Punjab has made enormous contributions to India’s freedom struggle, national food security, defence and economic development. The people of Punjab played a decisive role in the Green Revolution, helping India move towards food self-sufficiency. Yet,…
On the morning of 24 October 2026, The Wire published the latest instalment of its series on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal. What follows is drawn from that report.…
[caption id="attachment_27731" align="alignleft" width="500"] MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla[/caption] Amritsar: Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla has urged the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to take immediate steps to improve public safety at the historic Ram Bagh…
The decision to suspend Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira from the Punjab Vidhan Sabha raises serious questions about parliamentary fairness, democratic accountability and the impartiality expected from the Speaker. The Speaker has the authority to…
Punjab has made enormous contributions to India’s freedom struggle, national food security, defence and economic development. The people of Punjab played a decisive role in the Green Revolution, helping India move towards food self-sufficiency. Yet,…
[caption id="attachment_28099" align="alignleft" width="500"] Karan Bir Singh Sidhu: The author is a retired IAS officer of the 1984 batch, Punjab cadre, and Founder-Editor of The KBS Chronicle[/caption] On 20 October, Dussehra day, Amit Shah was…
[caption id="attachment_20334" align="alignleft" width="500"] Author:Austin Kocher[/caption] I was speaking in Daniel Naujoks’s class at Columbia University yesterday when I first saw ICE’s latest detainee death notification. Dan, a political economist with deep experience in the…
Punjab did not elect its Chief Minister to act as a silent spectator while political leaders from Delhi increasingly dominate the public debate over the state’s governance. In 2022, the people of Punjab gave the…
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), historically dominant in Punjab’s rural Sikh and agrarian belts, is prioritizing the revival of its traditional rural vote bank ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections. After significant setbacks in 2022…
The health of a modern democracy relies on a delicate, adversarial equilibrium. In theory, the ruling party governs with a mandate given by the electorate, while the opposition provides constructive scrutiny, acting as a check…
