K Sandeep Kumar is Senior Assistant Editor and Prayagraj Bureau in-charge of Hindustan Times. A journalist for over two decades, he has written extensively on politics, education, science and technology research, defence and human interest issues in Uttar Pradesh.
Articles by K. Sandeep Kumar
ID cards for sadhus of all akharas soon, and a database too
Tired of greedy imposters ruining their reputation, sadhus in India will soon be issued official ID cards from an umbrella association of 13 akharas or monastic orders.
Updated on Apr 19, 2015 01:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Beedi business owner, tobacco panel member Shyama Charan Gupta questions cancer link
BJP MP from Allahabad Shyama Charan Gupta is in midst of a controversy over comments made by him to back his argument that the tobacco industry was being unfairly targeted by a powerful lobby in India.
Updated on Apr 02, 2015 08:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
BJP sets sights on Dalit votes in Uttar Pradesh
Aspiring to form the government at the Centre on its own steam and fulfil its dream of '272+' seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set its sights on Dalit votes in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.
Updated on Apr 26, 2014 04:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
UP cops crack down on banned pro-quota stir, over 1,500 held
The police arrested more than 1,500 pro-reservation activists in Allahabad on Tuesday, foiling their bid to hold the banned Arakshan Bachao Mahapanchayat in Allahabad
Updated on Sep 18, 2013 07:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | BK Singh/K Sandeep Kumar, Allahbad
Allahabad: 2000 held in crackdown on pro-quota stir
The police arrested more than 2,000 pro-reservation activists in Allahabad today, foiling their bid to hold the banned Arakshan Bachao Mahapanchayat in the city.
Updated on Sep 18, 2013 01:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | BK Singh and K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Cultural life of bhaiyyas to be documented
In a first of its kind attempt, Dalit Resource Centre of Allahabad University's Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute (GBPSSI) has been assigned the task of chronicling the cultural life of bhaiyyas of UP and Bihar.
Updated on May 23, 2013 11:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
IIIT-Allahabad bans Facebook access on campus
The Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A) has barred its students and staff from accessing social networking site Facebook. K Sandeep Kumar reports.
Updated on Mar 13, 2013 11:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Officials gear up for Basant Panchami rush
As months of planning and brainstorming failed to prevent a stampede and loss of lives at the Allahabad railway station on Sunday, officials are now going into a huddle to ensure no such incident is repeated on February 15 when millions once again converge at the Sangam for the second biggest snan of the Kumbh Mela on Basant Panchami.
Updated on Feb 13, 2013 02:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar/kenneth John, Allahabad
Missing pilgrims' kin make frantic rounds of mortuaries
"I am not leaving till I find my mother," shrieked Ravita Devi, 32, when an official of Moti Lal Nehru Medical College on Monday tried stopping her from barging into the room where post-mortems of the stampede victims was being carried out. K Sandeep Kumar and Smriti Malaviya report.
Updated on Feb 11, 2013 11:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar and Smriti Malaviya, Allahabad
Where sadhus run on hot wheels
Sanyas is all about renunciation – officially. Off the record, it involves flashy cars that go va va vroom along the pontoon bridges of Kumbh mela. K Sandeep Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 21, 2013 12:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
On banks of the ‘pure river’, devotees opt for bottled water
The human congregation in this land of the Sangam — the confluence of the Ganga, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati — is relying on bottled water and modern-day purifiers, K Sandeep Kumar writes.
Updated on Jan 16, 2013 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, New Delhi
Pilgrims get access to ‘sensitive’ sites
Defence authorities have granted pilgrims year-round access to the much-revered Patalpuri temple and Akshaya Vat (immortal Banyan tree) located in Akbar’s Fort, K Sandeep Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 16, 2013 11:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, New Delhi
Designer chillum sales at a high
Sadhus are not materialistic, but a chillum is invariably found among their few possessions. Needless to say, the chillum has become all the rage in Kumbh Nagar - among sadhus and pilgrims alike. K Sandeep Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 13, 2013 01:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Mobile apps bridge the gap
In the e-age, connecting with divinity for many has been hi-tech - courtesy fancy gadgets and the ubiquitous television - for some time. The Kumbh too has caught up. K Sandeep Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 12, 2013 01:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Transcending religious boundaries
During the Kumbh, Sacred Ramnami gamchhas, chadars and dhotis, along with the revered cotton thread ‘kalainaras’, are much more than religious items, they are symbols of communal harmony, K Sandeep Kumar reports.
Updated on Jan 07, 2013 02:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
New-age nomads to propagate love, green cause in Kumbh
Some 800 newage nomads from across the world will be camping in Kumbh this month. Committed to principles of non-violence and egalitarianism, the group members will be gathering under the banner of 'rainbow family of living light' and spread the message of love, unity and green environment.
Updated on Jan 05, 2013 02:19 PM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Gift of learning: MNNIT angels helping slum kids take wings
Passing through the murky lanes of the slum situated near railway tracks of Teliyarganj, one is greeted with an unusual sight every evening.
Updated on Oct 19, 2012 05:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
UGC hikes SC/ST fellowship for post-doctoral research
As per the new norms, research scholars of SC/ST categories will receive hiked fellowships.
Updated on Sep 10, 2012 12:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Worried parents can now breathe easy
Worried parents can now breathe easy. They can turn the fancy bikes of their kids into smart machines equipped to send a distress SMS to them and the emergency medical service providers automatically, with details of the bike’s location, if the vehicle gets involved in a road mishap, all for just a few thousand rupees.
Updated on Jul 11, 2010 08:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Now, intelligent robo in sync with man
A robot in sync with a man may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but with the aid of neural networks, a group of scientists from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad have got early success in developing intelligent machines which are in tune with humans.
Updated on Jun 14, 2010 08:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Water crisis at 'sangam'
Sangam - the holy confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati revered by millions and the site for historic Mahakumbh held once every 12 years- seems to be under threat.
Updated on May 30, 2010 03:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
One website for info on all educational institutions
All higher education institutions of the country and authentic information about them are soon going to become available on an official single Web portal.
Updated on May 25, 2010 02:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Animation, cartoons to help make better engineers
Rancho and his friends may have struggled with the complex technical stuff to get through their engineering college in the hit Bollywood flick 3 Idiots, but the country's budding engineers of tomorrow would be spared of this torture.
Updated on Apr 03, 2010 10:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Turmeric-based drug to cure Parkinson's disease
IIIT-A, NIMHANS experts design, develop compound effective in treating neurological disorders.
Updated on Mar 28, 2010 08:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
After crush, a desperate search
Bloodstains and broken bangles. A pile of slippers. Screams. The scene at Jagatguru Kripalu Chikitsalaya, a hospital 100 metres from the ashram where the stampede took place, resembled a disaster zone on Thursday.
Updated on Mar 05, 2010 12:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Mangarh
63 die in UP ashram stampede
About 25,000 people gathering in a narrow lane for a feast, with no crowd control, at an ashram in Kunda town in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district on Thursday was a disaster in the making, K Sandeep Kumar reports. See map | Listen to podcast | Fatal attraction
Updated on Mar 05, 2010 07:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Kunda
Apples, onions good for diabetics
Next time you visit a diabetic friend, gift him/her apples and onions. It might just help your friend fight and delay the usual medical complications related to heart, eyes and nerves.
Updated on Jan 13, 2010 02:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Chilli bombs to smoke out terrorists from hiding places
Indian herbs and spices— renowned for their medicinal powers — would now also battle terrorists during peace times and shield the people from effects of any nuclear, biological or chemical weapons attacks during war, reports K Sandeep Kumar.
Updated on Dec 15, 2009 08:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
19 students fined Rs 50,000 each for ragging juniors
In the first stringent action since the introduction of anti-ragging measures in the country, 19 girl students of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) were on Tuesday fined Rs 50,000 each.
Updated on Jul 29, 2009 12:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
I will give Maya a jhappi and a pappi: Sanjay
Actor and SP leader Sanjay Dutt was in further trouble with an FIR lodged against him today for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati during an election rally in Pratapgarh. Dutt had said that given a chance he will give jaadu ki jhappi and pappi to the chief minister.
Updated on Apr 19, 2009 01:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad