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Gun Culture in America: Greed and Violence, a Double-Barreled Enemy

If I die in a school shooting, drop my body at the NRA… (A placard in one of the Marches Against Gun Violence in...

Punjab in the grind of a superficial Khalistan

KAVYA DUBEY When Khalistan flags were found fastened at the entrance of Himachal Pradesh Assembly complex in Dharamshala earlier in May, the state police promptly...

‘Aiwe Duniya Deve Duhai…’: What really is Punjabiyat?

VIKAS DATTA Forget culinary travesties like 'Gobi Manchurian', overlook the blaring 'peppy' bhangra numbers -- and the big fat weddings they are played at --...

(Law)rence or Lawless Bishnoi?

UJWAL JALALI New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Who would have thought 15 years ago that a chocolate boy from a remote Punjab village would get...

Influence of Canada’s Sikh radicals far greater than their presence

GURMUKH SINGH Toronto, June 5 (IANS) Though pro-Khalistan elements today account for a very small fraction of the Sikh community in Canada, they still wield...

Trouble and turmoil have been Punjab’s old companions

VIKAS DATTA It is generally perceived as a land of plenty, full of contented, generous, and somewhat boisterous people, who live life to the fullest....

Explainer: ‘Khalistan’ returns to spook Punjab again

KAVYA DUBEY New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) Khalistan had become a thing of the past after India trudged on from the grisly period of peaking insurgency...

Biden battles with falling popularity; Trump staging a comeback?

By ASHOK NILAKANTAN New York, June 2 (IANS) US President Joe Biden is battling falling popularity among his voters, as several polls show his ratings...

US needs some tough love from allies, partners on gun violence

YASHWANT RAJ Washington, June 2 (IANS) The United States needs help. It is the only country in the world that witnesses school shootings and mass...

Trade focussed Quad

ASAD MIRZA The first in-person meeting of the leaders of the US, Australia, Japan and India, termed Quad, will be held in Tokyo on Tuesday....