Reeti Malhotra
Staff Reporter
reeti.malhotra@yale.edu
Reeti Malhotra is a first-year student in Silliman College. She covers Cops and Courts and Men's Crew for the News. She also writes for WKND. A prospective Political Science and English major, she is originally from Singapore.
Author Archive
REETI MALHOTRA
TRACK AND FIELD: Bulldogs begin the outdoor season with a bang

The Bulldogs set several new personal and school records, with junior Owen Karas clocking the fastest 800-meter time in the NCAA this season.

March 27, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
From walk-on to captain: who is Yale’s Teo Rice?

The News spoke with players and coaches to get a look at Teo Rice, Yale’s captain, ahead of their first-round NCAA Tournament matchup against No. 4 seed Texas A&M on March 20.

March 20, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Are you happy here?

Why did you come here? No, I’m not asking for the polished and palatable reasons you wrote in your supplemental essay. Nor the lofty Ivy-League-to-ambitious-career […]

March 8, 2025

Jessai Flores
MAIA NEHME & REETI MALHOTRA
Connecticut agrees to $3.75 million settlement for homicide of man in New Haven prison

The homicide of Carl “Robby” Talbot following the excessive use of force and chemical agents by correctional officers was settled by appalled Connecticut lawmakers nearly six years after Talbot’s death.

March 4, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
The Fiction of the One

Real love will be a bulldozer.  You will meet them in a calamitous fashion — as your maid of honor or best man will recount […]

February 14, 2025

Aileen Santiago
REETI MALHOTRA
Recent drug busts spotlight evolving CT narcotics trade

Successful busts of drug traffickers in New Haven, Bristol and Stamford represent concerted efforts to mitigate the ever-present opioid and illicit narcotics epidemic in Connecticut.

February 14, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA & NORA MOSES
Neo-Nazis hold demonstration outside local bookstore

The demonstration at Never Ending Books— which was orchestrated by an unspecified group of self-identified neo-Nazis — has shaken the New Haven and Yale communities.

February 12, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Growing Pains

The night before I left home, I decided to take a solitary walk on the beach. Every day since I was 12 years old — […]

February 7, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Liquor Control Commission temporarily suspends 144 Temple St. nightclub and bar

Connecticut’s Liquor Control Commission, a division of the Department of Consumer Protection, temporarily suspended and imposed a $13,000 fine on 144 Temple St. for the alleged violation of six statute counts.

February 3, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Generator theft grounds Jitter Bus

The generator for a popular coffee bus was stolen in a Friday morning burglary amid a city-wide rise in thefts from vehicles.

January 21, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
A home away from home

In the middle of January, Mariah Carey blasting in the background, I found myself huddled around a small common room table, exchanging crudely wrapped Secret […]

January 17, 2025