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Highlights of India Today –21st June 2021 issue:

This week's cover story highlight's government's goal to vaccinate 900 million of the country's adult population by December 31 and the possible paths plus impediments towards the tantalising prospect of meeting that goal.

A New Era Begins

TRINAMOOL CONGRESS

9 mins

THE YOUNG SURVIVORS

On April 8, Deepak Solanki, resident of Bagratawa, a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district, tested positive for the coronavirus. Two days earlier, Solanki and his wife Anita developed a fever and other flu-like symptoms, but they thought it was likely just about of common flu—it hadn’t yet sunk in that Covid was no longer the urban phenomenon they imagined it to be. However, an RT-PCR test, done on the insistence of Deepak, 45, a district medical representative, proved otherwise. Deepak was admitted to a private medical facility the same day and Anita two days later. Their children—two daughters, aged 18 and 15, and a son, 12—were left in the care of their nephew Shrikant Solanki. All three children, too, had tested positive.

4 mins

Fear and ‘Safe Zones' in Kashmir

The dramatic and hostile reord­ er ing of Jammu and Kashmir’s political status vis­a­vis the Indian state on August 5, 2019 was followed by a systematic emasculation of the old political order and its replacement by a new set of elected lead­ ers. The BJP­led central government felt that taking control of local governance institutions (panchayat and municipal committees) was the best way to neu­tralise the traditional political parties and its legislators in the absence of a functioning assembly. But nearly two years down the line, grassroots democ­ racy has become a hostage in the battle between the militants and government forces. There have been threats and exe­cutions and instances of elected representatives fleeing their native villages.

5 mins

A RESOUNDING TRAGEDY

The period from 1989-1991 was a historically significant time that continues to shape the world we live in today. Bookending it were the Tiananmen Square protests, the subject of former Indian foreign secretary and ambassador to China Vijay Gokhale’s book. The critical months of April-June 1989 in China have sometimes been overlooked, but Gokhale makes a convincing case that it is crucial to understand the developments around the protests because they shaped the China that India and other countries face today.

3 mins

Can Inoculate Its India's 900 Million Adult Population By December 31?

Battered by the second wave of covid-19, the government recalibrates its vaccination strategy in the hope of inoculating india’s 900 million adult population by december 31. How realistic is this target?

10+ mins

How Safe Are Your Kids?

While the elderly remain a priority for covid care and vaccination, the risk of infections in young children may have been overlooked

9 mins

THE RUMBLINGS WITHIN

EVEN AS THE BJP’S EXPANSIONIST DRIVE CONTINUES AT A NATIONAL LEVEL, IT IS BATTLING ATTRITION IN SEVERAL KEY STATES IT RULES, INCLUDING SOME THAT GO TO POLLS EARLY NEXT YEAR

10+ mins

MISSION CHOKSI

An Indian fugitive in the Caribbean makes a sensational claim of abduction. Can India bring Mehul Choksi back to face justice?

9 mins

The Battle For Online Privacy

The new IT rules have led to a face-off between the union government and social media giants. But amid all the furore, have user rights become the biggest casualty?

10+ mins

ON A ROLL

Huma Qureshi talks about juggling the multiple roles of an actress, a fundraiser for Covid relief and an author

4 mins

The Leopard Library

With humans forcing the leopard to change its spot, two new books celebrate India’s other big cat

2 mins

In the Rearview Mirror

AS INDIA DRIVES ON TO BECOME ONE OF THE LARGEST AUTOMOTIVE MARKETS IN THE WORLD, A NEW BOOK REFLECTS UPON OUR FASCINATING JOURNEY ON FOUR WHEELS

2 mins

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