Chitleen K Seth was part of Hindustan Times’ nationwide network of correspondents that brings news, analysis and information to its readers. She no longer works with the Hindustan Times.
Articles by Chitleen K Sethi
Did a lost walkie-talkie save the day at Pathankot?
It seems a lost walkie-talkie or a handheld transceiver saved the Pathankot airbase from suffering large-scale damage.
Updated on Jan 09, 2016 11:29 AM IST
HindustanTimes | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab policemen mistaken for terrorists, almost fired upon
In what seems to point towards a lack of coordination between various agencies working to neutralise the terrorists at the Pathankot air base, Punjab police personnel, who were deployed outside the station’s boundary wall, were almost fired upon by the air force, who mistook them for terrorists.
Updated on Jan 06, 2016 11:33 PM IST
Hindustan times | Chitleen K Sethi, Pathankot
NIA, Punjab cops to question honey-trapped ex-IAF man
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Punjab Police are now “revisiting” a 2014 case where an Indian Air Force (IAF) employee posted at the Pathankot air force station was arrested on charges of passing on vital information pertaining to the strategic facility to a woman from Pakistan who had honey-trapped him.
Updated on Jan 06, 2016 08:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi and Bhartesh Singh Thakur, Pathankot/chandigarh
Police begin head count of Gujjar muslims living near Pathankot base
Even as the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Punjab Police began investigations into the terrorist attack at the Pathankot airbase, Punjab Police have launched a head count of the Gujjar Muslim community living along the nullah that runs next to the airbase.
Updated on Jan 06, 2016 09:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Pathankot
Pathankot attack: NIA probe curious case of abducted Gurdaspur SP
As the guns fell silent at the Pathankot airbase on Tuesday with security personnel killing six heavily armed terrorists and investigators trying to retrace the attackers’ steps, the spotlight once again fell on the curious case of a police officer allegedly abducted and later released by the militants.
Updated on Jan 06, 2016 08:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Gurdaspur
Two terror teams may have attacked Pathankot using different vehicles
Two teams of terrorists attacked the Pathankot air base on Saturday, and they had – in all likelihood – reached there in different vehicles, security sources told HT.
Updated on Jan 04, 2016 09:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi and Rajesh Ahuja, Chandigarh/new Delhi
‘Victory in Punjab to be AAP’s gateway to India’
He created history when he won the Sangrur parliamentary seat with a stunning margin of two lakh votes. Known for his side-splitting stand-up comedy, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann used it to the hilt in his election rallies, creating a deadly mix that left his political adversaries speechless and people asking for more. In an interview to assistant editor Chitleen K Sethi, Mann said Punjab would prove to be AAP’s gateway to India and once Punjab assembly polls are won, AAP will come to power in at least a dozen states by 2019.
Updated on Dec 26, 2015 09:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Capt puts foot in mouth, terms it cess, flays Badals
They say the devil is in the details. The scion of the Patiala royal family and Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh learnt it the hard way on Wednesday when he put the proverbial foot in his mouth while castigating the ruling Badal regime for “imposing an extra tax” on people of Punjab in the form of “water and sewerage cess on power”.
Updated on Dec 23, 2015 11:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab cabinet to give nod to linking of water, power charges
The Punjab cabinet will meet on Tuesday to give the nod to the linking of the urban consumer’s water supply and sewerage charges to their electricity bills.
Updated on Dec 22, 2015 12:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Year to polls, religious fight at play between Cong, SAD
In Punjab, religion and politics are difficult to separate, but with one year to go for the assembly polls in the state, a religious competitiveness is already at play between archrivals Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Congress.
Updated on Dec 19, 2015 10:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Private buses run riot in Punjab, take compensation route
It’s a new trend, both morbid and mournful. As private buses of transport companies owned by influential politicians continue to run riot on Punjab roads, accidents involving such buses have inadvertently become a source of income for victims’ kin who strike a compromise with the perpetrators in lieu of a hefty compensation that usually runs in lakhs.
Updated on Dec 17, 2015 09:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab’s blood mess: State-run blood banks left to rot
Punjab’s facilities to handle, store and use blood are in a deep mess, in utter disrespect to ordinary people, who voluntarily donate nearly 97% of the state’s total collection in blood banks to save lives.
Updated on Dec 13, 2015 08:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab: Rs 1,700 cr down the drain in paddy procurement
The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India, in its performance audit of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and Punjab’s procurement agencies, has alleged irregularities amounting to over Rs 1,700 crore in procurement and milling of paddy for the central pool from April 2009 to March 2014.
Updated on Dec 10, 2015 12:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Poll time politics: Rs 10,000 cr to be pumped into development
It’s one year to go for the Punjab assembly polls and the political pot is already steaming. Facing severe anti-incumbency of a two-term rule, the SAD-BJP coalition is not going down without a fight. Big plans are afoot, directed towards a serious bid to retain power in the state for the third time in a row.
Updated on Dec 08, 2015 10:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
World AIDS Day: Punjab has good and bad news
World AIDS Day on Tuesday brings both good and bad tidings from Punjab. The state has reported a steady decline in HIV positivity (percentage of positive cases among the total tested) over the past seven years.
Updated on Dec 01, 2015 10:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab govt delays implementation of property protection law
After pushing the controversial Prevention of Damage to Public and Private Property Bill, 2014, the Punjab government seems to have developed cold feet when it comes to implementing it.
Updated on Nov 28, 2015 12:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
With chief director gone, Punjab vigilance bureau rendered defunct
Corruption in public life is obviously not the SAD-BJP government’s priority in Punjab. For almost a month now, the state vigilance bureau is without a head, and as a result there is no work happening in the bureau.
Updated on Nov 20, 2015 11:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab govt to crack down on provocative Sikh sites
The Punjab government has decided to crack down on Sikh websites, internet channels and social media pages “spreading hatred and provoking youngsters to take the path of violence for the cause of Khalistan and other emotive religious issues.”
Updated on Nov 19, 2015 08:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
‘Sarbat Khalsa was a Khalistani stage and everyone there knew it’
He is the man of the moment. SAD (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann has a spring in his step. The main orgainser of the radical Sarbat Khalsa of November 10, Mann, unlike many who led the gathering, is unapologetic about bringing the issue of Khalistan back to Punjab’s centre stage. Assistant editor Chitleen K Sethi spoke to Mann about the radical Sarbat Khalsa and the politics that ensued over it.
Updated on Nov 16, 2015 11:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Fatehgarh Sahib
Police cases not new to radicals’ jathedars
Even as Punjab Police on Friday booked the “jathedars” appointed by the radical Sarbat Khalsa for sedition, their engagement with the police has been an old one.
Updated on Nov 14, 2015 09:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Radical congregation aftermath: Police to act tough with erring NRIs
Punjab Police are set to come down heavily on NRI Punjabis who have, over the years, supported what the police term as “anti-national” activities in Punjab through funding and logistic support.
Updated on Nov 12, 2015 10:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
HT Analysis: Show of strength at Sarbat Khalsa leaves SAD rattled
The massive crowd that gathered for the radical Sarbat Khalsa at Amritsar on Tuesday has left the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) rattled, to say the least. The fact that an event -- largely projected as an anti-Badal show -- was packed with people is the strongest and most vocal reflection of the groundswell against the ruling party across Punjab.
Updated on Nov 11, 2015 11:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Many Sikh preachers not to attend Sarbat Khalsa
The Sikh preachers who originally led a series of protests against the sacrilege in Faridkot district on October 12 are unlikely to be part of Tuesday’s ‘Sarbat Khalsa’.
Updated on Nov 10, 2015 09:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Sikh hardliners to name ‘parallel’ jathedars
The Panthic crisis in Punjab is likely to escalate with Sikh hardliners organising the November 10 Sarbat Khalsa (Sikh congregation) preparing to announce the names of ‘parallel’ jathedars to ‘replace’ the current heads of the three Takhts in Punjab, including the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, the Akal Takht. The other two Takhts in the state are Takht Keshgarh Sahib and Takht Damdama Sahib.
Updated on Nov 05, 2015 05:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Ahead of Sarbat Khalsa, hardliners struggle to keep their flock together
While Punjab continues to be in the throes of what the SAD-led government sees as acute “panthic crisis”, no one, not even the top Akali leaders, who have to “handle” the situation, know who exactly to battle with.
Updated on Nov 04, 2015 12:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Handing over probe to CBI a deft move by Badals
By announcing that the state government will hand over the probe into sacrilege cases to the CBI, the SAD leadership has managed to kill several proverbial birds with one stone.
Updated on Nov 02, 2015 11:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab may hand over sacrilege cases to Central Bureau of Investigation
With Panthic leaders hinging their protest on the demand for the release of the two accused in the Bargari case of desecration of Guru Granth Sahib, the Badal government is mulling shifting the investigation into all sacrilege incidents in Punjab to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Updated on Nov 01, 2015 12:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Housing is sunshine sector, bags biggest pie share of investments
Housing emerged as the sunshine sector in Punjab accounting for the largest pie share of the total investment committed during the second Progressive Punjab Investors’ Summit that ended at the Indian School of Business here on Thursday.
Updated on Oct 30, 2015 12:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Sas Nagar
On biz bigwigs date with Punjab, Badals do some hard selling
The SAD-BJP led Punjab government, despite its recent internal setbacks, got big thumbs up from country’s business magnates, who hailed the state’s model of attracting investment. A galaxy of top business, banking and industry honchos, who descended on the International School of Business (ISB) campus here for the second edition of the
Updated on Oct 29, 2015 09:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Sas Nagar
Progressive Punjab Summit: 400 firms promise to pump in Rs 96,000 cr
In the run-up to the second Progressive Punjab Investors’ Summit, the state government has signed memoranda of understanding with over 400
Updated on Oct 29, 2015 09:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Sas Nagar