Pawan Dixit has been a journalist for over a decade. He has extensively covered eastern UP for around five years, covered 2012 UP assembly polls, 2014 Lok Sabha polls while being stationed in Varanasi. Now, in Lucknow, he covers outstation political assignments, reports special cases from district court, high court and state information commission
Articles by Pawan Dixit
Mulayam raps Congress, BJP; woos Muslims
On Tuesday, at the SP's first election rally in Azamgarh, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav pulled out all the stops to draw mileage from its traditional Muslim votebank. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Oct 30, 2013 01:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Azamgarh
Asadullah’s father tried, but failed to rein in his errant son
Azamgarh once again shot to infamy yesterday morning after the arrest of Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi from Sunauli at the Indo-Nepal border along with IM leader Yasin Bhatkal.
Updated on Aug 30, 2013 01:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Azamgarh
More info sought on declaring Ballia naxal-hit
UP government has sought more details from the office of the inspector general of police, Varanasi zone, for Ballia’s inclusion in the category of naxal-affected districts of the state.
Updated on Aug 19, 2013 12:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Lucknow
Kanwariyas clash with police in Varanasi
Kanwariyas set afire a roadways bus and a circle officer’s Bolero jeep at Mirzamurad on the Allahabad- Varanasi highway late on Friday evening when cops tried to switch off the music system which the Kanwariyas were carrying. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Aug 03, 2013 01:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Anna to launch satyagrah from day one of winter session of Parliament
Anti-graft activist Anna Hazare today set the stage for a fresh confrontation with the UPA government, announcing his decision to launch a satyagraha at the Ram Lila ground in New Delhi from day one of the winter session of the Parliament in support of the Jan Lokpal bill. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Jul 31, 2013 02:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Injection by tout kills 8-month-old
In an incident that reflects the pathetic state of healthcare in Uttar Pradesh, an eight-month-old boy admitted to a district hospital in Ballia district died after a tout allegedly gave him two injections. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Jul 18, 2013 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Child dies after tout administers injection at district hospital
An eight month-old baby boy had died at the district hospital in Ballia when a tout administered an injection to the seriously ill child suffering from Septicemia.
Updated on Jul 17, 2013 05:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Ballia, Varanasi
UP gangster, wife shot at by unknown assailants
Ajay Singh, a close aide of arrested gangster Brijesh Singh, and his wife Meera were shot at by eight motor cycle-borne assailants - reportedly of a rival gang - at Taktakpur area when they were returning home in their SUV late on Saturday evening. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on May 05, 2013 11:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Video captures thrashing of protection home inmates
Hours after the Samwasani Griha, a Varanasi-based women protection home, got a “all is well” status report from the visiting delegation of the state legislative council, a local youth exposed the shocking state of affairs at the shelter home.
Updated on Jan 20, 2013 12:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Oz that: A Hindu at heart from Down Under
She finds Hinduism fabulous and reads English versions of the Gita and the Ramayana during her discourses in her native country Australia and the United States. Meet Shakti Durga, 50, who is in the temple town to celebrate Maha Kumbh here.
Updated on Jan 12, 2013 07:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Akhilesh in Ballia, offers aid to family
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday visited Medwara village in Ballia district to meet the family members of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim.
Updated on Jan 12, 2013 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Ashes of gangrape victim to be immersed today
The ashes of the Delhi gangrape victim arrived at her native village late on Monday evening (after sunset) due to which her family decided to postpone its immersion in the Ganga today. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Jan 01, 2013 11:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Panditji’s affair with Varanasi
With the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar, Varanasi lost the last of its three sons who brought it international fame in the world of music. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Dec 13, 2012 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Sonam, Dhanush shooting in Varanasi
Actor Sonam Kapoor and Kolaveri Di Dhanush are currently in Varanasi to shoot for director Anand Rai’s Ranjhana. The film is an innocent love story between the two with Sonam playing a Muslim girl and Dhanush a Hindu boy.
Updated on Sep 07, 2012 01:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit and Madhulika Singh, Varanasi
Guwahati 'molester' nabbed in Varanasi
Guwahati molestation case prime accused Amar Jyoti Kalita was arrested in this Uttar Pradesh city on Monday after two weeks on the run. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Jul 24, 2012 12:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Protector turns predator
Women’s safety comes last at police stations across the state. This feeling has gained ground after sub-inspector Kamta Prasad Awasthi molested a woman at his residential quarters on the Mall police station campus in Lucknow on Wednesday night. Swati Tewari, Gaurav Tripathi and Pawan Dixit report.
Updated on Jul 13, 2012 09:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Swati Tewari, Gaurav Tripathi and Pawan Dixit, Lucknow/kanpur/varanasi
'UP can make cheaper, better tablets than China'
Suneet Singh Tuli, chief executive officer of Datawind, feels tablets can be manufactured more cheaply in Uttar Pradesh than in China. He was in Lucknow to attend the Uttar Pradesh Development Conclave on Saturday.
Updated on May 27, 2012 04:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Lucknow
Two Naxals arrrested in UP
In a major anti-Naxal operation carried by the CRPF and the local police in Kanjhkanaura forest in Chaupan area, Sonbhadra district, two hardcore Naxals were arrested on Thursday.
Updated on May 24, 2012 04:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Survival fear looms large in weavers' hub Bhadohi
The country's carpet capital, Bhadohi, is itching to give politicians a dust off, and boycott is not too far off some lips. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Feb 14, 2012 07:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Bhadohi
In UP, wives drive poll rath of jailed candidates
Here is a development that will gladden the hearts of women’s issue activists. Despite having an army of loyalists, the criminal candidates of eastern Uttar Pradesh are banking on their wives to pull them through the elections. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Feb 09, 2012 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Mulayam makes a U-turn
In a complete volte-face to his statement wherein he had promised to provide government jobs to rape victims if voted to power, Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Mulayam Singh Yadav retracted from his controversial statement at Chandauli on Monday.
Updated on Jan 31, 2012 03:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Will look into ‘fake’ terror cases: Rahul Gandhi
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday assured the students of Shibli Nomani Collge, Azamgarh, he would look into the alleged fake cases of terrorism slapped on young persons of the place. Pawan Dixit reports. Digvijaya rakes up Batla House encounter issue again
Updated on Jan 12, 2012 01:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Azamgarh
Top BJP leaders flag off two yatras from UP
The BJP launched two Jan Swabhiman rath yatras, from Varanasi and Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, in the presence of its top leaders, to establish connection with the people of the state, where the saffron brigade has been out of power for nearly a decade.
Updated on Oct 13, 2011 07:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit and Hemendra Chaturvedi, Varanasi
Breivik badge was Varanasi company's last order
The badge Aslam Ansari made for Norwegian killer Andres Behring Breivik was the last order Varanasi-based Indian Art Company took. Ansari’s company got out of the business of making badges since then and is now defunct. Pawan Dixit reports.
Updated on Jul 28, 2011 12:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Varanasi
Saras ‘strongholds’ under stress
There is no doubt that Saras count has gone up in the state as compared to the last census. But the declining number of the state bird in the so-called ‘Saras belt’ all across the state has set alarm bells ringing in the state forest department.
Updated on Aug 20, 2010 12:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Lucknow
Elephant dies after shift to Dudhwa national park
Once Lucknow Zoo’s priced possession, Sumit, a 55-year old male elephant, died at the Dudhwa National Park in the wee hours of Thursday.
Updated on Jul 31, 2010 10:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surya Agarwal & Pawan Dixit, Lucknow
DNA analysis to nail lie on tiger counts
Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species, a part of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad has a foolproof method to know not only the number of tigers in a tiger reserve but their genetic diversity and number of male and female tigers.
Updated on May 25, 2010 08:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, New Delhi
UP readies for one more tiger reserve
The Amangarh forest range in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district is all set to become a tiger reserve — the state’s second after Dudhwa National Park.
Updated on Apr 24, 2010 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Lucknow
Tigress kills a 20 year old
A tigress killed a 20-year-old girl Gudiya at around 11 am on Sunday in Katerniaghat range under Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, reports Pawan Dixit.
Updated on Feb 15, 2010 06:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Lucknow
Another tiger falls to poachers
The new year seems to have begun on an unhappy note for the forest department.In the wee hours of Wednesday, a male tiger measuring 9.4 ft was found dead in Paraspur in Sampoorna Nagar forest range in north Kheri division, reports Pawan Dixit.
Updated on Jan 06, 2010 09:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pawan Dixit, Lucknow