Neha Pushkarna deputises at Hindustan Times’ Delhi bureau, setting up the morning news cycle digitally before shifting gears later in the day to plan and rewrite stories for the newspaper. She writes on education.
Articles by Neha Pushkarna
Delhi women still feel unsafe, blame Uber: survey
Exactly two years after the December 16, 2012, gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, an overwhelming majority of women still feel unsafe in the Capital, an HT survey has found.
Updated on Dec 16, 2014 11:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Modi auto meters high on popularity
The new GPS meters come with a screen flashing Modi’s picture while promoting his campaigns like Swachh Bharat and many autorickshaw drivers are lining up to get these meters installed in their vehicles.
Updated on Nov 23, 2014 11:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Clicked in style: Capital catches up with trend of pre-wedding shoots
The trend of pre-wedding shoots has become a must-do ritual in any upscale wedding. And with marriage season resuming this month, couples are lining up for these fancy shoots, at least half a lakh fee notwithstanding.
Updated on Nov 03, 2014 06:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
BRT: Rapid, not anymore
Stranded in the middle of Chirag Dilli crossing, the driver of a red Swift car couldn’t decide for five minutes which way he should head. With traffic honking from all around, he panicked and simply drove right when he had to actually go straight.
Updated on Oct 26, 2014 11:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Kids missing from city being sold as bonded farm labour
Seventeen-year-old Aman has spent his teenage so far rearing cattle and toiling at a farm in Gurdaspur, Punjab. He would have joined college this year had he stayed home that morning six years ago.
Updated on Oct 26, 2014 11:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Start with basics to clean up Capital, make it swanky and world class
National Capital Delhi might harbour dreams of becoming a world class city, but the ground reality is the city’s streets smell of muck.
Updated on Oct 05, 2014 10:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Locked in, Valmiki Colony misses action
Fifteen-year-old Mansika Malanda was one of the two girls selected to put tilak on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s forehead when he arrived at Valmiki Temple on Thursday morning. It was a proud moment for Malandas.
Updated on Oct 03, 2014 01:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Little care, concern for lost and found children
For children living in the outskirts of the capital, a walk to their favourite shop or a game of hide and seek near the colony park can mean the end of childhood. Children here are picked up like rabbits by falcons.
Updated on Sep 15, 2014 01:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Sita Ram’s auto shows the way
Sita Ram’s auto-rickshaw is like no other. Passengers love it. Some drivers are even jealous of it. And for the traffic police, it surely is a dream-come-true.
Updated on Aug 28, 2014 01:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Delhi’s street performers on brink of oblivion
For thousands who grew up in Delhi, street performers are an enduring memory of life in the 1980s and 1990s. Monkey shows, jugglers, acrobats, snake charmers and magicians were common on the city streets. But, today, they are just a distant memory.
Updated on Aug 18, 2014 12:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Delhi: Tomatoes to stay pricey till month-end
From Rs 10 per kilogram two months ago tomatoes have been selling at Rs 80 a kilo and above in the past few days, despite Delhi government insisting on July 20 that there’s no shortage and supply is better than last year. Traders say that the vegetable may become affordable again only after a month.
Updated on Aug 02, 2014 03:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Crop damage in Himachal sent tomato prices soaring in Delhi
Tomatoes in the wholesale market were most expensive on July 31, priced between Rs. 2,000 and Rs 4,400 for every quintal that translated into Rs. 20 and Rs 44 per kilogram.
Updated on Aug 01, 2014 11:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Bird watch: Endangered bustard spotted in Dadri
It was a once-in-a-lifetime click for Greater Noida resident Rajeev Ranjan who recently managed to snap a photo of the endangered Lesser Florican at the Dadri Wetlands in Ghaziabad. It’s only the third time the bird has been spotted in the NCR area in the last 100 years.
Updated on Jul 25, 2014 11:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
FYUP jinx latest to hit India's 'guinea pig' batch
They’ve seen it all. Their gardening skills have been graded, so have the social skills. Marks made way for grades and Class 10 board exams got dropped by the wayside.
Updated on Jul 07, 2014 07:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
CBSE awarding more marks, increasing pressure on students
Laddoos were distributed at the Sharma household in Punjabi Bagh when their younger son Sanjeev Sharma passed his school leaving examination with 62%. The 18-year-old had made his parents very proud.
Updated on Jul 06, 2014 01:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
CBSE’s 95% club growing at 780%
The number of students scoring 95% marks or more in the CBSE XII exams nationwide has increased by nearly 800% in the last five years. From just 1,020 students in the 95% club in 2009, the number shot up to 8,971 this year.
Updated on Jul 06, 2014 12:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Scrapping FYUP has taken a toll on educational reforms
The abolition of the four-year undergraduate programme may have brought cheer for many. But it had ushered in some academic reforms, which are now gone. Many teachers, in hushed tones, admit they are going to miss them.
Updated on Jul 02, 2014 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
DU says no to change: Faculty’s fondness for old notes to blame?
An old refrain is once again being heard in DU's corridors: Its teachers are averse to any change in curriculum as it would mean having to part with their notes — some several decades old — and work afresh on their lectures.
Updated on Jun 29, 2014 12:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Sex education still to take off in schools
Hardly any school imparts sex education as part of their curricula. Teachers do not talk about bodily changes and man-woman relationships in the class and even a mention of it still produces giggles and quick stares.
Updated on Jun 28, 2014 01:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
UGC standoff triggers debate over DU’s autonomy
Is Delhi University free to decide on academics or not? While some say it is the UGC’s responsibility to prevent any violation of nor ms, others find it over-stepping its mandate in DU.
Updated on Jun 26, 2014 01:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
The lost era: When Delhi dribbled and dodged
Delhi was football crazy and local players were featured regularly in newspapers for their outstanding skills 50 years ago. Delhi of 2014 only has faint traces of that era.
Updated on Jun 22, 2014 03:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna
Delhi kids bond over baking, stories as parents arrange for non-romantic dates
Usually, a parent would have cringed in disbelief to see their 12-year-old getting ready for a ‘date’. However, Neelu Kapur, an entrepreneur, instead organixed one for her daughter earlier this month.
Updated on Jun 15, 2014 09:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
The moot point is this: Can New Delhi pull off Asian Games in 2019?
The ghosts of Commonwealth Games 2010 haven’t been laid to rest yet. But the new government is keen on moving on. Its wish to host another edition of Asian Games in New Delhi in 2019 has sparked a debate between the optimists and sceptics.
Updated on Jun 12, 2014 01:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
People hopeful that Smriti Irani will bring change
The appointment of Smriti Irani as HRD minister may have raised some eyebrows, but she has also managed to raise many hopes too.People have been writing open letters to her since she took charge of the ministry.
Updated on Jun 05, 2014 08:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Delhi's schoolchildren shop online to complete their homework
Through the ongoing summer vacation, there are plenty of “holiday homework providers” willing to make projects, write articles or poems, prepare PowerPoint presentations and design working models for them at competitive prices.
Updated on May 23, 2014 12:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Lal Dora restriction sends brides away in Ladpur
Vimla Devi, who lives in a two-storey house in Ladpur village — about 16 kilometres northwest of Rohini, hasn’t been able to get her younger son married. Families of prospective brides come with an offer only to never return.
Updated on Apr 07, 2014 02:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Veteran candidates shun social media
Social media may be the easiest way to reach out to the masses but several poll veterans in the city still swear by tradition. Much like Krishna Tirath, his counterpart from North West Delhi, South Delhi MP Ramesh Kumar also does not use Twitter or Facebook.
Updated on Mar 31, 2014 12:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Water a major poll issue in South Delhi constituency
Among other issues, water will play a crucial role in the coming Lok Sabha elections in the parched South Delhi constituency. Many areas in the constituency –which is largely rural and has a large number of unauthorised colonies – do not even have pipelines for water supply.
Updated on Mar 25, 2014 11:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Bidhuri goes vote-hunting in South Delhi, door to door
The BJP’s South Delhi candidate, Ramesh Bidhuri, has learnt that reaching out to the public can be a poll winner. So besides going from door to door himself, he is meeting BJP workers and supporters across his constituency and urging them to form teams and meet each voter on his behalf.
Updated on Mar 25, 2014 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi
Bullying at school: Who is to blame?
A video showing students of a prominent south Delhi school hurling abuses and hitting each other has raised serious questions about the role of schools and parents in the upbringing of children.
Updated on Mar 14, 2014 12:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mallica Joshi and Neha Pushkarna, New Delhi