Sreenivasan Jain With Inputs From Niha Masih

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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%.

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.