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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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A SCREENFUL OF BUNGLES • Designed to modernise evaluation, the Central Board of Secondary Education’s On-Screen Marking system instead sparked controversy over wrong answer sheets and unexplained scores. As inquiries begin, the focus shifts to accountability and rebuilding trust

HOW ON-SCREEN MARKING WORKS • In this digital evaluation system, answer books are scanned and uploaded to a secure online portal, where human examiners mark them on a computer screen, with totals calculated automatically

A PROJECT DEAR TO YOGI

CANINE DISEASE OUTBREAK THE GIR LION KILLER

INDIA AND OMAN: THE NEXT TRADE FRONTIER • The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement will give India alternative trade and investment channels in the Gulf at a time of geopolitical upheaval

TEAM DKS: FORM AND FORMULA • Caste rebalancing was tough, but fiscal balancing may be tougher as the new CM enters office with a fresh manifesto

The Great Land Lie • A spurt of concerted ED action puts stolen billions in the PACL case on the way back to duped investors

WHERE MEMORY CRASHED • On the eve of the Flight 171 crash report, the site is set to vanish—and kin are being asked to forget and forgive. A legal amnesia

A Harvest of Tears Stalks Onion County • War, weather and a wholly self-made export muddle combine to bring ruin to a vast belt of small farmers

MAMATA FACES MUTINY • A rebel faction walks away with three quarters of TMC’s legislative wing

Inheriting a Legacy of Trouble • The Bhopal rubaats—inns for Haj pilgrims—trigger a bitter war of words as politicos target ex-royalty

NEW AGE MALAISE • AI symptom checkers and online health content are fuelling a surge in self-diagnosis, driving panic, delaying treatment and a rise in self-medication

WHAT IS CYBERCHONDRIA? • It is a clinical phenomenon in which curiosity about an ailment can lead to anxiety, fuelled by the ubiquity of Internet search engines and AI tools. Patients notice a symptom and do a quick online search which spirals into repeated, obsessive checking

AI vs DOCTOR: THE BIG DIFFERENCE

NEET A REPEATED FAILURE

A LOOMING CRISIS • India’s textiles sector is struggling to recover from the recent geopolitical disruptions and meet its export target of $100 billion by 2030. Revival will require leveraging trade agreements, policy support and upgradation

CASE STUDY

WANTED: A REVAMP • India’s textile exports are stagnating due to a host of structural bottlenecks. Here are the fixes

CASE STUDY

SAMRAT GETS GOING • A MONTH AND A HALF INTO OFFICE, BIHAR CHIEF MINISTER SAMRAT CHOUDHARY IS DRIVING A GOVERNANCE MODEL CENTRED ON SPEED, VISIBILITY, ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL AND AGGRESSIVE POLITICAL MESSAGING

IN MISSION MODE • How the new CM is pushing fast and visible action on the ground

SAMRAT’S CHALLENGES • Governance speed faces the harder test of delivery

THE SECRET UFO FILES • From Apollo astronauts’ dispatches to modern military footage, newly released files by the Trump administration reopen the debate over unidentified flying...