Left, Right & Centre

Jet Airways is set to fly again by the end of this calendar year. NDTV speak to Ashish Chhachharia, the resolution manager appointed to save the airline. Delighted Jet Airways staffers eager to get their jobs back also join the broadcast.

A meeting today at veteran politician Sharad Pawar's house drew outsized attention over reports of Third Front manoeuvres ahead of the 2024 polls. It featured eight parties, including Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party and the Left. The Congress was missing. Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha said he had asked Sharad Pawar to host the gathering of Rashtra Manch to "debate current events".

On this episode of Left, Right and Centre: Do the latest political rumblings in Maharashtra signal increasing friction in the Maharashtra alliance? Sanket Upadhyay discusses.

Days after AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria warned of an impending COVID-19 third wave if people let their guard down, Dr VK Paul, head of India's Covid task force, says ensuring discipline in personal conduct and increasing the rate of vaccination can prevent a third wave.

"It is a world record. At some point, we clocked 30,000 vaccinations per second on CoWin - that is a record," says RS Sharma, Head, CoWin vaccination platform.

India is hardly done with the Delta variant of coronavirus that has caused loss of lakhs of lives, and now for the last few days there is conversation on yet another mutation - called Delta Plus variant. There are indicators that this could be bad news. What's clear is that this virus has shown the ability to mutate every few months, and this is a big problem.

As various states unlock after weeks of strict restrictions, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV: "A third Covid wave in India is inevitable, and it may hit the country in the next 6-8 weeks". As the lockdown is being lifted gradually across the country in the wake of a decline in coronavirus cases, concerns have been raised over the violation of Covid protocols. Is this the right time to ease Covid restrictions in India? Are we prepared for the third wave?

Class 12 results will be announced by July 31 and will factor in students' performance over three years or from Class 10, the Central Board of Secondary Education said, announcing its assessment plan. The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, meanwhile, said that unlike the CBSE it would consider the performance of students for the last six classes. Students and teachers talk about the impact of these decisions.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today said that there is a need to get the party's leadership in order and expand its footprint in the country. "We lost badly in 2014 and 2019 (elections). We have to get our house in order," he told NDTV in an interview today. "We need to get our leadership in order, our messaging in order... no one leader has a magic wand, this is a team effort," he added. Mr Ramesh said the Congress party needs to reach common understanding with like-minded parties before the next elections.

Statistically relevant data, involving thousands of cases in Vellore's Christian Medical College during the Delta outbreak, indicates that a single dose of Covishield generates 61% efficacy while two doses are at 65% efficacy, Chairman of the COVID-19 Working Group Dr NK Arora said while speaking to NDTV.