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
A cartoon, messages, poems: Techie who live-streamed suicide left enough hints
In his suicide note, Deepak Kumar blamed two Delhi Police personnel for his death.
Updated on May 11, 2017 05:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Rohtak woman fights cheating case against NRI husband via phone
A Rohtak woman cheated by her NRI husband is fighting a case against him over phone in a Canadian court.
Updated on Apr 21, 2017 07:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Educated sarpanches work to provide better schools in Haryana villages
The Haryana government’s move to fix the minimum education qualification for those contesting panchayat elections may have shut the doors for many aspirants in the rural areas, but the move set to ensure a bright future for children in these villages. The education bar has led to selection of highly educated panchayats, which are now working in their respective villages to upgrade the quality of education in government schools.
Updated on Apr 15, 2017 12:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohatk | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Meet Vamika Bahety, a chartered accountant who left family business to grow flowers
When chartered accountant Vamika Bahety came to Delhi after her marriage two years ago, she found an easy option in joining her in-laws’ successful footwear business to utilise her skills in managing their accounts.
Updated on Apr 08, 2017 06:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jhajjar | Hardik Anand, Jhajjar
Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik to marry wrestler Satyawart Kadian on Sunday
Sakshi Malik, first Indian woman wrestler to win a medal at Olympics, will get married to fellow wrestler Satyawart Kadian on Sunday
Updated on Mar 31, 2017 02:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Jat leader says truce with govt conditional, warns of blockading Parliament
All India Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS) has warned that it has only reached to a temporary truce with the government on conditions that its demands will be fulfilled within a stipulated time failing which they could lay siege of the Parliament.
Published on Mar 21, 2017 12:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Jat agitation to cast shadow on Holi in Haryana for second year
Holi, which used to be celebrated with much fanfare in Haryana, was observed in a subdued manner last year, and will be so this year too.
Updated on Mar 09, 2017 05:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Got justice but will we get back jobs, ask 3 men framed by ‘Sonepat bravehearts’
Three Haryana youth were discharged last week by a local court of charges of harassing two sisters on a bus about two years ago. A video of the three men being thrashed on a bus by two girls, Aarti and Pooja, on being allegedly harassed went viral and the sisters were quickly hailed as ‘Sonepat brave hearts’.
Updated on Mar 07, 2017 09:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak/Sonepat | Gulam Jeelani and Hardik Anand
SC commission writes to Parrikar, seeks revival of Chamar Regiment in Indian Army
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has written a letter to Union minister of defence Manohar Parrikar seeking “revival of the Chamar regiment in the Indian Army”. This was, as NCSC said, after three veterans from Haryana who were part of the regiment showed up before the commission and requested for its revival.
Updated on Mar 03, 2017 05:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
In Rohtak, another martyr’s family awaits compensation
More than three months after his death, family of slain Border Security Force (BSF ) head constable, Rai Singh Indora, still awaits the ex gratia that the Haryana government had promised it.
Updated on Feb 28, 2017 02:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Dance, eat, go home, repeat: Secret to successful Jat stir
As the ongoing Jat stir, called to press for reservation and other demands, completes its 30 days on Monday, many may wonder how the community has managed to hold dharnas, with such large gatherings, for this long.
Updated on Feb 27, 2017 12:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Quota stir: Now, Jats to boycott shops not supporting their agitation in written
In yet another resolution passed to press for their demands, Jat leader Yashpal Malik on Sunday asked the community to stop purchasing goods from shops that don’t support their agitation in written.
Updated on Feb 26, 2017 08:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Jat stir: Amid push for Digital India, internet services suspended in Haryana districts
Even as the BJP government has been pushing for digital India after its move of demonetisation, it could not find any alternative to shutting down internet services in Haryana districts for maintenance of law and order during the ongoing Jat agitation.
Updated on Feb 19, 2017 10:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Beneath the second phase of protests for Jat quota, old wounds fester in Haryana
Rohtak, the epicentre of Jat agitation, is in the throes of a second phase of agitation even as victims struggle with fallout of last year’s nightmare
Updated on Feb 17, 2017 12:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak/Jhajjar | Hardik Anand
Wife meets BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, tells Delhi HC she is satisfied
The row over a BSF jawan posting videos on social media complaining about poor food seems to have blown over with his wife telling the Delhi high court on Wednesday that she is satisfied with the food he is now being provided. Sharmila Yadav’s statement came after she her met husband Tej Bahadur Yadav in Samba recently.
Updated on Feb 15, 2017 10:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Unemployment, shrinking land holdings fuelling Jat quota stir
When the All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS) started another round of protests to press for job quota, Duhan and many other youths — unemployed or those seeking government jobs — started thronging the dharnas (sit-ins) in large numbers, saying that the community has got left behind other castes.
Updated on Feb 08, 2017 12:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Delhi fears water crisis replay as Jats relaunch stir for quota
Some youth leaders have also called for closure of colleges and universities in the state from Wednesday.
Updated on Feb 13, 2017 09:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh/Rohtak | Navneet Sharma and Hardik Anand
Haryana: Unemployed sons at home, moms join dharnas in hope for Jat quota
“Mere 2 bete kab ki BA kar chuke hain... par dono khali baithe hain...(two of my sons are graduates but both are unemployed and sitting at home),” said Santro Devi, when she was asked why is she participating in the Jat agitation in Rohtak’s Jassia village. “Who will give me ‘bahus’ (daughter-in-laws) if they keep sitting like that?” she questioned.
Updated on Feb 06, 2017 10:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand
Rohtak: Cause bigger than death, say kin of those killed in Jat quota stir last year
The Jat quota stir in February last year saw spine-chilling stories of shattering dreams and destruction of hard-earned businesses but the biggest losses were experienced by the 30 families who lost their loved ones in the agitation.
Updated on Feb 05, 2017 12:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Jat quota violence case: Have solid proof against those in jail, says Haryana police
Amid Jats’ demand of withdrawal of quota violence cases registered during the stir last year, police have claimed only history-sheeters or people with solid proof against them are still behind bars in Haryana.
Updated on Jan 31, 2017 01:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak/Karnal | Hardik Anand and Neeraj Mohan, Rohtak/karnal
Songs calling out Jats for agitation in Haryana go viral
In Rohtak’s Jasaiya village, a group of youths sit by the village pond, playing a song one of them just received on WhatsApp. The song urges them to come out on Sunday, January 29, “for it is now-or-never fight for their rights.” It says the government has “backstabbed the Jat community multiple times”, and it was not wise to “trust” them again.
Updated on Jan 25, 2017 02:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Divided Jat groups jostle for crowds in Haryana; Cong, INLD support agitation from Jan 29
Factions of Jat groups are once again singing two different tunes regarding the agitation that is scheduled to begin on January 29.
Updated on Jan 25, 2017 02:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Haryana woman's film lends voice to harassed married men
Born and brought up in Haryana districts notorious for crimes against women, Deepika Narayan Bharadwaj, 31, chose to lend support to harassed men instead. Her documentary, titled Martyrs of Marriage, traces the cases where Section 498A (cruelty by husband or his relatives) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)— or widely termed as the ‘anti-dowry law’— has been grossly misused by women for their spite.
Updated on Jan 21, 2017 11:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Is Jana Gana Mana our national anthem? PMO gives no info in RTI
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has pulled up Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for not giving any information on the certifications of Jana Gana Mana as our national anthem and Vande Mataram as national song, raising doubts whether the Union government has any records about the two songs.
Published on Jan 12, 2017 12:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Rohtak | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Construction of roads slowed down under Khattar govt, reveals RTI
The construction of roads in Haryana slowed down after chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government assumed office in October 2014, a right to information (RTI) filed by Gurgaon-based activist Harinder Dhingra has revealed.
Updated on Jan 07, 2017 12:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Law and order a far cry in Haryana: Spurt in rape, murder defines 2016 for ‘Khapland’
Despite the apparent popularity of the ‘Beti Bacho Beti Padhao’ scheme in Haryana, figures collected from the police in Rohtak, Sonepat, Bhiwani and Jind districts reveal that there has been an overall increase in rape and murder cases.
Updated on Jan 04, 2017 12:30 PM IST
Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Raped, murdered teen’s family seek permission from President for self-immolation
The family of a 17-year-old girl in Bhanderi village of Sonepat district have written to President Pranab Mukherjee, seeking permission for self-immolation as the district police have failed to recover her body even one-and-a-half months after she went missing, and have failed to arrest the man accused for her ‘rape and murder’.
Updated on Dec 30, 2016 11:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
CM Khattar wants to make Haryana open-defecation free but his native villages lag behind
Even though Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced that his government will make the state open defecation free by 2017, on grounds, his own villages struggle to better their image when it comes to access to a toilet. Hundreds of houses in his native villages of Baniyani and Nindana in Rohtak district still don’t house a toilet.
Updated on Dec 21, 2016 02:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
As winters close in, migratory birds flock Haryana
Like always, this winter too hundreds of species of rare birds that fly in from higher altitudes in search of food and shelter has made Haryana one of its favourite destinations.
Updated on Nov 24, 2016 02:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Hardik Anand, Rohtak
Villagers of deceased BSF soldier block NH-10, question compensation policy
Slain BSF head constable Rai Singh Indora, who died of Pakistan’s mortal shelling in Rajouri sector of Jammu was cremated with state honours at his native village in Kheri Sampla of Rohtak district on Tuesday morning. At his cremation, Haryana’s transport minister Krishan Lal Panwar announced Rs 20 lakh ex-gratia for the family besides a government job for kin.
Updated on Nov 22, 2016 06:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Hardik Anand, Rohtak