Highlights of India Today –17th August 2020 issue:This weeks Cover Story talks about the burden on PM Modis shoulders as he faces a dangerous trinity of threats: the health emergency caused by Covid-19, the economic distress it has caused an already slowing economy and the Chinese aggression on our borders.
The Big Story this week talks about the Ram Temple. The centre and the Uttar Pradesh government are pouring in Rs 5,000 crore to recreate Ayodhya as a focal point of Hindu religious tourism.
The issue also looks at the country’s main Opposition party losing out to the BJP’s machinations in two states where it had won elections, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, and is fighting to save its government in another, Rajasthan.