Bus strike on hold for NEET Ludhiana: Contractual bus workers have deferred their strike by two days to avoid disrupting students travelling for the national medical entrance examination, whom the govt has promised free transit.The public transport strike is now set to stall Punjab next week after contract workers issued a three-day strike ultimatum over…
Representational image of a canal Ludhiana: Caught going on a motorcycle, a factory worker and his female friend reportedly jumped into the Neelon canal to escape the onslaught from her family, only to be pulled out so the flogging could continue.The Koom Kalan police said the woman’s family had also kidnapped the man in an…
Ludhiana: Two unemployed labourers who uprooted an ATM and fled with about ₹18 lakh after sleeping inside the kiosk for days to scope out the security have been arrested, police said.Punjab police arrested Sudhanshu Mahajan, 24, and Wasim Khan, 19, in Lucknow following a multi-state manhunt. Investigators recovered ₹13.7 lakh in cash and seized two…
A partly cloudy sky will linger over the next three days in Ludhiana Ludhiana: A brief morning drizzle and lingering cloud cover brought temporary respite to northern India’s ongoing summer heat, pushing daytime temperatures in Ludhiana nearly two degrees below the seasonal average on Friday.The unexpected morning shower left a trace amount of rainfall, dropping…
Ludhiana: A doctor from Basant Avenue, who left the house for his clinic on June 11, has gone missing. Police have lodged a case on the complaint of Sikha Sharma, wife of the missing man, Gaurav Sharma, 40.In her police complaint, Sikha Sharma said that her husband left the house in his Mahindra Scorpio PB-10-KD-3993,…
Ludhiana: The local unit of BJP is preparing for the first visit of newly-appointed party national president, Nitin Nabin to Punjab and Ludhiana on June 21 and 22.Party leaders said he will visit Punjab on June 20 where he will first visit Golden Temple, Amritsar and on June 21 he will do yoga with the…
Ludhiana: City residents continued to experience warm weather on Thursday, with maximum temperature settling at 38.6 degrees Celsius and minimum being recorded at 27.6 degrees Celsius, according to the department of climate change and agricultural meteorology, Punjab Agricultural University. weather in Ludhiana Even though temperature remained on the higher side, the sky remained partly cloudy….
Times News NetworkLudhiana: Another case of an employer “resolving” professional issues with a worker by abducting and thrashing him has come to light in the city.Months after a machine operator quit his job because he was not being paid, his employer allegedly abducted him with his aides and thrashed him in the factory premises.CCTV camera…
A team of operation and maintenance cell of the Ludhiana municipal corporation tracing a fault in the water supply line at College Road near Fountain Chowk in Ward Number 71 on Wednesday Ludhiana: A municipal crew hunting for a contaminated water leak severed a major underground high-voltage power line by accident on Wednesday, plunging an…
Scrap dealer, a representational image Ludhiana: The police commissionerate has ordered all local scrap dealers to maintain meticulous registers of buyers and sellers, including identification and material descriptions, to curb the trade of stolen industrial and vehicle parts.Enforced for two months under Section 163 of the BNSS, the directive targets miscreants who sell stolen transformers,…
