Highlights of India Today English issue dated November 10th, 2014. The cover story "The Indispensable Mr Jaitley" describes what makes the finance-defence-company affairs minister the go-to man in the Narendra Modi government. The story looks at how and why Jaitley’s approval ratings have remained at stratospheric levels. The Nation article on policy making -- Caution tempers decision -- enumerates how the BJP government is finding it tough to reconcile its policy calls with the party position when it was in the Opposition. In the Nation section, the story, Shadows of Control, shows how the government runs the risk of reintroducing stifling laws governing money movement and investments after it is caught between its poll promise of bringing back black money and reforms agenda. In his National Interest column, When the 'trillion-dollar' mouse begins to roar, Shekhar Gupta talks about how the BJP’s opportunistic haste in inflating numbers on black money and every scam to hit UPA has come back to bite the party now that it’s in government. The issue also carries a series of articles under "State of the states" describing the states' impressive achievements across various categories. Tamil Nadu and Goa emerge as the top performers. The issue also has a series of automobile articles showing how the SUV craze is unabated as automakers serve up beauties for the year ahead. The issue has two supplements: Simply Kolkata and Simply Punjabi
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