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The ace spinner’s ‘forced’ decision brings into focus the last bunch of the Old Guard in the Indian dressing room

Sold-out concerts, mass fan following — the success of Diljit Dosanjh, Karan Aujla and AP Dhillon cements Punjabi music’s place on the world map as a genre in itself

The proposed Sports Regulatory Board is just one of the several sticking points of the National Sports Governance Bill

Rs 190 cr for a penthouse in Gurugram underscores the growing appetite for luxury real estate in the Delhi-NCR region

The lack of any visible change on the ground in Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar and Sultanpur Lodhi is confounding, given the expenditure on projects

Till date, nearly Rs 2,000 crore has been spent to clean the black spot of Ludhiana, but its water remains polluted and acidic

In my village, Bijwasan in New Delhi, the fields were once rich with generations of stories woven into each harvest. My uncle, like so many other farmers, would rise before dawn, guiding his oxen through the soil as he ploughed...

A year after the armed forces began appointing women officers to command positions in line with the Supreme Court directives, a letter by a top Army commander flagging several functional issues involving women officers has kicked up a debate in...

Satya Pal Dang with wife Vimla Dang. It was in the early 1950s that Communist Party of India leader Satya Pal Dang and his wife Vimla Dang made Chheharta, a small industrial suburb on the outskirts of Amritsar, their home....

The outcome of Ottawa tightening rules is being most acutely felt in Punjab, as immigration centres shut down & students seek alternative options, or defer plans

Botox and fillers are so yesterday on the beauty map of Punjab. The new drug in town is called glutathione — so why are people saying that what it delivers is far more deadly than what it promises?

It’s a cruel twist of fate that the document which turned Salman Rushdie into a cause celebre has vanished

Seldom does a judge hog the limelight in India where the media space is dominated by politicians, filmstars and cricketers. But the Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, who retires today, has proved to be an exception. Often described...

In New Delhi to participate in the India International Centre’s annual Festival of Arts, former Trinamool Congress MP Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University, speaks to Aditi Tandon on a range of issues

With its unique topography and proximity to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, Jammu is fast becoming the entry route for drug smuggling from Pakistan. In the recent past, there have been multiple cases of huge seizures of heroin in joint operations...

For the newly elected government, the drug menace that has the UT in its grip poses a huge challenge

When Lawrence Bishnoi’s parents, living in Abohar’s Dutranwali village in the backwaters of Punjab, sent him to Chandigarh for studies in 2007, they envisaged a promising future for the teenager, taking up law perhaps. Lawrence traded the halls of academia...

Dr Christopher Turner is the Keeper of Art, Architecture, Photography and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, responsible for collections of over 20 lakh objects.

A 76-year history of strife and killing

A hundred years ago, on September 20, 1924, John Marshall, the then Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), wrote in the Illustrated London News announcing to the world the discovery of Harappa in western Punjab and Mohenjodaro in...

Jyoti Malhotra, Adil Akhzer & Arjun Sharma soak in the lively Assembly election atmosphere as J&K votes after 10 years

These Assembly seats are a microcosm of politics in the state, where the more things change, the more they remain the same. Political dynasts, surname as the golden ticket, family bonding and splits, fickle loyalties and merit too, if other factors favour

Madeleine Albright, in an interview, recalled a meeting at the White House with US President Bill Clinton and several senior officials. Albright had just been appointed the Secretary of State, the first woman in American history to hold the post....

10 years after the last Assembly elections were conducted in J&K, then a state, the UT is set to witness a keen contest in the 3-phase polls | It’s a mix of old and new issues in the altered political and electoral landscape

10 years after the last Assembly elections were conducted in J&K, then a state, the UT is set to witness a keen contest in the 3-phase polls | For all the noise about the new players, it’s the traditional parties that are set to dominate