Punjab BJP leader Sunil Jakhar said he has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, requesting an NIA investigation into the drug trade allegedly operating from Punjab’s prisons under government patronage He also sought an ED investigation into money laundering linked to the drug trade, including the large sum of money seized from a drug inspector arrested on charges of selling drugs In a post on X, Jakhar said these probes are needed to save Punjab from the scourge of drugs, which he said the Bhagwant Mann government has “miserably failed” to curb #SunilJakhar# #Punjab# #NIA# #ED# #DrugTrade#

Punjab State Women Commission chairperson Raj Lali Gill said she had taken suo motu cognisance of the incidents reported at LPU and Chitkara University. Read more: #PunjabWomenCommission# #RajLaliGill# #LPU# #ChitkaraUniversity#

#WATCH# | Chandigarh | Punjab Minister Harpal Singh Cheema says, "After the Aam Aadmi Party government came to power in Punjab, we tightened the noose on those who were evading taxes. Under that, we have caught the biggest tax evasion to date. These people were perpetrating fraud in the transport sector by creating fake and forged bills. About 62 companies that were registered were involved in this. They had registrations in 62 places. When we investigated, this scam came to light. We have also taken strict action against it, sent the accused to jail, and we are recovering the dues. We will not let even a single penny of Punjab's treasury go to waste. In Punjab too, they had registrations at 25 places, and we have initiated action against them..."

#WATCH# | Chandigarh | Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema says, "The whole country knows that today, drugs across the country are coming through the Gujarat border, and the entire Bharatiya Janata Party is involved in it and is drowning the youth of the entire country in drugs. First, they drown them in drugs, and then they do a drama that they will end drugs. The whole of Punjab knows that from 2007 to 2017, the Akali Dal and BJP government was in Punjab; during that time, Punjab was heavily drowned in drugs. Today, those who spread drugs are saying that they will end drugs. On the other hand, there is the Punjab CM, who has been working continuously for the last four years to end drugs in the state. Today, the drug menace in Punjab is almost finished."

#WATCH# | Punjab: On Sangrur youth Jagga Singh consuming poison outside DC office, SSP Sangrur Ravjot Kaur Grewal says, "On 12th Sept, a video of Jagga Singh had surfaced wherein he had said that if action is not taken into his matter pertaining to the Panchayat, he will consume a poisonous substance. This is a legal offence. Action was being taken. So, he took this step yesterday. Panchayat says that Jagga Singh already has 9 FIRs registered against him under serious sections, including one for rape. Panchayat used to stop him, suspecting his involvement in unscrupulous activities. So, there was a dispute between the two parties and he filed a complaint. He is in the hospital and out of danger. His wife has filed a complaint, and FIR has been registered. But the Panchayat says that the FIR is wrong and he was politically provoked..."

#WATCH# | Punjab: SSP Sangrur Ravjot Kaur Grewal says, "Yesterday, one Jagga Singh consumed a substance at the DC office. There are 9 FIRs against Jagga Singh; he is convicted in 4 of them. These include cases of Excise and NDPS. He is undertrial in 4 other cases. There is a rape case against him. On 12th Sept, a video was found on social media wherein he had threatened Police that if no action is taken in his case, he would commit suicide...A case was registered in this regard on 12th Sept itself...Panchayat says that Jagga Singh is being provoked politically. They say that he stops whoever tries to take action in the village against drugs. Jagga Singh has a criminal history and is being provoked politically. Facts in this case are a matter of investigation..." (Video Source: Sangrur Police)

#WATCH# | Punjab | Indian army pays tribute to the soldiers who laid down their lives in the line of duty in the Battle of Dograi during the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, and lays wreath at the War Memorial in Amritsar on the 61st Dograi Day

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My uncle in rural Punjab still calls the entire family together over landline conference call for anything even mildly significant, refusing every suggestion of a group chat despite owning a smartphone he clearly knows how to use for other things. "WhatsApp, chacha," my cousin pleaded, during yet another forty-minute call to announce a job promotion that could've been a single text. "Everyone's already online right now." "A message you can ignore," he said. "A voice you cannot skip past." I found this stubborn and mildly ridiculous until the week my grandfather's health took a sudden turn, and my uncle called every single relative himself, one by one, voice by voice, rather than let a single person find out through a screen. "Why not just send one message to everyone at once," I asked him afterward, genuinely curious now instead of annoyed. "Bad news travels faster on paper," he said. "I wanted people to hear my voice shake a little, if it was going to shake. Text doesn't shake. I needed them to know I meant it, not just typed it." My grandfather recovered, eventually, slowly. My uncle made the calls again to share that too, same method, same voice, this time steady and relieved instead of trembling. The family still has a group chat. It sits mostly unused for anything that matters. The big things still travel by phone call, uncle to cousin to aunt, voice to voice, exactly the way he insists they should.