Left, Right & Centre

Actor and filmmaker Aparna Sen spoke exclusively to NDTV on the multi-talented actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who died on Sunday. She said Mr Chatterjee was too much of a Bengali and that was a great part of his appeal.

On Left, Right & Centre, as the COVID-19 situation becomes worse in Delhi with record number of deaths and a high positivity rate, we look at the Centre's move to address the critical emergency. Air pollution in the city and its neighbouring areas also worsened as people defied the ban on firecrackers on Diwali.

The Supreme Court's order on Wednesday in the Arnab Goswami case has major implications beyond just this one instance. Justice Chandrachud observed, "Forget Arnab Goswami for a moment, we are a Constitutional court.... If we as a Constitutional Court do not lay down law and protect liberty, then who will?" He went on to add, "If we don't interfere in this case today, we will walk on path of destruction. You may differ in ideology but Constitutional courts will have to protect such freedoms..." The remarks come at a time when thousands languish in jails in want of bail. These include the old and the infirm, like 81-year-old Varavara Rao accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case and Father Stan Swamy who suffers from Parkinson's. Both have been denied bail on medical grounds which raises the question: After the Supreme Court's observations that 'constitutional courts have to protect freedoms', will this set a precedent in other pending cases as well? We speak to senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi who was in Supreme Court in connection with this case.

The Supreme Court's order on Wednesday in the Arnab Goswami case has major implications beyond just this one instance. Justice Chandrachud observed, "Forget Arnab Goswami for a moment, we are a Constitutional court.... If we as a Constitutional Court do not lay down law and protect liberty, then who will?" He went on to add, "If we don't interfere in this case today, we will walk on path of destruction. You may differ in ideology but Constitutional courts will have to protect such freedoms..." The remarks come at a time when thousands languish in jails in want of bail. These include the old and the infirm, like 81-year-old Varavara Rao accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case and Father Stan Swamy who suffers from Parkinson's. Both have been denied bail on medical grounds which raises the question: After the Supreme Court's observations that 'constitutional courts have to protect freedoms', will this set a precedent in other pending cases as well? We speak to senior advocate and Congress MP Kapil Sibal who was in Supreme Court in connection with this case.

On Left, Right and Centre tonight, after the government brings digital content providers including streaming video services under the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, we look at the key issue of regulation and the potential for censorship. The big question, should the government regulate digital content including Netflix and Facebook in India?

Hyperloop technology, which means a pod travelling through a tube in near vacuum conditions could reduce travel-time from Mumbai to Pune to just 25 minutes. Meet the pioneers - the first two passengers on Virgin Hyperloop, which has big India plans, in an exclusive interview.

The United States has chosen its new President Democrat candidate Joe Biden. President Donald Trump, however, claims fraud in the US polls. Is it time for him to accept defeat? We discuss.

Counting of votes in the US stretched into the second morning as Joe Biden eyes a win. His best-case scenario is to win just two states - Nevada and Arizona and win the Presidency. But Donald Trump's biggest fight back is the state which he must win to have a fighting chance - Pennsylvania. With its 20 electoral votes it will give him a much-needed boost to get to the 270 mark. Trump has today threatened more legal challenges over results from a handful of states, claiming that voter fraud has been committed in places where Joe Biden appears to have won.

The United States will go to polls on Tuesday. The whole world is closely monitoring the US presidential elections. The big question is: Is this election a referendum on Donald Trumps handling of the pandemic?

The centre is looking for ways to check love jihad cases, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said a day after his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath cited an Allahabad High Court order on religious conversion for marriage to raise the bogey of love jihad. Mr Adityanath had also issued a thinly-veiled threat against those in or considering an interfaith marriage, saying mend your ways or your Ram naam satya hain journey would begin.