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Sachin Sharma

Sachin Sharma

Sachin Sharma is a senior staff correspondent, who covers crime, politics, rural civic issues and health in the Malwa region of Punjab.

Articles by Sachin Sharma

AAP rebels, Sikh radicals seek Badals’ arrest within 15 days

Aam Aadmi Party rebel Sukhpal Singh Khera, Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, Baljit Singh Daduwal during the protest rally at Kotakpura in Punjab.(Gurpreet Singh/HT)

Updated on Oct 08, 2018 11:43 am IST

NGOs team up to fight stubble burning in Punjab

NGO volunteers accompanied by then SDM and now additional deputy commissioner, Sakshi Sawhney, clearing paddy stubble at a village in Bathinda last year.(HT Photo)

Updated on Sept 14, 2018 10:06 am IST

Show courage to prosecute us, Badal dares Amarinder

Former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal addressing a rally at Abohar in Fazilka district on Sunday.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

Updated on Sept 10, 2018 09:48 am IST

Belying Harsimrat’s claim, green clearance for AIIMS in Bathinda came before ground-breaking ceremony

Harsimrat Kaur Badal(HT File)

Updated on Aug 30, 2018 07:45 pm IST

Harsimrat, Manpreet spar over NOCs for AIIMS at Bathinda

Union food processing industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal.(HT File)

Updated on Aug 12, 2018 01:22 pm IST

At Bathinda meet, Khaira declares Punjab AAP unit ‘autonomous’

Dissident Punjab AAP MLAs, including former leader of opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira, at a convention in Bathinda on Thursday.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

Updated on Aug 04, 2018 09:50 am IST

Will seek autonomy for AAP Punjab unit at Bathinda meet: Sukhpal Singh Khaira

Sukhpal Singh Khaira(HT File)

Updated on Jul 30, 2018 11:23 pm IST

New Bathinda SSP to work with DSP he indicted in probe last year

SSP Nanak Singh and DSP Gurjit Singh Romana find themselves in a peculiar situation.

Updated on Jul 13, 2018 02:24 pm IST

PM Modi addresses farmers in Malout rally

PM Narender Modi , former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar at Malout in Muktsar on Wednesday.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

Updated on Jul 11, 2018 03:07 pm IST

Villagers in Bathinda bring addicts to de-addiction centres

The state government is charging Rs 250 per day per patient at five model drug de-addiction centres in Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Faridkot and Patiala.(HT File)

Updated on Jul 09, 2018 12:32 pm IST

Farmers defy govt notification, to start paddy sowing from today

While the government has set June 20 as deadline for paddy sowing, some farmers have already started transplanting the crop in the state.(HT Photo)

Updated on Jun 10, 2018 03:58 pm IST

Nitin Gadkari to inaugurate two road projects in Punjab, CM Amarinder to preside

Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari(PTI File)

Updated on May 13, 2018 11:01 pm IST

Congress govt has no control over anything, says Sukhbir Badal

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal with SAD general secretary Prem Singh Chandumajra at Takht Shri Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo on the occasion of Baisakhi on Saturday.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

Updated on Apr 14, 2018 08:28 pm IST

58 farm suicide victim kin meet Bathinda MLAs; women rue life of suffering

Each farm suicide leaves behind a trail of broken families with women, in most cases, bearing the brunt.(HT File/Representative image)

Updated on Apr 01, 2018 11:17 am IST

Law run over as liquor sold on wheels in Talwandi Sabo, with a loudspeaker!

The vehicle with loudspeaker making announcement of “heavy discount” on liquor, in Talwandi Sabo, 30km from Bathinda, on Friday.(Photo: Grab from video by local resident who sought anonymity)

Updated on Mar 31, 2018 09:31 am IST

Police take 4 months to lodge FIR in mobile seizures in Bathinda jail

Representative Image

Updated on Mar 01, 2018 10:17 am IST

Symbol or symptom? No stop to VIP culture as Manpreet Badal’s wife launches traffic drive in Bathinda

Veenu Badal, wife of local MLA and finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, helping a woman wear a helmet at the launch of a traffic safety programme by the police in Bathinda on Friday.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

Updated on Feb 24, 2018 11:08 am IST

Row over name of Punjab village with high population of Dera Sacha Sauda followers

A section of villagers has been carrying a campaign to get the village changed back to Kotli Khurd.(HT File)

Updated on Feb 23, 2018 10:15 am IST

AAP’s Talwandi Sabo MLA indicted over dual vote

Baljinder Kaur(HT File)

Updated on Feb 15, 2018 02:45 pm IST

13-yr-old victim’s family shocked as fellow Dera Sacha Sauda ‘premis’ booked for Maur blasts

Officials examining the spot where the blasts took place in Maur Mandi.(HT File)

Updated on Feb 11, 2018 09:59 am IST

A year after, victims relive trauma of twin Maur blasts; demand CBI probe

Hardeep Kaur, mother of Japsimran Singh, 14, who was killed in the bomb blasts in Maur on Wednesday.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

Updated on Feb 01, 2018 10:15 am IST

Noose tightens: Eight gangsters killed, 26 held in a year by Punjab Police

Punjab DGP Suresh Arora(HT File)

Updated on Jan 28, 2018 10:08 am IST

Maur bomb blast: Year on, victims’ kin await justice, cops still clueless

The blasts left seven dead and 12 injured.(HT File)

Updated on Jan 15, 2018 01:32 pm IST

Minibuses gather dust in Bathinda as PRTC cites losses

The minibuses bought under the central scheme parked in Bathinda.(HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 27, 2017 01:46 pm IST

Two gangsters killed, 3 held after encounter in Bathinda

An injured accomplice of Vicky Gounder being admitted in a hospital on Friday.(Babushahi.com)

Updated on Dec 15, 2017 10:50 pm IST

Stubble burning cases double over a week in Punjab

Efforts of the state government to check stubble burning have not been received well by the farmers. They are demanding an aid of Rs 300 per quintal or Rs 6,000 per acre to manage the paddy stubble.(HT file photo)

Updated on Nov 08, 2017 11:58 am IST

Smog engulfs Punjab with rise in stubble burning incidents

The ban on practice of burning paddy straw has had little effect.(PTI)

Updated on Oct 31, 2017 09:29 am IST

Attack on Kolianwali’s son and what it means for Shiromani Akali Dal

Former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal meeting Parminder Singh Kolianwali, son of SAD Muktsar district president and SGPC member Dyal Singh Kolianwali . Parminder was attacked in Malout.(HT File)

Updated on Oct 25, 2017 02:56 pm IST

Demoralised officials not acting against Congress workers committing crime: Parkash Singh Badal

Former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal meeting Parminder Singh Kolianwali, son of SAD Muktsar district president and SGPC member Dyal Singh Kolianwali in Bathinda on Monday. Parminder was attacked in Malout on Sunday evening.(HT Photo)

Updated on Oct 23, 2017 09:47 pm IST

Haryana cops search Bathinda house where Honeypreet hid for a week

The house at Bathinda’s Jangi Rana village where Panchkula police brought Honeypreet and her aide Sukhdeep.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

Updated on Oct 12, 2017 12:12 pm IST

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