Left, Right & Centre

We examine the aftermath of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed seven Amarnath Yatra pilgrims. Was there a security lapse? Is it right to consider Governor's rule in the state?

Journalist and author Sagarika Ghose talks about her new book on Indira Gandhi - was she India's most powerful Prime Minister? Or could that title now go to someone else?

MobiKwik co-founder Upasana Taku joins us on NDTV to discuss the impact of GST on the start-up ecosystem and MobiKwik's future.

A 21-year-old aspiring air hostess was stabbed with a knife by a man near her house in Delhi. The accused is now on the run. Police says he was earlier booked in an auto lifting case. The CCTV footage of the stabbing has been procured. The girl's parents say no action was taken despite repeated complaints.

Raj Bhavans are meant to be neutral but today two Governors and a Lieutenant Governor appointed by the BJP-led centre were being accused of politicising a constitutional post. In Puducherry, a clash between Lt Governor Kiran Bedi and Chief Minister V Narayanasamy escalated today over three appointments in the government. Not only the Bengal Governor and Chief Minister have clashed over the handling of the communal violence near Kolkata, but the Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy, a former BJP leader from Bengal, weighed in on that clash.

West Bengal's Chief Minister and Governor were asked today to end a very public quarrel over communal tension in the state's North 24 Parganas district. For the moment there is a tense calm in Basirhat in Bengal as four companies of BSF forces patrol the streets which have seen communal clashes that were originally triggered by an offensive Facebook post five days ago.

Around 150 students of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) were on a relay hunger strike today to protest a hike in fees. The agitation began yesterday with a march on the campus. While tuition fees have not been hiked, there is an increase of 300 per cent in hostel rent, 167 per cent in the gymkhana fees, 100 per cent in exam, registration and medical fees, and 30-50 per cent increase in other charges. The latest fee hike comes a year after undergraduate tuition fees more than doubled across the IITs. Was the fee hike unreasonable?

Is India's start up ecosystem ready for GST? Founder of OYO Rooms, Ritesh Agarwal speaks exclusively to NDTV.

A six-month pregnant woman in Kolkata has been allowed an abortion by the Supreme Court after doctors said her unborn baby had severe cardiac complications and could also endanger her life. The woman and her husband referred to "extreme anguish" in their request for permission to end the pregnancy. Should families have the last word in aborting foetus with disabilities?

No films will be screened at cinema halls across Tamil Nadu from today, indefinitely, as their owners protest against a 30 per cent municipal tax that the state government has announced apart from the levies that have kicked in under the new Goods and Services Tax or GST regime. They have cancelled screenings and shut halls demanding that the municipal tax be withdrawn. They want only a single GST tax, saying both together will be an unaffordable 60 per cent.