In this edition of The Big Story podcast, we talk about the curious channel called NaMo TV that runs 24x7 on most DTH networks.

Its main focus is on the speeches and rallies of Prime Minister Modi and other BJP leaders and apparently a user cannot even delete the channel.

What is this channel that doesn’t have a license but has managed to circumvent all broadcasting rules? Tune in to The Big Story podcast for more!

The RBI cut the bench mark interest rate by 0.25 percent for the second time in a row, on 4 April, to bring interest rate to 6 percent.

If you are the kind who is wondering err...okay so what is it to me? This edition of the big story podcast is for you. Tune in to The Big Story to understand how this cut impacts you and the market shares.

The ASAT test that India conducted on 27 March was successful but left a lot of space junk and NASA is grossly upset over that. But is there no debris from other tests, conducted by other countries especially the US? What are the potential threats and what has been done to avoid it? And why is the debris from Mission Shakti so much in the news? Tune in to The Big Story podcast.

The Congress party released their Manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on 2 April.

With the elections coming up, and polling just days away, what has the party promised, what’s new and different about this manifesto and how much of it will they be able to deliver on?

In The Big Story podcast, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about the first Congress manifesto under Rahul Gandhi. Listen to the episode for the full story!

‘BJP hatao, desh bachao!’’ has been the go-to slogan in a number of opposition rallies but there's a bit of a plot twist.

On 31 March, the congress announced that other than Amethi in UP Rahul Gandhi will also contest from Wayanad in Kerala and the Left is pretty miffed.

On this edition of The Big Story, we analyze what Rahul Gandhi contesting from Wayanad means for the Congress and the Mahagathbandhan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave an exclusive interview to Republic TV’s journalist Arnab Goswami only days before the Lok Sabha election. And it's a big deal because it's the first interview after he kicked off BJP’s campaign.

Between what was asked by Arnab Goswami and the responses that came from Modi there was lot of issues that wasn’t talked about and that’s what The Big Story podcast is going to be about. Tune in!

Prime Minister Modi is facing a big headache in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. Today we’re going to tell you what’s causing it, and why he can’t ignore it anymore.

Like Chetan Bhagat’s Two States gave us a headache, five states will give Modiji a headache in the 2019 general elections.

Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar and Tamil Nadu – These five states together account for 249 seats in the Lok Sabha. That’s a little over 45 percent of the Lok Sabha’s strength. According to a C-Voter survey, three of these five states are dissatisfied with the BJP, on multiple levels – right from the PM and the CM, to MPs and MLAs.

How severe is the situation? Well listen to the podcast and find out.

Hello, namaskaar, and welcome to another episode of The Big Story podcast. I’m Vishnu Gopinath and today we’re looking at India’s first successful Anti-satellite weaponry test AKA Mission Shakti. We have senior defence analyst Ajay lele joining us on this podcast later.

With Mission Shakti, India’s become just one of four countries in the world to have successfully tested an A-SAT weapon system. Why is this so impressive? What is the A-SAT weapon system and is it true that India was ready with Anti Satellite missile system technology all the way back in 2012?

Listen to the podcast for the story!

The Central government launched the Electoral Bonds Scheme for political donations in 2018.

The scheme allows individuals or corporations to donate money anonymously to political parties through electoral bonds. 

Donors can buy bonds from specific branches of the SBI, and each bond can have a value of either 1000, 10,000, 1 lakh, 10 lakh, or 1 crore rupees. Donors retain complete anonymity.

The act also removed a limit on how much companies can donate to political parties. Earlier, any company’s donations to a political party couldn’t be more than 7.5 percent of its past three years profits. This limit was removed by the new act. 

Do you see the problem slowly becoming clearer? Listen to the podcast for the full story.

Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita stepped down from the board, on 25 March, Monday, after Jet went went into a debt of Rs 8,000 crores. In today's big story we talk about how Jet airways ended with a debt that big and the ongoing plans of how to bail it out.

Tune in!