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‘Jailing farmers doesn’t help anyone’: After floods wrecked harvest, Punjab stares at the parali puzzle

As Punjab’s farmers struggle to complete delayed paddy harvests due to one of the worst floods in recent times, they face yet another pressure – to quickly clear fields to make way for Rabi crops.

Newslaundry

India’s monsoon is becoming more extreme – even though overall rainfall has hardly increased

Across India, torrential rains over the past few months have swallowed an entire village in the Himalayas, flooded Punjab’s farmlands and brought Kolkata to a standstill. This all happened in a monsoon season in which total rainfall was technically only 8% above normal.

The Conversation

10 Photos of Varinder Ghuman: India's Vegetarian Bodybuilder Who Suddenly Died at Age 47

Remembering the life of Indian bodybuilder Varinder Ghuman.

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Indian bodybuilder and actor Varinder Singh Ghuman dies of heart attack at 42

Ghuman represented India at the Arnold Classic and was once crowned ‘Mr India’

The Independent UK

Rajvir Jawanda Cause of Death: Remembering the Artist's Songs, Wife, and the Accident That Took His Life

Punjabi singer and actor Rajvir Jawanda has died at age 35, eleven days after a motorcycle accident in Himachal Pradesh. His passing reignited public concern over India's high rate of road accidents — with two-wheelers accounting for nearly half of the country's 155,000 annual road-traffic deaths.

International Business Times UK

Punjabi star Rajvir Jawanda dies in horror accident after crashing motorcycle into stray cattle

The singer was best known for songs such as ‘Sardaari’ and ‘Kangani’

The Independent UK

Rajvir Jawanda death latest: Punjabi star dies aged 35 after tragic road accident

Singer and actor had been on life support for 11 days after suffering critical injuries in a motorcycle crash

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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…

The Conversation

‘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.

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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.

The Independent UK

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

Newslaundry

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.

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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

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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

Newslaundry

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.

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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