Rajesh Kumar Singh is Assistant Editor, Hindustan Times at the political bureau in Lucknow. Along with covering politics, he covers government departments. He also travels to write human interest and investigative stories.
Articles by Rajesh Kumar Singh
1,400 chickens die in Etawah
SUSPECTED BIRD flu killed around 1,400 chickens in Bakewar town of Etawah district on Saturday. The State Animal Husbandry Department has sounded an alert.
Published on Feb 19, 2006 01:12 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Cobras take over UP hospital
When a health department team came to the Basantpur Community Health Centre in Siddharthnagar district on an inspection tour, it received an unusual greeting.
Published on Feb 18, 2006 07:44 PM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Cobras take over UP hospital
When a health department team came to the Basantpur Community Health Centre in Siddharthnagar district on an inspection tour, it received an unusual greeting.
Updated on Feb 15, 2006 02:53 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
CHC: COBRA HAUNTED CENTRE
GUESS WHO all wecomed a Health Department team which went inspecting the Basantpur Community Health Centre (CHC) located in Siddharthnagar district. No, they were not the properly dress staff members manning the CHC. There was hardly any soul around. Instead, the team was greeted by some full-grown cobras roaming in the deserted OPD and operation theatre. So is the condition of our CHCs.
Published on Feb 14, 2006 01:21 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Govt, FCI to go for wheat procurements
ONCE BITTEN twice shy! With wheat price skyrocketing, both the State Government and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have planned to go in for wheat procurement at the end of March. Secretary, Food and Public Distribution, RN Das, along with a battery of Union Agriculture Department officials, will be in the city on Tuesday to discuss the strategy of wheat procurement with State Government officials.
Published on Feb 04, 2006 01:46 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
New medical college in city, soon
THE CITY will have a new medical college and a super specialty hospital soon. Both will be part of the upcoming Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS), Gomti Nagar.
Published on Feb 03, 2006 01:37 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Chinese vaccine to fight Japanese Encephalitis
THE CENTRAL Government has decided to counter Japanese Encephalitis with Chinese vaccine. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to import a single dose tissue culture Chinese vaccine called ?SA14-14-2? for a vaccination programme in the districts of east UP.
Published on Feb 03, 2006 01:05 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Past blocks road to the future
The proposed East-West corridor on National Highway 25 has run into a 3,000-year-old road block - the ghost of an ancient civilization.
Published on Feb 01, 2006 01:35 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Past blocks road to future
A 3,000-YEAR-OLD ?ghost? has blocked the 21st century East-West Corridor on the National Highway-25! The ?ghost? here is the remains of an ancient civilisation in Jajmau mounds that fall exactly in the way of the under-construction 4-lane Lucknow-Kanpur Highway. This highway forms the part of the East-West Corridor connecting Porbandar (Gujarat) with Silchar in the North-East.
Updated on Feb 01, 2006 01:35 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Kya karein, kya na karein
THOUGH THE number of liquor consumers has increased in Uttar Pradesh, the sale of liquor is still insignificant and reaching revenue targets is proving to be an uphill task for the Excise Department.
Published on Jan 29, 2006 01:13 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
UP fought JE with limestone dust!
INSTEAD OF insecticides, bags packed with limestone dust were supplied to the districts to control mosquito-borne diseases. The report of the laboratory test states that not only sub-standard insecticides but also limestone dust were packed in bags and supplied to districts for routine spray and fogging works.
Published on Jan 24, 2006 01:21 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Bitter pill: 1 out 4 drugs is spurious
RECOVERY OF huge stock of fake drugs at Aligarh is just the tip of the iceberg. The industry in Uttar Pradesh is churning out fake drugs worth around Rs 400 crore per annum when the Central Government proposes to award death penalty to those charged with manufacturing and trading spurious drugs. One out of four tablets sold in the market is spurious, the report states the report submitted by the Public Analyst Laboratory (PAL).
Published on Jan 20, 2006 01:05 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
The archaeologists of old Ganjing
THEIR RENDEZVOUS with city of ?nawabs? began in 1967 and Lucknawi culture fascinated them. The archaeologist couples Jean-Francois Jarrige and Catherine Jarrige from Paris are back in the city after a gap of over three decades to attend the seminar organized by Directorate of Archaeology.
Published on Jan 19, 2006 12:13 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh
High on saffron, Uma says BJP is hers; plans another yatra
EXPELLED BJP leader Uma Bharti on Saturday slammed senior party leaders for "giving up the ideology on the basis of which the party was formed" and said: "Ideologically, the BJP belongs to me."
Published on Jan 15, 2006 08:19 PM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ayodhya
Now, Uma plans Janadesh Yatra
FIREBRAND SANYASIN Uma Bharti on Saturday said the BJP belonged to her ideologically and that Rajnath Singh should constitute a new political party. ?BJP leaders, including LK Advani, have forsaken the ideology on which BJP was formed and they have lost the confidence of party workers. BJP flag and lotus symbol belongs to me since I am committed to the saffron ideology?, she said. Riding on the success of the ?Ram Roti Yatra?, Uma announced that she would launch another yatra Janadesh Yatra on February 6 from the holy town of Vindhyachal, in Mirzapur district.
Published on Jan 15, 2006 12:32 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ayodhya
Uma Bharti sings the ?Ram dhun? yet again
UMA BHARTI is back in Ayodhya from where it all began for her. The firebrand sanyasin from Tikamgarh (MP) began her political journey from Ayodhya riding on the Ram Janmbhoomi movement wave. Dumped by the BJP, she again plans to start her pilgrimage to power on Ram temple issue only.
Published on Jan 14, 2006 01:15 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ayodhya
Dacoit?s son is panchayat chief
Dacoits of Uttar Pradesh celebrated a special election victory on Tuesday.
Published on Jan 12, 2006 02:26 AM IST
None | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
45 govt blood banks sans licences
IN AN era when HIV is playing havoc with the lives of millions of people worldwide, 45 government blood banks in the state are running without valid licences. The chief secretary and the secretary to the CM know it but they have so far failed to get the issue probed.
Published on Jan 10, 2006 01:20 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
The ?first farmer? belonged to (UP) India, says ASI
CHINA?S ?FIRST farmer? crown is up for grabs! Archaeological findings in Lahuradeva in Sant Kabir Nagar district have indicated that the Middle Ganga Valley (Uttar Pradesh) might have been home to the First Farmer.
Published on Jan 09, 2006 01:08 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
MIDDAY DISASTER
SCHOOLS IN Uttar Pradesh are inundated by schemes these days. There is no dearth of money either, as the government has released fund generously for the success of the programme. It has introduced the midday meal scheme, Kanya Vidya Dhan Yojana, scholarships, free dress, free textbooks to lure parents to send their wards to schools.
Published on Jan 08, 2006 12:45 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh
Murder before multi-cr scam expose
HE KNEW all the tricks applied by corrupt officers to embezzle government fund. But before he could blow the whistle the tricksters murdered him. Though a multi-crore scam has been unearthed at Rae Bareli but the Health Department is yet to initiate action against the corrupt officers. A senior assistant in the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) office at Rae Bareli, SK Lal was member of a gang involved in siphoning off government fund. Later he had a tiff with other members and decided to expose them. But Lal was murdered.
Published on Jan 07, 2006 01:50 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
2100 units but no ?checks?
LICENCES HAVE been issued to 2100 units to manufacture ayurvedic drugs, but the State doesn?t have a properly equipped laboratory or expertise to test or detect adulteration in such medicines.
Published on Jan 06, 2006 01:00 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Midday meal maxim
MID-DAY MEAL is fast becoming the last morsel for undernourished primary schoolchildren in Uttar Pradesh. Many have died and many more are falling sick with disturbing regularity, but authorities have already launched ?mission cover up? and passing the buck on one another. Only relief: Basic Education Minister Kiran Pal Singh has ordered an inquiry.
Published on Jan 05, 2006 01:36 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Kanpur, city to witness baby boom
ONCE THE Manchester of East, now a dying industrial city. But this year several households in Kanpur will brim with joy. A Health Department study has projected a baby boom in Kanpur this year. They city?s population will be up by 84,591 in 2006.
Published on Jan 04, 2006 01:52 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Dacoits share poll spoils
The dacoits of Chambal may be political novices, but they are playing the game just the way politicians would.
Published on Jan 02, 2006 02:34 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
Dadua?s kin elected unopposed
NOTORIOUS DACOITS, active in Chambal ravines, have outmaneuvered the political parties in run up to the prestigious Zila Panchayat Chairman post. With mutual agreement, the dacoit gangs ensured the election of their family members to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman posts.
Published on Jan 01, 2006 12:44 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
HEAL THYSELF
The Health Department recently released a list of around 1,000 missing government doctors. The Health Department was not aware of the whereabouts of these doctors after they joined the Provincial Medical Health Services .Joint directors in the Health Department conducted surprise checks at district hospitals, community health centres and primary health centres across the State in mid-December. Over 600 doctors were found absent. Addressing a public meeting, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav called upon the government doctors to render services in rural areas.
Published on Jan 01, 2006 12:11 AM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh
Cong lends Ram Jethmalani a hand, finally
With barely five days left for polling in Lucknow, the Congress finally mobilised its cadres in support of Independent candidate Ram Jethmalani.
Updated on Apr 30, 2004 01:49 PM IST
PTI | Rajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow
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