Suparna Singh Reported By Barkha Dutt

Sheila Dikshit, the 78-year-old picked as the Congress' presumptive Chief Minister for Uttar Pradesh, told NDTV today that Akhilesh Yadav, as "a young person" would be more suitable to head the government if her party allies with him, a prospect seen as work-in-progress in the changing political landscape of India's most populous state.

Arvind Kejriwal, among the most voluble critics of the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, has said "it is anti-national to support demonetisation in (its) current form."

Cyrus Mistry's surprise removal as Chairman of the Tata Group was rooted in a mismatch of values between him and Ratan Tata, his 78-year-old predecessor, according to Harish Salve, a long-time legal adviser to the $100 billion group.

The surgical strikes in Pakistan territory last night were carried out by India to address the "mass anger" among people after the terror attack at an army base in Uri earlier this month, said ministers who were present at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's review of security this morning.

Mr Kishor has said that unlike the politicians he is surrounded by, Uttar Pradesh will not define his role in 2019. "If I lose Uttar Pradesh, as everyone says I will, the game is over for me. And if I win...what could be a bigger result than that? Even a general election will not be the same as winning UP," he has reportedly concluded.

For a spell when the sky darkened, it appeared the rain would play party pooper, but then the clouds loosened their hold on the sky and Sonia Gandhi, standing through the sunroof in a white Mercedes SUV, kept waving to crowds as her convoy pulled through the streets of Varanasi.

The Pakistani government and internationally-condemned terrorist Hafiz Saeed made twin attempts today to aggravate the tension in Kashmir, where 30 people have died and over 800 been injured in clashes after terrorist Burhan Wani was killed on Friday night.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is reportedly upset with his party for not condemning Subramanian Swamy's volley of attacks on his aides. Mr Jaitley returns to Delhi from an official trip to China at a time when Mr Swamy's tirade is being seen as a thinly-disguised campaign against the minister himself, rather than his advisers.

In an exclusive interview to NDTV, Raghuram Rajan, whose possible reappointment as head of the RBI is driving international headlines, said that he "welcomes genuine criticism of our policy but will not address ad hominem attacks" or allegations against him as individual rather than the policies and position he holds.

Smriti Irani spent the second anniversary of her party coming to power in the constituency of Amethi, which she lost much more than just respectably in 2014 to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi.

Amid reports that she may be the BJP's presumptive Chief Minister for Uttar Pradesh, union minister Smriti Irani was in Amethi today, where she told NDTV that her party will decide whether it will remain her constituency in 2019. In the last general election, she jolted the Congress with a tough fight to its Vice President Rahul Gandhi, in what has...

An alleged middleman who India is desperate to question for the corrupt AgustaWestland deal has confirmed to NDTV that in 2008, he did describe Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in a letter as "the driving force" of the decision to acquire new helicopters for use by top politicians when her party was last in power.

A mining baron arrested on charges of being a prime player in the Vyapam or jobs scandal in Madhya Pradesh paid for the air tickets and other undefined expenses of top leaders of the BJP and its ideological parent, the RSS, according to an income tax report from 2013.

NDTV has today accessed exclusive information on how computer files that are key evidence in the case include the Governor in an alleged payroll of bribe-takers and officials who misused their positions.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear a case that asks for Ram Naresh Yadav to be removed as Madhya Pradesh Governor.

Sheila Dikshit, the 78-year-old picked as the Congress' presumptive Chief Minister for Uttar Pradesh, told NDTV today that Akhilesh Yadav, as "a young person" would be more suitable to head the government if her party allies with him, a prospect seen as work-in-progress in the changing political landscape of India's most populous state.

Arvind Kejriwal, among the most voluble critics of the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, has said "it is anti-national to support demonetisation in (its) current form."

Cyrus Mistry's surprise removal as Chairman of the Tata Group was rooted in a mismatch of values between him and Ratan Tata, his 78-year-old predecessor, according to Harish Salve, a long-time legal adviser to the $100 billion group.

The surgical strikes in Pakistan territory last night were carried out by India to address the "mass anger" among people after the terror attack at an army base in Uri earlier this month, said ministers who were present at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's review of security this morning.

Mr Kishor has said that unlike the politicians he is surrounded by, Uttar Pradesh will not define his role in 2019. "If I lose Uttar Pradesh, as everyone says I will, the game is over for me. And if I win...what could be a bigger result than that? Even a general election will not be the same as winning UP," he has reportedly concluded.

For a spell when the sky darkened, it appeared the rain would play party pooper, but then the clouds loosened their hold on the sky and Sonia Gandhi, standing through the sunroof in a white Mercedes SUV, kept waving to crowds as her convoy pulled through the streets of Varanasi.

The Pakistani government and internationally-condemned terrorist Hafiz Saeed made twin attempts today to aggravate the tension in Kashmir, where 30 people have died and over 800 been injured in clashes after terrorist Burhan Wani was killed on Friday night.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is reportedly upset with his party for not condemning Subramanian Swamy's volley of attacks on his aides. Mr Jaitley returns to Delhi from an official trip to China at a time when Mr Swamy's tirade is being seen as a thinly-disguised campaign against the minister himself, rather than his advisers.

In an exclusive interview to NDTV, Raghuram Rajan, whose possible reappointment as head of the RBI is driving international headlines, said that he "welcomes genuine criticism of our policy but will not address ad hominem attacks" or allegations against him as individual rather than the policies and position he holds.

Smriti Irani spent the second anniversary of her party coming to power in the constituency of Amethi, which she lost much more than just respectably in 2014 to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi.

Amid reports that she may be the BJP's presumptive Chief Minister for Uttar Pradesh, union minister Smriti Irani was in Amethi today, where she told NDTV that her party will decide whether it will remain her constituency in 2019. In the last general election, she jolted the Congress with a tough fight to its Vice President Rahul Gandhi, in what has...

An alleged middleman who India is desperate to question for the corrupt AgustaWestland deal has confirmed to NDTV that in 2008, he did describe Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in a letter as "the driving force" of the decision to acquire new helicopters for use by top politicians when her party was last in power.

A mining baron arrested on charges of being a prime player in the Vyapam or jobs scandal in Madhya Pradesh paid for the air tickets and other undefined expenses of top leaders of the BJP and its ideological parent, the RSS, according to an income tax report from 2013.

NDTV has today accessed exclusive information on how computer files that are key evidence in the case include the Governor in an alleged payroll of bribe-takers and officials who misused their positions.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear a case that asks for Ram Naresh Yadav to be removed as Madhya Pradesh Governor.