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
Voila, drought city has guests: Rain, bumper crops
In bundelkhand, farmers no longer gather in the village squares to chat aboUt the weather — or politics. in fact, there is no sign of the approaching general election. Even the politicians are waiting for the harvest season to end. Pankaj Jaiswal reports.
Updated on Apr 03, 2009 12:49 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun
Poll behind bars for BJP's Varun Gandhi?
Booked under National Security Act, BJP’s Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi won’t get bail for at least six months. Rajesh Kumar Singh & Pankaj Jaiswal report.
Updated on Mar 30, 2009 01:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Kumar Singh & Pankaj Jaiswal, Pilibhit/lucknow
The price of misery: Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 800
Those are the amounts two successive governments found fit compensation for farmers in the drought-hit Bundelkhand region. Some want to dump the cheques this summer — in the ballot box. Pankaj Jaiswal reports. India Yatra
Updated on Mar 18, 2009 09:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun
Cong, SP see-saw continues
The brinkmanship between the SP and the Congress continued, with the SP announcing the names of candidates for 10 more seats in UP, even as its chief Mulayam Singh Yadav held a press conference to declare that he was ready to withdraw some of his candidates if the Congress showed similar generosity, report S Jha & P Jaiswal.
Updated on Mar 09, 2009 01:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Srinand Jha & Pankaj Jaiswal, New Delhi/lucknow
Fully solar-powered UP village is India’s first
The sun never sets on Rampura village in Jhansi anymore. The Bundlekhand village is the first in the country to get its solar power plant. It did not have any electricity at all. But now, the kerosene lamps, under which children used to study, have started gathering dust, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Mar 01, 2009 11:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Munnabhai MP to say it with roses
Living his on-screen image of a Gandhian, Sanjay Dutt in an exclusive chat with Hindustan Times says," I would offer roses to those political opponents who hurl abuses at me during the campaign."Manish Chandra Pandey & Pankaj Jaiswal examines...
Updated on Feb 19, 2009 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manish Chandra Pandey & Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Masters of their destiny
Villagers in Uttar Pradesh's drought-hit Bundelkhand district built an unfinished 1.5-km section of the canal themselves, without much official help, in 50 days flat. This canal now irrigates more than 1,000 acres of land, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Jan 15, 2013 12:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Village ‘Olympics’ starts near Lucknow
It’s an “Olympics” with a difference. Villagers from seven north Indian states are fighting for top honours in games as bizarre as Milking a Buffalo, Milkman’s Cycle Race and Loading a Tractor Trolley with Grain Sacks, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Feb 14, 2009 01:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Chinhut (lucknow)
Mulayam fights Kalyan fire
SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav has blamed the media for creating confusion among the Muslims, particularly his party leaders, over the party’s latest friend and former BJP leader Kalyan Singh, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Feb 03, 2009 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Kalyan-Mulayam tango angers SP Muslim leaders
Kalyan Singh’s proximity to SP has rattled its Muslim leaders. They have virtually raised a banner of revolt against the party’s leadership bonhomie with the SP’s top leaders, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Jan 27, 2009 10:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Kalyan’s son joins SP
A day after Kalyan Singh walked out of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), his son Rajbir Singh joined the Samajwadi Party on Wednesday and was appointed its general secretary. Pankaj Jaiswal reports.
Updated on Jan 22, 2009 12:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
‘Munnabhai MP’ makes debut
On Saturday, Sanjay Dutt officially made the transition from actor to politician. As the city welcomed him with banners of ‘Munnabhai MP’, he promised he wasn’t leaving Gandhigiri behind, and that he wouldn’t be boring, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Jan 18, 2009 12:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
SP mounts pressure on Cong, announces another list
In a fresh twist to the blow-hot-blow-cold relationship, the SP announced without consulting the Cong its second list of its candidates for 17 seats Uttar Pradesh for the parliamentary polls, report Srinand Jha and Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Jan 11, 2009 01:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Srinand Jha and Pankaj Jaiswal, New Delhi / Lucknow
One more held for Lucknow, Ahmedabad blasts
The anti-terrorist squad of Uttar Pradesh Police arrest Mohammed Arif, a native of Azamgarh, for alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Lucknow and Ahmedabad.
Updated on Sep 29, 2008 11:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Concern for Rishu, from the world over
Readers’ response to little Rishu’s story that appeared in Hindustan Times on Wednesday is overwhelming. From local residents to people from the US and even China have expressed wish to help the child and his mother, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Sep 18, 2008 01:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
During Ramzan, praying for a Hindu child
Rishu has become the cynosure of all eyes at the mosque. Everyday, he awaits 'roza iftaari' time. This is the time that 'rozedaars' vie with each other to give Rishu dates and other things to eat, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Sep 17, 2008 12:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
The new nikahnama: a level playing field
It's another high for gender equality. The Muslim woman is lifting the veil to look her male counterpart in the eye.
Updated on Aug 17, 2008 10:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
A hectare to build a life on
Overnight, Raju became a landlord. The Mayawati government gave this scheduled caste person, among others, a hectare of land in the village. A report by Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Jul 26, 2008 10:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Kalpi (jalaun)
Muslim MPs, clerics oppose Mulayam’s N-move in UP
A group of Muslim clerics meet UP CM Mayawati to applaud her decision to oppose the nuclear deal, report Pankaj Jaiswal and M Hasan.
Updated on Jul 03, 2008 02:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal and M Hasan, Lucknow
The king is back
Calling the Alphonso the king of mangos is a bit of a misnomer. It should be called the prima donna, write Mini Pant Zachariah and Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Mar 29, 2008 08:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Mini Pant Zachariah and Pankaj Jaiswal
A nikahnama with no ‘gender bias’
The All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB) on Sunday released a new Sharai Nikahnama in Lucknow to "make Muslim marriages stronger and more secure", reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Mar 17, 2008 01:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Self-help is at hand
A handful of women in UP's Bundelkhand region have transformed their lives - with the help of nothing more than the humble hand pump. Read on.
Updated on Mar 08, 2008 04:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
When ‘repairing’ is a way of life
Oppressed women from Karvi in Chitrakoot district are earning their livelihood by repairing hand-pumps, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Mar 01, 2008 11:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
No language barrier for this Muslim scholar
Pandit Syed Hussain Shastri is a Sanskrit scholar who has been in love with the language all his life. Pandit and Shastri have been prefixed and suffixed respectively by people to his name because of his vast knowledge.
Updated on Feb 25, 2008 12:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Good samaritans raise wedding hopes
State Govt employees in Jalaun pledge a day’s salary each to bear the wedding expenses of Bundelkhand women, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Jan 21, 2008 01:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun
RBI governor asks Uttar Pradesh to increase CDR
Reddy says that the credit deposit ratio in the State is 51.22%, which is below the RBI minimum prescribed ratio of 60%, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Sep 04, 2007 02:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Alternate therapy for healthy farm produce
Homoeopathy works wonders on the human body. But apparently, it has the same effect on plants too, as an ascetic in Allahabad has proven, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Jul 20, 2007 06:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
BSP signature spots, idols back in vogue
With Bahujan Samaj Party back in power, the party’s idols and its signature spots are in vogue once again, reports Pankaj Jaiswal & Surya Agarwal.
Updated on Jun 27, 2012 11:38 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal/Surya Agarwal, Lucknow
Poll wannabes made to promise in writing
The people of Banda have asked their political leaders to fill up a form and make all the promises ‘in writing’, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Apr 24, 2007 04:53 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Banda
Non-Congress state Govts ignored youth: Rahul
Rahul, who came in a private helicopter spent 10 minutes addressing the crowd under the scorching 42 degree Celsius, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Apr 23, 2007 04:15 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Banda