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India Today

INDIA’S HARD LINE ON PAKISTAN IS THE NEW NORMAL

TRUMP EYES INDIA’S APPLE PIE • The US president’s tariff tirade threatens Apple’s India strategy, but the tech giant has few manufacturing alternatives beyond China

IT’S A SMALL WORLD

HEART ATTACKS PLASTIC TAKES A DEADLY TOLL

GOING COLD ON TURKEY • Economic leverage becomes New Delhi’s frontline weapon against Ankara as it recalibrates its diplomatic battles

JOINTNESS WAS THE GAME CHANGER • Efforts to braid the three services across all domains into integrated war fighting bore fruit in India’s precise actions in Operation Sindoor

NITISH PLAYS THE NAME GAME • Gaya changes its name to Gayaji, as renaming politics comes to Bihar. Nitish hasn’t changed places with the BJP, yet. But his yielding maps an ongoing soil erosion

PATRON OF ABUSE • Why does BJP put up with the verbal iniquities of Vijay Shah, the minister who insulted Col. Sofiya? It’s his cachet among MP’s tribals

WATER AND IRE IN THE VALLEY • Having put a question mark over the Indus Waters Treaty, should India go ahead with stalled projects? The Indo-Pak debate flows into Kashmir’s domestic politics

RAZING AN ILLEGAL STORM • Aftershocks of a terror attack in Kashmir are felt in the ghettos of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat. Thousands displaced, land gets freed, amid a welter of charges

BAPTISM BY FIRE • As a Bharat Adivasi Party MLA lands in a graft case, the BJP lets loose its full artillery in tribal Banswara

RAFALE KERFUFFLE • Ajay Rai gets some chilli in his eyes after a satirical send-up of Rajnath. The Congress battles to wash off ‘sedition’ stain, as Rai remonstrates ruefully

NUKE WAR • HOW REAL IS THE THREAT

NUCLEAR FACE-OFF • HOW INDIA AND PAKISTAN SQUARE UP IN THE BATTLE OF NUCLEAR WARHEADS AND THEIR DELIVERY SYSTEMS

THE NUKE BUTTON • Who is authorised to press it in India and Pakistan, under what circumstances, the defences both countries have to thwart nuke attacks, and incidents of near-misses in the past

GAMING THE UNTHINKABLE • Four scenarios that could result in a nuclear holocaust in the subcontinent

IF MUMBAI IS NUKED • The catastrophic scenario that would envelop the Maximum City in case of a Hiroshima-sized (15-kiloton) nuclear weapon strike

A NATION AT STAKE • As the line between online gaming and gambling blurs, millions of Indians grapple with addiction, debt and fraud while the government scrambles to rein in a booming yet chaotic industry

MAJOR ONLINE PLAYERS • From fantasy cricket to online ludo, skill-based games with the chance to win real money are attracting millions of users to multiple digital platforms daily

THE BIG BETTING BUSTS • Offshore betting platforms thrive in the grey areas, often masquerading as skill-based games. Here are a few that have landed squarely in the ED’s crosshairs

Regulating the Digital Dice • A combination of regulatory measures by the government and self-regulation by industry is framing India’s response to the damaging fallout of real money gaming

THE RIDE IS OVER • How the Jaggi...