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Mind The Gap| In her words: Harinder Baweja

Harinder ‘Shammy’ Baweja.

Updated on Oct 6, 2025, 7:48 AM IST

Punjab: Rajinder Gupta is AAP candidate for RS bypoll

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday named industrialist Rajinder Gupta as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha bypoll in Punjab.

Published on Oct 6, 2025, 3:24 AM IST

Guest Column: Why Punjab deserves a healing touch from Centre

The situation is not entirely of Punjab’s making. The structural imbalance began decades ago, with the Green Revolution. While Punjab’s farmers fed the nation, the state’s soil and water bore the cost. (HT File)

Published on Oct 5, 2025, 3:02 AM IST

Punjab: SDRF norms can’t be tweaked for one state, says Kataria; AAP hits back

Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria

Published on Oct 3, 2025, 5:12 AM IST

Over 1,300 kg heroin seized in last 7 months under Punjab's anti-drug campaign

Police arrested 31,478 people and recovered 1,359.5 kg of heroin from March 1 to October 1, they said.

Published on Oct 2, 2025, 3:48 PM IST

Punjab set to become next major biz hub, says CM Bhagwant Mann

Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann during the inauguration of De Heus’s Animal Feed Plant in Rajpura on Wednesday. (HT Photo)

Published on Oct 2, 2025, 7:48 AM IST

Most FIRs against drug traffickers in Punjab: NCRB data

Punjab has topped in registering maximum cases against drug traffickers in the country in 2023, revealed the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data released on Tuesday. (Representational image)

Published on Oct 2, 2025, 7:24 AM IST

Former minister Anil Joshi joins Congress

Former minister Anil Joshi on Wednesday joined the Congress in the presence of the party’s state in-charge and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and other state leaders here. (HT Photo)

Published on Oct 2, 2025, 6:32 AM IST

Punjab pounded by 41% excess monsoon rain, IMD admits forecast lapse

As per IMD forecast, northwest region, including Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, was to receive normal to above normal rainfall. But the region logged 27% excess rain, highest since 2001. (AFP)

Published on Oct 1, 2025, 7:24 AM IST

Human trafficking a grave exploitative crime: Punjab DGP Yadav

Human trafficking a grave exploitative crime: Punjab DGP Yadav

Published on Sep 30, 2025, 9:11 PM IST

Punjab farmers' bodies slam action against cultivators for stubble burning

Punjab farmers' bodies slam action against cultivators for stubble burning

Updated on Sep 30, 2025, 6:16 PM IST

‘Minimal brain activity’: Punjabi singer Rajvir Jawanda critical | Update

After his accident in HP on September 27, singer Rajvir Jawanda, a resident of Sector 71, Mohali, was first taken to a local civil hospital and was later referred to Fortis Hospital, Mohali.

Updated on Sep 30, 2025, 10:52 PM IST

'Son's unfulfilled wish': Sidhu Moosewala's father to contest in assembly polls

Addressing a gathering during a Congress party programme in Mansa on Sunday, Balkaur said that people of Mansa gave him strength after he lost his son and they continue to stand behind the family.

Published on Sep 29, 2025, 8:30 PM IST

Deported from US, but foreign dreams alive: ‘Looking for bride with IELTS’

(Clockwise from right) Mandeep Singh, 29, from Punjab's Tarn Taran district plans to go to Dubai for a job; Swaran Singh, father of US deportee Akashdeep Singh, in Amritsar; and Harwinder Singh from Hoshiarpur, who was among the first batch of 104 Indians deported from the US on February 5, 2025.

Updated on Sep 29, 2025, 4:56 PM IST

Punjab sets up control room to monitor stubble burning incidents in real-time

Stubble burning in neighbouring states, including Punjab, is one of the major causes of air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region during the winter.

Published on Sep 29, 2025, 11:09 AM IST

Punjab BJP to hold ‘People’s Assembly’ in Chandigarh

BJP’s working state president Ashwani Sharma said the session will feature open discussion on the “deceptions, excesses and losses being faced by the people of Punjab”. (HT)

Published on Sep 29, 2025, 6:28 AM IST

Punjabi actor-singer Rajvir Jawanda on life support after accident. Who is he?

Rajvir Jawanda has a YouTube channel that he started back in 2019 and has posted over 250 videos with a total of 935K subscribers.

Published on Sep 28, 2025, 12:13 PM IST

Wanted criminal killed in shootout at Balachaur

Varinder Singh was working on the directives of his foreign handlers, Jaswinder Singh, alias Manu Agwan, Zeeshan Akhtar and Gopi Nawanshahria, all backed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), according to deputy inspector general of police (DIG, Ludhiana range) Satinder Singh. (HT)

Published on Sep 28, 2025, 5:46 AM IST

In ‘jonga’ dig at Cong over floods, Punjab CM's Pakistan jibe at Rahul | Watch

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann speaks during a special session of the State Assembly, in Chandigarh, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.

Updated on Sep 27, 2025, 5:35 PM IST

‘They served me beef’: Punjab woman, 73, deported from US recounts ordeal

Deported Sikh grandmother, Harjit Kaur, was allegedly denied basic facilities on US-India flight

Updated on Sep 27, 2025, 8:44 PM IST

Asked for water, given ice: Harjit Kaur's ordeal on US deportation flight

Requests for meeting her attorney also kept being ignored, Ahluwalia added.

Updated on Sep 26, 2025, 7:26 PM IST

Guest Column| Why Punjab keeps drowning despite its mighty dams

Punjab’s people cannot afford to pay the price of poor planning year after year. Floods may be natural, but the devastation we see today is largely man-made. (File phtoo)

Updated on Sep 26, 2025, 5:13 PM IST

Punjab special DGP Harpreet Sidhu’s central deputation cut short by year

The ministry of home affairs (MHA) has approved the premature repatriation of 1992-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Harpreet Singh Sidhu to his parent cadre, Punjab. (HT file photo)

Updated on Sep 26, 2025, 2:35 PM IST

‘Not ever allowed to say goodbye': Harjit Kaur's lawyer on deportation from US

Harjit Kaur was an undocumented immigrant in the US. However, this was due to her asylum case being denied. Kaur came to the United States in 1992 from India as a single mother with two sons.

Updated on Sep 26, 2025, 1:51 AM IST

Had Punjab allowed water to Haryana, flood situation would not have been that grave: BBMB to HC

The Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) on Wednesday told the Punjab and Haryana high court that the flood situation in Punjab would not have been “so grave” had the state released the additional water to Haryana in April-May. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/ Representational image)

Published on Sep 25, 2025, 6:02 AM IST

Amritsar: 6kg heroin seized, one arrested

The Amritsar rural police on Wednesday arrested a smuggler and recovered 6kg of heroin, a motorcycle, and a mobile from his possession, officials said. (Representational image)

Published on Sep 25, 2025, 5:34 AM IST

Rajya Sabha polls for 4 J&K seats, plus Punjab bypoll, on October 24

For all five seats, notifications will be issued on October 6, and the final date for submitting nominations is October 13.

Updated on Sep 24, 2025, 4:14 PM IST

Punjab: Paddy yet to arrive in south Malwa mandis

Mansa deputy commissioner Navjot Kaur felicitated 105 farmers on Tuesday for adopting zero-burning after paddy harvesting for the last several years. (HT Photo)

Published on Sep 24, 2025, 8:20 AM IST

New Vande Bharat from Punjab's Ferozepur near Pak border to Delhi soon | Details

Vande Bharat Express are semi-high-speed trains with plush interiors.

Updated on Sep 23, 2025, 10:11 PM IST

Afghan boy's trip reminds: When 2 Indians hid in UK flight wheel well, one lived

The Saini brothers hid in the front wheel bay of a British Airways flight from Delhi to London in 1996.

Updated on Sep 23, 2025, 6:29 PM IST

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