Hardik Anand is a correspondent, who reports from Rohtak in Haryana. From petty crimes to big data stories, he is interested in covering them all.
Articles by Hardik Anand
Have given time to Haryana govt till March 31, says Yashpal Malik
All-India Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti chief Yashpal Malik’s recent threat to disrupt BJP national president Amit Shah’s rally in Jind made the Haryana government jittery yet again.
Updated on Feb 13, 2018 04:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Sapna Chaudhary’s dance, 5,100-kg cake to mark cow’s birthday celebrations in Jhajjar
A cow shelter in Haryana’s Jhajjar is throwing the mother of all birthday parties on Saturday for a bovine accorded divine status
Updated on Feb 09, 2018 08:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Video: Women thrash drunk Haryana cop with sandals for ‘eve-teasing’
The Haryana Police admitted that the cop was drunk driving, but denied that he harassed any woman and attributed public outrage to ‘mob mentality’.
Updated on Feb 04, 2018 10:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Four stab Rohtak student leader to death in full public view
Kin refuse to cremate the body till arrest of the accused; family says he had got into a verbal spat with a local boy a few days ago
Updated on Feb 04, 2018 10:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Central Information Commission asks EC to launch special drive for 2,000 pending RTIs
The directive came in response to appeals filed by several appellants whose RTI queries with the election panel were not answered.
Updated on Feb 03, 2018 04:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
5 honeytrap gangs busted in 4 days, false rape cases also on rise in Haryana
These suspects largely operate as gangs and most of these were busted at a time the state is reeling from a spate of crimes against women and minor girls, especially rape and murder.
Updated on Jan 20, 2018 12:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Haryana board date sheet 2018 released, Class 10, 12 exams from March 7
The Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) has announced the schedule for the Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations and said they will start from March 7 and end on April 3.
Updated on Jan 19, 2018 02:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mohali | Hardik Anand
Rohtak woman bludgeons teen brother to death for telling mother about her boyfriend, blames dad
The 19-year-old girl, who fled to Panipat, told her mother that their father had also tried to kill her but she had managed to escape.
Updated on Jan 17, 2018 11:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Haryana horror: Girl’s body found with mutilated private parts, ruptured liver
The body was found without any clothes in the lower parts and her liver was ruptured.
Updated on Jan 14, 2018 08:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Haryana: Postgraduates among 15,000 vying for 8 posts of peon in Jind court
The interviews are now being conducted over a period of a month, between January 4 and February 2, wherein 750 candidates are being called everyday for the selection process.
Updated on Jan 08, 2018 09:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Award wapsi: Desi cows given to Haryana female boxers breaking bones, not giving milk
Haryana minister OP Dhankar had in November given desi breed cows as awards to six female boxers who had won medals in World Youth Women Boxing Championship in Guwahati.
Updated on Jan 07, 2018 10:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Ditched at the altar: Haryana wedding planner dupes 35 men on pretext of finding them ‘beautiful’ brides
The incident once again brings to fore the shortage of brides in Haryana, leading to desperation among bachelors who are unable to find suitable women for marriage.
Updated on Dec 28, 2017 11:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
At Rs 50 lakh, Khattar-led Haryana govt most generous in honouring slain soldiers
Haryana government under chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar stood out in honouring martyrs when it hiked the solatium for slain army jawans’ kin to Rs 50 lakh in 2014.
Updated on Dec 27, 2017 03:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Separated from grandson, 60-yr-old man climbs atop mobile tower in Haryana’s Jind
He agreed to come down almost after five hours, when the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) promised that he will personally ensure a meeting between him and his grandson.
Updated on Dec 26, 2017 10:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Haryana: Family kills girl’s boyfriend for meeting her at night
The girl’s father is a retired Delhi Police cop who has been arrested along with his wife, brother and sister-in-law.
Updated on Dec 26, 2017 10:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Journalist found murdered in Dadri, SIT formed
The mutilated body of a 34-year-old journalist was found along the highway near Kuliyana village in Charkhi Dadri district.
Updated on Dec 21, 2017 08:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Haryana man killed wife over extramarital affair, threw parts of her body at different places: Police
The husband axed her body into several pieces and threw them at different spots in the city.
Updated on Dec 16, 2017 08:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Haryana cops lead in crime cases lodged against them: NCRB report
As per the National Crime Records Bureau, 488 criminal cases were registered against policemen in Haryana in 2016.
Updated on Dec 02, 2017 01:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Girl boxers in Haryana to get desi cows in award
Get brainy and beautiful with cow milk, says Haryana agriculture minister.
Updated on Dec 01, 2017 10:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Parallel rallies in Haryana: BJP, INLD back Jat quota demand, Congress gives rally a miss
Union minister Birender watches in silence as AIJASS, INLD bash Khattar, BJP.
Updated on Nov 27, 2017 02:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Haryana: Jats, BJP MP Saini rallies to face-off today
Security has been beefed up in view of the opposition both leaders have been facing from various sections of society.
Updated on Nov 26, 2017 05:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Haryana on edge ahead of rallies by Yashpal Malik and BJP MP R K Saini
Mobile internet suspended in 11 districts and Section 144 of the CrPC barring assembly of more than four people at a public place has also been imposed in some districts.
Updated on Nov 25, 2017 11:20 PM IST
Hidnustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Situation tense in Haryana’s Rohtak, mobile internet suspended in 11 districts
Springing into action: Rapid action force deployed at Jassia village to avoid clash after sarpanch association and Jat youths sit on a dharna against AIJASS chief Malik for defying the mahapanchayat
Updated on Nov 25, 2017 10:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Haryana: 35 migratory birds killed for smuggling meat in Jhajjar, four detained
The birds have been sent for post-mortem, after which a case will be registered against the four men.
Updated on Nov 24, 2017 11:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
‘She is gifted’: Miss World Manushi Chhillar is a would-be doctor, poet, painter and dancer
Manushi, who is a third-year MBBS student at a medical college in Sonepat, wants to be a cardiac surgeon.
Updated on Nov 19, 2017 12:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
On-leave armyman shot 14 times in Haryana’s Jhajjar, dies on spot
The victim was a sepoy posted in the army’s ordnance depot in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district.
Updated on Nov 18, 2017 08:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Haryana’s air quality reaches dangerous level, pollutants twice than last year
100 brick kilns shut in Rohtak; 30% dip in number of migratory birds flock sanctuaries, water bodies; experts blame stubble burning
Updated on Nov 14, 2017 09:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak/Hisar | Bhaskar Mukherjee and Hardik Anand
Haryana: Ex-serviceman shot 11 times outside Sonepat temple, dies
The police said bullets were fired on his face, chest and arms.
Updated on Nov 13, 2017 07:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Video: On ramp in Haryana, selfie queen cow Shradha, dancing camels Sonu-Monu steal show
Haryana minister said these animals were bigger celebrities than Bollywood actresses Katrina Kaif and Mallika Shehrawat.
Updated on Oct 28, 2017 10:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
‘They threaten to shoot me if I play cricket’: Sonepat girl gets brothers booked
The girl has stated that her two brothers forcefully made her drop out from college against her wishes.
Updated on Oct 26, 2017 04:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak