Highlights of India Today Hindi 29th December 2021, issue:Cover Story: Defence 

Adhoora Agenda 

The untimely death of the chief of defence staff leaves his successor with the challenge of finishing India’s most significant military reform since Independence. The task ahead for the new super chief.

Upfront: Jammu and Kashmir 

Parisiman Se Chadha Siyasi Para 

In the past two months, political parties in Jammu and Kashmir have defied the chill and hosted conventions and rallies across the length and breadth of Jammu and Kashmir. The sudden in of activity has stoked speculation about the long overdue assembly election as the delimitation exercise nears completion. The J&K Delimitation Commission, led by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, will submit its report to the Union home ministry in March next year. 

Upfront: Rajasthan 

Afeem Ki Bhusi Bani Musibat 

Prices of the widely consumed opium husk have shot up in the state ever since the Union government’s blanket ban on it in 2016. It has also led to a thriving illicit trade—often in connivance with the police. As a result many police officers arrested allegedly their involvement in husk paddling.   

Upfront: Madhya Pradhya 

Sindhiya Digvijay Me Khinchi Talwaren 

Union minister and BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia’s presence at a public meeting in Raghogarh—a Congress bastion and home turf of former chief minister Digvijaya Singh—on December 4 in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district has sent political temperatures soaring in the state.