Entertainment

Bharti Singh reveals she didn’t know she was pregnant for 2.5 months: ‘Fat people don’t realise’

In a recent interview, Bharti Singh shared that because of her weight, she did not realise she was pregnant.

Ms Marvel trailer: Iman Vellani stars as Marvel’s Muslim superhero

Ms Marvel trailer: Ms Marvel, starring Iman Vellani in the titular role, starts streaming from June 8 on Disney Plus Hotstar.

Karisma Kapoor, Govinda are shocked over the jodi that’s more dumdaar than them. Watch video

Karisma Kapoor and Govinda are considered one of the most popular on-screen jodis of all time. But now there is a new jodi in town, giving them serious competition.

Technology

Elon Musk’s SpaceX completes 20 years: A look at its important milestones

Read more to find out how SpaceX grew from a propulsion engineer's hobby to an industry giant that rivals national space agencies.

MakeMyTrip launches limited edition NFTs to commemorate Indian tourism

MakeMyTrip claims it should move on the proceeds from the sale of those NFTs to assist initiatives specializing in selling sustainable tourism within the nation.

BAYC NFT prices shoot up by 18 per cent, after acquiring CryptoPunks, Meebits

BAYC is a popular collection of 10,000 unique bored NFT apes created by Yuga Labs. It has generated more than $1 billion in total sales amid celebrities flocking into the NFT bandwagon.

Ludhiana News

In the new Punjab house: three eye surgeons, radiologist, dentist among 12 doctors

Assets of these doctors range from Rs 1 crore to Rs 36 crores.

Training civilians, feeding troops: As Indians return, their teachers plunge into war effort

With the Russian invasion forcing the return of thousands of Indian students, their teachers in Ukraine, including those in relatively less affected western cities such as Ternopil and Lviv, have plunged into the war effort.

Ludhiana: Four of inter-state drug peddling gang held, 2.04 quintal ganja recovered

Police have arrested four members of the gang and claimed recovery of 2.04 quintals of ganja, 3 kg poppy husk and 500 gram of opium from them, allegedly smuggled from Odisha.

As party chief, I take responsibility for party’s defeat: Sukhbir Badal

Sukhbir said a meeting of the party’s core committee and all candidates of the party has been summoned on Monday.

Punjab assembly election results: Congress stars fall by the side as AAP’s shine bright

Star power failed to fire for Congress as two of its high profile candidates with celebrity tags attached to them faced crushing defeats at the hustings.

Punjab election 2022 result: Since 2002, decisive vote from Majha, Doaba has favoured the winning party

In 2017 polls, Congress won 77 out of 117 seats but its strike rate in Malwa was 57.9% as it won 40 out of the region’s 69. In Malwa, AAP won 18 seats in 2017 on debut.

Punjab election 2022 result: Winner’s vote share shrunk below 40% in 2017, likely to slide further

In 2012, when SAD-BJP retained power after winning 68 seats despite the anti-incumbency, the alliance’s vote share was still 41.91%.

With Exit polls giving edge to AAP, anxious wait for results in Dhuri

The question paramount in the mind of most people here: Will Bhagwant Mann be the next chief minister?

How farmers’ movement gave women a voice

In two years, BKU Ugrahan set up women’s wings in 1,000 villages

Punjab: In search for light, prisoners turn poets, artists for jail magazine ‘Ujala’

Poems, short stories, cartoons and illustrations all make it to the magazine that gives an open platform to Patiala jail inmates to contribute in whichever way they want to and bring out their hidden feelings on paper in form of words or art.

Punjab: Man dies by suicide in police station; two cops booked

The police had claimed recovery of seven stolen mobile phones, a sharp-edged weapon and a motorcycle from his possession. He was on police remand for questioning.

Issewal gangrape: Relieved, but there’s nothing to be happy about, says male friend of rape victim

“These three years were so long… that we are not feeling any emotions. All emotions have drained off. There’s nothing to be happy about (the verdict) but there’s a kind of relief that justice has been done,” says the man.

Issewal gangrape verdict: ‘Rape victims want justice… not conferment of title of Nirbhaya’

On February 9, 2019, a 20-year old woman from Ludhiana and her male friend were waylaid near village Issewal and the convicts took turns sexually assaulting her till morning of February 10.

On complaint by Sidhu’s sister, NCW marks probe to Ludhiana police

Toor, in her complaint filed with the NCW, has alleged that Sidhu deprived her of property rights and the “right to live with dignity”.

Punjab: Sub-inspector posted outside EVM storage room dies by suicide

Preliminary information revealed that he was under family-related stress, but inquiry is on to ascertain the cause, the police said.

Punjab doctors point to less seats, high fee in pvt colleges; call remarks bid to hide failure

Calling medical education in India unaffordable, the doctors in the state said that less seats in medical colleges were the reason that students were forced to seek education abroad.

Doctors who served farmers during stir to now help students in Ukraine

Sukhmandeep Singh Dhillon, who had returned from Ukraine that same year in June after completing the MBBS course and was planning to move to the US to pursue higher degree, joined Dr Swaimaan at the facility that the latter had put up at the Tikri border.

Between heartbreak and hope, Indian students hop borders for a way home

Several Indian youngsters stranded in Ukraine have spent their days seeking help from the Union government, soothing worried families and hopping borders in an alien country with hope and prayers of escaping the war unharmed.

In Punjab markets, an unlikely victim of Russia-Ukraine tension: cotton

With buyers adopting a cautious approach, the prices of the raw natural fibre, which had skyrocketed to nearly double the minimum support price (MSP) amid shortfall in production and hoarding of stocks by farmers, have crashed by as much as Rs 10 per kilo in Punjab markets.

Issewal gangrape case: Court convicts 6, sentencing on March 4

During the probe, it was discovered that this gang of six was allegedly involved in raping other victims too previously, but no one had come forward to report the crime, the SSP said.

Businessman kills self in Ludhiana hotel, 14 booked

Police registered an FIR in the matter and booked 14 people under charges of abetment to suicide.

One of Muktsar returns home, kin of other clutch on to hope

Harpreet Singh Kotbhai, a former MLA from Malaut said 10 students from his constituency are stuck in Ukraine out of which one is expected to reach Punjab on Sunday.

Robbery attempt at gold loan office: One held by Bengal Police

The accused was identified as Sajan alias Akash Jha alias Maninder Mani of Motihari of Bihar. He was living in Ludhiana in a rented accommodation.

What pushes Indians to Ukraine: Affordable education, prospect of better life

“In Ukraine, the fee for those pursuing MBBS comes to Rs 2.5 lakh- Rs 3 lakh per annum. In India, private colleges charge more than five times that amount,” says Dr Sukhmandeep Singh Dhillon, a Punjab resident who returned to India in 2020 after completing his MBBS in Ukraine.

Endless walk for hours, freezing night, hypothermia: Indian students stranded at Poland border describe ordeal

Hundreds of students, mostly from Lviv and Ternopil in Ukraine, had reached the Poland border with a hope that the Indian embassy would evacuate them, but they said that the Polish authorities were not allowing them to cross the border.