Ludhiana, Punjab Business Information Directory

The Special Task Force (STF) wing has nabbed a smuggler and recovered 700-gm heroin from his possession. The accused has been identified as Bhushan Kumar Kalu (31) of Guru Arjan Dev Nagar, Tajpur Road. He is a brother of Deepak Kumar, who had fired at the STF team at a naka on April 27, last month.

Ashok Parashar Pappi, AAP MLA from Ludhiana Central, conducted a surprise checking at the MC’s multi-level parking lot near Mata Rani Chowk and caught the parking contractor’s staff overcharging visitors.

A new building of the Climate Resilient Animal Shed and College of Fisheries was today inaugurated at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) by Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Cabinet Minister, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development, Rural Development and Panchayats an

The MC’s Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) approved the resolutions of only emergency works during a meeting held at the Mayor’s camp office on Friday evening. However, the F&CC kept the resolutions related to estimates and work orders of new road projects, installation of in

One fresh case of Covid was reported while no person died due to the virus in the district today. In all, 1,09,923 persons have tested positive for the virus since March 2020 while 2,280 people from the district succumbed to the disease till now.

Ludhiana: A 16-year-old girl was raped by her friend in a hotel room. The police on Thursday registered a case against accused identified as Jatinder Singh of Haryana. Complainant told the police that she had friendship with the accused. On April 7, the accused came to meet her. He picked her from n

The civic body has made its Municipal Control Centre (MCC), an integrated command and control centre, Zone D office, Sarabha Nagar, functional. MC Commissioner Shena Aggarwal on Friday visited the MCC to check its functioning. The MC Commissioner said safe city services had been started at the centr

It was early spring in the late ’50s. I was about eight years old. My father, an agriculture scientist, was immersed in research about inventing new high-yielding varieties of groundnut at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana. He would cycle down several miles to the fields on the ca

A lone bread winner of a family of Shankar village near here ended his life by hanging from a tree along the Abohar branch of the Sirhind canal near Kaind Bridge on Thursday.

Man found dead on railway tracks

The Special Task Force of Punjab Police have arrested five people, including a juvenile, in the Ludhiana Court Complex blast case, which occurred on December 23, 2021. The case was being investigated by the National Investigating Agency (NIA).

A 22-year-old youth, Manish Kumar, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling girder at his residence in Chawni Mohalla. His body was found hanging in his room on Sunday morning.

The government bus service was hit on several routes as members of the Punjab Roadways, PUNBUS and PRTC Contract Workers Union, Punjab, continued their strike on Thursday. Over 100 government buses were not run on roads by the contractual employees due to which the Transport Department also suffered

Realising the need for capacity building to deal with riots, the Punjab Police have started taking steps to prepare each cop on the lines of member of special contingents like Rapid Action Force and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

Three children aged between 12-14 years were drowned in the Sutlej near here when they were trying to get rid of the scorching heat in the river on Thursday afternoon. Bodies of the two boys were recovered.