Avinash, a senior correspondent, reports on crime, railways, defence and social sector, with specialisation in police, home department and other investigation agencies.
Articles by Avinash Kumar
Woman beaten, stripped in Patna street
A woman in her early 20s was beaten up and partially stripped by half-a-dozen men on a busy street in Patna on Thursday evening.
Updated on Jul 24, 2009 02:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar, Patna
Movie inspires teens to kidnap, kill 7-yr-old boy
It was just like in the movies. Except, this story doesn't have a happy ending. Two teenaged boys on Thursday kidnapped a seven-year-old boy who was playing with his friends outside his house. Luring him with the promise of sweets, they took him to a nearby lodge and when he started to cry, strangled him and stashed him inside a plastic bag.
Updated on May 30, 2009 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar, Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bride dumps drunk groom at altar
A bridegroom’s weakness for liquor cost him his marriage when the bride refused to marry him and sought police protection. Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Feb 18, 2009 01:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Naxals kill 10 cops in Bihar
In the biggest strike so far this year in Bihar, Maoists gunned down 10 policemen, injured three others and looted several weapons at a village in Nawada district. reports HT.
Updated on Feb 10, 2009 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Arun Kumar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Maoists kill GRP constable, loot police arms
After a brief lull, armed guerrillas of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) attacked a train between Kazra and Jamalpur railway stations under Malda division of Eastern Railway and killed a Government Railway Police (GRP) constable.
Updated on Dec 25, 2008 07:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashakar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Criminal MLA is doctor of non-violence
Narendra Kumar Pandey alias Sunil Pandey, a suspended JD-U MLA charged with serious criminal offences, has received a PhD from a Bihar University. And his subject? Non-violence, report Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Dec 15, 2008 11:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar put on high alert
The Bihar police are gearing up to counter the attack by terrorist outfit, if any, in the state with the senior police officials reviewing security arrangements for the second consecutive day, report Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Dec 06, 2008 07:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Autopsy report vindicates my stand: Rahul's father
The autopsy report of Rahul Raj alias Prince, who was gunned down by the police in Mumbai on October 27 aboard a BEST bus, has not come as a surprise to his father Kundan Prasad Singh, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Nov 06, 2008 07:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Raj’s men beat us on train: Biharis
A large number of Biharis who returned from Mumbai, complained that they were mercilessly beaten up by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists at Kalyan station, report Partha Pratim Roy & Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Nov 02, 2008 12:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Partha Pratim Roy & Avinash Kumar, Patna
Father wants CBI probe
Rahul Raj's father Kundan Prasad Singh said he was seeking legal opinion for lodging a complaint against the Maharashtra police chief for killing his son in a fake encounter, reports Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Oct 27, 2008 11:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar derailed
Violence spread in major towns of Bihar on the second consecutive day of protest against the attack on north Indians by the activists of Raj Thackeray’s MNS in Mumbai, reports Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Oct 23, 2008 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar, Patna
Past 31 days, 24 murders in Patna
Criminals are back in business in Patna, after a gap of two years. During the last 31 days, 24 people have been murdered in the city, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Oct 05, 2008 12:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
For cash, comes the moneylender
As life at relief camps is getting prolonged, the flood victims need cash, while banks in north Bihar report the loss of more than Rs 50 crore to Kosi, reports Rai Atul Krishna & Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Sep 06, 2008 11:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna & Avinash Kumar, Patna/supaul
Minting money with mushrooms
Attending a trainnig programme on mushroom cultivation by Indian Council of Agricultural Research changed the life of Lalmuni Devi, a landless woman in Bihar who struggled to earn for her visually imapaired husband and a mentally challenged son.
Updated on Mar 07, 2008 04:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Danapur
A three-hour chakka jam and a baby
A victim of the chakka jam, Sunita Devi was forced to deliver her baby on the road. Interestingly, there was a debate over naming the infant ‘Jam’ or ‘Ram’ as he was born during the strike, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Sep 12, 2007 11:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Khagaul (danapur)
Maoists kill two RPF personnel in Bihar
In a stepped up extremist activities, CPI (Maoist) gunned down two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel and injured three others between Ghorparan and Narganjo railway stations.
Updated on Apr 08, 2007 07:55 PM IST
None | Avijit Biswas/Avinash Kumar, Bhagalpur/patna
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