India Today Magazine - April 05, 2021
India Today Magazine - April 05, 2021
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Highlights of India Today –5th April 2021 issue:
This week's Cover accStory talks about the amateur plot to extort India’s richest man going horribly wrong, lifting the lid off Mumbai’s murky khaki-khadi nexus and threatening the survival of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government.
The issue also focuses on the assembly polls drawing closer in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, political parties in the four states are raising their game as they enter the final stages of campaigning.
The issue also looks at the India Today Woman Summit celebrating the diverse achievements of Indian women who have broken barriers and charted their own paths.
Mahakumbh: Why The Show Must Go On
Mahakumbh Mela 2021
4 mins
MIRED IN THE TAPES
RAJASTHAN PHONE- TAPPING ROW
5 mins
"We want the Mining Act to be amended"
Two years ago, on March 18, 2019, the 47-year-old PRAMOD SAWANT, an ayurvedic doctor-turned-politician, had the difficult task of stepping into the very big shoes of Manohar Parrikar, who had passed away the previous day. At the time, the BJP was in a minority in the Goa government, Sawant had no administrative experience and no one to guide him, the other two influential leaders—Laxmikant Parsekar and Rajendra Arlekar—having lost the state election two years ago. Goa’s economy was already precarious, after the Supreme Court cancelled 88 mining leases in February 2018, inflicting an annual loss of Rs 1,000 crore since then. The arrival of Covid-19 in March 2020 dealt a further blow as national and international travel restrictions hit its other mainstay—tourism. Goa’s debt has risen from Rs 12,395 crore in March 2017 to Rs 18,444 crore by December 2020. Sawant also took flak for reducing the annual parental income criterion for the popular Laadli Lakshmi scheme (in which a girl child gets Rs 1 lakh when she turns 18) from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 3 lakh in October 2020. With India’s highest per capita income, Goa (counter-intuitively) has a higher number of people above the income threshold than below the revised lower income threshold. There is also the dispute with Karnataka over the Mhadei’s water, as the state’s diversion of the river is said to affect its flow in Goa. Environmentalists are up in arms over a number of government projects they say will benefit the coal-mining business at the cost of the state’s ecology. Yet, Sawant soldiers on as he presides over a BJP government that now has, for the first time in the party’s history in Goa, 28 of the state’s 40 MLAs. In an exclusive interview with KIRAN D. TARE, Sawant outlines how he proposes to overcome the spate of crises. Excerpts:
5 mins
How A Botched Plot Against Mukesh Ambani Exposes A Murky Police-Politician Nexus In Mumbai
An amateur plot to extort India’s richest man goes horribly wrong, lifting the lid off Mumbai's murky khaki-khadi nexus and threatening the survival of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government
10+ mins
THE LAST LEG
Mamata plays the lone, injured warrior against the full might of the BJP as West Bengal enters a do-or-die electoral contest
7 mins
A HANDFUL OF PROBLEMS FOR PINARAYI VIJAYAN
Though polls suggest the Kerala chief minister will win a consecutive term, the LDF also faces challenges
6 mins
Between Friend And Enemy
Audrey Truschke’s new book is evidence that scholarship trumps controversy
2 mins
Amish Does 'Self-Help'
The author’s new book is, at best, an advertisement for his oeuvre
3 mins
Making Myth Modern
NEW MYTHOLOGY-ORIENTED BOOKS
1 min
A Tale of Two Spaniards
A new rivalry between two Spanish coaches is coming to define the Indian Super League
2 mins
THE ACE HUSTLER
After picking up silver at the Asian Championships in February 2020, the pandemic slowed Bajrang Punia’s training considerably. The freestyle wrestler had to train without a sparring partner and with his Georgian coach, Shako Bendinitis, screaming instructions over the internet. Towards the end of 2020, Punia married wrestler Sangeeta Phogat, after which he travelled to the US for training and an invitational tournament.
2 mins
Duty And The Beast
With his new film, Haathi Mere Saathi, having arrived in theatres, Rana Daggubati hopes to make audiences more mindful of the world and environment in which they live
1 min
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Publisher: India Today Group
Category: News
Language: English
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