India Today Magazine - July 1 2013

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Highlights of India Today issue dated July 1, 2013.

The cover story this week is on Ranbir Kapoor, India\'s new acting superstar. He is not an angry young man, a master of tragedies, or an eternal romantic but has become Indian cinema’s box office draw.

The nation story titled, \'Is Rahul Sena Fit to Fight?\', dwells on the recent Cabinet reshuffle where young leaders were inducted only after Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi\'s stamp. The party VP inducts young leaders into his election team as the Congress packs the Government with ageing ministers.

Life after the Deluge, another story in the Nation section, talks about the devastating floods which have battered the pilgrimage circuits in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and have left even ecologists aghast.

The Big Story this issue is on the India Today-C Voter study that suggests that India is well poised to get an alternative prime minister, at least on paper, in the 2014 General Elections.
 
The Special Report, \'Nitish\'s most favoured dons\', says that nearly half of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar\'s 118 MLAs have criminal records, which eventually puts a question mark on the leader\'s clean image. 

Ghost at Modi\'s Banquet is on the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. Even if speculation on the case deepened recently after CBI allowed bail to four Gujarat Police officers allegedly involved in the encounter, there is a possibility that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may use a possible charge sheet to play the victim card.

The Society story, \'No Baby, We\'re Happy,\' throws light on women who are now thinking twice about having children. Motherhood, they feel, should be on their own terms today.