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.

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India Today

PAHALGAM MASSACRE

PACT BRITANNICA • The biggest bilateral trade deal in Trump 2.0, India and the UK hold up a template for a storm-tossed world

BILATERAL BOOST • How India and the UK stand to benefit from the Free Trade Agreement

ANYBODY OUT THERE? • Bubbling up in ancient Greek theories and medieval speculations, the quest for ‘aliens’ or extraterrestrial life finally acquired…well, a life of its own with modern sci-fi. The most exciting piece of evidence that the fantasy may indeed be reality has only come now: with the hint of a ‘bio-signature’ on a distant planet, discovered by a Cambridge team led by Nikku Madhusudhan, a scientist of Indian origin, and published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters this April

TEMPLE TANGO

A NEW PORT OF CALL • India’s first semi-automated international container transshipment port in Vizhinjam, formally launched by PM Narendra Modi on May 2, is a milestone that will put Kerala—and India—on the global maritime trade map

AI AS OUR COGNITIVE PARTNER • India will profit from partnering with AI to simulate futures, shape systems and solve complex challenges

WAR OVER WATER SHARING HOTS UP • Possessive about river water, Punjab takes the unprecedented step of seizing control of Bhakra Nangal flow. Haryana seethes with anger and thirst

MURMURS IN MURSHIDABAD • Amid a battle of narratives, clues from the burnt earth of Bengal speak of orchestration, not ‘organic’ violence

PATIENTS TURN GUINEA PIGS • A public hospital in Ahmedabad is under a cloud for illegal clinical trials on unwitting patients, with corrupt doctors in cahoots with pharma firms

GRAND OLD WARPATH • All gloves are off in Rajasthan, as the Congress goes hell for leather against the Bhajan Lal Sharma regime, and finds itself being strafed by the ED

THE VALLEY OF WOES • A booming tourism season had already been felled by Pahalgam. Now Kashmir presents a microcosm of the utter disruption caused to ordinary life at wartime

WAR! PAKISTAN’S DANGEROUS GAMBIT AND HOW WE MATCH UP

TERROR TAKEDOWN • THE JAISH-E-MOHAMMED AND LASHKAR-E-TAIBA, BOTH ASSETS OF PAKISTAN, HAVE BLED INDIA FOR LONG. ON MAY 7, INDIA FINALLY RAINED RETRIBUTION ON THEM, PUMMELLING NINE LeT AND JeM CAMPS IN PoK AND PAKISTAN PUNJAB

WHY THE BJP PLAYED THE CASTE CARD • After sustained ambivalence on the issue, the party pivots to greenlight the caste enumeration exercise. It’s a high-stakes gamble, suggesting a strategic shift in the Hindutva 2.0 strategy

A NEW SOCIAL ORDER • few states have already undertaken their version of a caste survey, some others are readying for it. Only 2-3 have published the results which, as expected, have unleashed mini storms

“YouTube is a stage where creators can shine” • In an exclusive interview, Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube, talks to Managing Editor M.G. Arun about the importance of India in the company’s global creative ecosystem. Edited excerpts

MAKING A BIG SPLASH • THE COMPETITIVE ARENA AT THE CREATE IN INDIA CHALLENGE AT WAVES 2025 BLAZED WITH TALENT AND INNOVATION. FOR PARTICIPANTS, IT WAS A STAGE THEY DREAMED...