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DHANKHAR DHAMAKA • An impeachment motion against a judge, purported internal dissent and power play force the Vice-President out

AN UNDUE HASTE THAT COST DEAR • Dhankhar, as Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, admitted the Opposition’s impeachment motion against Justice Yashwant Varma (inset) even as the government had moved a parallel motion in the Lok Sabha, effectively hijacking the BJP’s planned narrative

BEND IT LIKE BICHARPUR

ECO WATCH

THE PLANET MAPPER • The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar or the NISAR satellite, the largest collaboration in space between the US and India, is scheduled for launch from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on July 30 at 5.40 pm. One of the most sophisticated radar satellites till date, it has been in the works since 2014. Its goal is to track subtle changes on the Earth’s surface that have hitherto proved virtually undetectable. To achieve this, it will scan the planet twice every 12 days in unprecedented detail, literally down to a centimetre, regardless of cloud cover, darkness or foliage.

PUTTING AN END TO HEPATITIS B • Screening, vaccination and destigmatisation are essential to eliminating a disease that affects 29 million Indians

WHY THE K-WAVE IS THE NEW COOL FOR INDIA’S YOUNG

PRESUMED GUILTY, BUT PROVEN OTHERWISE • After a plodding, 19-year legal saga, an acquittal blasts apart the flawed probe in the 2006 Mumbai train bomb attack

SIDDA MEDICINE FOR SELF-HEALING • Is he going? Yes, going great guns. A favourable SC verdict caps a good run for a beleaguered CM

BREW HITS BAGHEL’S SON • The ‘liquor scam’ claims its biggest scalp yet, as the former CM cries political vendetta

SHOCK AND AFTERSHOCK • The state stays ablaze in the headlines with another girl victim. The rituals of anger and blame-giving repeat on loop

THE DAY AFTER THE SKIES FELL • This campus—BJMC—was Ground Zero for Flight 171. How students and faculty are coping with the trauma

THE CM REDRAWS LINES IN THE SAND • One day he’s down, next he’s rearranging his entire bureaucracy. It’s been a rollercoaster, but the CM has regained upper hand

THE BIG ADANI GAMBLE • CAN THE TYCOON TRANSFORM ASIA′S LARGEST SLUM?

THE NEW DHARAVI • HOW THE REDEVELOPMENT AND REHABILITATION PLAN PLAYS OUT FOR DHARAVI’S RESIDENTS

WHO GETS WHAT

ADANI’S BET • Adani executives say the priority is to complete the rehab/affordable/rental housing by 2032, for which Rs 95,790 crore is earmarked, and that commercial sale is still many years away. But here’s an estimate of what Adani could end up earning from open market sale, as per real estate consultants

“The objective is proper housing for all” • S.V.R. Srinivas, CEO, Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), talks about project deadlines, resettlement of slum-dwellers and the attendant controversies. Edited excerpts:

INSIDE DHARAVI • Every city has an underbelly. Dharavi is Mumbai’s pulsating gut, teeming with life in a visceral testament to the human will to endure. These images, taken on a rainlashed day inside the Indiranagar 3 locality of Dharavi, capture the stubborn heartbeat...