Manas Roshan With Inputs From Sreenivasan Jain

In a dusty open ground in Hyderabad's Baba Nagar area, we meet Muwahid, 28 and Zahid, 24 (names changed). In 2014, the two young men - along with a third friend - made a failed attempt to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.

In the second part of our investigation, we discovered a web of dubious fixers and so-called placement agencies, which supply doctors of all specialties wholesale to colleges, and even claim they can manage the MCI, the main authority meant to vet medical colleges, and issue a license.

Imagine being treated by doctors who are not qualified, because they went to a college which hired 'ghost' faculty, private practitioners hired for 2-3 days simply to help get the college its licence.

24 hours after NDTV aired a report on how villagers in Uttar Pradesh's drought-hit Lalitpur district were consuming rotis made of grass and sabzi of weeds, they were paid a visit by local officials.

Environmentalists claim that the encroachments into the buffer zones around Chennai's marshlands have affected its capacity to act as a natural absorbent of flood waters.

Bhola Singh, a BJP parliamentarian from Bihar, has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah for the party's massive defeat in the assembly elections in the state, saying Mr Shah must explain or step down.

As the final stage of the Bihar election campaign becomes increasingly bitter, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has reacted strongly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks describing the anti-BJP coalition as "3 Idiots".

Despite the outcry over Dadri - which exposed the deadly potential of cattle vigilantism - and the government's warnings, there appears to be no change in the attitude of these groups, nor any visible attempts to rein them in.

Kemer is not just any beach on the Turkish coast launching refugee boats to Europe - it was there that Aylan Kurdi's body washed up a month ago, after a boat carrying his family and other Syrian refugees capsized in the Aegean Sea between Bodrum and Greece.

The situation this Turkish border town of Sanliurfa is the unacknowledged reality of Syrian refugee crisis that millions are not keen or able to make the journey to the West.

The refugee crisis shaking the world has come to be narrowly defined as Syrians fleeing the war, trying to enter Europe.

The Syrian war has left an estimated four million people outside its borders. According to an estimate, nearly 70 per cent of Syrians have fled without passports.

The Syrian war has left an estimated four million people outside its borders.

Politically-connected sugar barons like Bapurao Patil seem insulated from the turmoil roiling the countryside. Behind him was parked a gleaming Mercedes SUV, an incongruous sight in a village of tiny lanes and low-slung brick and mud homes.

A fortnight after the murder of Kannada scholar MM Kalburgi, the Karnataka police say they have ruled out property dispute as a motive.

In a dusty open ground in Hyderabad's Baba Nagar area, we meet Muwahid, 28 and Zahid, 24 (names changed). In 2014, the two young men - along with a third friend - made a failed attempt to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.

In the second part of our investigation, we discovered a web of dubious fixers and so-called placement agencies, which supply doctors of all specialties wholesale to colleges, and even claim they can manage the MCI, the main authority meant to vet medical colleges, and issue a license.

Imagine being treated by doctors who are not qualified, because they went to a college which hired 'ghost' faculty, private practitioners hired for 2-3 days simply to help get the college its licence.

24 hours after NDTV aired a report on how villagers in Uttar Pradesh's drought-hit Lalitpur district were consuming rotis made of grass and sabzi of weeds, they were paid a visit by local officials.

Environmentalists claim that the encroachments into the buffer zones around Chennai's marshlands have affected its capacity to act as a natural absorbent of flood waters.

Bhola Singh, a BJP parliamentarian from Bihar, has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah for the party's massive defeat in the assembly elections in the state, saying Mr Shah must explain or step down.

As the final stage of the Bihar election campaign becomes increasingly bitter, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has reacted strongly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks describing the anti-BJP coalition as "3 Idiots".

Despite the outcry over Dadri - which exposed the deadly potential of cattle vigilantism - and the government's warnings, there appears to be no change in the attitude of these groups, nor any visible attempts to rein them in.

Kemer is not just any beach on the Turkish coast launching refugee boats to Europe - it was there that Aylan Kurdi's body washed up a month ago, after a boat carrying his family and other Syrian refugees capsized in the Aegean Sea between Bodrum and Greece.

The situation this Turkish border town of Sanliurfa is the unacknowledged reality of Syrian refugee crisis that millions are not keen or able to make the journey to the West.

The refugee crisis shaking the world has come to be narrowly defined as Syrians fleeing the war, trying to enter Europe.

The Syrian war has left an estimated four million people outside its borders. According to an estimate, nearly 70 per cent of Syrians have fled without passports.

The Syrian war has left an estimated four million people outside its borders.

Politically-connected sugar barons like Bapurao Patil seem insulated from the turmoil roiling the countryside. Behind him was parked a gleaming Mercedes SUV, an incongruous sight in a village of tiny lanes and low-slung brick and mud homes.

A fortnight after the murder of Kannada scholar MM Kalburgi, the Karnataka police say they have ruled out property dispute as a motive.