Urvashi Dev Rawal is assistant editor with Hindustan Times Rajasthan edition and is based in Jaipur. She reports on politics, development journalism and women’s issues. She has reported from Delhi and Gujarat previously.
Articles by Urvashi Dev Rawal
Slain whistleblower’s family seeks CBI probe
Nearly a month after the death of Pradeep Sharma, a whistleblower who raised his voice against politicians allegedly involved in illegal mining in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, his family has demanded a CBI inquiry into the case.
Updated on Apr 01, 2013 11:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Rajasthan to issue notices to 27,000 mine owners
In a major decision that will provide around 2.5 million unorganised mine workers with medical, monetary and social benefits, the Rajasthan government will issue show cause notices to 27,000 mine owners in the state. Urvashi Dev Rawal reports.
Updated on Jan 30, 2013 12:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Trouble brews over Jaipur literature fest guest list
Controversy hounded the Jaipur Literature Festival on Monday as different groups made demands that were shot down by the organisers.
Updated on Jan 22, 2013 03:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Congmen put subsidies, welfare on tight leash
Discussions at the Congress Chintan Shivir indicated that an unfettered subsidy regime that spreads across various commodities and services cannot be sustained any longer. Urvashi Dev Rawal reports.
Updated on Jan 20, 2013 12:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Mobiles causing spurt in rapes?
In an apparently knee-jerk reaction to curb crimes against women in the wake of the Delhi gang rape, a Muslim community panchayat in Rajasthan has issued a diktat banning girls from using mobile phones and singing and dancing at weddings.
Updated on Jan 10, 2013 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
A history of victimisation
Indian women are speaking out against violence, enraged by the gangrape of a 23-year-old inside a moving bus in Delhi. Hindustan Times profiles a few courageous rape victims in Rajasthan, who are still awaiting justice.
Updated on Dec 24, 2012 11:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Girls, uninterrupted
Simran, Anandi, Bhumika, Ekta, Sandeep, Mandeep. They could well have been just names added to India's millions of "missing girls". But thanks to an entire community, they were able to live. And pursue their dreams.
Updated on Apr 11, 2012 10:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Sriganganagar
The man who made the jailhouse rock
As a prison official, Radhakant Saxena helped educate and train prisoners. Today, on retirement, he fights for juvenile justice. Urvashi Dev Rawal reports.
Updated on Jun 03, 2012 08:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Dholpur military school upbeat over its powerful alumnus
Akhilesh Yadav has solved a puzzle for his alma mater. It now knows who to invite as chief guest for its golden jubilee celebration later this year. Dholpur's Military School has hosted quite a few CMs. None, however, had the special tag Akhilesh wears — former student (1983-1990).
Updated on Mar 11, 2012 12:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
'Anna, Kejriwal autocratic, are politicising campaign'
A day after he quit Team Anna, activist Rajendra Singh accused Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal of autocratic behaviour and expressed unhappiness over politicisation of the India Against Corruption campaign. Urvashi Dev Rawal reports.
Updated on Oct 20, 2011 02:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Rajasthan DGP sets example for young cops
Rajasthan director general of police Harish Chandra Meena must be among the fittest police chiefs in the country. And he proved it to a critical state media recently when he was slammed for demanding that all new recruits into the state’s police force be selected only if they can run 10 km in an hour. Urvashi Dev Rawal reports.
Updated on Jul 19, 2011 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Back to the village
Rural women from across the world and India come to a training institute in Rajasthan to learn how to step out of darkness. Urvashi Dev Rawal reports
Updated on Jun 27, 2012 03:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Ajmer blast: RSS leader refuses to be questioned
RSS leader Indresh Kumar, named in the CBI charge sheet regarding the Ajmer shrine blast, refused to be questioned by the anti-terrorist squad of Rajasthan Police.
Updated on Oct 27, 2010 11:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Playing by the rules, and winning
How can corruption in the country’s flagship welfare programme be stopped? One man in Rajasthan has found a way, reports Urvashi Dev Rawal.
Updated on Jun 27, 2012 03:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Dungarpur (rajasthan)
Re 1 per hour: Children fuel Bt cotton boom
Sought for their nimble hands and low height, Rajasthani children help pollinate fields of genetically modified cotton in Gujarat. With social-security schemes faltering, even a state vigil can’t stop the night runs of traffickers, reports Urvashi Dev Rawal.
Updated on Jul 19, 2010 11:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Udaipur/dungarpur
Veteran Cong leader dead
Senior Congress leader and parliamentarian Ram Niwas Mirdha passed away in Delhi on Friday after a brief illness. He was 85.
Updated on Jan 30, 2010 12:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
‘I was forced to work 15 hours a day without salary’
Habib Hussain, who escaped from Saudi Arabia by hiding in an Air India air-craft and landed in Jaipur on December 25, was freed from a Jaipur jail on Saturday.
Updated on Jan 10, 2010 12:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal and Rashpal Singh, Jaipur
Jaipur to get India's first monorail
Rajasthan capital Jaipur would be the first city in India to get a monorail. The state government has issued the letter of intent to a Malaysian company MRails International for setting up the monorail project to be executed under build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) basis, reports Urvashi Dev Rawal.
Updated on Dec 20, 2009 08:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Mixed results for Cong
The Congress seems to have dented the urban voter base of the BJP in Rajasthan. The results for the municipal elections declared on Thursday showed that the BJP was down by 11 municipalities as compared to the last elections, while the Congress won 23, a gain of 13.
Updated on Nov 26, 2009 11:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Fire, fate and future: Uncertainty looms after IOC fire
For many, life will never be the same again after the inferno that IOC's Jaipur oil depot in Sitapura industrial area. Thousands of workers, factory owners wonder when they can start work again, report Urvashi Dev Rawal, Sachin Saini and Yuvraj Shrimal.
Updated on Nov 03, 2009 12:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal/Sachin Saini/Yuvraj Shrimal, Jaipur
Deora to review safety of oil, gas sites
To evaluate safety measures being taken by domestic and multinational firms in the oil and gas sector, in the wake of the fire at an Indian Oil Corporation depot in Jaipur, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora has called a meeting of these companies on November 3. Anupama Airy and Urvashi Dev Rawal report.
Updated on Nov 03, 2009 01:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Anupama Airy and Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
BJP suspends two Raje loyalists
The crisis in the Rajasthan unit of the BJP deepened on Tuesday following the suspension of two staunch loyalists of former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
Updated on Aug 19, 2009 02:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K.S.Tomar/Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
With no time limit, Raje supporters still hopeful
The Bharatiya Janata Party leadership refused to blink first and managed to win the standoff with Vasundhara Raje, for now. Urvashi Dev Rawal reports.
Updated on Aug 18, 2009 01:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Snubbed by Advani, Raje may have to go
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani, 81, refused to meet party legislators supporting former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. Shekhar Iyer and Urvashi Dev Rawal report.
Updated on Aug 15, 2009 02:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Shekhar Iyer and Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur
Raje refuses to quit, adds to BJP mess
A defiant Vasundhara Raje has dug in her heels, ignoring hints from BJP chief Rajnath Singh to quit as Leader of the Opposition in the Rajasthan assembly — taking the blame for the party’s poor showing in the assembly and Lok Sabha polls. Shekhar Iyer & Urvashi Dev Rawal report.
Updated on Aug 14, 2009 02:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Shekhar Iyer & Urvashi Dev Rawal, Delhi/jaipur
Bollywood hit for young Pak paddlers
To outsiders, a Pakistani boy not interested in cricket could seem like a contradiction in terms. But such boys exist and one of them is Mohammed Rameez Khan, 13.
Updated on Jul 25, 2009 11:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Urvashi Dev Rawal, Jaipur