A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.
HAL doesn’t fly because Sukhois aren’t Rafales
The most fascinating collateral impact of the Rafale controversy in the election season is India’s discovery of a new deity: Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. Compared to Reliance-ADAG today, it might look brilliant. But we need to give this mammoth PSU monopoly, and India’s largest defence company, a reality check, writes Shekhar Gupta in his weekly column, ‘National Interest’.
AICTE course credits ancient Indians for many inventions
The HRD ministry has decided to introduce into the country’s engineering curriculum a book that makes a number of these claims — from discrediting the Wright brothers and claiming that batteries and electricity existed in the Vedic age to asserting that ancient Indian scientists knew about gravitational forces much before Isaac Newton, reports Kritika Sharma.
Modi critic Ashish Khetan turns Modi fan one month after quitting AAP
Having quit AAP, journalist-turned-politician Ashish Khetan has suddenly developed admiration for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He surprised many this weekend by heaping praise on the Modi government’s Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana scheme, reports Rajgopal Singh.
India Inc is getting retired IAS, IFS officers as directors to get closer to Lutyens’ Delhi
Nearly 450 former civil servants are on company boards, many in sectors they regulated while in government, raising questions of propriety and ethics, reports Mahua Venkatesh.
Rahul Gandhi let Nitish Kumar go into the BJP’s waiting arms—and wants him to stay there
At its lowest ebb in history, the Congress party’s greatest anxiety is not that Narendra modi could return to power in 2019. The greatest worry is that another party, another leader could replace the Congress as the primary pole against the Bharatiya Janata Party in national politics, writes Shivam Vij.
Telangana honour killing widow just wants her father hanged
Amrutha Varshini, 21, married her long-term boyfriend P. Pranay Kumar on 30 January. Months later, her father K. Maruti Rao, allegedly got him murdered. Now, Amrutha wants her father, a wealthy upper-caste powerbroker, dead, reports Nandita Singh.
Ambani: The one name you will hear often till 2019 elections
Get ready to hear Anil Ambani’s name being mentioned repeatedly in the run-up to the elections now. But, this isn’t about Rahul, Bofors or even Ambani. It is about Modi, writes Maneesh Chhibber.