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Top Karnataka leaders, including Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, write to the Kerala government opposing a 'plan' to change the Kannada names of some villages in Kasargod in Kerala. However, the Kerala administration denies having any plans to change the names of the villages. What's behind this language tussle?

The centre announces 8 major measures to provide economic relief to those hit the hardest. However, over 30% of this Rs 6.28 lakh crore stimulus has already been announced. Will the loan guarantee scheme for Covid-affected sectors help ease the pressure on the economy?

On this episode of Left, Right and Centre: In what can be considered as the first terrorist attack in the country using drones, two Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel have been injured and a building damaged in Jammu's Air Force Station. But how prepared is India to tackle such attacks and what is the way forward?

Delhi "exaggerated" its oxygen needs by four times at the peak of the second wave of Covid and the supply of excess oxygen "affected other states", says a report that has set off a new clash between the Centre and Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the capital. The report was made public on Friday. Later, the BJP attacked the ruling party in a press conference and tweets. The AAP has denied the allegation.

From detention to dialogue, members of what Home Minister Amit Shah once called the 'Gupkar Gang' today met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Many of those leaders, including Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah - all former Chief Ministers - spent between 6 months and a year in detention after the Centre took away statehood and removed Kashmir's special status in August 2019. Today, 14 of the top Kashmiri leaders were told by the Prime Minister that he remains committed to the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a 3-hour meeting with political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir today, spoke about removing 'Dilli ki Doori as well as Dil Ki Doori' and assured his commitment to restoring full statehood at the right time. Sajad Lone, Chairman, People's Conference, tells NDTV: "The Union government is the one that can effect change on the ground, it is the reality whether we like it or not. They are the change makers, and we have to work with them. I walked out of the meeting optimistic that hopefully, with hindsight of 2 years, the Union government and leaders from Jammu and Kashmir would be able to work constructively for a phase of reconciliation".

The Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank will be acquired by a consortium of Mumbai-based NBFC Centrum Finance and Fintech BharatPe. Payments system company BharatPe's Suhail Sameer and small investors talk about their struggles over the last 21 months.

With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) having given a period of 120 days to Centrum Financial Services Ltd (CFSL) to set up a small finance bank, which will eventually take over the troubled Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMC), the consortium has said that the timeline is "workable" and it hopes to complete the process sooner than that.

More than 40 cases of a new variant of COVID-19, called Delta Plus, have raised concerns in the country. On NDTV's Left, Right & Centre, two leading experts -- Dr Anura Agrawal, Director of CSIR Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, and Dr Randeep Guleria, Director of AIIMS, -- talk about whether the new variant can lead to a third coronavirus wave.