Narendra Modi is declared as BJP's candidate for Prime Minister in 2014, LK Advani is conspicuously absent; a district court in Delhi sentences all four convicted of raping and murdering Delhi's braveheart on 16th December to death; eight people are dead and another five critically injured in a high intensity blast in Manipur's capital Imphal; Sreesanth gets banned for life by the cricket board for fixing IPL matches; and more in our news wrap of the day.