In this issue

Highlights of India Today –10th January 2022 issue:

This week's issue also features other personalities who made the news in their respective domains – politics, public life, business, activism, controversy, professionals, sports, entertainment and the arts.

'Omicron Is Like A Live Weakened Virus'

The centre unveils a booster shot programme and states rush to impose restrictions as rising omicron cases trigger fears of a third covid wave

8 mins

THE VACCINE CHAMPIONS

With their extraordinary foresight, initiative and courage, Covid vaccine manufacturers Krishna Ella of Bharat Biotech and Adar Poonawalla of Serum Institute helped India avert a certain health catastrophe. The inside story of how they did it

10+ mins

THE GAME CHANGER

In his first term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reform agenda saw only incremental implementation. In his second term, he moved at warp speed to reform India’s economic landscape, and in 2021 made a big privatisation push that included asset monetisation of PSUs apart from streamlining labour laws. However, the challenge of successfully implementing these changes remains

7 mins

Politician Of The Year - Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee has convincingly demolished the myth of invincibility attached to the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo. Her landslide election victory in West Bengal in 2021, despite the BJP’s hyped up campaign, polarising manoeuvres and huge mobilisation of resources, has given hope to the Opposition. They see in her the most worthy opponent to Modi in the Lok Sabha battle of 2024

7 mins

Businesspersons Of The Year 2021

Fuelled by increasing internet penetration and smartphone use and loads of investor capital, in 2021, India saw a huge spike in the number of startups valued at over $1 billion—the unicorns. This is why they hogged the headlines

9 mins

FIRE IN THE SOUL

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait almost single-handedly turned around the agitation against the new farm laws which at one point looked like a lost cause, staying steadfast even when many other farmer leaders had given up following the R-Day violence. In the end, a seemingly omnipotent central government had to back down, repeal the laws and apologise to the farmers

7 mins

HEAVY HAND OF THE LAW

The son of a Bollywood superstar is arrested in a drug bust on a cruise ship. But the case backfires, tarring the reputation of the investigating agency, the Narcotics Control Bureau. It also starts a debate on the need to amend laws on drugs consumption

6 mins

Neeraj Chopra - Sportsperson Of The Year

By winning India’s first gold medal in athletics and only its second individual gold in Olympics, Chopra gave the nation of 1.3 billion people the biggest high in a year fraught with challenges

5 mins

LIGHTING UP THE SCREENS

Akshay Kumar brought audiences back to the theatres with the release of his BellBottom and then later Sooryavanshi; and Sanya Malhotra entertained audiences at home with two fine performances in Pagglait and Meenakshi Sundareshwar, both released on OTT platforms

5 mins

A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE

India began 2021 with a vaccine, hoping to end a pandemic. Just months later, it was in the heart of a brutal second wave of cases. The year ahead brought huge change: a historic cyclone, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and a note of Olympic hope

5 mins

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