Left, Right & Centre

"It hasn't seeped in yet," said Thomas Cup champion Kidambi Srikanth on tonight's episode of Left, Right & Centre. "I have no words to describe this feeling, it's a great win", he further added.

"We're dancing and jumping all around, we'll carry on like this for two more weeks," said Thomas Cup champion Satwiksairaj Rankireddy on tonight's episode of Left, Right & Centre. "What we did yesterday was unimaginable," said Chirag Shetty, who admitted they'd never done well in team events before. 

"To see the national flag going up and hear the national anthem - it was a goosebump moment for all of us," said Thomas Cup champion HS Prannoy on tonight's episode of Left, Right & Centre. 

The Congress's three-day long Chintan Shivir concluded on Sunday - with top leadership deciding to institute several key reforms - including improving communication, election management, repairing the lost connection with the Indian public and announcing a new 'Bharat Jodo' yatra to counter what they called BJP and RSS's 'divisive policy' - but though the Congress is trying to recreate itself, is it too little, too late? Tonight's episode of Left, Right & Centre explores the nature of the Congress' promise - whether it is just like the others made before it, and whether the party can get its act together before the 2024 polls.

India bans wheat export 2 days after announcing massive trade goal - while the government says it's an attempt to bring down domestic prices, opposition calls it an anti-farmer move.

There's bad news on the inflation front. India's retail inflation surged to 7.79% in April. The consumer price-based inflation figure stayed well above Reserve Bank of India's upper tolerance limit for the fourth consecutive month. In April, the CPI inflation expanded at its highest pace in eight years. This is terrible news for millions across the country. What are the implications, when will things start getting better?

Despite no clear evidence of widespread forced religious conversion, the Basavaraj Bommai government today passed the controversial Prevention of Conversion Bill. The move, slammed by the Church in Karnataka, comes at a time when members of the Christian community say they have been deliberately targeted over false accusations of forced conversions. We will be joined on the show by Reverend Peter Machado, the Archbishop of Bangalore.

A Varanasi court is set to issue an order on a fresh mandir-masjid issue in Varanasi, which has now snowballed into a major political controversy. What is the Gyanvapi Masjid controversy all about?

As the controversial sedition law was paused today and the government was asked by the Supreme Court to avoid filing fresh cases while it reviews the colonial-era rule, one of the petitioners, Major General Sudhir Vombatkere (retired), said he turned to the court when the Constitution that he swore to protect was being challenged.

If the BJP in Delhi has its way, Akbar Road won't be Akbar Road much longer. Neither will Humayun Road or Tughlaq Road be the same. This is because some BJP leaders feel that these roads symbolise Muslim slavery and have to be renamed. Are they in fact saffronising India's identity?

AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha answers questions on the blast at Punjab Police Intelligence headquarters. What is the state government doing about this new kind of threat? Now in power in Punjab, is AAP prepared to deal with issues of national security?

When in doubt, err on the side of caution, IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta underlined amid an escalating row over the airline's decision to not allow a child with special needs on board one of its flights in Ranchi over the weekend. However, social activist Jo Chopra called his response "unfortunate" and added that disabled people weren't given a priority. A passenger on the flight, Manisha Gupta, pointed out that the child in question had been sitting quietly all the while, and had been unfairly labelled as having been in a 'panic.'

The Centre made a dramatic U-turn on the sedition law just days after defending it in the Supreme Court, and is crediting Prime Minister Modi with this sudden sedition review. Perhaps the Centre chose to act to avoid risking an adverse court order - but one way or another, the law on sedition will change. Opposition leaders, however, aren't holding their breath. According to them, this is a stalling tactic by the government.

When in doubt, err on the side of caution, IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta underlined amid an escalating row over the airline's decision to not allow a child with special needs on board one of its flights in Ranchi over the weekend. The CEO added it was an unfortunate decision.

Ahead of the crucial hearing in Supreme Court on the petitions challenging the Sedition law, the Centre has defended the colonial-era law saying there is no need to scrap it. Is sedition law essential or is it now archaic? Is going against the dominant narrative seditious and do sedition laws have a place in modern democracy?