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Income Tax authorities raid the Karnataka Minister at whose resort 43 Gujarat Congress MLAs have been hiding to avoid poaching ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls. The Congress says this is a witch-hunt; the government says don't link this raid to the election. Was it all just a coincidence?

In a big win for the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander was killed. With stepped up anti-terror ops and a crackdown on separatists, do security forces have the upper hand in the Valley?

Manufacturing in India has hit a nine year low, says a new report as it lays out the adverse impact of GST. Is the economy in trouble?

Samajwadi Party lawmaker Naresh Agarwal wants to expel Sachin and Rekha for not attending parliament. Should celebrities be barred from becoming MPs?

The political violence in Kerala has reached capital Thiruvananthapuram. A worker of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is murdered men allegedly linked to the Left, provoking widespread outrage. Is the state doing enough to curb political violence?

The Congress accuses the BJP of bribing its MLAs with Rs 15 crores to switch sides. While Congress leader Ahmed Patel believes BJP chief Amit Shah has a personal grudge against him, what is really going on in Gujarat? Is it money or ideology at play here?

Nitish Kumar won the trust vote in the Bihar Assembly fairly easily today, but not without lots of drama. Tejashwi Yadav accused Nitish Kumar of cheating the mandate. Nitish Kumar hit back saying secularism cannot be a mask for corruption. Meanwhile, there's big trouble for the Congress in Gujarat where Sonia Gandhi's key aide, Ahmed Patel, is contesting for the Rajya Sabha and where assembly polls will take place later this year. Today three more Congress MLAs quit the party, taking the total number since yesterday to six. From Bihar to Gujarat, is the opposition completely unravelling?

Nawaz Sharif resigned as Prime Minister of Pakistan after the Supreme Court disqualified him from holding public office. The court ruled that corruption cases be filed against Sharif and his children over the Panama Papers scandal. The allegations are that the Sharif family laundered money in 1990s to purchase assets in London. Sharif's resignation has delighted the opposition's Imran Khan, and also strengthened the hand of the military, which Sharif had meekly tried to resist.

As Nitish Kumar is sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the sixth time, this time in alliance with the BJP, we debate on Left, Right & Centre: is the BJP's Bihar gambit trailer for 2019? In allying with the BJP, has Nitish Kumar buried his national ambitions? Is there dissent brewing within the JDU? Two JDU senior leaders, one who supports Nitish Kumar, one who opposes him join the show.

In a dramatic move, Nitish Kumar resigns as Chief Minister of Bihar after a long standing tussle with Lalu Yadav over corruption charges against Tejashwi Yadav. Will Nitish Kumar now head back to the NDA? Is this a decisive blow to any anti-Modi coalition in 2019? We debate on Left, Right and Centre.