FTN: Youth commits suicide after UPSC result: Is the IAS still the dream of rural and small town India?

An IAS aspirant committed suicide in Bangalore on Friday, upset over a "mix-up" in the Civil Services Examinations results list. ...
11:49 PM, May 14, 2013

FTN: SC orders NEET results be declared: Is medical education in a mess in India?

The Supreme Court on Monday directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. ...
11:42 PM, May 13, 2013

Pakistan Decides: Does this election mean that democracy has taken root in Pakistan?

Nawaz Sharif was poised for a record third term as Pakistan's Prime Minister with his Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) party on Sunday taking an unassailable lead in parliamentary elections, which was welcomed by India with whom he pledged to restart the peace process. ...
11:40 PM, May 12, 2013

FTN: Does IPL commodify women?

In a recent article in Wisden India sports journalist Anjali Doshi has raised serious objections about the women presenters being chosen by IPL broadcaster Set Max saying that the choice of glamorous women over sports journalists not only trivialises cricket but also stereotypes those women who report on sport. ...
11:55 PM, May 07, 2013

Karnataka polls: Eye on Bengaluru

CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose asks residents of Bangalore about their voting ambitions ahead of the state Assembly elections on May 5. ...
11:49 PM, May 03, 2013

FTN: Has the Indian government abandoned poor Indians languishing in Pakistani jails?

After battling for life for more than six days following a brutal assault by fellow inmates inside Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail, Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital on Thursday. ...
11:26 PM, May 02, 2013

FTN: What do India's young MPs feel about politics of attrition?

CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses the question with MoS HRD Shashi Tharoor and others. ...
11:39 PM, May 01, 2013

FTN: Sajjan Kumar acquitted: Does justice continue to elude 1984 victims?

Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was on Tuesday acquitted of all charges in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. ...
11:43 PM, Apr 30, 2013

FTN: Are Indian politicians unable to get out of VIP culture?

Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan, who was briefly detained on Wednesday at a US airport, returned to India on Monday morning. Khan has accused External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a "conspiracy" to defame him outside India. ...
11:54 PM, Apr 29, 2013

FTN: 336% jump in child rape cases since 2001: Are we in denial about sexual abuse of children?

Delhi has witnessed a surge in crime against women this year with rape cases recording 158 per cent rise while molestation and eve-teasing incidents went up by 600 and over 700 per cent, respectively. According to statistics released by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Monday, the national capital reported 463 rape cases in 2013 till April 15 as against 179 during the same period in 2012. ...
11:21 PM, Apr 23, 2013

FTN: Is India losing the fight against rape?

Admitting that the response of his force in the rape case of the five-year-old girl was "not as swift as desired", Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said "there was always a room for improvement". He, however, insisted that the Delhi Police has fulfilled all the promises it made after the December 16 gangrape case. ...
11:49 PM, Apr 22, 2013

India @ 9 with Sagarika Ghose

Catch the day's top stories on India @ 9 with Sagarika Ghose. ...
11:24 PM, Apr 20, 2013

Can street protests bring real change in the criminal justice system?

Protesters took to the street in the national capital on Saturday, demanding justice for the 5-year-old, who was brutally raped, assaulted, nearly killed and kept captive by a man in east Delhi. Angry crowds demonstrated outside police headquarters, despite the arrest of the arrest of the main accused, Manoj Kumar. ...
10:42 PM, Apr 20, 2013

5 year old raped: Are the new anti-rape laws ineffective?

In a grave reminder of December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape, a five-year-old was abducted and brutally raped in the capital and the police have detained one person in connection with the case. The detained man is reported to be the father of the main accused. ...
11:21 PM, Apr 19, 2013

FTN: Does the attack on Presidency University show that no institution is safe in today's Bengal?

The culture of political violence in Bengal is not even sparing holy grounds such as Presidency College (now University) which were till now protected from acts of violence and hooliganism. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 18, 2013

FTN: Tale of two cultures: Apathy in Jaipur, help pours out in Boston: Does India lack good samaritans?

The latest from Jaipur, where public apathy was captured on CCTV which showed passerby leaving a woman and her infant bleeding to death after an accident. A 26-year-old woman and her 8-month-old daughter in Jaipur died waiting for help on a busy road after their bike was hit by a speeding truck. The traumatised father and the young son who survived, stood by crying for help, only to see several ...
11:59 PM, Apr 17, 2013

FTN: Ashok Khemka transferred again: Are repeated transfers of officers destroying the civil services?

Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka hit the headlines in October 2012 when he pointed to irregularities in a land deal between Sonia Gandhi's son in law Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF. Khemka has always acted as a whistleblower of sorts and has been transferred 44 times, last week he was again transferred from his post for exposing a scam in the purchase of fungicides. ...
11:29 PM, Apr 15, 2013

FTN: Twitter wars on Rahul and Modi: Can social media set the political agenda?

Twitter was split in the middle in its reaction to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Monday at the annual general meeting of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on the status of women in India. ...
11:31 PM, Apr 09, 2013

Industry was happy to hear Rahul Gandhi: Sachin Pilot

Congress leader Sachin Pilot was speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose on Rahul Gandhi's address to India Inc at CII. ...
08:38 PM, Apr 04, 2013

FTN: Has Aakash turned out to be a white elephant?

The fate of the much touted low-cost computing device Aakash looks uncertain with the government conceding that there has been a "failure" in its production. ...
11:55 PM, Apr 03, 2013