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The majority of participants had farm land in villages, though they were living in urban areas now. Many industrialists such as Ranjodh Singh, MD of GS Radiators, too took part in the rally.

Ludhiana January 21Three persons lost their lives to Covid while 35 tested positive for the virus in the district today. The total number of positive cases in the district has gone up to 580614 while 988 persons have lost their lives so far. There are 290 active cases in the district while 45 persons were home quarantined today. Today one healthcare worker also tested positive while the results of 1725 reports were pending. We can certainly overcome the spread of this disease if the general public follows all the necessary precautions” said the Civil Surgeon.

The police on Tuesday booked a driver for raping his 14-year-old neighbour.

Farmers of Ludhiana on January 24 held a massive rally to motivate the people who are going to Delhi to join the rally on Republic Day. Countless numbers of tractors, cars, luxury bikes were seen during the rally. Many farmers also left for Delhi after the tractor march. Farmers have organised a massive tractor rally in Delhi on R-Day. Farmers of different states are protesting at Delhi borders against Centre’s farm laws.

The Ludhiana police has launched a drive against fraudulent emigration agents, who dupe people on the pretext of sending them abroad, and booked 184 o

Ludhiana January 23In an illegal lottery case in which operators at Janakpuri had cornered a police party on Thursday the Ludhiana police have identified six persons. Sources said on the first day when the FIR was registered the police had not added names of any lottery operators or persons who had cornered the police party. Last night the police secretly added the names of six persons in the FIR. The police have however not officially revealed the names of persons. Sources said some politicians had been supporting illegal lottery operators due to which the accused were not being arrested by the police.

Three lose life; 35 fresh cases in Ludhiana dist

Farmers said that they were prepared to face water cannons, teargas shells and had even stocked ready-to-eat items in case of disruption of langar supply.

A tractor attached with body of a bus has become a major attraction on the road to Delhi as many people in Machhiwara and Samrala were surprised to se

Ludhiana January 23The Municipal Corporation has given directions to reconstruct a stretch of Circular Road from where samples had failed the quality tests. Earlier samples that were collected from Circular Road near Daresi Ground had failed the quality tests last year. An official of MC said after the negative results the contractor was asked to reconstruct the portion of the road but the work was unsatisfactory. He further said “We have directed the contractor to reconstruct the road portion after removing the old layer. “If the road samples fail the quality tests the contractor concerned should be blacklisted.

The march started from Flower Chowk had passed through various points including Phullanwal village intersection and then near Jain Mandir on Dhandran Road. Dr Amandeep Singh Bains one of the organisers of the march and a member of 'Tractor to Twitter' team said “Today we organised Kisan Shaheed March to pay tributes to the martyr farmers. However they said they will make an appeal to the government to officially name the road as 'Kisan Shaheed Road'. Dr Amandeep Singh Bains said “With consent of present citizens of Ludhiana we named the 200-feet road as Kisan Shaheed Road. The notices that were sent by NIA to the supporters of Kisan Andolan should be revoked.”

Nitin JainTribune News ServiceLudhiana January 23In an effort to protect vulnerable girl children the Ludhiana Commissionerate Police are taking care of the unattended kids of factory workers in the industrial city. “Ludhiana being an industrial city has a huge population of factory workers. The police have also roped in the Health Department anganwari workers volunteers and the district programme officer to impart various trainings education and social upbringing of the inmates. How it worksThe project aims at creating safe environment for the children of working parents. The crèche is located inside the locality or within 200m radius so that the parents can easily drop and pick their children.

Ludhiana January 23In support of the January 26 tractor march in Delhi a motorcycle rally was organised by workers of the Aam Aadmi Party in the city today. After covering a distance of about 15-km they returned to the office. The rally was led by Suresh Goyal president AAP Ludhiana city secretary Sharanpal Singh Makkar office in-charge Master Hari Singh media in-charge Dupinder Singh and others. Suresh Goyal said the AAP fully supports the tractor march. He said a large number of our volunteers from the district level are reaching Delhi to support the farmers.— TNS

In a big effort aimed at changing the fortunes of Mullanpur’s dumpsite, two civil servants have joined hands to turn this dumpsite into a lush green a

Sohan Singh, principal of the school, said Tejinder Kaur, 40, was admitted to Ludhiana’s Dayanand Medical College and Hospital after her condition deteriorated some days ago.