Ludhiana: While the season’s first spell of rainfall brought much-needed relief from the heat in Ludhiana, it also exposed persistent infrastructure problems. Residents in many localities complained of roads caving in and getting damaged besides disrupted traffic after the overnight rainfall on Wednesday.Among the worst-hit areas was Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, where residents reported road…
Karan SharmaLudhiana: A ceremony was organized at Guru Nanak Dev Bhawan, Ludhiana, under the scheme ‘Bright Minds-Punjab 2026’. Punjab education minister Harjot Singh Bains and former deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia attended this ceremony with an objective to establish a direct dialogue with students and teachers and to discuss the changes and reforms…
BLOs Told To Begin DigitisationGurvinder SinghLudhiana: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which commenced on June 25, has gathered momentum in Ludhiana, with the election department distributing nearly 96% of the pre-printed enumeration forms (EFs) among registered voters.Officials said the remaining forms largely pertain to voters, who could not be contacted during the…
The blunder has exposed how field estimates are prepared from desks without conducting mandatory physical site surveys. Ludhiana: A severe planning lapse by municipal corporation officials has come to light on the Shivpuri-Karabara Road in the North constituency, where a newly laid 900-foot water pipeline had to be uprooted after workers discovered a functional 8-inch…
Ludhiana: BJP Ludhiana district president Rajnesh Dhiman Tuesday said the farmers’ protests witnessed across Punjab had “exposed the hollowness” of chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s claims of a “power-surplus Punjab”.Claiming that farmers staged dharnas, grid gheraos and chakka jams in several parts of the state over prolonged power cuts during the peak paddy transplantation season, Dhiman…
Ludhiana: The municipal corporation is unable to trace lease agreements of several prime civic properties allotted to educational institutions, trusts and other organisations, an RTI reply has revealed, raising questions over record management and monitoring of public assets worth crores.The disclosure came in response to an RTI application filed by city-based activist Rohit Sabharwal, who…
Ludhiana: Panic gripped residents of Gagan Vihar in Haibowal after a 28-year-old woman, her three-year-old daughter and her 15-year-old sister-in-law went missing from their home on June 27.Police said the trio has been traced to Haridwar in Uttarakhand and a team has been dispatched to bring them back and ascertain the circumstances under which they…
To prevent waterlogging, the civic body has prioritised clearing key internal municipal channels, including the Barewal, Dhoka Mohalla, and Domoria Bridge drains. Ludhiana: With the monsoon at the doorstep, the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) is racing against tight deadlines to patch potholes, clear road gulleys, and desilt choked drainage networks. While the civic body missed…
The conflict traces back to June 25, when masked assailants shot at a realtor’s house in Shimlapuri’s Guru Gobind Singh Nagar Ludhiana: The brazen gunpoint abduction and assault of a local resident in city’s Sector 32 market was a targeted retaliation for a previous shooting incident, police investigations revealed. While the victim, Shubham Manchanda, was…
The delays have persisted since the academic admission cycle in March, when education department officials initially announced that chief minister Bhagwant Mann would inaugurate the institutes Ludhiana: The inauguration of two premier schools of eminence (SOEs) in Millerganj and Kidwai Nagar remains stalled even as all other govt schools across Punjab prepare to reopen on…
