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...
Newshour | After 28 years, has both the Tytler case and Sajjan Kumar-acquittal brought 1984 Sikh riots case back to the spotlight? Leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal Malwinder Singh, president of the youth Akali Dal Manjinder Singh Sirsa, senior journalist Hars...
Newshour | An unexpected fight breaks out between top government law officers. Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval has written to Attorney General GE Vahanvati, accusing him of trying to shape not just the coal block allocation scam but also the other cas...
Newshour | External affairs minister Salman Khurshid breaks his silence on Sarabjit Singh and the situation in the border. He denies that the government showed soft diplomacy towards Pakistan and blames the Opposition for making cheap statements against the go...
Newshour | An unexpected fight breaks out between top government law officers. Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval has written to Attorney General GE Vahanvati, accusing him of trying to shape not just the coal block allocation scam but also the other cas...
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 | Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who has been in the Kot Lakhpat jail in Pakistan since 1990, has been attacked by five inmates when he was heading to have lunch. He has been admitted to the Jinnah hospital after the attack. It has been reported that...
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 | The Uttar Pradesh ministers make one bizarre comment after another. Three ministers of the Akhilesh Yadav government went on an unstoppable power trip and took the law and order situation in the state as a 'hostage'. Textile minister Shivkumar Beria...
Newshour | Why did West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee not crack down on the ponzi swindler Sudipta Sen, chairman of the Saradha Group and all the others who were involved in the chit fund scam, much earlier? Can TMC distance itself from the chit fund scam any long...
Newshour | For the first time, leaders of the Ruling party and the Opposition have been caught on the back foot, together in a scam. The coal report names leaders from the UPA and the NDA. Has the controversial coal report exposed both the NDA and the UPA gove...
Newshour | Former Chief Justice of India and the architect of anti-rape law, JS Verma died at the Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon today, following multiple organ failure. He was 80 years old. He recently chaired the panel that came out with recommendation...
Newshour | What is the bigger issue - the leak of the Joint Parliamentary Committee JPC report or the content of the report? Former telecom minister A Raja wasn't given the chance the depose, but it has not stopped him from making his point to the JPC. He has ...
Newshour | How many more children will be exposed before the law makes death penalty for rapists mandatory? Should the law treat those who rape children and brutalise women with kid gloves? The Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar took 96 hours to come forwa...
Newshour | Are political parties threatened by the polarising impact Gujarat CM Narendra Modi may have on the Lok Sabha election? BJP's national treasurer Piyush Goyal, BJP spokesperson Debang Nanavati, Divya Marathi's chief editor Kumar Ketkar, Shiv Sena lead...
Newshour | Actor Sanjay Dutt has been given four weeks extension by the Supreme Court after he had filed a plea demanding six months of extension so that he can complete his work. However, the apex court did not agree to Zaibunissa Kazi;s request for an extens...
Newshour | There were blasts in Hyderabad and now in Bangalore - should India call off talks with Pakistan, unless they hand over the Bhatkal brothers? Have terror attacks become more audacious because terror groups have been treated with kid gloves? The India...
Newshour | A massive political fight has broken out between the BJP and JD(U), parties which have been in alliance for the past 17 years. The fight is about who should be the Prime Ministerial candidate. The JD(U) is against Gujarat CM Narendra Modi becoming t...
Newshour | In case the elections are held today, based on results produced by the CVoter poll projections, it has been found that the Congress is losing ground, but despite that the BJP is failing to capitalise. CVoter projects a divided vote giving no clear m...
Newshour | Given the results obtained by the CVoter poll on the number of seats occupied by various political parties, will the BJP be forced to cling on to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar or project Gujarat CM Narendra Modi? Political editor Navika Kumar, senior journa...
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 | Has Nitish Kumar jeopardised Narendra Modi's chances for becoming the Prime Minister or has he forced the BJP to brazen it out with Modi as the 2014 mascot? Bihar's BJP has put the onus on Rajnath to pull the plug. Rajnath has called for a Bihar uni...
Newshour | Indian cricketer Sreesanth, who had put up 44 tweets in two hours, saying that Harbhajan had never slapped him but was a backstabbing person, has deleted them. He added that he received no support whatsoever from the selfish people who were involved...
Newshour | The Supreme Court has rejected Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to commute his death sentence to life. The SC judgment paves way for the execution of 17 others on death row. Have the very contours of the death penalty debate in...
Newshour | The Odisha government scrapped discretionary quota but allottees are unaffected. Land meant for martyrs were allotted to bureaucrats and politicians and they are not willing to do away with it. Rural development minister Vikram is one of the benefic...
Newshour | West Bengal governor MK Narayanan sticks to his stand and says that CPM politburo must apologise for attacking Mamata Banerjee. Political goons, who were allegedly TMC workers, vandalised a chemistry lab of the Presidency college in Kolkata yesterda...
Newshour | Twenty eight years after close to 3000 sikhs were massacred in 1984, after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, a Delhi court has rejected the clean chit given by the CBI to former Union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 Sikh riots case. It has ask...
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 | An infant's finger was chopped off in Rajasthan and a minor rape victim was jailed in UP. Is being poor a child's greatest crime in India? Samajwadi party leader Kamal Farooqi, BJP leader Vani Tripathi, Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee Archana S...
Newshour | Should both the CPM and the TMC fight on the ideologies or policies rather than with violence? Is there a danger that unless top leaders of Left and TMC call a ceasefire, the circle of violence will continue? CPIM member Dr Ali, former JNU students ...
Newshour | Narendra Modi's political speech in Kolkata aimed directly at BJP's cadre. Will it be tough for the party not to name him as a PM candidate? Has Modi virtually declared himself as the BJP's PM candidate with his speech in Kolkata today? Is Modi tryi...
Newshour | During a rally in Maharashtra, deputy CM Ajit Pawar had asked if the leaders should urinate to supply water to the people and had said that children are being born at nights when there is no power as the people of his state have no other work to do....
Newshour | Opposition questions Congress after 1975 Wiki cable claims that Rajiv Gandhi acted as the middleman for the Swedish firm Saab Scania. Congress rubbishes the Wiki claims, calling it baseless. Can the Wikileaks' allegation against Rajiv Gandhi and Geo...
Newshour | Is it impossible to avoid Narendra Modi vs Rahul Gandhi comparison either for the Congress or the BJP? Gujarat Congress leader Shakti Singh Goel, BJP VP Smiti Irani, BJP leader Debang Nanavati, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy, journalist Sa...
Newshour | The general elections are a year away, but political wars have already started brewing. After Modi proclaimed that he had debts to repay to the rest of India, the Congress went on an offensive. Rashid Alvi, raking up the 2002 riots, said that there ...
Newshour | An illegal building collapses, killing 50 and injuring several more. The rescue operation team claim that there could be more bodies trapped under the debris. Why did this happen? Was it municipal negligence? Will sacking the deputy commissioner hel...
Newshour | Gujarat CM Narendra Modi makes his first direct pitch for the post of PM and says that it is time he repays his debts to Mother India. This is the first time he is directly hinting at him running for the Prime Ministerial post.
Newshour | Has Rahul Gandhi been able to make an impression with his first speech since becoming Congress Vice President? Minister of Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot, BJP VP Smriti Irani, journalist Swaminathan Aiyar, British economist Lord Meghnad Desai and ec...
Newshour | It is a common sight in India, where a passing VIP vehicle with a red beacon makes the entire traffic come to a standstill and causes a massive snarl. However, this might soon end, as the Supreme Court has decided to take things into its own hands. ...
Newshour | Kolkata comes out to say goodbye to the 22-year-old Sudipta Gupta, who died in police custody. Sudipta's father is inconsolable, while the crowd pours out in support of the student who was mercilessly tortured by the police. TMC hides under the cove...
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 ...
Left leader Sitaram Yechury expresses anger over Sudipta Gupta's death and says that he knew him personally. Yechury says that he had met him once and he thought he had a spark. He also criticises the Mamata Banerjee government for not handling these protests ...
Newshour | A student leader belonging to the CPI(M) dies after being lathicharged by the police. The leader, identified as Sudipta Gupta was allegedly tortured by the police after being arrested during a protest demanding college union elections in West Bengal...
Newshour | Narendra Modi amends the state Lokayukta and passes a new bill in the Gujarat Assembly. This new watered down bill gives the right to the CM to choose the Lokayukta in the state. Why did Modi dilute the Lokayukta?
Newshour | Congress flip-flops and stops talking about Rahul Gandhi when it comes to Prime Ministerial candidacy. Congress leaders suddenly unanimously endorse the PM-Sonia dual leadership at the Centre. Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi even says that i...
Newshour | PM Manmohan Singh expresses confidence that the government will complete its term, even if SP pulls out. These strong comments come after SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, accuses the Congress of being a 'party of liars'. Now, SP changes tune and Mulaya...
Newshour | The world's richest civic body - Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) - fails to save hapless infants due to blatant red tapism. The KEM pediatric hospital, the only state-run facility with the expertise to conduct open heart surgery, has been w...
Newshour | Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Prasad Kariyawasam, in an alleged email says that the Sinhala people are of a North Indian origin and that India must protect them more than the Tamils. This email has sparked off a huge controversy with Vaiko ...
Newshour | A group of US Congressmen visit Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and extend an invitation to visit the country. Is it too premature to debate this issue? After all, the Congressmen are just a few lawmakers of the US and not the government itself.
Newshour | The world's richest civic body - Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) - fails to save hapless infants due to blatant red tapism. The KEM pediatric hospital, the only state-run facility with the expertise to conduct open heart surgery, has been w...
Newshour | Should India put diplomatic pressure on Pakistan and force it to admit that it did indeed kill the hapless farmer Chamel Singh? An autopsy report nailed all the lies that Pakistan had been saying, and indicates that he was tortured brutally. An eyew...
Newshour | Top lawyers Mahesh Jethmalani and Markandey Katju fight it out and debate the issue of pardoning Sanjay Dutt. Sources close to Dutt reveal that the actor might surrender a few days before his deadline. In the meanwhile, Katju has been filing petitio...
Newshour | While the entire media and Bollywood fraternity is on a frenzy, pleading and appealing to everyone they know to let Sanjay Dutt go scot-free, another accused remains forgotten. 70-year-old Zaibunissa Kazi has also been accused in the 1993 Bombay bla...
Newshour | A hapless Indian farmer, crosses over to the Pakistan border by mistake, only to be subjected to brutal torture and eventually death. This is what Chamel Singh went through when he was languishing in a Pakistani jail. An autopsy report nailed all th...
Newshour | Politics comes to the forefront as the Sri Lankan players are barred from playing IPL matches in Chennai. A few months earlier, Pakistani hockey players were forced to retreat, after a Shiv Sena threat. Now, calls for the boycott of CWG in Sri Lanka...
Newshour | The Delhi police and the J&K government are still arguing about the arrest of Hizbul millitant Liyaqat Shah. The Centre has ordered an NIA probe into his arrest, but the issue saw a huge uproar in the Parliament today. Is this man as innocent as the...
Newshour | Top lawyers Mahesh Jethmalani and Markandey Katju fight it out and debate the issue of pardoning Sanjay Dutt/. Does the law permit the Governor to pardon a person accused of carrying illegal arms and ammunition, which were later used for a terror at...
Newshour | Why is Bollywood expecting Sanjay Dutt to be treated as a special case? Actor Ajay Devgn talks about why his friend should be pardoned from the five year jail term. Sanjay Dutt's lawyer Hitesh Jain, producer Mukesh Bhatt, Janata Party president Subr...
Newshour | With today's raids against the DMK chief's son Stalin, has the CBI been reduced to India's biggest political tool? Why should CBI's use as a political tool be acceptable? Former CBI director Vijay Ramarao, DMK leader TM Selvaganapathi, BJP leader Ma...
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 | Bihar's CM Nitish Kumar stormed at Delhi, setting terms for the UPA saying that only backward states will rule India. He also said that his development model should be adopted. It looks as if the JD(U)-BJP ties have been tensed and Nitish added to t...
Newshour | The DMK and SP are continuing with their agendas to trouble and pressurise the government. While DMK pulled out from its alliance last night, the UPA started the day with a confident message of sailing through the crisis. Mulayam Singh is upset with...
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...
Newshour | Assistant police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi was beaten up by several MLAs across party lines inside the Maharashtra Assembly after MLA Kshitij Thakur moved a Breach of Privilege motion against the policeman for stopping him for speeding the previo...
Newshour | The DMK announced a pull out from UPA in a dramatic fashion today and has given the government a 48-hour window to recover by passing a resolution in the Parliament. Is India headed towards a year of instability or an early election? Will the govern...
Newshour | The DMK has threatened to pull out from the government if India does not support the UN vote for an international probe into the war crimes on Sri Lankan Tamils. Why is passing the resolution in its present form tricky for India? Secretary general o...
Newshour | If the Samajwadi Party is so upset with Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma, what is holding it back from breaking the alliance with UPA? Is Mulayam simply competing with the DMK to give UPA a tough time or can he really pull out? What did Beni mean by...
Newshour | What happened to the loud promises of having a robust anti-rape law? Has the new bill diluted the anti-rape law? Will the new bill act as a deterrent in crimes against women or is it a toothless addition to the legal framework? Congress leader Renuk...
Newshour | After 'Munna Bhai MBBS' Arshad Warsi and Boman Irani are back with 'Jolly LLB'. Watch as both of them talk about their film with director Subhash Kapoor. The film is a social satire on the Indian judiciary.
Newshour | Recently, India's foreign policy has been snubbed by Sri Lanka, Italy and Pakistan. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley took on the government for its ambiguous foreign policy, saying 'India is being kicked around'. Deputy Leade...
Newshour | Objecting to Pakistan National Assembly's resolution condemning the execution of Parliament attack conspirator Afzal Guru, the government and Opposition joined hands to pass a unanimous resolution in Parliament. However, as the House assembled the B...
Newshour | The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah did not have time to pay a fitting tribute to the five jawans who sacrificed their lives to protect the citizens yesterday, in the attack by the LeT in Srinagar. It was after severe criticism that h...
Newshour | Should the Indian Parliament pass a counter resolution against Pakistan's attempts to interfere in India's internal affairs? Representing India, managing director of The Pioneer Chandan Mitra, strategic affairs editor Maroof Raza and ex-secretary of...
Newshour | Congress MLAs disrupted the Punjab Assembly House by flinging legislative papers in the air and one of them sat on the Speaker's chair. The big question that arises is was it necessary to drag the Tarn Taran sexual assault victim into Punjab's polit...
Newshour | Should India continue diplomatic niceties with Italy or should this be treated as a violation of relations between two nations? Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy, former High Command to Pakistan G Parthasarathy, Congress supporter Sanjay Jha, It...
Newshour | After today's terror attack in Srinagar, what argument can Jammu and Kashmir politicians use to demand the repeal of AFSPA? Will Omar Abdullah call for a special session of the Assembly for the martyred soldiers in Srinagar too? Defence expert Major...
Newshour | The cabinet has yet again failed to pass the anti-rape bill. BJP leader Vani Tripathi and Congress leader Abid Rasool Khan debate on whether the political parties are displaying duplicity by delaying the anti rape law?
Newshour | Unruly and violent scenes in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly have occurred yet again. Why is there such a grandstanding over the remains of the mastermind of the Parliament attack Afzal Guru? J&K Chief spokesperson of BJP Dr Jitender Singh and MLA Abdul ...
Newshour | Why did India sign a treaty which would let the Italian prisoners go home the moment they were convicted? LS member PC Chacko, BJP leader Rajeev Rudy and National Secretary of the CPI Atul Anjaan debate on whether India has been willingly conned by ...
Newshour | Could rape accused Bitti Mohanty have changed his identity to hide for seven years without help from higher ups? Is Bitti's seven-year run a clear case of collusion? BJD leader Jai Panda, BJP leader Nirmala Sitaraman, senior advocate and social acti...
Newshour | Can the mysterious death of Delhi gangrape prime accused Ram Singh in Tihar jail be taken at face value? Will his suicide bring a set back for the prosecution? Ram Singh lawyer VK Anand, civil servant TSR Subramanian, corporate lawyer Aryama Sundara...
Newshour | Can the mysterious death of Delhi gangrape prime accused Ram Singh in Tihar jail be taken at face value? Will his suicide bring a setback for the prosecution? Ram Singh's lawyer VK Anand, civil servant TSR Subramanian, corporate lawyer Aryama Sundar...
Newshour | Gun toting former Congress MP Vitthal Bhai Radadiya and his son have been welcomed by Gujarat CM Narendra Modi into BJP. Can any political party claim the moral high ground? BJP leader Shakti Singh Goel, AAP leader Mayank Gandhi and BJP leader Jayna...
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...
Newshour | Is there a possibility that the anti-rape law is getting delayed due to the lack of political consensus? AAP leader Shazia Ilmi, BJP leader Nirmala Sitaraman, Congress leader Keshav Rao, legal convenor of ADWA Kirti Singh, Outlook political editor S...
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...
Newshour | The Rajya Sabha adopts government motion for a JPC into the chopper scam. However, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitely calls the JPC an 'exercise in futility'. Opposition parties including BJP, TMC and the JDU stage a walkout from the ...
Newshour | Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath explains why the JPC on the AgustaWestland chopper scam is not just a political tactic. The Opposition had earlier accused the government of creating a diversionary tactic and Arun Jaitely had even cal...
Newshour | A controversy has erupted over the 2011 speech of US Defence Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. Is there a direct danger if the US Defence Secretary is pro-Pakistan, that he believes India backs attacks on Pakistan? How should India react to his remark?...
Newshour | Railway Minister Pavan Kumar Bansal has not increased the passenger fare but the BJP has alleged that he is biased. CM of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee says that the railway budget is anti-Bengal. Mulayam Sigh and Mayawati claim that the railway budge...
Newshour | Is it the time to seal the political fight over the National Counter Terror Centre? General secretary of Congress Keshav Rao, BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi, chief editor of Daily 'Divya Bharathi' Kumar Ketkar and advisor to the current CM of Bihar Pawa...
Newshour | In Kerala, 111 people have got booked for posting content on social networking websites allegedly aimed at defaming Deputy RS Chairman PJ Kurien and the Congress is backing the government on this move. Why are politicians so oversensitive to critici...
Newshour | Former president of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed thanks the Indian government and the staff of the High Commissioner for the support that they have shown towards him. He talks about whether he was afraid that the Maldivian government would pull him out ...
Newshour | A serial blast shook Hyderabad today, which killed 15 and over 48 people. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is likely to leave for Hyderabad tomorrow. He says that the ministry had been given prior information about the blasts that were to occur in ...
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...
Newshour | Slain LTTE chief Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son Balachandaran was murdered by the Sri Lankan army, but its government is in denial. The army shot five bullets at the boy after feeding him biscuits. Watch the British documentary 'No Fire Zone' directe...
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...
Newshour | Prime Minister of UK David Cameron has said that the UK will respond to any request made by the government of India in the chopper scam. The BJP has rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's request for a debate on the issue and has demanded a court ...