Ludhiana, Punjab Business Information Directory

Barricading affects traffic, BJP says intentionally done by police at behest of Cong; Cops say it was done for their safety.

Chairman Valmiki directed the officials of Municipal Corporation and Municipal Committees to check if the guidelines of the government regarding safai sewaks and sewermen were being followed.

"Maybe some tantrik (sorcerer) is involved and the child was sacrificed. There are stab marks on the body near the chest. The child was killed and body was dumped here later," said DSP.

“It cannot be ruled out if they were conspiring to carry out an attack on Halwara airbase or some other major terror activity but things will be clear only after their interrogation,” said the SSP.

Dr Rajesh Bhaskar, Punjab’s nodal officer for Covid-19, said, "This is a mock exercise to prepare ourselves for mass vaccination drive.

CM Amarinder had issued an appeal on Friday asking farmers not to disrupt state's telecom services as internet network was important for many working from home, to hospitals, for online education and many other services in day to day life.

While three of them were traced by Tuesday night and admitted to Lok Nayak hospital in the capital, one managed to reach Ludhiana while another reached Andhra Pradesh, before they were brought back on Wednesday, The Indian Express has learnt.

Effigies of PM Narendra Modi were also burnt at some mandis, while most preferred to observe a silent protest with posters that read ‘Kale kanoon vapas lawo (scrap black laws)'.

"Our union organised programmes to pay tributes to farmers in 98 villages of Punjab on Sunday. We will continue to pay them tributes by organising these programmes in 15 districts of Punjab till December 24," said Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan, general secretary of BKU (Ugrahan).

"We have been sending milk to Tikri border for the past 20 days despite the fact that it is 200 km away from our village. What is the point of raising SYL issue now? If there will be no land left, what will I do with this water? First we need to save our land and fight against these laws.”

After its overwhelming participation in the Bharat Bandh, the industrial town of Ludhiana has now donated generously to send a list of items to the farmers who have been protesting for days at Delhi borders.

The initiative is a result of an appeal by the Ugrahan group to families to highlight their stories at the farmers' protests.

Villagers give the estimate for the eatables too. Fifty quintals of pinni has been prepared, 20 quintals of roasted groundnut and three quintals of namkeen packed.

Seeking anticipatory bail, his counsel, Advocate RS Bains, contended that Baljinder Singh Jindu had put up a phrase on Facebook in the context of money in the pocket, which is in common parlance in the countryside.

Bharat Bandh today: Farmers said ambulances, wedding processions or anyone going to attend a cremation/bhog will not be stopped, rather farmers themselves will clear the way for them if those roads are blocked