Ludhiana: Two FIRs lodged over damage to public property, vandalism
The Ludhiana police have registered two FIRs over alleged vandalism, assault and damage to property during the Punjab bandh on October 15, called by various organisations...
Ludhiana: Shoe trader’s kin held for plot to kill advocate
The father and brother of shoe trader Gurvinder Singh Prinkle have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a conspiracy to kill city-based advocate Gaganpreet Singh....
RTI panel issues bailable warrants against Ludhiana SHO for skipping three hearings
Punjab State Information Commission has issued bailable warrants against Jitender Kumar, station house officer (SHO) of Daba police station in Ludhiana, for repeatedly skipping hearings in...
Guest column | Rebuke equivalent to love, care in disguise
A 14-year-old girl in Lalkuan (Uttarakhand) recently hit the headlines for committing suicide after her elder brother reprimanded her for excessive screen time. The headline took...
Activist flags pothole-riddled road stretch in Ludhiana, seeks repair
Social activist Arvind Sharma on Saturday wrote to municipal corporation commissioner Ankur Mahindroo, seeking urgent repairs to a badly deteriorated road connecting Model Town Extension to...
Chandigarh Chord | The TS Library: Where Chandigarh learnt to read
There was a time when going to Sector 17 meant dressing up a little. Before the malls, before the multiplexes, before smartphones became the place where...
Wildbuzz | Hunters: Good, bad and ugly
Domestic buffaloes can more than just threaten leopards by closing ranks, as narrated in these columns two Sundays ago. They can cause bodily harm, if the...
SGPC to put up anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota’s portrait at Central Sikh Museum
Bathinda: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Saturday announced that it would install a portrait of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota at the Central Sikh...
Row erupts as Centre seeks report from Punjab on drug-linked killings, ‘suicide’
The Centre on Friday sought a detailed report from the Punjab government in two cases of drug-linked killings and a “suicide” by an addict’s father, igniting...
Cutting across religious barriers: Meerut Muslim family keeps effigy-making for Dussehra alive for 70 years in Shimla
Cutting across all religious barriers, a Muslim family from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh is continuing a decades-old tradition of making effigies of Ravana, Kumbhkaran and Meghnad...