Sukhdeep Kaur is an assistant editor with the Punjab bureau. She covers politics, social issues and special projects, including on-the-ground reporting during critical situations.
Articles by Sukhdeep Kaur
How eligibility criteria was tweaked for minister's entry
In less than a year between two successive governments, the eligibility criteria for managing Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), a prime government property across 56 acres in Jalandhar, was tweaked drastically after cancelling 10 bids received during the previous regime.
Updated on Dec 20, 2013 11:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
PIMS got fashion, textile, photography, retail experts to manage health care
Look who the Punjab government thinks eligible for managing its premier health institute. Even as the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Jalandhar, has been struggling for survival, the seven new members inducted into the PIMS Medical Education and Charitable Society headed by Punjab rural development and panchayat minister Surjit Singh Rakhra in August this year after consent of the governing body chaired by chief minister Parkash Singh Badal have no expertise in health care or medical education.
Updated on Dec 19, 2013 11:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
PIMS dying, Badal govt gives lifelines to Rakhra's society
Doctors on strike for non-payment of salaries, medical students sent on vacation and fleeing patients. The state's premier health institute, Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Jalandhar.
Updated on Dec 19, 2013 10:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Punjab hijacks Centre's food scheme, only 'true-blue' families to qualify
In the politics over election doles, Punjab's Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) government can give a lesson or two to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime at the Centre. Virtually hijacking the Centre's flagship food security programme, the Punjab food and civil supplies department led by the chief minister's son-in-law, Adesh Partap Singh Kairon, has moulded it to fit into the state's own election-winning atta-dal scheme.
Updated on Nov 27, 2013 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Cong to move breach of privilege motion against Majithia
The Punjab Congress is mulling moving a breach of privilege motion against revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia for "misleading the House" on state party chief Partap Singh Bajwa's land deals.
Updated on Nov 23, 2013 12:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Village pond gone, politicians fish in troubled waters
There once existed a village pond. Now, politicians are fishing in its troubled waters. The row over ownership of the burial ground for Muslims in Amloh town the land title, as per revenue records, is 'gairmumkin johar' (common village pond) - is taking political overtones, with both the Congress and the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) busy playing politics.
Updated on Nov 20, 2013 01:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Tension over burial ground, Amloh's Muslim count to decide
Its Muslim population second only to Malerkotla in Sangrur, tension is brewing in Fatehgarh Sahib over a burial ground. The land dispute erupted last month in Amloh town after huts of Muslim Gujjar families residing on the burial ground were allegedly burnt down by some people who claimed to have bought the land from the titleholders.
Updated on Nov 18, 2013 12:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Amloh
Majithia asks panchayat dept to cancel registry of Partap Bajwa's land, minister says inquiry first
The political heat generated by land deals of Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa and his family are likely to gather steam with revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia asking the department of rural development and panchayats to cancel the registry of 108 bighas of land bought by the state Congress chief at Bhronjian village of Mohali.
Updated on Nov 08, 2013 12:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Bajwa admits land title sub-judice but deal legal
On the controversy surrounding his land deals, Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Saturday admitted that the title of the property in question is sub-judice and pending in the Punjab and Haryana high court. He, however, claimed that his company, PCB Real Estate, had bought the land through legal and valid transactions.
Updated on Nov 04, 2013 11:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Punjab assembly erupts over realty deals of leaders
On the concluding day of the five-day session, the Punjab assembly again erupted over realty deals of both ruling and opposition leaders. Soon after zero hour began, revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia, who claimed to have spent a "sleepless night" on Thursday to dig out details of land deals of Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa and his younger brother Fateh Jang Singh Bajwa, sought time from speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal to make his statement.
Updated on Nov 02, 2013 12:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Punjab assembly erupts over realty deals of Bajwas, Akali MLA NK Sharma
On the concluding day of the five-day session, the Punjab assembly again erupted over realty deals of both ruling and opposition leaders. Soon after zero hour began, revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia, who claimed to have spent a "sleepless night" on Thursday to dig out details of land deals of Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa and his younger brother Fateh Jang Singh Bajwa, sought time from speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal to make his statement.
Updated on Nov 02, 2013 12:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
How Akali MLA NK Sharma firm did 22,000 sq metre of construction in 2 months
The dossier prepared by the ruling Badals on the land deals of Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa and his younger brother Fateh Jang Bajwa seems to be for the sake of party "treasurer" NK Sharma. The Dera Bassi MLA has a thriving realty empire, courtesy the Badals.
Updated on Nov 01, 2013 11:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Chaudhary saves Bajwa's face, loses own
It was a meeting with no agenda. But it ended with a clear message: Punjab Congress chief Partap Bajwa has the unflinching support of both the general secretary in-charge for Punjab, Shakeel Ahmed, and secretary in-charge Harish Chaudhary.
Updated on Oct 27, 2013 12:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Bajwa's parallel meet called off, another Congress unity lunch today
The delicacies served by the Congress high command during the unity lunch in New Delhi on October 15 seem to have whetted the appetite of warring Punjab Congress leaders for more.
Updated on Oct 26, 2013 11:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Partap Singh Bajwa calls separate meeting of MLAs
Within days of former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh kicking off a parallel state tour even as incumbent Partap Singh Bajwa's tour is on, there is more trouble brewing in the faction-ridden party after the high command's recent lunch diplomacy.
Updated on Oct 25, 2013 09:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Lesser evil or NOTA, vote you must: Sri Sri
Choose to use the right to reject, is the message of spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The Art of Living Foundation head wants the 12-crore “missing” voters, who are eligible but not on the list, to use the ballot to bring change.
Updated on Oct 19, 2013 05:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
10 to 12-year-olds working in Punjab's knitwear units
On September 26, when a team formed by the Ludhiana sub-divisional magistrate raided Rinku Hosiery Works in the city, Mahant Kumar quoted his age as 12.
Updated on Oct 15, 2013 01:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Badals' adviser industry booms
It is Punjab's booming industry, courtesy the government's own enterprise. And it comes with pay and perks, not to forget the status of a cabinet minister, minister of state or a chief parliamentary secretary. Sukhdeep Kaur reports
Updated on Oct 13, 2013 11:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Badal govt to boycott Sangrur hospital stone laying ceremony
In an unprecedented move, the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP government will boycott the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the centrally-funded super-specialty hospital - an extension of Chandigarh's Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) - at Sangrur on Thursday in protest against the Centre's "failure" to extend a formal invite to chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Updated on Oct 10, 2013 12:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur and Vishal Rambani, Sangrur
Now, Sukhbir gets a 'say' in brother-in-law's ministry, too
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal does not believe in symbolism. In his second innings in power, the deputy chief minister has shown the BJP as to who is the big brother in the coalition -- when it comes to making or announcing important policy decisions in the ministries headed by the saffron party. Now, junior Badal is all set to make his presence felt even in the ministry headed by his brother-in-law Adesh Partap Singh Kairon.
Updated on Oct 04, 2013 01:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Now, 'Made in Punjab' tag on Food Security Act
In yet another example of ingenuity of the Parkash Singh Badal government in hijacking central schemes, the state wants to procure its own wheat and supply it fresh to beneficiaries of the UPA's ambitious Food Security Act (FSA) in "made in Punjab" bags.
Updated on Oct 01, 2013 12:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Punjab’s case on juvenile crime: no age of innocence
As the country debates the need to amend its laws on juvenile age, Punjab’s crime graph reveals that even the relatively young are committing heinous crimes such as rape and murder.
Updated on Sep 25, 2013 05:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Sidhu bargains with the party for a Rajya Sabha seat
A master batsman during his cricketing days, Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu knows when to hit a ball for a six. His recent outbursts against the Badals for "scuttling" development of his constituency and sidelining him and his CPS wife Navjot Kaur seem to be aimed at getting an "exit route" from contesting the Amritsar seat in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Updated on Sep 23, 2013 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Jairam's googly: Sidhu welcome to join Cong
Amid the war of words between the Badals and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Congress on Thursday bowled a googly to the saffron party, inviting the cricketer-turned-politician to its fold.
Updated on Sep 19, 2013 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Jakhar gets PM lunch invite, Bajwa doesn't
The visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Chandigarh on Saturday saw some curious "misses" within his own party. In the list sent by his office to the PMO, Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa's name figured at the top among state party leaders who were to welcome the PM on his arrival at Chandigarh.
Updated on Sep 14, 2013 11:37 PM IST
None | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
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