The civic body had planted 25,000 saplings in various parts of the city last year. In recent months, several established green belts were destroyed to clear the way for laying water supply lines; however, officials stated that replanting will begin in those zones as soon as the pipeline work is completed Ludhiana: The Ludhiana municipal…
Ludhiana: A brief spell of pre-monsoon rain on Saturday stranded commuters in deep mud and heavy traffic while exposing critical infrastructure delays just weeks before the rainy season begins.The downpour overwhelmed major roads, turning key transit points into treacherous bottlenecks. Driving conditions deteriorated rapidly across high-traffic zones, including Haibowal, Chander Nagar, and Model Town. Low-lying…
The fire department dispatched four to five fire tenders to the scene, requiring more than 15 rounds of water tenders to battle the flames. Ludhiana: A massive fire broke out early Thursday morning at an open-air scrap market on RK Road near Ghoda Colony, destroying a large quantity of discarded material, a parked truck, and…
Sewerage pits dug up on Ludhiana’s Noorwala Road Ludhiana: A painfully slow sewage pipeline project has choked traffic and turned an arterial commercial road into a hazardous obstacle course, sparking demands for a quick intervention ahead of the monsoon.Shopkeepers and commuters along Noorwala Road in Ward 3 say the poorly managed infrastructure project has tanked…
The lack of a formal dog census has emerged as a major bottleneck for Ludhiana’s Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme. Ludhiana: The municipal corporation is awaiting directives from the local bodies department before implementing the recent Supreme Court order to remove stray dogs from key public places. While animal birth control measures are ongoing and…
Ludhiana: Local authorities are deploying emergency water tankers to desperate neighbourhoods as an uncoordinated mix of unscheduled blackouts and administrative gridlock over automated prepaid electricity meters cripples municipal pumping stations.It’s a summer of punishing heat in this industrial hubs of Punjab. Ludhiana’s municipal grid relies on 1,400-odd deep-well tube pumps to extract more than 600…
