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Ludhiana: ADC urges banks for maximum assistance to weaker sections

Ludhiana, Dec. 19 -- Additional deputy commissioner (general) Rakesh Kumar on Thursday urged banks to provide maximum financial assistance to weaker sections under various government welfare schemes t... Read More


Guest Column| Implications of NGT stay on Punjab's farmhouse policy

India, Dec. 19 -- The National Green Tribunal's interim stay on Punjab's Green Habitat farmhouse policy until February 4 has turned a planning measure into a wider test of governance. Supporters see t... Read More


HT reviewer Syed Saad Ahmed picks his favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- I grew up thinking Luddite was a bad word - someone afraid of or resistant to new technologies. Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech h... Read More


Sandesh Jhingan: All the people who were on the Messi tour, you will hardly see them at a national team game

India, Dec. 19 -- When iconic footballer Lionel Messi wrapped up his four-city India tour earlier this week, the images were unmistakable - packed stadiums, fans draped in Argentina and Barcelona jers... Read More


BJP, Shiv Sena to contest together

India, Dec. 19 -- While the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has decided to contest the Pune Municipal Corporation elections together, the ruling Mahayuti partners - the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sen... Read More


HT reviewer Uttaran Das Gupta picks his favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- The most interesting book that I read this year was Rosinka Chaudhuri's India's First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire. Chaudhuri is one of India's leading scholars of l... Read More


Panchkula: Man who survived truck crash gets rRs.r30 lakh relief

Panchkula, Dec. 19 -- The Motor Accident Claim Tribunal (MACT) in Panchkula has awarded a compensation of Rs.30,01,238 to a 24-year-old road accident survivor, Raj Pal. The tribunal mandated that the ... Read More


HT reviewer Teja Lele picks her favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- In a year crowded with historical fiction, few novels make a bigger impact than Philippa Gregory's Boleyn Traitor. Marking her return to the Tudor court after a seven-year pause, Gre... Read More


PU pulls up 11 dist colleges over lack of regular principals

Ludhiana, Dec. 19 -- Panjab University (PU) has issued show-cause notices to 42 affiliated colleges across Punjab and Chandigarh, including 11 institutions from Ludhiana, for failing to appoint regula... Read More


HT reviewer Suhit Bombaywala picks his favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- The monk Ajahn Brahm's collection of 108 essays Who Ordered this Truckload of Dung is helping me achieve more happiness, peace and resilience in the worldly path. I recommend it to i... Read More