- Man arrested under Arms Act
Ludhiana: The police arrested a person with a country-made pistol and four live cartridges here on Sunday. The suspect, identified as Gurjot Singh, alias Garry, a resident of Rahon road, Gausgarh village, was arrested from his residence. The police got a tip-off that the suspect was involved in crim
- Thief strikes at garment shop
A woman broke into a garment shop near Regal Blue Hotel on the Ludhiana-Chandigarh road at night and took away Rs 17,000 from a drawer and garments worth Rs 1 lakh.
- Farmers protest over moong procurement
Members of the Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta), Dakaunda, staged a protest outside the office of the Deputy Commissioner on Monday. The protesting farmers demanded unconditional procurement of moong crop in the grain markets.
- Fire at hosiery unit in Ludhiana, loss worth lakhs reported
Major fire broke out in a multi-storey hosiery unit in Daresi area of Ludhiana on Tuesday morning causing loss worth several lakhs. The fire broke out at around 7.15 am and the factory was close when incident occurred.
- Mohali: Three held at airport
The Customs Department and the police arrested a Ludhiana resident and recovered 832.23-gm gold foil hidden in a ladies shirt from his posession at the Mohali airport. In another case, two passengers coming from Dubai, who had hidden $ 1.31 lakh in clothes were also arrested. Two FIRs have been regi
- Abohar: Three drug peddlers nabbed
Abohar: The police have recovered 40 kg of poppy husk from possession of two persons who were driving a canter. Driver Harpreet Singh and conductor Charanjit Singh of Ludhiana have been held under the NDPS Act. The CIA staff recovered 15,000 sedative pills from Bhim Sain.
- Conduct gram sabha sessions from June 15, Punjab panchayats told
Rural Development and Panchayats Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal today called upon all panchayat members to hold gram sabha sessions in their respective villages between June 15 and 26 across the state.
- 5 DFOs summoned by Vigilance in forest scam
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has summoned five Divisional Forest Officers (DFOs) for further inquiry into the commission scam allegedly involving former Forest Minister SS Dharamsot even as the government today carried out a major reshuffle in the Vigilance Department, shifting five SSPs.
- 27 years on, victim?s kin get pension
On the intervention of the Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission, justice has been delivered to the family of a Canal Department employee who disappeared 31 years ago. Decks have been cleared for release of family pension to the next of kin with retrospective effect, i.e. from February 1995.
- Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann: Will ensure regular electricity supply for sowing
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann tody said adequate arrangements were in place for smooth paddy transplantation beginning tomorrow.
- Once upon a time in Ludhiana
It was in the year 1958. We were BSc (Agriculture) students at Government Agricultural College, Ludhiana, which used to operate then from a rented building of Khalsa School at Ghumar Mandi. The PAU had not been created, but construction work had started at the site, where the PAU is now.
