India Decides @ 9

It is a sight that irritates any number of citizens - VVIPs accompanied by their gun-toting posse of bodyguards and escorts. Even though the Supreme Court wants the government to get rid of this VVIP culture, 12 additional leaders will now get the much coveted Z+ security, including Steel Minister Beni Prasad, whose request for extra security had been turned down twice in the past. On India Decides tonight, we discuss if this is all about image, status and power and less about citizen security?

On International Women's Day, cricketer Gautam Gambhir and ICICI CEO Chanda Kochchar talk about the need of respecting and protecting women in India.

DMK walks out of Lok Sabha, says India must vote against Sri Lanka in Geneva; student raped after taking auto from mall in Ghaziabad; CBI registers case against Raja Bhaiya in UP cop's murder; and more on the 9'o clock news.

Dr Manmohan Singh, unusually aggressive, made a focused attack on the BJP in Parliament today, beginning with economics and data as he is wont to do, and then shifting gears midway to politics.The Prime Minister referred to the BJP's Delhi meet last weekend where leaders like Narendra Modi had attacked him, saying that they had hurled the "choicest abuses" against the Congress leadership, but that he would not use "the language that the BJP uses to attack us", defending his government's economic policies and asserting that the UPA's performance in the last decade would compel people to vote them back.

Home Ministry moves new note on anti-rape law; Omar Abdullah breaks down in state Assembly; Varun Gandhi acquitted in hate-speech case and more on the 9'o clock news.

Raja Bhaiya resigns, CBI inquiry for senior policeman's murder; four Punjab cops suspended after woman beaten on camera; over 80 people killed in Bangladesh clashes and more on the 9'o clock news.

Narendra Modi targets UPA govt, calls PM 'night watchman'; Khaleda Zia cancels meeting with Pranab; Delhi siblings strangled, crushed with a rock, says police; Irom Sharmila in Delhi to appear before court and more on 9'o clock news.

Diesel prices hiked for bulk consumers; controversy breaks out in Wharton Business School over inviting Narendra Modi as key note speaker and Delhi businessman behind snooping of politicians and VIPs, according to fresh details.

Petrol made costlier by Rs 1.40; proposal on marital rape rejected by Parliament and CBI to question former Air Force Chief SP Tyagi in the VVIP chopper scam next week.

Several people die in a fire in a crowded market in Kolkata; a parliamentary panel will probe the VVIP chopper scam but BJP stays away; BJP leader Varun Gandhi is acquitted by a UP court in one of two hate speech case.