Ludhiana: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which also runs the Punjab govt, has secured a majority across six municipal councils in this district, consolidating its local govt footprint despite significant upsets in key constituency strongholds.The elections held on Tuesday for 112 wards across the Khanna, Jagraon, Samrala, Raikot, Doraha, and Payal councils saw the state’s…
Ludhiana: Security footage has allowed police to identify the masked robbers who had injured a jewellery store customer critically in Jagraon on Thursday evening before fleeing with valuables worth ₹3.5 lakh.The heist at New Kanda Jewellers on Kacha Malak Road lasted just 90 seconds. CCTV footage captured three men entering the shop, one brandishing a…
Ludhiana: A search is on for four girls who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in three separate incidents across the city.Police registered the first-iInformation reports (FIRs) on Thursday, deploying investigators to scan security footage and trace the minors.The first incident occurred on May 26, when a 13-year-old girl and her 16-year-old friend left a house to…
Ludhiana: A brazen, armed street robbery caught on camera has sparked fresh safety concerns in the city, highlighting a persistent surge in local snatching offences.The incident’s CCTV footage circulating on social media shows a woman being targeted by motorcycle-borne thieves at about 1 am on Thursday in Guru Arjan Dev Nagar. Carrying a purse and…
Ludhiana: A brazen, armed street robbery caught on camera has sparked fresh safety concerns in the city, highlighting a persistent surge in local snatching offences.The incident’s CCTV footage circulating on social media shows a woman being targeted by motorcycle-borne thieves at about 1 am on Thursday in Guru Arjan Dev Nagar. Carrying a purse and…
Paperless agenda for Ludhiana civic body Ludhiana: The city has taken its first steps toward a paperless e-office system, though officials admit 5 lakh legacy files still languish in shabby record rooms.The municipal corporation has received an initial batch of 15 tablets to replace paper resolutions in Finance and Contracts Committee and general house meetings….
Ludhiana: An expatriate is charged with duping a man into a fake marriage to fund her residency overseas and then fleeing secretly to Canada with his cash and jewellery.She had made a false claim to be single, said Sardar police after registering a first-information report (FIR) against Simranjit Kaur, her mother, brother, and uncle following…
Ludhiana: An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) family achieved a rare political trifecta in the Doraha municipal elections by winning three separate council seats.Priya Sharma won ward five by 47 votes, while her husband, Sudarshan Kumar Sharma, captured ward eight with a 211-vote majority, citing his 35 years of community service. Their son, Anmol Sharma, completed…
Ludhiana: Ward 26 councillor Gaurav Bhatti has demanded strict action against municipal corporation officials for failing to appoint tubewell operators for the past 17 months. This administrative deadlock has pushed local residents into a second consecutive summer of severe drinking water shortages, as there are no operators to manage the water supply infrastructure.Bhatti said that…
The fire department dispatched four to five fire tenders to the scene, requiring more than 15 rounds of water tenders to battle the flames. Ludhiana: A massive fire broke out early Thursday morning at an open-air scrap market on RK Road near Ghoda Colony, destroying a large quantity of discarded material, a parked truck, and…
