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…
Carrying images of the young people lost to drugs, members of Pendu Mazdoor Union handing over a memorandum of demands to the naib tehsildar at Jagraon on Monday Ludhiana: Grieving mothers and fractured families marched through the streets of Punjab on Monday, carrying photos of dead children to demand govt action against a rampant synthetic…
Ludhiana: Ludhiana additional deputy commissioner Poonam Singh announced on Monday that 18,718 voters were successfully mapped during a special camp drive held on February 7. Meeting with representatives of both recognised and unrecognised political parties, she urged them to immediately appoint booth-level agents (BLAs) across all polling stations to help maximise voter mapping coverage before…
The first phase of the project targets 70 schools in Ludhiana, comprising 20 high schools and 50 senior secondary schools. Ludhiana: A Punjab govt directive to repaint select state school buildings using a specific new colour combination has disrupted visual uniformity across Ludhiana district. Issued in December 2025 by the office of the Punjab director…
