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New Zealand investigators say Baltej Singh was a major player in a global drug-trafficking ring. Baltej Singh, publicly identified as the nephew of Satwant Singh, one of Indira Gandhi’s assassins, is serving a 22-year prison sentence in New Zealand in a major methamphetamine trafficking case.  The case has shaken public attention not just because of the scale of the crime, but because of the history attached to the name. Public reporting says he was identified after dropping

Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s final photograph, 1927 “Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.” These words of Shaheed Bhagat Singh do not belong only to history. They speak directly to our own time. On 23 March, as India bows its head before one of its greatest martyrs, Punjab remembers not just a revolutionary, but a moral force, a flame of courage, and a symbol of sacrifice whose message has become even more urgent in to

Nancy Grewal, a Canadian Sikh critic of Khalistan, was stabbed 18 times and killed. The murder of Nancy Grewal in Windsor, Ontario, is not merely another tragic crime. It has become a disturbing symbol of the rising climate of intimidation surrounding extremist politics within parts of the diaspora in Canada. Grewal, a 45-year-old Punjabi-origin social media activist and commentator, was stabbed to death outside her home in early March 2026. Police responding to reports of a

Scenes from the Dastar Bandi ceremony of Kunwar Abhyuday Pratap Singh of Nabha, the great-great-grandson of H.H Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of the Nabha State, held at the Royal Sheesh Mahal, Nabha. Punjab has always understood something that official histories often miss: Raaj is not just rule, it is responsibility . Among the Phulkian houses that shaped Sikh political life, Nabha siyasat occupies a distinctive place, less about spectacle and more about continuity, a quiet insi