On January 21, 2026, the Indian Army made an unusually direct appeal to Punjab’s youth, urging them to enlist in the Sikh Regiment. The appeal came at a time when recruitment numbers are falling and…
[caption id="attachment_18998" align="alignleft" width="500"] File photo of the two leaders[/caption] Donald Trump’s fulsome post, echoed warmly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marks the most consequential reset in India–US trade relations in years. Far from a…
Punjab is currently facing a severe fiscal crisis under the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. The state is now the second-most debt-ridden in India, with total liabilities estimated at…
[caption id="attachment_17719" align="alignright" width="350"] Author Austin Kochar[/caption] On January 27, the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board cited my analysis of immigrant detention data in an opinion piece titled “Mass Deportation by the Numbers.” They referenced…
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,…
