News Wrap: Khurshid and Modi in firing line, BCCI reject Sahara pleas

- After his controversial comments on the Election Commission, Salman Khurshid is taking a lot of flak from the opposition. Even though Priyanka Gandhi feels he is free to express his concerns on the quota for minorities issues, the Congress has virtually disapproved the statement. Listen to our bulletin to hear what BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar has to say.

- The report prepared by the Supreme Court-appointed probe team on the Gulberg massacre in 2002 was placed in an Ahmedabad court today but not made public. There are charges against Narendra Modi that he did nothing to contain the mob and delayed calling in the Army. In our bulletin, Marya Shakil of CNN-IBN has more.

- In the Sahara-BCCI spat, the working committee of the cricket controlling body is learnt to have unanimously rejected Sahara Group’s demand of allowing their franchise Pune Warriors to field six foreign players for the next edition of Indian Premier League (IPL).

- Please listen to the bulletin for Sanjay Suri’s wrap which has the latest on Praveen Reddy’s stabbing in London.

- Adele became the first signer to sweep more than six Grammy awards after Beyonce achieved the similar in 2009. In the BAFTA’s in London, The Artist won the best film award as its lead actor Jean Dujardin won the best actor award. Meryl Streep took home the Best Actress award for her role in Iron Lady.

- In Sport, a remarkable achievement for Zambia as they lifted the African Cup of Nations against a much stronger Ivory Coast side. It took 18 penalties to decide the champion and the Zambians won it just miles away from where they lost their whole team to a plane crash in 1993.