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TopicPunjab Elections

Topic: Punjab Elections

Voters in 3 seats next to Chandigarh have same concern: Concrete jungle & host of civic issues

Residents in SAS Nagar, Kharar and Dera Bassi say developers, in collaboration with successive govts, have affected their lives. Candidates say they're aware of these issues.

Aam Aadmi Party is ‘photocopy of Congress’, PM Modi says in Punjab’s Pathankot

Addressing a poll rally in Pathankot, PM Modi added that farming, trade & industry will be made profitable in 5 years if the BJP-led alliance is voted to power.

All parties in Punjab talk ‘aam aadmi’, but field crorepatis — 93% for SAD, 91% Congress, 69% AAP

Congress candidates in Punjab fray own an average of Rs 13.3 crore in assets, followed by Rs 12.7 crore for SAD, and Rs 7.7 crore for the BJP. AAP isn’t far behind at Rs 7 crore.

Out of active politics but part & parcel of the party: Ex-Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar

Jakhar was among the front runners for the Punjab CM post after the exit of Amarinder Singh. He was replaced as Congress Punjab chief by Navjot Singh Sidhu.

AAP is creating a buzz in Punjab elections again but 2017 experience must be haunting it

In a multi-cornered contest where even a thousand votes may turn the scales, Congress & Akali Dal are better-equipped, with AAP’s organisational structure virtually missing on the ground.

In immigration-obsessed Punjab, now men are being abandoned by NRI wives

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

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.

SC to hear review plea against Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1988 road rage case on 25 February

The apex court had in 2018 held Sidhu guilty of the offence of 'voluntarily causing hurt' to a 65-year-old man, but it spared him of a jail term & imposed a fine of Rs 1,000.

Does anyone talk about ‘Udta Bollywood’? Sukhbir Badal says ‘Udta Punjab’ a lie, drugs no issue

In an interview with ThePrint, Shiromani Akali Dal president & chief ministerial candidate Sukhbir Singh Badal blamed the media and Bollywood for portraying Punjab in a bad light.

In Jalandhar Cantt’s ‘election Olympics’, Congress’ Pargat battles fellow hockey titan from AAP

Jalandhar Cantt MLA Pargat Singh (Congress), who played hockey defence, is up against centre-forward attacker Surinder Singh Sodhi (AAP). ‘Loha hi lohe ko kaat ta hai,' Sodhi says.

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US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.