Sandeep Rai

Correspondent, TOI

Sandeep Rai is a veteran journalist with two decades of experience in the reporting field. He heads the Western Uttar Pradesh bureau, managing Meerut, Bareilly & Agra circles. His areas of interest a ...

Sandeep Rai is a veteran journalist with two decades of experience in the reporting field. He heads the Western Uttar Pradesh bureau, managing Meerut, Bareilly & Agra circles. His areas of interest are wildlife, politics and special reportage.

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Stories by the author

• Desi scientist's work on ‘extreme’ life key to decoding existence on Mars

  
  18 Oct 2020 09:08 AM IST
• 12k acre encroachment on forest land including Tiger corridor connecting Corbett, Rajaji?

  
  26 Aug 2020 07:16 AM IST
• Indian scientist to help US troops direct robots with mind

  
  22 May 2019 10:23 AM IST
• Monkeys stone man to death, cops in fix as family wants FIR

  
  20 Oct 2018 11:02 AM IST
• In riot-hit UP village, man on a mission to bring Muslims back

  
  09 Oct 2018 11:00 AM IST
• More cane means more sugar and diabetes, grow other crops: Yogi Adityanath

  
  12 Sep 2018 11:29 AM IST
• ‘Cash for transfer’ scam rocks UP police

  
  18 Jul 2018 12:44 PM IST
• ASI unearths ‘first-ever’ evidence of chariots in Copper-Bronze age

  
  06 Jun 2018 12:11 PM IST
• UP seeks information on ‘exoduses’ due to riots

  
  08 Apr 2018 10:13 AM IST
• Encounters send scared UP goons rushing to jails

  
  18 Feb 2018 10:04 AM IST
• Furore in Meerut after voter presses BSP on EVM, vote goes to BJP

  
  23 Nov 2017 10:39 AM IST
• In western UP, no trucker brave enough to take dying cow to vet

  
  19 Nov 2017 10:46 AM IST
• ASI approves excavation at site of Mahabharata’s ‘house of lac'

  
  02 Nov 2017 11:47 AM IST
• All passport holders in Deoband to have papers verified by cops

  
  31 Oct 2017 10:47 AM IST
• Military farms' shutdown to hit Rs 800 crore project

  
  08 Aug 2017 11:16 AM IST
• Madrassas, mosques under terror radar

  
  22 Apr 2017 12:08 PM IST
• Vande Mataram splits Meerut civic body along communal lines

  
  30 Mar 2017 10:23 AM IST
• UP village tense after bid to hoist BJP flag on mosque

  
  17 Mar 2017 11:33 AM IST
• The Bandit Queen's mom has no money for food

  
  24 Feb 2017 01:00 AM IST
• Remember riots and rapes when you vote: Adityanath

  
  31 Jan 2017 10:03 AM IST
• UP mantri changes cash at bank after 7pm, sparks row

  
  19 Nov 2016 10:55 AM IST
• Dussehra 2016: In Ravana village, no one celebrates Ramlila

  
  11 Oct 2016 09:38 AM IST
• Exodus of Hindu families from Kairana a reality, finds NHRC probe report

  
  22 Sep 2016 12:01 PM IST
• Railways' grain trains to bail out Northeast

  
  07 Aug 2016 10:44 AM IST
• UPA junked my 2008 Naik report: Ex-Mumbai top cop Satyapal Singh

  
  09 Jul 2016 10:22 AM IST
• Rataul mango: Another India-Pak flashpoint

  
  09 Jul 2016 10:12 AM IST
• 10-year-old Baraut girl face of Hindon River Rejuvenation Project

  
  17 Apr 2016 11:33 AM IST
• UP polls: Want BJP ticket, bring 25k likes on Facebook

  
  17 Mar 2016 09:58 AM IST
• Illegal mining rampant at BSP lawmaker's turf

  
  11 Feb 2016 12:43 PM IST
• Rape, 'love jihad' top BJP's agenda in Muzaffarnagar bypoll campaign

  
  05 Feb 2016 12:57 PM IST
• 15,000-strong ‘dharma sena’ in Uttar Pradesh readies for war with Islamic State

  
  20 Jan 2016 08:23 AM IST
• 'Cow slaughter' being used to target us, says pacer Mohammad Shami’s father

  
  16 Jan 2016 11:32 AM IST
• Suspected ISI agent at work in Bareilly nabbed in Meerut

  
  28 Nov 2015 10:53 AM IST
• Behead kin of murdered killer, 'orders' UP panchayat

  
  18 Oct 2015 10:47 AM IST
• Tenant verification a must, elderly soft targets: Police

  
  18 Oct 2015 10:38 AM IST
• Rashtriya Rifles' Neeraj Kumar Singh came back wrapped in Tiranga, just as he predicted

  
  15 Aug 2015 12:17 PM IST
• 11,694 lives lost in Punjab militancy: RTI response

  
  29 Jul 2015 11:20 AM IST
• First Pakistani PM’s kin claim half of UP’s Muzaffarnagar city

  
  17 Jul 2015 11:05 AM IST
• SUVs from poll-bound Bihar parked in Meerut for bulletproofing, bombproofing

  
  15 Jul 2015 10:49 AM IST
• Yogendra Yadav backs Arvind Kejriwal, says LG Najeeb Jung an agent of Centre for long

  
  21 Jun 2015 11:08 AM IST
• 1857 revolt news clippings: Reports went from fair to pro-British

  
  10 May 2015 10:49 AM IST
• Crown found off Harappan site in Uttar Pradesh

  
  08 Aug 2014 03:01 PM IST
• We can hurl Modi into the sea: Ajit Singh

  
  09 Apr 2014 11:25 AM IST
• I back khap stand against same-gotra marriage: Ex-top cop Satyapal Singh

  
  20 Mar 2014 11:23 AM IST
• How office automation has revolutionized the way we work

  
  11 Dec 2011 09:28 AM IST
• Consider advanced mechanisms for water purification to keep disease at bay

  
  06 Feb 2011 04:52 AM IST
• 'JBIC is keen to support Indian infrastructure'

  
  09 Nov 2010 12:47 AM IST
• Beyond the Great Wall: Not just business in China

  
  29 Jun 2010 01:34 AM IST