Gulam Jeelani writes on politics, national affairs and socio-economic issues for Hindustan Times. A journalist for seven years, he worked in Lucknow and Srinagar, before moving to New Delhi.
Articles by Gulam Jeelani
Unitech asked to refund Rs 4cr to 6 home buyers for delayed projects
The case relates to eight buyers who had booked the homes with the builder in 2010 after paying between Rs 26.5 lakh to Rs 55 lakh each between 2009 and 2011. In their clubbed plea filed at NCDRC, while six buyers wanted the money back with compensation, two others sought possession of the flats in a stipulated time and compensation from the builder.
Updated on Feb 18, 2016 12:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
‘Made in Gurgaon’ driverless shuttle impresses Gadkari
Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari along with visitors at the ongoing Auto Expo in Greater Noida were impressed by the country’s first driverless shuttle — Novus-Drive.
Published on Feb 05, 2016 03:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Online travel firm told to refund ticket fare to passenger
A consumer court in Gurgaon has directed online travel company MakeMyTrip to refund the air ticket fare to a passenger for a flight that was cancelled three years ago.
Updated on Feb 04, 2016 11:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Gurgaon: Baxi completes over 1,000 rides a day
Gurgaon’s first on-demand motorbike taxi company, Baxi, has reached a new high by completing more than 1,000 rides a day.
Published on Feb 03, 2016 01:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Two arrested with 35 kg of cow meat in Gurgaon
The police on Sunday arrested two West Bengal natives from Wazirabad locality of Gurgaon for allegedly ferrying banned cow meat
Updated on Jan 31, 2016 06:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Haryana felicitates Emergency prisoners
The state government on Tuesday felicitated 20 former prisoners at the official Republic Day function held in the Tau Devi Lal stadium in Gurgaon.
Published on Jan 27, 2016 01:18 AM IST
Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Lost ‘Rider’ leaves Gurgaon cops on tenterhooks
On official two-wheeler went missing from Naharpur Rupa on the intervening night of January 15-16 and has not been found yet.
Published on Jan 25, 2016 01:43 AM IST
Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Sneaking a gun into Gurgaon’s biggest mall is a cakewalk
A day after the Delhi police arrested four IS members for allegedly planning attacks on prominent malls in NCR, security arrangements at Gurgaon’s biggest mall —Ambience Mall — were far from adequate.
Published on Jan 22, 2016 01:46 AM IST
Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Highly literate Gurgaon falters on sex ratio at birth front
Gurgaon may rate the highest in Haryana when it comes to literacy, but the district surprisingly has a near-abysmal sex ratio at birth when compared to its rural counterparts.
Updated on Jan 19, 2016 06:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
‘Highly literate’ Gurgaon falters on sex ratio front
Gurgaon – often referred to as India’s fastest growing city – reported worse sex ratio at birth (852) than predominantly rural and less literate districts such as Mewat (913) and Sirsa (914) in 2015.
Updated on Jan 19, 2016 02:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
How good is Gurgaon air? No one knows
The continuous ambient air quality monitoring (CAAQM) station near Rajiv Chowk, off the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, does not monitor PM 2.5 and PM 10 levels in real-time, without which one cannot get a clear picture of the pollution levels in Gurgaon.
Updated on Jan 15, 2016 04:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
An app that helps Gurgaon parents track kids at Rs 50 a month
Two Gurgaon-based engineers have developed a technology that would enable parents to track their schoolgoing children using mobile phones at just Rs 50 per month.
Updated on Jan 13, 2016 01:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Gurgaon principal takes lead, pedals his way to college
The 57-year-old principal of a government college cycles for 24 kilometres every day to commute between home and office
Updated on Jan 04, 2016 12:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Former Sohna MLA under lokayukta scanner for realty fraud
In what appears to be a case of realty fraud, the Haryana lokayukta will probe allegations against a real estate developer regarding “irregularities” during procurement of licences for a plotted colony in Gurgaon several years ago.
Updated on Jan 04, 2016 11:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Gurgaon halts registration of diesel vehicles
The Gurgaon administration has halted the registration of new diesel vehicles till March 31 and will stop issuing fitness certificates to existing ones, deputy commissioner TL Satyaprakash said on Saturday.
Updated on Dec 28, 2015 05:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Gurgaon
Lucknow boy earns 15 minutes of fame, gets hold of PM's Twitter handle
For 15 minutes on Tuesday, Lucknow teenager Qaiser Ali was the proud owner of the Prime Minister's official Twitter handle. But his glory was short-lived as Twitter India swung into action and took away his rights from the account.
Updated on Mar 21, 2016 08:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani & Saikat Datta, Luckow/new Delhi
Sonia, Rahul ignored Amethi: Arvind Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal made no bones about mocking Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi while campaigning in Amethi for Kumar Vishwas.
Updated on Apr 21, 2014 02:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani & PTI, Amethi
BJP deliberatley fielded 'weak' candidate in Amethi: Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of deliberately pitting 'weak candidate' Smriti Irani, an actor-turned-politician, against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi.
Updated on Apr 20, 2014 01:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Amethi
AAP conducts interviews for 80 UP LS seats, Kumar Vishwas among interviewees
Ritesh Chauhan, 32, who recently left an engineering job in the US, says he has no plans to return. Instead he wants to contest Lok Sabha elections from his native Amroha district in Uttar Pradesh.
Updated on Feb 07, 2014 08:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
Rally by AAP's Kumar Vishwas arouses curiosity in the Gandhi stronghold
Even before AAP co-founder Kumar Vishwas reached the venue of his rally in Amethi on Sunday, the Congress citadel in UP was abuzz with speculation on whether he would defeat Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha polls the way Ravindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party beat Sanjay Gandhi in 1977.
Updated on Jan 14, 2014 01:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Amethi
Bitter battle over sugar
In the battle over the state-advised price (SAP) on sugarcane, millers on Sunday finally backed down in the face of the UP government’s threat of action and agreed to pay Rs 280 a quintal for the cane they purchased from farmers.
Updated on Dec 02, 2013 01:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
NPR cards, not Aadhaar, for UP residents
Uttar Pradesh residents will get National Population Register (NPR) smart cards and not Aadhaar cards. The benefits, however, would not be different.
Updated on Nov 28, 2013 10:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
Scheming their way to benefits, several women in UP stopped midway
Despite having intermediate or higher degrees from much before, the women have attached recent Class 10 equivalent degrees awarded by the UP Madarsa Education Board in their application to be eligible for the financial assistance under Hamari Beti, Uska Kal’ scheme .
Updated on Nov 27, 2013 11:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
It’s official: No gold in Daundia Kheda
For all practical reasons, the hunt for hidden gold in Unnao district came to an end on Wednesday with the archaeologists hitting natural soil in the second trench.
Updated on Nov 14, 2013 11:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
It's 'pack up' time at Unnao gold excavation site
ASI and GSI officials are all set to march out of the village in Unnao district after a month-long futile gold hunt - during which they have laid their hands on pottery, a few beads, toys, bangles and bricks.
Updated on Nov 10, 2013 08:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Daundia Kheda (unnao)
Polls to enter a smart (card) age in UP
Black-and-white laminated voter identity cards would be history in the New Year. Plastic elector’s voter ID cards (EPIC) -- with an in-built hologram -- would be issued by the state to the new voters for the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
Updated on Nov 08, 2013 09:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
ASI’s gold hunt in Daundia Kheda on the basis of ‘tampered’ report
The GSI report that became the basis for the ASI authorities to start the gold hunt in Unnao district is a tampered version of the original one, which had no mention of any metal, according to sources.
Updated on Nov 06, 2013 09:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
Unnao ‘treasure’ report was tampered with
A senior GSI official on Monday told HT that the original report, sent to the govt after a survey at the site on October 3 and 4, had only suggested the presence of conductive material under the earth near the fort ruins.
Updated on Nov 05, 2013 01:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
81,027 inmates in UP jails against capacity of 48,298: RTI
The information released by the department of jail administration and reform services indicated that in UP jails the occupancy was almost double the sanctioned strength as on April 30, 2013.
Updated on Nov 04, 2013 10:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow
Are campaigns against food adulteration pure eyewash?
Tonnes of sweets, bakery, dairy products, and processed foods are being sold in the state capital this Diwali too. But how much of this is actually of good quality and safe for consumption is anybody’s guess.
Updated on Oct 31, 2013 10:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gulam Jeelani, Lucknow