Highlights of India Today English issue dated July 20th, 2015. Despite not being a Narendra Modi acolyte, Shivraj Singh Chouhan was able to exercise complete control in running his state. But with the Vyapam scam assuming ugly proportions, the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister's fate hangs in the balance, says this week's Cover Story "Crisis of Confidence". Shekhar Gupta in his National Interest column, "Fifty Years After: War of Mutual Incompetence", asks what exactly are we in India celebrating, and actively rewriting, a half century later. "Sino-Pak Embrace Stifles India", the Big Story this week, talks about how China's deepening economic and security investments in Pakistan have cast a shadow over its ties with India. The Special Report this week, "Tempering Great Expectations", is on how the economy is surely looking up, and there are clear signs. But let's first get to a 6-7 per cent growth window without expecting the moon right away. India needs urbanisation and a greater push towards growth to lift its people out of poverty. The new socio-economic data could help sharpen policymaking towards that end, says Nation story, "How India fails Bharat". The issue has 5 free magazines with it: Woman, Aspire, Simply Delhi, Simply Bangalore and Simply Chennai.
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