The demonstrators also submitted a memorandum to the DC calling for a regulated eight-hour workday, proportional pay for daily-wage and piece-rate workers, double overtime pay, equal wages for women, paid weekly offs, sick leave, and festival holidays Ludhiana: Hundreds of union workers staged a protest outside the deputy commissioner’s office on Tuesday, demanding a ₹30,000…
The field inspections spanned several key commercial and transit hubs, including areas near a private mall, the books market, the civic body’s Zone A office, the scooter market near Model Town, Cheema Chowk, Division No, 3 Chowk, Partap Chowk, and other arterial locations. Ludhiana: Under the ‘Mission Clean Punjab’ initiative, municipal commissioner Neeru Katyal Gupta…
The local weather station recorded a clear sky with intense sunshine throughout Monday, while the minimum nighttime temperature settled at 25.2°C, which is 0.2°C below normal and one degree lower than the previous night. Ludhiana: The city continued to endure intense summer heat on Monday as the maximum daytime temperature hit 42°C—matching the previous day’s…
Experts advised farmers to maximise the use of highly digestible, quality fodders—such as maize silage, berseem hay, and fresh green fodder—while strictly limiting poor-quality straw in the daily ration Ludhiana: As soaring temperatures trigger severe heat stress in dairy livestock—leading to lower feed intake and reduced milk production—experts from Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal…
AI-generated representational image of a jewellery heist in Ludhiana Ludhiana: Driven to desperation by crushing stock market losses, a father and his two sons have been arrested for the daylight stabbing and robbery of a prominent local jeweller they had known for years.The Shimlapuri police apprehended Harwinder Singh, 46, and his sons, Sardool Singh, 26,…
Ludhiana: A serial sex offender who targets both children and the elderly has been arrested in connection with the sexual assault and murder of a 14-year-old disabled boy whose body was dumped in a forest pond last month.The 33-year-old suspect, imprisoned previously for raping an elderly woman, was apprehended in Punjab’s Sangrur district following a…
AI image representing an escape from an observation home for children Ludhiana: Police failed to register a criminal case or launch a search for almost a month after a 17-year-old girl was reported to have escaped from a state-mandated children’s home, her parents allege.The officers who claimed the teenager had escaped the facility near Ludhiana…
Alcohol abuse can be deadly Alcohol in a small glass is placed on a black table while a man is sitting in a drunken state. Ludhiana: A 22-year-old retail worker who vanished after telling his family he was going to report his snatched mobile phone to police has been found dead in a vacant plot…
Representational image of a crippling attack on a judoka by bike-jackers Ludhiana: Being stabbed by four bike-jackers outside a stadium has forced a teenaged national-level judo player out of a major championship in Chandigarh.The 17-year-old athlete, Aman Sharma, fractured a finger during the ambush near Guru Nanak Stadium, ending a year of intensive training for…
Aspiring Amarnath pilgrims reporting for a mandatory medical examination in Ludhiana on Monday Ludhiana: A govt flying ban grounding all helicopter services for the season has plummeted medical registrations for the annual pilgrimage to Kashmir’s Amarnath cave shrine by nearly 20% in Punjab.At the Ludhiana civil hospital, 4,825 prospective pilgrims underwent the mandatory health clearance…
