Punjab’s political memory doesn’t last long. Big hurts from the past – like the 2015 police firings at Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura, or old links to controversial dera chiefs – slowly fade away. People get…
On 19 December 2025, a Division Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Augustine George Masih delivered a judgment that deserves attention well beyond the narrow world of service law. The…
Haryana’s construction welfare board audit has reportedly exposed a system where verification collapsed and welfare became a conduit for “phantom” beneficiaries. If the figures cited by the Haryana Labour Minister Anil Vij are accurate, fake…
Measles cases nationwide have reached 2,012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported last week, as outbreaks in Arizona and South Carolina continue to grow and three other states alert the public about…
Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat’s assertion of today (December 28) that he has twice written to Sonia Gandhi asking her to return Jawaharlal Nehru’s papers to the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML) is…
As winter fog descends over Punjab’s fields, an old drama is staged once again. Meetings are announced, slogans resurrected, and calls for “farmer unity” amplified. Reports speak of gatherings by BKU Ekta Sidhupur and the…
Infosys wants India to see it as a modern technology enterprise—an institution that rode the software-services wave and is now “moving up” into digital, platforms and artificial intelligence. Yet the public record increasingly tells a…
I received a disturbing text message from my sister yesterday afternoon: “ICE has been at the girls’ old school today.”The girls, my nieces, used to attend World Language Immersion School in Columbus, Ohio, where they…
There is a quiet fiscal story unfolding in India—quiet because it does not lend itself to slogans, yet consequential because it will shape the quality of governance for the next decade.States—Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and…
When External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told Parliament that Punjab has the highest number of human trafficking cases in India, it almost sounded like an achievement—if governance were scored the way cricket teams are. Sadly,…
