Vandana Singh is a chief content producer with the Hindustan Times and works on the Delhi desk.
Articles by Vandana Singh
Now, declare actual electricity load by July 31 to avoid fine
The domestic, agriculture and industrial consumers of electricity can disclose the actual load of consumption by July 31 under the Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS) of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL).
Updated on Jul 24, 2014 03:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Diarrhoea outbreak in Prakash Nagar claims lives of three
Diarrhoea claimed the life of a man and his six-year old, besides a four-year-old boy, at Prakash Nagar, Jawaddi, on Wednesday.
Updated on Jul 24, 2014 07:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Health staff on deputation to join original postings soon
The employees working on deputation or temporary duty with the health department in the state will join the departments of their original posting soon.
Updated on Jul 23, 2014 03:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Man steals power through remote, held
With Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) acting tough to curb the menace of power theft, consumers, too, are brainstorming and coming up with innovative means to steal electricity.
Updated on Jul 23, 2014 03:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Man coughing up blood left unattended at civil hospital
In yet another incident reflecting the callousness of medical staff at the Lord Mahavira Civil Hospital, Shankar, a patient who was coughing up blood, was left sitting on the floor outside the senior medical officer’s (SMO) office for hours on Monday.
Updated on Jul 22, 2014 05:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Now, tatkal tickets to Delhi to cost 20% more
After increasing the fair in June, railways has now silently increased the tatkal ticket fare for those travelling less than 500km
Updated on Jul 22, 2014 05:41 PM IST
Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Being in committed relationship boosts self-esteem of males
This is good news for boys who are in a committed relationship and also gives single girls, a reason to cheer. Because being in a committed relation helps in boosting selfesteem of males, but the females who are single, don’t need to rely on relationship for self esteem.
Updated on Jul 20, 2014 01:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
More kids fleeing home after abuse
Six-year-old Subhash, a resident of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, ran away from home after accusing his parents of mistreating him.
Updated on Jul 18, 2014 11:35 AM IST
None | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Treadmill is passé, walk in a pool to burn calories and build muscles
Although in her 60s, Kamini Khanna (name changed on request) wishes to be fit. Weighing 90 kg, she finds it difficult to exercise on the floor as it leads to excessive pain in the knees and gives her a backache as well.
Updated on Jul 17, 2014 12:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Runaway kids fleeing abuse at home on the rise
Six-year-old Subhash, a resident of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, ran away from home after accusing his parents of mistreating him. Railway Police Force personnel later found the boy crying in a train at the city's railway station and handed him over to Childline India, an NGO engaged in helping children in distress, on July 11.
Updated on Jul 16, 2014 08:43 PM IST
None | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Licence expired in 2011, civil hospital blood bank still awaiting renewal
Blood bank of Lord Mahavira Civil Hospital, which is a district-level blood bank, is waiting for the renewal of its licence for the past three years. The licence of the blood bank got expired in December 2011. The inspection committee has visited the blood bank many times, but found shortcomings and declined to renew its licence.
Updated on Jul 15, 2014 04:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Residents block national highway over power outages
Residents of Mohalla Ravidas in Sunet village blocked the Ferozepur Road near Agar Nagar for half an hour, causing traffic snarls and inconvenience to commuters. As the police reached the spot, residents complained that they were not getting electricity for the last three days.
Updated on Jul 14, 2014 12:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Govt teachers’ attendance, mid-day meals to be monitored through SMS
To ensure better and timely serving of mid-day meal to students in government schools, the district administration has taken an initiative in which school authorities will have to send an SMS (short message service) after serving food to students.
Updated on Jul 13, 2014 11:19 AM IST
None | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Power pangs: More people taking refuge in malls, cars
Monsoons and power supply is inversely proportional to each other. With scarce rain this year, the claim of the Punjab government looks fictitious. People are harried lot and are spending powerless days and nights.
Updated on Jul 12, 2014 01:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Industries to suffer as peak load hour exemption withdrawn
The industrial sector here will face the heat as the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) imposed power regulatory measures from Friday. In view of the week monsoon and the high demand for power, peak load exemptions granted to consumers were withdrawn by the PSPCL with immediate effect by a circular issued on Friday.
Updated on Jul 12, 2014 10:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Ticket touts thrive at city railway station
While several passengers face disappointment on not getting railway tickets through either the booking window or the internet, ticket touts selling tickets on inflated prices continue to flourish at the Ludhiana railway station.
Updated on Jul 09, 2014 08:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Better facilities on trains, freight corridor on top of city’s wishlist
City residents and industrialists are very hopeful of getting better facilities from the railway budget scheduled for July 8. After the burden of increased fare, now people feel the government should utilise the funds to provide better facilities at the railway station as well as on train.
Updated on Jul 08, 2014 02:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Human Rights Commission seeks reply on diarrhoea cases in Sihora village
The Punjab State Human Rights Commission on Monday took a suo moto notice of the outbreak of diarrhoea, allegedly because of contaminated water, at Sihora village in Payal tehsil and sought reports from the Punjab health director and Ludhiana civil surgeon.
Updated on Jul 08, 2014 12:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Man’s electrocution no shocker for police, railway authorities
In sheer display of disregard for human life, a 40-year-old man, who got electrocuted at platform number 5 of Ludhiana railway station, was first assumed dead and then left waiting for medical aid for more than an hour.
Updated on Jul 08, 2014 11:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Acute shortage of blood at civil hospital leaves patients harried
Due to shortage of blood at the district blood bank at Lord Mahavira Civil Hospital, patients, especially poor, are a harried lot.
Updated on Jul 07, 2014 03:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Diarrhoea claims life in Sihora village; 300 residents taken ill
One thing is starkly clear that Sihora village in Payal tehsil is in the grip of gastroenteritis, even as there are difference of opinion among the officials and the villagers over the deaths due to the epidemic. Officials claim that a woman has died due to gastroenteritis, while villagers say four lives have been lost to the epidemic in three days.
Updated on Jul 07, 2014 11:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
PSPCL claims of no entangled wires fall flat
Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL)’s claims of no entangled wires in the city have fallen flat. Many areas of the city still face the problems of intertwined electricity wires hanging on poles or outside houses or other establishments.
Updated on Jul 06, 2014 11:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Rly seeks to stop entry of heavy vehicles at Dhandhari crossing
Overloaded heavy vehicles not only create problems on roads but on railway tracks too. In the most recent example on Thursday, an overloaded truck’s axle broke at Dhandhari Railway Crossing and got stuck on the railway track, causing delay in the arrival and departure timings of many trains.
Updated on Jul 05, 2014 01:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh vandana.singh@hindustantimes.com Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
PSPCL fines 502 consumers for power theft
With Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) acting tough, 502 household, commercial and agricultural consumers were caught stealing electricity from April to June. Around Rs 1.5 crore was realised as fine from them.
Updated on Jul 05, 2014 11:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Katra train to halt in city
With the introduction of New Delhi-Katra AC Express, the city residents will be directly benefitting as the train will halt in Ludhiana.
Updated on Jul 05, 2014 10:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Hike in govt hospital charges leaves patients high and dry
Hike in the user charges at government hospitals has pinched the poor patients. The Punjab Health Systems Corporation (PHSC) revised the rates of user charges at government hospitals from 10% to 50% on Tuesday.
Updated on Jul 02, 2014 02:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Doctors urge relatives of patients to be patient
On this National Doctors' Day, city doctors have urged the patients to understand their profession and not to be impatient.
Updated on Jun 30, 2014 09:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Function on drug awareness a waste of money
In order to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse, which is observed on June 26 worldwide, the state government organised a statelevel de-addiction awareness programme at Guru Nanak Dev Bhawan on Saturday.
Updated on Jun 29, 2014 12:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Pay more in govt hospitals from July
Services in government hospitals of Punjab are set to get costlier, which will hit the underprivileged hard. The Punjab Health Systems Corporation (PHSC) has revised user charges by 10% to 50%. The revised charges will be implemented in all government hospitals and community health centres from July 1.
Updated on Jun 28, 2014 08:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana
Myths surrounding vitiligo must be dispelled: Experts
In an initiatiive to create global awareness about vitiligo, World Vitiligo Day is observed on June 25 each year. There are many myths related to the disease, also known as leukoderma or phulvari, such as it’s contagious, not curable, that it can occur due to lack of a balanced diet, but each of these have been denied by experts. The disease can, infact, be cured if the patient undergoes a checkup on time.
Updated on Jun 26, 2014 01:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vandana Singh, Ludhiana