Left, Right & Centre

In what seems to be a state vs Centre issue, Maharashtra has withdrawn its general consent to the CBI which means the agency will now have to take permission of the state to probe any matter there.

On Left, Right & Center: Many on Twitter have appealed to have the National Commission for Women Chief Rekha Sharma removed from her post after her objectionable tweet on 'love jihad'. Is the chief of the panel that is meant to protect women, anti-women herself?

On Left, Right & Center: A bench of the high court has been hearing petitions from two gay couples who want their marriages to be solemnized under the Special Marriage Act of 1954. Time for legal sanction to same-sex marriages?

On the show tonight: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Covid precautions, and said the lockdown is over but the coronavirus is not. The big worry is the festival season. India, at the moment, has close to 76 lakh cases but for the first time in 3 months, there have been fewer than 50,000 cases reported in a day. At a time when Covid fatigue is seeping in, the big question is: Has the Prime Minister said enough to prevent a second wave of Covid in India?

India expands the high-level Malabar naval exercises to include Australia, which means all the four nations of the Quad grouping - the US, India, Australia and Japan will be participating. On Left, Right and Centre, we ask: Is this essentially the formation of a Naval alliance against China?

On the show tonight: Is the worst of India's Covid pandemic over? A predictive study done by some of India's finest analysts at the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Science and elsewhere says India has crossed the peak and that by February end, it can be controlled. We speak to the author of the report, Professor Mathukumalli Vidyasagar.

As a result of concerns over the growing Covid count during the festive season, Durga Puja this year will be very different. The High Court has ordered all pandals in West Bengal to be no entry zones. Delhi's biggest Durga Puja pandal has been scrapped this year. Almost 50 other pandals nearby have also been suspended. We discuss what the new protocols are and how will they affect people across the country?

Will Jet Airways get wings to fly once again? Belatedly, there is fresh hope. A resolution plan submitted by a consortium of London-based Kalrock Capital and UAE-based businessman Murari Lal Jalan was approved on Saturday by the creditors of the airline.

For years, it was considered one of India's finest airlines until financial turbulence and mounting debt left Jet Airways grounded. In the process, one of the finest chapters in Indian civil aviation appeared to have come to an end with thousands of employees left in the lurch and increasingly desperate. Now, there is fresh hope. A resolution plan submitted by a consortium of London-based Kalrock Capital and UAE-based businessman Murari Lal Jalan was approved on Saturday by the creditors of the airline. On the show tonight, Ashish Chhawchharia, the National Head, Restructuring Services, Grant Thornton Bharat, speaks to NDTV on the matter.

On this episode of Left, Right and Centre: With the air quality steadily declining in the national capital, and with the festival season upon us, can India maintain the decline in Covid cases?