Highlights of India Today Telugu issue dated December 31st, 2013. The issue carried English edition's Cover Story “Not A Criminal" as cover. This contains some Thoughts of Vikram seth along with a Story "Stigmatised", about gay rights. The story incorporates some case studies of gay couples, one from Andhra Pradesh, and discusses about the recent judgment of Apex court to upholding section 377 of the Indian penal code that again criminilise homosexuality, which lead to protests from gay rights activists. Another exclusive, State of the states report analise the performance of Big and Small states in India and what are the reasons behind their improvement. Main Story from Andhra Pradesh is about recent struck of Red Sander smugglers in Seshachalam forest "Forest official fight loosing battle". Two officials were killed in an ambush by red smugglers recently, in the forests bordering Chittoor and Kadapa districts. smuggling Red sandal wood has become thriving business with high profits in Chithoor districts. Politicians allege each other of helping smugglers. Unarmed forest officials and staff are attacked by smugglers regularly. In spite of losing some of their staff forest officials have arrested at least 100 smugglers in first two weeks of this month. All these issues were discussed in the story. Regulars like Snippets on Telugu film industry have been carried.