Highlights of India Today Hindi 1st March 2023, issue:

Cover story:  Shahrukh Khan

Laut Aaya Badshah

Pathaan comes as redemption not just for the actor himself but also for Bollywood and is a fitting retort to the hashtag boycott culture.

Special story: Drugs in Gujarat

Naye Nashe Me Udta Gujarat

Gujarat is in the grip of a new drug threat. Not only is Mephedrone passing through the state, it is also being manufactured in its abandoned factories.

Nation: State Budgets

Budget Se Beda Paar Ka Judag

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gahlot and Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Chouhan are from different political parties but on election run both thinks same. Both state’s budgets are election budgets with full of doles. Pinarayi Vijayan’s Left Front government in Kerala, meanwhile, is struggling to stave off criticism of saddling a rich state with poor public finances.

Special Story: Uttar Pradesh

Gaganchumbi Nivesh Prastavon Se Badlegi Tasveer

With record number of mou signed in Global Investor Summit Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh sharpens its cultural agenda.  Now biggest challenge before government is that it has to show the investment and work on the ground.

Upfront: Air India

Runway Par Raaj Ki Taiyari

A year since it bought the beleaguered state-owned carrier Air India, the Tata Group has taken the first major step to script the airline’s revival. In what is claimed to be the biggest aircraft purchase in aviation history, Air India will buy 470 new planes from Airbus and Boeing for an estimated $70 billion (Rs 5.8 lakh crore), based on the listed prices of the various aircraft it has set its eyes on.

Upfront: Uttarakhand

Nakal Par Nakel

Uttrakhand government brought an ordinance to curb paper leak incidents in competitive exams. It provides for 10-year jail to those found guilty of copying, and life imprisonment to those facilitating them—a reminder of a similar anti-copying law passed in unified Uttar Pradesh in 1992.