February 19, 2024

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From The Editor-in-chief
The psychological hold Prime Minister Narendra Modi has on the Indian electorate is phenomenal. A full decade after he strode on to the national stage, he still walks like a colossus. In February 2024, a bare two months before the general election, a
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The Code In Uniform
With just weeks to go before the general election is announced, Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami believes he has handed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party, the BJP, a political plank to push further the pro-Hindutva narrative. A
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Uttarakhand Ucc Decoded
↘ Marriages involving direct blood relations deemed unlawful. Exception ‘within the degrees of prohibited relationships’ for certain communities which follow such customs ↘ All marriages to be legally registered within 60 days or invite Rs 10,000 fin
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The Long Fight Before Jmm
As Hemant Soren rose on February 5 to speak in favour of the confidence motion moved by his hand-picked successor Champai Soren in the Jharkhand assembly, the former chief minister repeatedly asserted his Adivasi origin and tore into the BJP, allegin
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Takeaways
↘ The new Champai Soren government won the trust vote in the Jharkhand assembly, polling 47 votes ↘ It was necessitated when ED arrested JMM chief Hemant Soren on January 31 for alleged money-laundering ↘ Soren accuses BJP of being ‘anti-tribal’, hop
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The Odia Renaissance
An hour-long dance recital, choreographed by the renowned Aruna Mohanty. Even if the Biswa Odia Bhasa Sammilani was supposed to be about verbal language, it could not have asked for a more eloquent piece of self-expression. The gestural language of O
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An Ill Wind Over A City’s Heritage
If the courts do not rescue it from a perilous fate, Hyderabad could well bid adieu to what has been an integral part of the city’s cultural and architectural heritage—the century-old original building of Osmania General Hospital (OGH). A gift by its
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The Flip-flop
↘ The century-old heritage structure of the Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad faces demolition as part of the plan to expand facilities at the government institute ↘ The previous BRS regime had endorsed this plan even as the Congress had pledged
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A Friendly Match?
Odisha’s BJP leaders couldn’t believe their ears when they heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik his mitr (friend) at a state event in Sambalpur on February 3. In his first public meeting in Odisha (which goes to th
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Trouble@paytm
It’s an hour of reckoning for financial services firm Paytm, often touted as the poster boy of India’s digital payments revolution. On January 31, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PBPL) to stop new credit and deposit
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The Hex Factor
Nitish Kumar may have been Bihar chief minister from 2015, but the state has seen seven deputy CMs since. Some say the post itself is jinxed; others think they know where the problem lies—5, Deshratna Marg, the official residence of the deputy CM. RJ
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The Battle For Kannauj
Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav may have lost the election from the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh in 2019, but the constituency is still considered a Samajwadi Party (SP) stronghold. There is now talk that the SP chief himself might cont
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Changing Times
Telangana chief minister A. Revanth Reddy has decided that the state code will henceforth be ‘TG’ and not ‘TS’, as his predecessor, K. Chandra shekar Rao, had fixed. All vehicle registrations will, therefore, now change. As will the state emblem and
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Admission Test
Such is the rush to join the BJP in Gujarat that the party has now formed a dedicated panel to review new inductees. Since the beginning of the year, thousands of supporters of two sitting MLAs—AAP’s Bhupendra Bhayani and Chirag Patel of the Congress
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Heading For A Hat-trick
When Narendra Modi stood up to address the Lok Sabha on February 5, the prime minister exuded an aura of confidence and assuredness. He even mocked the members seated in the Opposition benches, saying they would be occupying those seats for decades.
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Projected Results If The Lok Sabha Election Were To Be Held Today
Vote share figures rounded off NDA: Bharatiya Janata Party, Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (Pashupati Kumar Paras), Lok Janshakti Party (Ramvilas), Apna Dal (Soneylal), National People’s Party, Nationalist Democratic Progressive P
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How The Public Mood Has Changed
TOTAL SEATS: 543 Vote share figures rounded off; all previous projections/actual results from Feb. ’16 to Jan. ’23 mentioned against I.N.D.I.A. are for the erstwhile UPA ■
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Methodology
The INDIA TODAY Mood of the Nation (MOTN) poll was conducted by CVoter, a globally renowned name in the field of socio-economic research, between December 15, 2023, and January 28, 2024, interviewing 35,801 respondents covering all Lok Sabha segments
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A Thumbs Up For Recovery
Following the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, India’s economy reeled under the impact of three successive waves of Covid-19, making it hard to surmise how fast the country could make a recovery. After all, Covid had impacted millions of jobs, de
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The Road Less Travelled
Summer brings with it the perennial question: Where to go for the holidays? Opting for Tamil Nadu as your summer destination is the perfect time to escape the heat of the plains and head to the sylvan hill tracts of the State. While you may have been
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Feeling Lost In I.n.d.i.a.
When leaders of more than two dozen Opposition parties met in Bengaluru on July 17-18 last year to discuss the structure and narrative of a national alliance, the bonhomie between two leaders caught everyone’s attention. If the Congress party came up
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Reigning Supreme
In February this year, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath achieved a new milestone, although in the virtual world. With 27.4 million followers on X (formerly Twitter), he emerged as the third most followed Indian politician after Prime Mini
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Q most Popular Cm In Home State
Odisha 52.7 [61.3] Uttar Pradesh 51.3 [46.9] Assam 48.6 [49.2] Gujarat 42.6 [55.3] Tripura 41.4 [34.9] Goa 41.1 [44.4] Uttarakhand 40.1 [46.5] Delhi 36.5 [57.7] Tamil Nadu 35.8 [48.3] West Bengal 32.8 [32] All figures in %; Feb. ’24 figures in bold,
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Q most Popular Cm Across India
Uttar Pradesh 46.3 [43] Delhi 19.6 [19.1] West Bengal 8.4 [8.8] Tamil Nadu 5.5 [5.6] Odisha 2.5 [3] Karnataka 2.3 [1.4] Assam 2 [2.2] Maharashtra 1.9 [1] Uttarakhand 0.5 [0.5] Gujarat 0.4 [0.4] All figures in %; rest, others & don’t know/can’t say; F
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A Firm Presence
IN the past six months, India’s foreign policy has successfully navigated the twists and turns of modern geopolitics. New Delhi showed its diplomatic mettle by hosting the G20 summit and emerging as a credible voice of the Global South, while continu
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Winds Of Change
Political and governance reforms have a wider appeal as they promise to bring in economic efficiency while those aimed at dismantling old social structures and traditions take time to gain traction. This is a stark finding of the INDIA TODAY Mood of
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Singing Royals
Not since the glory days of Lata Mangeshkar has a voice become as dominant in playback singing as Arijit Singh’s today. A ballad isn’t deemed romantic if it doesn’t have the Singh cadence. To little surprise, then, the reclusive singer, who has consi
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Epic Rock
Despite the ubiquity of music in Indian life, and a rich heritage of music in drama, contemporary Indian theatre has staged few home-grown musicals; even fewer with an English libretto. Among those very few was Lillete Dubey’s 1990s production of San
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The Strength Of Shakti
“It’s A TIHAAI!” QUIPS TABLA MAESTRO Padma Shri Zakir Hussain on being congratulated just a day after the triple whammy at the Grammy Awards. Just a month short of his 73rd birthday, he made history at the ceremony in Los Angeles, becoming the first
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Home-made Treats
India’s smallest state has a multicultural heritage and a vibrant arts and culture scene that doesn’t disappear between March and October. Goa has, for a while now, been a magnet for creative people who have chosen to do more than buy a getaway house
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Family Dramas
Unlike fiction or poetry (which Indians love to compose though it gets little coverage), our original drama in English has lain in the doldrums for several years. The spark that Mahesh Dattani’s 1950s-born generation ignited in the last two decades o
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Memorable Show
Q. You rocked the stage at Lollapalooza. What was the experience like? I am well aware of the high standards that Indian audiences have—especially live audiences, and there was a lot of anxiety. But I also know Indians like to have a good time and I
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She’s Got The Blues
This year, for the first time, the Mahindra Blues Festival—taking place at Mehboob Studios in Mumbai on February 10 and 11—will have an all-female line-up. Singer Tipriti Kharbangar, who has played the event more than any other act as part of the duo
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Olden Goldies
Superstar javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra scripted more history in 2023 as he became the first Indian athlete to win the world championship and defended his Asian Games title, cementing his place at the top of the INDIA TODAY MOTN ranking among non-cri

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