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MLA report card: Amarpal Singh Ajnala and Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria

Hindustan Times takes stock of MLAs and their performance:

MLA report card: Sukhjinder Randhawa and Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa

Hindustan Times takes a look at Punjab MLAs and their performance:

Punjab MLA report card: Ashwani Sekhri from Batala, Des Raj Dhugga from Sri Hargobindpur

Hindustan Times takes stock of MLA and how they fared:

Punjab MLA report card: Aruna from Dinanagar, Charanjit from Qadian

Hindustan Times takes stock of the MLAs and their performance.

Punjab MLA report card: Ashwani from Pathankot, Babbehali from Gurdaspur

A series on performance of MLAs

Punjab MLA report card: Babbu in Sujanpur and Seema in Bhoa

Hindustan Times takes stock of the MLAs and their performance in this 30-part series:

Surgical attacks aftermath: Normalcy returning to border areas of Amritsar

Even as the evacuation orders along the International Border are yet to be rolled back, normalcy seems to be returning in the region with people starting to move back to their villages.

Pakistan intensifies shelling across LoC

Samjhauta Express arrives at Attari station with bag of mixed feelings

With no end to the simmering tension between India and Pakistan, Samjhauta Express, the common man’s train shuttling between the two nations, reached India with passengers carrying a mixed bag of feelings.

Visitors banned from retreat ceremony

Stone effect: Visitors not allowed at Attari-Wagah retreat ceremony

BSF to lodge protest with Pak Rangers at commandant-level meeting; remains mum on how 300 spectators were allowed at the joint checkpost on Sunday

Wagah shame: Stone thrown at India

After 3 hours of wait, border villages of Punjab get Badal’s 10 mins

After waiting for over three hours, residents of village Chak Alla Baksh, who had gathered to tell chief minister Parkash Singh Badal their woes, got hardly ten minutes as the CM left the venue after assurance to proceed on his whirlwind tour of the border.

Stone throwing, anti-India slogans by Pak gallery sully Wagah border ceremony

The prevailing tension between the neighbours spilled onto a usually peaceful exercise, as a stone was hurled into the Indian gallery at the Attari border and anti-India slogans were shouted during the retreat ceremony on Sunday.

BSF patrols fence during night, youths do the same in streets of Roranwala

As the troops of Border Security Force (BSF) patrol along the fence during the night hours, the villagers in this border area are doing the same to keep anti-social elements at bay as a large number of families have moved to safer places.

Youngsters in deserted Punjab village hold night patrols

Hundreds of young people from villages that line India’s de-facto border with Pakistan are spending sleepless nights, patrolling their neighbourhoods with sticks and rods to ward off thieves.

Surgical strikes aftermath: No takers for relief camps in Amritsar

Mattresses have been laid, temporary toilets set up, staff deployed and grocery procured. But even as people left border villages in large numbers on the third consecutive day, they are not moving to relief camps set up by the government in Amritsar district.

“We have been asked to leave, but where do we go?”

Those who live near the Attari border are forced to leave their houses. But residents of a village in the area says they have nowhere to go

Border villagers fend for themselves

‘How much can we carry’: Villagers near LoC upset with lack of support

Thousands across India may be celebrating the army’s surgical strikes against Pakistan but villagers near the Line of Control are upset with a lack of government support in evacuation and say they fear for the safety of their homes and property.

As tensions escalate, help yet to reach ground zero in Punjab

As evacuation picked pace in the border villages of Attari sector, despite many promises by the government, official presence was sparse at ground zero.

As evacuation begins along Punjab border, villagers tense but ‘not scared’

Following orders for evacuation of Punjab villages within a 10 km radius of the International Border, panic and tension was seen among the villagers wo are being evacuated.

Punjab border villages evacuated after army’s surgical strikes across LoC

Punjab authorities ordered the evacuation of villages near the Pakistan border on Thursday amid fears of retaliation from Islamabad following India’s claim of surgical strikes against “terror launchpads” across the Line of Control.

Retreat ceremony at Attari-Wagah border called off after India strikes in PoK

As tensions between India and Pakistan heighten furthermore following the surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army, Border Security Force officials confirmed that the beating retreat ceremony, held at the Wagah border in Punjab, has been called off.

Strikes across LoC: Punjab border area evacuation on; 1,000 villages affected

With the Indian army conducted surgical strikes on terror launchpads along Line of Control (LoC), resulting in significant casualties, on Thursday, Punjab villages near the Internation Border (IB) have been told to evacuate, an official from the district administration confirmed to Hindustan Times.

Samjhauta Express closure rumour in Pakistan worries visitors

The cross-border Samjhauta Express train continues to connect India and Pakistan amid escalated tension after the Uri terror attack and in spite of all rumours on Pakistani television.

Sidhu won’t form party, doesn’t want to play ‘spoilsport’ in Punjab polls

The former cricketer, who recently resigned from the BJP, issued a statement that read, “We will not play spoilsport.... We shall not confuse the people of Punjab but give them clarity to vote in Punjab’s interest. We will not divide the anti-incumbency vote bank which could benefit the corroborative and collusive Badal-Amarinder nexus which has plundered Punjab in the last 15 years. This will defeat our purpose of bringing a change for the betterment of Punjab.”

Mortal remains of 160 Pak Hindus reach India

Mortal remains of 160 Pakistani Hindus brought to India through Attari-Wagah

The mortal remains of 160 Pakistani Hindus who died in the past one decade were brought to India through the Attari-Wagah joint check post on Thursday.

Front is here because AAP has failed: Navjot Kaur Sidhu

Declaring that former MP and her husband Navjot Singh Sidhu, along with Pargat Singh and Bains brothers, will announce the future course of ‘Awaaz-e-Punjab’ on September 8, BJP MLA from Amritsar (east) Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu said the front emerged as third front (Aam Aadmi Party) has failed.