Special Report: How NIA went soft on Pragya Thakur – and is now delaying the Malegaon trial

Six people were killed in the 2008 bomb blast in which Thakur, the newly elected BJP MP, is the prime accused.

Smitha Nair

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Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Jul 12, 2019 · 09:00 am

Video: A vault, a Produnova, a leap – how 'The Small Wonder' put India on the world gymnastics map

Dipa Karmakar, one of India's big hopes for Tokyo 2020, talks about her journey from acing the balance beam at 8 to the heartbreak of a near medal at Rio.

Smitha Nair

· Jan 01, 2019 · 06:30 am

Video: Making of the Mary Kom legend. How a farm labourer’s daughter punched her way to boxing glory

The Manipuri trailblazer who made history by winning her sixth World Boxing Championship title looks back at the early years in this candid chat

Smitha Nair

· Dec 28, 2018 · 06:30 am

Video: From a list to a movement, how 2018 became the year of reckoning for India’s powerful men

Journalist Sandhya Menon speaks on leading India's #MeToo, the 'due process' debate, the vicious backlash and the way forward.

Smitha Nair

· Dec 27, 2018 · 06:30 am

Video: Debate on integrating Sentinelese, racist & ignorant, says ‘Land of the Naked People’ author

In the third episode, Madhusree Mukerjee, author of the Land of the Naked People, talks about the Sentinelese of the Andaman and Nicobar islands

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Devarsi Ghosh

· Dec 26, 2018 · 06:30 am

Your Morning Fix, Special Episode: Writing the Indian Constitution, amidst Partition’s bloodbath

How did the drafters of the Constitution envision the idea of India? That and more in this special episode of Your Morning Fix.

Smitha Nair

· Aug 15, 2018 · 09:41 am

Imran Khan would be Pakistan army’s second choice, says ex Indian envoy. The first? A hung assembly

But whatever the result, it won’t make much of a difference to India, says former high commissioner in Islamabad Sharat Sabharwal.

Smitha Nair

· Jul 25, 2018 · 07:00 am

Should your LIC premium pay for a bank bailout?

The government is considering selling stake in the stressed IDBI bank to LIC. What does this mean, and why should you care?

Smitha Nair

· Jun 27, 2018 · 01:45 pm

Video: ‘I opened a closed door’, India's first woman SC judge on breaking the glass ceiling

Justice Fathima Beevi reflects on the lack of gender diversity in the judiciary, and her journey to the top.

Smitha Nair

· Apr 27, 2018 · 05:20 pm

Video: ‘Failed, succeeded, for us he was always ‘apla’ Sachin’: Rajdeep Sardesai on Sachin Tendulkar

From the Archives: ‘For millions of Indians, Tendulkar was and always will be the God of Cricket,’ says Rajdeep Sardesai in his book ‘Democracy’s XI’.

Smitha Nair

· Apr 24, 2018 · 09:00 am

Video: PT Usha blazed a trail for women athletes. Hear the story of India's original Golden Girl

From her terror of running against the Russians as a teenager at the Moscow Olympics to the heartbreak at 1984 LA Olympics, PT Usha talks of her journey.

Smitha Nair

· Apr 21, 2018 · 07:00 am

Video: Why was a law enacted to prevent atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes?

Rights activists say the Supreme Court’s recent order diluting the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act will roll back gains made in social justice.

Smitha Nair

· Apr 19, 2018 · 11:35 am