Rajesh Kumar Singh is Assistant Editor, Hindustan Times at the political bureau in Lucknow. Along with covering politics, he covers government departments. He also travels to write human interest and investigative stories.
Articles by Rajesh Kumar Singh
Dream honestly, start small?
He?s got 70 children. They love him for his heart of gold and caring ways. It?s another matter, he never married. But, nevertheless, Singaporean Ravi Rai knows well how to look after his ?family?.
Published on Mar 24, 2006 12:36 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh
Engineers, docs make common cause
ENGINEERS AND doctors with various government departments plan to form a Technocrat Association. What has prompted the move is the fact that about 500 Indian Administrative Service officers and 1,000 Provincial Civil Service officers have been walking away with promotion, salary hike, higher posts and better service condition. Besides, IAS officers have captured top posts belonging to engineers and doctors? cadre.
Published on Mar 23, 2006 12:39 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Lab training may not be ticket for job
ALTHOUGH THE Health Department has invited 2,500 unemployed youths to appear in an interview for training of Laboratory Assistant (Rural), the selected youths, after completing the training, may not get jobs.
Published on Mar 20, 2006 01:17 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Now, IAS have to face more contenders
THE INDIAN Administrative Service (IAS) officers will soon face challenge from another front as the Non-Civil Service officials, including engineers and doctors, have decided to demand their cadre posts ?captured by IAS officials?.
Published on Mar 19, 2006 12:48 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Plan charted to deal with bird flu
THOUGH no case of avian influenza (bird flu) has been reported in the State, the Health Department has geared up to fight any emergency situation arising out of the bird flu. A meeting of the core group was held under the chairmanship of Agriculture Production Commissioner Naveen Chandra Bajpai here on Friday.The members of the group, including the officers of Health Department, Forest and Animal Husbandry Department, decided to divide the state into five zones and appoint a nodal officer in each zone.
Published on Mar 18, 2006 01:17 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
e-surveillance to health dept rescue
THE HEALTH Department has planned to resolve the mystery of missing government doctors through e-surveillance. The computer software and Internet will keep track of all 9,000 doctors who had joined the Provincial Medical Health Services (PMHS).
Published on Mar 15, 2006 01:29 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Sonia Vihar may go thirsty for 5 more yrs
EVEN AS UP and Delhi are in rough and tumble over the water issue, the Rs 800-crore Sonia Vihar Treatment Plant in the national capital may live with parched throat for another five years.
Published on Mar 03, 2006 01:22 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Science, tech can bridge urban-rural divide: Rahul
AMETHI MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said science and technology could be effective tool to bridge urban and rural divide in the country. It will not only make the villages self-dependent, but fulfill the dream of the rural youths too, he said.
Published on Feb 19, 2006 01:12 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Bahadurpur Jais (rae Bareli)
1,400 chickens die in Etawah
SUSPECTED BIRD flu killed around 1,400 chickens in Bakewar town of Etawah district on Saturday. The State Animal Husbandry Department has sounded an alert.
Published on Feb 19, 2006 01:12 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Cobras take over UP hospital
When a health department team came to the Basantpur Community Health Centre in Siddharthnagar district on an inspection tour, it received an unusual greeting.
Published on Feb 18, 2006 07:44 PM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Cobras take over UP hospital
When a health department team came to the Basantpur Community Health Centre in Siddharthnagar district on an inspection tour, it received an unusual greeting.
Updated on Feb 15, 2006 02:53 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
CHC: COBRA HAUNTED CENTRE
GUESS WHO all wecomed a Health Department team which went inspecting the Basantpur Community Health Centre (CHC) located in Siddharthnagar district. No, they were not the properly dress staff members manning the CHC. There was hardly any soul around. Instead, the team was greeted by some full-grown cobras roaming in the deserted OPD and operation theatre. So is the condition of our CHCs.
Published on Feb 14, 2006 01:21 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Govt, FCI to go for wheat procurements
ONCE BITTEN twice shy! With wheat price skyrocketing, both the State Government and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have planned to go in for wheat procurement at the end of March. Secretary, Food and Public Distribution, RN Das, along with a battery of Union Agriculture Department officials, will be in the city on Tuesday to discuss the strategy of wheat procurement with State Government officials.
Published on Feb 04, 2006 01:46 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
New medical college in city, soon
THE CITY will have a new medical college and a super specialty hospital soon. Both will be part of the upcoming Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS), Gomti Nagar.
Published on Feb 03, 2006 01:37 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Chinese vaccine to fight Japanese Encephalitis
THE CENTRAL Government has decided to counter Japanese Encephalitis with Chinese vaccine. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to import a single dose tissue culture Chinese vaccine called ?SA14-14-2? for a vaccination programme in the districts of east UP.
Published on Feb 03, 2006 01:05 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Past blocks road to the future
The proposed East-West corridor on National Highway 25 has run into a 3,000-year-old road block - the ghost of an ancient civilization.
Published on Feb 01, 2006 01:35 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Past blocks road to future
A 3,000-YEAR-OLD ?ghost? has blocked the 21st century East-West Corridor on the National Highway-25! The ?ghost? here is the remains of an ancient civilisation in Jajmau mounds that fall exactly in the way of the under-construction 4-lane Lucknow-Kanpur Highway. This highway forms the part of the East-West Corridor connecting Porbandar (Gujarat) with Silchar in the North-East.
Updated on Feb 01, 2006 01:35 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Kya karein, kya na karein
THOUGH THE number of liquor consumers has increased in Uttar Pradesh, the sale of liquor is still insignificant and reaching revenue targets is proving to be an uphill task for the Excise Department.
Published on Jan 29, 2006 01:13 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
UP fought JE with limestone dust!
INSTEAD OF insecticides, bags packed with limestone dust were supplied to the districts to control mosquito-borne diseases. The report of the laboratory test states that not only sub-standard insecticides but also limestone dust were packed in bags and supplied to districts for routine spray and fogging works.
Published on Jan 24, 2006 01:21 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Bitter pill: 1 out 4 drugs is spurious
RECOVERY OF huge stock of fake drugs at Aligarh is just the tip of the iceberg. The industry in Uttar Pradesh is churning out fake drugs worth around Rs 400 crore per annum when the Central Government proposes to award death penalty to those charged with manufacturing and trading spurious drugs. One out of four tablets sold in the market is spurious, the report states the report submitted by the Public Analyst Laboratory (PAL).
Published on Jan 20, 2006 01:05 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
The archaeologists of old Ganjing
THEIR RENDEZVOUS with city of ?nawabs? began in 1967 and Lucknawi culture fascinated them. The archaeologist couples Jean-Francois Jarrige and Catherine Jarrige from Paris are back in the city after a gap of over three decades to attend the seminar organized by Directorate of Archaeology.
Published on Jan 19, 2006 12:13 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh
High on saffron, Uma says BJP is hers; plans another yatra
EXPELLED BJP leader Uma Bharti on Saturday slammed senior party leaders for "giving up the ideology on the basis of which the party was formed" and said: "Ideologically, the BJP belongs to me."
Published on Jan 15, 2006 08:19 PM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ayodhya
Now, Uma plans Janadesh Yatra
FIREBRAND SANYASIN Uma Bharti on Saturday said the BJP belonged to her ideologically and that Rajnath Singh should constitute a new political party. ?BJP leaders, including LK Advani, have forsaken the ideology on which BJP was formed and they have lost the confidence of party workers. BJP flag and lotus symbol belongs to me since I am committed to the saffron ideology?, she said. Riding on the success of the ?Ram Roti Yatra?, Uma announced that she would launch another yatra Janadesh Yatra on February 6 from the holy town of Vindhyachal, in Mirzapur district.
Published on Jan 15, 2006 12:32 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ayodhya
Uma Bharti sings the ?Ram dhun? yet again
UMA BHARTI is back in Ayodhya from where it all began for her. The firebrand sanyasin from Tikamgarh (MP) began her political journey from Ayodhya riding on the Ram Janmbhoomi movement wave. Dumped by the BJP, she again plans to start her pilgrimage to power on Ram temple issue only.
Published on Jan 14, 2006 01:15 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ayodhya
Dacoit?s son is panchayat chief
Dacoits of Uttar Pradesh celebrated a special election victory on Tuesday.
Published on Jan 12, 2006 02:26 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
45 govt blood banks sans licences
IN AN era when HIV is playing havoc with the lives of millions of people worldwide, 45 government blood banks in the state are running without valid licences. The chief secretary and the secretary to the CM know it but they have so far failed to get the issue probed.
Published on Jan 10, 2006 01:20 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
The ?first farmer? belonged to (UP) India, says ASI
CHINA?S ?FIRST farmer? crown is up for grabs! Archaeological findings in Lahuradeva in Sant Kabir Nagar district have indicated that the Middle Ganga Valley (Uttar Pradesh) might have been home to the First Farmer.
Published on Jan 09, 2006 01:08 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
MIDDAY DISASTER
SCHOOLS IN Uttar Pradesh are inundated by schemes these days. There is no dearth of money either, as the government has released fund generously for the success of the programme. It has introduced the midday meal scheme, Kanya Vidya Dhan Yojana, scholarships, free dress, free textbooks to lure parents to send their wards to schools.
Published on Jan 08, 2006 12:45 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh
Murder before multi-cr scam expose
HE KNEW all the tricks applied by corrupt officers to embezzle government fund. But before he could blow the whistle the tricksters murdered him. Though a multi-crore scam has been unearthed at Rae Bareli but the Health Department is yet to initiate action against the corrupt officers. A senior assistant in the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) office at Rae Bareli, SK Lal was member of a gang involved in siphoning off government fund. Later he had a tiff with other members and decided to expose them. But Lal was murdered.
Published on Jan 07, 2006 01:50 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
2100 units but no ?checks?
LICENCES HAVE been issued to 2100 units to manufacture ayurvedic drugs, but the State doesn?t have a properly equipped laboratory or expertise to test or detect adulteration in such medicines.
Published on Jan 06, 2006 01:00 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow