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On the 9 o'clock news, crisis for Karnataka BJP as 12 more MLAs submit resignation, also India snubs Pakistan's Home Minister's remark asking India to provide security for Shah Rukh Khan.

One of the six accused in the 'Amanat' case is a minor, says the Juvenile Justice Board. Does the law need to provide exceptions for exceptional cases? We also discuss the ban on Kamal Haasan's movie 'Vishwaroopam.'

India successfully testfires a nuclear-capable missile from an undersea platform; Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Rajnath Singh discuss the 2014 polls; government defers decision on Telangana, says it needs more consultations with Andhra leaders.

On the 9 O'clock news, we focus on Major Anup Joseph Manjali, who was awarded this year's Kirti Chakra - the second highest peacetime gallantry award - for eliminating three terrorists in a daring encounter in Jammu and Kashmir.

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On the 9 O'clock news, we debate whether India is grappling with 'cultural terrorism' as Kamal Haasan puts it.

On the 9 O'clock news, we discuss the recommendations of the Justice Verma report on amendments to the law in the wake of the horrific gang rape in Delhi last month.

On the show tonight, in a high-level meeting, BJP leaders select Rajnath Singh to replace Nitin Gadkari as the party president, say sources.

On the 9 O'clock news, we discuss whether Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's comment on the RSS and the BJP promoting Hindu terror is a political strategy of the Congress. Also on the show, we analyse whether public sentiment affects a fair trial. This after defence lawyers of the Delhi gang-rape accused demanded that the trial be shifted out of Delhi stating the judiciary was under public pressure.

As Congress President Sonia Gandhi sets out her agenda for the party ahead of 2014, we reflect on the latest tough decision taken by the government - the diesel price hike.

It's been a politically untouchable fuel but today the government took the first step towards diesel deregulation, allowing oil companies to raise diesel prices by 50 paise a month. Also on the show, a national crisis in learning is how the latest annual status of education report in rural India describes our primary education.

A month after the horrific Delhi gang-rape questions, we say that the true tribute to 'India's Daughter' is for all of us to make India a safer and better place for women. Also, we discuss the growing crisis in Pakistan and the impact it may have on India.

Pak women's cricket team is reportedly unlikely to travel to India for the World Cup later this month; school principals of the juvenile, accused in the Delhi gangrape case, say they went by date of birth quoted by his parents.

React aggressively and offensively, that's what Indian Army Chief Bikram Singh told his commanders on Monday as India and Pakistan commanders met for the first time since the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers. Meanwhile, from the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister to Sushma Swaraj, politicians met the family of Lance Naik Hemraj Singh, who were on a hunger strike, asking only that they want to see his head.

On 9 O'clock news today, India says Pakistan again violated ceasefire at the Line of Control in Poonch even as a top military commander meeting has been scheduled tomorrow between the two countries.

On the 9 O'clock news, exclusive details of what Parliament's standing committee has to say on the National Food Security Bill, which if implemented, will mean 810 million people around India will have the right to food grains at massively subsidised rates.

The ceasefire, which both India and Pakistan lauded till recently has decisively been broken. Remember, the ceasefire was perhaps the biggest confidence building measure between the two sides and with that gone comes the big question: Is it time for the peace process to be put on hold? We discuss on the 9 O'clock news.

The Delhi police starts an awareness drive for the safety of women but it gets off on the wrong note with posters advising girls to go straight home from college. Also, we speak to Asaduddin Owaisi on his brother Akbaruddin's arrest.

India summoned the Pakistani High Commissioner in Delhi this morning over yesterday's attack in Kashmir, in which Pakistani troops crossed the Line of Control and killed two soldiers; one was beheaded.

Two Indian soldiers were killed early this morning and another two injured by Pakistani army troops who crossed into Indian territory along the Line of Control in Kashmir. The body of one of the jawans was decapitated, said senior army sources; they said the severed head is missing.

On 9 O'clock News tonight, the Noida Police acts against five policemen for delay in filing the rape-murder case of a young woman; Raj Thackeray gets flak for blaming Biharis for the Delhi gang-rape case.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says rapes happen in India and not 'Bharat' while a BJP leader says women should not cross their limits. Also on the show, we speak to the doctor who performed India's first successful intestinal transplant surgery.

Chargesheet filed in the Delhi gang-rape case, Congress leader held beaten for rape in Assam and DMK chief M Karunanidhi says his younger son, MK Stalin, will be his political heir and lead the party.

On 9 O'clock news today, the police will file a chargesheet in Delhi gang-rape and murder case on Thursday, BSP's Mayawati has announced that her party will not give tickets to rape accused in the future, and three Trinamool members have been suspended following a 'vulgar' party function.

If statistics are anything to go by, in spite of the anger on the street, the number of cases of crimes against women and children haven't gone down - over 15 have been reported since December 16 alone, the night Amanat (NOT her real name) was attacked. On the 9 O'clock news we discuss whether we are willing to change ourselves and the way we think.

On New Year's eve, as tributes pour in for the 23-year-old medical student who was gang-raped and beaten on a moving bus, we try to find the solutions to change India's failed system.

On the 9 O'clock news, we discuss what needs to be done to save Amanat (NOT her real name), the 23-year-old medical student who was gang-raped by six men in a moving bus in New Delhi on December 16.

On the 9 0'clock news, we discuss the exact circumstances leading to the death of Constable Subhash Tomar, who fell to the ground while the police clashed on Sunday with thousands of demonstrators demanding tougher anti-rape laws and better safety for women. The post mortem report indicates that he was hit by a blunt object.

NDTV accesses a letter where the Sub-Divisional Magistrate recording the statement of the 23-year-old gang-rape survivor says she was coerced by the police. The police say this is absolutely rubbish; a judicial magistrate records a fresh statement. Is this an open example of the open differences between the state government and the police following the horrific assault on a moving bus in South Delhi? Where does the buck stop - police or politicians?

As the PM and the Home Minister break their silence following the violence around Delhi, are the government's damage control measures enough? We discuss on the 9 O'clock news.

We discuss the shocking gang-rape case in Delhi; turnout in Gujarat's final phase of election breaks record; and first step cleared by the quota bill as Rajya Sabha passes it in an overwhelming fashion.

Six soldiers killed in an avalanche on the Siachen Glacier, another missing; India says Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's statement that Lashkar terrorist Abu Jundal was an Indian intelligence agency operative is ridiculous and lots more on the 9 o'clock News.

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik says he is ready to order an investigation into the death of Kargil martyr Captain Saurabh Kalia; a sense of shock and disbelief continues to grip Newtown in Connecticut where a gunman attacked a school and shot dead 27 people, including 20 children.

Kargil hero's father fights for justice; don't want another Babri Masjid, says Rehman Malik; row over ex-CBI chief's comments and lots more on the 9 o'clock news.

On the show tonight, we pay a special tribute to Pandit Ravi Shankar, who died on Tuesday; former selector Mohinder Amarnath targets BCCI president for protecting captain MS Dhoni and Dr Khalil Chisty, a Pakistani doctor cleared by the Supreme Court of murder charges after 20 years, joins us.

Our MPs have now reached a stage where India's Vice-President has said as chair of the House of Elders, no one listens to him. Will Hamid Ansari's reprimand prove to be a turning point?

Political storm erupts after Wal-Mart report discloses lobbying in India for FDI; quota bill stuck between Mayawati-Mulayam rivalry and Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi clash in the run-up to the Gujarat polls.

We debate if keeping politicians out the only way to save Indian sports, and a special focus on the effects of the Babri Masjid demolition 20 years ago.

With politics in sports disgracing India, will the international crackdown act as a wake-up call?

Mumbai has cleared 12 acres for a memorial for Baba Ambedkar; Bal Thackeray's might be next. We discuss the memorial politics on the 9 O'clock news.

On the 9'O clock news today, we discuss the big debate in the Lok Sabha over Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in multi-brand retail.

On 9'o clock news today, it's a Catch 22 for the Centre in Uttar Pradesh where its two major allies, BSP and SP, have imposed conditions on their vote for FDI in Parliament. In other news, the government replies to poll panel on the direct cash transfer issue and the Law Ministry’s stand on 66(A) of the controversial Internet law.

On the 9 O’clock news today, we discuss the Mumbai police decision to book the complainant against two Air India staffers for an alleged obscene Facebook closed group. In other news, a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena corporator assaults a 65-year-old contractor over water supply, and BJP’s Gopinath Munde backs Narendra Modi as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

On the nine o'clock news, we discuss if India should intervene in the current Norway row, where an Indian couple has been arrested for allegedly abusing their seven-year-old son.

As the Supreme Court hits out at misuse of Section 66A of the IT Act, which allows arrest of citizens for offensive online posts, we debate whether safeguards by the government alone are enough to prevent abuse of section 66A.

Has the white paper on irrigation in Maharashtra turned out to be a complete white wash? We discuss on the 9 O'clock news.

Two Editors of Zee Group sent to police custody on allegations of extortion levelled by Congress MP Naveen Jindal, in yet another case of incest police arrest a man for raping his two minor daughters in Kerala, and a Bihar village has witnessed power cut that has lasted 17 years, and more on the 9 O'clock news.

The government agrees to a vote on FDI after meeting with allies; two policemen suspended for arresting two girls over a Facebook post; and Maldives scraps airport contract with GMR.

All-party meeting on FDI in retail ends without consensus; BJP issues showcause notice to Ram Jethmalani; and chaos in the Uttar Pradesh assembly as BSP legislators disrupt proceedings.

BJP suspends Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani for indiscipline; Congress fails to get DMK on board over FDI in retail; and cops recover gun allegedly used by Namdhari in Ponty shootout.