America went to sleep on 30 January thinking “AI agents” were still mostly a productivity gimmick — fancy autocomplete with delusions of grandeur. By the morning of 31 January, a new headline was ricocheting around…
The last comprehensive census of Punjab was published in 2011. Now, as the next Census is set to be conducted in two phases along with enumeration of castes, as announced by the Ministry of Home…
[caption id="attachment_17719" align="alignright" width="350"] Author Austin Kochar[/caption] Immigration and Customs Enforcement usually publishes press releases almost daily, sometimes multiple times a day. The agency uses these announcements to highlight arrests of people with serious…
India’s Economic Survey 2025–26 holds up a sobering mirror to Punjab — a state once celebrated as the nation’s breadbasket, now conspicuously absent from key fiscal-health narratives as a success story and instead flagged for…
[caption id="attachment_17940" align="alignleft" width="275"] Gurpartap Singh Mann is a farmer and former Member of the Punjab Public Service Commission. He has served as Chief General Manager, Punjab Infrastructure Development Board. An engineer and MBA by…
Barely hours after the Chief Ministers of Punjab and Haryana met in Chandigarh—under the Supreme Court of India’s directions—on the SYL canal issue, I sat down with Baljit Balli, veteran journalist and Editor-in-Chief, Babushahi Media,…
After what can only be described as a four-year meditation retreat into the depths of governmental hibernation, the Punjab administration has suddenly awakened with the kind of panic usually reserved for students who realize their…
When Gita Gopinath, former First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and current Harvard Economics Professor, declared at Davos a couple of days ago that pollution poses a greater economic threat to India…
As India observes Parakram Diwas today on the 129th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the nation pauses to honour one of its most enigmatic and fearless freedom fighters. Yet, beneath the patriotic commemorations…
When I wrote “Gangsters or Terrorists?”, I argued clearly that law and order and organised crime would become the defining political issue in Punjab well before the 2027 elections. https://gpsmann.substack.com/p/gangsters-or-terrorists-canadian?r=3598n2 That assessment was not theoretical;…
