Rashpal Singh covers socio-economic and development issues in Gurgaon and adjoining districts. A journalist for over a decade with stints in Shimla, Chandigarh and Jaipur, he also writes on transport, local administration and the district BJP.
Articles by Rashpal Singh
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje leaves out detractors in first ministry expansion
Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje carried out her first cabinet expansion on Monday, leaving out her detractors but giving ample hints of the RSS stamp on her government.
Updated on Oct 27, 2014 08:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Police probe indicted Congress govt in Ambulance scam
The previous Congress government helped Ziqitza healthcare, a private firm, to get contracts to operate ambulances and turned a blind eye to several instances of irregularities in billing and purchase of medical items, a Rajasthan police investigation had concluded.
Updated on Oct 21, 2014 09:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Ambulance case: With Gehlot, Pilot accused, Raje agrees to CBI inquiry
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje on Monday gave the nod for recommending a CBI inquiry into a case of irregularities in ambulance operations in which Congress' Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot are named.
Updated on Oct 21, 2014 03:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Mehrishi shifting deepens vacuum in Rajasthan's top bureaucracy
Rajasthan is scurrying to fill a vacuum at the top echelons of the bureaucracy after chief secretary Rajiv Mehrishi became the latest civil servant to be shifted to the Centre.
Updated on Oct 16, 2014 08:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
‘Govt decisions, controversial speeches annoyed masses’
The state government’s decisions about integration of schools, limiting scope of free medicine scheme, reviewing the pension scheme, and controversial statements by the BJP leaders played a major role in party’s defeat
Updated on Sep 16, 2014 11:22 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Past proud, present tense, future uncertain for Digamber Singh
The assembly by-poll result of Surajgarh seat has served as a double blow to former health minister Digamber Singh who recently lost the assembly election from Deeg-Kumher seat in December last year
Updated on Sep 16, 2014 11:15 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Delhi men held for posing as IB, military officers
A Delhi property dealer posing as the director general of intelligence bureau and his accomplice who impersonated as a colonel working with defence ministry were arrested in Sikar, Rajasthan, on Monday, the police said.
Updated on Aug 18, 2014 09:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Indian dies of heart attack after blast in Iraq
The strife in Iraq just got very personal for the family of Shrawan Kumar — from a village in Sikar district — who died of a heart attack in Najaf, a city in the war-torn Gulf country.
Updated on Jun 23, 2014 10:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Winged guests skip date with fast-drying Sambhar Lake
The arrival of migratory birds at Sambhar Lake is decreasing year by year.
Updated on May 04, 2014 11:14 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Narendra Modi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee to be in school syllabus soon
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is still far from the Prime Minister’s chair. But that has not stopped Rajasthan education minister Kali Charan Saraf from planning to introduce a chapter on Modi’s ‘life and struggles’ in the school curriculum.
Updated on May 02, 2014 08:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh and P Srinivasan, Jaipur
Peaceful voting in Rajasthan result of live webcast in LS polls
Peaceful voting in Rajasthan result of live webcast in LS polls
Updated on Apr 27, 2014 04:43 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Only caste matters here, not development, employment
In Bharatpur and Karauli-Dholpur, upper and general castes usually abstain from voting, as the candidates are from reserved categories, say sources
Updated on Apr 25, 2014 12:09 AM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Dausa/bharatpur
Live: 5 remaining Rajasthan seats vote today
Polling for the Lok Sabha elections conclude in Rajasthan on Thursday as voters cast their ballot in the five remaining seats in the sixth phase of the world's biggest vote.
Updated on Apr 24, 2014 08:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Pilot, Dushyant and several other candidates in Rajasthan fail to cast vote
While the political leaders kept instilling in the people the importance of voting, over a dozen candidates failed to cast their votes on Thursday.
Updated on Apr 18, 2014 02:48 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Don't talk about cash here, Ramdev to BJP nominee
Yoga guru Ramdev faced embarrassment when, at a press conference, he didn't let BJP candidate Mahant Chandnath Yogi speak about the 'difficulty in getting money for electioneering'. A microphone that was on gave him away.
Updated on Apr 18, 2014 08:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
D-Day for Rajasthan Cong, BJP
The high-voltage poll battle will on Thursday reach Rajasthan where voters are set to decide the fate of 239 candidates in the month-long Lok Sabha elections.
Updated on Apr 16, 2014 11:52 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Rajasthan royals’ affair with politics began 63 years ago
The Rajasthan royals’ romance with politics dates back to 1951 when the former Maharaja of Jodhpur, Hanwant Singh formed a political outfit, a union of independent candidates, and contested the elections. With his election office in Mehrangarh Fort and camel as the party symbol, Singh told the masses, "Main thansu door nahin (I am not far from you).”
Updated on Apr 15, 2014 11:04 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Modi mania in Rajasthan pushes real issues to the backseat
Vote for Modi — a slogan that can be heard from all corners of India. And when it comes to poll related issues, a majority of candidates and senior party leaders of both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are trapped in the 'Modi' mania. While all the BJP candidates and senior leaders, including chief minister Vasundhara Raje, are seeking votes on the name of the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the Congress candidates and leaders are dissuading people from being carried away by the Modi wave.
Updated on Apr 15, 2014 10:57 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh & Sachin Saini, Jaipur
Jaswant supports BJP rebel in Sikar constituency
Former union minister and expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh has announced support for Subhash Maharia who is contesting as an independent candidate from Sikar seat after being denied election ticket by the saffron party.
Updated on Apr 15, 2014 05:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
History repeats itself in Barmer, Scindia scion takes on a Rajput
A 77-year-old former fauji is traversing the deserts of the largest parliamentary constituency — Barmer — in the scorching heat of 42 degree Celsius. The fauji — Jaswant Singh Jasol — a former BJP member, who held important portfolios in the NDA government at the Centre, is not daring the heat and the dust of the cruel summer here just to enter Parliament for “one last time”. It’s a huge prestige issue between him and chief minister Vasundhara Raje, who belongs to the Scindia clan.
Updated on Apr 14, 2014 11:20 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Politicians hide social media accounts from election panel
Politicians are making maximum use of social media and online platforms to contact the masses, especially the voters, but majority of them shy away when it comes to disclosing those accounts to the Election Commission.
Updated on Apr 08, 2014 10:55 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
BJP hesitant to take action against Manvendra Singh
The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) did not wait even to serve a show cause notice to former Union minister Jaswant Singh and expelled him from party within hours of his refusal to withdraw his nomination as an independent from Barmer.
Updated on Apr 07, 2014 11:29 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Tonk octogenarian loses deposit but not heart
Eighty-seven-year-old Maulana Wajid Ali Khan, the oldest contestant in Rajasthan, has once again thrown his gauntlet at other candidates much younger to him. Khan has made a record of sorts. Since 1970, he has been standing in elections but never managed to save his security deposits leave alone winning a seat. Nonetheless he is hopeful that he would win an election one-day.
Updated on Apr 07, 2014 11:26 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Jaswant expelled, but his support worries BJP unit
Former Union minister Jaswant Singh's expulsion from the BJP after he decided to contest from Barmer as independent has left the state unit wary of his support base among various communities.
Updated on Mar 30, 2014 10:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
IM surveyed Chandni Chowk, Palika Bazar: police
The Jodhpur police and the Anti-Terrorism Squad on Tuesday arrested three more Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, including Barkat Ali, who reportedly divulged plans to strike Chandni Chowk and Palika Bazar in Delhi.
Updated on Mar 25, 2014 09:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh and Suresh Vyas, Jaipur/jodhpur
Arrests IM's sinister designs in Rajsthan
Banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen had managed to raise sleeper cells and enlist local sympathisers to carry out terror-related activities from Jaipur and Jodhpur.
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 08:36 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Rajasthan: 4 IM terrorists nabbed, explosives seized
The special cell of Delhi Police arrested four suspected IM terrorists, including the outfit's chief bomb-maker, in a joint operation with the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad on Saturday, officials said on Sunday. Arrests of terrorists big success: Shinde
Updated on Mar 24, 2014 01:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh and Suresh Vyas, Delhi/jaipur
BJP may gamble with ‘outsiders’ in Rajasthan seats
The tussle over tickets among BJP stalwarts may repeat in Rajasthan too as the party might adjust some 'outsiders' in two to three Lok Sabha seats here.
Updated on Mar 11, 2014 11:44 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Indian Mujahideen laid seeds of Jodhpur module, says NIA
Terror outfit Indian Mujahideen had attempted putting in place a local module on the border of Jodhpur-Nagaur districts last year, a chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency has claimed.
Updated on Mar 09, 2014 04:55 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
BJP freshers to take on Cong stalwarts
The sweeping victory of 163 seats of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the assembly elections has decimated Congress to such ranks that even new faces in the party are daring to take on senior Congress leaders in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Updated on Feb 25, 2014 03:15 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur