India Today - November 25, 2024

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Highlights of India Today 25th November, 2024 

Unhealthy work practices in Indian companies are taking a toll on employees, triggering health issues and sometimes even death. Also in the issue, how Anger among Marathas could affect the elections in Maharashtra, India's balancing act over trade with China, Ranthambore's missing tigers, a leap forward in computing and Ramachandra Guha's latest book.

BIREN IN TAPE TROUBLE

In a significant legal and political development, the Supreme Court has agreed to examine audio recordings that allegedly implicate Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh in the violent ethnic conflict between the Meitei and Kuki communities that erupted in the northeastern state in May last year.

4 mins

KARNATAKA: Furore Over Waqf Land

In the heat and dust of the assembly bypolls that concluded on November 13 in Karnataka, the state’s Congress government found itself grappling with a thorny issue that has snowballed into a controversy with nationwide ramifications. Hence it came to be that, amid the shrill election campaigns for the Channapatna, Shiggaon and Sandur assembly seats, the event that garnered national attention was the November 7 visit to Karnataka by a parliamentarian from Uttar Pradesh, Jagdambika Pal. Famous as the “one-day chief minister of UP”, the BJP’s Domariyaganj MP chairs the 21-member joint parliamentary committee (JPC) examining the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, introduced in the Lok Sabha this August.

3 mins

BABUS' FALL FROM GRACE

Bureaucrats in public spats are not a new phenomenon in Kerala, but this is the first time two IAS officers have been suspended for violating the Civil Service Code of Conduct. N. Prasanth, an IAS officer of the 2007 batch and special secretary to the agriculture department, was suspended for his public comments against A. Jayathilak, the additional chief secretary (ACS) for finance, on social media.

2 mins

A MAHA KUMBH CHALLENGE

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, which came in for praise for the 2019 Kumbh arrangements in Prayagraj, is looking for a repeat with the once-in-12-years Maha Kumbh starting on January 13, 2025.

2 mins

AMARAVATI RISES AGAIN

In October 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone for the greenfield Andhra Pradesh capital project, Amaravati.

3 mins

THE ATM THAT EMPOWERS

Kokilaben Patel has seen Kalpesh Patel operate the micro ATM many times but she's still fascinated by the steps that leads to him handing her Rs 3,000.

3 mins

A BOLD CASTE COUNT MOVE

The Telangana government has commissioned a comprehensive socio-economic, employment and caste survey that is far-reaching, with the ruling Congress even saying its results will set the ball rolling for an expansion of constitutional rights.

2 mins

AMARATHA HEAT WAVE

THE MARATHAS ARE ANGRY AND, UNDER MANOJ JARANGE-PATIL'S SWAY, MARATHWADA COULD WELL DECIDE WHO EVENTUALLY WINS IN MAHARASHTRA

7 mins

KILLER STRESS

Unhealthy work practices in Indian companies are taking a toll on employees, triggering health issues and sometimes even death

10+ mins

DECOUPLING DILEMMA

AS TENSIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA THAW AND THE TRADE BETWEEN THEM GROWS, INDIA FACES THE TOUGH TASK OF KEEPING CHEAP CHINESE IMPORTS AT BAY WHILE ENCOURAGING THOSE THAT ITS DOMESTIC INDUSTRY NEEDS

6 mins

THE MISSING STRIPES

Behind the missing 15 big cats in the Ranthambore National Park are a lax monitoring system by local forest officials, political pressure and unreliable numbers

5 mins

THE HOLY GRAIL OF COMPUTING

IN A GIANT LEAP TOWARDS BRAIN-INSPIRED COMPUTING, IISc RESEARCHERS HAVE ENGINEERED A DEVICE THAT PROCESSES INFORMATION LIKE NEURAL SYNAPSES, AND PROMISES A LEAP IN SPEED, ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND DATA SECURITY

5 mins

A NEW LEASE FOR OLD FILMS

NOSTALGIA AND CURIOSITY BRING AUDIENCES BACK TO THE THEATRES TO REVISIT MOVIES OF THE YESTERYEARS

6 mins

INDIA'S BEATING GREEN HEART

Ramachandra Guha's new book-Speaking with Nature-is a chronicle of homegrown environmentalism that speaks to the world

3 mins

TURNING A NEW LEAF

Since the turn of the century, we have lost hundreds of thousands of trees. Many had stood for centuries, weathering storms, wars, droughts and famines.

1 min

THE ETERNAL MOTHER

Prayaag Akbar's new novel delves into the complexities of contemporary India

2 mins

Family Saga

RAMONA SEN's The Lady on the Horse doesn't lose its pace while narrating the story of five generations of a family in Calcutta

2 mins

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Nikhil Advani’s adaptation of Freedom at Midnight details our tumultuous transition to an independent nation

2 mins

A Musical Marriage

Faezeh Jalali has returned to the Prithvi Theatre Festival with Runaway Brides, a hilarious musical about Indian weddings

2 mins

AMPED UP AND UNPLUGGED

THE MAHINDRA INDEPENDENCE ROCK FESTIVAL PROMISES AN INTERESTING LINE-UP OF OLD AND NEW ACTS, CEMENTING ITS REPUTATION AS THE 'WOODSTOCK OF INDIA'

2 mins

There's No Planet B

All Living Things-Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) returns with 72 films to be screened across multiple locations from Nov. 22 to Dec. 8

2 mins

Shuttle Star

Ashwini Ponnappa was the only Indian to compete in the inaugural edition of BDMNTN-XL, a new international badminton tourney with a new format, held in Indonesia

1 min

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