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 | As the 1984 anti-Sikh riots are in the spotlight, why isn't the complicity of top police officers in the coverup being investigated? Former joint police commissioner Maxwell Pereira, former commissioner Ved Marwah, Shiromani Akali Dal's Delhi presid...
Newshour | After joining hands with Hafiz Saeed, Yasin Malik wants to carry out a sham fast over Afzal Guru. Is putting the secessionist Mallik behind bars the only option left for the government? Junaid Azeem Mattoo of the People's Conference and Subramanian ...
Newshour | Has letting Sarabjit Singh return to India, his country, become an ego issue for Pakistani politicians? The question comes in the wake of the revelation made by his sister Dalbir Kaur, who was told by the Pakistani authorities not to speak to the me...
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 | 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...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 ...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 ...
Newshour | The government had promised to take an action after an expose was made in the chopper scam last year, but it failed to do so. Why did the Enforcement Directorate delay the enquiry? Was the ED under political pressure? Only now after a year since the...
Newshour | After a year of denial, despite the expose made last year, only now does the government suspend the Rs 3700 crore chopper deal. Watch how the scam was exposed.
Newshour | Former Indian Air Force chief SP Tyagi is accused of receiving kickbacks in the chopper scam. He now says that the specifications for the chopper deal was changed during the Vajpayee government. Catch what the IAF chief has to say for himself.
Newshour | Former Indian Air Force Chief SP Tyagi is accused of receiving kickbacks in the chopper scam. He now says that the specifications for the chopper deal was changed during the Vajpayee government. Catch what the IAF chief has to say for himself. Also ...
Newshour | Despite the legal clean chit, is the issue of retaining PJ Kurien as Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman a political hot potato for the Congress? General secretary of KPCC Suresh Babu and CPI(M) leader PK Biju debate on whether Kurien should resign from his...
Newshour | The BJP is demanding that the government cancel Malik's passport because he is openly joining hands with the enemy. Catch what Separatist JKLF leader Yasin Malik has to say for himself for sharing the dias with 26/11 Mumbai attack conspirator Hafiz ...
Newshour | Shouldn't the Indian government scrap Separatist JKLF leader Yasin Malik's passport for his links with 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed? Can any self-respecting nation allow a passport holder to share a dai...
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...
Newshour | Is hatemonger Praveen Togadia's arrest inevitable after his hate speech? And if it is, then why is the state dragging its feet? Working president of VHP Ashok Chowgule, dharam guru Acharya Swamishree, Congress leader Abid Rasool Khan, director of th...
Newshour | Isn't it shameful that in contemporary India three teenage girls who simply wanted to sing have been forced to back off? Chairperson of Dukhtran-e-Millat Asiya Andrabi talks about what gave her the right to declare a social boycott. AAP leader Shazi...
Newshour | In an investigation it has been revealed that minors have been raped repeatedly for more than two years in Chattisgargh, shockingly, by their own teachers. Watch the untold story of girls raped in government-run shelters.
Newshour | Earlier today, a fatwa was issued by Grand Mufti on an all-girls band in Kashmir, who are the only girl band of the region, to prohibit them from singing. What happened to these girls is not their story alone but a sign of the growing intolerance in...
Newshour | Now that Pakistan's former Lt General Shahid Aziz has exposed Musharraf, will Pakistan accept its Kargil lie? Can former General Pervez Musharraf continue to live in denial even after the insider has nailed Pakistan's lies? Former Army Northern Comm...
Newshour| Against the backdrop of the ban issued on his film 'Vishwaroopam', actor Kamal Haasan says that he will not cower before fundamentalism and continues to say that his film isn't insensitive to any religion. He adds that if he faces this kind of cultur...
Newshour | Should the nature and severity of crime determine whether an accused can be termed as juvenile? Is the law being too lenient on the 'rapist minor' in the case of the Delhi bus gangrape, which occurred on 16th December 2012? Former Attorney General o...
News Hour | 26/11 Mumbai attack conspirator David Headley has been awarded 35 years of prison in the US and not a capital punishment for killing more than 160 people in India. How would America react if India would have taken custody of its terrorist and award...
News Hour | Actor Kamal Haasan's had announced that 'Vishwaroopam' is his dream project and he went ahead breaking all distribution norms by announcing that he would release the film in DTH even before it hits the theatres, but the film is in the eye of a huge...
Newshour | BJP's new president Rajnath Singh mentioned Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's name thrice in his speech and threatened to hit the streets because of his controversial 'saffron terror' comment. Though Shinde chose to avoid Rajnath's questions, he h...
In this interview, Ex-President General Pervez Musharraf accuses India of escalating tensions with Pakistan and sternly says that the Pakistan army did not cross the Line of Control. He also says that he would return to Pakistan and contest elections again. Ho...
As the Congress party got down to some serious strategising today morning at the 'Chintan Shivir' in Jaipur, comes an admission that getting an absolute majority in 2014 is realistically tough, in fact it is unlikely. SP leader Kamal Farooqi, AAP leader Yogend...
Is the government simply sugarcoating the diesel deregulation by raising the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders to nine? BJP national treasurer Piyush Goyal, Chief Editor of Dainik Divya Marathi Kumar Ketkar, economist Lord Meghnad Desai, entrepreneur and educati...
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...
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...
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...
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 | Injured cricketer Irfan Pathan shared a stage with Gujarat CM Narendra Modi during his election rally in Kheda. The inclusion of a Muslim cricketer when campaigning in Kheda is a very calculated move by Modi, as the constituency has more number of M...
Former cricketer and national selector Mohinder Amarnath says that MS Dhoni has not done anything for Indian cricket in the last one year. Amarnath also said that it was possible that there was an 'internal' discussion to retain him despite eight successive Te...
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...
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 | India gives close to $11 billion dollars in the form of aid to poorer countries. The same country has been subject to humiliation as it haggles over the mere $100 million that the UK government gives. Instead of allowing the British to haggle for a...
Newshour | The BJP implies that not all leaders can go and start talking to the press, and it also stands by Gadkari in his corruption row. Is the BJP focusing too much on what Mahesh and Ram Jethmalani did, instead of discussing about Gadkari? Should the part...
Newshour | Ram Jethmalani brays for Gadkari's blood as he wants him removed from the president's post with immediate effect. He is of the opinion that Gadkari should quit and face the probe immediately. Listen to Jethmalani justifying his stance.
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 | India Against Corruption member and activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, along with other IAC members, has exposed the vicious nexus existing between the politicians and the corporate. He has alleged that successive governments have favoured ...
Newshour | Stating that West Bengal government had not provided the firm with a safe environment, private cargo handler ABG Haldia Bulk Terminals (HBT) has pulled out of the Haldia port. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, instead of acknowledging the ...
Newshour | Gadkari's company Purti Power and Sugar Ltd has been receiving large amount of funding from a construction firm named Ideal Road Builders (IRB) group. The construction firm had also won several contracts from 1995 and 1999, the period when Gadkari w...
Newshour | In an explosive letter to India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh says that his opinion about the anti-graft activist as a crusader against corruption has now changed to a self serving, ambitious ...
Newshour | In the wake of allegations of corruption against his IAC teammates, India Against Corruption member and activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal has ordered an internal probe against Prashant Bhushan, Anjali Damania and Mayank Gandhi. An internal ...
Newshour | India Against Corruption activists have been targeting the Congress and government so far. IAC now is planning to target the Opposition. There are rumors that BJP president Nitin Gadkari will be exposed next. Will BJP be able to hold its ground agai...
Newshour | Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka has been transferred 40 times in the past 21 years, all for standing against corruption. His recent expose is the nexus between realty giant DLF and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. How l...
Newshour | Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma's remark that Rs 71 lak is too little a sum for a scam has created a furor across the nation. Does this comment not amount to open advocacy of high level corruption? Can the Congress-led UPA government, alread...
Newshour | India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, who came out all guns blazing against Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, has decided to suspend his stir and move on. Now there are rumors that he is planning to take on BJP president Nitin Gadkari...
Newshour | Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma, who said that Rs 71 lakh is too small an amount for a scam, now makes a U-turn saying that corruption, even if it involves just Rs 1, is still corruption. Was his comment misrepresented or does it show how tho...
Newshour | Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal expresses anger over Rahul Gandhi's statement about how seven out of ten youth in Punjab are drug addicts. He says that it is a ridiculous statement and that Rahul is cut off from reality. Badal also accuses Rahu...
Newshour | Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautla has kicked up a controversy by endorsing the view of Khap Panchayat that early marriages can prevent rapes in the state. How can a person who is supposed to protect the interests of people endorse suc...
Newshour | The militant outfit Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has honoured the killers of former Army chief Gen AS Vaidya, architect of the Operation Bluestar. Can the Centre and state and watch even as the terror outfits in Punjab are on the r...