Ludhiana: Traders in Ludhiana faced a double whammy on Thursday. In the morning, shops, particularly in the old city, were flooded with rainwater. When the water drained out, protesting sanitation employees and their union leaders made rounds, asking them to close their shops. At places, shutters were downed forcibly.Tension in crowded areas near Chaura Bazaar,…
Ludhiana: The heavy downpour on Thursday morning came as a welcome respite from the intense humidity of the past few days, but it came at a high cost.While waterlogging is not new for the city, this time, there was garbage floating in the rainwater. Even if the water drained away, there was no hope of…
TNNLudhiana: A man driving an SUV allegedly ran over a stray dog and threatened area residents with a pistol when they confronted him. The incident took place in Haibowal.Police registered a case against the accused, Ravinder Singh, on the complaint of Parmjit Singh, a resident of Guru Nanak Dev Nagar, and launched an investigation.The complainant…
Road collapse at Saggu Chowk in Ludhiana Ludhiana: Political bickering over a trenchless sewer project has left motorists driving over dangerous subterranean voids.Three years ago, the municipal corporation proposed this system to replace the city’s failing, century-old brick drainage network. The ₹154-crore plan specifically targeted the highly vulnerable DMC Road stretch from Saggu Chowk to…
Development projects worth ₹100 crore were cleared during the Finance and Contracts Committee (FCC) meeting of the Municipal Corporation that concluded on Wednesday. Many projects were deliberated upon during the three sittings of the meeting over a period of around two weeks. ₹14-crore Buddha Nullah retaining wall from GT Road to Satsang Ghar Puli among…
The Haibowal site for a luxury gate in Ludhiana Ludhiana: Beautification schemes in Punjab’s wasteful pre-election spending have outraged locals, who say they need basic running water and roads instead of a luxury gate to a foul-smelling river.When the municipal corporation floated a ₹39 lakh tender recently to construct a decorative entrance in Haibowal, residents…
The state of road in Ludhiana’s Tyre Market Ludhiana: West Asian geopolitical tensions have hit the streets of an Indian industrial hub, leaving local drivers vulnerable to catastrophic monsoon flooding.Despite a multi-crore-rupee infrastructure pledge, local authorities admit they will miss a crucial pre-monsoon road repair and drainage clearance deadline of June 30 due to a…
The state of road in Ludhiana’s Tyre Market Ludhiana: West Asian geopolitical tensions have hit the streets of an Indian industrial hub, leaving local drivers vulnerable to catastrophic monsoon flooding.Despite a multi-crore-rupee infrastructure pledge, local authorities admit they will miss a crucial pre-monsoon road repair and drainage clearance deadline of June 30 due to a…
Ludhiana: A police constable and his friend were thrashed severely by a group of men following a cricket match at Ladian village.Sooraj, a constable posted with the vigilance bureau, reported that his friend, Joban, and he had been packing their gear on June 14 when an argument had erupted between Joban and a local resident,…
Ludhiana: A sudden fire gutted a cotton shanty and destroyed two school buses in Haibowal’s Pavitar Nagar on Tuesday afternoon, triggering widespread panic. Fanned by strong winds, the blaze quickly spread from the slum workshop—where cotton was stored for quilts—to the parked vehicles.Bystanders successfully moved another bus and a car before the flames could consume…
