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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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India Today

PROMISES TO KEEP

The Grain Drain

DEADLY SPIRIT

GAME ON FOR TEJASWI

A SAFE HOME FOR JUMBOS

A Struggle to Sparkle

LEFT IN THE LURCH

IN THE FIRING LINE

THE EXAM MESS • AS LEAKS AND LAPSES DISRUPT FOUR NATIONAL EXAMS AND THE FUTURE OF MILLIONS OF STUDENTS, THE SPOTLIGHT FALLS ON THE NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY AND THE NEED FOR REFORM AND TRANSPARENCY

THE NEET IMBROGLIO • The NEET-UG is a pen-and-paper common entrance examination for the entire country. This year, 2,333,297 students appeared for the examination, vying for 109,170 seats in 706 medical colleges. Of these, 55,905 seats are available in 386 government medical colleges. Here is the process and where the lapses and breaches possibly occurred, putting the whole exam under question

How to Fix the Mess

“WE WILL MAKE EXAMS 100 PER CENT FOOLPROOF” • Soon after he resumed charge of the Union ministry of education, DHARMENDRA PRADHAN had to deal with the storm that broke out over serious irregularities and subversions of the national entrance examination system with the Opposition even demanding his resignation. In an exclusive interview with India Today Group Editorial Director RAJ CHENGAPPA and Deputy Editor ANILESH S. MAHAJAN on June 25, Pradhan speaks forthrightly about the action the central government has taken to deal with the crisis and the challenges that lie ahead. Excerpts:

NO JOBS FOR NEW IITIANS • THE ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN IS BEGINNING TO TAKE A TOLL ON PLACEMENTS IN PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS LIKE THE IITs, WHERE THE TOP DEGREE IS NO LONGER A GUARANTEE OF AN ASSURED JOB OFFER

LOW ON THE HIRE GROUND • Technology jobs have shown the least increase in hiring over the past couple of years in comparison to all other sectors as well as against the national trend, reflecting the churn and reassessment in the IT and ITeS sector

REVISITING AGNIPATH • Feedback on the military recruitment scheme from various stakeholders has suggested several changes. With the issue exacting a heavy electoral cost too, Modi 3.0 is considering how to make it better

A WORLD OF DISPARITIES • The terms of service for Agniveers are markedly different from those for regular soldiers

INDIAN COFFEE BLOSSOMS • Indian planters are reaping a windfall as a supply deficit due to a drought in Vietnam, the biggest coffee-producing country after Brazil and the largest supplier of Robusta beans, results in a boom in prices

THE COFFEE KINGS • India’s coffee-growing regions and their share in the country’s total production in the past year

THE BOOM IS BACK

It’s Raining THRILLERS • AFTER A DRY SUMMER SPELL, A FLOOD OF FRESH FILMS SHOULD BRING RELIEF TO PARCHED AUDIENCES

STREAMING PICKS TO WATCH OUT FOR

IN DEPTH KNOWLEDGE FROM THE MOST CREDIBLE SOURCE

Your Career Goldmine

Keeping It Real • KARTIK AARYAN SHOWS OFF HIS ACTING PROWESS AS MURLIKANT PETKAR, INDIA’S FIRST PARALYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST, IN THE KABIR KHAN-DIRECTED CHANDU CHAMPION

CONTINENTAL LINKS • Hamisha Daryani Ahuja’s Postcards on Netflix highlights the cultural similarities...