India Today

India Today is the leading news magazine and most widely read publication in India. The magazine’s leadership is unquestioned, so much so that India Today is what Indian journalism is judged by, for its integrity and ability to bring unbiased and incisive perspective to arguably the most dynamic, yet perplexing, region in the world. Breaking news and shaping opinion, it is now a household name and the flagship brand of India’s leading multidimensional media group. Additionally, the weekly brings with it a range supplements like Women, Home, Aspire, Spice and Simply which focus on style, health, education, fashion, etc. and Indian cities.

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

India Today

WARNINGS IGNORED • Despite two committees prescribing reforms, NEET (UG) collapsed again because the National Testing Agency adopted visible safeguards while ignoring structural fixes

WEIGHTY ADVICE

THE HANTAVIRUS SCARE BEWARE OF THE RODENTS

THE BIG SHIFT IN CRIME • Overall cognisable crimes in India, registered under the Indian Penal Code/Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Special and Local Laws, fell 6 per cent in 2024 from the previous year, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau data. However, the report points to a sharp shift in the nature of offences: while cybercrime, juvenile crime and cases of missing children rose, murder, rape, cruelty by husbands or relatives and dowry deaths showed a decline.

MANN IN A MESS • Minister arrested, state chief raided, AAP’s Rajya Sabha creme de la creme creamed off. What are the CM’s options?

Why Sunetra Has Inherited Pawar Crisis • The now on, now off NCP reunion can wait. The new Dy CM has to first settle an internal power challenge

CONTINUITY IN A CHANGED FORM • The new-look Samrat cabinet is in, with Nishant Kumar in the mix: a compact tinted by competition. Now Bihar awaits governance

AN IDOL COMES HOME • The US returns a stolen statue from the 7th century, but its custodian museum lacks any claim to it—courtesy termites

The Adivasi Who Could Not Be Defeated • National parties, including the BJP, may want to coopt him. For now, Chaitar Vasava stands uniquely aloof in Gujarat

UDTA RAJASTHAN, WITH HELP FROM DRONES • The narco trade is evolving dangerously, with drones dropping drugs and arms. A spate of cases shows Rajasthan is a new consumption, manufacturing hub

THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THE BJP DEFEATED MAMATA

THE CHALLENGES AHEAD • As four chief ministers—three of them first-timers, the fourth serving a second innings—step up to take charge of their states after gruelling electoral battles, a look at the imperatives before each one, from ensuring political stability, attracting investment and ensuring inclusive development to managing finances

MAKING BENGAL A MAGNET FOR INDUSTRY • The divisive rhetoric of the poll campaign over, Suvendu Adhikari gets down to the task of providing inclusive governance, while bringing industry and jobs to the state

FROM SCREENPLAY TO STATECRAFT •  THE NEXT ACT DEMANDS MORE THAN STARDOM: VIJAY MUST NOW BUILD THE TEAM, THE SYSTEMS AND THE GOVERNANCE MODEL TO DELIVER THE CHANGE HE PROMISED

TACKLING DEBT, JOB DROUGHT • New Congress CM V.D. Satheesan has a task on his hands, balancing party factions and allies, and an exhausted treasury to boot

PUSH FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH • Political dominance secured, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma now faces the harder task in his second term of delivering jobs, economic growth and inclusive governance

THE RED LINES GET SHARPER • A YEAR ON FROM THE CONFLICT, OPERATION SINDOOR HAS LED INDIA TO ADOPT A TECH-DRIVEN MILITARY MODERNISATION, WHILE PAKISTAN HAS BEEN JOLTED INTO MENDING THE CRACKS IN ITS OPERATIONAL READINESS AND COMMAND STRUCTURE

NEW A ROAD TO RICHES • UTTAR...