A senior assistant editor, Navneet Sharma leads the Punjab bureau for Hindustan Times. He writes on politics, public affairs, civil services and the energy sector.
Articles by Navneet Sharma
Haryana rejects army chief’s request for change of plot
Army chief General VK Singh, whose statutory complaint to change his date of birth has been rejected by the defence ministry, has faced another turndown — this time from Haryana over a plot he wanted swapped. Navneet Sharma reports.
Updated on Jan 01, 2012 10:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Power corporations ticked off by state regulatory body
Haryana power corporations, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), have been ticked off by the power regulator in Haryana for disallowing ‘open access’ to private firm DLF Utilities Limited which wants to sell its surplus power.
Updated on Aug 05, 2011 01:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Citizen database work lacks coordination
In what clearly amounts to duplication, two government agencies are planning to create separate citizen databases including biometrics of the state's entire population in Haryana without any coordination. Navneet Sharma reports.
Updated on Jul 29, 2011 11:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
HSIIDC to raise Rs 3500 crore through bonds
The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) has decided to raise about Rs 3500 crore through bonds and long-term loans from financial institutions this year to meet its fund requirement for creating a land bank and development of industrial projects.
Updated on Jul 20, 2011 07:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Hooda lobbies for Haryana Cong chief’s son-in-law
Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking extension of the inter-state deputation of a Karnataka-cadre IAS officer for the seventh year.
Updated on Jul 20, 2011 12:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Hooda lobbies for Haryana Cong president's son-in-law
Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is trying hard to retain the services of Karnataka IAS officer Rajender Kumar Kataria for another year.
Updated on Jul 19, 2011 07:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Jairam Ramesh gets suggestion on land acquisition bill
Haryana power minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav has suggested to union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh that fertile land giving two crops a year should not be acquired and only barren land should be considered for the purpose of industrialization and urbanization.
Updated on Jul 16, 2011 08:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
IFS officer suspects govt of phone tapping
Amid reports of recall of all “off-air” tapping equipment by the Centre from the state governments, the Haryana government is being suspected by an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of tapping his mobile phone. Navneet Sharma reports.
Updated on Jul 12, 2011 09:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Service fee to go up
After three hikes in power tariff in the past one year, consumers will now have to brace themselves up for another hike, this time in the form of increase in service charges.
Updated on Jul 05, 2011 12:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Centre looking into SHG fund misuse
After taking a serious view of irregularities in plantation projects, the union ministry of environment and forests has started looking into “fraudulent withdrawal” of funds meant for income generation activities of weaker sections in Jhajjar district of Haryana under a programme funded by a foreign agency.
Updated on May 09, 2011 11:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Govt gets cold feet over discom privatisation plans
Bowing to the strong opposition from the employees of state-owned power companies, the Haryana government has decided to go slow on its plan to privatise electricity distribution in Gurgaon and Panipat districts.
Updated on Apr 28, 2011 12:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Haryana census report: Illiteracy, sex ratio link debunked
A poor sex ratio is often blamed on illiteracy. But this does not seem to hold true in Haryana. Navneet Sharma reports.
Updated on Apr 06, 2011 08:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Low literacy districts in Haryana top sex ratio chart
Poor sex ratio is often blamed on illiteracy. But this does not seem hold true in Haryana. The districts with poor literacy levels have reported the highest sex ratio and child sex ratio in the state as per the early results of Census 2011.
Updated on Apr 05, 2011 07:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Seeking plot, ex-navy chief lauded Hooda
Is it proper for the country's defence chief to preface his request for allotment of a plot of land with gushing praise for a chief minister for leading his party to victory in elections?
Updated on Dec 28, 2010 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
How Haryana mastered the art of land acquisition
Land acquisition has led to violent protest in many parts of the country, but the fast industrialising state of Haryana has been diverting land to non-agricultural purposes rather easily.
Updated on Nov 18, 2010 12:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prasad Nichenametla and Navneet Sharma, New Delhi/chandigarh
Man behind stir: UP builder
Violent protests by the Jats of Haryana, who are demanding reservation in jobs and education, entered the second day on Tuesday. But few, including most protestors, know much about Yashpal Malik, the man leading the agitation.
Updated on Sep 15, 2010 12:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Ration cards go smart
The 1,600 families in Haryana’s Panchkula district who line up at fair-price shops for food grains and kerosene can do away with their prized ration cards.
Updated on Jun 27, 2012 03:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Honour killings: A clash between tradition and modernity
Fast changing social mores are leading to clashes between tradition and modernity. Honour killings are a symptom of this evolution, reports Navneet Sharma. See graphic
Updated on Jun 24, 2010 09:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, New Delhi
The tyranny of custom
There is little in common between Naveen Jindal and Om Prakash Chautala. Jindal (40), Congress MP from Kurukshetra, is a US-educated billionaire politician and prominent face of the Generation Next of the Congress. Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) President and former chief minister Chautala (75), who did not read beyond matriculation level, is a battle-hardened Jat.
Updated on May 12, 2010 12:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Chatha elected as Haryana Assembly Speaker for third time
Congess MLA from Pehowa Harmohinder Singh Chatha (74) was on Wednesday elected as Speaker of the Haryana Assembly by the newly elected members.
Updated on Oct 28, 2009 08:54 PM IST
None | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
HJC rules out merger with Congress
The Congress would ideally want the Haryana Janhit Congress (BL), floated by a breakaway group headed by former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, to merge with it, but the latter has completely ruled out such a possibility.
Updated on Oct 25, 2009 11:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
Shrewd Hooda gets the numbers
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda staked his claim to form the new government in the state on Friday, having cobbled together a majority within hours of discovering the Congress party was falling six short.
Updated on Oct 24, 2009 12:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma and Hitender Rao, Chandigarh
Cong slips in Haryana
Voter in Haryana on Thursday delivered a fractured verdict, triggering frantic parleys by the Congress and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) for forming the government.
Updated on Oct 23, 2009 12:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Chandigarh
State polls: Exam time for Congress
Having replaced Vilasrao Deshmukh just after the Mumbai attacks November last, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan is bracing to face his greatest political battle.
Updated on Oct 11, 2009 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Sayli Udas Mankikar, Mumbai, Chandigrah
No real challenge for Cong in Tosham
At the village ground, a crowd of around 200, a third of them women, waits to welcome Haryana Tourism Minister Kiran Choudhry.
Updated on Oct 10, 2009 01:00 AM IST
None | Navneet Sharma, Bhiwani
High-stake battle: Bangar ka Birender v/s 'outsider' Chautala
It's hard to imagine a more fiercely contested battle than the one being waged in the Jat heartland of Uchana Kalan assembly segment.
Updated on Oct 06, 2009 05:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Jind
In Jat heartland, it is a clash of titan
Haryana’s Finance Minister Birender Singh (63) and five-time chief minister and Indian National Lok Dal president Om Prakash Chautala (74) are locked in a whatever-it-takes fight here. Navneet Sharma reports. Special
Updated on Oct 06, 2009 02:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Jind
Bangar ka Birender v/s ‘outsider’ Chautala
It is hard to imagine a more fiercely contested battle than the one being waged in the Jat heartland of Uchana Kalan assembly segment, reports Navneet Sharma.
Updated on Oct 05, 2009 11:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Jind
Incumbent’s gamble
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has done it twice. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy did it in Andhra Pradesh just five months ago. Now, the Congress is trying to retain power in Haryana, Navneet Sharma reports.
Updated on Oct 01, 2009 01:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, New Delhi
Hooda’s withdrawal symptoms
In the hurly-burly of the elections in Haryana that has seen Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda trumpet all achievements of the Congress government, an important fact has got drowned.
Updated on Sep 27, 2009 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Sharma, Candigarh