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
Grade 2 paper leak: Exam mafiosi made 'clients' pawn docs
The police claimed to have arrested over 20 people across the state in connection with Grade 2 paper leak amid boycott of social science examination by candidates at Jaipur on Sunday who alleged another paper leak.
Updated on Feb 24, 2014 03:29 PM IST
None | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Vadra land deal probe in Rajasthan may be an exercise in futility
The Vasundhara Raje government's probe into the allegedly dubious land deals by Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, may yield nothing, legal experts and revenue department officials have said.
Updated on Feb 09, 2014 11:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Raje bulldozes Congress, unifies BJP ranks
Raje's efforts to rein in infighting within the party have paid off with huge victory. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on Dec 10, 2013 04:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Rahul misfires, Modi scores in Rajasthan
Local Congress leaders say Rahul Gandhi’s leadership actually marred party's prospects. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on Dec 10, 2013 04:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Rajputs bury gotra row, back Diya
The reason is tactical rather than social, and for the moment, the former seems to have overridden the latter.
Updated on Dec 07, 2013 03:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Sawai Madhopur
Divide-and-rule politics is Congress’s character: Modi
In the five public meetings that he addressed in Rajasthan today, BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi restricted himself to bashing the Congress and the party’s supposed “divisive and rule” strategy.
Updated on Nov 19, 2013 11:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Sawai Madhopur
Gehlot too arrogant to learn from Gujarat: Modi
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot's arrogance prevents him from learning anything from the Gujarat development model, said Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, on Tuesday.
Updated on Nov 19, 2013 09:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Sawai Madhopur
Raje rewards MLAs who stood by her last year
All those who had stood by Vasundhara Raje when she threatened to resign from the primary membership last year, have been adjusted in the first list of the BJP announced on Tuesday. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on Nov 06, 2013 10:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
In her new avatar, Vasundhara Raje takes party, RSS along
Over time, the BJP leader has emerged as a leader of the masses. Now, she seems more calm and controlled, with no fuzzy emotions clouding her political ambitions.
Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Modi-mantra: Courting tribals to crack electoral maths
The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi might have had his guns trained on Rahul Gandhi, but his eyes were firmly set on the electoral maths of Rajasthan.
Updated on Oct 27, 2013 01:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Udaipur
Narendra Modi keeps up attack on 'shahzada'
The BJP’s PM candidate made another scathing attack on Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in his Udaipur rally, saying nobody understood what “shahzada” was talking about.
Updated on Nov 04, 2013 03:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Udaipur
Youth in Muzaffarnagar contacted by ISI: officials deny Rahul's claims
Barring a few intercepts of calls made to victims from Pakistan, HT has learnt that there is little to support Gandhi’s startling contention.
Updated on Oct 27, 2013 11:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh & Saikat Datta, Jaipur/new Delhi
Inside the war room: How BJP, Congress plan to win Rajasthan
The Congress headquarters in Jaipur has been given a fresh coat of paint, and the opposition BJP is taking precautionary measures to contain internal differences. A snap-shot of war-rooms in Rajasthan which drive that effort.
Updated on Oct 25, 2013 10:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh and Sachin Saini
Endgame of India’s unclean politics?
Will the mighty Lalu’s sentencing — coming a day after the cabinet reversed its decision to overturn a Supreme Court judgment that said legislators would immediately lose seats on conviction — cleanse Indian politics? HT reports.
Updated on Oct 04, 2013 02:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sravani Sarkar, Rashpal Singh, Ejaz Kaiser & Rahul Karmakar, New Delhi
BJP desperate to nail Gehlot govt
Worried over the clean image the chief minister Ashok Gehlot presumably enjoys, the BJP is restrategising its plan to take him head-on.
Updated on Oct 02, 2013 09:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Ex-Rajasthan minister Babulal Nagar’s wife had complained of ill treatment
Babulal Nagar’s wife Sunita Nagar, who defended him on Friday, had accused him of domestic violence for opposing his illicit relations in 2002 and 2003.
Updated on Sep 21, 2013 01:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
'Tunda' confusion: Jaipur cops confused over LeT bomb maker's 'namesake'
Abdul Karim Tunda, 45, name sake of LeT bomb maker arrested by Delhi police, confused the city police on Saturday when they came to know that a person named Tunda was booked for attack on people of a travel agency at Vidhayakpuri police station. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on Aug 17, 2013 09:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Much-married, and game for more
Krishna Venkatesh, 45, is the male version of a gold digger. He has defrauded more than 20 women of their money and valuables after befriending them online and marrying three of them, and now landed in the custody of the police. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on Jul 10, 2013 01:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Spot-fixing: Jaipur police had arrested Jupiter, failed to investigate deeper
With the name of Jupiter cropping up in the spot-fixing investigations, the Jaipur police are feeling dejected as they missed a chance to expose the scam last year when they had arrested him on charges of betting. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on May 24, 2013 05:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Board tipped off Jaipur cops
It seems the BCCI had sniffed spot-fixing in T20 matches because of which a team of the apex cricket body had approached Jaipur city police during the first week of May after the police busted a cartel of bookies. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on May 19, 2013 02:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Jaipur: Eight eat poison to meet God, five die
A photographer’s intense desire for sakshaat darshan (personified sight) of Lord Shiva has led to his death along with four family members, the police said today, reports Rashpal Singh.
Updated on Mar 29, 2013 01:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
MHA official suspected of spying for Pak, held
The Rajasthan police on Monday arrested a home ministry employee on charges of passing on secret information and sharing sensitive documents with alleged Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agent Sumar Khan, 35.
Updated on Mar 05, 2013 01:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur/new Delhi
Major gets 3 yrs in jail for leaking information
Relations with an American national have cost an army major his job. The woman hailing from USA also paid the army major Rs. 17.5 lakh.
Updated on Feb 14, 2013 01:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Woman air force officer ends life
A woman squadron leader of the IAF, Anandita Das, 29, has reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her residence at Jodhpur Air Force Station, 340 km from Jaipur, in Rajasthan, Rashpal Singh & Suresh Vyas report.
Updated on Nov 28, 2012 11:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh & Suresh Vyas, Jaipur, Jodhpur
Girls should not use mobiles: Raj caste leaders
After the khap panchayats of Haryana, the caste leaders of Rajasthan have trained their guns on girls carrying cellphones. Covering faces with scarves is also being frowned upon. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on Nov 02, 2012 02:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Poverty forces Bihar couple to miss son's funeral rites
As India celebrates its Independence Day, the misfortune of this couple from a remote village in Bihar underscores just how far the country still has to go. Avijit Biswas and Rashpal Singh report.
Updated on Aug 16, 2012 01:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Biswas & Rashpal Singh, Bhagalpur/jaipur
Good news from Sariska, tiger cub born after 4 yrs
The Sariska Tiger Reserve, which had lost all its big cats by 2004 to rampant poaching, has welcomed the first birth of a tiger cub on its soil after a four-year wait.
Updated on Aug 08, 2012 11:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Armed with Kargil soil, fraudster strikes gold
Can the soil of Kargil be converted into gold? A Jaipur-based trader has literally paid for being gullible to this extent.
Updated on Jun 25, 2012 12:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Child bride breaks glass ceiling
Santra Meena, 24, is not willing to accept the “drunkard” she married when she was a minor girl of 13.
Updated on Jun 20, 2012 12:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
MBA sarpanch bitter, disillusioned
Two years on, 31-yr-old MBA Sarpanch Chhavi Rajawat, who created a stir when she spoke at a UN meet on rural development in March 2011, appears to have run into old India — of gender bias, bureaucratic indifference and political interference. Rashpal Singh reports.
Updated on Apr 02, 2012 02:06 AM IST
Hindustantimes.com | Rashpal Singh, Jaipur