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One killed, 5 injured in boiler blast at Ludhiana milk plant

Ludhiana, Oct. 24 -- A late-night explosion at the Verka Milk Plant on Ferozepur Road in Ludhiana on Wednesday left one worker dead and five others seriously injured, officials said on Thursday. The i... Read More


kingpin running cross-border drug network held in Amritsar, 5kg heroin seized

Amritsar, Oct. 24 -- The Amritsar Commissionerate Police busted a cross-border narcotics smuggling network with the arrest of a key drug trafficker and the recovery of 5.025 kg heroin from his possess... Read More


Father-son duo wanted for firing at jewellery shop arrested

Hoshiarpur, Oct. 24 -- The Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), in a joint operation with Hoshiarpur police, arrested a father-son duo, accused of opening fire at a jewellery shop, after a brief encounter... Read More


Bathinda court frames charges against 2 Nihangs for Ludhiana social media influencer's murder

Bathinda, Oct. 24 -- Over four months after Ludhiana-based social media influencer Kanchan Kumari, 30, was strangled to death in her car in Bathinda in June, a local court on Thursday framed charges a... Read More


Mann urges Centre to ease paddy procurement specifications

Patiala, Oct. 24 -- In the wake of the damage caused to the paddy crops due to the floods in the state, chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Thursday urged the Centre to give relaxation in the unifor... Read More


SAEL to procure 20L tonnes of paddy waste for power generation

Chandigarh, Oct. 24 -- Amid rising reports of farm fire incidents, SAEL Industries Ltd on Thursday announced plans to procure 20 lakh tonnes of paddy waste this season and convert it into clean electr... Read More


Centre mulling five more years of Samagra Shiksha

Chandigarh, Oct. 24 -- The Union ministry of education is considering extending its flagship school education programme, Samagra Shiksha, under which Punjab has received more than Rs.3,500 crore from ... Read More


India to allow Canada boost its diplomatic staff in New Delhi

Toronto, Oct. 24 -- India will gradually allow Canada to post a "similar number" of diplomats and officials in the country as it had before October 2024, when the two countries carried out tit-for-tat... Read More


Haryana's air quality deteriorates despite zero stubble burning

Karnal / Chandigarh, Oct. 24 -- Many parts of Haryana recorded "poor" and "very poor" air quality on Thursday even as there were zero incidents of crop residue burning. On October 8 too, zero incident... Read More


K'shetra SHO held withRs.50K bribe

Karnal, Oct. 24 -- A team of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Panchkula headquarters on Thursday arrested a probationer sub-inspector (PSI)-rank policeman posted as the station house officer (SHO) alleged... Read More