Articles by Yojana Yadav
Turning 18 with HT: ‘Youth should lead change they want to see’
Apala Mandal, head girl of Delhi Public School, Chandigarh believes her generation is intelligent but stifled by injustice, corruption and cut-throat competition in society

Updated on Jan 08, 2018 04:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav
Turning 18 with HT: India’s youth are too quiet, they should speak up, says YPS head girl
Sajneet Mangat wants us to trust our youth and hopes they find a voice to end intolerance; she hopes one day her opinion will count and help resolve conflicts; and she believes in striking an intelligent conversation.

Updated on Jan 01, 2018 08:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav
Param Vir Chakra winner urges Punjab village kids to join NCC
“I didn’t miss any recruitment drive and joined the army after three attempts in June 1996, when I was 23. It’s important to have an aim and even more important to have the passion to achieve it,” says Naib Subedar Sanjay Kumar at Miltary Literature Fest

Updated on Dec 09, 2017 08:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Param Vir Chakra winner asks Punjab village kids to join NCC
“The earlier you start the better. If you want to don a uniform, join the National Cadet Corps.”

Updated on Dec 09, 2017 04:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav
Henderson Brooks report on 1962 Sino-Indian War not being declassified to save political skin: Capt Amarinder
He said the report should have been made public long back.

Updated on Dec 09, 2017 01:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
‘Indian Navy is battle arm of the future to take on China’
Today, sea lanes are as crowded as Delhi’s traffic lanes, said a Brigadier at the Military Literature Festival in Chandigarh.

Updated on Dec 08, 2017 10:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav
Dera violence: When panicky Panchkula residents hired bouncers
Armed with baseball bats, the bouncers looked intimidating in their tight-fitting black outfit and black glasses

Published on Aug 27, 2017 10:58 AM IST
Hindustan TImes, Panchkula | Yojana Yadav
Ram Rahim rape verdict: Edgy Panchkula held hostage at home
Residents stock up on supplies, stay home, watch situation unfold on TV, social media.

Updated on Aug 24, 2017 07:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Panchkula | Yojana Yadav
Chandigarh rain: In waist-deep water on the way to office | First person account
The feet felt wet and I saw water seeping in from the engine. The driver brought the Ertiga to a halt but didn’t switch off the engine till smoke started filling the vehicle

Updated on Aug 21, 2017 11:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav
Ambala-origin NRI to fly solo across world to raise funds for MRI machine
Ravinder K Bansal with the Cessna 400 plane in which he will fly solo around the world. He plans to leave Clarence town near Buffalo, US, on July 4 and reach Ambala by July 27.

Updated on Jul 18, 2017 09:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Yojana Yadav
VIDEO | Blooming business, but for a few: The state of floriculture in Punjab
Patiala grows a secret in its backyard. Tucked away a few metres from the highway to Malerkotla and Samana are farms of three national-award winning floriculturists that offer a breathtaking view of acres and acres of flowers in all hues, shapes and sizes. As spring makes way for summer, Hindustan Times tracks three success stories to understand why blooms haven’t become many farmers’ business despite the potential

Updated on Mar 26, 2017 12:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Patiala | Yojana Yadav
HT Conclave: Safety, dignity election issues for women voters in Punjab
Cutting across generations and professions, 80 women, many of them first-time voters, who gathered at Government College for Girls in Ludhiana at the HT Conclave on ‘What Women Voters Want’, on a sunny Friday afternoon , spoke in one voice on safety and dignity being their prime concern as voters.

Updated on Jan 28, 2017 11:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | Yojana Yadav, Ludhiana
Give Punjab’s youth jobs not sops
All the three major political parties political are on sop announcement overdrive. But none of them has offered an action plan to generate jobs

Updated on Dec 13, 2016 12:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav
The Modi effect: New dawn for yoga in tricity
It’s 5.25am and the sun is yet to wake up. But that doesn’t deter the 50-odd yogis of Panchkula’s Sector 12 from heading to the neighbourhood park for their daily yoga routine.

Updated on Oct 04, 2016 01:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | , Panchkula
Yojana Yadav, Shailee Dogra, Aneesha BediHT Special: Celebrating life @ 100
They were born during World War I. They stepped into adulthood as India won its third hockey gold at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. In their prime, they saw World War II. They bore the pangs of Partition as India and Pakistan became two nations in 1947.

Updated on Jul 03, 2016 09:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
CBSE Class 10: Students’ reactions ahead of results from across India
Thousands of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) students swayed between anxiety, curiosity and nervousness hours before their Class 10 board examinations results were declared on Saturday.

Updated on May 28, 2016 08:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Allahabad/Lucknow/Ranchi/Chandigarh |
Kenneth John/Rajeev Mullick/Saumya Mishra/Yojana Yadav
When science plays God: Meet the grand old new parents in the age of IVF
A slow and silent social change is unfolding in the homes of elderly childless couples in rural Haryana and Punjab. To save their property, farmers are turning to a gynaecological procedure, becoming parents in their late seventies and early eighties. HT news editor Yojana Yadav profiles some couples who took the shot and now face the challenge of raising children amid failing health. Their longing for an heir also lays a fertile ground for in-vitro fertilisation clinics to thrive

Updated on May 15, 2016 10:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
International women’s day: Breaking barriers and changing mindsets
‘Break the silence, report crime against women. Call 1091,’ reads the poster, drawn by a school student, just above the corridor that leads to the three lockups guarded by woman cops in Panchkula district’s Mahila Police Station.

Updated on Mar 08, 2016 11:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Jab we met secret Santa in office
Santa was at the Hindustan Times, Mohali, office this Christmas. No, he didn’t land his sleigh on our roof straight from North Pole, though the office is on the flight path. Neither did he roll down unseen from the chimney because there couldn’t be a bigger turn off than the grimy exhaust in the office canteen. Yet the HT office was teeming with secret Santas thanks to the initiative of two angels (junior colleagues) who gave us the chance to live our childhood fantasy and receive a gift on Christmas, straight from our secret Santa.

Updated on Dec 28, 2015 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Will take decades to clean up politics: Kiran Bedi
Social activist and BJP’s Delhi chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi admits politics is a dirty game that will take decades to clean up in India.

Updated on Nov 24, 2015 02:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Guest Column: Celebrating daughters
The last Sunday of September is celebrated as Daughter’s Day. Today also happens to be World Heart Day. What a lovely coincidence because a daughter is someone you love with all your heart. Ask parents and they will admit that in the heart of hearts their daughter is the love and light of their lives.

Updated on Sep 27, 2015 10:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav
Spice of life: Maggi memories
My first Maggi was in Pune in 1983. I remember riding the bicycle to a neighbourhood store with six empty packets of the instant noodles firmly latched on to the carrier to claim a lemon yellow Maggi T-shirt.

Updated on Jun 08, 2015 11:55 AM IST
Memorial to Sukhna geese! No thanks
This morning, I overheard two two-legged friends at Sukhna Lake talking about the Chandigarh administration’s recent decision to set up a memorial to my feathered friends who were mercilessly culled on December 18 last year after reports of a bird flu scare.

Updated on Mar 24, 2015 12:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
The kite that flew free
The kite struggled to break free. Caught in the wires, it tugged hard as its long tail flapped in the wind. Hours later, when the wind gave way to rain, it fluttered on despite being soaked, hoping against hope that it would be free to fly once again.

Updated on Mar 09, 2015 11:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Reliving sweet memories
"I don't look sweet, do I?" my 14-year-old son asked as we were racing against time to catch the school bus at 7am. Caught off guard, I answered with a question, "Why? What happened?" "Nothing, someone told me that a girl in our maths tuition thinks so," he continued matter-of-factly.

Updated on Feb 19, 2015 08:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Heading for a happy ending
It’s somewhere in the middle that one realises the ending matters more than the beginning. Whether it’s a story, a movie, a season, a race, a relationship or life in general, it’s the ending that matters. It’s to this end that we should strive for a life that matters.

Updated on Feb 09, 2015 01:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Surviving the bird flu scare
They called me a rebel without a cause, or was it one without a pause? I guess they were right either way. Today, if I live to tell you the story of my kind, it’s only because I’m one of a kind. I’m a goose. Yes, one of those domesticated geese at Sukhna Lake, who escaped the clutches of the men in white that cold December 18 night. Writes Yojana Yadav.

Updated on Dec 28, 2014 09:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Terror, then and now
Three decades back, the closest a child got to Terror was when he was caught doing mischief by an elder or stuck in a dark cinema hall watching a film where the villain seemed all powerful. The way out of the crisis was to say a silent prayer, and it usually worked. Writes Yojana Yadav.

Updated on Dec 19, 2014 11:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Bringing generations together this Oct 1
Not so long ago, the tricity of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali was labelled a safe haven for retirees. Youngsters would lament the lack of nightlife and “happening” joints, while senior citizens enjoyed top quality of life with all amenities, particularly healthcare, within reach. Writes Yojana Yadav.

Updated on Sep 29, 2014 02:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh
Sweeping statements
Reaching Mars is easier than ensuring a toilet in every home in India! This world, or should we say the universe, is full of ironies. On Wednesday morning, while half of the nation of a billion plus waited with bated breath as MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) delivered. Writes Yojana Yadav.

Updated on Sep 26, 2014 10:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav, Chandigarh