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Sidharth Shukla received a lot of audience love for his performance in Broken But Beautiful Season 3.

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Anupam Kher has worked with Shah Rukh Khan and Jackie Shroff in many memorable films.

Jagame Thandhiram will be a stress-buster: Dhanush

Dhanush believes that his upcoming Tamil film Jagame Thandhiram would do a solid job in reducing people’s stress.

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Here are all the details on the Realme GT 5G including pricing, specifications and more.

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SpaceX is in talks with various airlines to provide fast in-flight Wi-Fi in the near future

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World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee is joining the NFT or Non-Fungible Token bandwagon, and will be auctioning off the original source code for his invention.

Ludhiana News

Punjab sees 642 fresh cases, positivity rate dips to 1.56%

All except two districts (Ludhiana & SAS Nagar) recorded less than 50 fresh cases, as the positivity rate further dipped to 1.56 per cent, the bulletin stated.

Punjab: Village with 7 gurdwaras, 2 temples pitches in to build mosque for its 4 Muslim families

Within hours, villagers from Sikh and Hindu communities had made all the arrangements for the programme. There was langar, there were steaming hot jalebis, and ardas (prayers) was held for successful completion of the project.

Punjab: First jab done for 40% of 45+ age group, 5% in 18+ category

In the above 45+ population category, a total of 31.10 lakh persons have been given the first dose (43.19 per cent) of the total 72 lakh intended beneficiaries. In this category, again, just 5.06 lakh people had got their second dose of the vaccine.

Punjab vaccinates over 40% of its 45+ population with first Covid vaccine dose

Meanwhile, Punjab on Monday recorded 629 fresh Covid cases, while adding 33 new virus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the state health bulletin.

Punjab govt releases grant of Rs 40 crore for infrastructure development of schools

According to a spokesperson of the education department, this grant has been released for the year 2021-22 and will be used for the development of primary and middle government schools in Punjab.

My son was tortured’: Jaipal Bhullar’s father refuses cremation, demands probe in his killing

On Sunday, while submitting a written plea to deputy commissioner Ferozepur demanding that Jaipal’s autopsy be conducted again, Bhupinder,father of slain gangster Jaipal Singh Bhullar, and a retired inspector of the Punjab Police said that his son could ‘do a crime, but not drugs’.

‘Micro-oxygen chamber’ created in Ludhiana’s Rakh Bagh, 750 saplings of 60 native species planted by children

The attempt, the students said, was to create a mini-forest that would be ‘by the kids and for the kids’.

Punjab labourers up in arms as panchayats fix paddy transplantation rates across villages

The panchayat has also ordered that migrants, who come to villages for paddy transplantation work, will also not be allowed to work for any other village till the time work of one village is not completed.

Bhikhi becomes Punjab’s first village with 100% vaccination coverage

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma also congratulated the village residents and urged other hamlets of Ludhiana to follow Bhikhi’s example and to get vaccinated in large numbers.

Foreign languages in Punjab govt schools: Mandarin course remains stillborn, first batch of teachers set to test Japanese skills

Amarinder Thursday asked the state education department to consider teaching foreign language, such as Chinese, Arabic and French, in schools to help improve the chances of students’ employability globally.

Punjab: 118 maternal deaths between April 1 and June 10, 37 of these due to Covid

In many of the deaths, surprisingly though, women despite succumbing to Covid-like symptoms, tested negative in subsequent RT-PCR tests.

Hundreds block Bathinda-Chandigarh Highway with body of kabaddi coach to demand justice

The family of the coach refused to get a post-mortem done, instead choosing to protest with the body on the Bathinda-Chandigarh Highway.

Days after anguished appeal for lung transplant, Punjab DSP dies of post-Covid complications

A few days ago, the DSP — in a video made from his hospital bed which went viral on social media — had made a poignant appeal to the Punjab government to fund his lung transplant instead of giving compensation to his family after he would die.

Punjab: Doctors urge all pregnant women to get jabs, children to stay indoors

Meanwhile, two children aged 8-10 years who had also tested positive, were discharged Wednesday morning after recovery.

Punjab: State sees 1407 fresh cases, adds 66 more Covid deaths

All districts of the state, the bulletin said, recorded less than 200 new cases, as the state’s positivity rate further dropped to 2.29 per cent on Wednesday.

Ludhiana teen battles for life in Canada hospital, family seeks govt help for mother’s air travel

Vinayakk Joshhi, 19, who had gone to Canada in December 2019 and completed his diploma in mechanical engineering from Humber College in Toronto, was returning from work and was waiting at a bus shelter on the night of May 22 in North York of Toronto.

Punjab: Farmers protest outside former CM’s residence over BJP leader’s visit

The protest was led by BKU (Ugrahan). Barnala’s son and former MLA Gaganjeet Barnala is a member of the SAD. He was in Chandigarh at time of the protest, while his mother, Surjeet Kaur Barnala, was at home.

Ludhiana to be free of stray dogs in next 18 months: minister

While Ludhiana MC’s dog sterilisation centre project had kicked off in 2015, it was stopped midway due to several issues. The centre that was lying incomplete has been completed now.

Garbage piles up in several parts of Punjab as sweepers protest, demand regularisation

Over the past 26 days, garbage has been piling up in various towns of Punjab as over 10,000 contractual sweepers in around 135 urban local bodies (ULBs) including three municipal corporations and a few nagar panchayats have been on strike, demanding regularisation of their jobs.

Punjab: 82 fatalities, 1,293 fresh infections

Punjab recorded 1293 fresh Covid cases and 82 deaths in the past 24 hours, as per the state bulletin, Monday.

NGT asks Punjab forest conservator to probe, take action against those who axed 1,065 trees on Faridkot sugar mill premises

At least 993 fully-grown trees can still be saved if timely action is taken, says forest department.

Two policemen die of cardiac arrest in Ludhiana

While Inspector Baljinder Singh (51), was posted as SHO of Daresi police station, ASI Harbans Lal (52) was deputed at the zila parishad building.

Punjab records 1,593 fresh Covid cases, 65 more deaths

The state’s positivity rate further dropped to 2.54% on Sunday, while the number of fresh recoveries (3,790) exceeded the number of new cases.

Capt-Sidhu fight like father and son… happens in a family: Manpreet Badal

Asked to comment on the issue while on a visit to Dharamkot, Moga, to inaugurate some projects, he said: “It is for the party high command to decide who will lead Congress in upcoming Punjab polls, who will be the CM face, but right now, Capt Amarinder is the Captain of Punjab…”

Ludhiana MP Ravneet Bittu slams Hardeep Puri for ‘vaccine profiteering’ comment

Bittu said that “the whole amount for the vaccines was paid by a few private hospitals and has been deposited in the State Vaccination Fund for the purchase of the jabs to inoculate the people for free.”