Left, Right & Centre

As unexpected for many as his test century on debut, former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly is set to be the next BCCI chief. Was there a political trade-off ahead of the Bengal polls? Will we see Mr Ganguly as a politician next? Just how did Sourav Ganguly manage to become the consensus candidate over Brijesh Patel who was thought to be the favourite? Some reports have said that Amit Shah, whose son Jay Shah will also be on the board now, had a word with BJP's Anurag Thakur who helped ensure that at a critical get together of top cricket honchos Sourav Ganguly got through. But does that now mean that Sourav Ganguly may have future political aspirations or obligations?

Delhi's air quality has deteriorated and it is expected to worsen over the week, as farm fires are raging in Haryana and Punjab. What is the permanent solution for Delhi's pollution problem?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have bonded over a tour of the temples of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu, followed by cultural programmes and dinner that went well beyond the scheduled time. After delegation-level talks on Saturday morning, India and China agreed to build a mechanism to discuss trade, investment and services. The two leaders also shared concerns over terrorism and recognised the importance of continuing to make joint efforts to ensure that the international community strengthens the framework against training, financing and supporting terrorist groups throughout the world and on a non-discriminatory basis

A school teacher who was an RSS worker, his pregnant wife and eight-year-old son were butchered in West Bengal and the police can't find the killers. The RSS and BJP say the police inaction is driven by politics as others say the outrage for lynching deaths needs to be reflected in cases like this as well. The allegations of this could be a property dispute and the allegations that this is part of the vicious eye-for-an-eye battle that's been the culture of politics in the state for decades.

India drops ten places on the global competitive index in a study by the World Economic forum. India now ranks 68 out of 141 economies which have been studied. Joining us from Geneva, the author of the report, Thierry Geiger, the Head of Research and Benchmarking at the World Economic Forum.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was greeted by protestors in Mumbai, depositors in the Punjab Maharashtra Cooperative Bank, who find themselves in a situation where they are unable to withdraw more than Rs 25,000 at a stretch from their accounts because the bank is mired in a bad loans situation. We bring you special interviews with the depositors and how it is not becoming impossible for them to deal with the situation.

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat saying that "Lynching is alien to Bharat" and efforts to highlight these deaths were being done to defame the country by people who were using selective statistics and examples to pitch one community over another - were the remarks not a complete whitewash of the reality of lynching deaths in India? Deaths which have been documented and repeatedly highlighted?

The Bihar police have found 'maliciously false' the sedition case against 49 eminent citizens, filed by the local police in Muzaffarpur on the basis of an order by the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court. In the letter, addressed to the Prime Minister, these citizens had criticised the continuing mob lynchings in the country. They were vigorously countered by many who felt their views were wrong and their outrage selective, something which helped Pakistan. To this letter, there was yet another note by 180 personalities who said the Bihar police FIR was wrong. They were correct as investigations reveal the order was wrong, but the larger issue remains.

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered to stop the cutting of trees in Mumbai's green belt Aarey Colony until October 21. The Maharashtra government told the court that there is no need to cut more trees. The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) cut down 2,141 trees in Aarey Colony between Friday and Saturday, a report said. Is it a hollow victory for green activists?