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…
A whipped dog or cattle crammed into trucks rarely get help. The latest national crime data exposes not just a streak of cruelty in India’s metropolitan centers, but a broken enforcement system. Cow eyes stare through slits in the truck wall Ludhiana: The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report places this industrial hub of…
LUDHIANA: Days after the house of singer Diljit Dosanjh’s manager, Gurpartap Singh Kang, was allegedly attacked with gunshots in Gonder village in Haryana’s Karnal district, a threat has been received to blow up the singer’s house in Ludhiana.However, the singer does not live at the house. The threat email was received on the official email…
Ludhiana: Local authorities have moved to freeze the salaries of dozens of striking govt schoolteachers who failed to report for national census duty, threatening to lock them out of their classrooms as well.The Ludhiana municipal corporation has asked the district education officer (DEO) take quick disciplinary action against 80 education department employees who skipped the…
Canadian judge Vikramjit Singh Aujla, who belongs to Punjab’s Nasrali village, which is also the birthplace of late Hindi film legend Dharmendra Ludhiana: Nasrali villagers are celebrating the appointment of a local son to the judiciary in Canada, marking the latest global success for a Punjab hamlet already famous for producing Bollywood royalty.Vikramjit Singh Aujla…
Ludhiana: An election roadshow dissolved into a violent street clash between Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress party loyalists in Jagraon, leaving an AAP municipal candidate and two others hospitalised.The confrontation erupted in Ward 13 on the final day of local govt campaigning when rival processions for Congress candidate Anita Rani and AAP candidate Sunaina…
A three-day Punjab bus strike has been called off following state government’s intervention. Ludhiana: Public transport unions in Punjab have suspended a planned three-day strike that threatened to paralyse state-run bus networks, following a last-minute negotiation window opened by state officials.The Punjab Roadways, Punbus, and PRTC Contract Workers Union called off the walkout — originally…
