In this issue

Highlights of India Today – June 22, 2020 issue:
This week's Cover Story talks about the testimonies of those who have had a tryst with the disease revealing that a majority experience its mild manifestation.

This week's Big Story looks at thousands of small businesses which are on the brink, with the government rescue package falling short of their expectations.

The issue also looks at BJP doing its damnedest to unsettle and discredit Mamata Banerjee in the run-up to the assembly election next year.

Ventilator Scam - Gasping For Air

Last month, after an investigation in a local newspaper, the Gujarat government was forced to defend the purchase of locally-made ‘Dhaman-1’ ventilators that bureaucrats and doctors alleged were substandard.

5 mins

‘There is no threat of cross-voting in RS polls'

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has had an eventful two-and-a-half months on the job after his party, the BJP, overthrew the Congress government just before the lockdown was clamped on March 25. Excerpts from an interview with Rahul Noronha:

2 mins

GUEST COLUMN - AMERICAN UPRISING

The great American writer James Baldwin wrote an essay in 1966 in which he spoke of black neighbourhoods being “policed like occupied territory”. Since the police know that they are hated, he wrote, “they are always afraid. One cannot possibly arrive at a more surefire formula for cruelty”.

3 mins

Virtual Campaigns - Campaigning Goes Virtual

Is electioneering in India set to go all virtual in the time of the pandemic? Well, all eyes are on Bihar, which goes to the polls in October-November, and where a physical campaign seems an impossibility, at least for the next few months. Standard poll practices like gathering crowds for rallies, door-to-door campaigning or even a street corner meeting will be a challenge now, given the new physical distancing norms. Alive to this emerging situation, political parties have started gearing up for virtual campaigns.

4 mins

“It will now truly be ‘one nation, one market'”

Union agriculture secretary SANJAY AGARWAL spoke to India Today group editorial director RAJ CHENGAPPA about the significance of three major ordinances passed by the government: the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance and an amendment to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. Excerpts:

2 mins

ON THE WARPATH

The BJP is doing its damnedest to unsettle and discredit Mamata Banerjee in the run-up to the assembly election next year. The Bengal chief minister must also deal with malcontent in her own party

7 mins

The Covid Survivors - How They Beat Fear, Stigma And The Disease Itself

The testimonies of those who have had a tryst with the disease reveal that a majority experience its mild manifestation. Those who do need critical care can take heart from the relatively high recovery rate and low fatality rate.

10+ mins

Hoping Against Hope

Thousands of small businesses are on the brink, with the government rescue package falling short of their expectations

10+ mins

RESTAURANTS - Cancelling the Reservations

Hit hard by the pandemic, India’s restaurant industry is trying hard to survive and keep its chin up

4 mins

SAVING THE BREAK POINT

By helming the campaign ‘Love All’, Somdev Devvarman is trying to help Indian tennis survive Covid

2 mins

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