Delhi-Lahore bus stopped, curfew imposed in Ludhiana

October 4th, 2009 LUDHIANA - A bid to smuggle contraband and intoxicants into the central jail in Punjab's Ludhiana district was foiled and one man was arrested, officials said Sunday. According to police, a man was arrested late Saturday evening while he was trying to smuggle hashish in tins of desi ghee (clarified butter) and around 5,000 intoxicant tablets in a bag of rice.

September 15th, 2009 LUDHIANA - Congress general secretary and parliamentarian Rahul Gandhi reached this industrial city of Punjab from New Delhi in an air-conditioned chair car of the Shatabdi Express Tuesday, a day after party president and his mother Sonia Gandhi travelled economy class on a flight from the national capital to Mumbai. Rahul Gandhi made the four hour journey from New Delhi to Ludhiana as an ordinary passenger, eschewing the executive class coach as part of the austerity drive announced by India's ruling Congress party in view of the drought situation in the country.

August 25th, 2009 LUDHIANA - One person was killed and two security personnel injured when an unidentified person opened fire at Ludhiana Railway Station on Tuesday morning. The accused has been arrested.

June 29th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Curfew was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla town Monday after a youth was killed when security personnel fired at a crowd protesting alleged police harassment of a woman. Four people have been critically injured in the firing in Baramulla, 54 km from here.

June 22nd, 2009 LUDHIANA - An air-conditioned Radio taxi service has been introduced in Ludhiana, which makes it the third city after Mohali and Amritsar to have such a facility in Punjab. Air-conditioned radio cabs will now ensure a comfortable journey in Ludhiana.

June 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district reported no fresh violence Thursday, two days after group clashes left 15 people injured. The curfew imposed would now be relaxed for about 14-16 hours from Friday, an official said.

June 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Curfew has been clamped in parts of Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district after two groups clashed and indulged in arson and vandalism, leaving nearly 20 people injured, police said Wednesday. A verbal dispute between shopkeepers and a group of Muslim protestors snowballed into a violent clash late Tuesday in Lisari Gate area of Meerut, about 350 km from here.

June 17th, 2009 MEERUT - The situation in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district where two groups clashed and indulged in arson and vandalism, leaving 15 people injured Tuesday, was tense but under control Wednesday as curfew was imposed in some parts, police said. The areas under the four police stations Brahmpuri, Lisari Gate, Delhi Gate and Kotwali, where the curfew was imposed late Tuesday night, remained out of bounds.

May 27th, 2009 JALANDHAR - Road and rail traffic in Punjab was back to normal Wednesday with no violence being reported in the state overnight. But security forces continued to keep a close watch on the central region, which was most affected by the violence triggered by the killing of a Sikh religious leader in a clash in a gurdwara in Vienna.

May 26th, 2009 JALANDHAR - District authorities in central Punjab Tuesday allowed relaxation in curfew in towns where it was imposed Monday after widespread violence by followers of the Dera Sachh Khand sect who protested against the attack on religious leaders in a gurdwara in Vienna Sunday. Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur and Phagwara towns of Punjab continued to be under curfew for a second day Tuesday.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The situation in Punjab is not quite normal and the government hopes peace will return soon, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Monday as mobs were on the rampage in the state to protest the death of a Sikh sect leader in a clash in a gurdwara in Austrian capital Vienna.

May 25th, 2009 JALANDHAR/NEW DELHI/VIENNA - One person was killed and eight people were injured as police fired at two places in Punjab during six hours of widespread violence by tens of thousands of followers of a Sikh sect after their leader was slain in faraway Austria. Calm returned to the state only in the evening after the authorities summoned the military to assist the civilian administration as protestors indulged in widespread arson that saw the burning of an empty stationary train and three coaches as well as several private and public vehicles.

May 25th, 2009 LUDHIANA - The India-Pakistan bus service 'Sada-e-Sarhad' has been temporarily halted by the Punjab authorities from Monday (May 25). The large-scale violence between followers of Dera Sach Khand and conservative Sikhs in the state over the attack on a Sikh shrine in the Austrian capital Vienna forced the authorities to stop the service on security reasons.

May 25th, 2009 JALANDHAR/NEW DELHI - One person was killed and eight others injured as Punjab continued to be on the boil Monday with trains burnt and key highways blocked after violent protests by the followers of the Dera Sachh Khand, opposing the attack on their sect leaders in the Austrian capital Vienna. Armed with sticks, swords, bricks and stones, sect followers came out in large numbers in Punjab's Doaba belt and tension spread in Jalandhar, Phagwara and Hoshiarpur towns.

January 25th, 2009 LUDHIANA - Authorities in this industrial city of Punjab had some embarrassing moments Monday when Governor S.F. Rodrigues reached a little late at the venue of the state-level Republic Day function to unfurl the national flag.