Left, Right & Centre

Shatrughan Sinha, the newsmaker of the day,  speaks to NDTV about beating Trinamool's Asansol jinx in Bengal and winning the assembly seat by a massive 3 lakh margin. What lessons do the bypoll results hold for all parties in the run up to 2024? Congress, BJP, and AAP weigh in on the results in the three states. 

What lessons do the bypoll results hold for all parties in the run-up to 2024? Congress, BJP, and AAP weigh in on the results in the three states.  

 

Devastating scenes in bombed out Borodyanka, the Ukrainian town ruined and devastated by Russian bombings. A stuffed toy lies amid the debris of a building bombed by Russia, the carcass of a kitten next to it, a broken cell phone, a collapsed building block is all that's left. Also, we bring to you accounts of women being raped.

NDTV ground reports from Ukraine bring to you the horror of Russian invasion. 56 bodies exhumed from another mass grave in Bucha. Over 400 bodies have been found in Bucha alone. As the bodies are dug out of mass grave providing undeniable proof of Russian war crimes, will the world act and make Putin pay?

As Ukraine braces for a big Russian assault in the East, NDTV's Vishnu Som speaks to Ukranian MPs, journalists and an owner of an Indian restaurant in Kyiv, from the ground in the Ukrainian capital. On this episode of Left, Right and Centre, comprehensive accounts of what Ukraine is facing, from the voices on ground. 

Prime Minister Modi underlined India's neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine issue during his virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden. However, India's position on the war still puts it in a tricky spot as far as relations with the west are concerned. Biden had earlier called India's stance 'shaky' - but India has remained firm, that our foreign policy is based on national interest.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah's comment that Hindi should be an alternative to English has triggered a sharp pushback from the non-Hindi belt, especially the South, against what they call 'imposition of Hindi'. There's been a pushback, particularly by political leaders from South India. Telangana minister KT Rama Rao has called it 'language chauvinism' and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from West Bengal has called it 'cultural terrorism'. Is this an attempt to enforce a Hindi agenda, a war cry against the mother tongues of non-Hindi speaking people? We discuss with our panel on 'Left, Right and Centre'.

According to the 2020 data by the government, there are around 18,000 Indian students studying in various universities in Ukraine. While they have been safely evacuated back to India, on this episode of 'Left, Right and Centre', we discuss the course ahead for medical students who have returned from Ukraine and whether they can continue their studies in India. Where will the Indian students who have been evacuated from Ukraine now study? Can 18,000 students be accommodated in Indian colleges so that their careers are not jeopardised? We consult experts in the field

The National Assembly has convened to take up the no-trust motion against the Imran Khan government but will the no-trust vote be carried out in line with Pakistan Supreme Court's order? Is this the end game for Imran Khan? Or does the cricketer-turned-politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader have more cards up their sleeve?

India has made its strongest statement yet on the Ukraine-Russia war, referring to the massacre in Bucha and calling for an independent probe. All week, the world has seen horrifying images of hundreds of bodies in the Ukrainian town with the local authorities claiming this was a "mass murder by Russian forces". Russia has denied this, calling the bodies a "stage managed event" by Ukraine for the Western press. But the fact is that India, which has been sitting on the fence so far, took a firmer stand at the UN last night, though it stopped short of naming Russia.