‘Hooper has been a great hindrance. He has been shouting... throwing keys at our staff... Can’t have him here. That is for sure’

Monday , 19 October '09

Indian Olympic Association chief and Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi claims that as of today the committee...

“Telomarese lies at the heart of cells’ self-renewal”

Wednesday , 7 October '09

Elizabeth Blackburn won the Nobel Prize in medicine for her discovery of Telomarese, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere (a protective structure at the end of chromosomes).

‘The US wants those caught (for Mumbai attacks) be given adequate sentences, Hafiz Saeed is prosecuted, LeT infrastructure dismantled’

Monday , 5 October '09

US Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer feels that now that there’s plenty of evidence pertaining to the 26/11 Mumbai attack, Pakistan needs to put it together and prosecute the guilty. Defining the US-India relationship, he says the US wants to expand the relationship beyond national security to new areas. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, the ambassador says that while it is important to go after the terrorists, it equally important to strike the ground on economic and energy issues and reach out to farmers and the poor

‘Number of attacks driven by racist attitude would be minority... we are going to make sure that a visa that’s given for education is used for education’

Monday , 28 September '09

Hello and welcome to Walk the Talk. I am Shekhar Gupta at the Australian High Commission in New Delhi and my guest this week a very distinguished Australian and believe it or not, he is not even a sportsman or a cricketer. Peter Varghese, the new High Commissioner of Australia to India....

‘I am very angry with SC saying if Govt tells us to disclose (assets) we will disclose. That’s what Govt wants — it wants to control the judges’

Monday , 21 September '09

Eminent jurist Fali S Nariman feels that though the Bar has no veto, it has every right to caution judges. In this interaction with...

‘They (ISI chief and his Indian counterpart) should meet... when I say they (Pak) will be willing, I must have a good reason’

Monday , 14 September '09

He was sacked for saying Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks, is a Pakistani. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, former Pakistan NSA Maj Gen (retd) Mahmud Ali Durrani says he picked up the phone after 26/11, spoke to NSA M K Narayanan, but could not get him the next time...

‘There was resentment... how can a state Congress head be only 33 years old’

Monday , 7 September '09

In 2005, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had completed one year in office as the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister. On May 25, 2005, he spoke to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief SHEKHAR GUPTA on NDTV 24X7’s Walk The Talk. YSR dealt with a range of issues, including his role within the Congress, political rival N Chandrababu Naidu, his election promise of free power, and containing violence due to Naxalism and factional feuds. Excerpts from the interview:

‘Atalji sat in the flight, head down. Main kaise utroonga... Is kalank (Gujarat riots) ko mere munh par laga diya... But he was thwarted’

Wednesday , 26 August '09

From calling Rajnath Singh ‘Tarzan’ to comparing the BJP leadership to Humpty Dumpty, senior BJP leader Arun Shourie minces no words expressing...

‘I told Advaniji not to associate himself with the sting operation. He kept quiet and I couldn’t press beyond a point’

Monday , 24 August '09

Expelled from the BJP after being associated with the party for three decades, former Union minister and Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh says he has been wounded by his own kith and kin.

‘Worli-Haji Ali sea link contract process in 15 days, work will be complete in 2-3 years’

Monday , 10 August '09

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan likens his short stint to a 20-20 match. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk...

‘I don’t know why they go back to politics, you can’t do anything...If I had (MPLAD fund), I could have done a lot’

Monday , 3 August '09

Maharani Gayatri Devi, who died last week, was perhaps the last symbol of the country’s princely past. Considered one of the most beautiful women in the world...

‘We should give up our posts... let younger people lead the party in the next election’

Monday , 27 July '09

His letter to party president Rajnath Singh on accountability was leaked and led to his sidelining. But senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha is confident that there’s always a second innings.

‘People have accepted that the DMRC is infallible... If something goes wrong, they get jolted. That is what has happened here’

Monday , 20 July '09

With a high-level team probing the Zamrudpur mishap, Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan wants to assure everyone that the Metro is safe, that such incidents happen in construction sites across the world.

‘People say I am moving too fast, but I am 18 years late (in initiating reforms in education)’

Monday , 13 July '09

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says reforms in the education sector should have started with the economic reforms.

‘I am hundred per cent Indian ... my Hindi is pretty good’

Sunday , 12 July '09

Katrina Kaif feels that while Namaste London was a turning point in her Bollywood career, New York launched her as an actress in her own right. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Katrina talks about her forthcoming film, Rajniti and why she considers India her home

‘By the time IAS, IPS are recruited, they have formed their prejudices... new idea is to take them, train them after Class XII’

Monday , 29 June '09

Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily feels that judicial reform alone will not serve any purpose unless there is an administrative back-up. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Moily says the grievance redressal system is an in-built mechanism to take care of the problems of the people. People go to the court because officers do not want to take responsibility.

‘The RSS has to (introspect), election results were so disastrous that if you don’t make an assessment you will never recover’

Monday , 22 June '09

In the concluding part of his interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, former National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra says there is a link between the RSS and the BJP which cannot be broken, but it is necessary for both the organisations to take a re-look at their policies and ideologies.

‘BJP can’t be a party of Hindu right. Then it will not succeed. But it can be a party of Indian (centre) right, which it should be’

Monday , 15 June '09

Former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra has had a long association with the BJP. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Mishra says as the BJP moved away from its moderate agenda, the party’s message of Hindutva did not get across to the Hindu electorate and they voted for the Congress and also for stability

‘Manmohan Singh should invest in infrastructure. It is important to stimulate the economy. This is not a time to be too conservative and cautious’

Monday , 8 June '09

Billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist George Soros believes China is best situated to emerge sooner from the current economic crisis, but India is more solid than most countries due to its pent-up domestic demand and need for infrastructure. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Soros says India has done very well by deregulating, as it was over-regulated