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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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Redefining BHARAT • PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI HAS BEEN AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE IN 2023, LEAVING HIS MARK ON BOTH THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL STAGE. ANALYSING THE MANY AVATARS MODI DONNED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE

THE MODI YEAR • HOW THE YEAR 2023 PANNED OUT FOR PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI AND INDIA

INDO-JAPAN RELATIONS A VOYAGE TO BUILD BIG, SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM AND TRADE • From 1958 to 2011, to the current day, Inda-Japan trade relations have indeed had a long, successful and more aptly, a transformative journey. Great achievements have been made at every milestone, and cultures, processes and values have changed, grown and fructified since the day in 1958 that Japan International cooperation Agency, more well known as JICA, the eastern nation's bilateral trade and funding institution entered into a partnership with India for its nation-building efforts. over the decades, several infrastructure projects and railroad activities have been undertaken as funded by JICA.

“I take all my decisions through the prism of Nation First” • Since NARENDRA MODI occupied the official residence of the prime minister of India at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, it has undergone an impressive facelift. The colonnaded entrance leads to a long corridor with a maze of meeting rooms. In the prime minister’s study, two paintings of peacocks and birds adorn the room. He has a large desk that is bereft of papers, and a computer console on a side table. It was here on December 26, wearing a military green shirt jacket studded with brass-buttons, that he sat down for an interview with India Today’s Chairperson and Editor-in-Chief AROON PURIE, Vice Chairperson KALLI PURIE and Group Editorial Director (Publishing) RAJ CHENGAPPA. In an hour-long interaction, the PM spoke passionately on a range of key domestic and international issues apart from discussing in depth his unique management style. He also gave written answers to questions sent earlier. The interview is an amalgamation of the two—the verbal and the written answers

Defender of Rights • GUIDED BY THE TWIN IDEALS OF CONSTITUTIONAL MORALITY AND PERSONAL LIBERTY, CHANDRACHUD OFTEN DIFFERED WITH THE SAFE MAJORITY VIEW, BUT AVOIDED OPEN CONFLICT

LANDMARK VERDICTS • Here are some of the decisions by the CJI-led Supreme Court benches that made news this year

HOW TO MANAGE CASE LOAD • In last one year, the Chief Justice of India has taken several initiatives, including upgrade of the Integrated Case Management System to reduce pendency of cases in the Supreme Court

Forever Yatri • RAHUL CONTINUES HIS SEARCH FOR AN ALTERNATE PARADIGM WITHIN HIMSELF. AFTER A DISQUALIFICATION BURNISHED HIS STREET CRED, HE WILL NOW GO EAST TO WEST ON INDIA’S MAP

BIRAC Energizing the Indian Innovation Ecosystem • To encourage, nurture and empower innovation and start-up ecosystem of India, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a not-for-profit Public Sector Enterprise, was established in March 2012, under Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. BIRAC is aggressively transforming the landscape of innovation in biotechnology by building new pathways for an entrepreneurial journey through...