For over a decade, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) has been sold as India’s great administrative upgrade: cut out the middleman, move money straight into the citizen’s account, and watch leakages fall. The promise is elegant,…
[caption id="attachment_17949" align="alignleft" width="500"] MP Mahua Moitra Wins the First Round in the Delhi High Court—But the Lokpal War Is Far From Over[/caption] The Delhi High Court’s decision today, 19 December, to set aside the…
[caption id="attachment_17715" align="alignleft" width="275"] Gurpartap Singh Mann is a farmer and former Member of the Punjab Public Service Commission. He has earlier served as Chief General Manager, Punjab Infrastructure Development Board. An Engineer and MBA…
Babu Mann’s lyric endures because it captures a collective truth: in Punjab, power has long been expected to announce itself loudly not just to function, but to dominate. Red beacons may have vanished from official…
Chandigarh :The North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) has expressed deep outrage and condemnation over the shocking reports emerging from Sindh Pakistan, where three young Hindu girls—Saneha Kolhi, Meena Kolhi and Sanam Meghwar were allegedly abducted,…
For more than a century, Sikhs have built a respected and visible presence across the world from Canada and the United States to Europe, Australia, and Southeast Asia. The global Sikh identity has been shaped…
AAP Leads in Punjab’s Rural Power Battle as Zila Parishad and Block Samiti Results Redraw Local Politics.The political landscape surrounding Punjab’s latest Zila Parishad and Block Samiti elections reflects both the changing nature of rural…
Long before modern borders and maps froze people and places into tidy boxes, the roads were rivers of pilgrims, merchants and seekers. Imagine for a moment, in the language of story a small, emerald village…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Washington sanctuary politicians refused to honor a detainer for Kamalpreet Singh, a criminal illegal alien truck driver from…
If Morarji Desai’s Nishan-e-Pakistan became a permanent question mark over his national security legacy, L.K. Advani’s virtual tryst with Qaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah at the Karachi mausoleum in June 2005 proved far more final—an ultimate…
