Absentee voters engaged in essential services in Ludhiana can avail of the postal ballot facility to exercise their franchise at designated centres on May 26, 27, and 28. Essential service voters include employees of various sectors such as Food Civil Supplies, Railways, Health, and more, who will be on duty on polling day. Learn how first-time voters can cast their vote in the Lok Sabha elections.
PAU's Skill Development Centre organizes a training course on cultivation using direct-seeded rice, focusing on modern agriculture technologies for the benefit of farmers and the environment. Learn about the latest techniques and prospects for cultivating direct seeded rice in Punjab.
Daba Police booked at least 20 persons for attempting to murder a resident of Dhillon Colony and his brother in a case of road rage. The accused attacked the victims with sharp-edged weapons outside their house. An FIR has been lodged on the complaint of Gurpreet Singh of Dhillon Colony, Lohara, against Pritam Singh, Harman Singh, Jasdeep Singh and Sagar, besides their 16 unidentified accomplices. The complainant said that he was going to a grocery store, when Pritam Singh and his aides hit his motorcycle with their car. When he objected, he said that the accused started abusing him. Thereafter, he said that the accused followed him to his house and attacked him. When his brother Manpreet Singh came to his rescue, the accused attacked him too.
Farmers' protest in Punjab causing significant losses as roads, railway tracks blocked for past three months impacting train routes towards Delhi. Recent protests at Shambhu station affecting 149 trains. Anti-BJP slogans raised, activists arrested.
District administration officials in Ludhiana have successfully lifted 44,700 metric tonnes of wheat from grain markets in the last 24 hours, with a total of 6,18,013.45 MT wheat procured. Farmers have received payments worth Rs 1,267.2 crore, and elaborate arrangements have been made to ensure a smooth wheat procurement operation. Deputy Commissioner Sakshi Sawhney is overseeing the operations to maintain efficiency and space availability for fresh produce.