Ludhiana

Students of Green Land Senior Secondary Public School, Jalandhar Bypass branch, won four gold medals, including a clean sweep in all three boys’ age categories, at the Ludhiana Sahodaya School Complex (LSSC) Table Tennis Championship. The event, held at Green...

A youth died after being hit by a speeding Fortuner near the Ishar Nagar bridge in Ludhiana. The errant driver first rammed into a Maruti Swift car going ahead and then, without stopping, hit and ran over a bike rider...

Two unidentified men on a motorcycle allegedly opened fire at the office of Rightway Visa Consultants in Model Town Extension, Ludhiana, late on Sunday night. The pillion rider fired around three rounds at the office before the duo fled the...

Sunday’s unseasonal rainfall brought paddy harvesting to a halt across the region while disrupting procurement operations in several grain markets, compounding concerns of farmers. Their anxiety has intensified as the Punjab Agricultural University weather forecast predicts a partly cloudy sky...

A woman riding a scooter was killed on the spot and her husband seriously injured in an accident near a dhaba on the Jagraon-Moga stretch of the Ludhiana-Ferozepur highway on Monday. The incident occurred when an unidentified speeding vehicle hit...

Ludhiana’s young sportspersons on Monday made their presence felt at the state-level competitions of Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan, with the district’s baseball teams storming into the finals in two age categories and cyclist Tanveer Kaur clinching gold in the girls’...

Improves national timing, sets sights on World Masters Championship in Budapest in 2027

Six food samples, including two of sweets, three of used cooking oil, and one of cooked food, were collected for quality testing during a drive by the Food Safety Team in Samrala and Doraha. Approximately 25 kg of spoiled food...

A woman and her cousin narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt by her nephews and their associates over a property dispute in the Prime City area on Sidhwan Bet Road here on October 9. According to the complaint lodged by Kulwant...

The final electoral rolls for Assembly Constituencies 105–Malerkotla and 106–Amargarh in Malerkotla district, prepared under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR-2026), were handed over to representatives of various political parties on Monday in accordance with directions from the Election Commission of...

Meeting witnesses arguments and scuffles among councillors, protests over the manner in which the agendas were being taken up, and a walkout by more than 300 MC employees

Senior Superintendent of Police says this was the first such extortion case in Malerkotla in which the handlers were based in Pakistan

To back up the denial, the Punjab CEO’s office released an excerpt of the final voter roll in which the entry in question appears at serial number 422

Punjab CM Mann had trashed the alleged video claiming it was AI generated

Protest march to move towards Supreme Court to protest widespread errors and the mass deletion of voter names across the region

The attempt to escape came to an end when the scooter lost balance and the thief fell

Pillion rider fires 2-3 rounds at Model Town Extension office; police scan CCTV footage for clues

30 fire tenders deployed to control the flames, which began at approximately 8 am

Seeking to restore the green character of a disputed greenbelt along Lodhi Club Road, members of the Public Action Committee (PAC), environmentalists and residents organised a plantation drive at the site on Sunday. The activists, with the help of machinery...

Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Jain clarified that an incorrect photograph in an earlier electoral roll had been carried forward into the draft roll published on August 13. The error was detected during Special Intensive Revision (SIR) verification and has since...

Two people were injured in a head-on collision between a car and a PRTC mini bus on Sidhwan Bet Road close to Leela village on Sunday. The PRTC mini bus, carrying around 30 passengers, was travelling from Jagraon towards Sidhwan...

Need to balance freedom of expression with rule of law

A road in Ludhiana's Jiwan Nagar constructed barely a year ago has been dug up to lay water supply pipelines under the canal-based water supply project, drawing sharp criticism from residents and opposition councillors over municipal planning. The Municipal Corporation...

A 1-km stretch of the service road from Monte Carlo towards SPS Hospital in the Giaspura area continues to trouble commuters, with sewage overflowing from manholes and accumulating on the road whenever it rains. The problem has persisted for years,...

Taking note of the concerns raised by sports enthusiasts and players over the use of playgrounds at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) for the upcoming Ajieevika SARAS Mela, scheduled from October 27 to November 5, the district administration has sought its...