Arvind Chauhan

Correspondent, TOI

When he's not chasing stories, you’ll likely find him exploring food lanes, indulging in mutton delicacies and sundaes. He is a journalist with a can-do spirit and a flair for compelling storytelling ...

When he's not chasing stories, you’ll likely find him exploring food lanes, indulging in mutton delicacies and sundaes. He is a journalist with a can-do spirit and a flair for compelling storytelling. From railways and aviation to defence, infrastructure, social development and various other diverse beats, his reportage reflects depth. His work has earned him the Times Scribe Award four times.

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Stories by the author

• BrahMos and beyond: How UP is becoming India’s defence capital

  
  22 Dec 2025 03:56 PM IST
• Don't have Aadhaar? Go for passport-like verification first

  
  21 Dec 2023 05:34 PM IST
• After govt push, city MSMEs, agri sector got loan boost post-lockdown

  
  05 Apr 2021 09:20 AM IST
• Maruti Suzuki gets notice from customs, DRI for allegedly evading duty over ‘dubious’ hybrid tech

  
  03 Apr 2021 10:40 AM IST
• Uttar Pradesh girl breaks national record, walks into Tokyo Olympics

  
  14 Feb 2021 10:40 AM IST
• Over 1 crore consumers never paid their power bills in UP

  
  23 Oct 2020 01:54 PM IST
• Dissenters Jitin Prasada & Raj Babbar out of key Congress panel for 2022 UP polls

  
  07 Sep 2020 08:49 AM IST
• In 1965 too, pilot in inferior plane downed Pakistan fighter

  
  06 Mar 2019 11:02 AM IST
• Entire Agra police station booked for custodial death

  
  24 Nov 2018 11:24 AM IST
• CAG finds bullet train already running in Uttar Pradesh

  
  26 Jul 2018 10:57 AM IST
• In the last 13 years, Army lost a soldier on duty every third day

  
  16 Jan 2018 11:35 AM IST
• Heavy Delhi smog leads to multiple car pile-up on Yamuna Expressway

  
  08 Nov 2017 05:30 PM IST
• Over 150 crore spent on president’s sentinel salary in four years

  
  21 Oct 2017 07:41 AM IST
• 20 IAF jets to land on Agra-Lucknow Expressway on October 24

  
  19 Oct 2017 10:19 AM IST
• Debris alters course of Ganga near Gaumukh

  
  17 Oct 2017 02:43 AM IST
• How 'Pythons' are helping Indian Railways deliver

  
  25 Sep 2017 10:15 AM IST
• Accident insurance for all those who pay Yamuna Expressway toll?

  
  15 Aug 2017 07:15 AM IST
• Rs 11 crore levied as 'superfast' surcharge, but trains delayed up to 95% of times

  
  23 Jul 2017 09:54 AM IST
• Defence-run canteen stores department (CSD) supplies sub-standard food items without quality testing

  
  15 Mar 2017 01:41 PM IST
• Bundelkhand’s most prosperous Muslim Rajput community places bets on Brahmin candidate

  
  20 Feb 2017 10:42 AM IST
• Shoe baron & royal: Voters will decide their fortune

  
  30 Jan 2017 11:34 AM IST
• Eight fighter jets to land on Agra-Lucknow expressway

  
  14 Nov 2016 11:49 AM IST
• UP could only track one criminal from 1000 fingerprints

  
  16 Sep 2016 10:40 AM IST
• Talgo train hits 180kmph in Mathura trials, breaks Gatimaan Express' record

  
  14 Jul 2016 11:48 AM IST
• Indigenous military parachutes'unsafe', DRDO lab under CAG scanner

  
  09 Jun 2016 12:12 PM IST
• Selfie near train can now land you in jail

  
  21 Apr 2016 11:39 AM IST
• Twenty turtles found dead in a pond in Agra

  
  09 Apr 2016 04:53 PM IST
• Gatimaan’s menu: Pasta, kebabs to please the palate

  
  06 Apr 2016 12:20 PM IST
• In blue & black, ladies steal the show on Gatimaan Express

  
  06 Apr 2016 12:16 PM IST
• Panchayat bans mobile phones among girls

  
  20 Feb 2016 10:53 AM IST
• IAF ups security ante, issues shoot-at-sight orders around Kheria airbase

  
  02 Feb 2016 12:34 PM IST
• India's lightest & cheapest revolver 'Nidar' meant for office goers

  
  02 Feb 2016 11:57 AM IST
• Union minister Ram Shanker Katheria caught in Agra university crossfire, escapes unhurt

  
  30 Dec 2015 12:13 PM IST
• Drawing inspiration from PM Modi, tea-seller becomes village head

  
  22 Dec 2015 12:44 PM IST
• Cyclothon for eco-friendly Agra, a defence and civil administration JV

  
  10 Dec 2015 06:19 PM IST
• India's fastest train Gatimaan Express to become operational by March 2016

  
  29 Oct 2015 11:19 AM IST
• India's fastest train Gatimaan Express to become operational by March 2016

  
  29 Oct 2015 11:19 AM IST
• Terror sleeper cells may try to avenge Dadri lynching: Intelligence agencies

  
  15 Oct 2015 11:59 AM IST
• Back-up trains for wait-listed passengers?

  
  12 Aug 2015 10:07 AM IST
• At Aligarh village, shrine to British soldiers killed in 1857 freedom struggle

  
  10 Aug 2015 11:39 AM IST
• Notorious computer virus attacks users’ files

  
  19 Jul 2015 09:34 AM IST
• In a first, 109 sent to jail for urinating in public in Agra

  
  27 Jun 2015 10:59 AM IST
• Soon UPSRTC may introduce 'poo bus' that runs on human and household waste

  
  22 Jun 2015 10:00 PM IST
• Now, allegations against a BJP minister for violation of norms

  
  19 Jun 2015 11:14 AM IST
• Detergent found in Mother Dairy milk sample, company denies charge

  
  17 Jun 2015 09:59 AM IST
• Porn malware attack leaves Facebook users red-faced

  
  11 Jun 2015 09:50 AM IST
• Yamuna pollution can't be reversed: Central Water Commission

  
  08 Feb 2015 11:24 AM IST