According to the latest CAG report, the mining mafia has been causing a loss of Rs 5,000 crore to the state exchequer every year.
Harish Manav
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Sonali Phogat rose from a humble beginning to become a firebrand leader who loved to court controversies
"Channi was bound to lose from Bhadaur, but we never imagined that people of Bhadaur would give us such a big lead," Labh Singh Ugoke told Outlook.
Decades after he began a career as a comic, Bhagwant Mann, 48, is having the last laugh—poised to be crowned as the next chief minister of Punjab on the back of a sweep by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Punjab Election 2022: Charanjit Singh Channi says the Congress party will re-emerge as the single largest party and no party is in competition
Right ahead of the 2022 assembly polls scheduled in February, Punjab's political map is brimming with new equations and alliances.
Mann, 50, started his career as a comedian before joining politics and earned a name by working in many stage shows and Punjabi’s films.
Performances of Punjabi actors, singers and stand-up comics, rise of women farm leaders and a social media blitz define the past one year of farmer protests.
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar tells Harish Manav that only 40 people are misleading thousands of farmers. Earlier, they were demanding a guarantee on MSP. Now they want repeal of the new farm laws, rise of milk price to Rs 100 per litre and free up the toll plazas.
Crop residue or stubble burning is banned in Punjab and Haryana, but satellite images show a substantial increase in farm fires that add to the air pollution in north India, especially Delhi.
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