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
Progressive Punjab Summit: 400 firms promise to pump in 96,000 crore
In the run-up to the second Progressive Punjab Investors Summit, the state government has signed memoranda of understanding with over 400 companies that have promised to pump in more than Rs 96,000 crore.
Updated on Oct 27, 2015 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Mohali
Punjab unrest likely to cast shadow on investment summit
It was supposed to be Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal’s day in the sun. The events of the past 10 days, however, might cast a shadow on his pet event —Progressive Punjab Investors Summit scheduled in SAS Nagar from October 28 to 29.
Updated on Oct 21, 2015 12:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Missionary leaders to the fore in Punjab protests
Even as Sikh protests against the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib multiply across Punjab, the events of the past week have led to the resurgence of little-known Sikh missionary outfits, pitch-forking new leaders while giving a fresh lease of life to the traditional hardliner groups in the state.
Updated on Oct 20, 2015 11:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Shiromani Akali Dal rule in Punjab hits all-time low
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) rule in Punjab has hit an all-time low. Farmers and Sikhs are the two traditional core vote banks of the SAD and both have been severely hit in quick succession.
Updated on Oct 16, 2015 11:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Meeting with Punjab CM leaves farmer bodies divided
The conglomerate of farmer and farm labour bodies, which are leading the “rail roko” agitation in Punjab, seem to be caught in a Catch-22 situation following the meeting with chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Updated on Oct 13, 2015 07:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Talks inconclusive, Punjab farmers say ‘rail roko’ will go on
Rail blockades across Punjab by angry farmer bodies will continue as crucial talks between protesters and chief minister Parkash Singh Badal failed to yield any breakthrough here on Monday.
Updated on Oct 12, 2015 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab to regulate admission, fee in pvt professional colleges
The Punjab government is set to bring in an umbrella Act to regulate admission and fee structure in various private professional colleges in the state. The institutes that will come under the Act include all private engineering colleges, education colleges (offering B Ed courses) besides polytechnics and industrial training institutes (ITIs), among others.
Updated on Oct 08, 2015 02:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab’s stamp duty collection lowest in 4 years
Punjab is heading towards yet another year of dull revenue receipts from stamp duty and property registration, signalling no change in the dampened real-estate sentiment in the state. The five-month collection has hit a new low, worst since 2011, only marginally higher than the figures of 2010, when the realty bubble burst, crashing property prices.
Updated on Oct 06, 2015 11:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Bend it like Badal: Pick-and-choose policy favoured some while others asked to follow rules
Following a pick-and-choose policy when it came to granting clearance to private bodies setting up universities, the Punjab government allowed some universities in the state to set up off-shore, off-campus and regional study centres, while barring others from doing so.
Updated on Sep 21, 2015 10:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Bend it like Badal: Some favoured while others asked to follow rules
Following a pick-and-choose policy when it came to granting clearance to private bodies setting up universities, the Punjab government allowed some universities in the state to set up off-shore, off-campus and regional study centres, while barring others from doing so.
Updated on Sep 22, 2015 12:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
A rush and hush job: When rules go for a toss
Punjab’s higher education department could well be an assembly line of the state’s “universities factory”. In brazen attempts to favour private bodies opening universities in Punjab, the department worked with uncharacteristic alacrity in the past five years.
Updated on Sep 21, 2015 03:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi
A rush and hush job: When rules go for a toss
Punjab’s higher education department could well be an assembly line of the state’s “universities factory”. In brazen attempts to favour private bodies opening universities in Punjab, the department worked with uncharacteristic alacrity in the past five years.
Updated on Sep 21, 2015 08:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Private universities of Punjab: Bend it like Badal
Even as the Punjab assembly meets on Monday to consider the creation of yet another private university in the state, a Hindustan Times investigation based on documents procured under the Right to Information Act has revealed that the government has in the past five years created 11 universities, brazenly flouting the rule book, overlooking glaring deficiencies and rushing them through an ordinance route and flawed Acts.
Updated on Sep 20, 2015 03:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Private universities of Punjab: Bend it like Badal
Even as the Punjab assembly meets on Monday to consider the creation of yet another private university in the state, a Hindustan Times investigation based on documents procured under the Right to Information Act has revealed that the government has in the past five years created 11 universities, brazenly flouting the rule book, overlooking glaring deficiencies and rushing them through an ordinance route and flawed Acts.
Updated on Sep 20, 2015 11:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Tracing roots of Punjab terrorism
Sometimes it takes a bit of fiction to be able tell the whole truth. Especially when the truth is as complicated as telling the story of a strife, not so long ago.
Updated on Sep 09, 2015 11:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Vigilance sleuths book retd IAS officer in assets case
Punjab vigilance bureau has booked Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Mandeep Singh for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Updated on Sep 03, 2015 10:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Blood and honour: When 'parent' turns into monstrous killer
As a shocked nation continues to be transfixed by the story of how Indrani Mukerjea allegedly killed her daughter, the riveting filmlike account brings back memories of similar stories played out in Punjab not so long ago.
Updated on Sep 01, 2015 03:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
With eye on 2017 Punjab polls, SAD to launch 20-point agenda in Oct
With severe anti-incumbency staring the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in the face ahead of the 2017 polls in the state, there is nothing much for the Badals-led party to cheer.
Updated on Aug 27, 2015 10:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Bogus beneficiaries add to Punjab’s pension pangs
The Punjab government has found that it has been paying old age pension to more than Rs 2.93 lakh ‘bogus’ beneficiaries all these years. In five years alone, it has cost the state exchequer a whopping Rs 450 crore.
Updated on Aug 20, 2015 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
A Sikh pilgrim's chronicle of gurdwaras across the nation in 1930s
Some stories can only begin with “once upon a time” — like this little-known history of an indefatigable pilgrim, Dhanna Singh ‘Patialvi’, who in the 1920 and 30s, travelled to every Sikh shrine in the country on his humble bicycle, clicking pictures and chronicling his travels.
Updated on Aug 20, 2015 11:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Punjab's small-town girls more vulnerable to sexual harassment
The death of a 16-year-old student of Class 12 of Kalbanjara village in Sangrur, who set herself ablaze to escape humiliation allegedly being meted out by four boys of the village, has brought the focus back on the defencelessness of young girls -- especially in smaller towns and villages of Punjab - as also the unchecked criminal behaviour of men towards them.
Updated on Aug 12, 2015 12:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Gurdaspur attack: Courage, luck saw SWAT team of Punjab Police through
Raw courage and loads of luck seemed to have carried the day for Punjab Police during the flush-out operation at the Dinanagar police station in Gurdaspur during the terror strike by ultras on Monday.
Updated on Jul 29, 2015 11:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Gurdaspur attack is a typical fidayeen attack, say intelligence sleuths
The terrorist attack in Dinanagar is being seen as a “typical fidayeen strike” resulting from augmented infiltration activities on the Indo-Pak border in the past few months.
Updated on Jul 29, 2015 11:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Gurdaspur attack: India, Pakistan citizens battle online
Indian and Pakistani netizens slugged it out in the virtual world as tempers flared over Monday's terrorist strike in Gurdaspur by gunmen suspected to have sneaked in from across the border in an attack that is likely to cast a cloud on resumption of talks between the South Asian rivals.
Updated on Jul 28, 2015 01:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
SC interim order on release of life convicts comes as relief to Punjab
The interim order of the Supreme Court permitting state governments to release life convicts on remission spells a major relief for Punjab coming at a time when the state government is struggling to defuse the situation emerging out of the ongoing fast by Sikh activist Surat Singh Khalsa.
Updated on Jul 24, 2015 09:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Akalis did right in defusing situation in Punjab,says former DGP KPS Gill
Punjab's former DGP KPS Gill on Wednesday said the Punjab government should have zero tolerance towards those who supported terrorists and their cause. In a free-wheeling interview to assistant editor Chitleen K Sethi, the former top cop said the Akalis had done the right thing in defusing the situation developing in the state due to the continuing "fast" by Sikh activist Surat Singh Khalsa.
Updated on Jul 24, 2015 11:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi
Gangs of Punjab stalking the state with brazenness
They are reckless, armed and trigger-happy. With innocence lost young, they are now hardcore criminals with little likelihood of reform. Death at the hands of the police or a rival is how their short deviant life ends.
Updated on Jul 12, 2017 02:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Vigilance Bureau for action against govt officials with green cards
The state vigilance bureau (VB) has recommended strict action against Punjab government employees who are permanent residents and green-card holders of foreign countries. Heads of departments have been asked to take action against such employees in two months.
Updated on Jul 17, 2015 12:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Chandigarh
Rupnagar mishap: Police, villagers differ on what happened at
Even as the Punjab government on Friday constituted a special investigation team to probe the manner in which the accident that killed 40-year-old Swaran Singh took place, not much clarity has emerged even 36 hours after the incident as to what actually happened.
Updated on Jul 11, 2015 11:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi, Rupnagar
Rupnagar accident: Agitation called off after police assure action
After the police formed a special investigation team (SIT) and assured action in the case on Friday, villagers called off their 30-hour-long sit-in protest over the death of Swaran Singh (40), a resident of Behrampur village in this district, in a road accident.
Updated on Jul 11, 2015 08:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Chitleen K Sethi and Bahadurjeet Singh, Chandigarh