Bhartesh Singh Thakur is a senior correspondent at Chandigarh. He covers Panjab University, local administration and defence.
Articles by Bhartesh Singh Thakur
Haryana not ‘number 1’ with power still a distant dream in Morni villages
Haryana is certainly not Number 1- as projected by chief minister (CM) Bhupinder Singh Hooda- in Morni villages where electrification is still a distant dream.
Updated on Oct 14, 2014 11:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Morni
Minister faces tough battle as dynasties clash
For the October-15 assembly election in Nuh, it is again a fight between two most prominent families of the Meo politics — the Hussains and the Ahmeds, and a Thakur who can emerge as a dark horse in case of division of Meo votes.
Updated on Oct 14, 2014 09:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Nuh (mewat)
4-time loser senses best chance against ‘kaptaan’
Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Rewari assembly constituency, Randhir Singh Kapriwas (68) is not tired of losing. He has never won any of the last four elections he fought from Rewari. Kapriwas remained second in 1996 and 2005 and was at third position in the 2000 and 2009 assembly elections.
Updated on Oct 12, 2014 09:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Rewari
Jagged qualification graph: Candidate list shows education matters little in Haryana elections
Educational qualification mattered little for major political parties while giving tickets for the upcoming assembly elections in Haryana. Major parties have even put up illiterate nominees, though there are some who hold doctorates, reflecting the jagged education graph of the state.
Updated on Oct 08, 2014 10:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
Hry polls: Notice issued to Cong, INLD candidates
Pehowa sub-divisional magistrate-cum-returning officer (RO) Dharamvir Singh issued notice to Congress candidate Mandeep Singh Chattha and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate Jaswinder Singh Sandhu for poll code violations.
Updated on Oct 05, 2014 09:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
A son vs old rival: Pehowa is test case for gurdwara panel
Two Sikhs are fighting over the issue of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (HSGMC) in the ancient town of Pehowa. Son of finance minister Harmohinder Singh Chattha, Mandeep Chattha, the Congress candidate from Pehowa assembly segment, who is in favour of a separate gurdwara panel for Haryana, is locked in a close contest with three-time MLA and former minister Jaswinder Sandhu of the Indian National Lok Dal who is against the HSGMC
Updated on Oct 05, 2014 03:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Pehowa
Sushma Swaraj plays up Haryana connect
Union minister for external affairs and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday chose to highlight her Haryana connect while addressing her maiden rally here for the October 15 elections.
Updated on Oct 05, 2014 03:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur
All Haryana ministers, except one, became richer
All Haryana ministers, barring one, have registered a massive rise in their assets in the past five years. The information has been filed by them in their affidavits before the election commission for the forthcoming assembly elections.
Updated on Oct 04, 2014 08:18 AM IST
None | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
Haryana polls: BJP releases manifesto
Making cow slaughter an election issue, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced that if voted to power in Haryana, it would make the crime as punishable as murder.
Updated on Oct 03, 2014 09:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
Cong manifesto for Haryana polls released with old wine in new bottle
The Congress party manifesto, which was released just two weeks prior to the Haryana assembly polls on Wednesday, turned out to be old wine in a new bottle.Most of the promises made are from the recent Panipat rally announcements or have already been implemented.
Updated on Oct 02, 2014 06:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
Jyoti murder: Panchkula DM recommends appeal
Panchkula district magistrate (DM) SS Phulia, on Tuesday, signed the file recommending appeal against acquittal of Doon MLA Ram Kumar Chaudhary and 11 others in the Jyoti murder case. The final decision now rests with the office of the advocate general.
Updated on Oct 01, 2014 11:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
Rebel trouble for Cong in 2 seats
Unhappy after being denied tickets by the Congress, the rebels have filed their nomination papers on Saturday from the Panchkula and the Kalka assembly seats.
Updated on Sep 28, 2014 02:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
P’kula set to see contest between 3 ‘banias’
Carved out in 2009, the Panchkula assembly segment is set to witness a contest between three members of the local ‘bania’ (trading) community with the Congress party deciding to give sitting MLA DK Bansal another chance.
Updated on Sep 25, 2014 02:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
IAF time-scale group captains to retire at 57
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that officers in the rank of group captain (time scale) will now be entitled to continue in service like group captain (select) up to the age of 57.
Updated on Sep 25, 2014 11:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
‘As people were hostile in day, we went for rescue at Lal Chowk in night’
“At Lal Chowk in Srinagar, we could go for rescuing people only in the night as people were hostile to us. The supporters of Yasin Malik targeted us. Army had to fire once too,” said deputy commandant National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Gambhir Singh Negi.
Updated on Sep 19, 2014 07:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
Court relied on justice Katju’s judgment to award death
Sessions judge RK Sondhi relied on the famous judgment of justice Markandey Katju in the Bhagwan Dass vs State of Delhi case to award death penalty to father Shaukeen and uncle Salim for killing 15-year-old Tahira.
Updated on Sep 18, 2014 11:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur
Honour killing: 2 get death sentence
The court of sessions judge, Panchkula, RK Sondhi, on Wednesday sentenced a father-uncle duo from Uttar Pradesh to death for the honour killing of a 15-year-old girl.
Updated on Sep 18, 2014 11:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
Book tells stories of disabled soldiers, martyrs’ kin who battled the system
Nineteen heart-rending, insult-to-injury stories about soldiers who had to fight long-drawn battles with our system, not with any enemy from across the border, have been compiled in a 253-page book by retired Major Navdeep Singh. Titled ‘Maimed by the System’, is scheduled to be released on Tuesday by former chief of the army staff Gen VP Malik (retd).
Updated on Sep 15, 2014 11:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
2nd rabies survivor in country at P’kula hospital
In what doctors claim to be only the second case in the country where a rabies patient has survived, the Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandimandir, Panchkula, has managed to bring back a comatose 16-year-old suffering from the disease to consciousness.
Updated on Sep 14, 2014 11:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
‘Prosecution’s case self-contradictory’
The judgment in the Jyoti murder case acquitting Congress legislator from Doon in Himachal, Ram Kumar Chaudhary, and all other 11 accused, has brought the role of investigating officer DSP Virender Sangwan under scanner, even though he was removed from the case after the first charge-sheet in April 2013.
Updated on Sep 13, 2014 01:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
Non-implementation of AFT orders
The principal bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT), New Delhi, has expressed its anguish at the ministry of defence (MoD) over the non-implementation of its orders and those passed by its regional benches.
Updated on Sep 12, 2014 11:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
MLA walks free as Jyoti murder case falls flat
Placing Panchkula police under the scanner, the November 2012 case of murder of Hoshiarpur woman Jyoti, 23, fell flat in the court here on Thursday. This led to the acquittal of Ram Kumar Chaudhary, Congress legislator from Doon in Himachal, and all other 11 accused.
Updated on Sep 12, 2014 08:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
Dumped, humiliated, HJC looking for oasis in desert
The Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) is struggling to stay relevant in the state politics after being dumped and humiliated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its ally for three years. Party supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi, however, is still hoping for an oasis in the desert.
Updated on Sep 11, 2014 03:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
'We had no hope of surviving'
It was a harrowing experience for the Gargs who had gone to Srinagar for a holiday. They were among 253 people who reached Chandigarh air force station in two different aircrafts on Wednesday.
Updated on Sep 11, 2014 01:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
We had no hope of living: J-K flood survivors
It was a harrowing experience for the Gargs who had gone to Srinagar for a holiday. They were stuck at a hotel at the city's Lal Chowk when the flood waters swirled in. They, and other survivors recount their harrowing experiences. We had no hope of living, say tourists who survived J-K floods
Updated on Sep 11, 2014 05:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur and agencies, Chandigarh
Desperate people turn on rescuers
Samir Kumar of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) reached the air force station here with a broken thumb given by the people he had tried to rescue from the flood in Srinagar
Updated on Sep 10, 2014 12:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
J-K flood: City couple back with horror tale from Srinagar
As a number of people rescued from the flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir were brought to Chandigarh by the air force, city couple Colonel Jatinder Singh (retd) and Rajinder Kaur recalled their harrowing experience. They had gone for a holiday to Srinagar.
Updated on Sep 11, 2014 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
To widen P’kula-Yamunanagar road, NHAI floats fresh tenders
After the firm that had bagged the contract for widening the National Highway-73 from Panchkula to Yamunanagar backed off, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has now floated two fresh tenders for completing the project.
Updated on Sep 07, 2014 03:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Panchkula
‘Bogus vote’ scam spoils his game
Sports minister Sukhbeer Kataria is heading for a tough match in the upcoming assembly elections. Having already given an advantage to the opposition for he has been booked in a ‘bogus vote’ scam, this former basketball player is not even sure of getting a Congress ticket.
Updated on Sep 01, 2014 02:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh
AFT sets aside income limit for parents of deceased soldier
In a landmark judgement, the Chandigarh bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) set aside the income limit of Rs 2,250 per month imposed on parents of deceased soldier to grant family pension.
Updated on Aug 31, 2014 01:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Chandigarh