Jaibans Singh On November 4, Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader, Sudhir Suri, was shot outside Gopal Mandir on Majithia Road in Amritsar while protesting against a purported act of sacrilege. The main accused has been identified as one , Sandeep Singh, who owns a garment shop near the Temple. Sandeep Singh pumped five bullets into Sudhir Suri with his licensed .32 Bore pistol … [Read more...] about Amritpal Singh: The new face of foreign sponsored extremism in Punjab
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Moosewala Murder: Violence, divisiveness poses existential threat to Punjab
Jaibans Singh A well known Punjabi singer, Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Sidhu Moosewala, was brutally murdered in broad day light on May 29 in District Mansa of Punjab. Moosewala hailed from the village Moosa in Mansa. His father Balkar Singh is an army veteran and his mother Charan Kaur is Sarpanch of the village. He studied at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering … [Read more...] about Moosewala Murder: Violence, divisiveness poses existential threat to Punjab
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Jaibans Singh PM Modi with alliance partners in Punjab election rally On 16 June 2021, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Delhi became the venue for a unique function; six Sikh personalities from Punjab joined the party in the presence of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, General Secretary in-Charge Punjab, Dushyant Gautam and State Unit President … [Read more...] about Punjab elections: BJP has already won the battle
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Jaibans Singh Religion has paramountcy in Congress politics in Punjab There seems to be no end to turmoil in Punjab. Due to inept handling of the farm crisis and the CORONA pandemic by the Congress led state Government, the state has regressed into a deep financial and management catastrophe. In the midst of this turmoil an internal crisis has enveloped the ruling … [Read more...] about Congress has introduced regressive politics of religion in Punjab
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Ajay Bhardwaj A very grim scene has started emerging in Punjab as a large number of corporate houses have decided either to wind up or not to expand anymore in the state in the wake of the ongoing protest by farmers. Besides causing an estimated GST loss of around Rs 900 crores to the state due to the forced closure of the retail operational places of the corporate … [Read more...] about Despondency grips corporates in Punjab
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Jaibans Singh Punjab has been facing a serious challenge from drug menace for quite some time now. During the election campaign in 2017, Captain Amarinder Singh, then President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, had given a solemn promise to eradicate the menace from its very roots. He went on to become chief minister of the state; sadly, the menace has not only … [Read more...] about Fighting Drug Menace: Punjab should follow example of Assam
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Satinder Singh (Advocate) “The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020” & “The Essential Commodities (Special Provisions and Punjab Amendment Act), 2020” “The Punjab Bill, 2020 forbids punitive action against the wrongdoers, provided under section 7 for violation of section of 3 of Essential Commodities Act, who would flout the orders of the Government under … [Read more...] about Farm Bills: Explanation and comparative analysis of Centre and State laws
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Jaibans Singh While campaigning for the 2017 Assembly Elections for Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh, then President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) and the chief ministerial candidate of the party, declared that, if elected to power, Congress would launch a new department called 'Guardians of Governance' (GOG). "This will be a group of ex-servicemen … [Read more...] about Punjab’s Guardians of Governance: All hype, no substance
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Jaibans Singh The nationwide lock down was put in place overnight on 25 March! The government undoubtedly had good reason for doing so but it did leave lakhs of people stranded in various parts of the country. Among these were several Sikhs families from Punjab who had gone on pilgrimage to Gurdwaras across the country. Nearly 4000 Sikhs pilgrims including women and children … [Read more...] about Nanded pilgrim fiasco: Fight Corona without political brinkmanship
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Ankita Rao, Bibek Bhandari Teja Rohilla, India — In a dimly lit room in a small village at the western edge of India’s Punjab state, a slight, sinewy man named Govinda sat close to his wife, Usha Rani, as he flipped through a stack of medical records. The couple, in their early 20s, were trying to understand why they still couldn’t conceive a child after four years of … [Read more...] about The Poisoned Waters of Punjab
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