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Why Punjab Is Angry
As the farmers of India’s premier agricultural state protest strongly against central farm reforms, the Opposition unites behind them to challenge the Modi government
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December 21, 2020
India Today
WOOING THE TRIBALS
TRIBAL COMMUNITIES ARE BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHIC—A TREND ESPECIALLY VISIBLE IN MADHYA PRADESH
8 min |
December 21, 2020
India Today
THE NAVY RUNS INTO A BUDGET BOULDER
The Indian Navy’s planned acquisition of a third Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-2) is at risk of running aground.
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December 21, 2020
India Today
DON'T WRITE PUNJAB OFF
CAPT. AMARINDER SINGH, the chief minister of Punjab, spoke to India Today Group Editorial Director RAJ CHENGAPPA on December 8, the day agitating farmers called for a Bharat Bandh to protest against the Centre’s new agriculture laws. Excerpts
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December 21, 2020
India Today
She's Funny That Way
Mallika Dua, soon to be seen in a new Hindi film Indooki Jawani, on being a woman in comedy and doing more nuanced roles onscreen
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December 21, 2020
India Today
FILLING THE PATEL VOID
The search for a new version of the late Ahmed Patel is on in the Congress. But with the party out of power and a generational shift in the works, the post comes with huge challenges
6 min |
December 21, 2020
India Today
DOLES AT THEIR DOORSTEPS
Not even her critics doubt Mamata Banerjee’s street-fighter cred—there is easy recall of many moments in her political career that offer evidence.
6 min |
December 21, 2020
India Today
A SAFFRON SURGE
Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) had hoped to head off a late BJP surge by advancing elections to the 150-seat Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) by two months.
3 min |
December 21, 2020
India Today
A PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE
After a Covid-curtailed monsoon session and with the winter session looking unlikely, India’s Parliament has lapsed into silence.
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December 21, 2020
India Today
Farmer Protests: Why The Impasse
Since November 26, New Delhi has been under virtual siege by perhaps half a million farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, who are protesting three newly-minted farm laws, rammed through Parliament during its monsoon session.
6 min |
December 14, 2020
India Today
Covid-19 Vaccine - Is It Safe? Will It Work?
As a number of vaccines come up in record time to combat the Covid-19 challenge, a closer look at the safety and efficacy of the various candidates in the fray
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December 14, 2020
India Today
INDIA'S BILLION PROBLEM
AS INDIA PUTS TOGETHER ITS FIRSTEVER PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMME TO VACCINATE ADULTS, THE COUNTRY OF OVER 1.4 BILLION IS BRACING ITSELF FOR A LOGISTICAL CHALLENGE
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December 14, 2020
India Today
THE DIE IS CASTE
On her way to a rally in Khatra in Bankura district on November 23, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee made a halt at Bankia, a village of 116-odd Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) families.
4 min |
December 14, 2020
India Today
THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
On November 29, former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi addressed a gathering at Patna’s A.N. Sinha Institute, where he backed a full term for the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government in the state. “Iss sarkar ko koi gira nahin sakta (Nobody can pull down this government). There will be no mid-term poll in Bihar,” he declared during his speech at a memorial meet for the late Suraj Nandan Kushwaha of the BJP.
4 min |
December 14, 2020
India Today
HOW REAL IS THE RECOVERY?
Although it was expected that the GDP growth numbers for the second quarter of this fiscal year would read far better than the dismal -23.9 per cent seen in the first quarter, the actual numbers came in as a surprise to many.
4 min |
December 14, 2020
India Today
A WIN-WIN FOR METRO AND AAREY?
On October 1, when Maharastra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray decided to shift the controversial metro car depot from green zone Aarey Milk Colony in Mumbai’s western suburb of Goregaon to Kanjurmarg, an eastern suburb 7.5 km away, he had done his homework.
6 min |
December 14, 2020
India Today
LOOKING FOR A GRAND ALLIANCE
THE BJP IS USING ITS ‘KINGMAKER’ IMAGE TO PUSH FOR A COALITION AND BREAK THE VICE-LIKE GRIP OF THE DRAVIDIAN PARTIES
7 min |
December 14, 2020
India Today
CHOKED BY RED TAPE
INDIAN FIRMS ARE HOBBLED BY ENDLESS COMPLIANCES, COMPLICATED LAWS AND OVERLAPPING REGULATIONS
10+ min |
December 14, 2020
India Today
A MIND OF HIS OWN
DESPITE PRESSURE FROM ALLIES AND AN OPPOSITION CONSTANTLY SNAPPING AT HIS HEELS, FIRST-TIME CM UDDHAV THACKERAY HELD HIS OWN IN HIS FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE
9 min |
December 14, 2020
India Today
Sweetening The Peace Deal
On November 20, less than two weeks into the Congress’s desultory performance in the Bihar assembly election and the Madhya Pradesh by-elections, party chief Sonia Gandhi constituted three internal committees to “consider and discuss issues and policies” related to the economy, foreign affairs and national security.
4 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
Raising A Ram Temple
The Centre and the Rajasthan government are working to denotify 646.56 hectare (ha.) of the Bansi Paharpur forest and Bandh Baretha Wildlife Sanctuary in Bharatpur district to ensure a steady supply of pink sandstone for the upcoming Ram temple in Ayodhya.
4 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
The High Seas Command
A joint study draws up the ambitious Maritime Theatre Command by restructuring existing military commands to straddle India’s entire maritime sphere. Will it take wings or meet the fate of its predecessor?
6 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
BEHIND THE SCENES
Sai Paranjpye’s memoir offers a delightfully chatty account of a creative career that has encompassed film, theatre, television… and even tea
3 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
WHEN LOVE BECOMES A CRIME
As the coronavirus pandemic rages across India, another contagion seems to be spreading in the country’s BJPruled states.
8 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
WHERE THE COWS RULE
The by-election victory behind him, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan got down to the serious business of governance.
3 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
Rebel Rising in the TMC
For over a month now, an ‘apolitical’ forum called ‘Dadar Anugami (Followers of Dada)’ has created a bit of a stir in West Bengal amid all the other buzz in the run-up to the assembly election early next year.
5 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
BOY MEETS WORLD
STEPHEN ALTER’S MOWGLI, IN HIS REIMAGINED JUNGLE BOOK, IS A FAR CRY FROM THE CHARACTER KIPLING’S READERS KNOW AND LOVE
2 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
ENDORSING HEALTH
Tennis star Sania Mirza on her digital debut with Nishedh Alone Together, an MTV documentary on tuberculosis, and on picking up the racquet again
1 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
A LIFE-LONG BUREAUCRAT
The theatre is closed thanks to the pandemic; so, backstage workers are coming out to perform.
3 min |
December 07, 2020
India Today
The Long Road To Recovery
Persisting side-effects even months after surviving Covid are taking a heavy physical and emotional toll on patients, making their return to normal life a protracted and difficult battle
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