Air India AI171 crash: A crowd-sourced search for truth

Presenting India Today Insight: Sharp analysis on topical issues by the editors of India Today magazine. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO INDIA TODAY MAGAZINE Why INDIA bloc’s bypoll scoreline is a warning bell for Congress The 4-1 verdict masks deeper problems—wins came mostly in states the alliance controls and the Congress’s continuing erosion reveals more fragility than strength By Kaushik Deka FROM THE STATES: PUNJAB YouTuber Kamal Kaur’s murder, morality and silence: Is Punjab drifting backwards? When the Sikh clergy justifies a killing and institutions look the other way, it is not just the victim who suffers but the soul of Punjab itself By Anilesh S. Mahajan SPOTLIGHT: AIR INDIA CRASH Air India Flight AI171: The crowd-sourced quest for answers after a tragic crash Never in the global history of aviation have so many ‘experts’—armed with so many ‘tools’—scrutinised so much about a plane going down, before the authorities did By Avishek G. Dastidar IN FOCUS: KAMATHIPURA Mumbai’s Kamathipura poised for redevelopment: Why residents are excited Besides bigger homes and better infra, they expect a boost in prospects of jobs, marriage proposals and even credit from the locality’s image overhaul By Dhaval S. Kulkarni GROUND REPORT: KALIGANJ BYPOLL Kaliganj bypoll: How a girl’s crude-bomb death tainted Trinamool’s victory In more irony, the BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari saw in the election result a “strategic breakthrough” in Hindu vote consolidation by his party By Arkamoy Datta Majumdar EDUCATION: INDIA TODAY-MDRA BEST COLLEGES SURVEY 2025 Best Colleges of India 2025: The top rankers, big improvers Winds of change are sweeping the country’s higher education arena as new colleges rise up to the challenge of imparting quality education By Kaushik Deka INTERVIEW: PANKAJ TRIPATHI Getting into the character with Pankaj Tripathi Q&A with Tripathi, who is back as Madhav Mishra in the fourth season of web series ‘Criminal Justice’ and set to reunite with Anurag Basu for ‘Metro...In Dino’ By Poulomi Das HEALTH: WORKING WELL How heat stress threatens the workplace As global temperatures continue to rise, the extreme heat puts millions of workers at serious risk. Suresh Tanwar, Senior Head of Audit and Consultancy, British Safety Council, India explains how and why Indians should be concerned. By Sonali Acharjee From the India Today archives (1975) | The day India was chained by Emergency From the India Today archives | The day India was chained by Emergency Fifty years on, the 1975 Emergency remains one of the darkest chapters of post-Independence India. From INDIA TODAY’s first edition, a glimpse of how the country coped By Inderjit Subscribe to the India Today Magazine