Harinder Baweja anchors special projects for Hindustan Times. She has been a journalist for three decades and has focussed on covering conflict zones, including Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Articles by Harinder Baweja
Raped during riots, now threatened by the police
Nine months ago, Shabana (name changed) was gang-raped in Muzaffarnagar. Jat men from her own village had barged into her home and taken turns at raping her. Now, Shabana says she is being intimidated and pressured by the police.
Updated on Jun 03, 2014 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Modi and I can easily work together: Nawaz Sharif
In Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi, Sharif said he was carrying a message of goodwill, love and friendship for Indian people.
Updated on May 26, 2014 09:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Sharif keen, Pak likely to take call on Modi's invitation today
While the Pakistan foreign office confirmed the invitation had been received, no formal announcement has yet been made. The foreign office maintained late Thursday that the matter was still being considered.
Updated on May 23, 2014 02:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja and Imtiaz Ahmad, New Delhi/islamabad
Does polls verdict signal decline of Gandhi dynasty?
Verdict 2014 belonged as much to the abysmal showing of the Congress as it did to Narendra Modi. In particular, it underscored the steep political decline of the Gandhi family.
Updated on May 17, 2014 07:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Pak ready to work with Modi, says ties flourished in Atal yrs
Pakistan is ready to talk to any government elected by the Indian voters, including one headed by Narendra Modi, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s advisor on security and foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz told HT.
Updated on May 03, 2014 02:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Modi remains an unknown entity in Rae Bareli
The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, may have cast a spell and revived the party’s fortunes in Uttar Pradesh but across Rae Bareli’s villages, many ask, “Modi? Who Modi?”
Updated on Apr 30, 2014 01:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, Rae Bareli
Priyanka Gandhi is micro manager in family bastions
But behind the scenes, Priyanka Gandhi has been quietly slogging for a year to rebuild and re-energize Congress cadres in the Gandhi bastions of Amethi and Rae Barely which saw eight out of 10 assembly segments slip out of their hands in 2102.
Updated on Apr 27, 2014 02:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, Rae Bareli/amethi
Cong finally makes its point with just 48 hrs of Priyanka in action
A day after the departure of Priyanka Gandhi from Rae Bareli — where she spent 48 hours addressing 24 public meetings — a few Congressmen are engaged in an interesting conversation.
Updated on Apr 25, 2014 01:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, Rae Bareli
The Obama effect on Narendra Modi’s strategies
What does Barack Obama have to do with Narendra Modi’s election campaign? Quite a lot, according to the backroom boys involved in pushing the BJP prime ministerial candidate’s Mission 272+ campaign.
Updated on Apr 08, 2014 08:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
‘Rae Bareli is now looking to Modi’
Supreme Court advocate Ajay Agarwal, better known for his public interest litigation battles, is now the surprise BJP candidate against Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli.
Updated on Apr 03, 2014 12:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja
Did Dhoni indulge in a cover-up to save Meiyappan?
A day after SC counsel Harish Salve leveled a sensational charge at Indian cricket captain, HT spoke to several officials of the Mudgal Committee who revealed that MS Dhoni's deposition this year 'was aimed at shielding G Meiyappan'. Dhoni accused of lying to probe panel | SC appoints Gavaskar as BCCI working president
Updated on Mar 29, 2014 02:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
US may ship out Nancy Powell to please Modi
Washington is likely to appoint a new ambassador in New Delhi to work with the next government, say US and Indian diplomats familiar with the plan. Nancy Powell will be replaced, probably with a political appointee, as an attempt by the Obama administration to “clean the slate” with India.
Updated on Mar 25, 2014 09:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja & Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, New Delhi
US embassy faces I-T inquiry, urges 'understanding'
An income tax inquiry now threatens the delicately poised Indo-US relationship, highly-placed government sources have told HT. The ministry of external affairs (MEA) has conveyed the inquiry details to the US embassy.
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 01:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
BJP lifts three ideas that worked for AAP
It is an admission the BJP makes only in private. Several senior leaders conceded, in extended conversations with HT, that there are at least three leaves they have taken out of the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) book.
Updated on Mar 17, 2014 08:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
We cheered for Shahid Afridi too... but we’re not Kashmiri
Would I have liked India to win? The question is a no-brainer. But should India losing keep me from cheering for the winning team, which in this case happened to be Pakistan?
Updated on Mar 16, 2014 06:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja
Only guns no solution for Chhattisgarh
Most security personnel don’t want to be part of the ‘war’ — the same war home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Wednesday vowed to fight with renewed vigour. What Shinde did not address are questions often asked by these jawans.
Updated on Mar 13, 2014 12:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Maoist attack in Sukma to avenge big turnout in Chhattisgarh polls?
Bastar had seen a record turnout of 75% in November’s assembly polls — the highest in a decade for this area comprising 18 constituencies and way above the 66% turnout in the 2009 polls. 16 killed in Maoist ambush in Sukma | Intel inputs failed to prevent Maoist strike
Updated on Mar 12, 2014 08:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Saikat Datta and Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
From caste engineering, BJP focuses on social engineering
BJP managers behind Mission 272 — to get past the majority mark in the 543-seat Lok Sabha — have decided to go micro.
Updated on Mar 11, 2014 11:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
When soldiers turn on their own comrades
The men in uniform are under strain. It is time for J&K and the Centre to work out effective redressal mechanisms, writes Harinder Baweja.
Updated on Mar 06, 2014 10:29 PM IST
Nielsen on massive hunt for Cong's best poll bets
The Congress has contracted market-research agency Nielsen India to help it zero-in on party candidates with the best chance of winning in the upcoming general elections.Cong may renominate most sitting members, ministers
Updated on Feb 23, 2014 08:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Dhoni named by justice Mudgal panel in secret IPL probe report
A secret report given to the Supreme Court by the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee investigating cricket fixing contains a statement from a Tamil Nadu cop that names Team India captain MS Dhoni.
Updated on Feb 13, 2014 08:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Ishrat case: I have been fair, says CBI chief
CBI chief Ranjit Sinha, who spoke to HT, a day after the CBI included names of four IB officials in the supplementary chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, emphasised that he wanted to be 'fair.'
Updated on Feb 08, 2014 08:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
AAP woos Quraishi, Vinod Rai to come on board
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is in talks with senior bureaucrats and hopes to announce the names of ‘a few big guns’ soon, the Hindustan Times has learnt.
Updated on Feb 04, 2014 11:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
AAP founder member quits, slams Bharti raid
Discontent in the Aam Aadmi Party is brewing over the alleged departure from its people's party image. The party's founder member Madhu Bhaduri has accused the rookie party of shielding controversial law minister Somnath Bharti in the south Delhi raid episode.
Updated on Feb 02, 2014 08:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
For Muzaffarnagar Muslims, 'it feels like Partition'
HT revisits the most-affected villages of Muzaffarnagar to find a change in demographics and examine why riot-hit Muslims may never return home. Some have sold their homes and moved on. But many haven't. Full coverage:UP riots aftermath
Updated on Jan 26, 2014 12:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja
MEA finds US embassy underpaying Indian workers
The ministry of external affairs has accessed work contracts of several Indians employed by the US embassy in Delhi and its consulates in Chennai and Hyderabad, HT has learnt. These employees have alleged that they are being ‘underpaid’ and ‘facing discrimination’.
Updated on Jan 24, 2014 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Kejriwal not the first to refuse security
Heavyweight UPA leaders such as finance minister P Chidambaram and minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh have consistently turned down requests by the Delhi Police and the Intelligence Bureau to take security.
Updated on Jan 14, 2014 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Male pilots put flyers at risk to avoid sexual harassment charges
Several pilots said that recent high-profile cases involving a retired judge, Justice AK Ganguly, and journalist Tarun Tejpal, have forced them to look at measures that "protect us, even though they come at the cost of flight safety."
Updated on Jan 08, 2014 07:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
How Arvind Kejriwal became the little, big man of Indian politics
Only a month ago, Arvind Kejriwal had come to our office, wearing the trademark topi. "We will win Delhi,'' he had declared cockily, displaying a trait that so marks the man. We had mocked him then, even if silently.
Updated on Jan 05, 2014 02:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Resolving Kashmir issue solution to all India-Pakistan problems: Imran
Resolution of the Kashmir problem is the only way to take the India-Pakistan relationship forward according to the former Pakistan cricket captain and president of Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaaf.Pak not fretting over Modi’s PM prospects
Updated on Nov 22, 2014 01:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi