Articles by S Raju
Curfew-bound Bareilly out of bounds for BJP team
Three Bharatiya Janata Party MPs wanting to probe what lay behind the communal violence in Bareilly were prevented from reaching the city on Sunday morning.
Updated on Mar 15, 2010 12:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey & S Raju, Bareilly
Jumbo disrupts BSP MP’s party
An elephant, the poll symbol of the Bahujan Samaj Party, caused a mammoth problem for a BSP legislator when it ran amok at his daughter’s wedding party here on Wednesday.
Updated on Feb 26, 2010 02:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S. Raju, Meerut
Dullu mausi and other dolphin tales
As the early morning rays of the winter sun descend on his riverside village in Narora, that lies in the Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh, Radheyshyam sets out for his day’s work scouring the placid Ganges for river dolphins. S Raju reports.
Updated on Jan 16, 2010 10:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju
Rana served Pak army as doctor for 16 years: kin
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the Canadian national of Pakistani origin and a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operative held in the US, visited the Taj Mahal in Agra 12 days before the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack, reports S Raju.
Updated on Nov 28, 2009 02:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S. Raju, Meerut
A bittersweet story
India continued sugar exports despite clear signs of a slump in production. Result: Consumers at home are paying the price, report Zia Haq and S Raju.
Updated on Nov 18, 2009 12:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Zia Haq/S Raju, New Delhi/meerut
Accused of incest, father-daughter kill 2
Upset over an incest charge, a father-daughter duo on Monday allegedly shot two persons dead in western Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnore district. Four other persons were injured in the shooting. S Raju reports.
Updated on Oct 06, 2009 02:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
23 years: From rags to heading a village
He used to beg from them till four years ago. Today, he is their village headman, and they’re proud of him. Dharamveer’s rise from beggary began in 2005 when Khaikheri village in western Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district was declared a scheduled caste panchayat, reports S Raju.
Updated on Oct 04, 2009 01:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
A prize rescue act in the Ganges
A river dolphin was rescued on Friday from the shallow parts of the Ganges near Narora in Bulandshahar district (Uttar Pradesh) and released in the deep waters of the stream 1 km away.
Updated on Sep 30, 2009 12:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
Reality bytes
Galaxy Network is now a popular name in Meerut. The TV station, set up 11 years ago to provide local news, has grown into a fully operative station with four channels: Galaxy Movie, Galaxy family, Galaxy Song on Demand and City Hulchul News. S. Raju reports.
Updated on Sep 05, 2009 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | S. Raju
Real life sach ka saamna ends in murder bid by husband
Inspired by controversial reality television show Sach ka Saamna (Facing the Truth), a man "persuaded" his wife to confess that one of their two children had been fathered by her lover and then slit her throat with a blade seriously injuring her.
Updated on Aug 20, 2009 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
Cornea transplant doc was once blind
As a child Dr Ashok Jain wanted to be a collector, but destiny had other plans. Jain, born in Punjab’s Moga district, took up boxing — following in the footsteps of his father, who had been a Royal Navy boxer. At a boxing championship in 1971, he lost his eyes.
Updated on Jul 02, 2009 02:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Saharanpur
In son’s death, Dalit couple breaks an ancient taboo
Four-month-old Lucky becomes country’s youngest cornea donor in a place where superstition says those who donate eyes are reborn blind, reports S Raju.
Updated on Jun 28, 2009 01:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S. Raju, Badheri Ghogho (saharanpur)
Hindu-Muslim couple marry, after 33 years
Thirty-four years after they fell in love, Abdul Rashid (54) and Chandni (50) got married a week ago. A local maulvi performed the nikaah ceremony at the MM Degree College in Moradabad, where Rashid works, on June 15. S Raju reports.
Updated on Jun 23, 2009 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
As SP bickers, Cong gets the edge in Rampur
The internecine battle within the Samajwadi Party over former actor Jayaprada’s nomination as its candidate for the Rampur seat in Uttar Pradesh continued unabated right up to the end of campaigning on Monday.
Updated on May 12, 2009 12:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju and Srinand Jha, Rampur/new Delhi
Amar, Azam face-off reaches flash point
The bad vibes between SP general secretaries Amar Singh and Azam Khan caught on with the two leaders' supporters who clashed in Rampur on Friday. M. Hasan and S. Raju report.
Updated on May 09, 2009 01:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | M. Hasan and S. Raju, Lucknow/meerut
Man kills 16-yr-old daughter, lover in UP
In yet another ‘honour’ killing in western Uttar Pradesh, a labourer murdered his daughter and her lover, a distant relative, in a jungle in Hastinapur and dumped the bodies into a river last week.
Updated on Apr 24, 2009 01:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
Amar threatens to quit over Azam
The continuing feud within the Samajwadi Party between general secretaries Amar Singh and Mohamed Azam Khan over the nomination of actor Jayaprada as party nominee for the Rampur seat in Uttar Pradesh, worsened on Tuesday, with Singh threatening to quit the party.
Updated on Apr 07, 2009 11:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | M. Hasan and S. Raju, Lucknow/ Meerut
To vote, Dalits must cross Jat hurdle
The dalits of Mavikala in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat constituency are living in fear. They have complained to the police that they are being pressured not to vote, but the police aren’t taking them seriously.
Updated on Apr 07, 2009 12:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Baghpat
Hunt for man-eater dogs
Young men, armed with iron rods and wooden staffs, are patrolling the roads and alleys of this village in the Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh since Saturday. Their mandate — “chase the stray dogs and kill them."
Updated on Mar 11, 2009 01:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Kazipur (meerut)
Ghariyals in familiar waters
In a bid to save the critically endangered ghariyals, the UP forest department and the World Wildlife Fund released 60 of them into the Ganga river next to this village in Meerut division, reports S Raju.
Updated on Feb 02, 2009 02:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Makhdoompur
Ghariyals released in Ganges
In a bid to save critically endangered crocodilian species Ghariyal the forest department in technical association with the WWF re introduced 60 of them in the upper Gangetic stream, reports S Raju.
Updated on Jan 30, 2009 07:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Makhdoompur( Hastinapur)
‘Kalyan’s son welcome to join SP’
Sunday’s reported meeting between Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh and BJP leader Kalyan Singh has given rise to speculation that Kalyan’s son Rajveer Singh may contest the Lok Sabha polls on an SP ticket, reports S. Raju.
Updated on Jan 19, 2009 11:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | S. Raju, Meerut
ISI mole held in Meerut
A Special Task Force team of the UP Police arrested one from Sadar area for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.
Updated on Jan 11, 2009 12:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
11 cops suspended for murder of traders
The Uttar Pradesh Govt has suspended 11 policemen, including a Superintendent of Police, Circle Officer and Inspector, after the brutal killing of three traders in Mandi Tatiri area of Baghpat district, reports S Raju.
Updated on Dec 12, 2008 12:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S. Raju, Meerut
14-day judicial custody for Meerut girl
Priyanka Singh, the former beauty queen arrested for allegedly killing her parents, and her friend and co-accused Anju were sent to 14-day judicial custody, reports S Raju.
Updated on Nov 19, 2008 12:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
Newborn burnt in incubator dies
A newborn who had suffered severe burns after the incubator in which he was kept had caught fire died in New Delhi’s Apollo hospital on Sunday night, reports S Raju.
Updated on Nov 18, 2008 02:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
Meerut beauty queen turns killer
Pushed to the edge by years of abuse and neglect, a former beauty queen killed her parents in a fit of rage, the police said, reports S Raju.
Updated on Nov 18, 2008 02:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
Hospital incubator fire burns newborn
A newborn suffered severe burn injuries after the incubator he was kept in caught fire on Saturday, at Sushila Jaswantrai Maternity Hospital in UP district of Meerut, 72 km north-east of Delhi.
Updated on Nov 17, 2008 12:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut
Mortar shell blast kills five in Meerut
Five people of a family of ragpickers were killed and at least six others injured in a blast in a scrap heap in Meerut, western Uttar Pradesh, reports S. Raju.
Updated on Nov 09, 2008 01:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S. Raju, Meerut
The shine’s off for craftsmen
Ayub Bengali, master gold craftsman, has left Meerut, where he has worked for 20 years, to go back to his village in the Hooghly district of West Bengal and resume farming on the little patch of land his family owns, reports S Raju.
Updated on Nov 02, 2008 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | S Raju, Meerut