Rahul Karmakar was part of Hindustan Times’ nationwide network of correspondents that brings news, analysis and information to its readers. He no longer works with the Hindustan Times.
Articles by Rahul Karmakar
Meghalaya says no to uranium mining
Uranium mining in Meghalaya has expectedly hit the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) wall.
Updated on Mar 25, 2008 02:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Lapang quits, Roy is CM
Donkupar Roy replaces DD Lapang of the Congress-led MUA as the new CM of Meghalaya, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Mar 20, 2008 03:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Shillong
Meghalaya floor test today
Meghalaya chief Minister DD Lapang will take his floor test on Wednesday, nine days after he was sworn in as chief of the single largest party, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Mar 19, 2008 01:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Neiphiu Rio sworn in as Nagaland CM
Neiphiu Rio was sworn in as chief minister, 24 hours after the Union Cabinet decided to revoke President’s Rule imposed in January, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Mar 12, 2008 09:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
No majority but Lapang sworn in as CM
Acting Governor SS Sidhu overlooks the numerically eligible MPA to invite DD Lapang of the Congress to form the Govt in Meghalaya, report Rahul Karmakar and Syed Sajjad Ali.
Updated on Mar 11, 2008 03:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar/Syed Sajjad Ali, Guwahati/agartala
Naga party adds to its misery
Results of the Assembly election in Nagaland added to the Congress’s misery in the Northeast, which has generally been a happy hunting ground for the party, report Rahul Karmakar and Sobhapati Samom.
Updated on Mar 09, 2008 01:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar/Sobhapati Samom, Imphal
Cong cornered in Meghalaya
In the new conglomeration, named Meghalaya Progressive Alliance, the Nationalist Congress Party has replaced the Congress as the party with most seats in the 60-member House, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Mar 09, 2008 01:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Left sweeps Tripura, Meghalaya hung
The Left Front in Tripura swept the Assembly elections for the fourth successive term while Meghalaya, typical of its political history, got a hung House after results were declared, reports Rahul Karmakar and Syed Sajjad Ali.
Updated on Mar 08, 2008 02:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar & Syed Sajjad Ali, Guwahati/agartala
Meghalaya registers 70% turnout
Elections to the 60-member House in Meghalaya were peaceful barring clashes in the CM's constituency, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Mar 03, 2008 07:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Polls in the shadow of the gun and jumbo
It's not just militants that voters in Meghalaya have to contend with. As many as 194 polling booths in the state have been labeled sensitive due to the threat from marauding elephants, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Mar 03, 2008 12:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Shillong
Bhutan haven for Maoists, N-E ultras
Democracy has its downside. That's what monarchial Bhutan is finding out along the porous 605 km border it shares with India. So are the Indian states bordering the Himalayan country, specially militancy-scarred Assam, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Feb 26, 2008 01:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Samdrup Jongkhar
Migrants, cattle smugglers & ‘unfencable' rivers
With the large number of 'unfencable' rivers, streams and nullahs that crisscross the region, and with smugglers, bandits, militants and illegal migrants forever trying to slip across, the Indo-Bangladesh border is in fact anything but peaceful, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Feb 25, 2008 06:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Mankachar (assam)
Trouble in the name of the father
In matrilineal Meghalaya, fathers are second-class citizens. This is what a few candidates, who had their political baptism in the name of their fathers, are finding out, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Feb 25, 2008 01:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Shillong/tura
Crisp, fake currency steals through fence
There are probably more crisp currency notes circulating in the area around the river Bandra in Meghalaya than in the posh Mumbai locality of the same name. But these notes are counterfeit, reports RKarmakar.
Updated on Feb 23, 2008 01:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Purakhasia (meghalaya)
Meet Frankenstein & Hitler in Meghalaya
Frankenstein and Adolf Hitler will slug it out in the hills of Meghalaya on March 3. Are you thinking Mary Shelley or the Holocaust? Give it a rest. These are some of the names of the candidate in the upcoming polls. Rahul Karmakar reports.
Updated on Feb 14, 2008 02:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Shillong
Northeast’s frontier province
The Red Army’s last post before retreating, Bomdila in Arunachal, is the abode of a living god, writes Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Feb 08, 2008 08:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar | Urban Gypsy
PM rains sops on Arunachal
The sun seemed to shine especially for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he arrived in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday and proceeded to rain sops on the frontier state, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Feb 01, 2008 03:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Buy a flat and get a painting free
In what could be the most artistic of all freebies, a construction firm in Delhi has come up with a “creative” scheme: buy an apartment, get a painting free. A report by Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Jan 31, 2008 11:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, New Delhi
SMS campaign to save rhino
Animal lovers have started an SMS campaign, in which the words of a dying rhino are being circulated. Rahul Karmakar reports.
Updated on Jan 29, 2008 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Turbulent paradise
There is is simmering anger among the locals in Tawang against China’s ‘revised’ claim on their territory and it is directed more against New Delhi for playing safe on the issue, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Jan 26, 2008 10:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Tawang
Gujarat worry for Nagaland Congress
The Congress in poll-bound Nagaland has a major worry—whether or not to apply the Gujarat experiment vis-à-vis NDA rebels who helped oust the Neiphiu Rio government, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Jan 23, 2008 02:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Guwahati zoo rhino dies of anthrax
A male rhino died of suspected anthrax in the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati on Tuesday. Zoo authorities said, “Clinical observations suggest it died of anthrax, but we need some time to be 100 per cent sure.” Rahul Karmakar reports.
Updated on Jan 22, 2008 05:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Our seven ‘step-sisters’?
Worse, northeasterners who band together elsewhere in India often undermine each other back home, writes Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Jan 13, 2008 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Assam editor sets up sports academy
Thirteen years after he gave India the concept of a sports day, Balendra Mohan Chakrabarty has given shape to an athletics academy. Rahul Karmakar tells us.
Updated on Dec 31, 2007 03:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Something fishy in Brahmaputra
Thousands of dead fish are found floating in the river, substantiating the claims that some fishermen are using toxic substances to catch fish during winter, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Dec 19, 2007 03:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Suicide over ticket denial
The clamour for panchayat poll tickets in Assam claims one of Ulfa commander-in-chief Paresh Barua’s neighbours in Jeraigaon village as the first victim, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Dec 18, 2007 03:00 AM IST
None | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Grin and beer it at Decemberfest
It's not a patch on Oktoberfest, and Dimapur is no Munich, but “Decemberfest” or the Rice Festival is time to cheer for the people of Nagaland reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Dec 18, 2007 03:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Terror’s new face in Assam
In a state where older, bigger outfits grab most of the attention, lesser groups often have to make an explosive statement to announce their arrival, reports Rahul Karmakar.
Updated on Dec 14, 2007 02:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
‘Horny’ rhino goes dateless for 33 yrs
He is the odd ‘man’ out for he has never had a chance to show his manhood despite a bevy of armour-plated belles around him. Rahul Karmakar tells us more. Read on...
Updated on Dec 12, 2007 02:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Guwahati
Assam ginger farmers use plastic money
Carrying cash can be a liability in militant country. So 3,500 small and marginal ginger farmers became possessors of the G-Card or the ginger card. Rahul Karmakar tells us...
Updated on Dec 09, 2007 10:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rahul Karmakar, Diphu (karbi Anglong)