Left, Right & Centre

On Left, Right & Centre: As tributes pour in for India's most successful captain after his decision to quit international cricket, we speak to former teammates, India cricket stars and members of the support staff of the team, who know MS Dhoni better than anyone else.

MS Dhoni took to Instagram to announced his retirement. Experts saw it coming and it was done in true MS Dhoni style, away from the public eye.

An AirAsia pilot has won a major battle against the airline he was a part of. He had complained about safety standards. Aviation regulator DGCA has suspended two Executives of AirAsia India over safety violations.

A Congress spokesperson has written to the Information and Broadcasting Minister, saying that the death of Rajiv Tyagi, the Congress National Spokesperson, of a heart attack serves as a crude reminder of the toll media debates take on the body and the mind. What has the media in our country come to? Why is shouting down panellists the norm? Is this sensationalism? Is this a ploy to rake up ratings because advertising is the only source of income in this industry?

Several leaders from the southern states have hit out at the continued three language scheme in the New Education Policy. They again the raise the issue of Hindi chauvinism. Hasn't the new policy done enough to protect and promote regional languages?

The violence in Bengaluru in which three people died in police firing, was 'planned', Karnataka Minister CT Ravi told reporters. The minister also said the state would recover the costs of the assets destroyed, much like Uttar Pradesh which made a similar move after clashes over the Citizenship Amendment Act earlier this year. While the police are yet to zero in on how the violence started, a political battle his well on way over it between the state's ruling BJP and the Congress.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Ashwath Narayan talks to NDTV on the Bengaluru clashes and says that all costs of damages will be recovered from the people responsible. "We will act as per the law of the land and whatever are the damages, it will be recovered from those responsible. There is no second thought about it," he said.

Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey tells NDTV that the "charge of political conspiracy" in actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case is "completely false". "We do not do politics. We genuinely believed a case could be registered here," Mr Pandey says.

Russia is first off the blocks in clearing a vaccine against Covid-19 and it is called 'Sputnik V'. President Vladimir Putin says its safe and he has even inoculated his daughter. Mr Putin insists that the vaccine works but some say more tests were needed before releasing it.

Abhishek Singhvi, the counsel for Maharashtra Government in actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case, tells NDTV that this is all about the upcoming Bihar elections. "I can lay a bet that come Bihar elections and when they are over nobody will remember this case. Mr Sushant Singh Rajput will be forgotten as the son of Bihar. This is all about Bihar elections," he adds.