She is a senior reporter based at Bhopal. She covers higher education, social issues, youth affairs, woman and child development related issues, sports and business & industries.
Articles by Shruti Tomar
Pricey veggies depleting common man’s pocket
The arrival of vegetables in the market dips during summer. At the time of onset of monsoon too, the situation remains more or less the same.
Updated on Jun 13, 2013 02:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Bhopal: Players oppose temple at city’s SAI regional centre
Construction of Lord Shiva’s temple in Sports Authority of India’s ( SAI) regional centre has not gone down well with the inmates of the centre.
Updated on Jun 12, 2013 02:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Players oppose temple at city’s SAI regional centre
Construction of Lord Shiva’s temple in Sports Authority of India’s ( SAI) regional centre has not gone down well with the inmates of the centre.
Updated on Jun 12, 2013 02:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Govt should take over BCCI: former Olympians
Government of India should control Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) in India, this was the opinion expressed by Olympics champions Sushil Kumar and Vijay Kumar.
Updated on Jun 05, 2013 02:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
T20 League ban proposal worries MP players
Recent news about the demands to ban T20 League, in the wake of the recent spot-fixing scandal, has scared young cricketers from Bhopal, who wish to make it to the national level one day.
Updated on May 25, 2013 01:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
SAI coaches reduced to 'babugiri' in state
Coaches of Sports Authority of India (SAI), regional centre, Bhopal are working hard but on a different turf - they are doing administrative work. Shruti Tomar reports.
Updated on May 23, 2013 10:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Women's helpline turns relationship advisor
While the 1090 women's helpline in Bhopal is receiving many complaints related to sexual harassment, for some women it has turned in to a marriage/divorce advisory.
Updated on May 01, 2013 02:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Lokayukta forces transfer ‘rollback’
Just two days after IG Ashok Awasthi was transferred from Lokyaukta's Special Police Establishment (SPE) and shifted to Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), the state government cancelled the order and re-posted him at the SPE.
Updated on Mar 13, 2013 10:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
1090 replaces police visit for rural women
The women helpline number- 1090 is getting popular in rural areas also as the most convenient way to lodge a complaint without interacting with the police.
Updated on Mar 12, 2013 05:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
‘1090? Please scold my son, he’s not eating breakfast’
The women's helpline number '1090', started by the state government on January 1 this year in the aftermath of the gruesome gang rape in Delhi, is now becoming a headache for the police personnel attending to the calls.
Updated on Feb 22, 2013 01:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Chitrangda and I are happy, not separated: Jyoti Randhawa
Amidst speculations going on about divorce with his actress wife Chitrangda Singh, famous golfer Jyoti Singh Randhawa said here on Monday that they were a happy couple and Chitrangda never left his home as speculated in the media.
Updated on Feb 19, 2013 06:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Row over BDCA election hots up; chairman, prez lock horns
Aqueel to go ahead with agenda, Singh terms meeting as illegal
Updated on Feb 13, 2013 02:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Parents of raped, killed girl 'forced' to live in loo
The parents and siblings of the eight-year-old girl who was brutally raped and killed at a desolate spot near Bhopal mela ground last Sunday night, have been moved into the attendant's room of a public lavatory in the Om Nagar slum area. Shruti Tomar reports.
Updated on Feb 08, 2013 11:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
5 MP equestrian riders suspended for eve-teasing
Five junior riders of Madhya Pradesh Equestrian Academy have been suspended for allegedly passing indecent remarks on two women fencers on Saturday night.
Updated on Dec 31, 2012 01:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Bhopal’s Varsha ‘traps’ gold in national shooting event
Bhopal-based star shooter Varsha Varman is the new national junior shooting champion. Eighteen-year-old Varsha won a gold medal in the trap event in the 56th National Shooting Championship, Shruti Tomar reports.
Updated on Dec 26, 2012 10:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Bhopal gas tragedy: 28 yrs on, they are still victims
The Bhopal gas tragedy on the night of 3 December, 1984, killed 15,274 people. But those who were yet to be born, were left with a life worse than death. Shruti Tomar, Sravani Sarkar and Ashutosh Shukla report.
Updated on Dec 02, 2012 11:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Sravani Sarkar and Ashutosh Shukla, Bhopal
'Ignorance root cause of doping'
"Doping is a necessary evil with athletes across the globe. Believe me, drugs are taken by almost all the sportspersons of the world. But drugs should be taken properly in a right way." said former shot-putter Bakhtavar Khambata on her visit to Bhopal for the 78th All India Railways Athletics Championship on Friday. Shruti Tomar reports.
Updated on Aug 25, 2012 03:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
More medals will come from early training: PT Usha
Olympians and international athletes have a combined opinion that India is not a sporting country. They say that dearth of good national competitors pulls them away from performing better in global events. Shruti Tomar reports.
Updated on Aug 25, 2012 03:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
The police create dacoits in Chambal: Paan Singh Tomar's son
His father's name once spelt terror and respect in Chambal, where death comes as a whistling bullet, or in the form of crocodiles teeming in the local river.
Updated on Mar 24, 2012 06:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
Drug addict turns karate champ with big dreams
Balveer Purviya is an addict for the second time in his life, but this time around the 18-year-old is getting his kick from karate, education and dreams of a better life, not drugs and alcohol.
Updated on Mar 16, 2012 02:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Shruti Tomar, Bhopal