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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
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...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Are Indians so heartless they could pass by a dying family, who had been mowed down by a truck? Is there no more humanity left in us that we could not help two severely injured people in need? Neelam Katara, mother of Nitish Katara, who was murdered...
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 | 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 | 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...
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?
Newshour | Tensions escalate in Korean Peninsula with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordering rocket units to be on standby to attack the US bases in Pacific and South Korea. The warning was issued after the US flew its Stealth Bombers in a show of force in S...
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...
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 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 | 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 | 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...