LUDHIANA: With the formation of the new government in Punjab more than a month away, there is a cloud of uncertainty over the second edition of the Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Punjab Games. The inaugural edition was organized with much fanfare by the SAD-BJP government in February-March last year Bollywood star Akshay ...

LUDHIANA: Barjinder Singh, the accused in an honour killing case, was produced in a court on Friday and remanded in two­ day police custody. Gurpreet Singh, SHO, Ladowal police station, said the accused had stuck to his statement that he committed the double murder when he saw his sister, Navdeep ...

LUDHIANA: Senior SAD vice-president and former Lok Bhalai Party chief Balwant Singh Ramoowalia's close associate Avtar Singh Mullapuri reportedly died of heart attack at his residence in Sudhar here on Tuesday. Mullapuri had joined the SAD along with Ramoowalia when the Lok Bhalai Party was merged with it. He had been ...

LUDHIANA: More than 400 residents of Dr Ambedkar Colony in Atam Nagar assembly constituency of Ludhiana failed to exercise their franchise as their names were missing from the voter list. Voters who had ration cards as proof of identity claimed that officials on duty didn't look into the matter. Shankar Lal (50) ...

LUDHIANA: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday lost its prominent Muslim face, Mohammad Usman Rehmani, who resigned from the post of the Party’s joint secretary and' announced support to the Congress. Accusing SAD party general secretary Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and the CM's close aide Daljit Singh Cheema of furthering policies ...

LUDHIANA: The firecracker show at the Kabaddi World Cup on Sunday belied the tall claims by the SAD-BJP government about protecting environment. As the celebrities and the teams entered the stadium, there was a fire­ cracker show lasting a few minutes. Following Diwali, based on the ambient air quality data, the ...

LUDHIANA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari claimed on Sunday that among the three members of Parliament (MPs) whose names figure in the list of 700 people who have stashed funds in Swiss banks, one is from the Punjab Congress. "Who is he (the MP from Punjab with money in ...

LUDHIANA: Gulchain Singh Charak, Congress in-charge, Punjab affairs, said here on Thursday that several union ministers would visit the state to apprise people of central schemes for which the Akali­ BJP government was trying to take false credit. Talking to reporters after meeting block presidents, councilors and Punjab Congress delegates at ...

LUDHIANA: If the People's Party of Punjab (PPP) comes to power in the state, it will establish five inquiry commissions to look into corruption cases of the past five years, PPP chief Manpreet Singh Badal said in Ludhiana on Monday. The commissions will investigate irregularities in the transport sector, and probe ...

LUDHIANA: State Congress Chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said if voted back to power, the Congress government would welcome Maruti Udyog Limited (MUL) to come the Punjab. "Given the fact that Badal has no futuristic vision as he remains busy with his sangat darshan programmes, we don't expect him to ...

LUDHIANA: The Punjab government, which has announced “completely free” schooling for girls, has not mentioned school board fee in its notification listing the various charges waived. As a consequence, girls in classes 10 and 12 continue to pay the Rs 500 board fee per semester. Among the fees waived by the notification ...

LUDHIANA: Punjab will soon be recruiting women firefighters. So far, women have been confined to the control rooms of the fire department. Local bodies minister Tikshan Sud said, "We have not discussed the issue earlier, but with changing times it has become the need of the hour. We will see how ...

LUDHIANA: The state's mathematics teachers association sent a memorandum to the government on Tuesday asking that the subject be given a "technical grade" to bring it on a par with science in middle government schools. There are around 6,000 maths teachers in Punjab's government schools, of which around 800 are from Ludhiana district. ...