Sarthak Choudhury

Farms in Palla village are known for producing multiple varieties of strawberries, including Winter Down, Camarosa, Chandler, and Sweet Session

From closures to online pivots, how small enterprises weathered the pandemic storm

Residents of the city's Lal Dora villages face legal confusion, poor infrastructure, and neglect, struggling with outdated policies and exclusion from key schemes. Sarthak Choudhury reports

Roll out accessible, flexible loans with revolving credit lines, overdraft facilities as wedding business gets bigger, grander

Minimum support price has been a bone of contention between the farmers in Punjab and the state and Centre

Govts step up efforts, but farmers say policies unclear, assistance insufficient

While a Supreme Court ruling in January 2020 curtailed the length of shutdowns, the fallout continues to reverberate through the entrepreneurial landscape

For young voters in the Valley where Assembly elections are being held after a decade, it's a chance to prioritise issues like unemployment and education. Here's a ground report by Sarthak Choudhury

As a debate rages on about the working conditions of railway loco drivers, here is a peek into their lives

Amritsar has long been a bastion of the Congress, with the grand old party emerging victorious in 13 out of the 20 Lok Sabha polls and bypolls held between 1952 and 2019

BJP candidates across the state facing repercussions of the two farmers' protests

Several candidates, including the BJP's, promising resumption of trade on the route

The churn in Punjab politics has been the biggest among the states ahead of the Lok Sabha polls

The origins of the Jalandhar sports industry can be traced to partition and it was thriving until the pandemic came

Many parties, especially the SAD, believe that Amritpal contesting would cut their votes

Talhan gurudwara epitomises the dream of youth in Punjab to have a life beyond India's borders, in the face of unfulfilled government promises and farmer protests, besides emulating others

Manesar, part of the Gurgaon Lok Sabha constituency, emerged into prominence when the late Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi decided to establish a Maruti plant in 1970

Highlighting their achievements and opponents' failures, with a touch of Bollywood for appeal

Pay disparity, absence of social security or support system remain dominant themes

Similar langar set-ups are placed every 500 metres across the protest site spreading up to 8 km. Tractors and trucks are lined up on the stretch, leaving a bylane for daily or emergency commute