Twelve people were detained on Monday in connection with Sunday's deadly blasts at a Ludhiana multiplex which claimed seven lives. However, the police are not yet sure about the number of people involved in the blast, Deputy Inspector General (Intelligence) J K Mittal said in Ludhiana on Monday . He did not rule out the involvement of terrorist outfits, working in Punjab or Jammu and Kashmir, in masterminding the explosion.
Ludhiana's hosiery industry is all set for a global expansion with its products attracting French buyers who prefer Indian products than Chinese for sourcing directly to their country.
The miscreants sprayed red and black paint on the statue at the Salem Tabri area in Ludhiana, police said, adding that they carried out the act in full public glare and blamed Rajiv Gandhi for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
After making the model work in metro cities, players in the quick commerce sector are rapidly expanding their footprint into smaller tier 2 cities and markets beyond that ahead of the festival season.
'When you look at reviving private sector capex, I don't think there's a better story than steel.'
A bullet each hit Singh in the head and near the chest. Singh was rushed to a private hospital, police said. He is currently out of danger.
Experts (forex consultants and CFOs) estimate the notional losses on derivative products in Ludhiana to be Rs 200 crore to Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion), with a prominent textile player leading the table. But no company is willing to talk about their exposure or losses. A few companies, such as Vardhman Textiles, part of the S P Oswal Group, said they had no exposure.
Five school children were killed and two others injured when a truck crashed through the school boundary wall and hit them on the outskirts of Ludhiana Industrial Town on Friday.
The former chief minister and others were booked by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau on March 24 for alleged corruption and cheating in connection with the scam. Punjab Vigilance Bureau officials had interrogated Amarinder Singh, his son and son-in-law, Jagjit Singh and others on a number of times in connection with the case.
Those joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers for the first time include three former chief ministers -- Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana) and H D Kumaraswamy (Karnataka).
The Punjab bandh call given by some radical Sikh organisations on Monday to protest Saturday's violence at Ludhiana, in which one person was killed, evoked a mixed response. Rail and road traffic movement remained normal across the state, even as authorities relaxed curfew in several areas in the violence-hit industrial town.Shops, commercial establishments and educational institutions remained closed in many parts of the state.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi traveled in the chair car of the Shatabdi Express on Tuesday to reach Ludhiana from Delhi.
A suspected terrorist on Tuesday opened fire at the railway station in Ludhiana killing a vendor and injuring two Government Railway Police head constables when they tried to check his luggage, police said.
In the concluding article of a six-part series, Business Standard visits Ludhiana, one of the largest industrial towns in Punjab, to assess the effect of demonetisation.
The weather office said intensity of heat wave/severe heat wave has slightly reduced over some parts of northwest and adjoining central India.
The superstar has signed on the Bhatt scion for a 90-day contract.
The response was tepid in other parts of the country even as several INDIA bloc parties as well as other non-BJP outfits extended their support to the bandh.
'Our priority remains brownfield expansion, and in the next few years, we plan to increase our capacity to around 6,000 beds.'
Delhi sweltered under intense heat as the Safdarjung observatory, considered the official marker of the national capital, noted a high of 43.8 degrees Celsius, four notches above the normal average.
Over 65 Union ministers are likely to take oath, going by the visual of the meeting Modi held with his likely council of ministers.
Though figures of losses are yet to be ascertained, the local business community put them in crores.
The AAP alleged that it was an "orchestrated attack" and that police stood by as Kejriwal's car was targeted with rods and stones.
Riding high on the retail boom in India, Bharti Retail on Wednesday opened its first store in Ludhiana.Meanwhile, the Bharti-WalMart joint venture is likely to kick off its cash and carry (wholesale) business in the third quarter of this year.
The terror angle in the terror attack on Shringar multiplex was being pursued with DIG(Intelligence) Jagdish Mittal telling reporters the blast could be a result of a collaboration between the "jihadi groups and the Babbar Khalsa International," a Sikh separatist group. No outfit has so far claimed responsibility.
A 22-year-old bride sustained burns after a young man threw acid on her face at a beauty parlour at Sarabha Nagar on Ludhiana on Saturday
Senior police officers preferred to remain silent on Wednesday saying investigations were still on.
Industries in Punjab are facing an acute shortage of labourers, most of whom come from other states. In spite of revising the wages of labourers, be it unskilled, semi-skilled or highly skilled, they have found it difficult to solve the problem.
A group of Sikhs protesting the holding of a religious congregation by sect leader Ashutosh Maharaj in Ludhiana clashed with the police, which used tear gas and batons to quell them, leaving one dead and 12 others injured.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by Ludhiana Police Commissioner Paramraj Singh Umranangal to probe the sexual harassment allegations against Sardar Singh has given a clean chit to the Indian hockey team skipper.
One person was killed and two security personnel were injured when a passenger opened fire in a Jammu-bound train in Ludhiana on early hours of Tuesday.
FHe is the only one among 17 ministers from the outgoing council of ministers who lost the Lok Sabha polls to be reappointed minister.
The cricketing extravaganza became a business opportunity for everyone, from five-star hotels to cafes to street vendors across the country on Sunday.
"Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency imparted the training to Gurpreet Singh," said Punjab Director-General of Police N P S Aulakh. Gurpreet Singh and two other suspected Babbar Khalsa militants were arrested near the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar on December 25. Aulakh said that Gurpreet went to Pakistan with a jatha of Sikh pilgrims and he was trained with another terrorist Harminder Singh. Gurpreet returned in mid-2007 to revive the terrorist module in the state.
'One needs to understand what kind of means the BJP use to bring other party leaders in their party.' 'They are unscrupulous politicians and money plays an important role.'
In Punjab, farmers sat on railway tracks at many locations in 22 districts, including Amritsar, Ludhiana, Tarn Taran, Hoshiarpur, Firozpur, Fazilka, Sangrur, Mansa, Moga and Bathinda. Because of the disruption of train services, passengers experienced inconvenience.
25 people with suspected links with the Babbar Khalsa International were questioned about the incident, which is said to have the BKI stamp on it.
Temperatures remained above 45 degrees Celsius in large parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh, affecting daily life as many chose to remain indoors in the afternoon.
Addressing reporters at his residence soon after the meeting ended, Chowdhury said six names came up before the panel for the selection of the two ECs and the names of Sandhu and Kumar were finalised by a majority of members of the high-powered panel.
The bomb blast at a cinema hall in Ludhiana on Sunday night that claimed six lives was of high intensity with the possibility of the use of the deadly RDX was not ruled out, officials said. The sources said preliminary examination and samples collected from the site gave enough indication that RDX was used to give more charge to the explosive material so that the flying splinters could cover more areas to cause injuries.
The IB had two years back sounded a warning regarding the revival of Sikh militancy in Punjab. A report by the IB shows that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba along with five other outfits were chosen by the ISI and entrusted with the job of training men from Babbar Khalsa International and International Sikh Youth Federation.
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