Left, Right & Centre

A new law is expected to come up in the next session of parliament that will have provision of jail for instant talaq. Will this empower women?

The Babri dispute is back on the political scene on the eve of Gujarat polls. Kapil Sibal appears for Waqf board and demands that hearing be deferred till after 2019 polls. The BJP attacks the Congress, Amit Shah asks Rahul Gandhi to clarify the Congress's stand on the mandir issue. Has the Congress scored a self-goal ahead of polls?

Senior BJP leader and former union minister Yashwant Sinha, who was detained by police in Maharashtra while leading a farmers' protest, refuses to budge. He says the government is not paying heed to simple demands of farmers as he sits on a dharna on the police lines grounds.

With no one contesting against him, Rahul Gandhi is taking over as Congress president. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called him a 'darling' of the party while Prime Minister Modi likened him to Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Can Rahul Gandhi with his poor electoral record really turn things around for the Congress?

The latest GDP numbers came just a little while earlier and economy has shown an uptick in this quarter with GDP growth rate at 6.3% up from 5.7% in the last quarter. Does this mean that the economy is back on track and politically will this come as a shot in the arm for the BJP on the eve of Gujarat elections.

A huge political row breaks out over Rahul Gandhi's visit to the Somnath Temple in Gujarat as the BJP alleges that he wrote his name in a regsiter for non-Hindus and the Congress calls it an outright lie. What has the discourse reduced to in Gujarat? Will soft Hindutva work for the Congres? And why is no one talking about Muslims?

In our special focus on the Gujarat campaign, we debate: what is the poll plank of the BJP in Gujarat - nationalism or development?

As Ivanka Trump visits India, there's been much song, dance and even a robot, but is the visit, which has been mired by controversy for Ivanka, more hype than substance?

The Rashtriya Janata Dal cries conspiracy after Lalu Yadav's security is downgraded but his son Tej Pratap uses disgraceful language against the Prime Minister. Is this a new low in the political discourse?

The Supreme Court has sent 25-year-old Hadiya back to college and says it will decide on the validity of her marraige in January in the controversial conversion case that has gripped the nation. We debate, can't an adult woman take her own decisions?