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On the show tonight: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Covid precautions, and said the lockdown is over but the coronavirus is not. The big worry is the festival season. India, at the moment, has close to 76 lakh cases but for the first time in 3 months, there have been fewer than 50,000 cases reported in a day. At a time when Covid fatigue is seeping in, the big question is: Has the Prime Minister said enough to prevent a second wave of Covid in India?

India expands the high-level Malabar naval exercises to include Australia, which means all the four nations of the Quad grouping - the US, India, Australia and Japan will be participating. On Left, Right and Centre, we ask: Is this essentially the formation of a Naval alliance against China?

On the show tonight: Is the worst of India's Covid pandemic over? A predictive study done by some of India's finest analysts at the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Science and elsewhere says India has crossed the peak and that by February end, it can be controlled. We speak to the author of the report, Professor Mathukumalli Vidyasagar.

As a result of concerns over the growing Covid count during the festive season, Durga Puja this year will be very different. The High Court has ordered all pandals in West Bengal to be no entry zones. Delhi's biggest Durga Puja pandal has been scrapped this year. Almost 50 other pandals nearby have also been suspended. We discuss what the new protocols are and how will they affect people across the country?

Will Jet Airways get wings to fly once again? Belatedly, there is fresh hope. A resolution plan submitted by a consortium of London-based Kalrock Capital and UAE-based businessman Murari Lal Jalan was approved on Saturday by the creditors of the airline.

For years, it was considered one of India's finest airlines until financial turbulence and mounting debt left Jet Airways grounded. In the process, one of the finest chapters in Indian civil aviation appeared to have come to an end with thousands of employees left in the lurch and increasingly desperate. Now, there is fresh hope. A resolution plan submitted by a consortium of London-based Kalrock Capital and UAE-based businessman Murari Lal Jalan was approved on Saturday by the creditors of the airline. On the show tonight, Ashish Chhawchharia, the National Head, Restructuring Services, Grant Thornton Bharat, speaks to NDTV on the matter.

On this episode of Left, Right and Centre: With the air quality steadily declining in the national capital, and with the festival season upon us, can India maintain the decline in Covid cases?

Ayodhya is set for the grand Ram Temple groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday. The city, which witnessed a turning point in the country's politics, is lit up . There are plans to promote Ayodhya as a big religious tourism destination. The government is expecting huge footfall by 2024, when the long-awaited Ram temple is expected to be completed.

Preparations for the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya are in full swing. Two days before the grand Ram temple ceremony at Ayodhya, the invite has been unveiled and it has been sent to 175 people. Only five people will be on the stage, including PM Narenda Modi.

As India continues to fight COVID-19, Home Minister Amit Shah has tested positive for coronavirus infection. Concern has been rising as multiple leaders were reportedly in contact with Mr Shah till hours before the news came in. Mr also requested that all those "who have come in contact with me in the last few days, please isolate yourself and get your inquiry done". Sources said extensive contact tracing will be carried out and anyone who came in contact with the minister will have to self-isolate.

Two days after a Congress meeting saw arguments and sharp criticism by younger leaders who appeared to blame the party's last government for its massive downfall, a section of the party rallied for former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Twitter. On Left, Right & Centre, we debate the split within the Congress over criticism of the UPA government.

After 34 years, India has a new education policy. The landmark new education policy has the potential of changing lives of millions of students in India through a genuinely broad-based education and a system that doesn't operate on the basis of rote instead focuses on creativity and genuine learning. But is it realistic and can it be implemented? Should it have been introduced in parliament for discussion?

Speaking on the New Education Policy, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor told NDTV that the targets of the New Education Policy will be unrealistic unless the Finance Minister commits more money.

Dr Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Chief of the New Education Policy Panel, told NDTV in an exclusive interview that under the New Education Policy, there will be no compulsion for students to learn any particular language.

The ability to strike air-to-air targets from up to 150 km away and safely hit land targets 300 km within enemy territory make India's Rafales some of the deadliest fighter jets flying in the world.