Opinion

– Hardeep S Puri (The author is Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs) “A lie can travel halfway around the world, while the truth is tying its shoelaces” This famous quote aptly summarizes the methodology of using lies, half-truths and misinformation to create anxiety …

-Avtar Singh Prominent social activist and painter of the people, Dr. SP Singh Oberoi is in the media headlines these days. By the way, due to their public welfare works, they are covered in the media. But now politicians are chasing him to join his party. This person who feels …

-Avtar Singh The Punjab Congress has been in the news for some time now. Earlier, ministers who had been in power for four-and-a-half years were rarely in the news. The real issues of Punjab are missing.

-Pullela Gopichand (Chief Coach of the Indian badminton team) The surge of confidence among India’s athletes is real as they fine-tune their preparations for the Olympic Games in Tokyo next month. The mix of immense self-belief and the nervous excitement among India’s elite sportspersons is there for all to see, …

– Rattan Lal Kataria  (Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Social Justice & Empowerment) As a child, the onset of monsoons brought much-needed succor from the dry and harsh summers. Playing outdoors was no less than walking on a sizzling hot clay oven – often giving blisters on feet. …

– Kulwant Singh Ankhi (PRINCIPAL) Former Granthi(priest and Sikh scripture reader) and former Jathedar of Sri Akal Takhat Sahib, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti had been a prominent grammarian and explicative exegete of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. He taught efficiently a large number of religious studies students. He had been a …

– DEEPSHIKHA (Academician) Human beings have faced a great number of challenges like world wars, epidemics, pandemics, natural calamities, and many sorts of atrocities in the name of power, race, and religion. The human race has been able to exist and thrive post all these occurrences. The same can be …

– Bindu Singh (EDITOR) The second surge of COVID-19 seems to be more devastating as public outcry indicates immense failure of governments’ machinery. This view gets firm with the latest directions given by the Supreme Court of India in which the apex court has warned the state governments against filing …

Dr. Pyara Lal Garg (The writer is former Registrar Baba Farid University and Social Activist) Mahan Panchayat at Jagraon was so well attended and peaceful with the tens of thousands of participants listening to the future plans of the struggle with enduring patience, that the farmers’ Unions’ leadership really got …

– Jagtar Singh (The writer is a senior Journalist) CHANDIGARH: The farmers’ struggle that initially was sparked in Punjab against the three agri marketing laws has started hitting at the very support base of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party nurtured diligently in the Hindi heartland. This …