Sudhir Kumar is Varanasi based senior staff correspondent.He covers all developments, politics, education--primary, secondary and higher -- crime, offbeat, tribes and human angle stories
Articles by Sudhir Kumar
No place for Nehru, Indira pics on BHU political science dept walls
Pictures of India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru find no place among the portraits that students have put up on the walls of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) political science department corridors or classrooms.
Updated on Nov 24, 2015 10:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Varanasi
No short dresses! Foreigners to wear sari, dhoti at Kashi Vishwanath
Foreign tourists dressed in short western attires will now have to drape a sari or a dhoti and ‘anga vastram’ before entering the sanctum sanctorum and premises of the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
Updated on Nov 23, 2015 06:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Varanasi
‘Bazaru’ Chetan Bhagat’s work lacks seriousness: Akademi award winner
A day after returning his Sahitya Akademi award, noted Hindi writer Kashinath Singh on Saturday lashed out at English author Chetan Bhagat.
Updated on Oct 17, 2015 06:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Varanasi
I’ll do in 50 months what others couldn’t do in 50 years: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said education is the best and the least expensive way to fight poverty and urged the people of Varanasi to educate their children.
Updated on Sep 18, 2015 06:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Varanasi
51,000 ‘sisters’ get insurance as Rakhi gift in PM’s constituency
As a Raksha Bandhan gift from PM Narendra Modi, as many as 51,000 women and girls of Varanasi will be insured under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday.
Updated on Aug 29, 2015 08:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Varanasi
Foreign tourists ask PM Modi to make Varanasi filth-free
Foreign tourists want Prime Minister Narendra Modi to step in and resolve Varanasi’s cleanliness and congestion woes, saying poor sanitation and bad traffic in extremely narrow lanes mar the magnificent city’s ancient appeal.
Updated on Aug 14, 2015 11:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Varanasi
UP girls wade troubled waters, face harassment to reach school
For the girls of Pahadpur, Ghatak and Byonda villages in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, the journey to their school is full of challenges. They walk 3 km and then cross the Dhonda river on a makeshift boat to reach their destination in Shergarh town.
Updated on Jul 24, 2015 04:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Bareilly
Pesticides killed 5 tigers in 3 years in UP forests
Speculations are that tantriks may be using pesticides to kill tigers to get their whiskers to use in occult practices. On Dec 9, 2014, a dead tiger's nails, whiskers and jaws were found missing.
Updated on Jun 04, 2015 01:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Bareilly
Tourism treat soon in erstwhile terror territory
The Pathargarh fort in Bijnor — from where the dreaded Sultana Daku carried out his anti-British operations — will soon find a place in the tourism map of Uttar Pradesh.
Updated on Sep 23, 2012 12:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Bareilly
UP jail pitches for 'college' on premises
The Bareilly Central Jail in UP is making an effort to offer its inmates a shot at rehabilitation through higher education, pitching for structured classes and a college campus feel. Sudhir Kumar reports.
Updated on Sep 16, 2011 11:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sudhir Kumar, Bareilly
Jats to escalate agitation
Escalating their protests, Jat activists have decided to burn emblems representing the Congress every day beginning Friday, till March 28, the date of the threatened siege of Delhi.
Updated on Mar 23, 2011 11:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | S.Raju/ Sudhir Kumar, Meerut