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Is basmati rice Indian or Pakistani? Do not ask the European Commission

From the Punjab plains to Brussels — who would have thought that the dispute over basmati’s origin would end up on Europeans' plates?

Euronews

Canada designates India’s notorious Bishnoi gang a terrorist entity

Gang is accused of murdering Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala and sending death threats to Bollywood actor Salman Khan

The Independent UK

How water fuels conflict in Pakistan

For ten days in April 2025, Pakistan almost came to a standstill. No freight was moving from its only port city, Karachi, towards the population centres in the north. The cause was the government’s announcement of a project to build six canals to irrigate the Cholistan Desert in the east…

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‘Restart from scratch’: Flood-hit Indian farmers look at swelling losses

Farmers in India’s Punjab are suffering from the worst floods in four decades, amid pain from Trump’s tariffs too.

Al Jazeera

Many displaced by Pakistan’s flood-hit Punjab return to find homes and crops destroyed

Most of the 2.6 million people displaced by record floods in Pakistan’s Punjab province have returned home to find their houses damaged and crops destroyed

The Independent UK

Australia women suffer biggest ever ODI defeat in India

Alyssa Healy's Australia side have been hammered by 102 runs by India in New Chandigarh, their biggest ever defeat in a one-day international.

AAP

India's Breadbasket Under Water: Millions Displaced as Punjab Faces Worst Floods in Decades

Punjab reels from worst floods in decades as 3.5M people are displaced and farmland is left ruined.

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Floods Devastate India's Breadbasket Of Punjab

The fields are full but the paddy brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock -- the aftermath of record monsoon rains that have devastated India's breadbasket.

International Business Times

Flood survivors begin to return home in Pakistan's eastern Punjab as water recedes

Displaced families have begun returning to homes in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province as floodwaters significantly recede

The Independent UK

Floodwaters begin receding in a major Pakistani city but nearby towns face evacuations

Officials say floodwaters that threatened a major town in eastern Punjab province have started receding, sparing its 700,000 residents

The Independent UK

India suffered Rs 24,000 crore losses this monsoon: Do we have a plan to fix this?

This monsoon season has brought severe destruction to India’s northern states. There were cloudbursts in Uttarakhand, flash floods in Himachal Pradesh, landslides in Jammu and Kashmir, and Punjab saw its worst flood since 1988.

Newslaundry

Rescue boat evacuating flood victims capsizes in eastern Pakistan, killing 9

A rescue boat evacuating people displaced by floods has capsized in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, killing nine people

The Independent UK

Over 120,000 evacuated from central Pakistan as floods leave survivors in scorching heat

Rescuers backed by the military have evacuated nearly 100,000 people from a central Pakistani city after floodwaters submerged homes and farmland

The Independent UK

Mud bridges, night vigils: How Punjab is surviving its flood crisis

At least 50 lives lost. Over 2,000 villages submerged. Punjab is in the grip of its worst flood disaster since 1988, with more than 20 lakh people affected and 3.87 lakh displaced in all 23 districts.

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Al Jazeera

‘Intense’ monsoon rain, flooding continue to engulf Pakistan’s Punjab

Authorities issue new evacuation warnings to communities near the Chenab, Sutlej, and Ravi rivers.

The Independent UK

Pakistan evacuates 25,000 people from eastern city as rivers threaten flooding

Officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region

Al Jazeera

Millions displaced in severe Pakistan flooding as India impacted too

Survivors tell Al Jazeera they lost everything in the floods and tents are needed to protect their children.

Newslaundry

From farmers’ protest to floods: Punjab’s blueprint of resistance lives on

Gurdaspur is usually slow, almost sleepy, when the skies above are not lit with drones from across the border. But the rains came hard, and with them the Majha belt – Ajnala, Ferozepur, Fazilka – was underwater in a day. By the second, cavalcades of Fortuners and Hiluxes rolled in,…

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‘Everything is gone’: Punjabi farmers suffer worst floods in three decades

Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops

Al Jazeera

Has India ‘weaponised water’ to deliberately flood Pakistan?

Pakistan blames India for floods that have killed hundreds, but experts urge focus on climate change.

The Independent UK

Severe flooding in Pakistan forces 500,000 people to evacuate

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Al Jazeera

Flood threat rises as rain lashes India and Pakistan

New spell of monsoon rains expected to persist for another 24-48 hours.

The Independent UK

Half a million people forced to flee homes after flooding in Pakistan’s Punjab

The latest evacuations bring the total number of people displaced since last month to 1.8 million, officials say

The Independent UK

Flood alert in India’s capital as river Yamuna breaches danger mark

Nearly 300,000 people were evacuated in the past 48 hours across the border in Pakistan’s Punjab province

Euronews

Punjab faces worst floods in decades as heavy rains continue

Torrential rains and overflowing rivers have caused devastating floods across northern India, killing at least 30 people in Punjab.

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