Modi Heads to SCO Summit as Fragile India–China Peace Faces a Test

Presenting India Today Insight: Sharp analysis on topical issues by the editors of India Today magazine. Narendra Modi set for SCO Summit, how fragile border peace tests India-China thaw “Differences must not become disputes nor competition conflicts,” external affairs minister S. Jaishankar has emphasised to his visiting Chinese counterpart Wang Yi By Pradip R. Sagar SPOTLIGHT: BIHAR VOTER ROLLS The ‘living dead’ of democracy: Has EC failed Bihar? Rahul Gandhi’s tea with ‘the dead’ is a metaphor: Bihar’s citizens were held to the strictest standards to prove they were alive. Declaring them dead needed just a shrug By Amitabh Srivastava GROUND REPORT: THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL BATTLE CP Radhakrishnan vs B Sudershan Reddy: How the vice-president poll plays out The INDIA bloc fielding former Supreme Court judge B. Sudershan Reddy against the NDA’s C.P. Radhakrishnan has set the stage for a contest along identity and ideological lines By Kavitha Muralidharan FROM THE STATES: MADHYA PRADESH Is Bhopal the new hotspot for synthetic drugs? Two major MDMA seizures, by DRI and Gujarat ATS, in less than a year have taken some sheen off MP’s recent Nashe Se Doori Hai Zaroori campaign By Rahul Noronha SPECIAL REPORT: PARIKSHA PE CHARCHA How PM Modi’s Pariksha pe Charcha made it to the Guinness World Records Behind the records set by Yoga Day, PAHAL, Jan Dhan and now Pariksha pe Charcha is a machinery that accomplished it all with mass participation, data-backed delivery and fast execution. By Anilesh S. Mahajan CINEMA: ‘THE BENGAL FILES’ Why Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Bengal Files’ has sparked political fire over state’s past ‘The Bengal Files’, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher and Pallavi Joshi, courts the same double-edged attention as ‘The Kashmir Files’: controversy as publicity By Arkamoy Datta Majumdar FROM THE ARCHIVES (2017): GOODS AND SERVICES TAX India’s GST journey: Bumps in the fast lane PM Narendra Modi has indicated a major overhaul of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). At its launch in 2017, the tax reform had been met with both hope and sceptisim By Shwweta Punj, M.G. Arun < Explore interesting insights! Follow our WhatsApp Channel for exclusive stories and engaging content!