India Decides @ 9

BJP MP Ram Jethmalani writes a strongly worded letter to his party president Nitin Gadkari; Outgoing Army Chief General V K Singh tells NDTV that all his options are open, when asked if he could join politics post retirement; Team Anna targets 15 cabinet ministers; and more on the 9 o'clock news.

LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj skip a BJP rally in Mumbai which was meant to showcase the Gadkari-Modi patch-up; blaming the global crisis, Oil Minister Jaipal Reddy says it is impossible to find instant solutions to the petrol price hike; CBI questions Jagan Mohan Reddy for over seven hours; and more on the 9 o'clock news.

As the country fumes over the steepest petrol price hike ever, the Congress has demanded a rollback; Narendra Modi finally attends the BJP top leaders meet after his differences with the top leadership are sorted out; the government appointed interlocutors report for Jammu and Kashmir is finally out and its most dramatic proposal is a constitutional panel to review key central acts after 1952; and a lot more on the 9 o'clock news.

On the show tonight, we discuss the political repercussions of the biggest petrol hike ever. Also, with IPL coming to the business end, we discuss the turn in fortunes for the Kolkata Knight Riders.

We discuss if politics has stifled a reformist PM in Dr Manmohan Singh. And a look at the rise and fall of former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta and what India Inc can learn. And, UPA-II releases its report card on the third year of its second term in office.

Five days after he was allegedly attacked, a Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) officer, who was also reportedly a whistle-blower in a controversial land allotment case, died at a private hospital today. SP Mahantesh, 48, died following a cardiac arrest, hospital sources said.

BS Yeddyurappa decides to stay away from the BJP's national meet in Mumbai; Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal's name crops up in a land grab scandal; Protests in Srinagar after two more babies die in the government run GB Pant hospital; RCB player Luke Pomersbach gets bail; and more in the 9 o;clock news.

RCB player Luke Pomersbach gets interim bail after he was arrested on the charge of molesting a woman at a hotel in Delhi; Sidhartha Mallya, the Director of the Royal Challengers Bangalore, questions the woman's behaviour; the Mumbai Cricket Association bans Shah Rukh Khan from entering the Wankhede Stadium after a scuffle with security on Wednesday night; Social networking giant Facebook goes public; and more on the 9 o'clock news.

"I was being bullied. I was angry, but I was not drunk," superstar Shah Rukh Khan has said, finally speaking about his fight last night with Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) officials at the Wankhede stadium. He says he is owed an apology.

The rupee on Wednesday closed at an all-time low of 54.49 to the dollar, down from Tuesday's close of 53.79. The local currency had slumped to an all-time low of 54.46 against the dollar in afternoon trade even as the Reserve Bank of India broke its silence over the falling rupee, saying it would do its "best possible to curb volatility".