Highlights of India Today Hindi 6th April 2022, issue: 

Cover Story: Kashmiri Pandit

Hadse Ki Haqikat

The 1990 mass migration of terror-stricken Kashmiri Pandits is the subject of a new film. As passions rise over their plight, a relook into the crisis that tore up the Valley. Why did they flee? Who was responsible? Where are they now? What needs to be done?

Upfront: Indo-Japan Relations

Gahri Kootnitik Sajhedari

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida’s two-day visit to India, the first in-person summit since prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Japan in October 2018, has succeeded in further consolidating the Special Strategic and Global Partnership in a year that marks 70 years of diplomatic ties.

Upfront: MCD Elections

Delhi Ki Nayee Jung

Elections of Delhi local bodies or MCD are point of contention between BJP and Aam Aadmi Party. After winning Punjab Elections AAP want to fight these elections immediately. In between central government moved a bill in Lok Sabha to reunite 3 MCDs into one. It means elections are not going to happen in near future. By the way terms of 3 MCDs ending in May 2022.

Upfront: Uttarakhand

Pahad Me Siyasat Ka Naya Dhaam

Pushkar Singh Dhami may have lost the election but retained the big prize at the Uttarakhand BJP legislators’ meet. On the evening of March 21, amid thunderous applause, he was chosen to continue as chief minister of the hill state.

Upfront: Paytm

Yeh To Socha Hi Na Tha

Story of Paytm, once described as one of the big-gest start-up stories in India’s financial services sector, appears to have become a cautionary tale of everything that could go wrong after an IPO. Founded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma—who rose to prominence after demonetisation as the poster boy of digital payments—Paytm has struggled to live up to the massive expectations preceding its debut on the stock market just five months ago, in November 2021.

Upfront: Rajasthan

(Siyasi) Durg Hamara, Bagh Tumhare

That nightmare was followed by the first translocation of tigers in India—to Sariska, beginning 2008. Despite numerous tense moments and setbacks seen in the Sariska experiment, prominent politicians in Rajasthan are keen to replicate it for creating safe havens for tigers from Ranthambore at four places where the big cats used to live once upon a time.

Special Report: Congress

Gandhi Parivar Se Mukti Ki Chhatpatahat

The poll debacle stirs calls for change in the Congress. The rebels and others want unbiased organisational elections and an ‘accountable leadership’. Will the Gandhis give way?

Special Report: Covid-19

To Kya Chauthi Lahar Chal Padi Hai?

The third wave of Covid infections might have ended with minimal impact, but doctors warn against complacency. A fourth wave is inevitable, the experts say.

Special Report: Medical Education

Doctory Ki Padhai Ko Laga Kaun Sa Rog

Professionally stranded medical students from Ukraine expose the larger crisis in medical education in India where limited seats, intense competition, prohibitive cost and lack of faculty thwart rising aspirations.