Farmers accuse the AAP government in Punjab as well as the BJP-led Union government for pushing the state into an agrarian and economic crisis.

Farmers, commission agents, millers and labourers have accused the Modi government of pushing its pro-corporate model in agriculture and destroying the robust APMC system.

The Kale Pani da Morcha has highlighted how key orders were allegedly kept from the people in order to continue discharging toxic effluents into the Sutlej.

The Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) announced a nationwide rail roko protest on October 3 and urged voters not to vote for the BJP in the Haryana Assembly Elections.

The Wire has learnt that many of them were victim to scams by travel agents who had retained 'duplicate debit cards 'on the pretext of sending their salary back home but eventually did no such thing.

Left with no option, some students either moved to the US or applied for refugee status in Canada.

The Akal Takht's decision is over Sukhbir Badal's time as deputy chief minister of Punjab from 2007 to 2017 during which he took some controversial decisions.

The activists gave an ultimatum to the Punjab government that if it failed to address the issue, they would be forced to stop the flow of toxic effluents into Budha Nala on September 15, 2024.

The families, some of whom said they felt helpless, called on the Modi government to expedite the discharge of their kin from the Russian army.

Locals said that it is unfortunate that the two main accused in the FIR were trying to turn the incident into a Hindu-Sikh issue.

Hundreds of youth from Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala who went to Russia after being misled by travel agents are being forced to go to the war zone against their will.  

The Italian Police’s action came in the wake of the brutal death of Satnam Singh (31), an illegal Indian farm worker who died after his arm was severed by a plastic wrapping machine at a vegetable farm in Latina, Italy on June 19.

AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat won the bypoll with a margin of 37,325 votes, defeating BJP candidate Sheetal Angural, while Congress finished third.

While police investigation was on in the case, Amritpal's family termed the arrest of their elder son as ‘political vendetta’.

In a dramatic turn of events on Tuesday, July 2, Surjit Kaur, the Shiromani Akali Dal candidate, had first joined AAP in the morning and returned to SAD late evening.

Satnam Singh’s death has unveiled the misery of many Punjabi farm workers who move to Italy's Latina province in search of work in huge farms but end up underpaid, overworked, injured, or killed.

“When I asked her (CISF jawan), why did she do this, she said that she supported the farmers' protest. I am safe but my concern is that jo aatankwad aur ugarwad Punjab mai bad raha hai (the terrorism and extremism that is rising in Punjab), how do we handle that?" Ranaut said.

Thirty-five years later, panthic politics has reasserted itself with the victories of Amritpal and Sarabjeet at a time when there is no militancy in Punjab.

Pro-Khalistan leaders Amritpal Singh and Sarabjeet Singh have also won in two parliamentary segments. While the former is the chief of the radical outfit Waris Punjab De, the latter is the son of former prime minister Indira Gandhi’s assassin Beant Singh.

While the key fight is between the AAP's Pawan Kumar Tinu and the Congress's Charanjit Singh Channi, BSP candidate Balwinder Kumar's vote share is likely to decide the winner's victory margin.