A 37-year-old doctor, Dr Minakshi JALANDHAR: A 37-year-old doctor, Dr Minakshi, was found dead at her residence on Wednesday, following which police booked her husband, an eye surgeon, on charges of abetment of suicide.Dr Minakshi was posted at the Civil Hospital in Kapurthala. Her husband, Dr Piyush Sood, runs a private hospital, National Eye Care…
LUDHIANA: Three men, including a father-son duo, died after inhaling toxic gas at a hand tools manufacturing unit located at RK road in Ludhiana in the wee hours of Monday. Two other factory workers, who are unconscious, have been admitted to the hospital.The deceased are Maan Singh, his son Amit amd and the worker of…
LUDHIANA: Days after the house of singer Diljit Dosanjh’s manager, Gurpartap Singh Kang, was allegedly attacked with gunshots in Gonder village in Haryana’s Karnal district, a threat has been received to blow up the singer’s house in Ludhiana.However, the singer does not live at the house. The threat email was received on the official email…
Poultry coop designed by Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University By: Gurvinder SinghLUDHIANA: While backyard poultry farming accounts only for 20% in India, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University has designed a poultry coop, a mix of closed and open space for poultry that can help boost backyard farming in a…
Ludhiana: A former aide to Aam Aadmi Party legislator Ashok Parashar Pappi has accused the lawmaker and his son of extorting money for jobs and laundering funds through overseas transfers, claims which the MLA has denied.The development comes just as central agencies arrested a Punjab minister in a related graft investigation. Nikhil Sabharwal, who described…
Ludhiana: The municipal corporation’s ambitious transition to a paperless “e-nigam” system has hit a logistical bottleneck, with officials forced to wait at least a month for the delivery of essential tablet computers.The project aims to eliminate physical paperwork by shifting all General House and Finance and Contracts Committee meetings to a digital platform. While the…
Ludhiana: A decade-long effort to modernise the local property tracking system remains in limbo after two failed attempts to install unique identification plates across the city.The municipal corporation project, first proposed in 2014, aimed to fix a permanent UID number and QR code to every home and business. The system would allow officials to instantly…
Samrala (Ludhiana): In Papraudi, the legacy of Saadat Hasan Manto remains a fierce point of local pride, as villagers battle dwindling reading habits and a lack of state support to preserve a library dedicated to the iconic writer of Partition-based short stories.While historians debate his exact birthplace, Papraudi’s inhabitants claim the Urdu master as their…
LUDHIANA: A 66-year-old retired Army Havildar allegedly shot dead his son after a heated argument over his relationship with a woman and later died by suicide in Punjab’s New Agar Nagar area, police said on Monday.Surinder Singh was in a relationship with a woman after the death of his wife and reportedly wanted to marry…
