Articles by Surender Sharma
PU keeps a check on unfair means to woo voters
With student political groups resorting to all possible means to win voters for the Panjab University (PU) student council elections, the university administration is keeping a watch on mass bunking and has barred entry of buses on the campus.

Updated on Aug 31, 2013 01:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Students from Iran, Afghanistan find elections awesome
With democracy an alien word in their own countries, the handful students from Afghanistan and Iran studying in Panjab University are awed to see the hustle-bustle in the wake of the student council elections. Cavalcade of vehicles covered with posters, student leaders seeking votes with folded hands and girls raising slogans in favour of candidate of their choice - everything interests them.

Updated on Aug 30, 2013 12:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Candidates or not, they remain leaders in PU politics
You may not remember the name of the PU student council president, but there are some people you associate immediately with campus politics in Chandigarh. They may not be able to contest elections, thanks to strict Lyngdoh Committee guidelines over criminal cases and attendance norms, but real power remains with these leaders even when the posts go mostly to 'dummy' candidates.

Updated on Aug 29, 2013 10:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
PU steps up security for elections
With a day or two left for the formal announcement of the date of election to the Panjab University Student Council, the university authorities have stepped up security on the campus.

Updated on Aug 28, 2013 12:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Loudspeaker the hurdle, no revival of open house debate
After two years of embargo and finally a formal reconsideration, Panjab University student polls will still not have the open house debate. Officials told HT they were seriously looking into various parties' demand of reviving the open house debates.

Updated on Aug 25, 2013 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
'PU student politics not what they used to be': veterans
Panjab University, which has acted as a nursery for grooming political leaders projecting youths' voice and democratic values through the student council elections till the recent past, has steadily been witnessing trends like opportunism, use of power and political interference by mainstream parties.

Updated on Aug 24, 2013 01:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
As girls hold key, parties give them their own wheels
Teams comprised exclusively of girls, open jeeps and SUVs for campaigning, and pepper spray to ward off any stalkers - parties contesting Panjab University student polls have a solid strategy involving girls this time. Little wonder, since over 70% of the voters are female.

Updated on Aug 23, 2013 01:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , Chandigarh
Navleen Lakhi and Surender SharmaStudents harm own interests by violating norms: Lyngdoh
Former chief election commissioner and head of the committee on code of conduct for student elections, James Michael Lyngdoh on Tuesday said "nothing is for all times" and that his committee's guidelines for campus polls should be reviewed from time to time.

Updated on Aug 21, 2013 09:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Deficit rain may sow crop worries
If there are lesser rains in August and September, trouble could be in store for farmers of Haryana.Officials of the meteorological department said the state, so far, was almost 28% rain deficit this season.

Updated on Aug 02, 2013 06:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Jindals reaffirm clout in Hisar, tough job ahead for Rajaliwala
Hisar Congress MLA Savitri Jindal and her MP son Naveen Jindal have reaffirmed their clout in the city by installing Shakuntala Rajaliwala as mayor of the Hisar municipal corporation.

Updated on Jul 02, 2013 08:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Hisar
Info panel pulls up Hisar SP for 'concealing' facts
The Haryana state information commission has reprimanded Hisar superintendent of police (SP) and state information officer for "concealing information" from an RTI activist who had sought video footage of five days of proceedings inside a police station here.

Updated on Jun 28, 2013 08:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Hisar
75 emigrants from state rendered jobless in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's new labour law - Nitaqat system - that was implemented to provide employment to natives in the private sector, has rendered hundreds of emigrants jobless. Among them, 75 are from Haryana.

Updated on Jun 24, 2013 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Hisar
Hisar village bans DJs in marriages
Bollywood flicks like Sheela ki Jawani and Munni Badnam Hui would not be a part of any kind of festivities and celebrations of a Hisar village as the panchayat has banned DJs from its functions, especially during marriage processions.

Updated on Jun 20, 2013 11:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Hisar
Bhagana Dalits' protest losing steam
With two worn-out charpoys, a few utensils and dirty sacks of clothes - all lying in the open - a protest site here bear the sign of a struggle losing steam.

Updated on May 20, 2013 11:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Hisar
Tormented by cops over Dalit rape victim gone missing, kin commit suicide
A 38-year-old woman and her 12-year-old daughter died while her husband and two minor sons ended up in a critical condition after the Dalit family consumed poison in Bheri Akbarpur village of Uklana, 50km from district headquarters Hisar, allegedly tormented by the police over the whereabouts of her elder daughter who is missing after filing a report of rape.

Updated on Apr 22, 2013 09:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , Hisar/rohtak
Surender Sharma & Devendra UppalIn Hisar, CM Hooda promises the world future plans
Cracks in Haryana Congress seemed to grow wider on Sunday as union minister and party leader Kumari Selja skipped a party meeting also attended by the chief minister at Hisar and again accused the state government of regional bias.

Updated on Apr 22, 2013 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Hisar