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Punisher
The Punisher is Marvel Comics vigilante Frank Castle, created by Gerry Conway, John Romita Sr., and Ross Andru in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (February 1974). A lethal antihero, he starred in four simultaneous 1990s series, the Ennis and MAX runs, films, and Jon Bernthal's Netflix and MCU versions.
Punisher (album)
Punisher is the second solo album by American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, released by Dead Oceans on June 18, 2020. Bridgers produced it with Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, and it was recorded.
Punisher in film
Punisher in film: screen adaptations of Marvel vigilante Frank Castle (comics debut 1974), covering The Punisher (1989, Dolph Lundgren), The Punisher (2004, Thomas Jane), Punisher: War Zone (2008, Ray Stevenson), the Netflix series, the 2026 Disney+ special One Last Kill, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Punisher skull
Punisher skull: white fanged skull emblem of Marvel's Frank Castle, debuted 1974 in Amazing Spider-Man #129, refined by Mike Zeck; adopted by US military, police, militias, and extremists, prompting Gerry Conway's BLM reclamation campaign and Marvel logo changes.
Punisher: War Zone
Punisher: War Zone is a 2008 vigilante action film directed by Lexi Alexander, starring Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle, the third Punisher film and a reboot.
Punishment
Punishment is the legal imposition of penalties such as imprisonment, fines, and probation for criminal offenses. Also called criminal sanctions, it serves deterrence, retribution, incapacitation, restitution, and rehabilitation; meta-analyses find imprisonment does not reduce reoffending versus noncustodial sanctions.
Punishment (罚罪)
Punishment (罚罪) is a 2022 40-episode Chinese suspense crime drama on iQiyi, directed by Tian Yi and Yi Yong, starring Huang Jingyu as detective Chang Zheng fighting the Zhao family crime syndicate; it passed 10,000 iQiyi heat and has a 2026 sequel, Punishment 2.
Punishment in Australia
Punishment in Australia covers sentencing and sanctions across nine jurisdictions: imprisonment (228 per 100,000 adults, 2026), community corrections orders (371 per 100,000), jurisdictional variation, Indigenous over-representation, and penal reform debates.
Punishments of Tang
The Punishments of Tang (汤刑) were the criminal laws of China's Shang dynasty, a lost code known mainly through one sentence in the Zuo Tradition.
Punit Pathak (पुनीत पाठक)
Punit Pathak, also known as Punit Jayesh Pathak, is an Indian dancer, choreographer, and actor who debuted in the 2013 film ABCD: Any Body Can Dance.
Punit Renjen
Punit Renjen is an Indian-born business executive who served as CEO of Deloitte Global from 2015 to 2022, the first Indian-origin CEO of a Big Four firm.
Punitive damages
Punitive damages, also called exemplary damages, are civil awards beyond compensatory damages meant to punish and deter egregious conduct. Rooted in English multiple-damages statutes (1275 onward) and eighteenth-century common law, they are constitutionally reviewed in the US under BMW v. Gore's three guideposts.
Punjab
Punjab, the land of five rivers (Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Chenab, Jhelum), is a region of the northern Indian subcontinent divided between India and Pakistan at the 1947 Partition; Punjabi-speaking, densely populated, and agriculturally dominant on both sides.
Punjab & Sind Bank
Punjab & Sind Bank, also known as Punjab and Sindh Bank, is an Indian public sector bank founded in Amritsar in 1908 and nationalized in 1980.
Punjab 1984 (ਪੰਜਾਬ 1984)
Punjab 1984 (ਪੰਜਾਬ 1984) is a 2014 Punjabi drama directed by Anurag Singh, starring Diljit Dosanjh and Kirron Kher; a mother searches for her son during the 1984 Punjab militancy, and it won the 62nd National Film Award for Best Punjabi Film.
Punjab and Haryana High Court
Punjab and Haryana High Court, common High Court for Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh, seated at Chandigarh. Successor to the 1919 Lahore High Court via the 1947 East Punjab High Court; renamed in 1966; Le Corbusier building opened 1955.
Punjab Canal Colonies
The Punjab Canal Colonies were British state-run schemes that irrigated wasteland in western Punjab and allotted it to peasant colonists, with nine colonies built between 1885 and 1940.
Punjab Kings
Punjab Kings (PBKS), formerly Kings XI Punjab, is a Chandigarh-based Indian Premier League franchise founded in 2008, owned by Ness Wadia, Mohit Burman, Preity Zinta, and Karan Paul; two finals, zero titles.
Punjab Land Alienation Act 1900
The Punjab Land Alienation Act 1900 (पंजाब भूमि हस्तांतरण अधिनियम १९००) was a British Indian law, passed under Lord Curzon, restricting transfer of Punjab agricultural land from cultivators to moneylenders.
Punjab Legislative Assembly (ਪੰਜਾਬ ਵਿਧਾਨ ਸਭਾ)
Punjab Legislative Assembly (ਪੰਜਾਬ ਵਿਧਾਨ ਸਭਾ), or Punjab Vidhan Sabha, is the unicameral legislature of Indian Punjab. 16th Assembly, AAP majority under CM Bhagwant Mann, Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan, 117-seat house, short sittings, same-day bill passage.
Punjab Nahi Jaungi (پنجاب نہیں جاؤں گا)
Punjab Nahi Jaungi (پنجاب نہیں جاؤں گا), a 2017 Pakistani Urdu romantic comedy directed by Nadeem Baig, written by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar, starring Humayun Saeed and Mehwish Hayat; highest-grossing Pakistani film until Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2.
Punjab National Bank
Punjab National Bank is a majority government-owned Indian public sector bank, the country's first Swadeshi bank, founded in Lahore in 1894 and nationalized in 1969.
Punjab Police (India)
Punjab Police (India) is the state law enforcement agency of Punjab, India, descended from the colonial-era force under the Police Act 1861 and now governed by the Punjab Police Act 2007, with its 1891 Phillaur training school and the Saanjh community policing programme.
Punjab Police (Pakistan)
Punjab Police (Pakistan) is the provincial law enforcement force of Punjab, headed by an IGP under the Police Order 2002, tracing to the Police Act of 1861 and Punjab Police Rules of 1934, with an Investigation Branch, Women Safety App, and contested human rights record.
Punjab Province
Punjab Province (پنجاب), Pakistan's most populous province, capital Lahore; 127.69 million people (2023 census, 52.87% of national total) on 205,344 km² of five-river alluvial plain, an agriculture-led economy and historic center of the region's Mughal, Sikh, British, and partition history.
Punjab Province (British India)
Punjab Province (British India), 1849–1947: province annexed after the Anglo-Sikh wars, named for the five rivers, governed under a non-regulation system, transformed by canal colonies, and divided by the 1947 Radcliffe Line.
Punjab State Power Corporation Limited
Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) is the state-owned utility that generates and distributes electricity in Punjab, India, formed in 2010 from the Punjab State Electricity Board.
Punjab, India
Punjab (पंजाब), meaning "land of five rivers," is a state in northwestern India with 23 districts, its capital Chandigarh, and farming known as the granary of India.
Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (پنجاب) is Pakistan's most populous and easternmost province, with its capital at Lahore; it holds roughly half the country's population on about a quarter of its land.
Punjabi calendar
The Punjabi calendar is the traditional timekeeping system of the Punjab region, built on twelve Desi months named in Sikh scripture, kept today in the lunisolar Bikrami form and the solar Nanakshahi calendar adopted in 2003.