Accused in Rs 40-cr bank fraud case, Jaswant Singh Gajjanmajra was arrested by ED last November & lodged in Patiala Central Jail. Since 11 May, he had been admitted in a govt hospital.
CM had campaigned extensively for all candidates & had claimed his party will win all 13 seats in Punjab. It was on his insistence that AAP decided not to ally with Congress in state.
In ‘Punjabi Centuries: Tracing Histories of Punjab’, edited by Anshu Malhotra, Nicole Ranganath recounts how diasporic Punjabi women used folk songs to express their loneliness in California.
Gandhi now has tag of giant slayer as he had earlier defeated Kaur in 2014 parliamentary elections as AAP candidate. Outgoing MP is a member of erstwhile Patiala royal family.
Amritpal is leading in Khadoor Sahib, while Sarabjit Khalsa is leading in the Faridkot seat in Punjab. Engineer Rashid looks set to beat former CM Omar Abdullah in Baramulla in J&K.
Radicalism is back in Punjab, especially in zones where Sikhs form a large rural majority, and three of the five prominent political forces in this election are playing with it.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 7 voting: In the fray were PM Narendra Modi, Union minister Anurag Thakur, TMC's Abhishek Banerjee and Akali Dal's Harsimrat Kaur Badal, among others.
Rahul Gandhi's team releases video in which Congress leader holds free-wheeling chat with Balkaur Singh. Rapper's family has been demanding justice for slain artiste.
Sarabjit Singh is contesting as an Independent. Other candidates from 4 major parties in the fray are seen as political lightweights, which could work to his advantage.
We have failed terribly at two important things. One, we are reacting to this issue only emotionally, not logically. And two, we are not asking the right questions.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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