In this issue

Highlights of India Today 26th June 2017, issue:

The cover story this week focuses on cancer and the various new methods of treatment that are available to the patients now, and how new breakthroughs in drugs and therapies might make it possible to finally conquer the deadly disease.

In an exclusive interview, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath talks about his three months in office and discusses the past problems and the way forward for the state.

The Nation page talks about how the Assam police has busted a mega job scam in the state, and how it is a personal victory for Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal during his first year in power.

The Terrorism package lists out the recent rise in terrorist activity and also looks at a worrying increase in recruitments being conducted by extremist Sikh outfits in Punjab.

This week's issue also contains the special India Today-Nielsen Company survey on the best institutes for higher education in the country.

The issue also comes with five free magazines: Home, Simply Chennai, Simply Punjabi, Simply Bangalore, and Simply Delhi.

India's SCO Gamble

India has taken a calculated risk by joining the six nation Eurasian security and economic grouping, the China and Russia-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

2 mins

Unrest In 'Gorkhaland'

The hill districts are again on a collision course with Mamata’s regime

2 mins

War Against Cancer!

Research on the disease is at the tipping point of major breakthroughs. Advances in gene sequencing, innovative diagnostics open up a whole new world of possibilities for treatment in India 

10+ mins

Still Not Out Of The Woods

The farmers’ agitation in MP tests CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s kisan putra image and the state’s glorious agricultural track record

7 mins

Yogispeak: 'My Name Is The Same, My Clothes Have Not Changed'

Life in Uttar Pradesh under a Yogi Adityanath government might not have improved much, but 5, Kalidas Marg, the chief minister’s residence, has been transformed. Gone are the queues of SUVs and the bustling of leaders and self consciously ‘important’ men. Serene and entirely without hangers-on, the CM’s house seems almost modest. Visitors are welcomed with buttermilk and jaggery. Adityanath leaves early for his office and works long hours, so he brings no work home, no stray files or anxious babus.

7 mins

Jobs On Sale

The Assam police busts a mega job scam. Coming in the first year of CM Sarbananda Sonowal’s government, it’s also being seen as a personal victory for him.

4 mins

Still Born City?

The future of Lavasa, dream project of NCP strongman Sharad Pawar, looks bleak after its status as special planning authority is revoked

5 mins

In Learned Company

Private universities have given a fillip to higher education. The focus now is on quality, says INDIA TODAY’s survey

2 mins

Crucible Of Excellence

Aside from technical excellence, IIT Kharagpur offers students the chance to develop their extra-curricular interests

4 mins

The Lost Sanskrit Treasues Of Tibet

How China is attempting to unravel the mysteries contained in 2,000-year-old forgotten Sanskrit texts, with little help from across the border 

6 mins

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