Every year, thousands of ambitious students across India prepare for one of the most challenging MBA entrance exams in the country: the Xavier Aptitude Test. And at the heart of this exam is one of India’s most respected Business schools-XLRI – Xavier School of Management.

In our first episode in association with XLRI, we talk about XAT and how it evaluates future leaders. In this conversation, we will be joined by Professor Rahul K. Shukla, Convenor, XAT & Admissions - XLRI Jamshedpur, who has spent years guiding students through not just the exam, but also the journey that follows.

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First, we talk about Maharashtra, where The Indian Express' Alok Deshpande discusses the controversy over a 40 acre land parcel has triggered political tremors that have reached the doorstep of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.

Next, The Indian Express' Kanchan Vasdev talks about why a government bungalow in Chandigarh has become the latest flashpoint between the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party. (13:30)

In the end, we also discuss the political row brewing in West Bengal, where the BJP and Trinamool Congress are clashing over the legacies of Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. (22:40)

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The headlines of the week by The Indian Express

First, we talk to The Indian Express' Asad Rehman about Rahul Gandhi’s latest allegations of large scale voter manipulation in Haryana’s 2024 Assembly elections and why he’s calling it the biggest case yet of what he describes as vote chori.

Next, The Indian Express' Jayprakash Naidu talks about a train crash in Chhattisgarh that killed 11 people and what the initial inquiry has revealed about what went wrong. (16:40)

In the end, we talk about why the ED has attached assets belonging to cricketers Suresh Raina and Shikar Dhawan in a money laundering probe linked to a betting platform. (21:38)

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The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

As Bihar enters the first phase of polling, we take stock of the state’s political landscape with The Indian Express’ National Opinion Editor, and discuss the entry of Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj, the baggage weighing down Tejashwi Yadav, and why, even after 20 years in power, many voters still have their hopes pinned on Nitish Kumar.

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The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

First, we talk to The Indian Express' Manraj Grewal Sharma about a major drop in Indian visa acceptances in Canada. She shares why Canada has rejected 74% of the student visa applications from India, the impact it's having on Indian students and Canadian universities.

Next, we talk to The Indian Express' Diplomatic Affairs Editor Shubhajit Roy about the recent developments in US-China relations, what they signify and how they might impact India and the rest of the world. (11:33)

Lastly, we talk about a collision between a passenger train and a goods train in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur that killed eight people. (20:10)

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The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

First, The Indian Express' Mihir Vasavda and Vinayakk Mohanarangan talk about the night Indian cricket had waited decades for, when Harmanpreet Kaur and her team made history, lifting the World Cup and giving Indian women’s cricket its 1983 moment.
Next, we speak to The Indian Express' Amitabh Sinha about ISRO’s launch of its heaviest communication satellite yet, a breakthrough that marks a new phase of India’s space independence. (14:20)

Lastly, we discuss India’s first ever National Household Income Survey, a massive new data exercise that could finally tell us what Indians actually earn. (20:55)


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Produced and written by Shashank Bhargava and Ichha Sharma
Edited and mixed by Suresh Pawar

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The headlines of the day by The Indian Express