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Topic: Punjab

As Bhindranwale flag row intensifies, Himachal road transport body curtails bus services to Punjab

HRTC bus drivers have refused to enter Punjab fearing attacks in retaliation over Sikh pilgrims being stopped in Himachal for sporting flags with pictures of Bhindranwale.

After grenade lobbed at temple, Amritsar top cop draws link to Pakistan’s ISI, narco-terror module

Amritsar Police said the incident may also be linked to arrest of 3 BKI operatives in Bihar. While this was the 15th such incident in Punjab, this is the 1st time a temple was targeted.

How CM Mann’s stance on Punjab farmers has shifted, with Chandigarh protest the latest flashpoint

Sit-in protest at Chandigarh was intended as 3rd front in ongoing agitation by farmers. 2 permanent protests have been underway at Shambhu and Khanauri since February last yr.

Delhi-Katra e-way’s Amritsar leg not only NHAI project hit by land hurdles in Punjab. There’s 15 more

With the 30-km section of the expressway's Amritsar spur put on hold, the project, which has been facing land acquisition challenges since 2022, is expected to get delayed further.

Punjab Oppn sees Kejriwal clearing path to Rajya Sabha as AAP fields MP Sanjeev Arora in bypoll

AAP national general secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak Wednesday announced Arora as the Ludhiana West by-poll candidate. Just a day before, Kejriwal had met Arora.

Punjab minister Dhaliwal has been in charge of admin reforms dept since 2023. But it doesn’t exist

The department of administrative reforms ceased to exist in 2012, when the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine came to power in the state for the second consecutive time.

Parliamentary panel recommends paddy residue MSP to curb stubble burning & impact on Delhi AQI

Committee has also suggested real-time crop monitoring, district-level stubble collection centres and biomass incentives for better crop residue management.

IAF hopes derision will stun HAL out of its slumber. We’re not so convinced

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

US deportations take centre stage in Punjab—debate over their ‘culpability’, calls for aid & jobs

Punjab has formed panel to look into illegal immigration as returnees say agents duped them. But a police officer says most were fully aware of what they were doing.

Immigration agents under lens amid US deportations. Punjab forms SIT, Haryana lodges FIRs

Action comes in wake of US deporting at least 104 ‘illegal’ Indian immigrants this week. Most returnees are from the three states and some have started filing complaints against agents.

On Camera

Will Mumbai start looking for its Mamdani now? The city is as unaffordable as New York

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani will face hurdles. And Democrats cannot mistake one city’s victory for a national mandate.

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.