In this issue

Highlights of India Today –24th January 2022 issue: The cover story this week highlights Covid's new strain Omicron, and why one shouldn't be fooled by its milder manifestation.

THE POISONED WELL

Ask around in the Digambar Chowk area of Jorhat in Assam about engineering student Niraj Bishnoi and you run up against a strange kind of absence. Many in the neighbourhood did not even know he existed.

8 mins

AN UNEASY TRUCE

On December 15, 2021, a long-drawn-out legal battlebetween members of the erstwhile Jaipur royalty came to a close.

4 mins

THAT SINKING FEELING

THEATRES

4 mins

'Long-endurance submarines pose new challenges'

INTERVIEW

2 mins

The Omicron Explosion - How Dangerous Is It?

Don’t be fooled by Omicron’s milder manifestation. Covid’s new strain is spreading like wildfire and can be ignored only at our own peril

10+ mins

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER

The launch of the booster shot campaign and new vaccines give hope that the impact of Omicron and the third wave will be less severe than the previous surge

8 mins

DARK CLOUDS LOOM AGAIN

The Covid Omicron variant once again threatens to cripple most services sector businesses. How deeply the economy will be scarred depends on the level of the health crisis at hand

6 mins

WANTED: A HEALING TOUCH

After two Covid-battered years and in the midst of assembly elections, the government is likely to attempt a feelgood budget for 2022-23

5 mins

A CAMPAIGN WITH BYTE

Leaders savvy and unsavvy, freelance techie gunslingers who do saffron in the morning and socialism by night, the smell of virtual cordite…. India is seeing its first online-only elections. What do the Digital War Rooms of parties look like?

10+ mins

A FLYOVER INTO PUNJAB

High sensitivity around identity issues, the spectre of security, a fragmented and fluid political canvas...will all of that converge to the BJP's advantage?

4 mins

JAT PLUS: A CHALLENGE IN THE WEST

After a decade in the wilderness, the Rashtriya Lok Dal and its new chief, Jayant Chaudhary, are back in the reckoning in bastion western UP

4 mins

GOA GETS A PARTY OF PARTIES

The TMC’s entry is the big news in the Goa election. Elsewhere, the mix ’n match of state politics continues even as the BJP tries to stave off anti-incumbency

5 mins

THE BIG BANK ROBBERY

CROOKS DEFRAUDED BANKS OF Rs 1.38 LAKH CRORE IN 2020-21. SUCH STAGGERING SUMS SWINDLED FROM BANKS EVERY YEAR MOSTLY REMAIN UNRECOVERED. WORSE STILL, THE SCAMS ARE DETECTED MONTHS LATER AND ARRESTS LEAD TO FEW CONVICTIONS

10 mins

DELIGHTING IN THE DETAIL

Her attention to craft has helped actor SHEFALI SHAH become the cynosure of modern entertainment

4 mins

PRIDE IN PRAYAGRAJ

Allahabad might have changed its name, but a new book shows that the iconoclastic spirit of its youth remains resolute

2 mins

STARS in Their EYES

Vivan Marwaha's examination of India's millennial culture is weighed down by its predictability

2 mins

TALE OF THREE CITIES

New books that lead us through the urban maze

1 min

Q + A “AGE HAS LIBERATED ME”

Actor Lara Dutta Bhupathi is enjoying her day in the ott sun. The comedy Kaun Banegi Shikharwati on Zee5 is already the former Ms Universe’s third web show in two years

1 min

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