Articles by Surender Sharma
Semester system: PU plans to hold senate meet in May
The Panjab University plans to hold a special senate meeting in May to clear the proposal of introducing the semester system in its affiliated colleges for undergraduate courses.

Updated on Apr 13, 2014 12:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Some back in wind, others unwind
After nearly monthlong electioneering, the candidates, whose luck was sealed by 4.53 lakh voters of Chandigarh on Thursday, heaved a sigh of relief from their hectic schedule. A day after polling to the 16th Lok Sabha, some candidates spent their entire day at home, while others went out on a shopping spree.

Updated on Apr 12, 2014 10:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Chandigarh: 17 in fray, but all eyes on actors vs ex-minister
Chandigarh has 17 candidates in the fray, but all eyes are on three: Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal, Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP's) Gul Panag and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) Kirron Kher.

Updated on Apr 09, 2014 09:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Bansal pitted against a starry challenge
Former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was sailing through quite nicely till recently, but the Railgate scandal, in which his nephew was caught taking a bribe from a senior railway official, coupled with anti-incumbency has made the battle harder for him.

Updated on Apr 09, 2014 09:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
In starry battle, astrologers see winners on all sides
Who will represent the city in the 16th Lok Sabha? The million dollar question might yet be locked up in the minds of voters, but HT contacts the people who seem to know it all, the astrologers, for a peep into the possible future on May 16, the day the votes are counted.

Updated on Apr 08, 2014 11:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Omens, charms don’t seem to matter for our candidates
They would have many superstitions, but the top four contenders who have plunged into the Lok Sabha battle for Chandigarh seat claim to be atheist. Most of them say they offer prayers but do not believe in good or bad omens.

Updated on Apr 08, 2014 11:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
AAP fundraiser a good draw, raises an estimated 3.5 lakh
The Aam Aadmi Party’s fund raising dinner at a bar in Sector 26 on Monday evening drew a much bigger crowd than the organisers had ever expected. Sources said the party estimated to earn over 3.5 lakh. Seeing the brisk response, they had to place more orders nearly a hundred people had arrived till about 9.30 pm.

Updated on Apr 08, 2014 11:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
'Apolitical' Anil roots for Kirron as ‘right’ candidate
It was only ‘jhakaas’ ( excellent) what actor Anil Kapoor delivered as filmy dialogue while campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Kirron Kher, but that too many could not hear.Kapoor, who reached the city on Sunday morning from Dubai to campaign for Kirron.

Updated on Apr 07, 2014 09:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Ear to the ground here, eye on national scene
From issues affecting their day- to- day life in Chandigarh to the country’s most debated political personalities, they have their views on all. Hindustan Times invited a group of youngsters — most of them first-time voters — to participate in an agenda discussion ‘Young India Votes’ for Chandigarh, on Saturday. Here are some key takeaways.

Updated on Apr 06, 2014 12:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , Chandigarh
Surender Sharma and Jyotsna JalaliVolunteer-driven party needs to strengthen roots
Even though the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) got active barely three months ahead of the general elections in the city, it has projected itself as a ‘serious’ contender. The major credit for this should go to the limelight party convener Arvind Kejriwal has hogged at the national level by targeting all voters and by trying to portray the organisation as ‘different’ from the BJP as well as the Congress.

Updated on Apr 05, 2014 11:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Jannat Jahan: juggling between 3 kids and poll battle
As Jannat Jahan, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate from Chandigarh, enters a Ford Endeavour at her palatial Sector-35 house to leave for door- to- door campaigning on a breezy Wednesday morning, she stops and calls out to her domestic help, Urmila: “Don’t let her (Jahan’s one-year-old daughter) be alone. Ensure that the gate is closed.”

Updated on Apr 04, 2014 04:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
RSS workers to support Kirron’s campaign
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), traditionally known for staying in the background in elections, is playing a more open and direct role in the Chandigarh Lok Sabha poll. At least 700 RSS workers from the city and neighbouring states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

Updated on Apr 02, 2014 01:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
For Congress, it’s a battle for survival
The Congress party, which has been sending Pawan Kumar Bansal to Lok Sabha from the city seat for the past 15 years, is facing a battle of survival in the upcoming elections. The party not only faces challenge of overcoming antiincumbency.

Updated on Apr 02, 2014 10:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Mayawati uses Godhra to attack Modi
Taking a dig at prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi in her rally maiden rally in Chandigarh in this elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati invoked Godhra riots and said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should be stopped from forming a government at the centre.

Updated on Mar 31, 2014 12:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Modi pitches for city as education, tourism hub
Coming out with a pitch to woo the city’s voters, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi focused on discussing his plans for the union territory at his election rally, here on Saturday. My victory as prime minister would only be complete when the BJP is victorious from Chandigarh (From left) BJP leader Satya Pal Jain.

Updated on Mar 30, 2014 12:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , Chandigarh
Gurpreet Singh Nibber and Surender SharmaIn BJP regime, we'll not let jawans and kisans die: Modi
Making "save jawan, save kisan" his slogan, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke to two political constituencies (soldiers and farmers) in one go.

Updated on Mar 30, 2014 09:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | , Chandigarh
Gurpreet Singh Nibber and Surender SharmaSavita Bhatti deserts AAP, decides to remain ‘apolitical’
Days after Savita Bhatti opted out of Lok Sabha contest from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the wife of late comedian, Jaspal Bhatti, has now decided to desert the rookie party and remain ‘apolitical’. Though Bhatti could not be contacted.

Updated on Mar 26, 2014 09:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
PU students on tour left in lurch
250 students went on (PUCSC)-organised trip to Goa even as arrangements made only for 150; girls among those stranded at Goa station.Panjab University goofed up in making arrangements for students on an annual trip to Maharashtra and Goa, students have alleged.

Updated on Mar 13, 2014 10:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma
PU mulls branch sliding facility for engineering students
Panjab University (PU) is mulling providing facility of 'branch sliding' to its engineering students wherein they could opt for subjects of their choice in the second year.

Updated on Mar 11, 2014 10:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Computer Science Phd offered Rs 10 lakh annual package
The New Delhi regional centre of Lovely Professional University has offered a Panjab University Phd scholar in Computer Sciences an annual salary of Rs 9.6 lakh per annum at the just-concluded placement fair, Avsar of the university.

Updated on Mar 09, 2014 12:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Poor infrastructure plagues UILS course
While PU’s University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS) has decided to conduct counselling for the second semester of the BCom LLB (honours) five-year integrated course on March 10 following a recent Punjab and Haryana High Court order.

Updated on Mar 05, 2014 11:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Staff shortage: PU entrance exams under cloud
With just one programmer at its disposal, the Panjab University computer centre has expressed its inability to conduct the Combined Entrance Test (CET) and other entrance examinations for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Updated on Mar 04, 2014 12:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
BJP’s ticket aspirants make beeline for Delhi
With the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) central election committee meeting scheduled for February 27, all top three contenders for the city Lok Sabha seat of BJP - city unit chief Sanjay Tandon and former MPs Satya Pal Jain and Harmohan Dhawan - were camping in Delhi on Tuesday.

Updated on Feb 26, 2014 12:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
PU sends proposal for 64-acre campus at Sarangpur
Panjab University has submitted another proposal to the UT administration for setting up its third campus at Sarangpur on the city's outskirts. A top PU official told HT that, according to the revised proposal, 64 acres of land have been sought for the new campus.

Updated on Feb 26, 2014 10:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
BJP leaders skip party campaigns, puzzle cadre
Two top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Harmohan Dhawan and Satya Pal Jain's posturing just ahead of the announcement of the party's city candidate by the party high command for the coming Lok Sabha elections has left the party cadre puzzled.

Updated on Feb 25, 2014 10:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
SOPU, PUSU stare at oblivion as leaders set to join Akali student wing
In a development that looks set to change the face of campus politics at Panjab University, and would also have a bearing on youth politics in the region, a number of top leaders of the Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) and Panjab University Student Union (PUSU)

Updated on Feb 25, 2014 12:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
PEC students' study reveals 15% Twitter users are malicious
Atleast 15% of users on social networking site Twitter are malicious users, said a study by a group of students of PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh.The students worked on the accounts of nearly 50,000 users who had made their profiles public on Twitter.

Updated on Feb 24, 2014 11:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
PU writes to PEC University for ideas to curb traffic chaos
With vehicular traffic on the campus becoming chaotic every day, the Panjab University (PU) has decided to take the help of a professional agency to suggest ways to curb the problem.

Updated on Feb 22, 2014 10:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
PU syndicate meet on Feb 22, fee hike on the cards
If university has its way, a substantial increase in tuition fees, hostel fees, renting auditoriums and lawns of the university is on the cards.

Updated on Feb 16, 2014 11:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Smooth ride turns wobbly
Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal was chugging along quite nicely for years, steamrolling all opposition, but not any longer. The ride appears to have turned rather bumpy for the former union railway minister in a territory he had made his own.

Updated on Feb 16, 2014 12:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | , Chandigarh
Navneet Sharma and Surender Sharma