The biggest stories of March 20, 2014

P Chidambaram will not contest the Lok Sabha elections, his son Karti gets his Sivaganga constituency; The Congress still not ready to declare who it will put up against Narendra Modi in the fight for Varanasi; After the RSS steps in to mediate between the BJP's leadership and LK Advani, the BJP's senior-most decides to relent and contest from Gandhinagar instead of insisting on Bhopal; All five Shakti Mills gang-rape accused have been found guilty in both rape cases of the photo journalist and the telephone operator; The grand old man of Indian literature, Khushwant Singh, dies at 99; and more in our news wrap of the day.