Poach and win

The success of ‘Operation Lotus’ and the arrival of the new lieutenant governor shake up Puducherry politics

Digital detox

Enforcement agencies need to take strong measures to boost the confidence of netizens in cybercrime investigations

Home alone

The small community of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits feels isolated with no hope for a future in its homeland

You can't digitise shopping experience

Gautam Singhania, chairman & managing director, Raymond

If the BJP can stay united, it can at least become a kingmaker

E. Sreedharan, technocrat-politician

Talking amid turbulence

Even as violence mars the state elections, the Congress-left combine tries to stitch up a grand alliance with Abbas Siddiqui’s ISF

Sea change

The Puducherry beach I grew up by is just a wall of granite rocks today

Bad air days

The Delhi of my childhood is vastly different from the one in which my children are growing up

Disha Ravi And The Conspiracy Theories

The Delhi Police is probing an alleged conspiracy by an overseas network to ‘instigate’the farmers’protests. At the heart of it is a 22-year-old passionate about the environment

D Company Looks For A New CEO

THE INSIDE STORY: Sensing winds of change, an ageing Dawood Ibrahim is preparing to make way for a successor. Five candidates are up for the top job, including his deeply religious son and a savvy son-in-law. The Week looks at the gathering succession storm in the D Company, and how its outcome depends on the powerful lieutenants who now run Dawood’s corporate-like criminal empire

A Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban Would Hamper India's Potential As A Fintech Hub

A blanket cryptocurrency ban would hamper India’s potential as a fintech hub

INTO THE SOUTHEASTER

Rahul Gandhi will be the Congress’s lead campaigner in the upcoming assembly elections, but whether or not he will return as party president could depend on the poll results

Turbulent ties

The Uddhav Thackeray government’s denial of the state’s official aircraft to Governor B.S. Koshyari marks a new low in the ongoing feud between the two constitutional authorities

Demolition man

BJP leader Kirit Somaiya’s battle against corruption is starting to look like a crusade against the Shiv Sena

Eating right

Madhya Pradesh aims to eradicate malnutrition by giving children and women the right to nutrition

Return of the past

The chance discovery of a 550-million-yearold fossil at Bhimbetka puts the caves back in the international spotlight

Summer retreat

Even as disengagement progresses in eastern Ladakh, India will have to be wary of China’s intentions post-winter

The fault in our lands

A film titled Kaagaz was released in 2021. It is based on travails of Lal Bihari, who was alive but was declared dead in land records. Legally dead, he struggled to prove he was alive. Problems of the living dead are not specific to India.

ALL SPARKLE, NO SPUNK

Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s new memoir lacks substance and does not do justice to the talented actor

Edappadi K. Palaniswami - The BJP Has No Reluctance To Accept Me As CM Candidate

The BJP has no reluctance to accept me as CM candidate

Retelling Rani's story

Her name sprung into public memory in 2018, when an auction house sold her jewellery for more than £62,000.

Resurrecting a maverick

According to legendary filmmaker Mike Nichols, he was born at the age of seven, on a six-day boat ride from Germany to America in 1939.

Bank Privatisation Is A Welcome Decision

Bank privatisation is a welcome decision

The rustic strongman

Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami lacks the aura of his charismatic predecessors. But his unassuming persona masks his unmatched survival skills and sharp political mind

Hand's shaky

AIMIM and AAP could further dim Congress’s chances in civic polls

Twist in the east

The Sarbananda Sonowal government is comfortably placed to retain power, but a grand alliance by the opposition could upset its best-laid plans

No alternative to BJP when it comes to development

EVER SINCE HE succeeded Anandiben Patel as chief minister of Gujarat in 2016, Vijay Rupani has faced rumors that he is likely to be replaced. But Rupani, who is a close confidant of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, has managed to survive and is now all set to lead the BJP’s campaign in the upcoming civic elections, along with state BJP president C.R. Patil.

Quota quandary

Yediyurappa in a spot of bother as the Kurubas and his own Lingayats seek change in reservation status

Detox treatment

A bad bank will clean the system, but its efficiency will be key

Change of guard

The assembly polls are an opportunity for the next crop of leaders to step up and fill the vacuum caused by the departure of Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa