Over 500 shuttlers compete as district-level c’ship kicks off Ludhiana: Over 500 shuttlers have converged at Shastri Hall in Guru Nanak Stadium to compete in the District Badminton Championship, organised by the Badminton Association of Ludhiana (BAL). The tournament was officially inaugurated by deputy commissioner and BAL president Himanshu Jain, setting off an action-packed schedule…
Ludhiana: Erratic power supply, poor civic infrastructure, traffic congestion, law and order concerns, sewerage problems and delays in govt clearances were among the key issues raised by industrial associations during a single window system meeting chaired by deputy commissioner Himanshu Jain on Monday.Representatives of various industrial bodies highlighted long-pending issues affecting industrial operations and sought…
Ludhiana: Four unidentified men allegedly abducted a truck driver from outside an industrial unit in Focal Point. They allegedly dumped him in Patiala and fled with a truck carrying around 24 tonnes of iron scrap worth lakhs.Focal Point police registered a case on the complaint of transporter Rajesh Prashar, a resident of Indra Nagar in…
Ludhiana: Congress councillors in the Ludhiana MC have decided to submit objections and affidavits in the Punjab and Haryana high court against the appointment of two MLAs’ sons to the Finance and Contracts Committee (F&CC) ahead of the next hearing on July 27.The move follows a petition filed in the HC by Congress councillor Gaurav…
Row erupts over development works during MC meet Ludhiana: Opposition councillors from the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) raised a hue and cry during a Zone D review meeting on Tuesday, accusing the civic administration of neglecting development in their wards and prioritising instructions from incharges of the party in office instead of elected…
Ludhiana: A havildar in the Army, who came home on leave three days ago, allegedly died by suicide at his house in Anad Nagar, Khanna on Tuesday. Since police did not find any suicide note from the spot, the reason for which he took the extreme step is not clear. Deceased Jasbir Singh was currently…
City to get green sheen with over 12 lakh saplings Payal.DhawanLudhiana: If all goes well, Ludhiana may get a significant dash of green to break the severe grey of its industrial landscape. This year, the divisional forest department is going big with the monsoon plantation drive. The target is to plant about 12 lakh saplings….
PAU’s M S Randhawa Library to get Rs 12cr makeover Gurvinder.SinghThe M S Randhawa Library, which has occupied pride of place at Punjab Agricultural University for decades, is undergoing a major makeover under a Rs 12 crore renovation project. The library will soon step into its new avatar as a modern, technology-enabled learning and research…
Ludhiana carcass plant faces fresh wrath at new site Ludhiana: Plans to relocate Ludhiana’s stalled carcass utilisation plant to the Jamalpur garbage dump site triggered strong local opposition on Tuesday, even as civic officials admit no concrete decision has been made while investigations continue into the recent theft of the plant’s machinery.Former East constituency MLA…
Ludhiana: Aryan Gupta, a Punjab teenager from this city, has secured the country’s top medical rank after a crucial retest paved the way for his oncology dream.He scored 715 out of 720 marks in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) to share the All India Rank 1 (AIR-1) with Haryana’s Panshul Banal. But for…
