Vijay is chief of bureau, Patna. He has spent 21 years in journalism and covers political beats and public affairs.
Articles by Vijay Swaroop
Nitish vows to stand his ground, will support Bill
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday vowed to stand his ground in favour of the Women’s Reservation Bill even though his support threatened to split his JD-U party down the middle.
Updated on Mar 09, 2010 12:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
JD (U) split, Cong welcomes Bihar CM’s change in stance
Janata Dal (United), one of the last opponents of the women’s reservation bill, stood sharply divided on the issue on Saturday, with its top leaders going public with their divergent views.
Updated on Mar 07, 2010 12:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Nagendar Sharma & Vijay Swaroop, New Delhi/patna
Chased by cops, three students drown in Tamil Nadu
Two students from Jharkhand and one from Bihar studying at Annamalai Engineering College were found dead during a student agitation inside the campus on Monday.
Updated on Mar 03, 2010 01:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Mice in the rat race
Sumant Kumar of Gopalganj district in Bihar, adjoining Uttar Pradesh (UP), had been taking coaching classes at a Patna institute for the entrance exam for the Indian Institutes of Technology, reports Vijay Swaroop.
Updated on Feb 22, 2010 11:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Lalan defiant, refuses to withdraw resignation
The ongoing crisis in JD(U) deepened further on Saturday as a defiant state party chief Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh Lalan refused to take back his resignation from the party post. The party has now begun to look for a new state president, according to sources.
Updated on Feb 14, 2010 01:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
JD-U Bihar chief quits
Eight months before assembly elections in Bihar, Janata Dal (United) state unit president Rajiv Ranjan ‘Lalan’ Singh resigned on Monday.
Updated on Feb 02, 2010 12:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Nitish seeks PM’s intervention into fresh Maha row
Stung by the Maharashtra government’s decision to make knowledge of the Marathi language and a minimum 15-year stay in the state mandatory for issuance of licences to taxi drivers, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday sought immediate intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the matter.
Updated on Jan 22, 2010 01:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Bihar govt to revive glory of Vaishali
There is likely to be a huge state policy push in the coming days to revive the glory of the Vaishali arc — a direct connect to the ancient land of the Liccahvis which experimented with the world's first republic even as it registered Buddha's footsteps as its trademark signature and opened a window to the world.
Updated on Jan 16, 2010 09:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop & Rajesh K Thakur, Vaishaligarh
Dons don whites for gentleman’s game
It was a high-pitched contest. There were thrills and spills, catches and sixes. The bowlers tried to curb the shower of shots, in vain. The event had all the ingredients of a high-octane T-16 match — with a difference.
Updated on Jan 01, 2010 01:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Howzzat! Dons play gentleman’s game
It was a high-pitched contest. There were thrills and spills, catches and sixes. The bowlers tried to curb the shower of shots. The event had all the ingredients of a high-octane T-16 match — with a difference.
Updated on Dec 31, 2009 11:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Beur jail inmates gear up for T-16 finals
Does not matter if he is a murder convict, a kidnapper, a simple pickpocket or a petty criminal awaiting trial, as long as he launches the ball across the border for a six or smashes it through the gaps for a boundary.
Updated on Dec 30, 2009 09:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Nitish Kumar on railway white paper dubs Lalu 'vain and vacuous'
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar described former railway Minister Lalu Prasad as a "vain and vacuous" person given to horrendous and conscious misinterpretation and manipulation of facts to mislead people and tom-tom non-n-existent performance.
Updated on Dec 18, 2009 09:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
VVIP Protocol---- at what cost?
Nobody grudges VVIP protocol. And, if it happens to be for the Vice President of India, who would ? But in a city, where people have no roads, and the protocol for VVIPs are sparing and thin, the way the traffic was blocked and barricades set up by digging into newly- laid surfaces, raises the question: Was it really needed?, reports Vijay Swaroop.
Updated on Dec 13, 2009 10:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Bihar sends a fact finding team to Punjab
Bihar government has rushed a two-member fact-finding team to Ludhiana in Punjab, a day after migrant labourers from the state clashed with police and locals over failure of the local administration to provide them protection from robbers’ gang, reports Vijay Swaroop.
Updated on Dec 05, 2009 08:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Bihar made a strong pitch for Rs 14, 800 crore-special package
Bihar made a strong pitch for Rs 14, 800 crore-special package for the reconstruction of Kosi area, ravaged by floods last year, and rehabilitation of the affected people, reports Vijay Swaroop.
Updated on Nov 21, 2009 07:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
500 drugged on trains in Bihar this year
These are just two examples out of hundreds played out each month on trains in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The gangs indulging in drugging passengers have taken a menacing form and operate throughout the country, reports Vijay Swaroop.
Updated on Nov 17, 2009 07:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
The Ganga Expressway is in its final stages
The Ganga Expressway, to be built on the concept of Mumbai’s Marine Drive, is well on its course, reports Vijay Swaroop.
Updated on Nov 06, 2009 05:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Chief Secretary of Bihar asks officers to listen
If silence is gold, speech is silver, what is listening? It's diamond. The ability to listen well is absolutely indispensable for success in all human relationships. Vijay Swaroop reports.
Updated on Oct 23, 2009 02:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Inviting Reds to surrender
As the central government plan to deploy paramilitary soldiers against Naxal strongholds gains momentum, state governments are announcing surrender policies to spur the rebels to give up arms. Vijay Swaroop and B Vijay Murty report.
Updated on Oct 16, 2009 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop and B Vijay Murty, Patna/jamshedpur
India's longest rail-cum-road bridge to come up in Bihar
Bihar will have the country's longest rail-cum-road bridge over river Ganga, when it gets ready in three years time. Vijay Swaroop reports.
Updated on Oct 12, 2009 02:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Train derails in Bihar, one dead, 22 injured
One passenger died and 22 others were injured when the engine and six bogies of 5708 Amritsar-Katihar Amrapali Express derailed in Bihar’s Khagaria district on Wednesday around 11 pm.
Updated on Oct 09, 2009 01:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Khagaria
Despite loss, Nitish tries to put up brave front
It was a function organised to commemorate the 95th birth anniversary of the late Chief Minister of Bihar, Bhola Paswan Shastri. But, the pain of loss in recent by-elections on 18 Assembly seats overshadowed the ideology he stood for.
Updated on Sep 21, 2009 11:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Bypoll jolt for Nitish
The assembly bypoll results of 18 seats in Bihar came as a shock to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with the ruling NDA alliance wining just six seats.
Updated on Sep 18, 2009 01:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Mamata for greater security in Bihar trains
In the wake of repeated cases of arson and violence in trains passing through Bihar in recent months, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to the home ministry for deployment of additional armed personnel in such trains. A copy of the letter has also been sent to the Bihar government.
Updated on Aug 26, 2009 09:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
Angry students torch train in Bihar
Irate students went on the rampage near Patna on Tuesday, torching four coaches of the New Delhi-Rajgir Shramjeevi Express at Bihta station, 35 km west of the state capital.
Updated on Aug 19, 2009 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop/Avinash Kumar, Patna/lakhisarai
Flooded, drought-hit Bihar calls out for help
The Bihar government on Monday declared 26 of the state’s 38 districts as drought-affected and sought Rs 10,152 crore from the Centre for relief operations for an estimated 8.30 crore (83 million) people, reports Vijay Swaroop.
Updated on Aug 11, 2009 01:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Patna
More rain may spell danger for Kosi belt
On Monday, Water Resources Department (WRD) engineers and officials heaved a sigh of relief with the Kosi discharge coming down by Tuesday afternoon (3 pm).
Updated on Jul 29, 2009 12:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop & Aditya N Jha, Patna/ Supaul
Taregna set for E-Day
Nondescript little Taregna, 35km from Patna, has finally found its place in the sun, ironically because of the lack of it. It is from here that the July 22 solar eclipse will be seen for the longest time. Vijay Swaroop reports.
Updated on Jul 20, 2009 11:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Taregnadih
A battle rides on Kosi tide
Madhepura lies at the heart of the region affected by the devastating floods caused by the breach in the Kosi last August. Eight months later, the issues raised in the aftermath of the floods have returned to dominate the poll battle.
Updated on Apr 30, 2009 01:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop, Madhepura
FIR against Prakash Jha as police seize cash from his office
An FIR on Wednesday was registered against film-maker and LJP candidate from West Champaran Lok Sabha seat, Prakash Jha after police allegedly seized Rs 10.25 lakh at his guest house following a complaint that he was distributing money to influence voters.
Updated on Apr 22, 2009 05:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop & SK Shukla, Bettiah