LUDHIANA: An undertrial has been booked on the charges of eve-teasing and molestation following a complaint by a woman advocate. The accused, Varjinder Singh of Tharike village, is lodged in the Central Jail here on judicial remand in an assault case. He had been brought to the court complex for a ...

LUDHIANA: The court of judicial magistrate Priti Sukhija here on Thursday sent the three accused in the gangrape case to three-day police remand. The Ladhowal police had produced the accused before the court. Shera, Harpal Singh and Vijay Kumar, residents of Talwandi Village, were arrested on Wednesday for raping a 13-year-old ...

LUDHIANA: Nitin Jethi, a co-accused in the case of assault on assistant inspector general (AIG) SS Mand, surrendered before a local court here on Wednesday. Police Commissioner Ishwar Singh, in a statement, said Jethi a resident of the Haibowal area, surrendered before the court of judicial magistrate (first class) Rahul Garg. ...

LUDHIANA: Amid the nationwide clamour for death penalty to rapists for the gangrape of a 13-year-old girl in the district. The accused – in the age group of 25-30 years – abducted the girl on Monday evening and then raped her. She was later released, following which her parents lodged a ...

LUDHIANA: Anil Sundhir, posted as superintendent at SCD Government College, Ludhiana, has been dismissed from service after being convicted in a fraud case. Sundhir was earlier posted as superintendent at the office of the district education officer (secondary), Ludhiana. A case was registered against him at Rajpura police station for fraud ...

LUDHIANA: With the increase in excise duty and import duty, as announced in the Union Budget, the country-made black cycle ­ considered the poor man's conveyance - and the imported fancy cycle are set to become costlier. The rate of the country-made cycle is expected to go up by Rs ...

LUDHIANA: Relatives who were eagerly awaiting the return of the baraat at Kaunke Kalan village, near Jagraon, went into a state of shock when they came to know about the fatal mishap. Three of them fell unconscious. The groom's father, Bikker Singh, who hails from the village, is settled in New ...

LUDHIANA: For the second successive day, no races were held at the 76th edition of the Kila Raipur Sports Festival, leaving hundreds of spectators disappointed. On Thursday, the Ludhiana deputy commissioner had' banned bull cart races at the festival on the orders of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI). The ...

LUDHIANA: The Punjab animal husbandry department has decided to keep a strict vigil on various rural games in the state after the Kila Raipur Sports Festival got embroiled in a controversy over the use of animals in races. The showpiece event of the 'Rural Olympics' was suspended on Thursday following objections ...

LUDHIANA: Agnihotri Farmhouse on Hambran Road - where Moga DSP Balraj Singh Gill and Ludhiana resident Monika Kapila were found murdered on February 2 - was frequented by officers of various departments. This has come to light in the police inquiry so far, though still unable to get a definite ...

LUDHIANA: Nearly 200 police personnel on Tuesday carried out a combing operation in villages adjoining Hambran Road where DSP Balraj Singh Gill and a Ludhiana resident, Monika Kapila, were found murdered n a farmhouse on February 2. DCP Ashish Chaudhary also told HT that the police had discovered bloodstains in ...

LUDHIANA: There was chaos outside the district court in Ludhiana on Monday when a group of policemen thrashed an accused in lock-up. Navjot Singh, 23, who was being brought to court for a hearing, was beaten with batons. Seeing this, other undertrials started shouting. Navjot's wife Ramandeep Kaur, 22, alleged that a police­man ...

LUDHIANA: A day after the farm­ house double murder, the police were still groping in the dark. Moga deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Balraj Gill and Monica Kapila, a local resident, were found murdered at Agnihotri farmhouse adjoining Golf Link colony on the Hambran road, 7km from the city, in the ...