Rai Atul Krishna has been writing, editing and anchoring news reports and features for Hindustan Times on a wide variety of subjects for the past 30 years. He has also mentored many of his colleagues during this period.
Articles by Rai Atul Krishna
Bihar polls: PM Modi woos women voters, promises education
Ahead of the November 5 final phase of polling in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday singled out women as a class of voters to seek a big mandate for the NDA in Bihar.
Updated on Nov 02, 2015 02:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Madhubani/madhepura/katihar
‘Bihari vs bahri’: Is Sonia an outsider too, Modi asks Nitish
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked chief minister Nitish Kumar if he considered Congress president Sonia Gandhi an “outsider” too, ramping up the ‘Bihari vs bahri’ battle ahead of the crucial fourth round of polling.
Updated on Oct 30, 2015 08:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Modi calls ‘grand alliance’ of JD(U)-RJD-Cong ‘3 Idiots’
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday advised chief minister Nitish Kumar to consider a new career as a poet, predicting an ‘impending defeat’ for the RJD-JD (U)-Congress ‘grand alliance’ in the ongoing Bihar assembly poll.
Updated on Oct 28, 2015 01:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Sitamarhi /bettiah
Bihar polls: BJP’s Shatrughan says ‘teething troubles’ in party
Patna Saheb MP and BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha posted a series of tweets on Saturday, seemingly questioning NDA’s prospects of winning the ongoing Bihar assembly polls.
Updated on Oct 17, 2015 05:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Bihar polls: Nitish’s return will mean ‘jungle raj’, says PM Modi
“Ruling parties do not talk about what they did for Bihar, they only speak about me and find ways to abuse me every day,” Modi said.
Updated on Oct 09, 2015 06:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prasun K Mishra and Rai Atul Krishna, Sasaram/aurangabad/patna
Bihar poll papers reveal defaulting candidates
The Election Commission may have resolved to curb the use of black money during the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, but a recent report reveals that many candidates have failed to even disclose mandatory financial information.
Published on Oct 07, 2015 10:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Bihar polls: In war of words, BJP MPs end up embarrassing party
RK Singh and Shatrughan Sinha, Lok Sabha MPs from Ara and Patna Saheb respectively, are not the only Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers to have embarrassed the party.
Updated on Oct 05, 2015 01:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Disgruntled BJP MPs spelling trouble for party ahead of Bihar polls
As the crucial Bihar assembly elections draw near, voices of dissent from within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to grow louder.
Updated on Oct 03, 2015 03:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Political consistency not a virtue of grand alliance: BJP
The BJP on Thursday said that ‘political consistency’ is not the virtue of any of the participants of the grand opportunistic alliance, referring to the alliance of Congress, JDU and RJD for Bihar polls.
Updated on Oct 01, 2015 08:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Demons to pythons: Poll-speak touches new low
From describing a rival formation as ‘rakshas sena, an army of demons, to comparing a senior politician to Putana, a villainous figure in Hindu mythology, poll-speak in Bihar’s new electoral season has been acrimonious, to put it mildly.
Published on Sep 26, 2015 03:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Manjhi matters: New Dalit icon in Bihar may change equations
In a close election, the 70-year-old Dalit leader may well give the NDA an edge over the rival RJD-JD (U)-Congress alliance.
Updated on Sep 17, 2015 03:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
EC underscores security concerns with staggered Bihar poll
The adversarial positions of the rival formations in this election – the BJP-led NDA and the RJD-JD (U)-Congress ‘grand alliance’ is such it even extended to the number of phases each side advocated this poll be held in.
Updated on Sep 10, 2015 04:27 PM IST
None | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Bihar rally: Parties united against PM, but stick to their own agenda
Despite the shared thrust of the need to stop PM Modi in the Bihar elections in October, the speeches of the top three leaders- Nitish Kumar, Sonia Gandhi and Lalu Prasad- were remarkable for their differences in emphasis - representing the main issues on which each party is fighting this election.
Updated on Aug 31, 2015 01:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Sops abound in Bihar for govt workers as polls approach
Bored government employees in poll-bound Bihar, many of them engaged on contract basis, suddenly have a spring in their steps. With state elections round the corner, it is raining sops and thousands of faceless staff is soaking in the extra attention that is being lavished on them.
Updated on Aug 25, 2015 10:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
After PM's grand package, Nitish announces sops for poll-bound Bihar
Government employees in poll-bound Bihar, many of them engaged on contract basis, suddenly have a spring in their steps. With state elections around the corner, it is raining sops and thousands of faceless staff is soaking in the extra attention that is being lavished on them.
Updated on Aug 25, 2015 12:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Nearly 70% of Bihar struggles below the poverty line
Niranjan Kumar’s life seemed to improve as soon as he migrated to Delhi. The 32-year-old from Bhagalpur landed a job with Ola Cabs and now makes over Rs 15,000 a month, working for only as many hours as he chooses.
Updated on Aug 24, 2015 11:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Bihar elections: Manjhi’s party finally gets EC recognition
After securing recognition as a political party from the Election Commission of India (ECI), former Bihar chief m
Updated on Jul 30, 2015 01:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna/HT Correspondent
Bihar: AAP's top leaders break away to flag off new party AAU
Already under severe strain owing to infighting and embarrassing revelations about its ministers, including the ‘fake’ degree controversy involving its former law minister Jitendra Singh Tomar, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now suffered a body blow in Bihar.
Updated on Jul 06, 2015 09:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
These two Muslim girls from Bihar want to teach yoga to PM Modi
Reshma Khatoon and Bismillah Khatoon, both teenage yoga experts, say they now want to give lessons to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee.
Updated on Jun 20, 2015 01:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Officers on loan: Bihar DGP rejects Delhi ACB chief objection
The festering war of words over the legality or otherwise of the Arvind Kejriwal government’s decision to induct five Bihar officers in the Delhi Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), got another boost, this time from the chief of the Bihar police.
Updated on Jun 13, 2015 07:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Forbidden fruit: No 'in-house' litchi for Bihar ex-CM Manjhi
Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and members of his family appear to be at the receiving end of ‘vigilance’ of an unprecedented kind – at the hands of the security detail purporting to be deployed for their protection.
Updated on Jun 04, 2015 10:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Acid attack victim in HT award winning series threatened again
An acid attack survivor in Bihar has allegedly come under attack again from the accused ahead of a court hearing, two years after her case prompted the Supreme Court to bring in stringent measures against perpetrators of such crimes.
Updated on May 19, 2015 02:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
'Great quake overdue': A study had warned just two months ago
The 7.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal and vast part of northern India came less than two months after a team of scientists had predicted "a great earthquake" in the geographical region around the central Himalayas.
Updated on Apr 27, 2015 11:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Bihar royal slaps Rs 1cr defamation suit on Chetan Bhagat
A scion of the erstwhile princely state of Dumraon in Bihar has slapped a Rs 1 crore defamation suit on author Chetan Bhagat, saying male members of the royal family had been maliciously portrayed as alcoholics and gamblers in his bestseller novel 'Half Girlfriend'.
Updated on Apr 23, 2015 07:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Manjhi does a Modi, calls FB followers for chai pe charcha
Barely two months after Bihar’s former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi made his debut on Facebook, he is now offering his followers on the social media page a chance to meet him for a ‘tea and photo session’ on April 18.
Updated on Apr 13, 2015 12:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Trending at 70: Former Bihar CM Manjhi logs into social media 'for dalits'
Former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, a reluctant mobile phone user till recently, has taken to technology and social media at the ripe old age of 70. He now has an official Facebook page with a WhatsApp number that his friends, followers and well-wishers can use to interact with him directly and share their ideas and concerns.
Updated on Apr 04, 2015 01:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Bihar: Manjhi refuses to vacate CM house, Nitish regime fumes
Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has put the Nitish Kumar regime in a bind by refusing to vacate the CM's official bungalow at 1, Aney Marg in western Patna, even though 37 days have elapsed since Manjhi had to step down from the state's top post (on February 20).
Updated on Mar 30, 2015 08:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Pappu Yadav, once accused of murder, now among 'best performing' MPs
One spent over five years in jail as a life term convict in a murder case before he was acquitted by the Patna high court and returned to electoral politics.
Updated on Mar 22, 2015 02:22 PM IST
Hindustantimes.com | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Thai army men turn Buddhist monks for 13 days at Bodh Gaya
From the battle hardened routine of the army to 13 days of penance in absolute Buddhist monkhood, it has turned out to be quite a journey of self discovery for a group of men from Thailand.
Updated on Mar 21, 2015 09:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna
Digvijaya Singh's son in alliance with Bihar's ex-royalty
As AICC general secretary in charge of Bihar (2005-07), his penchant for 'social engineering' had kept the Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal alliance afloat even after the two allies were trounced by the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance in the 2005 assembly poll.
Updated on Mar 17, 2015 03:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna, Patna