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Year after radical preacher & aides were lodged at Assam jail, Amritpal saga is far from over

Amritsar Deputy Commissioner has listed fresh grounds for seeking detention order. Amritpal Singh & his 9 associates have been lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam since March-April 2023.

Declining faith, or trust deficit? SGPC’s electoral roll declines by 50% since 2011

Every Sikh adult with unshorn hair is eligible to cast ballot. While total number of voters till Thursday was 27.45 lakh, it was over 52 lakh when SGPC polls were last held in 2011.

How guava ‘orchard owners’ & Punjab officials ‘siphoned off Rs 147 crore’ in compensation

From showing inflated number of trees to leaking information about land acquisition, accused used all tactics to extract as much as compensation that could be drawn from govt.

AAP’s lone Lok Sabha MP Sushil Rinku joins BJP with an AAP MLA, Punjab BJP chief says ‘more to come’

Rinku is 3rd sitting MP to join BJP after Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu & Patiala MP Preneet Kaur — both from Congress. Most joining BJP expect to be fielded as LS poll candidates.

ED raids residences of ‘kingpin’, 2 IAS officers in Punjab multi-crore guava ‘scam’

Houses of Punjab excise commissioner Varun Roojam, Firozepur deputy commissioner Rajesh Dhiman & alleged kingpin Bhupinder Singh were among those searched. Dhiman was detained.

ED raids premises of Punjab government officials in guava orchards compensation scam case

The ED case was registered following a Punjab Vigilance Bureau FIR alleging embezzlement of nearly Rs 137 cr released as compensation for guava orchards on land acquired by the GMADA.

Pannun’s ‘threat’ to Kejriwal: ‘Khalistanis in Tihar jail will hold you accountable’

In video message, Sikhs for Justice chief alleges AAP leader had misled overseas Sikhs & collected almost $16.70 million (nearly Rs 133 crore) from them for his party

BJP to contest Lok Sabha polls solo in Punjab, no alliance with Sukhbir Singh Badal’s Akali Dal

BJP will go it alone in Punjab after 2 decades of alliance after failing to reach consensus on seat sharing. Party wanted 5 of 13 seats while SAD was ready to give only 3, it is learnt.

NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of spurious liquor deaths in Punjab

Five people died and another five are in the hospital after consuming spurious liquor in Gujran village, Punjab.

Akali Dal core committee meets to discuss tie-up with BJP as seat-sharing talks continue

BJP now wants to contest 5 seats, citing SAD's diminished vote share, but latter wants to continue with old arrangement & give up only three seats, it is learnt.

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Asim Munir now has a Musharraf-style path ahead in Pakistan. It’s the 27th Amendment

Pakistan has been buzzing with rumours around the 27th Amendment for months, but the cat came out of the bag this week when President Asif Ali Zardari...

India’s services exports touching $400 bn—a quiet engine offsetting trade deficit

In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit. 

‘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.