Anil has reported extensively on Naxals, Buddhism, crime and education, besides covering elections. Worked initially on Desk before moving to reporting. Has worked in Patna, Dhanbad and Gaya.
Articles by Anil Kumar Ojha
Gaya girl’s killing: No bail for father, his friend; court seeks their ‘criminal history’
While opposing the bail plea on Thursday, the police told the court they had enough evidence against the girl’s father and his friend. The two are currently lodged in Gaya Central Jail.
Published on Jan 25, 2019 09:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Gaya
Son of betel seller in Gaya, Shubham cracks JEE Main with 99.56 percentile
Chaurasia said, “My son would not have achieved success without help of former DGP Abhayanand, who runs Magadh Super 30 coaching centre, and its coordinator Pankaj Kumar, who mentored Shubham.”
Published on Jan 23, 2019 07:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Gaya honour killing: SIT secures remand of victim’s father, his friend
The girl’s father and his friend were earlier arrested by police, which claimed it was a case of ‘honour killing’.
Published on Jan 17, 2019 11:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Gaya
Gaya girl’s honour killing: Autopsy rules out rape
Teams of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) and the Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL), which began investigation on Monday, have found blood stains in the girl’s house, sources said.
Published on Jan 16, 2019 11:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Gaya
Gaya girl killing: Weavers’ body says police probe biased
The police maintain that the girl was killed by her family members and cite confessions recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC.
Published on Jan 15, 2019 07:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
The Dalai Lama initiates a special teaching session at Bodh Gaya
Initiating the discourse on Bodhisatva in the opening session of his first teaching at Bodh Gaya, the Dalai Lama said that ignorance of truth is the route cause of all the miseries
Published on Dec 29, 2018 02:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bodh Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Bodh Gaya:
Elaborate security arrangements ahead of the Dalai Lama’s Bodh Gaya visit
The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), has finalised the schedule of the Dalai Lama for his winter initiations at Bodh Gaya and urged the Gaya district administration and the Bodh Gaya Temple management Committee to ensure proper security arrangements for him during his stay.
Updated on Dec 13, 2018 11:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bodh Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Bodh Gaya
Chinese Buddhists walk to Bodh Gaya from Nepal
A delegation of 170 Chinese Buddhists which walked all the way from Nepal to Bodh Gaya in Bihar arrived in the pilgrimage town on Sunday to join special chanting sessions of the Tripitak, Buddhism’s holiest scriptures.
Published on Dec 04, 2018 11:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bodh Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Air Asia begins Gaya-Bangkok flight
The flights will operate four days a week on every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The service will continue till March 29, 2019, after which it will be suspended till the next tourist season.
Published on Dec 04, 2018 10:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Gaya:
Back to the wall, Maoists look to recruit young blood with posters in Gaya
It is for the first time that the Maoists have launched a recruitment drive in Gaya district through posters and pamphlets.
Published on Dec 01, 2018 12:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Gaya
Teachers should not be engaged in non-teaching activities: Rajnath Singh in Gaya
It is improper to engage teachers in non-teaching activities like preparing voters’ list, Aadhaar cards and so on. The state government should also take steps to exempt teachers from such kinds of work.
Updated on Nov 25, 2018 08:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Gaya
Australian’s death in Bodh Gaya: Police probing murder, forced suicide angles
Although the Bodh Gaya police have registered a case of unnatural death as no evidence of any ulterior motive was found, the probe team is exploring all angles, including murder and ‘forced suicide’.
Updated on Nov 07, 2018 03:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bodh Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Bodh Gaya
India vs West Indies: Early Diwali at Prithvi Shaw’s ancestral home in Manpur
As Prithvi brought up his century off 99 deliveries, neighbours, friends and relatives rushed to the house of grandfather Ashok Shaw, shouting: “Team India Zindabad, Prithvi Shaw Zindabad”.
Published on Oct 04, 2018 11:01 PM IST
Gaya (Bihar) | Anil Kumar Ojha
At Bodh Gaya monastery, children were made to dance nude with head monk: Cops
Sujoy, the head monk of the centre, was arrested on Wednesday on charges of sexually abusing more than a dozen boys and produced the next day in a local court in Gaya.
Updated on Sep 01, 2018 03:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Children allege monk called them to bedroom, sexually abused them at Buddhist centre in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya
The children said Bhante Shanghpriya Sujoy used to call them in their bedroom and sexually abuse them. They also said they were beaten up by him and even threatened with dire consequences if they refused to oblige him.
Updated on Aug 31, 2018 10:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bodh Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Bihar JD(U) leader held for supplying liquor, arms to Maoists
The Konch police were also in look out for the JD(U) leader for his nexus with ultra-Left organisations and he allegedly used to supply arms and ammunition to the extremist groups
Updated on Jul 24, 2018 09:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Gaya
Two-year-old Gaya toddler battles for life after alleged rape by neighbour
Relatives and acquaintances of the victim went on the rampage after the incident. Some even pelted stones at the police station, demanding that they be allowed to punish the accused.
Updated on Jul 11, 2018 10:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Bihar man kills 3-month-old son as baby ‘did not resemble’ him
Police said the man refused to accept the baby as his biological son since its birth and would also question the character of his wife and torture her on suspicion of bearing an illegitimate child.
Updated on Jun 26, 2018 07:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
2 Bihar MLAs, 5 other RJD leaders booked for forcing Gaya gang rape victim to narrate ordeal in public
A video showed the leaders forcing the rape survivor out of a vehicle and asking her to narrate the incident, despite her repeated requests to be let go.
Updated on Jun 16, 2018 11:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha, Gaya
Man tied to tree, wife and daughter gangraped in front of him in Bihar’s Gaya
A medical practitioner was tied to a tree and his wife and daughter were gangraped in Bihar’s Gaya district.
Updated on Jun 14, 2018 08:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Panchayat member in Bihar arrested for sexually abusing widow after clip goes viral
Police have arrested a panchayat committee member in Gaya, who along with his friend are seen abusing a widow in a video that has gone viral.
Updated on Jun 18, 2018 04:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
His honesty proved his biggest enemy, says Bank of Baroda whistle blower’s father
Preliminary probe suggests that Bank of Baroda branch manager Alok Chadra could have been targeted because he recently exposed a man, who ran an illegal customer service point (CSP) and allegedly duped 37 customers of their cash.
Updated on May 25, 2018 02:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Bombs recovered at Gaya middle school for second time in 20 days
The bombs had been planted on the main gate of a government middle school at Manjhar village in Paraiya block of Bihar’s Gaya district.
Published on Feb 19, 2018 03:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Anil Kumar Ojha
Visit of Vietnam PM Xuan Phuc , wife to Bodh Gaya called off
About 50,000 disciples of the Dalai Lama from places across the world are in Bodh Gaya to attend the Tibetan spiritual leader’s teaching sessions.
Published on Jan 23, 2018 07:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Bodh Gaya: 13 cops deployed to guard Dalai Lama suspended for negligence
Gaya senior superintendent of police Garima Malik, who is monitoring the security arrangements for the Tibetan spiritual leader, took the action after the police personnel went missing from their assigned positions.
Updated on Jan 03, 2018 02:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bodh Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Dalai Lama offers prayers under Mahabodhi Tree for world peace
During his month-long stay at Bodh Gaya, the Tibetan spiritual leader will deliver his discourses to more than 50,000 disciples from across the world at Kalchakra Maidan in two special sessions
Published on Jan 02, 2018 06:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
In Maoist-affected Gaya district of Bihar, students aim at IITs, NITs
Schoolchildren in the stretch from Bodh Gaya to Dumaria-Imamganj in Gaya district of Bihar, once considered a Maoist stronghold, are abandoning the idea of picking up guns and sweating it out to join premier engineering institutions.
Published on Dec 28, 2017 12:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
MHA asks Bihar govt to help cyber café owner who caught two terror suspects at Gaya
The MHA directive to the state government comes in the wake of Gaya MP Hari Manjhi’s letter to the PMO seeking adequate compensation to Gaya cyber café owner Anurag Basu who caught two terror suspects, including Tauseef Khan , an accused in Ahmedabad serial blasts that killed 56 people in 2008.
Published on Dec 25, 2017 05:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Bihar boy kills self hours after being forced to marry widowed sister-in-law
The boy, a class 9 student, was forced to marry his sister-in-law, 10 years his senior, by his family and villagers. The bride is mother to two children.
Updated on Dec 13, 2017 05:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha
Maoists attack gas pipeline project site, set on fire four vehicles in Bihar’s Gaya district
About 12 armed men attacked the site of Phulpur-Haldia natural gas pipeline project at Mahuawan village in Aamas police station area of Gaya district, torched four vehicles and also beat up guards deployed there.
Updated on Nov 25, 2017 04:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gaya | Anil Kumar Ojha