Truth vs Hype

In a week when ATM's ran dry, we are joined by the SBI chairman and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha to decode the sudden cash shortage.

On Ambedkar Jayanti, the usual political expressions of reassurances to Dalit anxieties may not quite be matched by ground reality. Dalit groups say there has been a backlash to the protests, by upper castes, and by the police - wrongful arrests, harassment, crackdowns. TVH traversed three districts in Western Uttar Pradesh, which had been touched by violence, to find ghost villages, and questionable FIRs.

On Ambedkar Jayanti, the usual political expressions of reassurances to Dalit anxieties may not quite be matched by ground reality. Dalit groups say there has been a backlash to the protests, by upper castes, and by the police - wrongful arrests, harassment, crackdowns. TVH traversed three districts in Western Uttar Pradesh, which had been touched by violence, to find ghost villages, and questionable FIRs.

Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party will join forces for the 2019 elections, Akhilesh Yadav told NDTV in Lucknow. "Based on our conversation, both our parties will together fight elections in 2019", the 44-year-old president of the Samajwadi Party, or SP, said. Speculation has been rife whether the two former arch rivals - who came together for last month's bypolls to produce a shock defeat for the ruling BJP - will be able to sustain their formidable alliance until the Lok Sabha elections.

Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party will join forces for the 2019 elections, Akhilesh Yadav told NDTV in Lucknow. "Based on our conversation, both our parties will together fight elections in 2019", the 44-year-old president of the Samajwadi Party, or SP, said. Speculation has been rife whether the two former arch rivals - who came together for last month's bypolls to produce a shock defeat for the ruling BJP - will be able to sustain their formidable alliance until the Lok Sabha elections.

After West Bengal, sectarian violence, triggered by religious yatras have erupted across the state. At least five districts have witnessed major incidents of communal clashes. Is this upsurge of violence just spontaneous , or is there a pattern emerging of the hand of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar in stoking the flames?

After West Bengal, sectarian violence, triggered by religious yatras have erupted across the state. At least five districts have witnessed major incidents of communal clashes. Is this upsurge of violence just spontaneous , or is there a pattern emerging of the hand of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar in stoking the flames?

The man who started the Indian arm of Cambridge Analytica reveals the deceptive agenda of the tainted data firm.

The man who started the Indian arm of Cambridge Analytica reveals the deceptive agenda of the tainted data firm.

We examine whether the BJP's shock bypoll defeat in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, the home turf of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath' signals a shift in the political narrative ahead of 2019.