Pankaj Jaiswal is Chief of Bureau, Uttar Pradesh and covers politics. His continued interest in rural, distress, and development journalism, fetched him a handful of prestigious awards and fellowships. Pankaj is a photo-journalist too and tweets at @augustus29lotus
Articles by Pankaj Jaiswal
Akhilesh refuses to comment on Amar
Samajwadi Party Uttar Pradesh chief, Akhilesh Yadav, without saying anything about Amar Singh's "overconfidence" statement, said that the Firozabad loss was due to use of money power by the Congress, dangling carrot of tickets to contest 2012 UP Assembly election and transfer of BJP votes to Congress.
Updated on Nov 30, 2009 02:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Farmers’ voices for Copenhagen climate summit
Sixty-year-old Uttar Pradesh farmer, Baliram says he literally witnessed the climate change slowly and steadily over the years. He describes in detail about his experience in the testimony that he has given for compilation in ‘farmers’ voices’ to go to the Climate Change summit at Copenhagen, Denmark next month.
Updated on Nov 27, 2009 04:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
A seed movement sows hope in Bundelkhand
A seed movement has sprouted in distressed Bundelkhand. On it ride the hopes of hundreds of peasants and thousands of acreage of land across six UP districts of the region, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Nov 23, 2009 08:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Bundelkhand package elongates battle line between Rahul and Maya
There is a question mark and a certainty about the Rs 4,000-crore Bundelkhand drought mitigation package announced by the Central government for the UP’s area of the region. Question mark is--how much drought proofing the package brings about, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Nov 21, 2009 07:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Abu Azmi vows to fight for north Indians' honour
The newfound hero of the north Indian migrant population in Maharasthra, the Samajwadi Party Maharashtra MLA, Abu Azmi in Lucknow on Tuesday said he would fight till the last drop of his blood for the migrants’ honour.
Updated on Nov 18, 2009 01:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Azmi invites migrants to ‘Mumbai, a mini-UP’
Abu Azmi, who faced the ire of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena for taking oath in Hindi in the Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday said that he would continue his fight for the ‘honour of migrants’. Pankaj Jaiswal reports.
Updated on Nov 18, 2009 02:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Romance of reading without turning pages!
Gen next turning voracious readers, thanks to e-books galore on the world wide web, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Nov 16, 2009 07:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
After Amar Singh, Congress' Dalit MP alleges vendetta politics
Dust has not yet settle on the FIR issue of Samajwadi Party MP Amar Singh, that a storm rises in the state-over 'victimisation' of Congress Dalit MP, PL Punia.
Updated on Nov 15, 2009 08:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
After poll rout, SP disowns Kalyan Singh
Following its dismal performance in the Uttar Pradesh by-polls, the Samajwadi Party has started distancing itself from former Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kalyan Singh. Pankaj Jaiswal reports.
Updated on Nov 15, 2009 01:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Mulayam disowns Kalyan Singh after election rout
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today virtually disowned BJP rebel Kalyan Singh but blamed the Congress for his party's humiliating defeats in the assembly and Lok Sabha by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Nov 14, 2009 09:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
National River Ganga to get Rs 2,430 cr for its health
State govt submits Allahabad, Varanasi projects for clearance to Ganga Authority, Kanpur's will be submitted by December, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Nov 13, 2009 07:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Uttar Pradesh
‘Rahul Gandhi drew first blood’
Battle lines are drawn between Generation Next leaders Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi. For, Yadav holds Gandhi responsible for his wife’s defeat in by-elections.
Updated on Nov 13, 2009 12:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal
Mulayam's memorandum to governor
Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and general secretary Amar Singh met the Governor BL Joshi here on Sunday and gave him a compact disk that contains “incriminating evidences” against Mayawati government and its two top officers, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Nov 08, 2009 08:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Bundelkhand farmers devise new animal rearing habits to deal with drought
Instead of rearing buffaloes or cows like people in Punjab, villagers in Bundelkhand are rearing goat, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Nov 07, 2009 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun
Malihabadi Dussehri to sell with authentic stickers
Even before the mango trees start blossoming this season, the mango growers in the Lucknow Mango Belt are getting active to harvest advantages that the patent could give it. Pankaj Jaiswal reports.
Updated on Nov 03, 2009 12:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Late rains bring good news for Rabi crops
The extended monsoon that created havoc in south India also bettered rabi (winter cultivation) prospects in the north, especially in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the grain bowl of India.
Updated on Oct 11, 2009 11:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Mortgaged: Wives, daughters
There are no bad debts in Bundelkhand. If a man cannot repay a loan in cash, a wife or daughter will often do just as well. An ancient feudal norm thrives as women are seized to make up for unpaid loans, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Oct 05, 2009 01:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jhansi/chitrakoot
Cong swallows odds to love Dalits in Rahul’s UP
One Congress MP was videotaped gorging on chicken legs with curry dribbling over his hands. Another made sure a generator ran a light and fans while he slept on a hired foam mattress, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Oct 04, 2009 02:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Green shoots, finally
Parched Bundellkhand has seen late but strong revival of monsoon in the last few weeks, giving farmers a reason to hope for a healthy rabi crop, writes Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Sep 21, 2009 12:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Amkhera, Jalaun, Up
Parched Bundelkhand ‘pawns’ wives
The protracted drought in Bundelkhand has not only been forcing people to commit suicide but also coercing many to ‘mortgage’ their wives and daughters to moneylenders in a bid to survive, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Sep 07, 2009 02:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Mulayam soft on UPA, tough on BSP
The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Friday deferred its plan to withdraw support to Congress-led UPA government for six months. SP National President Mulayam Singh Yadav said the party would review its support to the UPA next year.
Updated on Aug 22, 2009 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Agra
SP mum on withdrawing support to UPA
In a scathing attack on both the Central and the UP governments, national president of the Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday announced a ‘jail bharo’ agitation to warn the former and dislodge the latter.
Updated on Aug 19, 2009 10:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Agra
India surprise: Sex and the City
It’s a society coming to terms with its own coming of age. In a recent HT-CNN-IBN poll, 63 per cent of respondents said virginity in a bride-to-be is no longer a big issue. One-third felt pre-marital sex is not taboo, report Pankaj Jaiswal & B Vijay Murty. Is chastity passe?
Updated on Aug 12, 2009 01:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal & B. Vijay Murty, Lucknow (uttar Pradesh) And Ranchi (jharkhand)
They grew up on booze, but now drink milk
Ghanshyam Kewat does not remember when he began drinking. “The tipsy feeling it produced felt great,” he said. “But now I can’t drink any more, because all the illegal distilleries around the village have been destroyed.” Ghanshyam is all of 13 years old.
Updated on Jun 25, 2009 12:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun
A madman’s green pursuit for mother earth
Nineteen years ago, when Mataprasad Tiwari took to growing trees around his two-acre plot of land, neighbours thought he had lost his marbles, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Jun 05, 2009 01:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun
In thick of action, Sonia changes tack
With growing confidence in her oratorical abilities, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has begun to vary her campaign style. In Faizabad, she embarked upon an interactive session with her audience at the rally, report Pankaj Jaiswal & Umesh Raghuvanshi.
Updated on Apr 20, 2009 12:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal & Umesh Raghuvanshi, Faizabad/ Lucknow
We’ll give dasha and disha to next govt: Fourth Front
The new trinity rising on India’s political horizon put up its first show of strength in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday. Pankaj Jaiswal reports.
Updated on Apr 10, 2009 12:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Safai (etawah)
We will make Govt of our choice: Troika
In their first show of strength in Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday said that they will bring in a government of their choice at the Centre, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Apr 09, 2009 06:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Saifai
State of discontent
Neglected by their own states, 23 districts in UP and MP are stepping up their demand for statehood ahead of the polls. Pankaj Jaiswal
Updated on Apr 08, 2009 12:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh
Cong won’t win, should support me: SP’s Nafisa
With the Supreme Court having barred Sanjay Dutt from contesting elections, the Samajwadi Party on Sunday replaced him with Nafisa Ali — well known actor and social activist, — as its Lucknow candidate.
Updated on Apr 05, 2009 11:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow