In this issue

Highlights of India Today –16th May 2022 issue:-The cover story analyses how poor coordination, mounting debts and policy failures by key agencies have pushed India into an electricity crisis and the ways to fix it.

A FEDERAL FACE-OFF

Ever since the DMK came to power as the first nonCongress regime in Tamil Nadu in 1967, seldom have its governments enjoyed the best of relations with the institution of the Governor.

4 mins

Return Of The Other Modi

The BJP in Bihar was on a high in March 2022-with three Vikassheel Insaan Party MLAs joining it, its tally in the state many BJP assembly went up to 77, making it the single largest party for the first time.

3 mins

SAFFRON STASIS IN BENGAL

If there is one political outfit in West Bengal that has more trouble on its hands than the ruling Trinamool Congress, it is the newly-minted principal Opposition party—the Bharatiya Janata Party. Do a SWOT comparison.

4 mins

POLICE AS A STATE OF MIND

It was the harshest censure of a state’s police force in recent times. On April 29, a sessions court in Assam’s Barpeta, while granting bail to Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani in an alleged case of assault against a woman police officer inside a police vehicle, warned Assam Police against converting India’s “hard-earned democracy into a police state”.

4 mins

THE TIGER CHANGING ITS STRIPES?

It's seen such an unalterable fact of nature that it has yielded a proverb: a tiger cannot change its stripes. But that’s exactly what India’s iconic national animal is doing.

5 mins

Why Hardik Patel is Sulking Again

Hardik Patel, the face of the Patidar reservation protests, has learnt how to get things done his way in his three-year association with the Congress party. It started in mid-April when he publicly expressed unhappiness with the party’s inability to take quick decisions. Within a fortnight, the state leaders were all lining up in an attempt to mollify him.

2 mins

The Power Mess

Bad Planning, Poor Economics And Lack Of Coordination Among Various Stakeholders In The Sector Push The Country Into An Unending Vortex Of Power Woes

10+ mins

PANDEMIC OF COMPLACENCY

DON'T LET THE MILDER OMICRON WAVE, BETTER PREPAREDNESS AND PANDEMIC FATIGUE FOOL YOU. COVID IS NOT DONE WITH US YET

9 mins

KCR'S GRAND AMBITION

HIS EYE ON A ‘LARGER’ ROLE, KCR GUNS FOR A HAT-TRICK IN TELANGANA

10+ mins

FERTILE FIELD

PREGNANCY-CENTRIC SCRIPTS ARE MAKING A BUNDLE IN BOLLYWOOD WHILE HERALDING AN OPEN CONVERSATION ON THE SUBJECT

5 mins

LETTING THE ART IN

The recently concluded India Art Fair in Delhi brought down some walls that separate cultural insiders from those on the outside

5 mins

TO THE DRAWING BOARD

AN EXHIBITION OF MANJIT BAWA’S DRAWINGS GIVES DELHIITES A CHANCE TO SEE THE GENESIS OF HIS ART

2 mins

TOP OF THEIR GAME

With yet another medal haul, squash players Joshna Chinappa, Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal Karthik are proving that good things can come in threes

2 mins

Smells Like Teen Spirit

At only 16, R. Praggnanandhaa is taking the world of chess by storm

2 mins

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