In this issue

Highlights of India Today –7th December 2020 issue:

The Cover Story this week looks at the winners of the India Today State of the States study 2020.

The issue also covers the first India Today Defence Summit which brought together key stakeholders, policymakers, scientists, military officials and members of India's defence-industrial complex to discuss key challenges. A special report also focuses on a joint study that draws up the ambitious Maritime Theatre Command by restructuring existing military commands to straddle India's entire maritime sphere.

WHEN LOVE BECOMES A CRIME

As the coronavirus pandemic rages across India, another contagion seems to be spreading in the country’s BJPruled states.

8 mins

Rebel Rising in the TMC

For over a month now, an ‘apolitical’ forum called ‘Dadar Anugami (Followers of Dada)’ has created a bit of a stir in West Bengal amid all the other buzz in the run-up to the assembly election early next year.

5 mins

Raising A Ram Temple

The Centre and the Rajasthan government are working to denotify 646.56 hectare (ha.) of the Bansi Paharpur forest and Bandh Baretha Wildlife Sanctuary in Bharatpur district to ensure a steady supply of pink sandstone for the upcoming Ram temple in Ayodhya.

4 mins

Sweetening The Peace Deal

On November 20, less than two weeks into the Congress’s desultory performance in the Bihar assembly election and the Madhya Pradesh by-elections, party chief Sonia Gandhi constituted three internal committees to “consider and discuss issues and policies” related to the economy, foreign affairs and national security.

4 mins

WHERE THE COWS RULE

The by-election victory behind him, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan got down to the serious business of governance.

3 mins

A LIFE-LONG BUREAUCRAT

The theatre is closed thanks to the pandemic; so, backstage workers are coming out to perform.

3 mins

The High Seas Command

A joint study draws up the ambitious Maritime Theatre Command by restructuring existing military commands to straddle India’s entire maritime sphere. Will it take wings or meet the fate of its predecessor?

6 mins

BOY MEETS WORLD

STEPHEN ALTER’S MOWGLI, IN HIS REIMAGINED JUNGLE BOOK, IS A FAR CRY FROM THE CHARACTER KIPLING’S READERS KNOW AND LOVE

2 mins

BEHIND THE SCENES

Sai Paranjpye’s memoir offers a delightfully chatty account of a creative career that has encompassed film, theatre, television… and even tea

3 mins

ENDORSING HEALTH

Tennis star Sania Mirza on her digital debut with Nishedh Alone Together, an MTV documentary on tuberculosis, and on picking up the racquet again

1 min

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