India, March 19 -- The Himachal Pradesh Transport Corporation (HRTC) indefinitely suspended services on 10 routes to Punjab after two of its buses were vandalised in Hoshiarpur and Mohali over the past two days even as chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu spoke to his counterpart Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday.

"As a preventive measure, we have suspended services on 10 routes to Punjab. We will resume services only after the situation becomes normal. We are in touch with the Punjab authorities. Punjab is our big brother and we will resolve the issue amicably," deputy chief minister Mukesh Agnihotri said in a statement in the Himachal Pradesh assembly.

HRTC buses ply on 100 routes in Punjab. The suspension of services on 10 routes comes aft...