As many as 13 villages of the district will get their separate panchayats for the first time. These villages have been given the status of the gram panchayats.
With over 2,000 farm fires being reported in Punjab, the air quality index (AQI) has gone for a toss with none of the cities reporting good or moderate AQI.
Partition had triggered unprecedented violent civil unrest on both sides of the divide. Nearer home, the conglomerate of Phulkian princely states (Patiala, Nabha, Malerkotla, Kapurthala, Faridkot and Jind) were similarly buffeted by the inexorable and cyclical waves of rapine and cold-blooded murder
A whopping 96 per cent of the total area put under paddy in Ludhiana district was cultivated with non-basmati rice as the current Kharif sowing season 2022-23 concluded here on Wednesday, the administration has confirmed.