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Ludhiana: PUNBUS, PRTC contract staff call off strike after talks

Ludhiana, Aug. 5 -- Contractual employees of PUNBUS and the Punjab Road Transport Corporation (PRTC) called off their strike on Tuesday evening after the state government gave written assurances on th... Read More


Ludhiana: Self-styled godman among four held for abetment to suicide

Ludhiana, Aug. 4 -- A day after a Ludhiana resident ended his life by setting himself on fire inside a public washroom on the premises of City-1 police station in Khanna, police on Tuesday arrested a ... Read More


Ludhiana: 3,000 litres of 'adulterated' desi ghee seized from godown

Ludhiana, Aug. 4 -- The food safety department seized nearly 3,000 litres of desi cow ghee, suspected to be adulterated, during a raid at a godown in Deep Nagar on Tuesday. Officials have sent the sam... Read More


Punjab: 'Duped' by self-styled godman, man ends life

Ludhiana, Aug. 4 -- A Ludhiana resident allegedly set himself on fire inside a public washroom outside the city-1 police station in Khanna on Monday, moments after submitting a complaint, accusing a s... Read More


Ludhiana: Food safety drive finds hygiene lapses, contaminated food

Ludhiana, Aug. 4 -- Hygiene violations at bakeries and a food outlet, contaminated food at a dry fruit store, and alleged labelling irregularities on packaged products came to light during a district-... Read More


Bittu flags infrastructure gaps in two Ludhiana government schools

Ludhiana, Aug. 4 -- BJP leader and former Union minister of state for railways and food processing industries Ravneet Singh Bittu on Monday questioned the ruling Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) claims of tran... Read More


Ludhiana: Stolen SUV recovered after 7 months, 1 held

Ludhiana, Aug. 4 -- A man was arrested and a stolen Mahindra XUV recovered after police laid a trap when the accused allegedly tried to sell the SUV using forged documents, cracking a seven-month-old ... Read More


Contractual workers' stir leaves Ludhiana commuters in lurch

Ludhiana, Aug. 4 -- Hundreds of commuters were left stranded and forced to shell out extra money for private transport as the first day of the three-day strike called by contractual employees of PUNBU... Read More


Punjab: School of Eminence model reducing gap between rich & poor, says Mann

Ludhiana, Aug. 3 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday dedicated two new Schools of Eminence at Kidwai Nagar and Miller Ganj in Ludhiana, taking the district's tally to 16. The new campuse... Read More


Two employees booked for rRs.r97-lakh fraud at Ludhiana firm

Ludhiana, Aug. 2 -- Police have booked two employees of a prominent Ludhiana-based business firm for allegedly defrauding the company of nearly Rs.97 lakh through a series of fake credit card transact... Read More