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TopicCaptain Amarinder Singh

Topic: Captain Amarinder Singh

CM Amarinder transfers Punjab IAS officer who accused minister of scam, draws flak

Kirpa Shankar Saroj, whose report indicted minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, has been sent from social welfare to the animal husbandry and fisheries department.

Amarinder vows to fight ‘malicious, anti-national’ farm laws through agitation, legal action

Punjab CM says he’ll do anything to protect farmers from Modi govt’s ‘nefarious designs’, says Pakistan could take advantage if there’s unrest in border state.

Congress MP Bajwa takes on CM Amarinder again, this time over Dalit scholarships scam

Bajwa and Amarinder are now arguing over the MP’s demand for an independent probe into Punjab minister S.S. Dharamsot’s alleged involvement in the scam.

Opposition CMs’ meet sees fiery Uddhav Thackeray & Sonia Gandhi-Mamata Banerjee bonding

Thackeray urges opposition leaders to do more than chit-chat, saying we must fight the Modi govt. Other CMs raise issues like postponement of NEET & JEE, privatisation.

Punjab sero survey shows 27.8% have antibodies in worst-hit districts, CM extends restrictions

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh extends night curfew timings and weekend lockdowns indefinitely while banning all public gatherings, excepts weddings & funerals, until August end.

Congress against MP farmers, Shivraj tells Sonia after Amarinder letter on basmati GI tag

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan wrote to Sonia Gandhi after Punjab CM Amarinder Singh sent a letter to PM Modi, urging him not to allow GI tag for MP basmati.

Punjab hooch tragedy toll 104, Congress leaders join opposition chorus for stricter action

SAD accuses 5 MLAs of ‘involvement’, demands probe led by HC judge. AAP’s Kejriwal asks for a CBI inquiry, Amarinder tells him to mind his own business.

How Covid changed Punjab CM from an ‘inaccessible Maharaja’ to people’s problem-solver

From fixing CT scan machines to helping a TB patient get treatment, Captain Amarinder Singh has been reaching out to people since May via the weekly ‘AskCaptain’ session. 

Punjab heats up over Modi govt ordinances — CM opposes, Sukhbir supports, farmers to protest

BJP ally SAD denies supporting all-party resolution against the ordinances, CM Amarinder says they will be ‘dangerous’ for farmers’ future.

PM Modi asks states to follow Punjab’s micro-containment strategy to handle Covid crisis

Modi also said ‘green shoots’ are visible in the economy, and that the states and union territories must strive to protect lives as well as livelihoods.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.