India Decides @ 9

We discuss the diesel hike in the country. Also on the show, we discuss India's national shame - world's worst child mortality rate. We also talk to anti-graft activist Arvind Kejriwal and debate the modern face of satyagraha and the role media plays in it.

The American envoy in Libya is killed along with three other Americans; Samajwadi Party steps up the attack on the Congress and Rahul Gandhi; the industrial output weakness persists; and more on the 9 O'clock news.

From ally to the opposition, Mulayam Singh Yadav's backflip once again; The Congress core committee is against any fuel price hike but Oil Minister Jaipal Reddy says a hike may be unavoidable; Gujarat Chief Minsiter Narendra Modi compares the Congress to a cancer; and more on the 9 O'clock news.

Evidence against Jagdish Tytler urging Congress workers to break the barricades in Odisha emerges; the Association of Democratic Reforms says that most donations to political parties are still in cash; Congress blames the CAG for the washout of the Monsoon session; The Goa government stops all mining activity to carry out a full review of mines; and more on the 9 O'clock news.

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray says Sushma Swaraj is the right choice for NDA's PM candidate; for the 16th day, protesters in Madhya Pradesh sit in water agitating against displacement by a big dam; India successfully completes its 100th space mission; and more on the 9 O'clock news.

Despite Pak's foreign minister saying the Indian PM could visit within 3 months, NDTV learns that there is no decision; Jagdish Tytler is booked for inciting a mob outside the Orissa state assembly; and more on the 9 O'clock news.

Congress MP Vijay Darda and his relatives, who are among those that the CBI has booked in connection with its investigation into coal block allocations, have been charged with cheating and not with corruption; all the others against whom FIRs were registered earlier this week have been charged with corruption too.

Congress workers go berserk in a protest against Naveen Patnaik in Odisha; several policemen are injured. The Congress and the BJP's war over the coal scandal intensifies. Also, we talk to Adi Godrej, head of the Confederation of Indian Industry over the raging coal war.

36 people have been killed and at least 60 have been injured in a huge fire at a fire-cracker factory in Tamil Nadu; Samajwadi Party, BSP MPs brawl in Rajya Sabha over promotion quota bill; and more on the 9 O'clock news.

Over 200 Lankan pilgrims visiting a historic Tamil Nadu shrine are stoned by pro-Tamil groups; CBI names Congress MP Vijay Darda, his brother, a Maharashtra minister, his son, and mining baron Manoj Jayaswal in its FIR in the coal scam; Now Uddhav Thackeray says if Bihar doesn't want anyone to be arrested in their state without their permission, then permits should be issued to people from Bihar who come to the state; all this and more on the 9 O'clock news.