India Decides @ 9

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.