Left, Right & Centre

With Omicron now having well and truly spread across the country the big worry is what happens in the states going to elections. On the show tonight, the startling positivity rate in several key districts where elections will be held. We bring you the data.

Schools reopen in Mumbai and Maharashtra. Is the worst of Omicron truly over?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the hologram statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate in Delhi. Till the work on the statue is completed, a hologram statue of Netaji will be present at the same place. Is the government usurping Netaji's legacy, or is this honouring one of India's great heroes?

The alleged "exodus" of Hindus from Uttar Pradesh's Kairana before 2017 - a claim debunked by the opposition and the BJP's own - took centre-stage as Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched a door-to-door election campaign in the state's west. Visuals showed few - including the senior BJP leader - wearing masks, maintaining social distancing or following the Election Commission's 5-person limit on door-to-door campaigning given the surging coronavirus third wave.

In a big boost to India's fight against coronavirus, an expert panel of the central drug authority cleared Covaxin and Covishield for 'full use', a year after the vaccines were given emergency approval. On Left, Right and Centre, we ask, will COVID vaccines be available over the counter soon?

A 17-year-old boy from a border village of Arunachal Pradesh has gone missing near the border with China. Lok Sabha MP from Arunchal (East), Tapir Gao has claimed in a tweet that 'Chinese PLA has abducted Sh Miram Taron ... from inside Indian territory'. On Left, Right and Centre, we ask: is this China's Arunachal provocation?

Ahead of the UP Assembly elections, Priyanka Maurya today joined the BJP. Priyanka Maurya was the face of Congress's "Ladki Hun, Lad Sakti Hun" campaign spearheaded by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Uttar Pradesh. On Left, Right and Centre, we speak to Priyanka Maurya.

Muslim students at a government college in Karnataka's Udupi district have been stopped from attending classes for three weeks after being told they cannot wear a hijab during lessons. Is it not an assault on the fundamental right to religion?

As the poll fight intensifies, AAP has declared its Chief Minister face in Punjab, Goa and Uttarakhand. In UP the choice for BJP, SP and BSP is quite clear, while the Congress seems to in big dilemma in Punjab and UP. Can projecting a Chief Minister face swing the voters?

Just a week after broadening the conditions that do not require COVID-19 tests, the government on Tuesday said the number of coronavirus tests in the country had fallen and needed to be ramped up. Flagging the declining tests in many states and union territories, the Centre has asked them to step up testing to keep an effective track of the pandemic and take proper action. Is the decline in daily numbers linked to fewer tests?