Sabir Hussain works as a senior content manager, who is also a rewrite hand for the newspaper and the web. He has worked across newspapers, wire services and television for over 25 years.
Articles by Sabir Hussain
‘This is India’s century’: Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen at HTLS 2020
At HTLS 2020 Punit Renjen said many across the world are bullish about India because of its talent, demographic advantage and the vibrancy of the culture.
Updated on Dec 10, 2020 10:11 PM IST
HIndustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Sabir Hussain
HTLS 2020: MP CM says there will be no political fallout of farmers’ protest
Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that given the government’s commitment to farmers, he does not fear that there would be a political fallout against the BJP.
Updated on Dec 10, 2020 10:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Nw Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Rahul Gandhi was picnicking while PM Modi focused on Bihar polls: RJD’s Shivanand Tiwary
Rashtriya Janata Dal national vice president Shivanand Tiwary also accused the Congress of being a ‘non-serious player’.
Updated on Nov 16, 2020 12:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Anirban Guha Roy| Edited by Sabir Hussain
‘No credibility’, India trashes Pak’s claims of Delhi sponsoring terrorism
The External Affairs Ministry said Pakistan’s allegations was is yet another futile anti-India propaganda exercise.
Updated on Nov 15, 2020 09:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Bihar election results 2020: Trends show BJP at pole position
The which won 53 seats in 2015 was leading at 70 seats shortly before noon.
Published on Nov 10, 2020 11:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Tripura’s Covid-19 death rate highest in Northeast region, says govt report
Among the eight districts in Tripura, West district is the worst affected in terms of fresh Covid-19 cases and casualties, according to the state .government’s latest report.
Updated on Sep 20, 2020 06:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Agartala | Priyanka Deb Barman| Edited y Sabir Hussain
NDA gets a boost in poll-bound Bihar as Jitan Manjhi’s party joins it
Jitan Manjhi, who had been part of the opposition Grand Alliance, was being wooed by the NDA for a long time.
Updated on Sep 02, 2020 07:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patna | Vijay Swaroop| Edited by Sabir Hussain
PIL in Jharkhand high court seeks to move Lalu Prasad back to jail
Lalu Prasad was shifted to hospital in the middle of March 2018 and hasn’t returned to jail since then.
Published on Aug 31, 2020 10:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | Bedanti Saran| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Jobless migrant workers in Bengal become cross-border smugglers
Jobless migrant workers who returned from other states are being lured to smuggling and trafficking with the promise of easy money.
Published on Aug 31, 2020 06:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | Joydeep Thakur| Edited by Sabir Hussain
1,700 Uttarakhand govt doctors threaten mass resignation over pay hike delay
The Provincial Medical Association leaders have said that they will work wearing a black band for a week till September 7 and resign en masse on September 8 if their demands are not met.
Published on Aug 31, 2020 06:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Suparna Roy | Edited by Sabir Hussain
BSF to lodge protest with Pakistan Rangers, show photographic evidence of tunnel
A top BSF officer said the trans-border tunnel that originated in Pakistan was being dug from about 500 yards of a Pakistan Rangers’ post.
Published on Aug 30, 2020 07:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jammu | Ravi Krishnan Khajuria| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Cured patients testing positive for Covid-19 again due to ‘harmless residual virus’
Most of these patients had gone for a test after completing treatment to check the virus load in their bodies.
Updated on Aug 28, 2020 12:26 PM IST
Hidustan Times, Lucknow | Gaurav Saigal| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Bengal sets up 3-tier scanner to monitor senior citizens during Covid-19 pandemic
Senior citizens have emerged as a vulnerable group in the Covid-19 pandemic in West Bengal accounting for one-fifth of the casualties so far.
Published on Aug 26, 2020 11:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | Joydeep Thakur| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Covid-19 takes Odisha’s primitive tribal groups into its tentacles
Authorities have restricted movements to Bonda hamlets after a tribal man tested positive foi Covid-19.
Updated on Aug 26, 2020 11:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | Debabrata Mohanty| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Nomad, buffaloes die as cattle shed collapses in J-K’s Poonch in heavy rain
Heavy rain which lashed parts of Jammu and Kashmir also prevented the restoration of the Jammu-Srinagar highway after a large part of it was washed away in Ramban district on Tuesday.
Updated on Aug 26, 2020 05:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jammu | Ravi Krishnan Khajuria | Edited by Sabir Hussain
Mamata Banerjee furious as embankments repaired after cyclone Amphan collapse
The opposition BJP has accused the government and the ruling TMC of corruption in the repair of the embankments.
Published on Aug 26, 2020 09:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | Joydeep Thakur| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Lucknow’s KGMU pins hopes on asymptomatic donors for Covid-19 plasma therapy
Although these donors have developed antibodies for the Sars-Cov-2 virus, they have never tested positive for the Covid-19 infection earlier nor were they hospitalised.
Published on Aug 25, 2020 10:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | Gaurav Saigal| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Striving to ensure there is no second wave of Covid-19: Uddhav Thackeray
Uddhav Thackeray said the Maharashtra government is preparing health infrastructure to fight in case there is a second wave of Covid-19 in the state.
Published on Aug 24, 2020 08:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Swapnil Rawal | Edited by Sabir Hussain
Bihar govt rescues Covid patient allegedly held captive by hospital for failure to clear bills
Out of a bill of ₹6.34 lakh that the hospital raised for the patient’s treatment for 20 days in ICU, his attendants paid ₹2.44 lakh before the government intervened to settle the issue.
Updated on Aug 21, 2020 11:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times, patna | Ruchir Kumar|Edited by Sabir Hussain
Manipur orders probe, withdraws gallantry medal after students’ union flags corrupt cop
Manipur’s Director General of Police ordered the probe to be completed in a week to find out how a tainted cop was recommended for a gallantry medal.
Updated on Aug 17, 2020 10:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Imphal | HT Correspondent| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Covid-19 tally in Maharashtra goes past 6-lakh mark with 8k plus cases
Maharashtra has added one lakh cases of Covid-19 in nine days since August 8.
Updated on Aug 17, 2020 08:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Kidnapped and sold for marriage, 16-yr-old girl in MP rescued after 4 months
The girl who was kidnapped in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh was rescued from Sagar district in a joint operation by the police of the two districts.
Published on Aug 17, 2020 07:09 PM IST
Hindustan times, Bhopal | Shruti Tomar| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Delhi Assembly panel to summon Facebook officials over hate content
The Delhi Assembly’s Peace and Harmony Committee said it has received multiple complaints against officials of Facebook for their alleged deliberate inaction to contain hateful content in India.
Published on Aug 17, 2020 06:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Cong seeks DNA test of Uttarkhand BJP MLA accused of rape and fathering a child
The BJP leadership in Uttarakhand said the party would wait for the investigation to finish before any action.
Published on Aug 17, 2020 05:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Kalyan Das| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Locals oppose wall around Tagore’s Visva Bharati university ground, demolish gates
The local people and traders, for whom the Poush Mela in December on the university’s ground is a major source of income, are opposed to the wall.
Published on Aug 17, 2020 04:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | HT Correspondent| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Hindu family in Gwalior claims Muslim man’s body, cremates it, hospital orders probe
On Saturday evening, the hospital staff showed the family members of the Muslim man a different body and then asked them to return in the morning.
Published on Aug 16, 2020 09:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Gwalior | Mahesh Shivhare | Edited by Sabir Hussain
Maharashtra’s Covid-19 tally nears 6-lakh mark, death toll crosses 20,000
The death toll in the Covid-19 pandemic crossed the 20,000 mark in Maharashtra with 288 casualties on Sunday.
Updated on Aug 16, 2020 10:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Conman who impersonated IPS officer runs out of luck at toll plaza in Ujjain
The impersonator’s luck ran out when staffers at a toll plaza called the police after he refused to pay.
Published on Aug 16, 2020 07:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Ujjain | Anand Nigam | Edited by Sabir Hussain
Locked for five months, shrines in J-K finally reopen
On August 4, the government had announced that all religious places and places of worship in Kashmir would be reopened from August 16 but detailed Covid-19 SOPs would have to be followed.
Updated on Aug 16, 2020 06:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Srinagar | Ashiq Hussain| Edited by Sabir Hussain
Rlys generates more than 5.5 lakh mandays of work under PM Modi’s jobs scheme in 6 states
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that an amount of Rs 50,000 crore would be spent for building durable rural infrastructure under the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan which will provide jobs to migrant workers in six states who had returned home during the Covid-19 lockdown..
Published on Aug 16, 2020 05:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Sabir Hussain