before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested him on the night of January 31 for alleged money laundering related to the purported possession of a plot of land in Ranchi, the Jharkhand CM had finalized the course of post-crisis political action.

3 mins

CONFIDENCE IN CONTINUITY

No one expected Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to make big-ticket announcements in the interim budget for 2024-25 she presented on February 1, considering the general election is just three months away.

3 mins

REVANTH REDDY REVS AHEAD

Change and continuity were the two concerns the Congress had in Telangana as Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy took charge on December 7. The new CM faces three principal challenges—implementing the party’s pre-poll promises, getting the state back on the fast track economically and ensuring the party wins at least half of the state’s 17 Lok Sabha seats in the general election in May.

3 mins

Double-engine Juggernaut

The Eastern River Canal is now part of a more ambitious river-linking project between Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh

2 mins

I.N.D.I.A. FALLS APART

THE GRAND ALLIANCE OF 27 PARTIES COLLAPSES AS NITISH RETURNS TO THE BJP, MAMATA DECIDES TO GO SOLO IN BENGAL AND OTHER PARTIES REFUSE TO PLAY BALL WITH THE CONGRESS. HOW WILL IT IMPACT THE OUTCOME OF THE GENERAL ELECTION?

10+ mins

WHY NITISH SWITCHED AGAIN

GIVING UP ON I.N.D.1.A., THE JD(U) CHIEF DOES A VOLTE FACE TO GET BACK WITH THE BJP. IS THIS ANOTHER WINNING MOVE OR HAS THE MASTER OF U-TURNS LOST HIS WAY?

8 mins

IN SEARCH OF A GOOD RIFLE

It is an interesting conundrum: how is it that India, with some of the most capable rocketry and ballistic missile programmes in the world, does not have an indigenously designed, world-class assault rifle-the infantryman's basic weapon.

8 mins

A DOSE OF REALITY

NON-FICTION SHOWS ARE BEGINNING TO FIND AN AUDIENCE IN INDIA, ENCOURAGING STREAMING PLATFORMS TO BROADEN THEIR PROGRAMMING SLATE

6 mins

Great Snakes!

Herpetologist and conservationist Romulus Whitaker has penned the first volume of his autobiography-Snakes, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: My Early Years-and it's a rambunctious read

3 mins

WHEN GREEN SEES RED

Ecologist Madhav Gadgil's seventh book, A Walk Up the Hill is a chronicle of his life and times in a nation at odds with its environment

2 mins

For ART FAIR

The 15th edition of the India Art Fair has many new exhibitors and even a collectible design section

2 mins

What Lies Beneath

Two odes to our neverending affair with carpets

1 mins

'RUG'GED TALES

After traversing the Silk Route through 'Bukhara'-an exhibition that turned the spotlight on textiles like Suzani, and carpets and techniques unique to Central Asia in the 19th-century founders of Shades of India, David and Mandeep Housego, have returned with a new showcase at Delhi's sprawling National Crafts Museum.

2 mins

HOMEGROWN DYSTOPIA

Animator Ishan Shukla's 103-minute-long film Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, features an impressive global voice cast

2 mins

Interstellar Story

Samit Basu's latest novel-The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport-is a sci-fi take on the Aladdin story

2 mins

PRISON DIARY

From Phansi Yard recounts Sudha Bharadwaj's time at Yerawada Jail and paints a poignant portrait of her fellow inmates

2 mins

Infosys: A Love Story

AN INSPIRING BIOGRAPHY THAT CHARTS THE EARLY YEARS OF THE MURTHYS' RELATIONSHIP-AND OF INFOSYS

2 mins

OLD IS GOLD

Winning the Australian Open at 43, Rohan Bopanna has become the oldest player ever to win a slam or to hold a No. 1 ranking

1 mins

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India Today Magazine Description:

Publisher: India-Today-Group

Category: News

Language: English

Frequency: Weekly

India Today is a weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited. It was founded in 1975 and is the most widely circulated magazine in India.

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