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People's Welfare Is Key

Chief Minister EDAPPADI K. PALANI SWAMI spoke to AMARNATH K. MENON on how the state stole the show in this year’s survey. Excerpts:

Packing A Punch

Puducherry outshines the bigger, richer states with its successes on the health, swachhta and farming fronts.

States In Motion

India’s states are now determining their own destiny and forging individual paths to progress.

Imran's Googly

The Pakistan prime minister caught India off-guard by seizing the initiative on Kartarpur. Team Modi needs to step up the game now to prevent India from appearing as the intransigent party in the eyes of the world.

Shifting Ground For TRS

The Congress-LED front, with a calibrated campaign, gives the TRS a run for its money.

Wheels Within Wheels

The BJP’s yatra aims to cover all 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, Trinamool counters with a planned ‘purification’ drive.

Governor Malik And The Kashmir Muddle

Installed as a political yes-man, Satya Pal Malik’s unpredictable utterances and erratic decisions have won him few friends—even in the BJP.

The Devil In The GDP Data

The new GDP back series released just months before the general election raises a political stink and threatens to erode the credibility of India's economic data worldwide.

It's Still A Bird In The Bush

It is being celebrated by the government as a ‘win’ for India, but the decision by Emma Arbuthnot, chief magistrate of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court, that billionaire fugitive Vijay Mallya can be extradited to India does not mean he will be back to face the music anytime soon.

Manifesto For Change

A Concerted Push and Anti-incumbency Get the Congress a Victory Beyond Expectations. But Now It Has Some Tall Poll Promises to Keep

Blood, Sweat And TRS

KCR's 'Sop Saturation' Strategy Wins The TRS A Landslide And A Second Term

The Rebel Returns

Mizoram Has a History of Voting Out Governments After Two Terms. Seeking a Third Term , The Congress Was, in a Way, Staring at Defeat

Can Congress, Stitch Together A Strategy To Challenge Modi In 2019?

The wins in the three heartland states have re-energised Rahul’s Congress, but can the party stitch together a strategy to challenge Modi in 2019?

Sachin Pilots Congress Home

After the euphoria of celebrations will follow the harsh reality of finding a leader who can deliver on poll promises when the raje regime has left state coffers empty

The Rahul Reboot

The inside story of how Rahul Gandhi’s Congress pulled off three stunning victories in the hindi heartland

Climate Circus And Lack Of Will

As the year draws to a close, it has been put on record by scientists that this has been one of the warmest years of the past decade, rife with heat waves, rising sea levels and that most of these find their roots in climate change.

Printer's Devil In The Details

The government was back on the defensive a week after the Supreme Court dismissed petitions seeking an investigation into the Rs 60,000 crore purchase of Rafale fighter aircraft.

Portrait Of An Artist As A Warrior

The fourth edition of the India Today art awards honoured artists who raise political questions and create works that comment and protest.

Death By Sugar!

As diabetes tightens its lethal grip on more and more indians, new research, treatments, drugs and delivery mechanisms help us understand the nature of the beast. But how can we beat it?

The Elusive Smoking Gun

The government was left breathing easy on November 14 after the Supreme Court heard a petition on the Rs 59,000 crore deal to buy 36 Rafale jets from France.

Which Insurance Should You Go For?

Whole life term insurance or a regular term life insurance, which one should you go for?

The Tightrope Walk

With A Slim Majority To Protect And Many Campaign Promises To Keep, The First-Time Chief Minister Faces Several Challenges.

Back To Ayodhya

As the Lok Sabha election nears, the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is a piping hot issue again. But this time, the BJP is not so sure if the subject is quite live enough.

Team India's Unrelenting Intensity

There were some star turns—from Pujara and Bumrah and Kohli—but this coveted overseas series victory in Australia was also about team India’s unrelenting intensity.

Modi's New Man In The Valley

That the Centre was preparing for a more direct political engagement in Jammu & Kashmir was evident from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address, in which he promised that the long overdue panchayat polls would be held before the end of the year. The appointment of Satya Pal Malik as the new governor of the state—the first career politician since 1967 to hold that office—is clearly a move in that direction.

Kerala- After The Flood

Excess rainfall, dam mismanagement and ecological neglect result in Kerala’s worst flood in a hundred years. A heroic rescue effort notwithstanding, the state now faces the challenge of rebuilding on an unprecedented scale

Get That Financial Plan, Now

Doing so helps you clearly identify goals and work to a plan of getting there in your earning years

The Comrade

THE FIRST DUO of the BJP, Vajpayee and Advani did have their differences, but they stood with each other through the party’s worst trials. They disagreed on the BJP’s participation in the Ayodhya movement, and the period between 1998 and 2004 tested an otherwise enduring partnership. Despite disagreeing with Advani, Vajpayee relented on Modi after the 2002 Gujarat riots and on the fateful India Shining campaign that arguably cost the BJP the elections in 2004

The Kargil War

THE KARGIL WAR effectively reversed all the gains from Vajpayee’s Lahore bus diplomacy. And committed though he was to the idea of an enduring peace with Pakistan, he did not baulk at the prospect of a war when Pakistan unpredictably revealed its aggressive intent to occupy Indian territory

The Compromiser

RAJDHARMA was the sutra Vajpayee invoked for Modi to follow after the 2002 riots. It was widely read as a public rebuke of the Gujarat chief minister. Yet, just a week later, in a speech in Goa, he struck a very different note. Had he failed his own rajdharma?