 This is Sonia Varma in Srinagar for The World This Week. Good evening and welcome to the 9 o'clock news. I am Sonia Singh. Let's look at issues firstly that the population growth was about to be right. The Prime Minister flies to a stand for his Rajasabha nomination. First our top story, the cabinet met tonight and put the seal on privatizing to India's biggest public sector oil company. Once I just add, the show where the biggest news makers share their insight. We don't manufacture controversies, we report them. Fair, balanced and a genuine debate. You don't have to shout to be heard. Fake news, what's that? Here's the news you can find. Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Sonia Singh, editorial director and DCV. A lifetime achievement award deserves the standing ovation. Can I request everyone to kindly stand up at their respective places and join us in applauding the exceptional effort, the inspiration that a force whose life work will continue to shine as a beacon of inspiration for many, many further generations as well. We are with us on stage and of course this is incomplete. Yes. We don't want Sonia to retire, that's not the reason we've given her the lifetime achievement award. It is extremely humbling to get this award and it reminds me actually of when I saw those clips of me as a 21 year old reporting for the world this week. Many of the young journalists here weren't born when the world this week started. But I began my career at a time when India had no independent news channels. Today we have over 400 news channels. So that I have to say has really been a lifetime and the one thing journalism teaches you is that you have many, many lifetimes of experience. When we started, we first broadcast on Doodharshan. We had to deliver tapes which were broadcast five minutes later because live news wasn't allowed in India. So what a fantastic journey the Indian media and journalism has had. So even when we often look at what the problems are with Indian media, I think all of us need to applaud ourselves for how far we've actually come today. So I think Indian media is amongst the most independent, the most free, definitely the loudest and the most vibrant in the world. So we need to be very, very proud of that. I'm going to keep this short because I know journalists don't like listening to other people but just to say though I'm not retiring, it is a time when I'm looking at getting off the 24-7 treadmill of news and focusing on special shows that look at principles that I think every journalist needs to remind themselves of today. Why do we do news? It's to inspire, it's to illuminate and to inform. And if we're not doing those three things, we do an injustice to the people of India. I think those are the three basics, the gold standard we all need to aspire to and I'm so proud of the young generations I see today that will carry forward that legacy. I was very lucky of course to join journalism and be mentored by my first bosses, they taught me 99.9% of what I know today. I'd like of course today to thank my husband R.P.N. because behind every successful woman there's a man and he always believed in me or believes in me more than I believe in myself. My wonderful daughter, Yamini, Sohani and Ragini. Everything I do, I do it for them. But this award tonight I dedicate to my mother who's critically ill as we speak. She's always been my biggest fan. Her strength, her support and her inspirational legacy is why I'm here today. Thank you.