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
Laskhar-e-Taiba, 26/11 villain and India's enemy at the gates
The Lashkar-e-Taiba attacked Mumbai when the outfit was struggling. It is in a position to hit harder at its sworn enemy, India.
Updated on Nov 26, 2013 02:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Maldivian terror alert spurs coastal security review
Five years after Ajmal Kasab and nine other Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists sneaked into Mumbai via sea from Karachi and wreaked the havoc of 26/11, a Maldivian alert has prompted an intense coastal security review.
Updated on Nov 24, 2013 10:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
VK Singh's claims have made me a suspect, agent of the army: Omar
Former army chief, General VK Singh, stirred a hornet's nest when he claimed that ministers in Kashmir were on army's payroll since 1947. The J&K assembly will now summon him to the House for an explanation. Chief minister Omar Abdullah takes on Gen Singh in a hard-hitting interview.
Updated on Oct 14, 2013 10:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja
VK Singh row: my phone was tapped, says Omar
Former army chief, General VK Singh, stirred a hornet’s nest when he claimed that ministers in Kashmir were on army’s payroll since 1947. The J-K assembly will now summon him to the House for an explanation. Chief minister Omar Abdullah takes on Gen Singh in a hard-hitting interview with Harinder Baweja.
Updated on Oct 14, 2013 01:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja
Army vs militants: a mysterious encounter in Keran
How did as many as 30 to 40 terrorists manage to come into Indian Territory and engage the army? How did they disappear without a trace? Harinder Baweja reconstructs the encounter.
Updated on Oct 13, 2013 10:26 PM IST
Hindustantimes.com | Harinder Baweja
Keran mystery deepens, no bodies, weapons traced
Lt Gen Gurmit Singh, Corps Commander, 15 Corps confirmed to HT that their prolonged searches for over six days failed to bear results. Singh admitted he was under a lot of pressure to produce the bodies.
Updated on Oct 11, 2013 10:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, Srinagar
Would be a dangerous mistake to ignore Modi: Omar
Speaking exclusively to HT, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah warned that tt would be a dangerous mistake to ignore Modi and also added that the UPA has failed to offer an alternative to the people.
Updated on Oct 11, 2013 10:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, Srinagar
Kashmir gunfight on, army chief says no Kargil-like situation
The fierce gunfight in Kashmir’s Keran sector that looked like a massive infiltration attempt 10 days ago has now snowballed into a battle for “territorial control” between the Indian Army and Pakistan-backed terrorists. Harinder Baweja and Rahul Singh report. No territorial ambitions, India wants peace: Pranab
Updated on Oct 04, 2013 08:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja and Rahul Singh, New Delhi
Army spook unit carried out covert ops in Pakistan
The military intelligence unit set up by ex-army chief General VK Singh was involved in sensitive covert operations in Pakistan and was even on the trail of 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, officials said. Harinder Baweja reports. 'Action against VK Singh not vendetta'
Updated on Sep 21, 2013 02:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
US cold to India's request for info on terror cases
The National Investigating Agency has been spending hours trying to decode Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal's laptop. Bhatkal's electronic record is only the latest instance in which the NIA has sought American help. Harinder Baweja reports.
Updated on Sep 18, 2013 07:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
UP's gun culture took a turn for worse after Akhilesh took charge
Uttar Pradesh accounts for about 50 per cent of the country’s firearms-related deaths, a grim revelation at a time when rioters were seen freely using guns during the recent communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar district. Harinder Baweja and Sandeep Pai writes.
Updated on Sep 15, 2013 03:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja and Sandeep Pai, New Delhi
Ministry set to give CBI list of ‘untraceable’ Coalgate files
The coal ministry is set to admit to the CBI on Friday that it cannot find a clutch of files pertaining to the Coalgate scam. Among the papers that the ministry has not been able to trace are those relating to coal block allocations made to the Jayaswal Neco Group.
Updated on Sep 13, 2013 12:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
CBI may raid coal ministry offices for 'missing files'
The CBI investigating the Rs. 1.86 lakh crore coal block allocation scandal may search offices of the coal ministry and seize records after September 15 in an effort to trace the missing files crucial to its probe. Harinder Baweja reports.
Updated on Sep 09, 2013 08:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Witnesses of Partition
A researcher’s project has led to the archiving of 650 first-hand accounts and oral histories of the survivors of 1947. Harinder Baweja writes.
Updated on Sep 08, 2013 02:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
India, Pak envoys hold secret talks in Dubai
In a significant development, special envoys to India and Pakistan Prime Ministers had a discreet back channel meeting in Dubai a few days back, in the first engagement between the two countries after the killing of five Indian soldiers on the line of control (LoC) on August 6.
Updated on Sep 04, 2013 10:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
The fight for UP
UP lies at the heart of Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial ambition. Sunita Aron and Harinder Baweja find it getting increasingly polarised. Here, Advani is becoming the new moderate.
Updated on Sep 01, 2013 02:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sunita Aron and Harinder Baweja
Revealed: how India got Yasin Bhatkal from Nepal town
Sources said that in his interrogation by the NIA at Motihari, Yasin Bhatkal admitted his part in explosions in Pune in 2010 and 2012 and the Mumbai triple blasts of 2011 but denied any hand in the Bodh Gaya attacks this year. HT report. POLL: Will the recent arrests of Bhatkal and Tunda curb terror in India?
Updated on Aug 30, 2013 09:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja & Avinash Kumar, New Delhi/patna
Islamic centre or mosque being planned in Ayodhya?
A Sangh Parivar pamphlet – being distributed in Ayodhya before the VHP’s chaurasi kosi yatra – not only invites all Hindu saints to join in, but also seeks support for the demand for a law on building the Ram temple. Sunita Aron and Harinder Baweja report.
Updated on Aug 24, 2013 11:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sunita Aron & Harinder Baweja, Ayodhya
Kishtwar: Omar govt failed to act as communal relations worsened
The writing on the Kishtwar wall should have been read three weeks ago after the killing of four civilians by the BSF on July 18 in Ramban, also in the Jammu sub-division. Harinder Baweja reports. MLA claims police, Army sent him back | Kishtwar had been sitting on powder keg for 12 days
Updated on Aug 14, 2013 10:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Lashkar behind Jalalabad attack, Afghans tell India
Trained militants belonging to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba were behind the attack aimed at the Indian consulate in Jalalabad on August 3, the Jalalabad police commissioner told Amar Sinha, India’s ambassador to Afghanistan. Harinder Baweja reports.
Updated on Aug 09, 2013 04:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
PM would rather stand by Sharif
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is keen to go ahead with the Indo-Pak dialogue and meet his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in New York in September-end on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session.
Updated on Aug 08, 2013 01:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Jayanth Jacob and Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
‘Sneaking points’ line LoC
Several staging points where terrorists wait before infiltrating into Kashmir have come up all across the Line of Control (LoC), according to senior security officials.
Updated on Aug 07, 2013 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Shot at LoC: Indo-Pak peace process may get derailed
The Pakistani intruders did not just kill 5 Indian soldiers along the LoC. They have also effectively derailed the dialogue process that India and Pakistan were scheduled to resume this month. Harinder Baweja writes.
Updated on Aug 07, 2013 11:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
India ready to talk to Pak without 26/11 rider
India and Pak will resume talks in less than a month and New Delhi has not pre-conditioned them to the progress in the 26/11 case, Sartaj Aziz, an adviser to the Pak PM Nawaz Sharif, has told HT.
Updated on Aug 06, 2013 08:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Don’t turn away, fight for us: Acid attack survivor
Look at me, don’t turn your face, I’m human too: This is the thought that has most crossed Laxmi's mind in the last eight years. She was only 15 years old when on April 22, 2005, she was pinned to the ground and attacked with acid. Harinder Baweja reports.
Updated on Jul 21, 2013 04:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Don’t stare at me, I am human too: acid attack survivor Laxmi
For long, Laxmi lived in dark despair but today she has moved on from being victim to survivor and is the face of a fierce campaign against acid attacks, writes Harinder Baweja.
Updated on Jul 30, 2013 10:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja
Staff take Air India for a ride on free ticket scheme
This happens only in Air India. Book a full fare ticket to New York, Singapore, Mumbai or any destination you fancy and get a second ticket for a companion for free. Harinder Baweja reports.
Updated on Jul 01, 2013 02:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
Pak refuses to extend visa, tells Indian scribes to return home
Pakistan will soon be without the presence of any Indian journalist. Just when hope was alive of improved ties between India and Pakistan, the Islamabad-based Press Trust of India (PTI) correspondent Razaul Laskar has been asked to leave the country by June 29.
Updated on Jun 26, 2013 12:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja and Jayanth Jacob, New Delhi
Central army commander may be moved mid-rescue operation
Lt Gen Anil Chait, army commander, central command, who has personally directed relief and rescue operation, is due to be moved out of the emergency theatre where thousands continue to be stranded across various parts of Uttarakhand. Harinder Baweja reports.
Updated on Jun 25, 2013 12:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi
India lost foodgrain worth Rs 45 cr in 5 years
Foodgrain, worth Rs 45 cr was damaged mostly during handling and storage and could have fed at least 2.5 lakh people every year. The Centre might again be required to go in a damage control mode. Harinder Baweja reports.
Updated on Jun 20, 2013 08:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Harinder Baweja, New Delhi