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LUDHIANA: Protests by multiple groups left Ludhiana-Delhi National Highway in a state of chaos. Long queues of vehicles, fuming passengers and hassled traffic police personnel could be seen as farmers’ union members joined the protest staged by temporary employees seeking regularisation.
President, Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) Punjab, Rajinder Benipal said temporary employees of some departments and teachers staged a protest near Sirhind Canal on Saturday and they (farmers unions) supported them.
“Demands of teachers should have been agreed to long ago by the government as they provide education to children. We supported them the way they supported us,” said BKU Punjab president.
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LUDHIANA: The traffic police have started a drive against the overloaded vehicles and in two days, the police have issued over 85 challans to violators. Under this drive, the police issued 10 challans on Wednesday and 75 challans on Thursday.
On Wednesday, two people died in a road mishap when a passenger bus rammed into a parked truck on Ludhiana- Delhi highway near Khanna. It was an overloaded truck from which iron roads were hanging behind.
Joint commissioner of police, Deepak Pareek, said, “On Wednesday, we started a drive against the vehicles that overload and cause road mishaps. Usually, vehicles carrying iron roads invite such accidents, as the rods are hanging outside the vehicle. We have issued 10 challans on Wednesday and 75 challans on Thursday.”
Virus claims 27 lives, leaves 731 infected
May 20, 2021, 04:08 IST
Ludhiana: Twenty-seven residents of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 731 tested positive on Wednesday.
As per the health department bulletin, 39 deaths were reported from the district on the day. Of them, 27 patients were of Ludhiana, three of Sangrur, two of Fatehgarh Sahib and one each of Gurdaspur, Faridkot, Muktsar, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. ; var randomNumber = Math.random(); var isIndia = (window.geoinfo && window.geoinfo.CountryCode === IN ) && (window.location.href.indexOf( outsideindia ) === -1 ); //console.log(isIndia && randomNumber The district casualties included a 50-year-old woman of Khanna, a 65-year-old man of Vishnu Puri, a 71-year-old man of Sham Nagar, a 59-year-old woman of Model Gram, a 65-year-old woman of Shimlapuri, a 71-year-old woman of Khud Mohalla, a 56-year-old man of Madhopuri, a 65-year-old