In this issue

Highlights of India Today –20th July 2020 issue:

This week's Cover Story talks about India joining the global race to produce a

Covid-19 vaccine, but its candidates have to clear the safety and efficacy test first.

This week's Big Story deals with a spate of online environmental clearances and proposed new assessment norms seeing environmental activists up in arms.

The issue also focuses on the Centre looking to reform the power sector, with better regulation and new tariff policy.

The Killing of a Don

Kanpur’s dreaded ganglord Vikas Dubey, whose long-arm connections and influence with the state police and politicians were part of local folklore, didn’t last a day in the custody of the UP police.

5 mins

THE BURNING ISSUE

The month of June was a cruel—and disorienting— one for Indian consumers.

4 mins

The Battle of Mumbai

The 6,355 sq. km area has recorded a 300 per cent rise in Covid cases in a month. And, alarmingly, the worst is yet to come

5 mins

''LAC Clash Raises Serious Questions About China's Intentions''

Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton’s recent tell-all book, The Room Where It Happened, has hit the Trump administration hard. In an exclusive interview with Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa, Bolton talks about the challenge from China, Trump’s foreign policy—and why India’s air strike in Balakot in 2019 finds only passing mention in his book. Excerpts:

4 mins

The Great Indian Vaccine Quest

India joins the global race to produce a Covid-19 vaccine, but its candidates have to first clear the safety and efficacy test

10+ mins

BUILD-UP ON THE BORDER

A BURST OF ROAD AND BRIDGE-BUILDING SEES INDIA PLAY CATCH-UP WITH CHINA’S BORDER INFRASTRUCTURE. DE-ESCALATION WILL NOT MEAN A REDUCTION IN THE ROADWORKS

9 mins

Rewriting The Rules of Engagement

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.” This famous line by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore reminds us of the need to stay sober and focus on the positives as tensions rise between India and China.

5 mins

THE GWALIOR GAMBLE

CRUCIAL BYPOLLS ON ITS MIND, THE BJP GIVES JYOTIRADITYA SCINDIA LOYALISTS A LION’S SHARE OF POSTS IN THE SHIVRAJ CABINET EXPANSION, RISKING THE WRATH OF PARTY VETERANS LEFT OUT

6 mins

THE WEAK LINK

The Centre is looking to reform the power sector, with better regulation and a new tariffpolicy. But if state governments do not fall in line, this could prove to be yet another paper-shuffling exercise

10+ mins

LEISURE: IT COULD BE VERSE

Responding to the pandemic with poetry, Gulzar writes of melancholy while finding hope in humanism

4 mins

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