Punjab faces pharma drug threat as drone tech chokes heroin inflow
With anti-drone operations helping curb the cross-border flow of heroin, Punjab is now facing a new challenge in the form of pharmaceutical narcotics sourced from other...
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Ludhiana: Former SAD MLA Dhanda, son booked for assaulting lawyer
Police have booked former MLA and senior advocate Harish Rai Dhanda, a senior leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), and his son Chandan Dhanda for...
Ludhiana: MC finance panel to discuss major civic projects today
The Municipal Corporation’s Finance and Contracts Committee (F&CC) is scheduled to meet on Monday to consider 187 agenda items, a significant number of which relate to...
Ludhiana: Rights panel seeks action report from LIT over illegal buildings in SBS Nagar
The Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) has sought a detailed action-taken report from Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) over the unabated construction of illegal commercial buildings...
SC asks murder accused to be produced in court after ‘victory procession’ over bail
New Delhi, Taking a stern view of a murder accused taking out a "victory procession" on being granted bail by the high court, the Supreme Court...
HC stays recruitment on 124 posts at Chandigarh state cooperative bank
The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has stayed the recruitment of 124 posts in the Chandigarh State Cooperative Bank until further orders. The directions came...
PU to restore Punjab, Sikh history papers in MA syllabus after student objections
Panjab University’s (PU) department of history has decided to restore the earlier Punjab and Sikh history papers in the two-year MA history programme after student organisations...
National Lok Adalat settles over 83 k cases in tricity
A National Lok Adalat was organised on Saturday at the district courts complex in Sector 43, where 14 benches took up matters, including compoundable criminal cases,...
Haryana approves ₹9,700-crore ring road, bypass projects
Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini has approved the development of ring roads and national highways outside cities and towns with a population of more than...
Himachal govt to widen key roads in Shimla to ease traffic congestion
To ease out the state capital’s traffic congestion, around 200 families are likely to be displaced as the public works department (PWD) has issued a land...