Akhilesh Yadav has all but vanished, with less than two years to go for UP polls. Even the more erratic and prone-to-disappearing Rahul Gandhi is sustaining more of an aggressive campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says News Editor Ruhi Tewari in her weekly column #PoliTricks.

Parliament's monsoon session kicked-off after five months and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's speech in Lok Sabha about the India-China stand-off was the first such address at a high level about the rising tensions. In episode 568 of Cut The Clutter, Shekhar Gupta lifts the layers from its key takeaways. He also speaks about three new strategic border roads projects.

#PoliticallyCorrect Efforts to see the Gandhi family’s political wisdom and strategy in Congress’ organisational reshuffle are pointless. ThePrint's Political editor D.K. Singh explains in his video column. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read the full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/politically-correct/how-sonia-gandhi-delivered-a-blow-to-congress-in-promoting-her-sons-failed-lieutenants/501905/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Astronomers have detected phosphine gas in the clouds of Venus which cannot be explained by any known natural processes. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh takes a look at the new findings and why scientists think there could be microbes on Venus.

A global investigation has revealed how Chinese company Zhenhua has been mining big data from at least 24 lakh people living across democracies, 10,000 of them in India. In episode 567 of Cut The Clutter, Shekhar Gupta explains how this was done, caught & examines if it is spying or 5th Generation Warfare (5GW). ----more----Read the article by Washington Post here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-firm-harvests-social-media-posts-data-of-prominent-americans-and-military/2020/09/14/b1f697ce-f311-11ea-8025-5d3489768ac8_story.html----more----