Ludhiana, Punjab Business Information Directory

Acute shortage of doctors in the government sector is an open secret. Instead of making new appointments, the government has come up with an alternative solution to overcome this shortage. A letter has been shot to all Civil Surgeons and Medical Superintendents of the state mentioning that from now

Two persons were found dead under mysterious circumstances in the district on Friday. In first incident Umesh Kumar of Basant Nagar was found dead in Khanna city. He was seen by the locality people on an empty plot where he was crying for help. Drug overdose was said to be the cause as some medicine

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 father-son duo were killed after there was an explosion in their small house apparently due to gas leakage in the kitchen. It is learnt that deceas

Maximum temperature continued to remain many degrees above normal. But the met department predicts weather disturbance on Saturday. According to the

A resident of Ludhiana tested positive for Covid here on Friday. The district’s case count is 1,09,9,23 and that of outsiders here is 14,767. There a

Keeping in view the financial constraints, mayor Balkar Sandhu and other members of Finance and Contracts Committee (F&CC) on Friday decided to appro

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Ashok Prashar Pappi has recommended cancellation of the contract of multi-storey parking lot opposite MC zone A office,