Ludhiana, Punjab Business Information Directory

The district on Saturday reported 230 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths, taking its tally to 1,23,520 and toll to 3,354.

Ahead of the mega announcement regarding the CM face of the Congress party for Punjab Assembly Elections 2022, the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) on Friday sought permission from the Punjab Chief Electoral Officer for the virtual rally of Rahul Gandhi from 12:05 pm to 06:00 pm at Harsheela Resort, Ferozepur Road, Ludhiana.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will announce the party’s chief ministerial candidate for Punjab on Sunday.

A chief ministerial face will decide whether 60 candidates are elected as MLAs or not, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Saturday, referring to the number 60, one more than 59 lawmakers needed to form government in Punjab with 117-member assembly.

Police busted an auto-rickshaw gang on Thursday and recovered 23 stolen mobile phones, one auto-rickshaw and a motorcycle from gang members, identifi

Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal (94), who recently recovered from Covid, will undergo a health check-up at PGIMER here, a party leader said on Saturday.

After filing nominations, AAP candidates are busy in the election campaign in their respective constituencies.

Rajinder Kaur, 56, struggled for 27 years to get “special family pension” after her husband sepoy Surjit Singh died of cancer, just two days after being invalided out of the Army. For all these years, she worked as a farm labourer or in MGNREGA to raise her two children.

Every year February 4 is observed as the World Cancer Day. This year’s theme is ‘Close the care gap’. The surge in covid cases has delayed treatment of cancer patients.

Members of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are leaving no stone unturned to support the SAD-BSP alliance candidate from Sahnewal constituency, Sharanjit Singh Dhillon. Leaders and workers of BSP are garnering support for Dhillon through door-to-door campaigning in the constituency.

Visiting the returning office for receiving election symbols turned out to be a festival for candidates left in fray as officials supervised by the SDM-cum-Returning Officer, Samrala, Vikramjit Singh Panthey, welcomed them on the beats of drums to a venue specially decorated with flowers, balloons a

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former PM Manmohan Singh lead the list of party’s star campaigners for the February 20 Assembly elections along with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra.

Amritsar: Karan Sharma, a resident of Gate Hakima police station area, has lodged a complaint with the police that some unidentified persons fraudulently withdrew Rs 2.14 lakh from his account. A case was registered following a preliminary probe, said the police. A case under Section 420 of the IPC

The police have arrested three members of a gang of snatchers while a security guard’s son has been nabbed for a theft at a factory.

The ticket distribution by the Congress for the forthcoming Vidhan Sabha elections has caused an uproar in the party, which has turned many leaders into rebels, who joined hands with other parties or are fighting as Independent candidates. It seems the Congress will be facing tough competition from