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Yojana Yadav

Yojana Yadav is senior news editor at Hindustan Times, Chandigarh. She oversees the production of HT editions for states north of Delhi. She’s been with HT since 2003. During her two-decade-long career, she’s worked at The Tribune, Chandigarh; PTI, Delhi; and TOI, Ahmedabad.

Articles by Yojana Yadav

Reinvent yourself to stay relevant

“Hey, what happened? You look like Santa Claus,” she blurted out as she ran into an old friend (pun unintended) at the school parent-teacher meeting. Suddenly conscious about her coloured hair, she bit her lip and hoped she hadn’t offended him in jest. Writes Yojana Yadav.

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Updated on Sep 22, 2014 10:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Chandigarh

City needs new mindset more than a makeover

What’s so beautiful about Chandigarh? That’s what many commuters seem to wonder as they patiently negotiate potholes and bumpy stretches while crawling through haphazard traffic on entering the city via Zirakpur. Writes Yojana Yadav.

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Updated on Aug 18, 2014 01:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Chandigarh

Love reflects inner beauty

The acacia tree (kikar) in the neighbourhood is in full bloom. It stands bent, perhaps to watch its yellow, sweet-scented tufts lying strewn on the rain-swept road. The drizzle subsides and morning walkers hit the stretch. Writes Yojna Yadav.

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Updated on Aug 06, 2014 08:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Chandigarh

Politics overshadows development

Two-time Ambala Congress MP Kumari Selja, 51, has left her constituency disappointed. Several development projects, including ones that she had initiated in her earlier Lok Sabha term, remain in limbo due to her political differences with Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Despite a Congress-led government at the Centre and her party in power in the state, Selja could not realise her dream projects mainly due to the non-cooperation of the Haryana government.

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Updated on Mar 09, 2014 11:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByYojana Yadav and Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh

Lone fighter, she wages on

When Congress MP Santosh Chowdhary, 69, was inducted as the union minister of state for health in the Manmohan Singh cabinet last summer, many believed her candidature for the Hoshiarpur seat was certain. But in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections this summer, the veteran Dalit leader knows that she has a fierce battle at hand, with a number of contenders competing with her for the Congress ticket.

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Updated on Feb 28, 2014 11:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByYojana Yadav and Harpreet Kaur, Chandigarh/hoshiarpur

On the line of control

It's been a week since an Indian soldier was beheaded and another murdered by Pakistani perpetrators. Rumbles of revenge in a disciplined force such as the army, cries of the humiliated family, voices of angry citizens, shouts of right-wingers and the cacophony of politicians have failed to rouse the head of the Indian state to act. Yojana Yadav writes

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Updated on Jan 16, 2013 10:22 AM IST
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Battle of begums in Malerkotla

On one side is a confident yet anxious Congress MLA Razia Sultana, taking her third shot at power; on the other, SAD-BJP nominee Farzana Nissara Khatoon, whose campaign is being shrewdly managed by her husband and former Punjab DGP. Yojana Yadav reports.

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Updated on Jan 14, 2012 01:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Malerkotla

Smoke on the water...

Seven months on, the Hawaiian holiday is fresh in the mind, more for the trip to the smoking caldera of the Kilauea volcano and the legend of Pele, writes Yojana Yadav.

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Updated on Feb 11, 2008 10:00 PM IST
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