Ludhiana: The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has ordered a travel company and an airlines to refund Rs 45,656 for ‘deficiency in service’ after a student missed his connecting international flight to Australia due to a delayed domestic flight.The commission also ordered the opposite parties to pay a composite cost of Rs10,000 to the complainants,…
Punjab Agricultural University cycling event in Ludhiana Ludhiana: The Cycling Association of Ludhiana District (CALD) organised a grand cycling event to celebrate World Bicycle Day 2026 at the PAU campus.The event saw participation from athletes, coaches, and representatives from ITBP and NDRF units. More than 500 participants joined the event, promoting fitness, environmental sustainability, road…
Sports hub under a Ludhiana flyover Ludhiana: An urban renewal project designed to turn derelict spaces beneath the city’s flyovers into youth sports arenas has collapsed into neglect, leaving the sites overrun by garbage and criminal elements.Built under the central Smart City initiative, the courts — including prominent sites near the Lakkar Bridge and the…
Ludhiana: Coaches are backing their young charges to shock international heavyweights as city’s premier sports academy prepares its finest prospects for a historic European campaign.Four elite teenage basketballers from the Ludhiana Basketball Academy have secured national selection to represent India at the upcoming ISF World School Basketball Championship in Serbia.The Under-18 tournament, running from June…
Representational image of card-block scam Ludhiana: Police have launched a manhunt for a fugitive former private bank employee following a wave of new fraud complaints from the Jagraon area, just days after he was initially booked for duping a customer.Lovepreet Singh, a former staff member at a Jagraon bank branch, was originally targeted by Ludhiana…
Representational image of voter list revision Ludhiana: To accelerate progress of mapping remaining voters under a pre-SIR drive, special camps were organised on Sunday at all 2,927 polling booths across all assembly constituencies by booth level officers (BLOs).Officials said that the camps were held on the directions of Election Commission of India and Chief Electoral…
Namdhari Sikhs in a file photo Ludhiana: Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria on Saturday emphasised the need to adopt the ideology of Satguru Ram Singh to make Punjab a drug-free state.In a statement issued here, during his first visit to Sri Bhaini Sahib, the governor paid obeisance and addressed a Gurmat Samagam.He said that the…
Representational AI image of a shuttering collapsed at a construction site Ludhiana: A mishap was averted on Sunday after the shuttering of an under-construction showroom collapsed during preparations for laying the roof slab on Raikot Road in Jagraon. The incident took place near a mosque on Raikot Road, close to the Barnala-Jalandhar Highway.Sources said that…
Representational image of missing children Ludhiana: This industrial city of Punjab searches for three new missing children amid a spike in youth disappearances that has triggered 14 separate police inquiries in just over a week.From a young boy who promised to return in five minutes to vulnerable teenage girls lured away, a community is left…
The state of washrooms at the disabled-friendly Inter State Bus Terminal in Ludhiana, which has newly added tactile flooring Ludhiana: While flashy new Braille signs line the walls of city’s premier bus terminal, vulnerable commuters are being met with locked doors and unusable facilities as local sanitation standards collapse.Just months after the district administration declared…
