Written By Sreenivasan Jain With Inputs From Niha Masih

• Truth vs Hype: Nitish Kumar's last stand

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told NDTV that he is the most qualified to be Prime Minister, but first he needs to win Bihar.

• Truth vs Hype: Amethi - bastion under threat?

  As Rahul Gandhi takes centrestage for the Congress's 2014 campaign, in Amethi, in the bastion of Nehru Gandhi family, India's premier political dynasty faces new threats - from within and outside.

• Now, threat of diarrhoea outbreak in Muzaffarnagar relief camps

  Dr Samir Zainal Abedin told us that he has seen 10-15 cases for diarrhoea. He says this figure might go up.

• Can the Aam Aadmi Party convert popular upsurge into hard electoral gains?

  While the AAP clearly has an undercurrent of support, it appears to lacks, at least for now, the strong candidates and the grassroot network of booth-level political managers, needed to convert that groundswell into victory.

• Muzaffarnagar riots: in the violence, signs of careful political design

  The village of Fugana, like so many in the sugarcane belt of Western Uttar Pradesh, has been prosperous, but for the most part, it was a quiet one, with few flashpoints between the Hindu Jats who form the majority and a few hundred Muslim families, who work their fields. The white-hot signs of how that changed this weekend are everywhere today - in...

• Truth vs Hype: The 'Talented' Robert Vadra

  Robert Vadra is back in the headlines after a report by Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka found multiple violations in land deals by Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law. Those in defence of Mr Vadra claim there was nothing illegal about these deals.

• Truth vs Hype: The house of Yadavs

  After playing cat and mouse with Mulayam Singh Yadav for six years, the UPA looks all set to close the CBI's investigation into whether he and his family amassed crores of assets way beyond their earnings.

• Karnataka: The Republic of Builders

  Far from the promises made by all political parties in Karnataka on fielding 'clean' candidates, or those who have worked for years in the party, all mainstream political parties have fielded a high number of individuals with vested interests, regardless of the taint of corruption.

• Truth vs Hype: Can social media win elections?

  Five days after Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi slugged it out online, the representatives of some of India's best known PR and social media marketing agencies - like Mahesh Murthy of Pinstorm, Dileep Cherian of Perfect Relations and S. Swaminathan of Iris Biz Services, found themselves making pitches to political strategists of the Congress and th...

• 70,000-crore scam: Gadkari justifies letter lobbying for controversial dam, contractors

  A letter written by BJP president Nitin Gadkari lobbying for contractors building a mega-dam project in Maharashtra has the Congress demanding his resignation, and the BJP on the defensive. Written on July 30 to Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr Gadkari asks for Rs. 400 crores to be released to the contractors hired for the Gosikhurd ...