In this issue

Highlights of India Today – 19th November 2018 issue:

This week’s cover story – The Final Frontier – look at India’s ambitious plans to send a manned mission into space by 2022. The package also looks at how the mission has spinoff benefits far beyond the bragging rights that will accrue to the fourth space superpower. The story also look at whether ISRO, a proven force in satellite launches, is ready for the space mission or not.
The Big Story – Who Pays For The Party - is on election funding and how it remains an opaque, black money-driven exercise, while the ‘reforms’ have only made it worse.
The Upfront package looks at the Ram Mandir issue in the story The Return to Ayodhya and also takes a deep dive into the PM’s speedy loan promise to MSMEs and whether this promise is just a pie in the sky.
The issue puts the spotlight on India Today State of the State Bihar, an in-depth analysis of the state - what it is doing right and how to make it better.
The issue also comes with two free magazines: Spice and Simply Kolkata.

The Return To Ayodhya

The building of a Ram temple on the disputed site of the Babri Masjid, torn down by karsevaks in 1992, will be a crucial part of the narrative of next year’s general election.

3 mins

The Arihant Watershed

India recently took its first steps towards establishing the third leg of a nuclear triad: the ability to launch nuclear weapons from under the sea.

2 mins

Italian Defence Firms Can Contribute To Make In India

Relations between India and Italy have been bedevilled by serious differences in the past eight years. The marines issue, the Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland deals cast a long shadow. But there were signs of a thaw in ties after Prime Minister GIUSEPPE CONTE’S recent visit to address the annual Technology Summit in New Delhi. Conte gave written answers to questions posed by Geeta Mohan, India Today TV’s foreign affairs editor, about his visit. Excerpts:

2 mins

The Killings Spill Over

Governor Satya Pal Malik’s Placatory Gestures Seem To Have Fallen On Deaf Ears.

3 mins

What It Takes to Put Our Man In Space

The grand ambition of sending a manned mission into space by 2022 has spinoff benefits far beyond the bragging rights that will accrue to the fourth space superpower.

10+ mins

Our First Space Man

When IAF officer Sqn Ldr RAKESH SHARMA flew aboard a Soyuz T11 spacecraft on April 2, 1984, he became the first Indian to journey into space. He spent 7 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes aboard the Salyut 7 orbital station along with two Soviet astronauts, Yury Malyshev and Gennadi Strekalov. Now leading a retired life in the Nilgiris, Sharma, 69, is happy his record of being the only Indian in space will soon be broken if the ISRO mission succeeds. He describes the incredible experience in his own words:

6 mins

Who Pays For The Party?

Election funding in India remains an opaque, black money-driven exercise, and the ‘reforms’ have only made it worse.

10+ mins

A Silent Breakthrough

In the past decade, the state has become an exemplar of fiscal prudence and targeted spending on infrastructure and growth. But it needs to industrialise rapidly and improve agricultural productivity to check migration out of the state and alleviate poverty.

10+ mins

The Angry Voice

EACH OF BRITISH SINGER AND rapper M.I.A. aka Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam’s three identities are namechecked in the title of Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., a new documentary made by her college friend Steve Loveridge.

3 mins

Actor Ayushmann Khurrana On Movies, Travel and Books

”Despite riding high on the success of his last three films, actor Ayushman Khurrana chooses to revel in the simpler joys of life.

5 mins

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