Left, Right & Centre

Kiran Bedi joins the BJP, giving a dramatic twist to the Delhi assembly elections. Will she be the party's Chief Ministerial candidate? Is she going to give the AAP a tough fight? Is this the game changer the BJP is looking for?

Another Church is attacked in Delhi, the fourth such incident in recent weeks. As the Delhi Archbishop calls the attacks orchestrated and questions the Prime Minister's silence, is there a pattern emerging before the Delhi polls?

The Goa government is forced to go into damage control after outrage over the state sports minister's plans to make homosexuals 'normal'. But do his statements reflect the deep prejudice that the gay community continues to face? Why is homosexuality still a crime? Why has Parliament ignored the issue altogether?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to launch the BJP's poll campaign in Delhi on Saturday for what will be the most critical assembly polls since the Lok Sabha elections. Are the Delhi elections a referendum on the Centre? Or do they present a bigger test for Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party and their relevance in politics?

The fallout of the massacre in Paris: what does this mean for free speech? Has religion made real free speech impossible? Can there be absolute freedom of expression? These are some of the key questions that have emerged from the terror attack that killed 12 people including nine journalists at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office.

A series of terror attacks took place in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, just days before the Prime Minister's rally in Srinagar. Across the border in Lahore, with help from the state, Hafiz Saeed held a mega rally. Is Pakistan getting desperate? What can India do? A debate on Left, Right And Centre.

Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Nitish Kumar come together to form a new front, but is this alliance driven out of a fear of PM Modi and the BJP? Can the Janta Parivaar really make an impact? We debate on Left, Right and Centre.

There's embarrassment for the BJP as the PMO contradicts BJP President Amit Shah in Parliament and says there is no proof yet of a link between the Saradha money and the Burdwan blasts - a claim made by Mr Shah on Sunday. Did the BJP jump the gun? We debate on Left, Right and Centre.

As India pays tribute to 14 CRPF men who lost their lives in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh on Monday, we ask whether it's time to radically change the approach to dealing with Naxals.

The war between Trinamool Congress and the BJP intensifies, a day after Amit Shah's Kolkata rally. Is Mamata Banerjee nervous about the BJP's inroads into West Bengal? Or can the BJP really make a dent?

There is a fresh row involving the Aligarh Muslim University. The Vice Chancellor has written to HRD Minister Smriti Irani asking for her intervention to avoid a potential "communal conflagration" on the university campus. The matter involves the local BJP unit's demand to hold a function on December 1, celebrating a local Jat king's birth anniversary, also a donor to the university. We ask, is it fair to play petty divisive politics over educational institutions? Is the AMU being used as a tool for polarisation?

The winter session of Parliament is stormy over the return of black money to India. Is the BJP now singing a different tune - diverting attention from bringing back money that's hidden outside the country to focussing on how to tackle what's being generated within? Is the Congress being a responsible opposition by questioning the BJP over why details of accounts given by foreign governments are not being revealed? As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley calls for bipartisanship on the issue, we ask, is all this just rhetoric or will there ever be any light at the end of this black money tunnel?

At the SAARC Summit in Kathmandu, Pakistan objected to three major agreements that aim at promoting connectivity, infrastructure and energy in the region, citing incomplete internal processes, but effectively rendering the group unable to hold a planned signing ceremony at the end of the day. While officials are hoping for a breakthrough at the retreat tomorrow, once again India-Pakistan tensions are holding regional progress hostage. Has the SAARC Summit turned out to be a flop show?

Former vice chancellor of Delhi University, Deepak Pental, arrested today on the basis of a complaint that he had plagiarised a paper on biotechnology and passed it off as his own. While that may be the case, this is not the first time that charges of plagiarism have been made at the highest levels against professors in the university, or indeed elsewhere too. What mechanisms exist to catch these instances quicker, or to enforce ethics and rights to intellectual property in academia in order to replenish diminishing confidence in our higher education system? A debate on Left, Right And Centre.

Supreme Court comes down heavily on the BCCI's president-in-exile, asking how he could be involved in a franchise of the IPL? As Mr Srinivasan seeks return as BCCI chief after IPL probe report, the Supreme Court said, "You are only assuming you have been given a clean chit."