Fund my studies, I’ll get you to Canada — Now Punjabi men are being abandoned by NRI wives
Punjabi men abandoned by their NRI wives don’t have law or officials on their side. They lose their marriage, money, and Canada dreams. Read this ground report by Shubhangi Misra.
In his resignation letter to CM Stalin, Additional Chief Secretary Jagmohan Singh Raju said Punjab’s ‘painful’ condition was weighing heavy on him. He is now turning to politics. Read Revathi Krishnan’s report.
Schools shut for Covid, Bihar teens find new way to pass time & earn — deliver illegal booze
Liquor trade has been flourishing in Bihar despite a ban since April 2016. Procuring alcohol is a punishable offence, yet the law has served as little impediment to the trade. Kritika Sharma and Nirmal Poddar report.
One-woman superstar Samantha Prabhu steals show from male co-stars with her ‘bold avatar’
The movie Puspha has superstar Allu Arjun, but it’s Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s item song that stole the thunder from him, Tina Das writes.
Shock and awe – China’s military strategy is a Xerox copy of the Germans’ during World War
But Germany made a crucial mistake – no matter how much territory it captured or sea and air power it built, T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan writes.
When a write-off is a triumph: Why Air India sale has both Tata & govt in buoyant mood
Govt could see the deal as a win considering the airline’s dire debt spiral. Meanwhile, Tata should see the scale of losses reducing quickly, & no more political attacks from ministers, T.N. Ninan writes.
Why self-congratulatory balle-balle culture, not Pakistani drones, is biggest threat to Punjab
Punjab faces many mortal threats, almost all of which are internal. Without a hard look within, future generations have to be resigned to living with this constant slide, writes Shekhar Gupta in this week’s ‘National Interest’.