Avinash, a senior correspondent, reports on crime, railways, defence and social sector, with specialisation in police, home department and other investigation agencies.
Articles by Avinash Kumar
Bihar cops busy with security duties
At a time when Bihar has turned the epicentre of terrorist and Maoist activities and a transit point for fake currency notes, the deployment of large number of police force in the name of security has come under some serious soul searching.
Updated on Feb 15, 2010 12:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar, Avinash Kumar, Patna
Arrested terrorist admits to Al-Qaeda links
Ghulam Rasool Khan, alias Mirza Khan alias Murshid Khan, arrested from Purnea district in Bihar on Monday last, has admitted to his links with Al- Qaeda and Taliban. During interrogation by police, he said that he had worked in Swat Valley and Kandhar during 2004-05, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Jan 19, 2010 08:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Case lodged against Tytler, BPCC chief Anil Sharma
A complaint case has been lodged with the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe police station against Bihar in-charge of the All India Congress Committee Jagdish Tytler and Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee president Anil Sharma.
Updated on Jan 14, 2010 09:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar remembers Major Unnikrishnan
"Don't shed your tears. Be proud, your son has met martyrdom. Every drop of his blood will inspire other soldiers to vanquish those who try to hurt the nation…"
Updated on Aug 12, 2019 06:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Danapur
Drug peddlersrs a challenge to SSB
Drug peddlers, active on the Indo-Nepal border, pose a serious challenge to the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the Bihar police personnel.
Updated on Nov 18, 2009 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Drug peddlers push border police hard
Drug peddlers active on Indo-Nepal border have posed a serious challenge to the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the Bihar police personnel, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Nov 17, 2009 07:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Patna a haven for arms peddlers?
Patna and its adjoining areas have of late turned into a safe hideout for hardcore Naxalites and arms peddlers. The seizure of a cache of firearms, ammunition and explosives from different parts of the State in the recent past has alarmed the senior police officials.
Updated on Nov 10, 2009 07:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Arrested ISI agent has easy access to Army units
The suspected ISI agent, Sudhanshu Sudhakar, arrested by the Special Task Force in Patna on Tuesday, had collected vital information about deployment of different units of the Indian Army in the country, including Pathankot and Jammu and Kashmir. Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar report.
Updated on Sep 23, 2009 09:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar, Patna
EX-soldier arrested for spying for Pak
Bihar’s links with Pikistan’s ISI was established again on Tuesday, when the special task force personnel arrested a dismissed constable of the Indian Army from Kankarbagh locality of the State Capital. Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar report.
Updated on Sep 23, 2009 01:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar & Avinash Kumar, Patna
Police investigate Shresth Sanjay's kidnapping case
A day after abduction of seven-year old Class one student, Shreshtha Sanjay, a team of special police comprising officials of the District Police and the CID left for Saran to ascertain whether the family had any dispute with co-villagers.
Updated on Sep 15, 2009 08:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
7-year old kidnapped in patna
A seven-year-old schoolboy was kidnapped in on Monday morning in the downtown Gandhi Maidan area.
Updated on Sep 15, 2009 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
MiG 21 fighter aircraft crashes, pilot dies
A young Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Flight Lieutenant Manu Akhouri, Danapur, was killed on Thursday when a MiG 21 fighter aircraft crashed about 20 km from Bhatinda airbase in Muktsar district in Punjab. He was the only son of Col (Retired) Sanjay Akhouri of JOB Sub Area station headquarters.
Updated on Sep 11, 2009 02:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Danapur
Naxal encounter, seven nabbed
After nearly four hours of encounter with Naxals last evening, the Special Task Force jawans arrested seven Maoists including a woman from the dense forests of Jamui and recovered a 10-kg landmine from the area, report Avinash Kumar & Avijit Biswas.
Updated on Sep 04, 2009 08:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar & Avijit Biswas, Patna/bhagalpur
Angry students torch train in Bihar
Irate students went on the rampage near Patna on Tuesday, torching four coaches of the New Delhi-Rajgir Shramjeevi Express at Bihta station, 35 km west of the state capital.
Updated on Aug 19, 2009 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijay Swaroop/Avinash Kumar, Patna/lakhisarai
Woman beaten, stripped in Patna street
A woman in her early 20s was beaten up and partially stripped by half-a-dozen men on a busy street in Patna on Thursday evening.
Updated on Jul 24, 2009 02:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar, Patna
Movie inspires teens to kidnap, kill 7-yr-old boy
It was just like in the movies. Except, this story doesn't have a happy ending. Two teenaged boys on Thursday kidnapped a seven-year-old boy who was playing with his friends outside his house. Luring him with the promise of sweets, they took him to a nearby lodge and when he started to cry, strangled him and stashed him inside a plastic bag.
Updated on May 30, 2009 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar, Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bride dumps drunk groom at altar
A bridegroom’s weakness for liquor cost him his marriage when the bride refused to marry him and sought police protection. Avinash Kumar reports.
Updated on Feb 18, 2009 01:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Naxals kill 10 cops in Bihar
In the biggest strike so far this year in Bihar, Maoists gunned down 10 policemen, injured three others and looted several weapons at a village in Nawada district. reports HT.
Updated on Feb 10, 2009 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Arun Kumar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Maoists kill GRP constable, loot police arms
After a brief lull, armed guerrillas of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) attacked a train between Kazra and Jamalpur railway stations under Malda division of Eastern Railway and killed a Government Railway Police (GRP) constable.
Updated on Dec 25, 2008 07:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashakar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Criminal MLA is doctor of non-violence
Narendra Kumar Pandey alias Sunil Pandey, a suspended JD-U MLA charged with serious criminal offences, has received a PhD from a Bihar University. And his subject? Non-violence, report Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Dec 15, 2008 11:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar put on high alert
The Bihar police are gearing up to counter the attack by terrorist outfit, if any, in the state with the senior police officials reviewing security arrangements for the second consecutive day, report Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Dec 06, 2008 07:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar/Avinash Kumar, Patna
Autopsy report vindicates my stand: Rahul's father
The autopsy report of Rahul Raj alias Prince, who was gunned down by the police in Mumbai on October 27 aboard a BEST bus, has not come as a surprise to his father Kundan Prasad Singh, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Nov 06, 2008 07:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
Raj’s men beat us on train: Biharis
A large number of Biharis who returned from Mumbai, complained that they were mercilessly beaten up by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists at Kalyan station, report Partha Pratim Roy & Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Nov 02, 2008 12:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Partha Pratim Roy & Avinash Kumar, Patna
Father wants CBI probe
Rahul Raj's father Kundan Prasad Singh said he was seeking legal opinion for lodging a complaint against the Maharashtra police chief for killing his son in a fake encounter, reports Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Oct 27, 2008 11:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar, Patna
Bihar derailed
Violence spread in major towns of Bihar on the second consecutive day of protest against the attack on north Indians by the activists of Raj Thackeray’s MNS in Mumbai, reports Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Oct 23, 2008 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ramashankar and Avinash Kumar, Patna
Past 31 days, 24 murders in Patna
Criminals are back in business in Patna, after a gap of two years. During the last 31 days, 24 people have been murdered in the city, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Oct 05, 2008 12:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Patna
For cash, comes the moneylender
As life at relief camps is getting prolonged, the flood victims need cash, while banks in north Bihar report the loss of more than Rs 50 crore to Kosi, reports Rai Atul Krishna & Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Sep 06, 2008 11:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rai Atul Krishna & Avinash Kumar, Patna/supaul
Minting money with mushrooms
Attending a trainnig programme on mushroom cultivation by Indian Council of Agricultural Research changed the life of Lalmuni Devi, a landless woman in Bihar who struggled to earn for her visually imapaired husband and a mentally challenged son.
Updated on Mar 07, 2008 04:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Danapur
A three-hour chakka jam and a baby
A victim of the chakka jam, Sunita Devi was forced to deliver her baby on the road. Interestingly, there was a debate over naming the infant ‘Jam’ or ‘Ram’ as he was born during the strike, reports Avinash Kumar.
Updated on Sep 12, 2007 11:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avinash Kumar, Khagaul (danapur)
Maoists kill two RPF personnel in Bihar
In a stepped up extremist activities, CPI (Maoist) gunned down two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel and injured three others between Ghorparan and Narganjo railway stations.
Updated on Apr 08, 2007 07:55 PM IST
None | Avijit Biswas/Avinash Kumar, Bhagalpur/patna