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Ananya Bhardwaj

Ananya Bhardwaj

Ananya Bhardwaj was part of Hindustan Times’ nationwide network of correspondents that brings news, analysis and information to its readers. She no longer works with the Hindustan Times.

Articles by Ananya Bhardwaj

Andaman’s most-visited islands to be renamed during PM Modi visit

The Modi government’s decision comes over a month after West Bengal BJP vice-president Chandra Kumar Bose, who is related to the freedom fighter, had written to the PM urging to him to rename the Andaman & Nicobar Islands as the ‘Shaheed and Swaraj Islands’.

Updated on Dec 26, 2018 09:17 IST

Farm labourer to gunrunner: Delhi cops nab mother of 5 for illegal arms supply

Mobai (45), police said, is a proclaimed offender with many cases of arms act registered against her.

Updated on Jul 31, 2017 05:26 IST

Not scared of anyone, says brave Delhi woman who fought abductors in Vasant Kunj

Delhi Police has registered a case of kidnapping, criminal intimidation and molestation at Vasant Kunj police station.

Updated on Jul 31, 2017 05:51 IST

Why is Delhi so angry? Experts say it’s ‘upbringing, education’

In an extreme form of street crime, three men chased a 20-year-old youth for several hundred metres before beating him to death on the main platform of the busy Adarsh Nagar railway station in north Delhi.

Updated on Jul 28, 2017 18:30 IST

Angry Delhi: How city makes mountain out of molehill, draws blood for nothing

An analysis by Delhi police of the motives behind murders in 2016 revealed that 16.29 per cent of cases were due to sudden provocation or trivial issues.

Updated on Jul 28, 2017 10:31 IST

Angry Delhi: 20-year-old beaten to death in broad daylight as crowd of 50 watched

Rahul, who works as a loader at Azadpur, had reportedly borrowed Rs 1,500 from a truck driver. When the driver asked him to return the money, Rahul refused saying that he would be able to clear the debt only next month.

Updated on Jul 28, 2017 17:50 IST

‘He beat me for hours’: Delhi woman who smothered husband says she had no choice

Shilpi Adhikari, 32, has been arrested on July 25 for allegedly killing her husband.

Updated on Jul 27, 2017 07:40 IST

‘Shop at Sadar, eat at Jama Masjid’: Family in car crash planned trip for months

A child who was in the car at the time of the incident. He is among the four survivors of the accident.

Updated on Jul 27, 2017 08:57 IST

JNU V-C wants tank on campus to remind students of army’s sacrifices

Tiranga March was held on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

Updated on Jul 24, 2017 06:47 IST

‘8 murders and notes promising revolution’: Delhi gang claims to be vigilantes

The group claim to be fighting against corrupt doctors, molesters,rapists, gamblers, anti-nationals and those with black money

Updated on Jul 19, 2017 09:54 IST

Four sanitation workers die after inhaling ‘toxic gases’ in south Delhi

The septic tank near Ghitorni where four sanitation workers died on Saturday morning.

Updated on Jul 15, 2017 10:06 IST

Delhi Oyo room suicide by teens: Parents say ‘did not know they were friends’

A day after a teenage couple was found hanging from the ceiling fan in a Dwarka hotel, police said they are yet to find out why the two committed suicide.

Updated on Jul 17, 2017 09:01 IST

In MP village where kids are hired by Delhi thieves, some choose to say ‘no’

J P Chhayal, a high school teacher at his orange farm in Kadiya village.

Updated on Jul 17, 2017 09:02 IST

Murder, robbery in south Delhi: Cops arrest house help, recover stolen jewellery

Sarita Jain, 53, was at home alone with her two house helps while her husband and son were at work on Tuesday when three men barged into her house.

Updated on Jul 19, 2017 06:15 IST

Kerala man deported from Turkey held at Delhi airport, IS link suspected

Intelligence officials told the police that he planned to enter Syria and was in touch with many others who have already sneaked into the country and joined ISIS.

Updated on Jul 19, 2017 06:15 IST

Rent a thief: Delhi wedding robbery gangs go to this MP village to recruit kids

The house in Sukhi Sewani village from where a kid trained as a thief was caught by Delhi Police in a wedding theft case.

Updated on Jul 17, 2017 09:02 IST

‘I cooked food for him, he was unwell’: Delhi man found with dead brother thought he had allergy

Prahlad was found living with the maggot-infested body of his 68-year-old brother, Rajendra Bhatnagar, for nine days at their Rama Garden home in northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar on Monday.

Updated on Jul 11, 2017 06:14 IST

Ballabhgarh lynching: ‘Man who killed Junaid was fair, short, looked like a gym enthusiast’

The police have arrested five persons in connection with the case so far.

Updated on Jun 30, 2017 05:35 IST

Ballabgarh lynching: Delhi govt staff, 3 others held for ‘inciting mob’ to kill Junaid

Junaid Khan was stabbed and killed by a mob on train while he was on his way home after shopping for Eid with his brothers.

Updated on Jun 29, 2017 06:24 IST

Ballabgarh lynching: Four, including govt employee, arrested for ‘inciting mob’ to attack Junaid

Junaid Khan was stabbed and killed by a mob on train while he was on his way home after shopping for Eid with his brothers.

Updated on Jun 28, 2017 19:39 IST

Ballabhgarh lynching: Police obtain CCTV footage, start raids in Asaoti village

Residents of Junaid’s village Khandawali had sported black arm bands on Eid to protest the murder.

Updated on Jun 28, 2017 04:52 IST

4 days after attack on Ballabgarh Muslim boy, hunt on for 3 men who fled on bike

One minor Muslim boy was allegedly stabbed to death when an argument over a seat turned into religious slurs and triggered a mob attack on family members returning home from Eid shopping.

Updated on Jul 1, 2017 17:36 IST

Coming: A biometric attendance system to ensure Delhi traffic cops do not play truant

According to sources, the system was put in place to ensure more visibility of traffic cops on the field. The police department has already purchased 50 biometric systems

Updated on Jun 26, 2017 07:46 IST

Eid at Ballabgarh: Villagers mourn, wear black bands to protest killing of Muslim boy

Junaid's mother at her house in Ballabgarh.

Updated on Jun 27, 2017 12:21 IST

Delhi family killed in Gulmarg Gondola accident loved to travel, had planned the vacation last minute

Jayant and Manshea Andraskar were among the seven who died in the Gulmarg Gondola accident.

Updated on Jul 8, 2017 13:19 IST

His dying image will haunt me forever: Brother of Muslim boy lynched on train

Local residents gather outside the residence of Hafiz Junaid in Faridabad on Friday.

Updated on Jun 27, 2017 12:21 IST

Delhi: Two minors molested in Lady Hardinge’s hospital in a month, two staffers held

In both incidents, cases were registered at Mandir Marg police station and two hospital staff members arrested.

Updated on Jun 24, 2017 18:17 IST

‘The men asked me to attack them, I was drunk’: Man accused of beating Muslim boy to death on train

CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat consoles the mother of Junaid, who was lynched by a mob on board a train, in Haryana on Saturday.

Updated on Jul 16, 2017 01:51 IST

‘How could they hate us so much’: Family in shock after 16-year-old Muslim boy stabbed to death on train

Junaid was a student of Islamic studies in Surat, Gujarat.

Updated on Jul 16, 2017 01:51 IST

Muslim boy stabbed to death on train after argument turns into religious slurs

Police said one person was arrested on Friday and he has confessed to his involvement in the killing of Hafiz Junaid (16), which came amid several incidents of assaults on Muslims across the country over beef and cow slaughter.

Updated on Jun 27, 2017 12:21 IST

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