Highlights of India Today 19th September 2016, issue:

The cover story this week 'The Disruptor' examines Mukesh Ambani's audacious Rs 1.5 lakh crore gamble, which has already sent fellow telecom players in a mad scramble, and how it is set to change the rules of the telecom game.

This week's big story, Damage Control, talks about the Centre's decision to go ahead with less lethal alternatives to tame protestors in the growing unrest that has Kashmir in its grips. But, the deadly and blinding pellet guns are not going anywhere. 

The other big story, A Joke Called Sedition, traces how 2016 was infamously the year of sedition with charges being levelled against people at an epidemic rate. The story looks at the future and how things are going to get worse and raises the pertinent question as to whether there is a cure for a bad law.

The Nation story, AAP Comes Down In Punjab, looks at the Aam Aadmi Party’s plight in Punjab plagued as it is by charges of corruption, sexual impropriety and mass resignations of members. The story looks at how things are suddenly looking very bad for the party in the state.

Rahul Noronha's story on agriculture, High on Rice Paddy, highlights Madhya Pradesh's agricultural boom which has led to the state becoming the India's rice bowl and a prime producer of wheat and pulses.

The issue also has three free magazines with it: Woman, Simply Bangalore and Simply Chennai.