The day when driving through Ludhiana’s Gurdev Nagar turned shockingly dangerous Ludhiana: Traffic gridlock gripped a major commuter hub in Gurdev Nagar for nearly 18 hours after a massive tree collapsed overnight, snapping power lines and dragging down a network of heavy electricity poles.The collapse blocked the busy three-way roundabout connecting Pakhowal, Sarabha, and Ferozepur…
Civic elections on a hot day in Raikot town of Punjab’s Ludhiana district Ludhiana: A punishing heatwave across Punjab severely depressed voter turnout for Tuesday’s municipal elections, with participation tumbling nearly 10 percentage points from the last local polls.Final data reveals that only 64.82% of eligible voters cast ballots across the six contested municipal councils…
Civic elections on a hot day in Raikot town of Punjab’s Ludhiana district Ludhiana: A punishing heatwave across Punjab severely depressed voter turnout for Tuesday’s municipal elections, with participation tumbling nearly 10 percentage points from the last local polls.Final data reveals that only 64.82% of eligible voters cast ballots across the six contested municipal councils…
An electricity station on fire at Doraha on Tuesday Screenshot Ludhiana: It was a dual crisis on Tuesday when a massive timber warehouse blaze and an out-of-control landfill fire exhausted local resources and choked the region in dense smokeThe blaze at Ferozepur Road’s at the Ganpati Timber Traders took 25 fire trucks and more than…
Trophy holders: (From L) Virpal, Amanjot Kaur Bains, Arshdeep Kaur; with Punjab Baseball Association secretary Harbir singh gill (L) and president Sukhdev Singh Aulakh Ludhiana: Five years after stepping out of the batter’s box and into corporate careers, three former members of the district women’s baseball team scored the biggest victory of their lives, winning…
Trophy holders: (From L) Virpal, Amanjot Kaur Bains, Arshdeep Kaur; with Punjab Baseball Association secretary Harbir singh gill (L) and president Sukhdev Singh Aulakh Ludhiana: Five years after stepping out of the batter’s box and into corporate careers, three former members of the district women’s baseball team scored the biggest victory of their lives, winning…
Police searched the municipal corporation’s Zone-A office building inLudhiana on Monday after a series of bomb threats on email Ludhiana: A rogue group claiming affiliation with a separatist movement has issued a series of bomb threats targeting govt installations and the properties of international Punjabi music icon Diljit Dosanjh.Official govt inboxes, including that of the…
Ludhiana: A 16-year-old boy has died in hospital four days after being ambushed and hacked by a gang of armed juveniles while running errands in the city.Sahil, had recently finished his Class-X examinations and was travelling by motorcycle with his cousin to purchase vegetables on May 21. When the pair neared a govt service centre…
Ludhiana dreams of building a European-style road corridor but is saddled with dirt tracks Ludhiana: A central money-laundering investigation against a prominent state politician has stalled an overhaul of the industrial city’s infrastructure, exposing internal fractures over privatization and inflated project costs.Essential municipal services, from modern waste management to high-tech street cleaning, have ground to…
Heatwave policy has reduced school hours to half in Ludhiana Ludhiana: Extreme weather policy changes have forced a drastic halving of instructional hours across city’s double-shift govt schools, sparking backlash from parents and students who warn the academic year is being derailed at the starting gate.To combat soaring regional temperatures, the state govt mandated an…
