Left, Right & Centre

Key by-poll results are out in 10 seats and the BJP marches ahead winning 5. The Congress too doesn't do badly, winning 3 including a narrow win in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh. However, it is a huge setback for the Aam Aadmi Party, which loses its deposit in Delhi. So what do these results tell us? Is the BJP unstoppable or has the Congress shown it is still a force to reckon with, and is this the unravelling of AAP?

An Indian man is sacked by his UAE employer for social media abuse against journalist Rana Ayyub. We look at online abuse and trolling and ask whether India is doing enough to tackle it?

This was supposed to be minimum government, maximum governance. But the government is now omnipresent in our lives - from beef bans to drinking bans to anti-Romeo squads to possibly deciding portions we eat in restaurants - is India becoming a nanny state? We debate on Left, Right and Centre.

As fake news goes viral on the internet and social media, is it used as a propaganda tool? How can we stop it?

The government today assured parliament that it will do everything possible to get Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been given death sentence by Pakistan military court after being convicted of spying and fomenting unrest in the province of Balochistan, released. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj called the sentence indefensible and said that Pakistan should be prepared to face the consequences. Tension is rising as Pakistan defends the sentence and the question is will it get worse than a freeze in ties?

Protests at the Panjab University turned violent today after students clashed with police over steep fee hike. The students tried to force entry into the Vice-Chancellor's office and were stopped by the police, which brought water cannons and tear gas to control the crowd. Some police officers were injured trying to stop the protests. The university, on Sunday, had approved a 12.5 per cent fee hike for all courses. Parents from across the country have been protesting the hike.

India hits back after Pakistan says it will execute Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, calling him a spy. India says its "premeditated murder". Is this a new low for ties between the two countries?

Meet the girl from Chennai who is doing what astrophysicists have not managed till now. Manisha Caleb has proved the origin of strange radio signals.

How do we deny we are racist? Tarun Vijay of the BJP apologised today after remarks that suggested Indians cannot be considered racist because they are accepting of South Indians who, as he said are also black people. It created quite a lot of outrage as you can imagine, especially given that it comes even as we are still in damage control after Nigerian students were thrashed on the outskirts of Delhi a few days ago and African envoys called India racist and xenophobic - which we then took exception to. (Video Courtesy: Al Jazeera)

As outrage grows over the killing of a man by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi tells parliament, "No such incident took place as described by the opposition." Is there no political will to crack down on cow vigilantes?