The tall claims of the Municipal Corporation (MC) authorities regarding monsoon preparations washed away after heavy rainfall lashed the city on Thursday. Residents were a harried lot as they had to commute on knee-deep waterlogged underpasses and roads in various parts of the city.
Demanding regularisation of jobs of contractual employees, members of Sewer Men, Safai Karamchari Sangharsh Committee, Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana, staged a protest by blocking the traffic at Ghanta Ghar (Clock Tower) Chowk, Old GT Road on Monday.
Passengers faced inconvenience as the members of the Punjab Roadways, PUNBUS and PRTC Contract Workers’ Union, Punjab, closed the bus stand for two hours to mark their protest against the Transport Department and the Punjab Government for not releasing their salaries and delay in fulfilling th
Protest against the Centre’s Agnipath scheme took a violent turn on Saturday when over three dozen masked youths carrying sticks and iron rods vandalised the local railway station.