Rakesh Goswami leads Hindustan Times’ bureau in Rajasthan. He loves to write on social issues and has been a journalist for 20 years, including 8 years as a broadcast journalist.
Articles by Rakesh Goswami
RLP demanded CBI probe in alleged suicide of Rajasthan cop, launches campaign
Vishnu Dutt Vishnoi, station house officer of Rajgarh police station, allegedly committed suicide on Saturday morning.
Published on May 28, 2020 07:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh employ drones to kill locusts
According to global forecast by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), in addition to the current outbreak, locust swarms from new areas can also enter the Indian border from June 22.
Updated on May 27, 2020 11:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Jaipur | Ranjan and Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Ashutosh Tripathi
Rajasthan high court grants bail to second accused in Rakbar lynching case
The trial in the lynching case of 2018 will resume in Alwar on June 1.
Published on May 27, 2020 03:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Sabir Hussain
How Rajasthan forest department created jobs in tendu leaf collection during Covid-19 lockdown
Tendu leaf is used to wrap bidis. Leaves of many other plants are also used to as bidis in different parts of the country but traders said the texture, flavour and workability of tendu leaves are unmatchable.
Updated on May 25, 2020 03:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Sparshita Saxena
Locusts swarm in Rajasthan’s Jaipur, move towards Dausa
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s Desert Locust Information Service bulletin says that locusts can fly up to 150km in a day and a one-square-kilometre swarm can eat as much food as 35,000 people, in terms of weight, in a single day
Updated on May 25, 2020 12:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Meenakshi Ray
Rajasthan govt identify migrant workers, distribute them free ration for 2 months
The Centre’s free five kg wheat sop is aimed at migrant workers, who are not beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA).
Updated on May 22, 2020 04:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Reach of locusts wider due to lack of crops
According to the officials, swarms were now reported from districts such as Bundi, Sikar, Pratapgarh and Chittorgarh, hundreds of kilometres from the border.
Updated on May 21, 2020 04:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Rajasthan spent Rs 2.69 crore on sending migrants home
Fare for trains carrying students were paid by the respective state governments. Fourteen of the 16 trains with students went to Bihar and the remaining two to Jharkhand. Many students returned home by buses later.
Published on May 20, 2020 08:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Rajasthan battles locust invasion in 16 of 33 districts
The Locust Warning Organization (LWO) of the Union ministry of agriculture and farmer welfare warned of another attack in May-June this year.
Updated on May 20, 2020 05:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Sabir Hussain
Rajasthan records highest single-day spike of 242 Covid-19 cases
Health officials said the 242 cases reported on Sunday include 60 from Jaipur, 43 from Jodhpur, 18 from Dungarpur and 14 from Pali.
Published on May 17, 2020 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Walking back home from Rajasthan, migrant workers find shelter in schools
All across India, thousands of migrant workers along with their families have been walking home from cities and urban centres during the lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Updated on May 16, 2020 10:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami |Edited by Anubha Rohatgi
Rajasthan students learning with SMILE during lockdown
The 37-year-old government schoolteacher posted secondary school reminds the parents the video has landed in mobile phone of parents and that they should show it to their children.
Updated on May 15, 2020 06:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Rajasthan: Over 1.6 lakh job cards added under MGNREGA in the past two months
On Monday morning, deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, who holds the rural development portfolio, announced the state government’s unprecedented feat via a tweet amid the raging coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.
Updated on May 11, 2020 06:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
A third of Rajasthan districts report no or 1-2 active Covid-19 cases
Out of Rajasthan’s 33 districts, two have no coronavirus cases, five have one case each and two have two active Covid-19 cases.
Updated on May 10, 2020 05:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Sparshita Saxena
Contagious skin disease hits desert foxes in Rajasthan, ecologists raise alarm
Mange was first reported in the national park in 2006. After that, every year, the occurrence has increased.
Updated on May 08, 2020 12:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi
More than half of Covid-19 cases in Rajasthan have recovered: Govt data
The national recovery rate was 27.66%; but Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh had a better recovery rate, the data, as of Tuesday, showed.
Updated on May 07, 2020 10:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Rajasthan cop readies for return to duty after recovering from Covid-19
Soran, who was the first policeman to contract the disease in Jaipur, was more worried about the 15 policemen he stayed with at a barrack, and luckily only one of them contracted the disease.
Updated on May 05, 2020 06:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Will pay for fares of migrant workers taking trains from Rajasthan: Gehlot
“On directions of Sonia Gandhi, we have decided that the state government will pay the rail fare of migrant workers going from Rajasthan to other states,” chief minister Ashok Gehlot tweeted on Monday.
Updated on May 04, 2020 10:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rakesh Goswami and Aabshar H Quazi
More than 1,000 pilgrims stranded in Ajmer leave for West Bengal
This is the third train of the North Western Railway to be used for evacuation.
Published on May 04, 2020 05:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Sabir Hussain
First cop to get infected in Jaipur’s Covid-19 hotspot tests negative, raring to get back to work
The police constable is posted in Manak Chowk police station, one of the first police stations in Jaipur to go under curfew on March 24.
Updated on May 04, 2020 01:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Sparshita Saxena
‘Last Holi, he came unannounced. It turned out to be his last visit’: Col Sharma’s family
Four Army personnel and a police sub-inspector died in a gun battle in Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Sunday morning.
Updated on May 03, 2020 06:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami | Edited by Sohini Sarkar
Rajasthan has fewer red zone districts, 7th on nationwide list
Following the videoconference by the Cabinet secretary with chief secretaries of states on April 30, the list classifying districts as red, orange and green zones was sent to all states.
Updated on May 01, 2020 03:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Rajasthan’s revenue fell by 70% in April
The state was expected to earn ₹6,800 crore through tax and GST compensation and ₹1,600 primarily through royalties from mining and petroleum activities.
Updated on Apr 30, 2020 05:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
70% revenue shortfall in Rajasthan, finances in bad shape
The state targeted to earn Rs ,6800 crore through tax and GST compensation, and Rs 1,600 crore of non-tax revenue, which is primarily royalty from mining and petroleum activities.
Updated on Apr 29, 2020 10:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Jaipur surgeons question non-sterile PPE kits; administration points to cost factor, supple delay
The administration of the SMS Hospital, the premier institution in the state, has said on its part that procuring sterile kits will add to the cost and lead to a delay in supply so they were getting non-sterile kits that can be sterilised in OT sterilisation units before use.
Published on Apr 28, 2020 03:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Rajasthan govt to track medical history of 60-plus population in Covid-19 containment zones
Authorities said that in Jaipur’s Covid-19 outbreak zone Ramganj, there are about 10,140 people above the age of 60.
Updated on Apr 27, 2020 09:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Rajasthan reports 102 new Covid-19 cases, tally rises to 2,185
Covid-19 has claimed 41 live so far in Rajasthan.
Updated on Apr 27, 2020 05:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
46 people discharged from Covid-19 hospitals in Jaipur, highest so far
According to the state health department’s medical bulletin on Sunday morning, 244 people had been discharged in Rajasthan even as the number of recovered cases was 513.
Updated on Apr 26, 2020 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Rajasthan to organise passage for migrant workers: Gehlot
Ashok Gehlot said the state government wants to send all migrants workers to their homes safely and expected their support.
Updated on Apr 26, 2020 08:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami
Covid-19: Rajasthan spends Rs 2,440 on each person in quarantine centres
Thee are more than 23,000 people in government quarantine facilities across Rajasthan.
Updated on Apr 23, 2020 04:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | Rakesh Goswami