DK Singh was part of Hindustan Times’ nationwide network of correspondents that brings news, analysis and information to its readers. He no longer works with the Hindustan Times.
Articles by DK Singh
Modi’s shuffled babus get a big dose of reality
Welcome in earnest to the Narendra Modi regime. If the 'Babudom' felt bored by the 'Chalta hai' attitude of the previous UPA dispensation, the NDA brought a whiff of fresh air. After a long time, the bureaucrats found their voice with the Prime Minister engaging them directly, sometimes even keeping the ministers at bay.
Updated on Sep 03, 2015 09:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
Renault-Nissan puts on hold Rs 5,000 cr India plan
At a time when the government is pulling out all the stops to attract investments under its Make in India campaign, automobile major Renault-Nissan India has put on hold its plans to invest Rs 5,000 crore in the country.
Govt, Oppn have to learn lessons from disrupted monsoon session
As the monsoon session was washed away into history on Thursday, the warring sides were left to reflect on three weeks littered with strategic errors.
Updated on Aug 14, 2015 10:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
Felt bad about suspending 25 MPs from Lok Sabha: Speaker
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Saturday expressed concern about bills passed by the Lok Sabha getting stalled in the Rajya Sabha and said that the government has to think about it as it is “not good”.
Updated on Aug 09, 2015 12:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
NDA govt moves to nail Lalit Modi with PMLA case
The NDA government is learnt to be preparing the grounds for impounding the former IPL commissioner’s passport.
Updated on Aug 05, 2015 02:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh & Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Strategy to isolate Cong could backfire, key bills may be stalled
Within a day after the suspension of 25 Congress MPs, the government is learnt to be exploring options to pacify the principal opposition party to end the growing acrimony that threatens to derail the NDA regime's reforms agenda.
Updated on Aug 04, 2015 01:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
Bihar: Views on land bill, ties with RJD denting Nitish's popularity
Weeks ahead of Bihar’s assembly election, Nitish Kumar seems to be losing the trust of the state’s zealous young generation that once saw in him a “vikas purush”, or “man of development”. While growing aspirations of the youth and his alliance with Lalu are said to have dented his appeal, the Chief Minister also seems to have slipped on delivery.
Nitish Kumar losing the youth vote ahead of 2016 Bihar polls
Rahul Kumar Prajapati is quick to name Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his favourite leader. The Mathematics (Hons) student at Patna Science College believes a Modi-driven administration in Bihar would offer the youth more promising prospects. Prajapati, 20, though doesn’t want to share his views on foes-turned-friends chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad.
Updated on Jul 22, 2015 06:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, Patna
Caste realignment in Bihar is a new worry for Nitish, Lalu
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s narrative of “two Indias” seems to be resonating, though in a different form, in poll-bound Bihar with the emergence of a new, aspirational class threatening to unravel the caste calculations of the so-called secular and not-so-secular blocs.
Updated on Jul 21, 2015 01:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, Patna
Lalu Prasad, sons hold lessons in politics ahead of Bihar polls
The RJD chief pounces on the caste census as a bogey that may have huge electoral potentials.
Updated on Jul 20, 2015 08:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, Patna
'Lalitgate': PM Modi has to choose between politics and governance
For a Prime Minister who is known to put a premium on governance to further his political agenda, Narendra Modi appears to be confronted with a tough choice — between politics and governance — in the face of the raging storm over ‘Lalitgate’.
A combative Rahul 2.0 catches rivals, dissenters in Congress by surprise
A week is a long time in politics, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said. Those watching Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will attest to the transformative power of just over seven days in this session of Parliament.
Updated on Apr 30, 2015 12:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
Proactive PMO leaves ministries perplexed
Hours before the Cabinet met on Wednesday, a senior functionary at the prime minister's office (PMO) rang up women and child development (WCD) minister Maneka Gandhi's office. He told one of her aides about the changes in the draft Juvenile Justice Bill that was to be cleared by the Cabinet in the evening. The WCD official was instructed to prepare a press note in advance and send it to the PMO for clearance. As it happened, the Cabinet met in the evening, approved the draft bill and the already-prepared press note was out in no time.
Updated on Apr 24, 2015 12:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi continue to deliver from old scripts
It was certainly a hot Sunday in the national capital with rising political temperatures. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi — back after his nine-day foreign tour — addressed BJP MPs at the Parliament’s Balayogi auditorium, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi — back after a six-week sabbatical — addressed farmers at the Ramlila Maidan, there was heightened suspense and expectation in political circles.
Govt may favour net neutrality; final call to be taken in May 2nd week
Indicating the NDA regime’s support for net neutrality, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that he is in favour of “non-discrimination and digital inclusion” although a final call will be taken after a committee set up by the Ministry submits its report in the second week of May.
Updated on Apr 14, 2015 01:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
NDA MPs on the warpath over IAS officer’s ‘insulting remarks’
A senior IAS officer, credited with the disputed turnaround of Indian Railways during Lalu Yadav's tenure as Railways Minister in the UPA regime, has come in the firing line of NDA parliamentarians.
Updated on Apr 12, 2015 07:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh and Moushumi Das Gupta, New Delhi
BJP’s national executive meet in Bengaluru a missed opportunity
For a party whose Prime Minister remains at the peak of his popularity after ten months in office, the BJP’s national executive in Bengaluru was a missed opportunity.
Rahul Gandhi profiling ‘as usual’ defence doesn’t stick, invites widespread outrage across party lines
The 'profiling-as-routine' explanation of the alleged snooping on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offered by the Delhi Police and NDA hasn't washed. The outrage continues to froth across political and ideological lines, and is likely to resonate in Parliament beginning Tuesday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may well be forced into a defensive posture, given the adverse and rather widespread reaction.
Updated on Mar 16, 2015 07:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
Voters saw me as the only hope, declares PM Modi in a new book
Taking full credit for the BJP’s victory in the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he heard vociferous demands for a “trusted name and not a party name” all through his campaign and that people “believed Modi was the only hope”.
Updated on Mar 15, 2015 07:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
Jaitley's budget speech focuses on development, not politics
Analysts scrutinising Arun Jaitley’s Budget speech for ideological and political content ran instead into three non-political words: job (16 times), growth (24 times) and investment (50 times). With no assembly election imminent, this was clearly a Budget intended to reflect Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics of development. The coming years, when politics will dominate, may be different.
BJP rout smashes its aura of invincibility
The BJP’s decimation in Delhi — the first defeat for party chief Amit Shah in the 15 years he has been overseeing elections — has come as a wake-up call for the party while offering hope to a demoralised opposition that the saffron party is indeed beatable.
Delhi referendum on PM Narendra Modi? Yes, no and maybe
The Aam Admi Party (AAP)'s landslide victory in Delhi has led to the ineluctable question: “Is it a referendum on Narendra Modi?”
Delhi referendum on PM Narendra Modi? Yes, no and maybe
As the BJP takes a beating in Delhi assembly election, a question that is being asked: "Was it a referendum on Narendra Modi?”
Delhi wants a CM; BJP cannot expect the Capital to vote for PM Modi
As a clearer picture of the next Delhi Assembly starts emerging by Tuesday afternoon, an ineluctable question that is set to dominate prime time debates will be: “Was it a referendum on Narendra Modi?”
Barack and Michelle Obama turn on charm at Rashtrapati Bhavan
They came, they saw, they charmed. US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle dazzled Delhi’s movers and shakers at a traditional Republic Day reception at the sprawling lawns of Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday.
Updated on Jan 27, 2015 02:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh and Saubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi
Top Congress panel may have its first elections in 18 years
In a move that is set to catapult many new faces to the top echelons of the Congress, Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have decided to revert to the long-abandoned practice of electing members of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the apex decision making body of the party.
Updated on Jan 18, 2015 02:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi, New Delhi
Pink revolution? Meat exports up in NDA regime
While attacking the UPA government ahead of last year’s Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi fleshed out his public speeches by alleging the Congress-led Centre promoted a “pink revolution” in subsiding slaughterhouses and promoting meat exports through tax breaks.
Updated on Jan 06, 2015 02:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh and Timsy Jaipuria, New Delhi
Poll wins set NDA on course to overtake Oppn in RS
Recent assembly election victories have brought the BJP within touching distance of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha, putting the ruling alliance in a position to push through key legislation mid-2016 onwards.
Updated on Dec 28, 2014 11:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
A well-thought political, administrative exercise
While it may come as relief to some ministers like Arun Jaitley some of his ministerial colleagues may have reasons to be anxious as Modi is said to be unhappy with the functioning of some ministries.
Updated on Nov 10, 2014 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi
Single, successful: BJP upsets dynamics of alliance politics
The results of the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections have set the stage for what could turn out to be a turning point in the country’s politics with the BJP poised to take on a host of regional parties in state elections.
Updated on Oct 19, 2014 09:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | DK Singh, New Delhi