Highlights of India Today Hindi 29th January 2025 issue:

Cover Story: Middle Class

Jabardast Jakdan

High prices, crippling tax rates along with shrinking incomes are forcing this crucial demographic to swallow its ambitions, affecting India’s growth story. How Budget 2025 can end their economic distress.

Upfront: Uttar Pradesh

Ibadatgahon Ke Neeche Bhanumati Ka Pitara

The controversy surrounding the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal wracked by violence in late November, with four people killed in clashes with the police—is far from a closed chapter. As the New Year dawned, the courts applied the brakes on the controversy, which till then seemed to have taken on a momentum of its own. But with a constitutional law up for question, and a bristling sheaf of legal disputes on the anvil, all signs are that the game of wits between judicial principles and political ideas will resume in the near future.

Nation: Congress

Apne Keel Kante Durust Karne Ki Kavayad

The party’s moves to jettison allies and rebuild its own poll machinery expose the competing dynamics in the INDIA bloc, blunting the Opposition challenge and the Congress’s place within it

Nation: Odisha

Naye Sire Se Naveen Ki Lalkaar

The Biju Janata Dal supremo has stepped out of the shadows, unveiling a new avatar. No longer reserved and detached, he’s now a fiery Opposition force, reigniting his party and energising his base

Special Report: Rajasthan

Loot Lapetkar Furr hoti Dulhane

Gang of Dulhan (bride) Looting single youths in a massive way. One looteri bride marries up to 30 men and looting them.

Special Report: Civil Aviation

Delhi Kaise Bane Aviation Hub

India’s booming aviation sector has instilled the idea in government of making Delhi a global aviation hub. But there are hurdles ahead