Left, Right & Centre

The Supreme Court orders Lalu Yadav to stand trial in a corruption case. This could be a big blow to the alliance in Bihar. Will Chief Minister Nitish Kumar dump his alliance partner Lalu Yadav and move closer to the BJP-led NDA?

The AAP's crisis deepens as sacked minister Kapil Mishra takes his corruption complaint against the Delhi Chief Minister to the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Is the AAP unravelling? Is this the beginning of the end of Kejriwal?

Bilkis Bano, who was gangraped and whose family members were killed during Gujarat riots in 2002, speaks out after the Bombay High Court's verdict that upheld the life imprisonment sentence of 11 accused. I don't want revenge, she tell us..

Her mother wept and the courtroom burst into applause as the Supreme Court said today that four of the men held guilty of raping and torturing a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012 will hang. The top court described the crime as a "story of a different world" saying the "brutal and demonic" crime had been proved beyond doubt. "If ever a case called for hanging, this was it," said the three judges, confirming the death penalty handed by two courts. But do death sentences really act as deterrents? What does the Nirbhaya verdict mean for the safety of women in this country?

Egyptian woman Eman Ahmed, who lost 324 kg at a hospital in Mumbai in less than three months, has gone to Abu Dhabi for rehabilitation. Emam Ahmed, believed to be the heaviest woman on the planet till recently, had arrived in Mumbai in February on a chartered cargo plane. Controversy over Ms Ahmed's treatment began when her sister alleged last week that she had not shed half her weight, as the doctors had claimed. Ms Ahmed's sister had claimed that it was an attempt to get the 37-year-old to leave without full treatment. Doctors at Saifee Hospital had dismissed the allegations as "complete hogwash".

Marathi film 'Kaasav', that deals with depression, was awarded the National Award for the best film on Wednesday in the national capital. Despite accolades, the filmmakers are still looking for distributors of the film. On the show, we speak to the filmmakers Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar and producer Mohan Agashe on the film's success and whether it would help in getting distributors.

Even as parts of Maharashtra grapple with five years of drought, the state's Agriculture Minister, accompanied by 15 MLAs and officials are on a 'study tour' to Australia and New Zealand for two weeks to review how those countries handle loans to farmers. The cost of the tour has been paid half by the taxpayers while the other half is being paid for by the lawmakers themselves. While the state is reeling from drought and around 700 farmer suicides, is this study tour unpardonable insensitivity by the lawmakers?

A 62-year-old man was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr yesterday by a group of 10 men allegedly looking for his young neighbor, who had eloped with a girl from a different community a few days ago. Ghulam Mohammad's family has accused the Hindu Yuva Vahini, the right-wing group set up years ago by Yogi Adityanath, who took over as Chief Minister at the head of a new BJP government on March 19. The police say they have no proof so far of the group's involvement but the big question is if right wing groups are getting emboldened and away with violence and even murder.

The Election Commission has cancelled the parliamentary by-election in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag, scheduled for May 25, citing security problems. It's yet another indication perhaps of the shrinking space for mainstream politics and the dangerous vacuum it's creating. Meanwhile, India today warned Pakistan of an "unequivocal" response to the killing and mutilation of two soldiers yesterday along the Line of Control in Kashmir. Pakistan, which has denied the "barbaric act" said in response today that India "should look inwards" to determine how the soldiers were killed. It sought "actionable evidence" of India's claims. As tensions between the two neighbours rise, we discuss how should India respond?

Two soldiers were killed and mutilated in Kashmir by Pakistan and as a result, army has warned of an "appropriate response" for the "despicable act." Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said, "Such acts are unheard of even at a time of war". On Left Right And Centre, we discuss how India should respond to Pakistan's provocations.