A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.
Rafale isn’t Narendra Modi’s Bofors. At least not yet
The Opposition may think Rafale is their Brahmastra to bring down Narendra Modi, who looked unbeatable till a few months ago. In his weekly column, ‘National Interest’, Shekhar Gupta writes that the opposition campaign on Rafale has many limitations – no V.P. Singh, no smoking gun, no story, no slogan.
Indian Army finds a replacement for assault rifle INSAS
The SiG 716, a rifle made by US-based SiG Sauer, could well be the replacement for the Indian Army’s assault rifle INSAS. The fast-track procurement process for the rifles, not finalised yet, will likely be pushed back to April next year, reports Sujan Dutta.
A mother of two takes Facebook aid to help Indian women breastfeed
Adhunika Prakash, an MBA graduate from Symbiosis, Pune, is looking to her use the grant she has received from Facebook to take her breastfeeding support group to those in the grassroots who don’t know English and are not on social media, reports Manasi Phadke.
The two members in Mahatma Gandhi’s family who didn’t bow down to him
Maganlal Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi’s cousin Khushalchand Gandhi, and Mathuradas Trikamji, grandson of Gandhi’s half-sister Muliben, were two prominent members in the family of the Father of the Nation who showed the courage to disagree with him. Maganlal’s role is documented is history, but Mathuradas’s contribution is locked in out-of-print books, writes Urvish Kothari.
The DTC bus route that’s a nightmare for DU women students
After a 19-year-old student at Delhi University alleged seven instances of molestation on the same bus, women tell Nandita Singh and Simrin Surur that it’s been happening on Route 544 since 1985.
ED chief Karnal Singh gets one more extension
Enforcement Directorate chief Karnal Singh, who is overseeing investigations into many high-profile cases, will be given yet another extension for six months, reports Ananya Bhardwaj. Singh was earlier given a two-year extension in October 2016.
Narendra Modi and Amit Shah maintain silence to let ministers be humiliated
Senior leaders in the Narendra Modi government, like Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj, are among several ministers who have been targeted at different points by party snipers and supporters even as the Prime Minister and the BJP president look the other way, writes D.K. Singh.