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SONG OF POLITICAL DISSONANCE • PM Modi’s tribute to the national song’s 150th year in Parliament is a strategic bid to recast Bengal’s cultural symbols and target rivals ahead of polls next year

HISTORY LESSONS

A HIMALAYAN MYSTERY TIGER IN THE GLACIERS

JUVENILE JUSTICE ON TRIAL

LESSON FOR THE COACH • A legal scrutiny may help weed out its distortions, but could also finish Kota’s Rs 10,000 crore coaching industry

Congress Wants to Dance Solo • The Thackeray reunion and Uddhav’s wider cachet goads the GOP into junking the Aghadi for BMC poll

FLAME OF CONFLICT • The BJP brings out its old playbook to prise open the Dravidian heartland. An ancient Madurai temple becomes ground zero for the rituals of majoritarianism

A Grain of Irony, Food for Thought • Why is Mohan Yadav abandoning a system that benefited farmers as well as BJP? It’s fiscal need

A FRAUGHT ACQUITTAL • Mollywood superstar Dileep gets lower court relief in Kerala actress rape case

IndiGoof • WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE CHAOS AT INDIA’S DOMINANT AIRLINE

WHY INDIGO WENT INTO A TAILSPIN • HOW INDIGO’S STAFFING GAMBLE BACKFIRED UNDER THE NEW RULES, CAUSING A NATIONWIDE FLIGHT MELTDOWN

THE BEHEMOTH • IndiGo towers over India’s skies—bigger fleet, bigger market share, but thinner pilot cushion

THE MAKING OF AN ICON • Meteoric rise before turbulence

AIRPOCALYPSE • WHY DELHI HAS FAILED AND WHAT N EEDS TO BE DONE

WHAT’S CHOKING DELHI

“We need multi-faceted coordination in Delhi-NCR” • In an exclusive interview with Avishek G. Dastidar, Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav says the Centre is looking at a ‘whole of government’ strategy to bring down pollution numbers. Excerpts:

A MORE MUSCULAR CHICKEN’S NECK • THE SILIGURI CORRIDOR, INDIA’S VULNERABLE LAND LINK TO ITS NORTHEAST, IS UNDER THREAT FROM A NEW BANGLADESH-PAKISTAN-CHINA MILITARY-STRATEGIC AXIS. NOW, THREE NEW ARMY GARRISONS ARE READY TO MEET ANY HOSTILE ACTION

A MULTI-LANE MANAGEMENT EXPRESSWAY • MANAGEMENT EDUCATION HAS MOVED TO BECOMING A CONTINUUM, AND INDIA STANDS AT THE EPICENTRE OF THIS TRANSFORMATION

HOW THE B-SCHOOLS WERE RANKED

VIEW FROM THE TOP SHELF • AT 64, IIM-A IS NOW LOOKING AT DISRUPTIVE FRONTIERS SUCH AS AI, AS WELL AS BECOMING THE LEADING B-SCHOOL IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

THE GREAT CALCUTTA CRUCIBLE • GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS, CUTTING-EDGE PROGRAMMES AND A MODERNISED CAMPUS ARE ENABLING IIM CALCUTTA TO BUILD A LEADERSHIP PIPELINE FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING MARKETS

ENGINE OF EXCELLENCE • WITH DEEPER RESEARCH, WIDER COURSES AND EMERGING TECH, IIM LUCKNOW IS SHAPING INDIA’S BUSINESS EDUCATION AND PUBLIC POLICY

INSIGHT MEETS IMPACT • INDIA’S TOP PRIVATE B-SCHOOL GROOMS MANAGERS WHO CAN NAVIGATE TECHNOLOGY, STRATEGY AND RESPONSIBILITY WITH EASE

STILL AHEAD OF THE CURVE • SEVENTY-SIX YEARS ON, INDIA’S FIRST B-SCHOOL CONTINUES TO PRODUCE LEADERS WHO BALANCE SKILL, CONSCIENCE AND GLOBAL VISION

SHAPING NEW LEADERS WITH ETHICS • BETTING BIG ON AI AND DIGITAL THINKING, MDI GURGAON HELPS STUDENTS DEVELOP SOCIAL...