Articles by Narender S Thakur
Punjab health department starts tracing of 2,500 UK returnees over new coronavirus strain fears
The travellers, who arrived in the state in the last one month, will be kept under surveillance along with close contacts of 8 passengers who were tested positive on December 22

Updated on Dec 26, 2020 02:31 AM IST
, Amritsar
Mandeep Kaur Narula {Edited by Narender S Thakur)Former Bathinda SDM, town planner under lens for irregularities in land acquisition for highway widening
NHAI had found that the nature of 177 khasras (plots) was allegedly changed from agriculture to commercial in an attempt to give undue compensation to nearly 155 private landowners

Updated on Dec 26, 2020 02:22 AM IST
, Jalandhar
Gagandeep Jassowal {Edited by Narender S Thakur)Uniform farm laws not viable in a diverse country like India, says Punjab Agricultural University report
Says assured MSP will help encourage crop diversification and leaving agri-related disputes to bureaucracy likely to be detrimental

Updated on Dec 22, 2020 01:49 AM IST
, Ludhiana
Mohit Khanna {Edited by Narender S Thakur)Punjab farmers got 30% higher crop price than their Bihar counterparts due to MSP, says new study
Findings of University of Pennsylvania’s institute reveal that deregulation of markets helped traders more than cultivators; also, private players did not help in creating agriculture infrastructure

Updated on Dec 20, 2020 08:11 PM IST
, New Delhi
Chetan Chauhan {Edited by Narender S Thakur}Of faith, floods and stone pelting
The keepers of faith would have hounded, if not killed, me. For, I fell short of committing blasphemy by a whisker. I did not have to take myself to some dungeon to save my beloved life. Writes Narender S Thakur.

Updated on Nov 02, 2014 06:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Narender S Thakur
Putting rape in right perspective
A bad theory is as bad as a bad recipe. Or even worse. Recently a young woman from Nagaland, who worked at a mall in Gurgaon, was forced to jump out of a moving car after its driver made an audacious attempt to rape her. Narender S Thakur writes

Updated on Nov 02, 2014 06:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Narender S Thakur, Chandigarh