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AUTO SALES IN TOP GEAR • Pent-up demand, GST cuts and the festival season combine to give the automotive industry a record boost, with customers flocking to showrooms

A VERY LOOSE CANNON

FROM DNA TO DIAGNOSIS MAPPING THE TRIBAL GENE

WIRED VIA SPACE

BHUBANESWAR 2.0 • If it happens, the ‘New City’ could be a template for our urban sprawls

Saffron’s Southern Paradox • DMK aims arrows at BJP’s ‘love-hate’ relation with TN

TRIANGLE WITH A SLIGHT SIDE PAIN • Upper storeys upset in UP? There have been signs for a while, but the absence of Yogi’s two deputy CMs from a high-profile event in Ayodhya made it conspicuous. How will balance be restored?

Heaven’s Premier League Vanishes Into the Blue • Match interruptions have never been so shambolic. A whole tournament gets run out as organisers scoot

SHARMA HITS RESET BUTTON FOR TOP BRASS • Bhajan Lal Sharma goes in for an overhaul of his police setup—all eyes on the moving Lego blocks

Electric Vigilantes • Stealing power from the neighbourhood line? Take care. Your neighbour may get rich!

NEW WHITE COLLAR TERROR • THE CAR BOMB ATTACK IN DELHI EXPOSES A DANGEROUS TURN, AS RADICALISED PROFESSIONALS TARGET INDIAN CITIES

THE BOMB TRAIL • Tracking the death-dealing i20 driven by prime suspect Dr Umar un-Nabi through Delhi for 11 hours on Nov. 10, before he detonated the bomb in his car near Red Fort, killing himself and 12 others, apart from injuring another 20

CAPITAL’S SCARS • Prominent terror attacks in Delhi since 1996. The Red Fort and its immediate surroundings have been targeted three times previously

THE TERROR DOCTORS • From J&K to Haryana and UP… How the police uncovered a sinister plot driven by radicalised doctors—too late, though, to avert the lethal blast in the heart of Delhi

NO PLACE TO TAKE A BREAK • INDIA’S NETWORK OF HIGHWAYS EXPANDS AT BREAKNECK SPEED, BUT WAYSIDE AMENITIES FAIL TO KEEP PACE, MAKING ROAD JOURNEYS A FRAUGHT EXPERIENCE. THE GOVERNMENT HOPES TO CHANGE THAT SOON

NEW POLICY, NEW GOALS • The 2025 draft policy on Wayside Amenities aims to set up 5,000 rest facilities nationally with speedy private investment

INSIDE THE FRAUD FACTORY • CHEATING NETWORKS HIJACK RAJASTHAN’S RECRUITMENT SYSTEM, ERODING TRUST AND CRUSHING THE HOPES OF GENUINE ASPIRANTS

CRACKING THE CHEAT CODE • How authorities are unravelling recruitment exam fraud

MAKING INDIA AI-READY • HEALTH, MANUFACTURING AND AGRICULTURE ARE SEEING A SEA CHANGE WITH ADVANCEMENTS IN THE TECH SECTOR. THE INDIA TODAY ROBOTICS AND AI CONCLAVE CAPTURED SOME OF THE ACTION

THE YOUNG ROMANCE WAVE • WITH A SPATE OF FOREIGN FILMS AND SHOWS ABOUT YOUNG ADULTS GAINING TRACTION, PRODUCERS ARE SPOTLIGHTING LOCAL VARIANTS THAT TELL THE STORY OF INDIA’S YOUTH

DESI YA SHOWS TO WATCH • Recent productions that made a splash, some of which have ongoing seasons

TEJASHWI YADAV’S BIG BATTLE CAN HE SHED THE ‘JUNGLE RAJ’ LEGACY?

MAKING VEGETABLES GREAT AGAIN • CULINARY LEGEND CAMELLIA PANJABI HAS PENNED A NEW COOKBOOK AFTER THREE...