Sreenivasan Jain With Inputs From Niha Masih

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  Truth vs Hype: The Myth of Land Acquisition

  This session of Parliament saw the government mulling changes to the Land Acquisition Act, specifically to do away with or dilute provisions that make acquiring land difficult. Pressure for amendments has come from state governments, and corporate India. A shortage of land is held to be a key factor in stalling industries from setting up business.

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  These 3 Strikes Meant CBI Chief's Out of 2G Investigation

  The countdown to Ranjit Sinha's exit from the 2G case began when lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan filed an affidavit in court in September alleging that the CBI chief was interfering his own agency's investigation into one of the country's alpha financial scandals.

• Truth vs Hype: Jan Dhan - The Obstacles and Opportunities of the Last Mile

  In the village of Adikicherla in Telangana, two hours west of Hyderabad, they wait for a man on motorcycle who will bring their NREGA wages.

• Opinion: The Muzaffarnagar Model

  Incendiary claims in complete absence of evidence, writes Sreenivasan Jain.

• Truth vs Hype Special Report: Is the RSS Helping Amit Shah's Mission Kashmir?

  The consolidation of the Hindu vote, and the RSS' helping hand, has proved crucial to the political fortunes of the BJP in a state where they have traditionally struggled to gain a foothold.

• Love Jihad? BJP's Claims for Uttar Pradesh Don't Add Up

  Using the alleged gang-rape of a Hindu woman in Meerut, the BJP has chosen to give a communal edge to violence against women in Uttar Pradesh, saying in its political resolution that crimes against women are rising.

• Truth vs Hype: The Complexities Behind the Alleged Meerut Gang-Rape

  The concept of 'love-jihad' floated by Hindutva groups - of a deep-rooted Muslim conspiracy to woo Hindu girls on false pretenses - has now been adopted by the BJP in Uttar Pradesh as one of its key agendas for the state.

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  The Mystery Behind the Killings That Started the Gaza War

  Could answers to the mystery of the boys' killing lie elsewhere, maybe in the landscape of conflict in which the boys lived?

• Reporter's Diary: We Flung Ourselves Down, Then Inched to the Window

  We met our guide and translator, a young woman called Najjam, outside the apartment block where we will be staying for our time in Gaza. It's near the beach, like most of the other hotels where the foreign press pack is camping out.

• From a 10-Year-Old in a Gaza Hospital, a Message for Leaders of the World

  Inside the children's ward at Gaza 's Al Shafi hospital, we meet Noor, just six years old. She was shifted from home in Beit Hanoun, in north Gaza, to a nearby United Nations school.

• Reporter's Diary: The Shadow of India, Over all Sides of Gaza Conflict

  When my colleague Niha Masih called Ron Paz, the Israeli government's media coordinator, he greeted her with a 'namaste'. Later, when we met him at his office at the outskirts of Gaza to collect our media accreditation, he offered us a cup of chai.

• Reporter's Diary On The Gaza Conflict

  More than 100 killed in the past 24 hours, reports Sreenivasan Jain.

• Myth of Mumbai's Water Crisis

  Three hours east of Mumbai, deep into the Western Ghats, a monsoon-drenched landscape of hills and fields that will soon be drowned to bring water to a thirsty city.

• Truth vs Hype Special Report: Did Poll Power Sops Drain Narmada Dams?

  In Madhya Pradesh and in Gujarat farmers confront a looming crisis of water scarcity. According to the meteorological department, Western Madhya Pradesh has a shortfall of 60% while in parts of Central Gujarat, it is even worse, at 90%.

• How Cartels, Politics, and False Alarms Determine Onion Pricing

  Within moments of our entering Lasalgaon, the biggest of Nashik's 14 onion mandis, a crowd surrounds us. It is the time of auction; farmers have pulled up in tractors and tempos laden with onions, traders walk from vehicle to vehicle assessing the produce before the bids are placed.