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A canal crisis

The controversy over the Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal only serves to stoke regional chauvinism and deflect attention from the real agrarian crisis faced b
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Akalis, interrupted

in Chandigarh
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Punjab's kidney industry

The arrest of three senior doctors and a search for more, bring into focus an exploitative and large-scale kidneys-for-cash trade in Punjab, abetted b
PRAVEEN SWAMI in Chandigarh

The run-up in Punjab

With the faction-ridden Shiromani Akali Dal going downhill, the Congress(I) hopes for a landslide win in the February elections to the Punjab Assembly
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Moving Rightward

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's dalliance with the far-Right, in response to the political challenge thrown at him by SAD chief Prakash Singh
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Punjab's fiscal woes

The Amarinder Singh government releases a White Paper outlining the fiscal crisis it has inherited from its Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP predecessor.
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Promises in Punjab

PUNJAB'S new Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, came to power promising to put the State's nearly defunct administrative and economic infrastructure in
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A canal for campaign

As political parties in Punjab and Haryana bicker over the Sutlej-Yamuna canal, the people of both the States show a weary disinterest in what they ap
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A poster of godman Piara Singh at the Bhaniara Dera.

A godman and a political storm

A violent political storm is sweeping through Punjab, and at the centre of it is a godman with a substantial following, mainly among Dalit Sikhs.
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Punjab pointers

Pre-election politics in Punjab presents a complicated melange. But one fact is obvious: the SAD-BJP ruling alliance will need nothing short of a mira
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Fundamentalist designs in Punjab

The attempt by Shiv Sena activist to demolish a mosque in Gurdaspur point to the larger fundamentalist mobilisation initiated by the Hindu Right to br
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Punjab's paddy crisis

Caught between the quality standards for procurement set by state agencies and their own struggle for survival, Punjab's farmers suffer over a plentif
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