Ashni Dhaor is a principal correspondent with Hindustan Times since 2021. She covers crime, education and human-interest stories in Noida and Greater Noida. With over nine years of experience as a journalist across print, digital and broadcast newsrooms, she specialises in writing long-form feature stories tackling a diverse range of topics.
Articles by Ashni Dhaor
Bikers’ group from Ghaziabad brings Bullet enthusiasts together
A Bullet enthusiasts’ club in Indirapuram, which has more than 150 members, takes up to 10 long road trips each year
Updated on Nov 16, 2015 05:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, Ghaziabad
Soundless firecrackers a hit among children
The preference for ‘low-sound’ crackers is being attributed to rising awareness, even among children, about high pollution levels
Published on Nov 10, 2015 01:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vinod Rajput/Ashni Dhaor
Arhar dal at wholesale prices a big hit in Ghaziabad melas
The federation of apartment owner’s association (Fed-AOA) in Indirapuram set up stalls selling arhar dal at a wholesale price of Rs. 125 per kilogram at various Diwali functions in societies across Indirapuram
Updated on Nov 09, 2015 05:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad residents get ready for day of lights
With less than a week to go for Diwali, markets in Ghaziabad have come alive with decorative items, lights and diyas. A number of stalls are also selling brightly coloured clay idols of Goddess Lakshmi and Ganesha.
Updated on Nov 05, 2015 12:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, Ghaziabad
Noida, Gzb chemists join strike against online sale of medicines
A majority of the medical stores across Noida and Ghaziabad remained closed on Wednesday in support of the nationwide strike called by the All India Chemists and Druggists Organisation (AICDO).
Updated on Oct 15, 2015 04:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Peeyush Khandelwal & Ashni Dhaor
Browse, borrow books from home in Ghaziabad
In the absence of public libraries in the city, various residential societies have come up with their own community libraries. Books for these libraries are donated by residents themselves, who also stock the libraries with various magazines and newspapers.
Published on Oct 12, 2015 01:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, Ghaziabad
Men in custody, women stay indoors in Bisada
Three days after the brutal attack on 55-year-old Ikhlaq and his 21-year-old son Danish, the lanes of Bisada village wear a deserted look. Most houses in the vicinity of the victim’s house have been vacated.
Updated on Oct 01, 2015 01:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor
Safdarjung Hospital: Where touts call the shots
Need blood and can’t find a donor? If you’re at Safdarjung Hospital, a stranger is likely to lend a sympathetic ear and lead you to one of the many enterprising touts who cheat desperate patients and their families with the help of tea stall owners, hospital guards and cleaners.
Updated on Jul 09, 2015 03:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
Waiting for his son's treatment at AIIMS, she fears he may die
Gulshan Khatun is anxiously waiting for November when her partially paralysed son is expected to get chemotherapy treatment at AIIMS. She, however, is not sure if her now comatose 17-year-old son will make it to November.
Updated on Jul 09, 2015 03:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
With over 10,000 OPD patients, many die waiting at crowded AIIMS
As many as 10,000 patients reach AIIMS hospital's OPD daily. In the absence of similar speciality hospitals, AIIMS that was meant to be a tertiary car institution has become a primary healthcare centre for patients that throng it from all corners of the country.
Updated on Jul 09, 2015 04:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
On Father’s Day, 175 abandoned dads continue to look for shade
Left to fend for themselves at an old age home for years, these parents wait for one call or visit from their children every day at an old age home in Rangpuri near Vasant Kunj.
Updated on Jun 21, 2015 09:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
Swachh politics angers residents of east Delhi
Supporters of bitter rivals Aam Aadmi Party and BJP hit the streets on Saturday welding brooms and pledging to clean the city but failed to impress residents, a day after 15,000 sanitation workers called off a crippling strike that triggered a health crisis.
Updated on Jun 14, 2015 12:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mohit Sharma and Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
Power play over garbage as people suffer in East Delhi
A political drama played along heaps of garbage that piled up on East Delhi's streets amid a raging blame game over who exactly was responsible for the mess on Friday.
Updated on Jun 13, 2015 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Mohit Sharma and Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
This Delhi resident leads a plastic-free life
Delhi resident Bhim Rawat, 32, leads a platic free life. The NGO worker claims that contrary to popular perception, eco-friendly living is easy on the pocket
Updated on Jun 05, 2015 11:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
Delhi's air, the dirtiest in world, destroying lungs of its children
Saksham Sharma, 12, struggles to breathe each day and uses a nebuliser at night to deliver medicines in vapour form to help his lungs function. The recent burst of rain that settled the dust in Delhi has brought him no respite.
Updated on Jun 04, 2015 04:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
Delhi children suffer from lung damage as pollution levels spike daily
Delhi’s poisonous air is affecting nearly 4.4 million school children, causing asthma and other lung diseases.
Updated on Jun 04, 2015 04:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
AIIMS online registration kiosks reduce appointment time to 20 min
People with no access to internet can now make online appointments at four kiosks set up at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences within minutes.
Updated on May 28, 2015 11:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
National Digital Literacy Mission centre launched in Gurgaon
The first National Digital Literacy Mission centre in partnership with NASSCOM Foundation was inaugurated on Wednesday.
Updated on May 28, 2015 08:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, Gurgaon
Outstation patients are worst-hit in Capital heat
As the city continues to reel under a blistering heat wave which has claimed over 800 lives across India, the worst affected are outstation patients who — with no other accommodation — are forced to live on scorching platforms outside hospitals, sometimes for months on end.
Updated on May 27, 2015 01:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor and Anonna Dutt, New Delhi
DU comes out with 3-yr syllabus, teachers unhappy
With a week left for the new session to begin, Delhi University finally released the curricula for students enrolled in the erstwhile four-year undergraduate programme. These students will now study in the three-year mode.
Updated on Jul 17, 2014 12:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor and Vartika Rawat, New Delhi
DU: 2nd cut-off list released, popular courses closed
It was a mixed bag for Delhi University aspirants on the first day of admissions for the second cut-off list. While some colleges opened the gates for aspirants who missed the first list by a few percentage points, many had closed admissions for popular courses.
Updated on Jul 05, 2014 09:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor and Vartika Rawat, New Delhi
Huge losses: Booksellers face the brunt of FYUP rollback
While many students and teachers celebrate the rollback of the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme and others still fight for it, book sellers are facing the brunt of this huge structural change that Delhi University has made once again.
Updated on Jul 04, 2014 01:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vartika Rawat and Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
Confusion at SGTB Khalsa after DU misprints cut-off for two subjects
The combined cut-off list on DU’s official website showed 90% in economics (hons) and 76% in life sciences for for Khalsa College. But the list on the Khalsa College website showed 97% in economics and 86.33% in life sciences.
Updated on Jul 02, 2014 12:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vartika Rawat and Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi
Aspirants from outside Delhi arrive amid chaos
Amid the confusion over releasing cut-off lists and the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), Delhi Univeristy’s (DU’s) student aspirants from across the country, who had very little clue on what was happening here, were in for an unpleasant surprise on Tuesday morning.
Updated on Jun 25, 2014 12:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor and Shinjini Ghosh, New Delhi
As DU admissions begin, organisations offer help to NE students
The Delhi University admission process is in full swing and thousands of students from the Northeast have arrived in, hoping to make it to the university.
Updated on Jun 09, 2014 12:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashni Dhaor, New Delhi