The Latest Breaking News from Punjab

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,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pakistan began evacuations last month after India released water from overflowing dams into low-lying border regions.

One of South Asian nation’s top grain-producing states is reeling from its worst floods in nearly four decades

Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million