Newshour | What was the actual deal between India and China? What provoked China to set camp in the DBO sector? After several failed meeting, what led to their sudden return? The Govt wants us to believe there were no negotiations, no back channel talks. Did t...
Newshour | The channel exposes details of Bansal's family fortunes. It tracks the sordid trail of self interest and nepotism. The report reveals how the rail minister PK Bansal's nephew was made part of a PSU-private bank joint venture board and how Bansal's C...
Newshour | Has the Supreme Court's observations on the Coalgate cover-up taken the sheen off Karnataka victory for the Congress? The Supreme Court came down heavily on the law minister, CBI, Attorney General GE Vahanvati, and former Additional Solicitor Genera...
Newshour | Will Congress consider early elections to capitalise on the victory of Karnataka? Was it Rahul Gandhi's win or Narendra Modi's loss in Karnataka? Congress secured a thumping majority with 121 seats in the 224-seat strong Karnataka Assembly. This vic...
Newshour | The phone number of a senior official in Railway Minister PK Bansal's office is under CBI scrutiny. CBI claims multiple calls were made from Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla's phone to this number. Vijay Singla is director in 11 companies. These compani...
Newshour | The continuance or otherwise of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar in the ministry could be linked to the shape of things expected to unfold during hearing in the Supreme Court on May 8 on the Coalgate issue. If Ashwani Kumar gets affected tomorrow, will th...
Newshour | Now that it is proven that the PMO and the coal ministry officials changed the CBI report on the coal block allocation scam, what are the implications? Does the CBI director's affidavit put the government in a tough spot? Can the government retain t...
Newshour | The Opposition condemns the government's attempt to take advantage of the situation in the House and says that the Food Security Bill was brought to deflect attention from various scams. Will the government be able to counter the Opposition charge o...
Newshour | Can the CBI justify allowing the government to alter a report on the massive Coalgate scam? Is the blame to be equally shared between the CBI and the government on the Coalgate cover-up? Arun Jaitley, the leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha,...
Newshour | There are 54 Indian prisoners of war in Pakistan jails. Should India pile pressure on Pakistan to return our war heroes immediately? Watch eminent panelists from India and Pakistan take part in a riveting debate on this pertinent question.
Newshour | In the India versus Pakistan debate, minister of information and broadcasting Manish Tewari takes on former Pakistan envoy to US Jaffer Hileli. Indian minister challenges Pakistan to return prisoners of war held there. India also asks Pakistan to an...
Newshour | Pakistan, which has been asserting that the attack on Sarabjit Singh was a mere scuffle, fails to answer questions on how such an attack would have taken place in a maximum security prison. Despite the gaping holes in their arguments and glaring evi...
Five days before the Supreme Court verdict on CBI's Coalgate affidavit, solicitor general Mohan Parasaran, in an exclusive interview to the channel, distances the Prime Minister from law minister Ashwani Kumar. He says the PM is not monitoring every detail and...
Newshour | Even after Sarabjit's butchery, why are some pro-Pak lobbies in India working so hard to downplay his murder? Why are certain vested interests trying so hard to argue Pakistan's case to downplay Sarabjit's murder? Should Pakistan apologists in Indi...
Newshour | Pakistan government, in a statement, has called the brutal attack on Sarabjit, a scuffle. Why does Pakistan, after allowing the killing of Sarabjit, continue to lie about his death? Should India consider calling off trade and diplomatic ties with Pa...
Newshour | Has an overindulgent foreign policy allowed Pakistan to take India for granted? Why does Pakistan after allowing the killing of Sarabjit continue to lie about his death? Pakistan panelists admiral Javed Iqbal, advocate Ahmed Raza Qasoori, barrister ...
Newshour | Did comments like 'this is not a standoff' and 'incursion is like acne' encourage the Chinese to get even more arrogant? By acting in denial has India already lost the diplomatic battle with the Chinese? Brigadier Hemant Mahajan, former diplomat MK...
Newshour | Is the Coalgate cover-up the UPA 2 government's Watergate moment? Has the government invited this entire crisis on itself by trying to cover up the law minister's interference with the CBI? Sanjay Jha of Hamaracongress.com, Janata Party president Su...
Newshour | Last week, Sarabjit was attacked by his jail inmates and was brutally beaten with bricks, after which he was admitted to the Jinnah hospital, where doctors had to operate on him. His family pleaded to the Pakistan government to send him abroad for t...
Newshour | CBI director has admitted that law minister Ashwini Kumar had wanted to see the draft report of the coal scam and that it was shared with him. Has the CBI affidavit eroded the credibility of the Law minister and the UPA? BJP leader Smriti Irani, ex-...
Newshour | A letter written by a Central Minister, AH Khan Chowdhury, shows chit fund companies getting the full support of the TMC government in West Bengal. The Minister allegedly wrote two letters to the Prime Minister complaining about Saradha Group, but l...
Newshour | Is India being firm enough in dealing with Beijing? Chinese troops have been squatting on Indian territory for over a week now. Times Now has found that there are at least 30 troopers of the People's Liberation Army of China, located in four tents a...
Newshour | How should India respond to deliberate provocation by China? Is trying to play down the Chinese aggression any answer? Gen Nirbhay Sharma, strategic affairs analyst Maroof Raza, professor of Chinese studies at JNU Srikanth Kondapally, Andrew Leung, ...
Newshour | Why is China getting increasingly aggressive vis-a-vis India? Is Beijing working towards a plan? How should India respond to deliberate provocation? Is trying to play down the Chinese aggression any answer? Former member of the national advisory boa...
Newshour | Should law treat those who rape children and brutalise women with kid gloves? Why does the law still not call for death penalty for those who rape children and those who commit beastiality against women? How many more cases should India endure to ma...
News Hour | Four months on from the Nirbhaya case, nothing has changed for women in India and especially Delhi. A five year old child was kidnapped and raped for two days. Her body parts were horribly mutilated. She is currently going through treatment and onl...
Newshour| The JPC Report which was leaked yesterday has come in for a lot of controversy as the BJP party leaders allege that the report was made in favor of the Congress Party. They also allege that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was given a clean chit while a...
Newshour | Stringent laws against rape has not seemed to have deterred the monster who kidnapped and raped a five-year-old minor girl in Gandhinagar in Delhi. Just a few months after the horrific December 16 gangrape yet another case of an heinous crime has co...
Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G scam, PC Chacko, says all allegations by the Opposition that there is a Congress conspiracy to protect Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is all false. He also goes on to say that he will not discuss the contents ...
Newshour | The common man falls victim to those who have taken their power for granted. Three incidences caught on camera highlight the fact that absolute power corrupts absolutely. These are -- first, the case of police brutality in Aligarh where the police b...
Newshour | Government has been attempting to defend itself and Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar saying that the meeting between top CBI officials and Law Minister was only customary. However, no reasons have been cited for the transfer of a senior CBI official...
Newshour | Having threatened to urinate in dams, should Ajit Pawar now resign for water scam? Can anything be worse that denying the poorest of the poor farmers, some water to just live? Why were there no consultations with those affected? Environmentalist Sun...
Newshour | Twenty eight years later, the ghost of 1984 is back to haunt Congress leader Jagdish Tytler. Delhi court has decided his role in the riots has to be relooked. The clean chit given to him by the CBI has been rejected. BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman, A...
Newshour | If the police act as agents to quell political dissent then where is Indian democracy headed? Why should India look away when a 22-year-old student leader is killed for demanding a college election? On what basis do politicians expect the police to ...
The Supreme Court has rejected Swiss pharma giant Novartis' plea to patent its blood cancer drug, Glivec, in India, thereby paving way for continued production of generic version of the drug by Indian companies. Is making life saving drugs affordable to the av...
In a much anticipated move, BJP has elevated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to the national level. Is the Congress worried about Modi's elevation? What could be the party's next move? Will the strategies and moves of Congress be determined by the elevati...
BJP made the much anticipated move by elevating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Does the elevation of Modi to the national level make Congress insecure? Will Congress now pitch the party scion Rahul Gandhi against Modi in the 2014 general elections?
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal claims that his civil disobedience movement in Delhi is backed by over a lakh of people. The government, however, refuses to acknowledge his presence. Does Kejriwal's tirade against Delhi government on the issue of th...
Newshour | The Italian marines accused of killing two fishermen in India have returned to India. However, the marines will not be arrested or be liable to death sentence. Italy now says 'snubbing' India was necessary and the impasse was intentional to hard bar...
Newshour | Are those who are feeling sorry about Sanjay Dutt discounting the gravity of charges against him? Senior advocate Majid Memon, Prosecutor in 1993 blasts case Ujwal Nikam, former vice commissioner of police YC Pawar, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, Ram Jethm...
Newshour | With the DMK pulling out of the alliance and Samajwadi Party miffed over Beni Prasad Verma's remarks against Mulayam Singh, the situation of the UPA government seems precarious. UPA may have the numbers now with Mulayam and Mayawati's support, howev...
Newshour | With the DMK pulling out of the alliance and Samajwadi Party miffed over Beni Prasad Verma's remarks against Mulayam Singh, the situation of the UPA government seems precarious. UPA may have the numbers now with Mulayam and Mayawati's support, howev...
News Hour | After his stunning speech in Lok Sabha, Manmohan Singh takes sharp aggression into the Rajya Sabha as well. Why has Manmohan Singh suddenly become so aggressive? Is it a UPA strategy to stun the BJP into silence in Parliament? PM takes on BJP and A...
News Hour | Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde claims that the government had no hand in the illegal accessing of Arun Jaitley's phone records. There are talks of internal rivalry within the BJP leading to this phone tapping operation. So, is the phone tap...
News Hour | The series of blasts at crowded Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, which killed 15 and injured many, reveals how vulnerable we as a people and as a country have become to terror attacks. Does the terror strike in Hyderabad once again expose the shallowness...
News Hour | Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde renders apology after being cornered by the Opposition for his saffron terror remark. So, is this expression of regret by Shinde a big victory for the Opposition ahead of the Budget Session and if the government ha...
News Hour | Now that Abhishek Verma's direct link with AgustaWestland has been exposed, will the government still not act on it? Will the government investigate which politicians met arms manufacturers who were acting through Verma? Watch an interesting debate...
News Hour | Capital's worst kept secret is out in the open with the arrest of two men who were attempting to hack into BJP leader Arun Jaitley's phone records. With Delhi police submitting a list of top 15 politicians, industrialists and bureaucrats who have b...
News Hour | President of the Janata Party Subramaniam Swamy and Dr Naganathan, founder of youth.org, debate on the question -- when there is photographic proof that the Lankan army killed Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son, why can't President Rajapakse apologise a...
News Hour | Sanjay Jha of Hamarcongress.com, Atul Kumar Anjaan of the CPI, BJP leader Kirit Somaiya, NCP leader Majid Memon, senior advocate KTS Tulsi, SP leader Kamal Farooqi, Naresh Gujral of the Shiromani Akali Dal debate the question -- When the man, Abhis...
Newshour | Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been executed. Has the Congress-led UPA government, with this move, disputed the claims of Opposition that BJP is soft-peddling on the issue of terror? Has the government managed to convey that it will tolera...
Newshour | Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been executed. Although this decision was welcomed by majority of Indians, including various political parties, there are a few who question the timing of his hanging and claim that the government is attempti...
Newshour | Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been executed. But why has it taken nearly 12 years to arrive at this decision? Has the government acted keeping in mind the upcoming polls? Is it an attempt by the Congress-led government to dispute the clai...
News Hour | With the European Union lifting the ban on the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, it is evident that the international community is acknowledging him as a leading national leader. With three successful elections in a row, his popular address to ...
News Hour | Akbaruddin Owaisi and Praveen Togadia are two sides of the same coin. They incite hatred, fuel anger and provoke people, and for their hate speeches they deserve to face the law. Despite the highly inflammatory speech, Praveen Togadia stays free. M...
Kamal Haasan's dream project 'Viswaroopam' that got the green signal from the Censor Board is being held to ransom by certain groups. A distressed Kamal even talked about self-exile. Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, Censor Board chairperson Leela Samson, Rahul Narvekar...
News Hour | Top nuclear scientist K Santaram, a key member of Pokhran-II, speaks on whether India almost conducted nuclear test during Narsimha Rao government.
Rajnath Singh in his first exclusive interview after taking over as the BJP president answers why he is taking such an aggresive posture against Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for his 'saffron terror' comment. Chief spokesperson of the BJP Ravishankar Prasad...
Newshour | Pakistan's role in the infiltration bid is established beyond doubt as landmines manufactured in Pakistan were found at the Indian side of Line of Control, proving that Pakistan has orchestrated attacks in order to aid infiltration. Pakistan, howeve...
Her country is imploding, radicals in her nation are spreading hate and spewing venom against India and yet Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was a picture of disbelief, while she was addressing an audience. She accused India of war mongering. Shiv...
Newshour | The political crisis in Pakistan escalated after Tahir-ul-Qadri jumped into the fray making a set of unusual demands including the revival of Army rule. He took out a million man march to prove that he has what it takes to topple the regime if he wi...
Do we have a political consensus on how to take on Pakistan? Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj took on the government this afternoon questioning the position taken by UPA-II after this beheading. Are we going too soft on Pakistan? Is there a need for a st...
Most military observers and defence analysts have been shocked with the brazenness displayed by the Pakistanis at today's Flag meeting. When the Indian Army brigadier met at the flag meet at the Poong district next to the LoC, India did not mince words telling...
As tension along the Line of Control escalates, Pakistan has violated the ceasefire agreement numerous times and today summoned the Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal only to tell him that the country does not find it necessary to respond to millions of...
Are Hafiz Saeed and Sayed Salauddin statesmen that Indian separatists should have meetings with them? Can India sit back and watch people with Indian passports travelling to Pakistan for 'meetings with Hafiz Saeed'? Shafiq Mir, Chairman of All India Panchayat ...
The Maoists have brutally killed CRPF jawans in the Latehar district of Jharkhand during an encounter and one of the soldiers had an IED planted in his abdomen to cause further devastation. Professor Hargopal from Bangalore National Law school; Sudha Ramalinga...
Pakistan continues to deny the allegations made by India, in spite of the Indian government giving the proof of their connection with the barbaric attack. The questions that arise are - Has the Pakistan government displayed sheer arrogance by saying that it wi...
With Pakistan rejecting our proofs, India is back to square one. Pakistan's brutality has been exposed and its proven that the attack was not just inhuman, but barbaric. However, Pakistan is in a state of denial, completely rejecting India's claims in one stra...
The Akbaruddin Owaisi's health sham is finally over. The MLA who made highly provocative, unacceptable speeches in Andhra Pradesh twice in a row, has finally been arrested by the State police after massive national outrage. The 'hatemonger' faced the law for t...
In a totally unprovoked and unacceptable incident, Pakistan showed unnecessary aggression today by killing two Indian army jawans in the most crude, cowardly and brutal manner. The Indian Army has confirmed that the body of one of the soldiers was badly mutila...
The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee in Punjab has honoured the assassins of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. At a time when Pakistan is trying to push terrorism in Punjab, why is the Badal government or the Centre not stepping in? Can the Punjab g...
Who is giving MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi a long rope? Ten days ago, Owaisi had made a direct attempt at the secular fabric of India. This morning when he arrived from London, the MIM MLA's strategy was to buy time. Will he eventually face the law for his inflam...
When one has a following of over five crore devotees, one would think each word uttered would be well thought out. So when self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu shocked the nation with his outrageous comments one after another, his pathetic state of mind was reve...
Newshour | According to a report, Team India's united front on the match field is far removed from reality. In the dressing room, a different kind of drama unfolds. The coach and the captain do not say a word to the other players, and most of the players do no...
What is the difference between a rapist and a VVIP rapist? The latter manages to get a parole, case after case to quietly escape and remain absconding for years.
Andhra Pradesh MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi made a speech which was communal, provocative and venomous in a rally in his State and now faces the law like he should. The question that arises is that, can any politician who openly tries to provoke violence between reli...
Newshour | With Yo Yo Honey Singh's new song dubbed as lewd and vulgar, the panelists debate whether in the name of popular culture are crudity, sexism, and filthy references to women being passed off as creativity.
Newshour | The panelists debate whether abetment to suicide is not a big case as Haryana Labour Minister says Gopal Goyal Kanda's case is not big, Geetika was a mere servant. Torture and threat by Kanda had led to the 23-year-old's suicide.
Newshour | The selectors have dropped middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and pacer Zaheer Khan for the third Test. But certain non-performing players continue to be part of Team India. Can the selectors continue to be intimidated by...
Newshour | As the battle for Gujarat gets closer, both Congress and BJP have escalated attacks on each other. While Congress refrained from taking names, Chief Minister Naredra Modi gave no such privilege to Congress. Did Prime Minister Manmohan Singh score an...
Newshour | The Opposition, which suffered a setback after the Congress-led UPA government won vote on retail FDI in parliament, received fresh ammo when the global retail giant Walmart admitted before the US Senate that it spent $25 million since 2008 for lobb...
Australian cricketer and Sachin Tendulkar's nearest rival Ricky Ponting announced his retirement after the third Australian Test match against South Africa. Ponting's poor performance in the recent series might have been the reason behind the announcement. How...
Newshour | Ajmal Kasab's execution has stunned Pakistan. A red-faced Pakistan, that continues to be in the denial mode, has even slammed its media for reaching out to Ajmal Kasab's family. Can India soft pedal diplomacy with Pakistan anymore, given their freez...
Newshour | Four long years after the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, the lone terrorist caught, Ajmal Kasab, is hanged. But has this action come a bit too late? Was the entire investigation into the 26/11 attacks a slow process? Should he not have been treated as a pr...
Newshour | The lone Pakistani terrorist caught in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, Ajmal Kasab, has been hanged. But Kasab was not the only terrorist awaiting death sentence. Has the government leapfrogged the list for Kasab? If Kasab can be hanged for the 26/11...
Newshour | Shiv Sena activists have managed to forcefully elicit an apology from the 21-year-old Mumbai girl who posted an alleged anti-Bal Thackeray comment on her Facebook wall. The girl and her friend, who merely liked her comment, have deactivated their Fa...
Newshour | There is more trouble for the beleaguered BJP chief Nitin Gadkari as senior party leader Yashwant Sinha, assuming a high moral ground, has sought his immediate ouster as party chief. Sinha has justified his demand saying that people in public life s...
Newshour | Congress scion Rahul Gandhi is set to spearhead the campaign for the General Elections 2014. By making Rahul Gandhi head the 2014 LS election panel, has Congress unofficially declared him as Prime Minister? Does he have enough experience and experti...
Newshour| Savita Halappanavar, a dentist from India, died after Irish doctors denied her an abortion citing religious laws. Even as there are widespread outrage over this death, the government is doing hardly anything about it. Why are Indian government and In...
Sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra have been protesting, demanding better prices for their produce. Even as the protests turned violent, government has been dismissing the demands of these farmers, alleging that the representatives of these farmers have vested i...
Sports journalist Ed Hawkins in his book 'Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy', made a startling claim that 2011 World Cup semi-final match between Indian and Pakistan was fixed. Has Hawkins evidence to substantiate his claims? Unless he can produce clear evidence, shoul...
Newshour | Following the attack by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, who in his latest tweets, claimed that the technical clean chit given to BJP chief Nitin Gadkari is not a license to continue as party chief and chided him for being a politician and businessman at...
Newshour | Minister of State (MoS) in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V Narayanaswamy caused a controversy, claiming that the government is considering a proposal to make CAG a multi-member body. Following the outrage over this remark Narayanaswamy claimed t...
Newshour | RSS ideologue MG Vaidya in his blog alleged that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is behind the campaign against party chief Nitin Gadkari. Downplaying the issue the BJP has said that the party is firmly united behind Gadkari and that the party ...
Newshour | Even after his anti-India rant has caused outrage across the nation, National Conference leader and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's uncle Mustafa Kamal remains unapologetic. Kamal had said that India is the enemy and not Pakistan. H...
Newshour | Former Army Chief Gen VK Singh has been relentless in his attack against the UPA government. He demanded the dissolution of Parliament, claiming that the government is unconstitutional. In his latest move, Gen Singh has called for a Parliament ghera...
Newshour | Reacting to the charges made by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Congress has said that the party will not dignify his charges with a point by point rebuttal. Is the party avoiding key questi...
Newshour | The tweet of a Puducherry-based business on Karti Chidambaram, the son of the Finance minister, has turned into a fight now. Businessman S Ravi who arrested after Karti Chidambaram's complaint says he will not apologise to Karti over the issue. Ravi...
Newshour | A scuffle broke out between Congress workers and supporters of activist Arvind Kejriwal who also included members of a farmers' group as he took his fight against corruption to this parliamentary constituency of Union Minister Salman Khurshid in Far...