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Simranjit Mann drops ‘Striving for Khalistan’ from Twitter bio after bypoll win, then restores it

Unnati Sharma - 27 June, 2022

Mann, chief of an Akali Dal splinter faction, was elected to Sangrur seat Sunday. An ex-IPS officer who resigned to protest Operation Blue Star, he has a history of pro-Khalistan comments.

Simranjit Mann of SAD-Amritsar is back with big win in Sangrur, blow to AAP & Bhagwant Mann

Abhishek Dey - 26 June, 2022

Loss comes as a huge setback after the party's thumping win in March; law and order was a major poll factor and so was perception of being remote controlled by the AAP Delhi leadership

Suicide or Murder? Varying narratives cloud the truth behind arrested IAS officer’s son’s death

Bismee Taskin - 26 June, 2022

Sanjay Popli, arrested on corruption charges, has alleged his son Kartik was 'murdered'; a family friend says it might have been suicide driven by fear and intimidation by police.

The corrupt won’t be spared, says Punjab CM Mann. Cites ‘One MLA, one pension’ as example

Bismee Taskin - 25 June, 2022

Under the scheme, MLAs will get pension for only one term, instead of for each term served. The CM has said his govt plans to table a bill on the same in the ongoing budget session.

Hospitals without doctors, power cuts: In Punjab’s ‘messed-up’ finances, AAP’s big budget test

Abhishek Dey - 25 June, 2022

Punjab's finances the biggest challenge facing the AAP govt about to table its first budget. ‘Increasing revenue without imposing new taxes’ priority, says finance minister Cheema.

Cheaper booze, more revenue — Why Punjab’s new excise policy is a ‘Balle-Balle’ move for state

Nikhil Rampal - 20 June, 2022

With the new excise policy, quality liquor will now be sold in Punjab at lower prices as the government pushes for Indian Made Foreign Liquor in a bid to generate more revenue.

How Punjabi journalists became ‘willing tool’ for extremists and police after Blue Star

Ramesh Inder Singh - 17 June, 2022

In 'Turmoil in Punjab', Ramesh Inder Singh gives an eyewitness account of Operation Blue Star and how the strife in the state led to terrorism in the media.

Minorities panel seeks report from Punjab govt on ‘conversions of Sikhs to Christianity’

Neelam Pandey - 4 June, 2022

Representatives of Punjab govt, Akal Takht and SGPC will attend a meeting called by the National Minorities Commission to discuss the issue on 16 June.

Who is Lawrence Bishnoi? ‘Farmer’s son who threatened Salman now in news for Moose Wala killing’

Bismee Taskin - 4 June, 2022

Believed to be the leader of a 700-member gang, Lawrence Bishnoi's tryst with criminal world is said to have begun during his time at Panjab University.

‘Gang rivalry’ to ‘victim of gang violence’: Why AAP has shifted stance on Moose Wala killing

Abhishek Dey - 3 June, 2022

The AAP govt in Punjab has been facing backlash over the state police's initial theory that singer-rapper Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder was the result of a suspected ‘gang rivalry’.

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India has 71 towns, cities under Police Commissionerate. It just creates hierarchy

Sanjeev Chopra - 5 July, 2022

There is a need to re-examine not just the 1861 Police Act, but also the colonial practice of four-stage recruitment and the non-involvement of city governments in law and order.