India Decides @ 9

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.